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I've seen this with some games Hotdog. I've dwelt on this phenomena myself over the years every time I upgrade to a significant;y faster broadband or get a much better computer. When I look back to my first true desktop PC (latish 80's) it only had a clock speed of 25KHz. That seems crazy by todays standards, even by computers only 10 years older when speeds of 1GHz were being approached. I don't remember having the same problems loading programs that I still have on what is now my oldest computer (a dual core AMD cpu with a clock speed of 2.2GHz and 4GB RAM). It always takes forever to load web pages now and some programs are so sluggish. I've ensured all the caches are cleared and the start up sequence only includes standard Windows services and Processes plus a couple of other programs such as Avir Task Manager.

I realize in the case of most games it's the increase resolution of graphics that are partly to blame, but it doesn't explain why many of my other programs such as Microsofts Office takes longer to load than I ever remember.

http://betanews.com/2012/04/16/has-programming-lost-its-way-part-two/

If you wonder why many businesses are still using Windows XP, a more than 10 year old operating system, perhaps the old adage is true: "it if isn't broken, don't fix it".

For example, I live in a rural area and in just a few years I have gone from dial-up Internet, to 768Kbps high-speed and now 1.5GB. Now I can download stuff a lot faster, which is nice, but my overall experience with websites has not improved as dramatically as I had hoped. Website developers assume that more people have high-speed connections, so they get careless about how fast pages will load. Improved broadband speeds are lost because of careless web design. A similiar thing has happened with software. As computers get faster and faster, the experience does not necessarily get better and better.

I really don't get the impression were are producing all that much better software than we did in the past. Coding environments definitely lack simplicity. Software is slower than it needs to be. Software is likely still just as riddled with bugs as it was 15 years ago. Software development is likely no more productive than it was 15 years ago. User experience is not necessarily significantly improved compared to the past.

An Interesting Experiment

An interesting experiment to try is this: If you can find an old copy of Windows 95/98 sitting around and some old CPU intensive application that dates back to Windows 95/98 (ie. 3D Modeler designer), try installing the software on a computer that is far more powerful than what was available when the software was available. For example, install it on a computer with a 1 ghz CPU with 1GB memory. Most of the computers when Windows 95/98 were around were likely less than 100MHz in speed. You may be surprised to see how "fast and fluid" the experience is using the software. Now imagine running the software on, say, a top-of-the-line, multi-core CPU we have today.

Try here.

hi,

i'm having problems with C programming- on Arrays. i've delared an character array of size 4.
On any key that is pressed, the character will be added into the array until 4 keys are pressed. how do i add the characters into the array?

does anyone know about it? its for my school project which i'm currently doing now.

thanks,
alexius

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