What I meant was that there wasn't a significant GUI feature introduced by Linux. I didn't make any claims about MS. In my view the core GUI came from Xerox and there's been minor tweaks since then.
"How people can use any graphical interface without Virtual Desktops!?!"
Easily. There's still a lot of people out there that think they have to shut down one application before launching another. I can easily imagine them switching from virtual desktop to virtual desktop closing applications as they go.
I guess you mean "blame competition". Since when is it your competitors' fault if they produce a new product and you decide to change your development schedule as a result?
Than I guess you'll be buying a HD DVD system when you have 1920 x 1080 eyes.
Seriously, the point is that not every tech advance will be adopted by the public. Some people will find that the current video resolution is good enough for them just as you find stereo to be all you need for audio.
If you really believed that, you wouldn't have mentioned the age you learned it since it was irrelevent to the discussion.
I don't what country you are from but in the US today it isn't common to learn the multiplication tables in kindergarten. When I was in kindergarten in the late 50's, it was unheard of.
I don't know of what possible use it would have at that age anyway. What day-to-day activities do 5 year-olds do that requires multiplication?
"Yes, they'll either succeed or replaced by another high-def standard. They won't lose out because "DVDs are good enough"."
Well, maybe not. Two channel stereo is still represents 90% of the music market even though multichannel alternatives have been available for 30 years. Stereo is "good enough" for the vast majority of people and there really isn't any reason to believe this will change in our lifetime.
I'm saying that not every advancement in technology is adopted by the public.
The fate of these particular HD standards will be decided in the next 5 years, not in 50 years.
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"What happened when DVD players cost over $400? Nobody bought them!!(Except insane videophiles with $10 home theater systems.) They kept using VCRs and waited a couple short years until DVD players were $50-80 at any electronics or discount store."
I was one of those that bought a DVD player for over $400 and I only had a 27 inch TV. On the other hand, I still haven't bought the surround-sound system to go with it.
The point is that you never know what people will do. I don't think these new HD DVD's are worth it, but other people might disagree.
I'm a former Atari 2600 game programmer so I know a bit about programming "close to the metal". The debate about IDE's vs. other tools has nothing to do with low-level programming. I'd also say that people who do low-level programming don't typically make a lot more money than other developers.
"You don't have to pay for the four filler tracks on every album."
Wow, I just had a great idea. Record companies could have sold a smaller record with just one song on it and sold it for less money. Wait. Since there are two sides of a record, they could put another song on the other side. They could have called these records something like a SINGLE. They could have had some of the advantages of the iPod years ago.
"As a general rule, high school athletes tend to do better acedemicly than non-athletes. They get better grades, score higher on their SATs, they are more likely to attend University. The stereotype of the "stupid jock" is just not true. It is a myth."
So what statistics did you use to come to these conclusions? When I was in college I worked on some special programs for students that were having academic problems and many of them were athletes. This doesn't prove that jocks are less academic than the average, but given my personal experience, I'd have to see evidence before I accepted your claims.
Remember anyone who is a parent now was the child of the previous generation of parents. So if there's something wrong with today's parents, it must be do to a lack of good parenting on the part of the previous parents you think are so great. Or maybe, just maybe, the there are more forces shaping todays children "than are dreamt of in your philosophy".
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I don't see MS turning Windows into a web service. How are you going to access it from your PC, boot into Linux?
Truly a nightmare scenario for those who don't need a rational reason to hate MS.
What I meant was that there wasn't a significant GUI feature introduced by Linux. I didn't make any claims about MS. In my view the core GUI came from Xerox and there's been minor tweaks since then.
No, it's not like COM. You can derive new classes in one .Net language from an existing class in another .NET language. You can't do that using COM.
Wow. There's nothing more innovative in GUI design than the look of the Minimize, Maximize, and Close buttons.
"How people can use any graphical interface without Virtual Desktops!?!"
Easily. There's still a lot of people out there that think they have to shut down one application before launching another. I can easily imagine them switching from virtual desktop to virtual desktop closing applications as they go.
Hey if I could make as much money as MS has on Windows since introducing NT, I'd be happy to build a product on Empty technology.
I don't know about OS X, but I'm not aware of any great GUI feature that Linux has introduced.
Nobody ever lost their job at Slashdot for dissing Windows.
I guess you mean "blame competition". Since when is it your competitors' fault if they produce a new product and you decide to change your development schedule as a result?
If Sony doesn't release a post-PS3 platform well before 10 years has passed, their plan must be to exit from the market.
It wouldn't be so bad, but Jobs decided he didn't want the elevator to have any fans.
Than I guess you'll be buying a HD DVD system when you have 1920 x 1080 eyes.
Seriously, the point is that not every tech advance will be adopted by the public. Some people will find that the current video resolution is good enough for them just as you find stereo to be all you need for audio.
If you really believed that, you wouldn't have mentioned the age you learned it since it was irrelevent to the discussion.
I don't what country you are from but in the US today it isn't common to learn the multiplication tables in kindergarten. When I was in kindergarten in the late 50's, it was unheard of.
I don't know of what possible use it would have at that age anyway. What day-to-day activities do 5 year-olds do that requires multiplication?
Wow, smart and humble too.
"Yes, they'll either succeed or replaced by another high-def standard. They won't lose out because "DVDs are good enough"."
Well, maybe not. Two channel stereo is still represents 90% of the music market even though multichannel alternatives have been available for 30 years.
Stereo is "good enough" for the vast majority of people and there really isn't any reason to believe this will change in our lifetime.
I'm saying that not every advancement in technology is adopted by the public.
The fate of these particular HD standards will be decided in the next 5 years, not in 50 years.
"What happened when DVD players cost over $400? Nobody bought them!!(Except insane videophiles with $10 home theater systems.) They kept using VCRs and waited a couple short years until DVD players were $50-80 at any electronics or discount store."
I was one of those that bought a DVD player for over $400 and I only had a 27 inch TV. On the other hand, I still haven't bought the surround-sound system to go with it.
The point is that you never know what people will do. I don't think these new HD DVD's are worth it, but other people might disagree.
It's just like all those stereo buyers that upgraded to Quadraphonic audio systems in the early 1970s. That's why Quad was such a big success.
I'm a former Atari 2600 game programmer so I know a bit about programming "close to the metal". The debate about IDE's vs. other tools has nothing to do with low-level programming. I'd also say that people who do low-level programming don't typically make a lot more money than other developers.
"You don't have to pay for the four filler tracks on every album."
Wow, I just had a great idea. Record companies could have sold a smaller record with just one song on it and sold it for less money. Wait. Since there are two sides of a record, they could put another song on the other side. They could have called these records something like a SINGLE. They could have had some of the advantages of the iPod years ago.
So for the numbers 145-999 do you add "hundreds", "millions", or "billions" as your units?
So you believe that most real world math problems yield answers that are less than or equal to 144?
"As a general rule, high school athletes tend to do better acedemicly than non-athletes. They get better grades, score higher on their SATs, they are more likely to attend University. The stereotype of the "stupid jock" is just not true. It is a myth."
So what statistics did you use to come to these conclusions? When I was in college I worked on some special programs for students that were having academic problems and many of them were athletes. This doesn't prove that jocks are less academic than the average, but given my personal experience, I'd have to see evidence before I accepted your claims.
Remember anyone who is a parent now was the child of the previous generation of parents. So if there's something wrong with today's parents, it must be do to a lack of good parenting on the part of the previous parents you think are so great. Or maybe, just maybe, the there are more forces shaping todays children "than are dreamt of in your philosophy".