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Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly

From SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er>
Subject Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Date 2018-09-27 15:53 +0000

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On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 07:24:25 -0500, chrisv wrote:

> owl wrote:
> 
>> Dumfsck wrote:
>>>
>>> owl wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Things have not gotten better over time, DFS.
>>>> 
>>>> Just different, and worse in a lot of ways.
> 
> Indeed.  I don't know what we're doing today that's so great, that we
> couldn't do 20 years ago, despite the fact that we are now using
> multi-core CPU's running at multi-GHz rates, and 1000x (!) the memory.

I know that my 2000 machine could only barely decode DVD discs (P3-533) 
whereas today's machines do so effortlessly. I guess that's one thing. I 
imagine that the biggest benefits are specific to media.
  
>>> things?  Linux things or life things or United States things or world
>>> things?
>>
>>Well, I was talking of computer things, but now that you mention it,
>>most of society sucks these days.
> 
> That too.  Maybe I just have a bad attitude, but I often find myself
> thinking "everything just keeps getting worse, nothing ever improves."
> 
> Well, I do like HDTV, and some other modern improvements...

4k is very nice albeit useless if you don't have a subscription to a 
service that actually pushes out content at that resolution. As it is, OTA 
is either 720p or 1080i, sometimes 480i. Cable is generally 1080i as well 
with a specialty channel or two added for a 4k presentation of an 
occasional sports match. Netflix, as far as I know, is the only service 
consistently pushing out 4k video and some gaming consoles manage to 
display it on some games as well. Whether it actually improves the gaming 
experience is another matter though.



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SilverSlimer
FSF Contributor / EFF Member / Free speech advocate
Absolute centrist, proud Catholic

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Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-26 12:37 +0000
  Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-09-26 19:45 -0400
    Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-09-26 23:56 +0000
      Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-09-26 20:29 -0400
        Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-09-27 01:03 +0000
          Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-27 07:24 -0500
            Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-27 08:16 -0500
            Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-27 15:53 +0000
            Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-09-27 12:13 -0400
    Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-27 00:57 +0000
      Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly Sam O'Nella <poison@donteatit.net> - 2018-09-26 21:04 -0400
        Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-27 15:41 +0000
          Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-09-27 20:25 +0000
            Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-27 22:29 +0000
              Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-09-28 04:31 +0000
                Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-28 18:06 +0000
                Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-09-28 22:22 +0000
                Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-29 01:12 +0000
                Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly Brick <brick@mortar.invalid> - 2018-09-29 01:21 +0000
                Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-09-28 20:30 -0700
        Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-09-27 20:23 +0000
      Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-09-27 20:22 +0000
        Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-27 22:27 +0000
          Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-09-28 04:25 +0000
            Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-28 18:05 +0000
              Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly Brick <brick@mortar.invalid> - 2018-09-28 20:25 +0000
                Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-09-28 22:19 +0000
                Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly Brick <brick@mortar.invalid> - 2018-09-28 22:23 +0000

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