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Reading the below 'Interesting how innovation changes' thread made me think about how much faster computers are now, and how they compare to supercomputers of the past. So I had to google and found: current high-end pc vs 1980s super computer - PC/Mac/Linux Society - GameSpot.
If anyone knows of a chart showing supercomputer gigaflops vs average desktop gigaflops over the years, give a link! I am too young for punched cards, but my first TRS play toy had 16 KB of memory I believe, and a tape drive. In college we ran a finite element analysis program on fairly good commercial Dells that ran at around 350 MHz if I'm not mistaken, and took about 8 hrs to run a standard simulation! Times have changed!
Oops - I was wrong - I had TRS-80 MC-10 - Wikipedia with 4KB! 
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There's this: [^], but that could get expensive.
I try and distract myself by watching talent shows from eastern European countries on utube, like: [^] ... hint: jump to 5:40.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
modified 18-May-18 17:25pm.
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Well, that escalated quickly ... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Quote: Other barbers there said they didn't know the stylist's name or how to reach him.
The first rule of Hair Styling is: you do not talk about Hair Styling.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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This is getting weirder and weirder...
Quote: Other barbers there said they didn't know the stylist's name or how to reach him.
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What ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) was that? Andy Kaufman reincarnated in Eastern Europe?
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You'd have thought that "Boaty McBoatface" would have shown people that asking the internet to vote on anything is probably a bad idea.
But no ... Estonian Town Gets Cannabis Leaf as Its Emblem[^] 
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How is that a bad idea? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Not a bad idea. Perhaps Weed, CA should do the same? 
Sometimes the true reward for completing a task is not the money, but instead the satisfaction of a job well done. But it's usually the money.
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"Kanep means cannabis in Estonian, and the leaf, according to local legend, has been used as a symbol of the area for at least 150 years, referring to the hemp traditionally grown and made into cloth, oil and rope there."
So it is entirely logical and correct that it does so.
Boaty McBoatface was just typical English humour, unfortunately slapped down by the boat owners.
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Did you notice the voting pattern?
Quote: even though the number of online voters in favor of it — about 12,000 — was more than double the municipality’s population of 5,000.
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Well, I guess people from around the region voted.
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xkcd: MC Hammer Age[^]
If that makes you feel a little old ... don't google him. You'll want a Zimmer frame.
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Can't touch that 
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He's approaching the time of 'Golden Parachute' pants!
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I've got a new rig and am about to load it up with apps, and so I'd like to install anything FREE that is of value for Visual Studio. Of course, instead of making it easy, Microsoft makes it tricky, and I can remember once installing different versions of Visual Studio, and somehow the registry got all whacked out. 
It looks like all I need is to run "vs_Community" and "vs_BuildTools". I would like to have access to all the different languages, and it has been my experience that Micro$oft likes to wall these out with their free stuff, making it a pain to work with. Of course, maybe that was the old Micro$oft, as the new Micro$oft wishes to get Visual Studio installed in as many system as possible.
I also see that there are those old standbys, the .NET & C++ redistributables, that I also plan to install, although maybe I don't installing those aforementioned ones? 
modified 18-May-18 13:38pm.
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VS 2017 is free, and child's play to install. Don't forget to select all the extras that you want.
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Insisting on spelling it "Micro$oft" really makes you look like a relic from the past. Only people from Slashdot still do that because, well, haters gonna hate.
With that out of the way:
Just get VS Community. Everything its installer makes available for installation is free.
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Oh, I don't dislike Microsoft's products; indeed, they are the best. I just don't like the way that Microsoft makes in a PITA to get their product. Maybe I'm still thinking about how its products made me have to rebuild by system once.
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The problem IMHO with Microsoft is that there are too many people that don't seem to know about each others projects or things like backward compatibility. So when a new version of e.g. SQL Server comes out, suddenly your code with SMO objects does not work anymore and no one seems to care about it ...
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Rather than examining the festering of old wounds in memory, why not install VS Community, and pay attention to the options offered.
Visit the 'free stuff" forum here to get some ideas about useful add-ins.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Even the "old" Microsoft was aiming to please developers; which is why there were and are free versions of the most popular IDE available.
Just install VB6, by the sound of it, it has all you will ever need 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I often read computer history and bios about people who helped start the personal pc market (Woz, Jobs, Gates, Allen).
Just reading an interesting article about SWEET16, an interpreted byte-code language created by Steve Woziak.
SWEET16 - Wikipedia[^]
Wiki says: According to Wozniak, the SWEET16 implementation is a model of frugal coding, taking up only about 300 bytes in memory.[2] SWEET16 runs at about one-tenth the speed of the equivalent native 6502 code.
*Woz also mentions this in his fantastic autobiography ( Amazon.com: iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon eBook: Steve Wozniak, Gina Smith[^] )
That hit me, because doing that in 300 bytes is amazing. Well, it _was_ amazing. It was ingenious and a necessity at the time. But now, it is meaningless.
If you do something like that now, no one would really care. People would be like "big deal, I've got 8 gigs of ram in my machine."
This is how innovation changes.
It may also be why software is considered a commodity now too, even though it does amazing things and may contain strokes of genius.
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Remember when the Mac did not even come with a hard disk drive, so everything had to fit on a micro floppy.
Worked on Wang Computer with two 5.25 floppy drives if I remember, one for the software and one for the data, if I remember correctly.
Remember when a hard drive was 5 megabytes.
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