There, fixed that for you. Actually if memory serves me right, Apple ripped off the idea from someone else and probably going back far enough you'll find adaptations from text based windowing systems and so on and so forth.
oh, and i don't know how you've set up your desktop theme, but most of us don't see "hot pink base paint, green floral pattern, and crushed red velvet interior" when looking at the Windows GUI
You still have to worry about hardware behavior which can have more side effects than some API's. It's often harder to get reliable documentation for hardware especially if you're dealing with different chipset versions or even different vendor boards for the same chipset. If you really want to know all the details you need to wire it yourself.
At some point you're going to have to deal with OS system calls. Even with Menuet, one programmer didn't write the whole thing so once they started writing apps they were working with API code written by other people. It's also disingenuous to measure compiler overhead by looking at one isolated statement. If you're program only does "x=10;" then I would represent that in assembly with an empty file because an isolated MOV doesn't accomplish anything. If you're actually doing something with the data, then even assembly programs need some overhead like error checking, bounds checking, heap management, etc.
In all coding you have to look at the big picture. There's more to speed than just individual instructions. For example, quick sort in C will always be faster than bubble sort in assembly.
If you consider hi-torque gutless, then yes. Diesel electrics have been used in railroad locomotives for decades now. Of course if you just want speed maybe you should go alcohol like they use in Indy cars. Really though, you can make any car gutless if you really want to regardless of the engine in it. That's more about power to weight ratio than just the engine type - consider the Mustang 2.
never? wasn't microsoft recently threatening to sue linux users, not just distributors, with infringement of patents they couldn't even identify? just because they suck at it doesn't mean they aren't doing it
so the car's not for you - don't buy one. maybe in soviet russia everyone has to drive the same car, but here in the free world we each choose the one we want. i know people who still make the same kinds of arguments against cell phones and they still don't use them. however that doesn't mean the rest of us won't take advantage of new technology.
Naw the new Hummers are all squished into tall skinny (and ugly) top heavy things. It would be like a giraffe hitting it. Even if a real Hummer hit it would be no worse than a carbon fiber race car smacking a wall at high speeds. The body is so strong that drivers have survived some pretty crazy wrecks.
If you just take the Linux Kernel then just build an OS on top of that you would have something dramatically different then a Linux Distribution.
An OS in any other clothes is still the same OS. Consider if someone took a Windows Kernel and built a new UI for it. It might not look like Windows but I'm sure there'd be some Redmond lawyers willing to call it what it is.
Most distributions of Linux follow a lot of common standards.
Similar directory structure.
If you move "My Documents" in Windows or reorganize the registry you'll break a few apps but you won't have a new OS.
Similar Apps installed...
All desktops have similar apps installed: web browsers, text editors, networking tools like ping. That doesn't mean they're all running the same OS.
Geeze, can you point to even one instance where that was the case?
GM had all the market incentives in the world for building high margin trucks and SUV's. If they had made any plans to provide less profitable, more affordable vehicles they might have stayed in business during the downturn. You might say that market forces weren't pushing them to do restructuring that could have kept their doors open.
In reality, the people running the company are subject to a different set of market forces. They're looking at what gives them the biggest bonuses not what makes the company more viable. Honestly, no CEO would deliberately take a profitable company and make it less profitable in order balance the company's portfolio to make it more immune to a recession that may or may not ever occur during their tenure. Some CEO's even go so far as to kill the golden goose to get the golden egg (Enron anyone?). If they're going to retire and sell their stock anyway, they don't have any market incentive for leaving the goose for the next guy. In this case market forces don't allow any planning to keep the goose around for the next generation.
Let's say I buy a cookbook. I really like one of the recipes and I pass it on to a friend. Is that as bad as downloading music? Is it worse than quoting a passage from a book in a paper I write for school? Is it worse than recording songs off the radio? Is it worse than recording a TV show so you can watch it later? If I buy a cd for my kid and he has a copy on his computer when he moves out did he just steal it? All these points are moot because the recording industry only cares that they might be leaving some money on the table and they'll spend a lot of coin on lawyers to prove it.
Show me a cd where the majority of the proceeds actually go to the artist and I'll show you a cd I would consider buying (or that I've already bought).
Well, sooner or later someone will patent acute angles and corner the market on pointy things. Just in case you might want to practice smashing your cabbage with a rolling pin. A bowling ball might work well too.
If that's true and they really need bundling to compete with Linux, they're going to have to start throwing in Word, Excel, Photoshop, Visual Studio, IIS, etc. I agree that this is an old issue, but I suspect that bundling has hurt the competition (at least, those that charged for their products) more than not bundling hurts MS.
Why would they diagnose Crohn's disease? There's not much drug treatment for that. They probably diagnosed her with something that needs lots of lucrative prescriptions.
btw. mad props to this girl for the diy initiative. i hope she makes a career in research.
True and the difference between Phoenix and Tucson, for example, is amazing. Most street lights in Phoenix do shine down though. The difference is that Tucson's lights are filtered. They put off a more yellow light and aren't so bright. It's good for the local observatories and it's also less obnoxious if you happen to have a bedroom window facing a streetlight.
Who said anything about learning? This is for grades. I suspect there are some underpaid teachers willing to accept kickbacks for adjusting a few grades.
It's a trial program for cutting costs. Handing out PhD's to 11 year olds will let California get rid of all those expensive underperforming middle schools and high schools.
The world population is closer to 6.8 billion (US Census Bureau) and still increasing. I wonder if he used the same kind of sloppy approximation when reporting his GPA.
I find Jaime Escalante's achievements far more inspiring as far as LA students go.
Having records that will last through the ages isn't really a goal of health care providers. The records just need to outlast the patients. After that having impermanent records pretty much just helps with their HIPAA compliance (read CYA).
In any case, having electronic records doesn't make a system paperless. Clarian uses Cerner systems and of Cerner's 1000's of clients, only one or two could legitimately claim to be paperless. In many cases the paper use is multiplied. Staff often printout records to carry around. Instead of having one record and making notes on that, they printout a new copy every time they make changes to the electronic record.
The big shock isn't that the system was down but rather that the hospital got that far behind. They should be used to it by now because downtimes in Cerner systems are frequent and often standard practice. On top of unplanned outages, many system upgrades require a downtime and most Cerner clients take their systems offline twice a year for the Daylight Saving Time switch because the software doesn't handle it well. Instead of fixing those bugs, Cerner has just worked on providing better automation for those downtimes.
Cerner at least pays lip service to better reliability but the fact is it's not a top priority. Their corporate imperative is to grow the top line. As long as the feature function drives their development service breaks are going to be the reality for some time to come. This will be true regardless of whether or not their clients fix their power backups.
does drm cover space shuttles? i'd think they'd need some kinda special license for that. there's probably a nominal fee - maybe proportional to the velocity at time of viewing. or maybe someone had already watched the copy before launch so it had expired. there must be a patent on watching movies in 0g so someone needs to be paid.
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imitating the Apple GUI
There, fixed that for you. Actually if memory serves me right, Apple ripped off the idea from someone else and probably going back far enough you'll find adaptations from text based windowing systems and so on and so forth.
oh, and i don't know how you've set up your desktop theme, but most of us don't see "hot pink base paint, green floral pattern, and crushed red velvet interior" when looking at the Windows GUI
You still have to worry about hardware behavior which can have more side effects than some API's. It's often harder to get reliable documentation for hardware especially if you're dealing with different chipset versions or even different vendor boards for the same chipset. If you really want to know all the details you need to wire it yourself.
At some point you're going to have to deal with OS system calls. Even with Menuet, one programmer didn't write the whole thing so once they started writing apps they were working with API code written by other people. It's also disingenuous to measure compiler overhead by looking at one isolated statement. If you're program only does "x=10;" then I would represent that in assembly with an empty file because an isolated MOV doesn't accomplish anything. If you're actually doing something with the data, then even assembly programs need some overhead like error checking, bounds checking, heap management, etc.
In all coding you have to look at the big picture. There's more to speed than just individual instructions. For example, quick sort in C will always be faster than bubble sort in assembly.
If you consider hi-torque gutless, then yes. Diesel electrics have been used in railroad locomotives for decades now. Of course if you just want speed maybe you should go alcohol like they use in Indy cars. Really though, you can make any car gutless if you really want to regardless of the engine in it. That's more about power to weight ratio than just the engine type - consider the Mustang 2.
never? wasn't microsoft recently threatening to sue linux users, not just distributors, with infringement of patents they couldn't even identify? just because they suck at it doesn't mean they aren't doing it
and if they're paid to use another name? after all a horse by any other name makes roses
so, what? they're just going to call it "7" now? i wonder if that count includes windows 1 and 2... sorry, couldn't resist
aha! finally a keyboard that can make everything uppercase when i'm shouting at you!! i mean SHOUTING AT YOU!!!!
so the car's not for you - don't buy one. maybe in soviet russia everyone has to drive the same car, but here in the free world we each choose the one we want. i know people who still make the same kinds of arguments against cell phones and they still don't use them. however that doesn't mean the rest of us won't take advantage of new technology.
Naw the new Hummers are all squished into tall skinny (and ugly) top heavy things. It would be like a giraffe hitting it. Even if a real Hummer hit it would be no worse than a carbon fiber race car smacking a wall at high speeds. The body is so strong that drivers have survived some pretty crazy wrecks.
If you just take the Linux Kernel then just build an OS on top of that you would have something dramatically different then a Linux Distribution.
An OS in any other clothes is still the same OS. Consider if someone took a Windows Kernel and built a new UI for it. It might not look like Windows but I'm sure there'd be some Redmond lawyers willing to call it what it is.
Most distributions of Linux follow a lot of common standards. Similar directory structure.
If you move "My Documents" in Windows or reorganize the registry you'll break a few apps but you won't have a new OS.
Similar Apps installed...
All desktops have similar apps installed: web browsers, text editors, networking tools like ping. That doesn't mean they're all running the same OS.
Geeze, can you point to even one instance where that was the case?
GM had all the market incentives in the world for building high margin trucks and SUV's. If they had made any plans to provide less profitable, more affordable vehicles they might have stayed in business during the downturn. You might say that market forces weren't pushing them to do restructuring that could have kept their doors open.
In reality, the people running the company are subject to a different set of market forces. They're looking at what gives them the biggest bonuses not what makes the company more viable. Honestly, no CEO would deliberately take a profitable company and make it less profitable in order balance the company's portfolio to make it more immune to a recession that may or may not ever occur during their tenure. Some CEO's even go so far as to kill the golden goose to get the golden egg (Enron anyone?). If they're going to retire and sell their stock anyway, they don't have any market incentive for leaving the goose for the next guy. In this case market forces don't allow any planning to keep the goose around for the next generation.
Let's say I buy a cookbook. I really like one of the recipes and I pass it on to a friend. Is that as bad as downloading music? Is it worse than quoting a passage from a book in a paper I write for school? Is it worse than recording songs off the radio? Is it worse than recording a TV show so you can watch it later? If I buy a cd for my kid and he has a copy on his computer when he moves out did he just steal it? All these points are moot because the recording industry only cares that they might be leaving some money on the table and they'll spend a lot of coin on lawyers to prove it.
Show me a cd where the majority of the proceeds actually go to the artist and I'll show you a cd I would consider buying (or that I've already bought).
if one steals a physical cd from a brick & mortar store, would the damages be $80,000 per song? why the special treatment for download theft?
Well, sooner or later someone will patent acute angles and corner the market on pointy things. Just in case you might want to practice smashing your cabbage with a rolling pin. A bowling ball might work well too.
don't fight the entropy, use it
besides, the rise in cracked windshields will stimulate the local economy
If that's true and they really need bundling to compete with Linux, they're going to have to start throwing in Word, Excel, Photoshop, Visual Studio, IIS, etc. I agree that this is an old issue, but I suspect that bundling has hurt the competition (at least, those that charged for their products) more than not bundling hurts MS.
Why would they diagnose Crohn's disease? There's not much drug treatment for that. They probably diagnosed her with something that needs lots of lucrative prescriptions.
btw. mad props to this girl for the diy initiative. i hope she makes a career in research.
True and the difference between Phoenix and Tucson, for example, is amazing. Most street lights in Phoenix do shine down though. The difference is that Tucson's lights are filtered. They put off a more yellow light and aren't so bright. It's good for the local observatories and it's also less obnoxious if you happen to have a bedroom window facing a streetlight.
...that it's illegal in 7 states - and also switzerland apparently
This will certainly make it easier for kids to get the money to pay other people to do their homework.
Who said anything about learning? This is for grades. I suspect there are some underpaid teachers willing to accept kickbacks for adjusting a few grades.
It's a trial program for cutting costs. Handing out PhD's to 11 year olds will let California get rid of all those expensive underperforming middle schools and high schools.
The world population is closer to 6.8 billion (US Census Bureau) and still increasing. I wonder if he used the same kind of sloppy approximation when reporting his GPA.
I find Jaime Escalante's achievements far more inspiring as far as LA students go.
Having records that will last through the ages isn't really a goal of health care providers. The records just need to outlast the patients. After that having impermanent records pretty much just helps with their HIPAA compliance (read CYA).
In any case, having electronic records doesn't make a system paperless. Clarian uses Cerner systems and of Cerner's 1000's of clients, only one or two could legitimately claim to be paperless. In many cases the paper use is multiplied. Staff often printout records to carry around. Instead of having one record and making notes on that, they printout a new copy every time they make changes to the electronic record.
The big shock isn't that the system was down but rather that the hospital got that far behind. They should be used to it by now because downtimes in Cerner systems are frequent and often standard practice. On top of unplanned outages, many system upgrades require a downtime and most Cerner clients take their systems offline twice a year for the Daylight Saving Time switch because the software doesn't handle it well. Instead of fixing those bugs, Cerner has just worked on providing better automation for those downtimes.
Cerner at least pays lip service to better reliability but the fact is it's not a top priority. Their corporate imperative is to grow the top line. As long as the feature function drives their development service breaks are going to be the reality for some time to come. This will be true regardless of whether or not their clients fix their power backups.
does drm cover space shuttles? i'd think they'd need some kinda special license for that. there's probably a nominal fee - maybe proportional to the velocity at time of viewing. or maybe someone had already watched the copy before launch so it had expired. there must be a patent on watching movies in 0g so someone needs to be paid.