Don't you mean today's software isn't capable of playing nice ?
I wasn't picking on you, it was just a bit of a rant bubbling up. I try to refrain from that on regular threads, but I'm only human.
I've also been let down, taste-wise, by my late-nite snack, and that always puts me in a foul mood.
Performance is relative. Personally, I think Win 7 explorer is a piece of C***P, in that it's always checking the network, checking folders, this, that, and so on. I like the kernel, but the User layer, ay weh!
I think there needs to be a *.cpl in Windows marked "FIX SLOW", and, among a whole lot of other things, should have an option ( cloaked in friendly-speak, not really my thing ) that let's you set the time-out interval for network transactions.
Again, in friendly-speak, like, "Setting it low means you're not waiting for third-party servers serving up ads to the page you're trying to view, which has embedded script to prevent page display until ad X has loaded".
Stick something in there that let J. User pick, 1 second, give up, 1 second, notify me once, no reply terminate, keep trying, you get the idea, as the system base, and then ENFORCE it for all connections through the network stack. Oh, uh, and *nix is doing a pretty good job lately of emulating the Windows OOB. This is *not* a compliment.
It's like it's called cloud computing because we're a bunch of f* sheep looking at the clouds waiting for UI transactions to process.
We're going back to the terminal-mainframe era, but with a bit of a twist, we're all just using one OS.
If we could all just fess up and say it's okay to have a OS that's good at lots of pretty screens, playing video games, running Office, etc., and another OS that is really good at hosting back-end processes, is optimized for thousand of concurrent threads, or fibers (depending which universe you live in) we could all get back...
*whew* I did manage to stem the flow. Sorry, folks, but every once in a while it just happens.
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