Microsoft of course has prior history with this - Office jumped from version 4.3 to version 7, as they bumped up Excel, PowerPoint and Access so they all matched Word (Word was previously v6, Excel v5, PowerPoint v4 and Access v2). Then they did the same thing with Visual Studio 6.0 to match VB6 - VC++ went from 4.2 to 6, J++ from 1.1, and InterDev was introduced with v6 being the first version.
More recently, Microsoft has been skipping version 13 of both Office and Visual Studio.
From the perspective of efficiency or architectural sanity, that is about as far from optimal as you could wish to be(short of running the fastest analog modem connection that will survive GSM voice compression to take advantage of your unlimited voice minutes); but the magic of telco nonsense pricing makes it entirely reasonable.
Of course, back in the (pre-GPRS) day, that's basically how WAP phones worked. You were charged on a per-minute basis, as the phone was basically dialling in for Internet access. I can also remember hooking my phone up to my computer and using it as a modem. It was extremely slow (I think it synced at about 9.6Kbps), but it was functional.:)
So has anybody created a fork of Firefox yet that includes all the browser optimisations, faster JavaScript, etc, but doesn't bugger up the UI every month for no good reason (and ideally has a sane version numbering system)?
Spain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands should all be on GMT. Personally, I think that would make far more sense than Britain switching to CET. The Greenwich meridian is in the UK, for heaven's sake!
While I certainly applaud moves to reduce the roaming rip-off within the EU, the downside to this is that, in order to make up for their lost profits, the mobile companies significantly increase their charges if you leave the EU. Two years ago, I could make calls in the USA with my T-Mobile UK phone for a vaguely reasonable 55p/minute. Now, that price has skyrocketed to £1.20/minute. Other providers are even worse, with O2 charging nearly £1.40/minute for the same call. I hope we're not going to be significantly penalised again for non-EU roaming if these changes make it into law.
That's only because 98lite would replace explorer.exe with a version from Windows 95. 98lite could still remove various aspects of IE without replacing Explorer, of course, but the core rendering engine would still be installed. For all intents and purposes, explorer.exe and iexplore.exe in Windows 98 were basically both just a wrapper for the IE engine.
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There's probably a keyboard shortcut to select the address bar like in a web browser, but it's not Ctrl+L it seems.
It's Alt-D, just like in a web browser. Which, considering the history of Windows Explorer, is not surprising!
UK tuition fees are low for Unless you're an overseas student, in which case it'll be anything between £10,000 and £26,000/year depending on what course you're taking.
So, most browsers support IDNs these days, but what about e-mail clients? In theory, it shouldn't be an issue for SMTP servers when translated into the ASCII form, but are there any e-mail clients that actually support IDNs? How about web-based e-mail services? I can foresee issues with people trying to e-mail these new domains.
especially given Apple charges users for upgrades, even security/bug fixes. IMHO Apple users will end up with the bigger issues to face.
I'm sorry, but what? While Apple (just like Microsoft) charges for major releases (e.g., 10.5 to 10.6), minor releases (e.g., 10.6.2 to 10.6.3) are free of charge, as are all the security updates between releases.
I think it's 15 to 20 years. I'm sure it was made illegal to sell domestic appliances without a plug. Manufactures used to sell things without plugs to cut costs and improve profits. The shops didn't mind because wiring plugs was a nice easy money spinner for them.
Additionally, depending on the layout of your kitchen, for instance, you'd would often have to take the plug off to pass it through the worktop to reach the socket. That, or have it plugged into an awkward location underneath the worktop. So it would often not hurt to supply the appliance without a plug, which could be easily bought separately anyway.
That might be so, but I can't say, a Brit living in the US, that I'm especially enamoured by the little sparks that I tend to see now and then when plugging devices into the wall. When I explain to my American friends that we have little switches on the sockets to turn them off and on, they can't seem to understand the point of them.
Windows 7 (as well as I think certain versions of Vista) provides support for booting from EFI rather than a BIOS. While, yes, it's still a "BIOS-like" bootstrap loader, Windows 7 is not reliant on any specific BIOS functions.
Ah, a quick Google shows that my memory was wrong, and they are still around - they're Space Raiders, not Space Invaders. And upon re-reading the original post, I reckon it's actually about the stereotype of British people liking their personal space, and not about snack food at all!
I'm guessing it's a reference to "Space Invaders", the crisp-type snack that apparently doesn't exist any more that was probably the staple of school lunch boxes in the 80s and early 90s!
In 2008, the UK had the 10th highest number of applicants (and accepted students). There was a spreadsheet posted a few weeks ago with details of which countries and even which universities had students accepted over the past few years of GSoC, but alas I can't find it right now.
Not only that, but the BBC have today launched an HD version of the iPlayer. While the quality is obviously not quite up to Blu-Ray standards, it'll still look a whole lot better than the existing version of the iPlayer on a large TV.
This is one of the main reasons that IBM has not been able to open source OS/2, something which has been requested of them by a number of people for a while - large portions of the code are owned by third parties (such as Microsoft), and IBM does not have permission to open source such code.
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Nah, this is for your GEM applications - PAINT.APP, BASIC2.APP, and good ol' DOODLE.APP. :)
Microsoft of course has prior history with this - Office jumped from version 4.3 to version 7, as they bumped up Excel, PowerPoint and Access so they all matched Word (Word was previously v6, Excel v5, PowerPoint v4 and Access v2). Then they did the same thing with Visual Studio 6.0 to match VB6 - VC++ went from 4.2 to 6, J++ from 1.1, and InterDev was introduced with v6 being the first version.
More recently, Microsoft has been skipping version 13 of both Office and Visual Studio.
From the perspective of efficiency or architectural sanity, that is about as far from optimal as you could wish to be(short of running the fastest analog modem connection that will survive GSM voice compression to take advantage of your unlimited voice minutes); but the magic of telco nonsense pricing makes it entirely reasonable.
Of course, back in the (pre-GPRS) day, that's basically how WAP phones worked. You were charged on a per-minute basis, as the phone was basically dialling in for Internet access. I can also remember hooking my phone up to my computer and using it as a modem. It was extremely slow (I think it synced at about 9.6Kbps), but it was functional. :)
So has anybody created a fork of Firefox yet that includes all the browser optimisations, faster JavaScript, etc, but doesn't bugger up the UI every month for no good reason (and ideally has a sane version numbering system)?
Spain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands should all be on GMT. Personally, I think that would make far more sense than Britain switching to CET. The Greenwich meridian is in the UK, for heaven's sake!
While I certainly applaud moves to reduce the roaming rip-off within the EU, the downside to this is that, in order to make up for their lost profits, the mobile companies significantly increase their charges if you leave the EU. Two years ago, I could make calls in the USA with my T-Mobile UK phone for a vaguely reasonable 55p/minute. Now, that price has skyrocketed to £1.20/minute. Other providers are even worse, with O2 charging nearly £1.40/minute for the same call. I hope we're not going to be significantly penalised again for non-EU roaming if these changes make it into law.
That's only because 98lite would replace explorer.exe with a version from Windows 95. 98lite could still remove various aspects of IE without replacing Explorer, of course, but the core rendering engine would still be installed. For all intents and purposes, explorer.exe and iexplore.exe in Windows 98 were basically both just a wrapper for the IE engine.
There's probably a keyboard shortcut to select the address bar like in a web browser, but it's not Ctrl+L it seems.
It's Alt-D, just like in a web browser. Which, considering the history of Windows Explorer, is not surprising!
UK tuition fees are low for Unless you're an overseas student, in which case it'll be anything between £10,000 and £26,000/year depending on what course you're taking.
So, most browsers support IDNs these days, but what about e-mail clients? In theory, it shouldn't be an issue for SMTP servers when translated into the ASCII form, but are there any e-mail clients that actually support IDNs? How about web-based e-mail services? I can foresee issues with people trying to e-mail these new domains.
especially given Apple charges users for upgrades, even security/bug fixes. IMHO Apple users will end up with the bigger issues to face.
I'm sorry, but what? While Apple (just like Microsoft) charges for major releases (e.g., 10.5 to 10.6), minor releases (e.g., 10.6.2 to 10.6.3) are free of charge, as are all the security updates between releases.
So how long before "3dporn.com" becomes a reality?
I think it's 15 to 20 years. I'm sure it was made illegal to sell domestic appliances without a plug. Manufactures used to sell things without plugs to cut costs and improve profits. The shops didn't mind because wiring plugs was a nice easy money spinner for them.
Additionally, depending on the layout of your kitchen, for instance, you'd would often have to take the plug off to pass it through the worktop to reach the socket. That, or have it plugged into an awkward location underneath the worktop. So it would often not hurt to supply the appliance without a plug, which could be easily bought separately anyway.
That might be so, but I can't say, a Brit living in the US, that I'm especially enamoured by the little sparks that I tend to see now and then when plugging devices into the wall. When I explain to my American friends that we have little switches on the sockets to turn them off and on, they can't seem to understand the point of them.
Windows 7 (as well as I think certain versions of Vista) provides support for booting from EFI rather than a BIOS. While, yes, it's still a "BIOS-like" bootstrap loader, Windows 7 is not reliant on any specific BIOS functions.
Ah, a quick Google shows that my memory was wrong, and they are still around - they're Space Raiders, not Space Invaders. And upon re-reading the original post, I reckon it's actually about the stereotype of British people liking their personal space, and not about snack food at all!
I'm guessing it's a reference to "Space Invaders", the crisp-type snack that apparently doesn't exist any more that was probably the staple of school lunch boxes in the 80s and early 90s!
Eh:
Bob McDonald
1 My Street
Town, County
POST CODE
Doesn't seem much longer than your average US address to me.
Aha, a bit more hunting around and here we go: more statistics than you could shake a stick at.
In 2008, the UK had the 10th highest number of applicants (and accepted students). There was a spreadsheet posted a few weeks ago with details of which countries and even which universities had students accepted over the past few years of GSoC, but alas I can't find it right now.
Not only that, but the BBC have today launched an HD version of the iPlayer. While the quality is obviously not quite up to Blu-Ray standards, it'll still look a whole lot better than the existing version of the iPlayer on a large TV.
Whoosh!
This is one of the main reasons that IBM has not been able to open source OS/2, something which has been requested of them by a number of people for a while - large portions of the code are owned by third parties (such as Microsoft), and IBM does not have permission to open source such code.
It could be worse, I guess, there could be a Steam-style "Anonymous Coward has spent 43 hours trolling slashdot in the past two weeks" display. ;)
That'll be all the nice cheap phishing domains.