Or, get someone with a trackercord of delivering a modern OS. Like Maybe Linus
Yeah, good idea... Linus will help them to move all 35 million lines of code into the kernel. Once Vista is a totally monolithic OS, I'm sure they can release it immediately;-)
Porting mountains of existing code to.NET sounds exactly like one of the few things that could have bogged down so many smart people for so long.
I don't think they wanted to rewrite the operating system in.NET (even though there's an operating system (alled Singularity) based on some.NET stuff written by Microsoft's researchers). They are now using formal verification (e.g., PreFast) tools to increase the reliability of their Software.. in addition, they annotate the source code such that it becomes formally verifyable. Microsoft is doing great stuff here, using the brilliant results from their research branch for product development. I don't know any other company where this happens to such an extent..
*argh* It's mutually recursive! Now I'll have to read the definition of flammable/inflammable till the end of my days.. (unless I manage to exit the loop via "excitable")
Of course Newton has a great OS.. but I prefer a mediocre OS with lots of applications over a great OS with very few applications available... (I had a Newton for a very long time, I sold it because there wasn't even a decent browser for it...)
Don't get me wrong.. I didn't say that SuSE is in any way better than RedHat (I'm using Ubuntu and a Mac). I'm just wondering why IBM switched from SuSE to RedHat. If this is indeed true, SuSE has lost more users (in relation to their user base) than Microsoft.
Yeah, I wonder why they didn't stick with http://search.msn.com/ , it actually isn't that bad.... with the current http://www.live.com/ experience they can be sure that nobody will use this new service more than once (if at all - so far I didn't manage to find something since it's still loading).
What does actually happen if I want to install the newest version of iTunes on a Windows computer, but you've paid for Quicktime Pro 6.0? Can Quickime Pro 6.0 and Quicktime 7.04 run in parallel on a Windows PC? (I think on my Mac it would work.. I'd never buy Quicktime Pro, though;-))
What does it help that an older version is still available if the software supplier forces me to upgrade (for compatibility reasons)? (e.g., Final Cut Studio requires Quicktime version 7.0.4 or later, which means that I probably also have to upgrade Quicktime Pro if I bought an older version).
Thank god that the members of the open source community are all highly intellectual and outwit all the MS employees. Here's an example for the never-ending cleverness of OSS enthusiasts:
"On that hopefully not too far distant day that I piss on Microsoft's grave, I sincerely hope none of it will splash on you." (Eric S. Raymond)
Amazing how many programming languages were actually invented by Danish computer scientists. Peter Naur (ALGOL), Bjarne Stroustrup (C++), Anders Hejlsberg (C#), and Mads Tofte contributed a good deal to SML.
A test for artificial intelligence suggested by the mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing. The gist of it is that a computer can be considered intelligent when it can hold a sustained conversation with a computer scientist without him being able to distinguish that he is talking with a computer rather than a human being.
Some critics suggest this is unreasonably difficult since most human beings are incapable of holding a sustained conversation with a computer scientist.
After a moments thought they usually add that most computer scientists aren't capable of distinguishing humans from computers anyway.
Let's ask the other way around... I guess one button is for switching the thing off, one is for 0 , and one is for 1 . What the f*** are the remaining three buttons for? Expose for TV channels? Why has Apple suddenly started building everything with superfluous buttons??
Has anybody considered that Microsoft probably has already "ported" Vista to the MacIntel Developer platform. It's probably running without problems since months, but one can imagine various good reasons why Microsoft didn't issue a press release on that, yet.
This is off topic, but I'm wondering if there are legal issues when it comes to copying the content of web-pages. Recently a judge ruled that Google could not be held guilty for "direct infringement" of copyright, because such infringement requires "a volitional act by the defendant". While this might not be the case when Google caches web-pages, it is definitely volitional when a Slashdot user copy&pastes the content of a web-page. I guess there's no problem as long as nobody sues Slashdot, but, it is probably just a matter of time until either an American or German lawer decides to do so...
I'm sure you'll find reading material more entertaining and suitable for lower intelligence level at Disney.com.
Which of the numbers challenges your intelligence, 20, 40, 60 or 100? (of course, all of them are higher than you have fingers on your hand, and 100 even has 3 (!) digits);-)
You shouldn't question the intelligence of somebody without knowing him..
Everyone - including those people who didn't get hold of a MacBook so far - could have written such a review:( He really doesn't come up with anything the informed Mac fan doesn't know already. And I really wonder what it means that the new MacBook is "exponentially faster" than the last G4 version.. having only two measurements, how did this guy manage to interpolate a non-linear function??
Slashdot Mirror
Wow.. did I just get modded "troll" because I said something positive about Microsoft?
Yeah, good idea... Linus will help them to move all 35 million lines of code into the kernel. Once Vista is a totally monolithic OS, I'm sure they can release it immediately
I don't think they wanted to rewrite the operating system in
But Linux is a monolithic kernel... doesn't that mean that Photoshop should be part of the kernel?
*argh* It's mutually recursive! Now I'll have to read the definition of flammable/inflammable till the end of my days.. (unless I manage to exit the loop via "excitable")
Of course Newton has a great OS.. but I prefer a mediocre OS with lots of applications over a great OS with very few applications available...
(I had a Newton for a very long time, I sold it because there wasn't even a decent browser for it...)
Don't get me wrong.. I didn't say that SuSE is in any way better than RedHat (I'm using Ubuntu and a Mac). I'm just wondering why IBM switched from SuSE to RedHat. If this is indeed true, SuSE has lost more users (in relation to their user base) than Microsoft.
Why Redhat? Didn't IBM cooperate with SuSE so far, or has this changed when SuSE was taken over by Novell?
Yeah, I wonder why they didn't stick with http://search.msn.com/ , it actually isn't that bad.... with the current http://www.live.com/ experience they can be sure that nobody will use this new service more than once (if at all - so far I didn't manage to find something since it's still loading).
Has nothing to do with Opera... I had the same effect with IE.
What does actually happen if I want to install the newest version of iTunes on a Windows computer, but you've paid for Quicktime Pro 6.0? Can Quickime Pro 6.0 and Quicktime 7.04 run in parallel on a Windows PC? (I think on my Mac it would work.. I'd never buy Quicktime Pro, though ;-))
What does it help that an older version is still available if the software supplier forces me to upgrade (for compatibility reasons)?
(e.g., Final Cut Studio requires Quicktime version 7.0.4 or later, which means that I probably also have to upgrade Quicktime Pro if I bought an older version).
Thank god that the members of the open source community are all highly intellectual and outwit all the MS employees. Here's an example for the never-ending cleverness of OSS enthusiasts:
"On
that hopefully not too far distant day that I piss on Microsoft's
grave, I sincerely hope none of it will splash on you." (Eric S. Raymond)
Amazing how many programming languages were actually invented by Danish computer scientists. Peter Naur (ALGOL), Bjarne Stroustrup (C++), Anders Hejlsberg (C#), and Mads Tofte contributed a good deal to SML.
According to the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy this will be hard, if you are a Computer Scientist:
(copied from http://www.h2g2.com/ )
Dave? Are you there Dave?
A test for artificial intelligence suggested by the mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing. The gist of it is that a computer can be considered intelligent when it can hold a sustained conversation with a computer scientist without him being able to distinguish that he is talking with a computer rather than a human being.
Some critics suggest this is unreasonably difficult since most human beings are incapable of holding a sustained conversation with a computer scientist.
After a moments thought they usually add that most computer scientists aren't capable of distinguishing humans from computers anyway.
BNF originally stood for "Backus Normal Form", and the name Backus Naur Form was introduced by Donald Knuth:
@article{365140,
author = {Donald E. Knuth},
title = {Backus Normal Form vs. Backus Naur form},
journal = {Commun. ACM},
volume = {7},
number = {12},
year = {1964},
issn = {0001-0782},
pages = {735--736},
doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/355588.365140},
publisher = {ACM Press},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
}
Let's ask the other way around... I guess one button is for switching the thing off, one is for 0 , and one is for 1 . What the f*** are the remaining three buttons for? Expose for TV channels? Why has Apple suddenly started building everything with superfluous buttons??
Since it says Dollar and not Euro, so it's actually exactly what you'd pay for gas in Europe ;-) (oh, of course, Swedes have crowns, I forgot)
Or, conversely stated, Apple hardware ist the most expensive dongle in the world
(but hey, a nice looking dongle, so I bought one anyway
Has anybody considered that Microsoft probably has already "ported" Vista to the MacIntel Developer platform. It's probably running without problems since months, but one can imagine various good reasons why Microsoft didn't issue a press release on that, yet.
Freedom of choice.
You mean when Steve Jobs announces the switch from OS X to Windows?
This is off topic, but I'm wondering if there are legal issues when it comes to copying the content of web-pages. Recently a judge ruled that Google could not be held guilty for "direct infringement" of copyright, because such infringement requires "a volitional act by the defendant". While this might not be the case when Google caches web-pages, it is definitely volitional when a Slashdot user copy&pastes the content of a web-page. I guess there's no problem as long as nobody sues Slashdot, but, it is probably just a matter of time until either an American or German lawer decides to do so...
Everyone - including those people who didn't get hold of a MacBook so far - could have written such a review :( He really doesn't come up with anything the informed Mac fan doesn't know already. And I really wonder what it means that the new MacBook is "exponentially faster" than the last G4 version.. having only two measurements, how did this guy manage to interpolate a non-linear function??