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An anonymous reader writes "A few screenshots of Windows Longhorn Beta 1 have surfaced on the net showing off many of the new transparency features, Internet Explorer 7 and Avalon or WinFX."
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You get what you pay for. Quit whining and fix it yourself. That's what Linux stands for.
I'm probably at the karma cap. Mod up a funny troll instead, it lightens the mood
They can put all the whipped cream, nuts and hot fudge on it they want. But a turd is still a turd, no matter how pretty it is.
Oh, you mean that shit that is out-selling every other OS by an absurd margin, right? And regardless of how you justify the horrible truth.
So what do you suppose polish on the most popular OS worldwide is going to do again? You can always cry "monopoly" again if it makes you feel better.
You need a FREE iPod Nano
no u walk away with out a head ach because the mac doesn't give u blue screens every other hour (windows 98 every minute, 2000 went to 30 minutes) macs just have to be restarted every month or so or just logged off the user...
(yes i know i suck at spelling fell free to correct my grammar and/or spellin i dont care, im still not going to change
It will be the best seller, but that is just because most people do not know better or are scared of changing from what they are comfortable with.
They do? You don't even know what xen is do you?
I don't know about Novell, but IBM have been doing virtualization similar to that of Xen for probably decades. And Xen's initial development was part sponsored by MS....
User definable operators, user definable aggregate functions, user loadable stored procedure languages, user definable types. That's just for starters.
I don't know about user definable "operators" (though I must concede I can't really see the need), but UDTs and UDFs are commonplace, and the need for "user loadable stored procedure languages" seems to be largely obsoleted by such things as compiled stored procedures (e.g. "extended stored procedures" in MSSQL). So I'm not particularly overwhelmed by your list of features....
Really? How do their file systems deal with metadata compared to reiser3?
This might be an interesting question if metadata mattered worth a damn.
Why no I don't jest. Makes ASP look like yesterdays turd.
Well gee, ya think? You haven't noticed how ASP isn't being developed any more? And hasn't been for about five years? Duh?
Even in it's alpha stage it has multiple dispatch and multiple inheritance. When will .NET have that?
Neither of those need bytecode support; both of those can be effectively implemented on .NET. So, uh.... And you assume that they're even desirable; though multiple inheritance is clearly good, the desire multiple dispatch is much less obvious. Multiple dispatch has a number of issues; in particular, it has non-obvious semantics (specifically, there's no one way of resolving ambiguities that stands out as the "right thing" to do) and is considerably harder to implement efficiently.
Yes, that's the definition of innovation.
In which case it's not really something to aim for, is it....
It's obvious you have no idea what open source products are really like.
It's obvious that you have no idea what proprietary software actually offers.
back in the old days, windows turned into just a 1 pixel border when you moved them, and solid window movement was a big new feature. progress, eh?
I don't recall using an OS that ever did this (that is -- *turning* a window into a border).
However, I *do* recall the "old days" of operating systems that created a 1 pixel border outline for the "windows move in progress", which was replaced with the window at the place where you released the mouse button, and where the original window remained at the first place until you did. For example Windows 3.11 and 95 had this, and many/most Linux distros I've used too.
This is however a bit worse than using transparency at move, because you don't see what's under the first window position until dropping it on the new place.
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!