On 2/14/2014 12:50 PM, Steve Teale wrote:
> On Friday, 14 February 2014 at 00:10:13 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> But the fact that you're even asking the question shows that you have
>> a very
>> different world-view than I do with regards to computers.
>
> Jonathan, I find your response distinctly elitist.
[...]
> and telling us to get into the 21st century doesn't help much.
>

He never said that or anything amounting to it. For god's sake, in the very sentence of his you quoted, and then complained about, he flat-out agreed to disagree. We don't need to be twisting each other's words into insults that were clearly never said nor intended.

But that said though, like Dicebot indicated, there ARE a *LOT* of elitist consumer whores out there in the software world (I'm saying "out there" while pointing directly *away* from this NG and any of its members, and I genuinely mean that: I'm not just saying "not the people here" merely to be civil).

It's easily one of my biggest pet peeves about the industry. Ever since computing finally shed its [equally inexcusable] "dork" image, computing has turned into a goddamn fashion industry. And that attracts the living tools of the world like nothing else. Depressing and infuriating, and worth fighting against, but still true :(

On Friday, 14 February 2014 at 00:20:40 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> 4GB would be pretty low end at this point anyway.

http://shop.amd.com/us/All/Detail/Notebook/F3F15UA!23ABA

On Friday, 14 February 2014 at 19:29:28 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> Programming world is naturally elitist. There is nothing just about it. Problem to solve is making more modern h/w available for interested souls, not reverting to write 32-bit programs.

There's no software solution to hardware problems.

On Saturday, 15 February 2014 at 07:04:45 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> Windows. And it would
> be nice if we could get to the point where everyone is on 64-bit OSes so that
> we can stop worrying about about supporting 32-bit software outside of
> emulators or virtual machines.

Virtualization is a good use case for 32-bit: you can run many guest oses on one machine and ensure their 32-bit software doesn't consume lots of memory just because it's 32-bit.