[Discuss] ten more years

[Kent Borg]

On 02/14/2018 03:27 PM, grg wrote:
> ...except that these computer systems which are failing and grounding the
> carriers are actually the same ones they've been using for decades.

I might be wrong in my conclusion that it was recent stuff that broke. 
(Just because they are still using old hardware doesn't mean the old 
parts failed.)

> Curious. I hit the power button on my sleeping android phone and I get a
> login screen ready to go in about a half second.

And that is slower than it used to be on a 68030 Mac notebook nearly 
30-years ago.

I'm not saying it is unusable that it takes a half-second. I'm saying my 
phone has 4-times as many CPUs, running over 100-times as fast, with 
2000-times the RAM, and executing an OS designed from the start to be 
for portable use...yet it takes longer to wake up.

This is a crazy amount of computer power, mostly being squandered going 
in and out of a zillion layers of code. Imagine what lean code could do 
with that hardware... (For a start, get by with a lot less hardware, and 
so longer battery life.)

>> But Google's Calendar app can't reliably give me notifications of events...
>> (Oddly, it seems to work better if I say "send me an e-mail, too", then I'll
>> probably get the regular on-device notification.)
> Hmm - again, WFM.  What phone and OS are you running?

Android. It was a Nexus 5x running the latest OS, but that died in 
December--just weeks out of extended warranty. Now it is an LG G5 
running an 7.0. On my Nexus 7 I have 6.0.1. Long standing problem, looks 
like a server-side bug to me.

-kb