Of course one would expect code written for a new processor to run faster on that processor than it does on an older processor. What I don’t see is why that new code should run slower than the old code on the older processor. For instance, I have a 10+ year old laptop at home that is now running Windows 10, and it is…

Hey I’ll tell you what would be a GREAT idea Zuckerberg. How about - and stop me if you’ve heard this - changing my newsfeed to “Top Stories” even though I clearly have it set to “Most Recent.” I’m clearly mistaken when I think I want my newsfeed to display in chronological order, and changing it to Top Stories for me…

Gee how did anyone ever hook up before apps like Tinder. There must have been literally no sex in the world.

No, just someone who has been computing for over 30 years and who has upgraded OS’s hundreds of times.

Here’s the thing about that. Windows, for example, has gotten progressively more CPU and battery efficient with each iteration. I have a 10 year old laptop which I believe had Vista on it when I bought it - it now runs Windows 10 and is snappier than it ever was, despite Windows 10 being considerably more powerful…

Neither of those links disprove the claim that Apple deliberately sabotages the OS for older models. The Independent article did little to prove otherwise, and the benchmark tests have little to do with real world use. It would be possible for Apple to write code which slowed down the phone in everyday use but which…

It’s hardly an “imaginary conspiracy theory.” Back at school I had a teacher who was an engineer for Unilever, and he told us that they designed the components of their washing machines to fail after a certain amount of use, even to the point of pre-stressing them. Another example: Back in the early 90's, my stepdad…

How do you know they don’t? A simple rule of thumb is that, if there is a very obvious and effective way for a corporation to increase their revenue, they’re going to do it. I really don’t understand your reasoning. I’m not claiming that they’re forcing people to upgrade. I’m claiming that they are sneakily increasing…

I’m not talking about ancient iPhones, I’m talking about for instance why iOS 11 would be slow, clunky and battery intensive on an iPhone 6 Plus. Take Windows for example. I have a 10 year old laptop which is running Windows 10 as well as it ran its original OS (which I think was Vista). In fact Windows 10 is even…

Apple deliberately sabotages their new OS’s so that they make older phones seem slow and clapped out so that people will be encouraged to upgrade. It’s as simple as that. There is no reason why these new OS’s should require so much more CPU power - there’s nothing particularly CPU intensive about them, and the…

I think they shut it down to protect the people he was linked to on Facebook. If they didn’t, people he was friends with would start bearing the brunt of every wacko loser who likes to send abusive messages after an incident like this. It’s not fair on his friends and family.

People are so dumb it’s depressing. I don’t blame Google - they don’t curate information in real time, they just have algorithms. Good luck writing an algorithm which parses Tweets and works out whether they’re accurate or not.

The fact is that dumb people are going to dumb no matter how much you try and discourage…

LOL meddling? I’m willing to bet that not one single person’s mind was changed by any of these posts.

As a business owner I will confirm that disgruntled customers are capable of anything. They see the online review as the ultimate weapon against a business and will quite literally fabricate bad reviews from start to finish. I once had a minor dispute with a customer over a $5 surcharge on her invoice and after I…

I quit Netflix when I realized that my Amazon Prime membership came with on demand TV as well. My TV watching does not extend to all of these big ass mega series on Netflix that everyone talks about - I just watch the odd sitcom or documentary every now and then.

Let’s not ignore the elephant in the room here, which is that every single major iOS update drastically worsens battery life and performance on all but the newest model of iPhone. The reason is simple - Apple deliberately sabotages its new operating systems with code which drains batteries and causes sluggish…

For pointless stuff like keeping traffic tunnels clean. Does it make the tunnels safer? Does it really improve anyone’s quality of life to drive through a clean tunnel for a few seconds on their way to work? When you think of the research and development that goes into pointless crap like this, it really makes you…

Well, we’ll either all die or we won’t. My money’s on the later, given how many “global threat of virus super-strain” scares have failed to bear fruit over the years.

There is a huge push at Google to keep people from leaving the Google ecosphere and visiting non-Google websites. They want to make everyone else’s websites obsolete. That’s why when you Google something, more often than not the answer appears in its own box at the top of the search results, and the information is…

I’m more afraid of King himself ever since I read his little pedo fantasy at the end of IT, which was completely irrelevant to the plot and seems to have been shoehorned in for his own titillation.