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F*O*A*D

On 4/1/14, 11:18 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 4/1/2014 10:09 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 01 Apr 2014 09:07:33 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 4/1/14, 8:59 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 01 Apr 2014 08:24:15 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

I won't comment on the relative speed of an app running under XP
versus
Windoze 8. I don't have any machines handy that run either.

Yet you continue to.

I would suggest that until you actually benchmark a few movies, you
are talking out your ass.

The reality is i do not do enough video editing for it to even be a
factor and if the minute or two it takes me dropped to 5 seconds, it
would not change my opinion.
I do know I can encode a typical MP3 cut in about 15 seconds and that
is fast enough for me.

Ahh. The point was not whether what you do with a computer could be done
faster on a more powerful computer with a modern OS. As I stated several
times, I have no idea what you do with a computer beyond running some
weather app and a "jukebox." I mentioned video transcoding because it is
a good test of the OS, the app, and the hardware. There are any number
of other apps that run faster on modern gear.

Apparently what you do doesn't put much stress on your computer setups,
and since you have lots of time to wait, procedures that run faster are
not important to you.

Perhaps you should downgrade to an 8088 system and save electricity.

There you go.
You started out with a very rational response, then you just got
stupid on me.

XP is far from obsolete, there is not really that much functional
difference from it to W/8.
My hardware is still pretty fast, Moore's law is rapidly hitting the
speed of light wall. These days it is not getting any faster, you are
just widening the data path. That was the same pattern as we had in
the mainframe business. You end up running the speed of your DASD.
These days that is RAM if you really want to go fast.
I am still running with a very low paging rate most of the time.

If my applications run in my lane, I am not getting much faster.

You are right, I might be able to shave a minute or two off of a few
very intensive computer tasks but I am not really in any hurry. If I
crank up something that will take a while, I have other things right
here I can do. I can just get a cup of coffee, take Ed for a walk,
take a boat ride.
If I need to get more work done on the computer, I have 5 more right
here, all sharing most of the same files.
I live a lot less stressful life than you I guess.

Gregg, I would think by now that you would realize that if Harry wears
size 36x32 pants, then *everyone* should wear size 36x32 size pants.

Nonsense.