I recall reading somewhere that Dell will continue to offer XP Pro to all customers for 6 months after the launch of Vista. I also don't see any shortage of stock any time soon from my suppliers.
and the only one with issues is massive texture flickering in Alice. This is actually a driver issue, if you use an ATI card it's because ATI hasn't yet released a driver with an OpenGL ICD, and you're using the poorly emulated OpenGL.
If you have an nVidia, then a newer driver should fix it.
In some respects you are paying for the shows by simply watching them. As viewership goes up then advertisers are willing to spend more for advertising with that show, these advertisers are really who are paying for the show, but you as the audience attract the advertisers.
As a matter of curiosity, I took the sol.exe from a vista beta machine, and tried to run it on XP. I expected it wouldn't run due to some missing dependancies or something, but to my surprise it said that the EXE was not a valid win32 executable. It appears they've already implimented whatever the method is, and although I didn't investigate the matter any further I'm guessing by the error that this is a fairly complex matter, possibly beyond the ability of a simple patch/crack.
Microsoft has made some bad descisions in thier lifetime, but if anyone here honestly belives microsoft would re-write 60% of its code then there is no hope for you all.
Simply put, Vista WILL be released October 2006, 2 months before CES 2007.. seems like a dumb idea to showcase a 2-month old OS at CES.
This reporter does not know what he is talking about, he is uninformed making wild guesses and claims about something he knows nothing about.
I work for a small computer company and 3ware sent us an infatable beachball which still to this day is somwhere in our shop, apparently they subscibe to this idea of fun on the job.:) Personally I can say the beachball has made some of my days more enjoyable, and other tech companies need to follow this example.
But I think he means that in a different way, your brain knows the horizon is far away, but has no idea how far up the moon actually is because you've never been up there. It's about a distance frame of reference, not a size frame of reference.
Photographers actually use a trick to capture the big moon: they zoom in on the moon alone in the sky, then use a double exposure to capture the scenery The moon is actually rarely in the scenery when the moon is in the picure.
CNN may be part of the problem, but in the end they're journalists, they're ALWAYS looking for some kind of news that can raise public intrest. The CNN news room could care less about wether it goes through or not, AOL/TW might have something to say on the matter but the only thing they care about from CNN is the ratings, not the content.
They could always build the command line around the UI, every UI widget in a program has a unique identifier, if you could command-line script the UI you could basically script any given program built on dotnet. Even if the scripting is as tedious as: Checkbox(id).checked = true textbox(id).text = "text text" Button(id).click which, you'll notice looks a lot like c#/vb.net
But if he succeeded we would have no knowledge of him existing, and the experiment would never have happened, or would have happened with someone else into an infinite paradox.
The homebuilt computer market is fairly small compared to the prebuilt, if apple could allow only those with home-built PCs the choice of OSX, either by using a specific motherboard or something else, they would still be at a position to grow thier OS market amongst "the guys that people ask about computers" while still holding on to thier hardware market.
When was the last time using windows XP you got "this program requires...."? DLL hell is long since dead
OK, maybe dotnet, but what's that, one package that's forwards/backwards compatible with its one older version..net 2.0 will be yet another backwards compatible(not forward) package, guess we're getting up to 2 now how many packages are there out there for linux? Dependancy hell is still very real, while DLL hell has been almost entirely gone since XP
I won't deny that older versions of windows were plauged with dependancy problems, but XP has finally fixed that judging by some of these comments OSX has done a very good job of making the problem transparent, but it still apparently has problems
To add a 4th: The pilots should be able to release knockout gas into the cabin at any given time as necessary, i belive there are effective knockout gasses that pose no health risks, at the most only a few people would die(though even that is pretty unlikely, since and would-be hijacker knows an attempt wouldn't really go anywhere) and a bunch of very tired passengers with a headache.
Of course it COULD be attacked, but would you stay with an ISP that blocked prot 80? It would have to be done at the ISP level, and I doubt the customers would be very happy at thier ISPs once they did do it. Bittorrent also doesn't use any sort of fixed ports, blocking 20/21 will certainly take out a bunch of FTPs but there are many that work on different ports. Packet sniffing would allow detection reguardless of port, but I hear the the hardware very expensive to do that on an ISP scale.
The Mozilla Foundation is a completely independent entity and no longer has ties to AOL/Netscape other than the fact that (I belive) a lot of coders are employed by time-warner.
A modern x86 processor is basically a RISC processor internally, the core design probably has more in common with chips mentioned in the parent than they do with the 486.
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Cineplex is a bit of a monopoly here in Canada, every theater that shows new releases where I am is owned by cineplex.
I recall reading somewhere that Dell will continue to offer XP Pro to all customers for 6 months after the launch of Vista. I also don't see any shortage of stock any time soon from my suppliers.
YOU are charged for windows, yes
Schools get better pricing than OEM though, some large enough places are even given a free VLK from Microsoft.
Catch them while they're young, it works for the tobacco industry.
In some respects you are paying for the shows by simply watching them. As viewership goes up then advertisers are willing to spend more for advertising with that show, these advertisers are really who are paying for the show, but you as the audience attract the advertisers.
As a matter of curiosity, I took the sol.exe from a vista beta machine, and tried to run it on XP. I expected it wouldn't run due to some missing dependancies or something, but to my surprise it said that the EXE was not a valid win32 executable. It appears they've already implimented whatever the method is, and although I didn't investigate the matter any further I'm guessing by the error that this is a fairly complex matter, possibly beyond the ability of a simple patch/crack.
http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_No_Vista _Code_Changes/1143232877
Microsoft has made some bad descisions in thier lifetime, but if anyone here honestly belives microsoft would re-write 60% of its code then there is no hope for you all.
Simply put, Vista WILL be released October 2006, 2 months before CES 2007.. seems like a dumb idea to showcase a 2-month old OS at CES.
This reporter does not know what he is talking about, he is uninformed making wild guesses and claims about something he knows nothing about.
Personally I'd like to see APNG gain support to the point it becomes worthwhile to add it into the code.
Well, I'd like to see microsoft offer Nightly builds of the latest checkins
I work for a small computer company and 3ware sent us an infatable beachball which still to this day is somwhere in our shop, apparently they subscibe to this idea of fun on the job. :)
Personally I can say the beachball has made some of my days more enjoyable, and other tech companies need to follow this example.
But I think he means that in a different way, your brain knows the horizon is far away, but has no idea how far up the moon actually is because you've never been up there.
It's about a distance frame of reference, not a size frame of reference.
Photographers actually use a trick to capture the big moon: they zoom in on the moon alone in the sky, then use a double exposure to capture the scenery
The moon is actually rarely in the scenery when the moon is in the picure.
CNN may be part of the problem, but in the end they're journalists, they're ALWAYS looking for some kind of news that can raise public intrest. The CNN news room could care less about wether it goes through or not, AOL/TW might have something to say on the matter but the only thing they care about from CNN is the ratings, not the content.
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And of course the US doesn't put ANY pressure on other companies to adopt the same corrupt and backward policies.
They could always build the command line around the UI, every UI widget in a program has a unique identifier, if you could command-line script the UI you could basically script any given program built on dotnet. Even if the scripting is as tedious as:
Checkbox(id).checked = true
textbox(id).text = "text text"
Button(id).click
which, you'll notice looks a lot like c#/vb.net
But if he succeeded we would have no knowledge of him existing, and the experiment would never have happened, or would have happened with someone else into an infinite paradox.
The homebuilt computer market is fairly small compared to the prebuilt, if apple could allow only those with home-built PCs the choice of OSX, either by using a specific motherboard or something else, they would still be at a position to grow thier OS market amongst "the guys that people ask about computers" while still holding on to thier hardware market.
When was the last time using windows XP you got "this program requires...."?
.net 2.0 will be yet another backwards compatible(not forward) package, guess we're getting up to 2 now
DLL hell is long since dead
OK, maybe dotnet, but what's that, one package that's forwards/backwards compatible with its one older version.
how many packages are there out there for linux?
Dependancy hell is still very real, while DLL hell has been almost entirely gone since XP
I won't deny that older versions of windows were plauged with dependancy problems, but XP has finally fixed that
judging by some of these comments OSX has done a very good job of making the problem transparent, but it still apparently has problems
microsoft++ == karma--
To add a 4th: The pilots should be able to release knockout gas into the cabin at any given time as necessary, i belive there are effective knockout gasses that pose no health risks, at the most only a few people would die(though even that is pretty unlikely, since and would-be hijacker knows an attempt wouldn't really go anywhere) and a bunch of very tired passengers with a headache.
Of course it COULD be attacked, but would you stay with an ISP that blocked prot 80?
It would have to be done at the ISP level, and I doubt the customers would be very happy at thier ISPs once they did do it.
Bittorrent also doesn't use any sort of fixed ports, blocking 20/21 will certainly take out a bunch of FTPs but there are many that work on different ports.
Packet sniffing would allow detection reguardless of port, but I hear the the hardware very expensive to do that on an ISP scale.
There's no way to attack bittorrent as a whole, it's akin to attacking HTTP, FTP or any other application layer protocal.
The Mozilla Foundation is a completely independent entity and no longer has ties to AOL/Netscape other than the fact that (I belive) a lot of coders are employed by time-warner.
http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/
A modern x86 processor is basically a RISC processor internally, the core design probably has more in common with chips mentioned in the parent than they do with the 486.
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http://arstechnica.com/cpu/4q99/risc-cisc/rvc-1.h