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New Longhorn Screenshots And Schedule
Mozillabird writes "WinSupersite has recently updated the Longhorn release schedule and has provided some new screenshots of Aero. The first beta of Longhorn is May 2005, though there is some speculation about how much of Avalon and Aero will be implemented in that beta. The "big beta" is scheduled for this Fall."
They sure do make it look nice. Such polish and finish. That will always give it the edge.
What?
From Thurmont's site (emphasis mine):
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Notice the inclusion of a RC0 build, which is unusual. The last time Microsoft shipped an RC0 build of a Windows product, I believe, was with Windows Millennium Edition (Me).
Though these plans could change, Microsoft is currently planning to ship an amazing array of product editions, or SKUs, in the Windows Longhorn family. These are the currently-scheduled versions that will ship in May 2006:
Longhorn Starter Edition
Longhorn Home Edition
Longhorn Media Center Edition
Longhorn Professional Edition
Longhorn Small Business Edition
Longhorn Mobility/Tablet PC Edition
Longhorn Premium Edition
None of these product names are final, of course, and all versions except Starter Edition will ship in both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) variants.
So technically, there will be 13 versions of Longhorn.
Wow, this release is looking more and more interesting all the time.
Now, Mr. Thurrot's campaigning for Microsoft is substancially analogue to christian fundamentalists militance. The same staunch, aggressive acritical commitment to some wild, universally (even by market professionals, be it Windows platform consultants or Priests) disputed claim. Witness, after Scientology, the birth of the first Minister of the Church of Microsoft. ;-)
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"Th color scheme looks good - for a online gay porn shop"
And you know this why? Horrible thing to know if you ask me.
Do you realize that 99.99% of all users, myself included, do not give a royal rats flying arse what fonts are used by the system
I hear graphics people always throwing around the names Tohoma and Verdana, so I know they are fonts. I have no idea WHAT they look like versus, say, Times New Roman, or Arial, which, by the way, are the ONLY TWO FONTS anybody cares about.
One has those little pointy things on the letters, the other one doesn't.
As a programmer I also care about which fixed width font I am using. Thankfully any decent IDE also installs three or four different fixed width fonts, and OSs typically come with at least a few, so I have a nice selection there. Wait, the font I am using for this text box is fixed width.
See, I just noticed that. I don't care. If it wasn't for the fact that variable width fonts let me shove more text on a single line of my resume, I would likely use fixed width fonts in my word processor as well.
And no, I do NOT notice the "shape of the 'g's". Unless the 'g's rendering is extremely messed up some how and it ends up overlapping what is on the line below it (heya if anybody has any good times on how to prevent that while writing stuff out by hand I am all ears, I have just resorted to writing g raised up onto the main text line), I really do not care.
Oh, I do wish Internet Explorer would get some proper font resizing in though. Actually I wish web designers would STOP using absolute layouts, so stupid stupid STUPID. Anyone who cannot imagine a flexible design and layout for their text needs to step back away from the presentation and reorientate themselves towards the content.
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Apple didn't bring PCs to the masses?
Oh, you were born after the 1980's, right?
Moron.
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Very simple - for the past 1500 years Christian churches (mainly Catholic, but I haven't seen any others change their ways after splitting) have changed their historical representation of Christ's life to align Christian holidays with non-christian holidays. See, for example, Christmas, Easter, etc. On top of that, many so-called Christians will, without forethought or due tolerance, condem believers of most any other faith to hell. Exclusionary acts like that, or usurption of the rituals of others, or adaption of other's rituals to Christianity simply to increase power base (voodoo is a good example of this) is what builds up the animosity you see towards Christians.
That said, it's interesting how the acts of various Christian churches do not mesh well with actual Christian teachings of tolerance, good will, love, and respect of all humans. It's this dissconnect between the main-stream church establishment (I know, there are some Christian churches that aren't so hypocrtical) and actual Christian philosophy that skeptics, atheists, cynics, and slashdotters will constantly point out. Not to the detrement of Christianity, but as a driving force towards individual Christian betterment. When one realizes the Christian establishment is more political than spiritual, one can then ascend beyond the early bounds of a corrupt church and realize a true life of good Christian values and brother/sisterhood.
Or...maybe it's because there's no beer in heaven.
Ok let us compare, my Windows partition to my Linux partition;
:)
Windows: I am working in some directory, I find I need to grab a utility, get some information on some file format, or whatever. WindowKey-E, Shift-Tab, Space, Shift-Tab, www.google.com, enter. Type in query. Alternatively, Windowkey-R, www.google.com type in query. The latter can take a bit longer since it loads a separate instance of iexplore.
Linux: I am working in some directory, yada yada yada. Windowkey-R (w00t, give it up for customizability!), firefox.com
fuck
wait
fuck
wait
30 seconds later I am at Google.
Lesson? If I have to wait 30 seconds for it, it is NOT INTEGRATED INTO MY OPERATING SYTEM, whenever I am waiting for something to load, it feels like a separate application.
I did NOT pay for broadband in order to use a separate app.
Heck, the overall SLOW-ASS-EDNESS of KDE is the ONE reason I am not using my Linux partition right now. Yah all my hotkeys are the same, but, umm, heh. Shit is slow. Booting takes 2-3 minutes, sometimes up to 5.
From what I can tell, even Linux beats MacOSX on terms of browser integration, on OSX I have to dig through tons of freaking menus trying to find a browser app to run, is safari integrated into the UI or not? (I only use a Mac computer about once every 2 years just to see what is going on so...)
Oh, and I'd use Konqueror, except loading up a new Konqueror window takes LONGER than loading up Firefox. That is WITH Konqueror preloading enabled.
I'd use xfce except that it doesn't like YaST2, or for that matter half a dozen other things. It is fast though! (Enlightenment R17, Enlightenment R17, Enlightenment R17, where are you??)
During the process of writing this message, I have done three Google queries for various bits and piece of information, each query and result reading took less either less time than starting up Firefox, or only a few seconds more.
In conclusion, yes, browser integration with the OS does make a difference.
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