No I don't use the remote, the button on the front of the machine is the one that takes ages.Ah, and the most useless button ever on CD/blu ray players remotes - "Eject" . Only thing I find it useful for is annoying my wife as she bends down to take the disc out and it smoothly slides back into the machine
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What's more, many software writers chase the latest and greatest technology (or get given it sometimes) so don't even notice how much their software sucks on year-old hardware, plus most of them are still so far insulated from actual real world end users that they don't see the complaints - agile methods have changed that a bit, but even then it's still far too acceptable for software experts to blame hardware and say it needs upgrading to the latest.
There's also a disturbing subset who have absolutely no concept of how memory usage and CPU time can vary wildly between different algorithms to achieve the same result and always pick their favourite routines regardless of the situation - at least it's better than ones who cling to habits that have long been revealed as insecure.
Yup fraid so. Been thinking of going back to fruity loops
Most software houses I've worked at use the JFDIQ* development methodology.Agile methods. Clean your mouth at once!
Have you done it yet? Have you done it yet? Have you done it yet?
Ironically, my video recorder is more reliable if I tell it to change channel a few minutes before the programme I want because it gives the dish motor time to turn from whatever it's been watching. More of a flaw in the video recorder not having a programmable wait between channel-change and recording-start, though. I could probably fix that if I had the source code and more spare time...
But Blackberry's so old hat.
It's not the wasted time I object to, it's the way it has you twitching back and forth: am I pressing the button again or aren't I? As I said, it's like the transatlantic satellite link, where people start talking, then stop, then start......or when you meet someone coming the other way in the street: you both step one way, then the other...........
I don't expect it to display the picture immediately, just to display the digit I pressed so that I know it got the message. Actually my Panasonic TV in the lounge is near instant, but the Panasonic video underneath it is a pain, and so is the Samsung TV in the kitchen. With the Samsung if I type 704, I get 04. What I have to do is type 7, wait for it to appear on the screen, and then type the 04.
The thing I love about my new Samsung smart tv is the way it sometimes records what you've set it to record, and sometimes doesn't. The only reason I'm not that steamed about it is that when I bought it I didn't know it could record at all, so the fact that it does sometimes is kind of a bonus.
They send signals out to slow it down when the newer ones are due out.
Even more sinister they release an 'update' to the OS that the new phones can run but that the older ones struggle with, thus causing em to run slow.
