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Windows 1.0 to XP: Screenshots

This made me curious exactly how ugly the early versions of windows were...check out:

http://www.infosatellite.com/news/2001/10/a251001w indowshistory_screenshots.html

Wow, that's some kind of ugly.

While finding nearby moving compact sources of gamma rays might be a way to find these things, another possibility is to look for smaller objects. For example, looking for seismograph records of the passage of a dark matter body through the Earth. Here, the Moon probably is better despite its smaller cross section area since it already has proven to be very quiet seismically.

Copyright screen on Windows 1.0 reads 1985

Doing the math, according to the Apple Museum, it would have come out in 1987. I refute the credibility of the source you've quoted.

As well, don't knock OS/2... It was a huge part of the Windows and OS/2 development. With Big Blue backing Microsoft, the legal coffers were a lot deeper than Apple's.

Nintendo DS is NOT a GameBoy.

Yes, it is, in some respects. A blanket denial like that is bound to be false. This is not to say that DS is *only* a Gameboy, but it does incorporate a Gameboy player.

e.g. wouldn't you consider this a "Gamecube", despite its extra features?

Wasn't something like this done before for Quake?

Different, yes - it used GPS positioning with VR for playing within a University Campus in Australia.

Ah, here you go.

Here for H12002:
"the market share leaders for these six months were Sony, Olympus and Kodak, with 24 percent, 17 percent and 13 percent, respectively."

By now Canon has surpassed Kodak (Canon is aiming for 25% marketshare in this year), thus Kodak is n.4 in the US. Their position is propably even lower in the global market.

The notorious female hacker Gigabyte (19 years old) was arrested in Belgium under a computer data sabotage law introduced in 2000. If convicted, she faces up to three years in prison and fines of up to 100,000 euros (US$127,000). Gigabyte was quoted in a recent New York Times Magazine article discussed on Slashdot. She has been very outspoken about hacker stereotypes countering the claim that hackers are, "pizza-addicted, sex-starved, ugly teens who never get outside." She is widely credited with writing the first Microsoft .Net virus. Authorities seized her computers and shut down her website. It's interesting to note that under Belgian law she could be sued for damages by any corporation damaged by her work (e.g., Microsoft).

I was guessing about Windows 1.0 not infringing the copyright on Apple's icons because I have never in my life seen a PC running Windows 1.x or 2.x. But now that I've seen some Windows 1.x and 2.x screenshots, the icons don't look like Mac copies.

I guess you haven't seen Windows 3.1 in a while. Definitely not Windows. NASA's shot has Windows 95-clone window controls. Could even be fvm95 for all I know.

You want a shred of evidence? Fine, have a look at the iPod's copyright screen. Big Pixo logo there.
Another shred? Here you can read about the iPod Pixo connection, too. And here.
But if you want more than a shred, why don't you have a look at the Pixo OS? Yep, looks like the iPod's OS. :)

The recommendation to avoid Macs is particularly bizarre considering that Macs are widely used in the graphic design and animation industries and that the most common programs used for computer illustration, photo-manipulation, and editing, are available with identical feature sets for both Mac and PC (All the adobe apps especially).

The recommendation to avoid Linux is strange since many of the high-end graphics houses that do work for film are heading towards using Linux and other free Unix-like systems, and not just for the render farm. Familiarity with Unix systems will not hurt anyone who wants to work in computer-graphics for film, it's definitely a proficiency to place prominently on the CV.

The Gimp may not be optimal for use in print design due to the lack of cmyk and lab color models (due to patent issues?), but it's been great for those doing film and web work for some time. The ease with which gimp can be scripted using perl and other programming/scripting languages is amazing.

That's my two cents. My dollar is that artistry and graphic design sense exist independent of platform and application choices. Work with what you've got. The first episode of South Park was made with construction paper, Paul Rand and Saul Bass were doing amazing designs (of the sort programs like Adobe Illustrator are often used to make) long before the personal computer existed. Use actualy physical tools or choose a platform that lets you concentrate on the art and not on futzing with the operating system. If that means Windows, Mac, or Linux to you, go for it.

I think this may shed some light on the problem at hand.

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I think this may shed some light on the problem at hand.

(:

Odd - in this screenshot of Windows XP, the System Properties dialog is showing the version as "Windows 2000 v5.01.2428" - a beta?

Here's a working link. But watch out, there are lots of pop ups ...

The main problems with the system seem to be

1. The system uses GPS which is not quite accurate enough for this type of application
2. The GPS is only updated once per second, where as the game is updated at 30 frames per second.
3. Anyone that sees you will think your crazy.

The main problems with the system seem to be

1. The system uses GPS which is not quite accurate enough for this type of application
2. The GPS is only updated once per second, where as the game is updated at 30 frames per second.
3. Anyone that sees you will think your crazy.

It shows you how serious they must be about pushing this new standard if they simultaneously are working on 30 Gig blue DVD rewriteables.

Unfortunately, bad software also takes ten years to write, especially when you never rewrite code from scratch.

(In all seriousness, though, very interesting article)

Unfortunately, bad software also takes ten years to write, especially when you never rewrite code from scratch.

(In all seriousness, though, very interesting article)

I'm betting its a Linux based OS, for the PS3 and other appliances.

IBM Sony & Toshiba

I think consoles are the key to Linux being successful on the desktop, because Consoles are the desktop of tomorrow.

for more details see here.

Or just use google. Like normal people do.