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Windows Vista 5342 Screenshots
Lhopar writes "Microsoft released a new build of Windows Vista to beta testers. Flexbeta has got some screenshots. Included in this build is an extensive collection of drivers and the exclusive sidebar. Glass is also a feature that we all have come to respect and love, along with the 3D flip. The official version number is 6.0 Version 5342.winmain_idx04.060321-1730. Internet Explorer 7.0 is build Version 7.0.5342.2. Nice features include a new 'Paint' and needed redesigned network center."
5342 is a lot of screenshots.
Sweet! New version of Paint!
If your theory is different from practice, then your theory is wrong.
5 years for a new version of paint! Well worth the wait. Screw linux, I want the new MS Paint! Linux will continue to fall behind microsoft, it doesn't even have MS Paint. Hahahaha Silly Linux users, you don't know what your missing.
Moff Sinofsky: Emperor Gates is coming here?
Darth Ballmer: That is correct, Commander. And, he is most displeased with your apparent lack of progress.
Moff Allchin: We shall double our efforts.
Darth Ballmer: I hope so, Commander, for your sake. The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am.
What's that? They released a new Paint?
Now I have no choice but to upgrade...
If your theory is different from practice, then your theory is wrong.
I swear these articles are like the Slashdot version of Two Minutes Hate.
I like the screenshot with widgets:
Link.
With the timer, I can time almost anything! (Makes you wonder what is it that I can't time, and why do they need such an obvious explanation?)
The icon for both a number puzzle and picture puzzle is the same! (Requiring me to read the text, completely making the icon irrelevant. --yes, yes, beta version, whatever)
But the best thing of all, and the widget that I think SpaceX is most excited about, is the Launcher!
Name your price Microsoft, name your price!
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
If there are chemical reactions taking place inside your computer case, you should shut it off. Usually smoke, pops, or crackling electrical sounds indicate this condition.
In this example, the limiting reagent is the number of flaky capacitors, or the amount of blue smoke that escapes from the cpu.
The site seems to be slashdotted, so here's the google cache from the site ;)
Solitare Vista is going to be the best-looking card simulation game available on any platform! I can't wait to get my hands on Vista now!
For the number of you people bashing Microsoft, a hell of a lot of you are looking at those screenshots, so if you don't like Vista, please get off the damn site.
Maybe it's min(round_down(component_scores))
In fact, I would hope that it was that, as that would give the best guarantee of a high score delivering high performance.
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, does it make a sound?
If a titlebar has no text in it, is it really a titlebar?
Well after searching for all of two minutes because it bothered me so much I found the Disable Sigs Strip sig quotes from comments option. Finally! I can read in happiness again. I wish slashdot turned this on by default but it was easy enough to find.
Or better yet:
round_down(min(component_scores))
Save yourself n-1 round_down calls and this will be faster assuming the cost of floating point comparisons is roughly equivilant to integer comparisons.
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Yeah, I considered that that option would be more efficient, but since my point was really to emphasize the min() operation, I thought it was clearer to put it first. I figured this was not performance critical code, so in this case clarity for subsequent maintainers was more valuable than optimization.
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking