I have you friended, so you must have said something I thought was clever before...
The trolltastic headline this morning about "only 3 apps" is highly misleading, and it's caused by speculation and rumors. The starter version of Windows is not something that is either available to the general public (in developed countries) or will be widely deployed on netbooks. It specifically exists to target the very low end computers in third world countries, not to be what's shipped on a netbook.
Yes, features are stripped from the version of windows being sold to OEMs for third-world deployment. If they were the same, there would be a huge rise in black market sales of the "starter" OS - it would give people a "legal" CD-key for the full OS at 1/20th the price. This does not mean we are paring away basic functionality and forcing you to buy it back. In fact, care was taken to make sure Win7 didn't fall into the Vista trap with overlapping feature sets. Each version has a superset of features from the lower one.
First world markets only need worry about Home Premium or Professional, and Ultimate(/Enterprise) if Bitlocker and Direct Access are desired.
For more information, and not something that's based on/. "logic" see here. It's an official source, and not speculation.
Gibson gets too caught up into babble to be even remotely interesting. If you're too hopped up on caffeine, Gibson provides a natural sedative to your brain.
Let's see, on varying levels of sleeplessness compounded with high quantities of caffeine. It starts with "tracers" - as you move over a light it follows your vision, leaving trails in your sight. Later, you start seeing movement out of the corner of your eye, where there's nothing moving. Depending on stress and perceived need to get a project done, you might hear a deep voice shouting your name.
As it progresses, you eventually start to have time loss, which is cool until you realize 3-4 hours have gone by and you don't remember how, but looking down you see either more work has been done or notes taken or whatever. By the end (before you just cannot stay up), every little noise causes some sort of association, so you think that running water is whispering, doors closing are shouting, cars are a roar of a crowd, etc.
It ranges from "that was fun and interesting" to "that scared me and I never want to do it again."
A couple things are wrong with your statements. 1) The difference between running and non running apps is very clear and distinguishable. Running apps have a clear border denoting they're open, mousing over a running app provides a colored background to the mouse (apps that aren't running only have a slight grey highlight to let you know you're over the button area), and running apps with more than one window have the multiple frame thing on the right to show you that there are multiple instances.
2) You don't need to click the icon twice. You simply mouse over the word icon (bringing up all word sessions in a preview window) then select the word doc you want.
You're right on a couple things as well: 1) Vista suffers largely from public opinion. Regardless of the quality of the product, any minor issue gets magnified as "vista sucks" in peoples' minds due to its early history. 2) Both Vista and 7 perform well (often better than XP) on modern hardware, and 7 better than Vista.
Yes, but at the time 2000 had many of the same issues for early adopters that Vista did. Driver model and programming model was different enough to cause issues, the security features were tighter and "more difficult" to use, things were different and people were used to 5 years of Windows 95-esque OS.
As drivers improved, Win2K became a great system, as it supported the same stuff as XP, but was more stripped down. It wasn't until XP SP2 that XP really pulled ahead of 2K in any significant manner.
When was the last time you tried running Windows 64 bit? My experience is that both Vista 64 and Win7 64 both have great driver support now (never tried XP64, but the XPDM (XP driver model) is deprecated, so I understand why finding hardware for the platform is hard). In fact, the issues at Vista launch were largely due to moving to the new driver model, and hardware vendors not being up to speed. Two years later, those issues are no longer a problem.
Or was your comment sufficiently advanced satire that I'm missing?:)
That had nothing to do with undocumented shortcuts and everything to do with poor engineering practices and following software testing standards. Issues included arithmetic overflow, software reuse without verifying that hardware had the same safety checks, etc.
As for easter eggs in my own code... no, it's against company policy as part of the antitrust settlement.
Yes, a rocket igniter can ignite a sparkler when combined with a match. The way I did it was to take the match head, press the rocket igniter on one end and the sparkler on the other. Add a 9V battery to the mix and you get a quick sparkler fuse.
You don't know much about plasma donors, because if so, you'd know that you cannot legally sell plasma for donation use. The plasma you sell is for medical testing ONLY.
Painfully untrue, especially in Server 2008 (for which the core install doesn't even have a GUI). There are scripts, tools, and other things that make remote administration of windows possible in many ways that were much harder, previously. No GUI needed.
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I have you friended, so you must have said something I thought was clever before...
The trolltastic headline this morning about "only 3 apps" is highly misleading, and it's caused by speculation and rumors. The starter version of Windows is not something that is either available to the general public (in developed countries) or will be widely deployed on netbooks. It specifically exists to target the very low end computers in third world countries, not to be what's shipped on a netbook.
Yes, features are stripped from the version of windows being sold to OEMs for third-world deployment. If they were the same, there would be a huge rise in black market sales of the "starter" OS - it would give people a "legal" CD-key for the full OS at 1/20th the price. This does not mean we are paring away basic functionality and forcing you to buy it back. In fact, care was taken to make sure Win7 didn't fall into the Vista trap with overlapping feature sets. Each version has a superset of features from the lower one.
First world markets only need worry about Home Premium or Professional, and Ultimate(/Enterprise) if Bitlocker and Direct Access are desired.
For more information, and not something that's based on /. "logic" see here. It's an official source, and not speculation.
Not only this, but the government could tax by percentage THC, set up levels akin to the way most states handle alcohol. 4% = low tax, 14% = high tax
Harder to enforce, but it gets rid of the "OMG weed is super potent now and it didn't used to be" argument from the old former stoner crowd.
Gibson gets too caught up into babble to be even remotely interesting. If you're too hopped up on caffeine, Gibson provides a natural sedative to your brain.
Okay...
Windows Key
type Update
Click "Windows update" (or press down then enter)
Hm, no IE required.
In some states, yes.
Implied consent + pass out = blood draw
Good luck with that.
"what do they mean by 'hallucinations?'"
Let's see, on varying levels of sleeplessness compounded with high quantities of caffeine. It starts with "tracers" - as you move over a light it follows your vision, leaving trails in your sight. Later, you start seeing movement out of the corner of your eye, where there's nothing moving. Depending on stress and perceived need to get a project done, you might hear a deep voice shouting your name.
As it progresses, you eventually start to have time loss, which is cool until you realize 3-4 hours have gone by and you don't remember how, but looking down you see either more work has been done or notes taken or whatever. By the end (before you just cannot stay up), every little noise causes some sort of association, so you think that running water is whispering, doors closing are shouting, cars are a roar of a crowd, etc.
It ranges from "that was fun and interesting" to "that scared me and I never want to do it again."
As XP was to 2000.
Computer world is wrong. As siblings have stated, only the upgrade path requires Vista SP1, not the fresh install path.
A couple things are wrong with your statements.
1) The difference between running and non running apps is very clear and distinguishable. Running apps have a clear border denoting they're open, mousing over a running app provides a colored background to the mouse (apps that aren't running only have a slight grey highlight to let you know you're over the button area), and running apps with more than one window have the multiple frame thing on the right to show you that there are multiple instances.
2) You don't need to click the icon twice. You simply mouse over the word icon (bringing up all word sessions in a preview window) then select the word doc you want.
You're right on a couple things as well:
1) Vista suffers largely from public opinion. Regardless of the quality of the product, any minor issue gets magnified as "vista sucks" in peoples' minds due to its early history.
2) Both Vista and 7 perform well (often better than XP) on modern hardware, and 7 better than Vista.
Yeah, the bed is getting awfully crowded with all of us sleeping with woman. Maybe we should try to find more than one.
Yes, but at the time 2000 had many of the same issues for early adopters that Vista did. Driver model and programming model was different enough to cause issues, the security features were tighter and "more difficult" to use, things were different and people were used to 5 years of Windows 95-esque OS.
As drivers improved, Win2K became a great system, as it supported the same stuff as XP, but was more stripped down. It wasn't until XP SP2 that XP really pulled ahead of 2K in any significant manner.
When was the last time you tried running Windows 64 bit? My experience is that both Vista 64 and Win7 64 both have great driver support now (never tried XP64, but the XPDM (XP driver model) is deprecated, so I understand why finding hardware for the platform is hard). In fact, the issues at Vista launch were largely due to moving to the new driver model, and hardware vendors not being up to speed. Two years later, those issues are no longer a problem.
Or was your comment sufficiently advanced satire that I'm missing? :)
Easiest? And here I was thinking mercury or gallium were quite easy to melt. Perhaps they're not metal after all...
http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2005/10/20/483110.aspx
"Nowadays, adding an easter egg to a Microsoft OS is immediate grounds for termination, so it's highly unlikely you'll ever see another."
This happened as a result of the antitrust trial.
That had nothing to do with undocumented shortcuts and everything to do with poor engineering practices and following software testing standards. Issues included arithmetic overflow, software reuse without verifying that hardware had the same safety checks, etc.
As for easter eggs in my own code... no, it's against company policy as part of the antitrust settlement.
Yes, a rocket igniter can ignite a sparkler when combined with a match. The way I did it was to take the match head, press the rocket igniter on one end and the sparkler on the other. Add a 9V battery to the mix and you get a quick sparkler fuse.
No, it wouldn't.
E^2 = (mc^2)^2 + (p+c)^2 would, but not when multiplied.
In fact, here's the support of the equation I typed above: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_in_special_relativity
Yes, it's wikipedia, but this one's well-written and sourced.
I thought the full equation was
E^2 = (mc^2)^2 + (pc)^2
Or it's because "jigga" is a proper pronunciation of "giga". Both the hard and soft g are acceptable, with the hard being a more recent take on it.
It's obvious the poor guy suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder, you insensitive clod!
You don't know much about plasma donors, because if so, you'd know that you cannot legally sell plasma for donation use. The plasma you sell is for medical testing ONLY.
Vista does, yes.
Painfully untrue, especially in Server 2008 (for which the core install doesn't even have a GUI). There are scripts, tools, and other things that make remote administration of windows possible in many ways that were much harder, previously. No GUI needed.
I think your sig needed to be appended to my message. I wasn't aware it was trolling to make a tongue-in-cheek statement (wink and all).
Hopefully he has fun when he happy at the new school.