I am amazed that no-one has mentioned Wine yet which is essentially what Cringely is proposing.
If Wine was being developed by a company with the resources and inside knowledge of Microsoft, I wouldn't be surprised if it could be an almost complete replacement for XP within about 2 years.
Windows is just one API sitting on another from a program's perspective. If programs depend only on the upper levels then it becomes a lot easier to port them to other operating systems.
So yes, underneath the pretty GUI is just another operating system - a sort of VMS revisited.
Who, in the public, is going to even begin to understand these adverts or really care? How many big server purchasing decisions are made based on adverts?
I think it's just a way of trying to force an expensive reaction from companies like Sun etc who probably cannot afford it as much as MS can.
I wouldn't waste 2 seconds responding - I'd just invest $25 million more in my Cobalt appliance/ rack-mounted server business.
It seems to be to do with the "caring" attitude towards providing remote parts of Scotland with train services. Apparently Britain has more track per square mile than most European countries and the enormous financial losses are coming out of remote areas are preventing work on densely populated ones.
The suggestion that people should pay for the actual road usage that they make is somewhat odd given that they certainly don't pay for their "actual" usage of the railway system.
Did you finish it? I felt so close but never really managed it. I believe that one had to somehow land on the crystal planet and destroy it with one of those planet-busting bombs.
Oh, well!:-)
Part of the success of this is that I didn't know what the story was to start with and had to find out what to do as I explored.
One thrill-enhancing aspect was the fact that saving the game exited you from the program and when you died you couldn't go back. Death was a pretty final event and although one invented ways of avoiding a complete restart (e.g. by making a complete backup of the whole game occasionally) there wasn't the usual temptation to "save every 8 seconds and reload if you make a mistake".
The Russians used a lot of intelligence information. They probably put more effort into it than anyone. They also "lifted" Enigma and other interception-gathered intelligence from the British.
If you've ever used pjava or jspin (research OODBMSes) you'd make up your mind pretty quickly.
With these systems you write a program without persistence (standard in-memory data structures), add 3 lines of code and you now have a database.
They fiddle with the JVM or compiler to hide the details from you.
I wish they had been released for general use but they seem to be on a back burner at the moment.
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- a) too unambitious because it's suborbital and
- b) too difficult for anyone to attempt even 41 years after Gargarin went up in his big firework
at the same time. Which argument are you going to choose?I am amazed that no-one has mentioned Wine yet which is essentially what Cringely is proposing.
If Wine was being developed by a company with the resources and inside knowledge of Microsoft, I wouldn't be surprised if it could be an almost complete replacement for XP within about 2 years.
Windows is just one API sitting on another from a program's perspective. If programs depend only on the upper levels then it becomes a lot easier to port them to other operating systems.
So yes, underneath the pretty GUI is just another operating system - a sort of VMS revisited.
Regards,
Tim
OpenOffice 641C only works for me when I set my windowmanager to use click-to-focus (somthing I dislike).
If I use enter-exit focus then all the menus and dropdown selectors disappear as I move the mouse from the menu/selector title to the menu itself.
this seems to happen irrespective of the window manager I use (even happens without a windowmanager).
Has this changed in 641D?
Regards,
Tim
Who, in the public, is going to even begin to understand these adverts or really care? How many big server purchasing decisions are made based on adverts?
I think it's just a way of trying to force an expensive reaction from companies like Sun etc who probably cannot afford it as much as MS can.
I wouldn't waste 2 seconds responding - I'd just invest $25 million more in my Cobalt appliance/ rack-mounted server business.
Regards,
Tim
I also hate having to switch to IE for this and I have written to them too but not received any acknowledgement.
One of the problems will be that they use activex for some parts of their authentication. Linux people like me will have trouble with that.
They do cater for Mac users and I'm not sure how.
Here's the feedback page if you want to make a complaint:
Regards,
Tim
It seems to be to do with the "caring" attitude towards providing remote parts of Scotland with train services. Apparently Britain has more track per square mile than most European countries and the enormous financial losses are coming out of remote areas are preventing work on densely populated ones.
The suggestion that people should pay for the actual road usage that they make is somewhat odd given that they certainly don't pay for their "actual" usage of the railway system.
Regards,
Tim
Did you finish it? I felt so close but never really managed it. I believe that one had to somehow land on the crystal planet and destroy it with one of those planet-busting bombs.
:-)
Oh, well!
Part of the success of this is that I didn't know what the story was to start with and had to find out what to do as I explored.
One thrill-enhancing aspect was the fact that saving the game exited you from the program and when you died you couldn't go back. Death was a pretty final event and although one invented ways of avoiding a complete restart (e.g. by making a complete backup of the whole game occasionally) there wasn't the usual temptation to "save every 8 seconds and reload if you make a mistake".
Regards,
Tim
You mean Britain vs America - Europe is another place :-)
Regards,
Tim
The Russians used a lot of intelligence information. They probably put more effort into it than anyone. They also "lifted" Enigma and other interception-gathered intelligence from the British.
I think you underestimate it's importance hugely.
I wish they had been released for general use but they seem to be on a back burner at the moment.