It's even less outlandish to think of WinPhone (and pretty much every other OS) as simply having the ability to hide and show the UI of a particular process on demand. I don't understand at all what the 'notification area' has to do with it.
Well, no, not really. More like apps on your phone. They're still "there" but they don't show any UI or consume CPU. The "notification area" on Windows is purely a UI thing. There's nothing special about icons there, or the processes that create them. They're exactly like any other process, except they're more likely than normal to hide their main window.
Alt-F4 doesn't exit Metro (sorry, Modern) applications. Thanks for playing, though.
BTW, in case you're curious, the answer is, "you don't, not without pulling up the task manager and killing it". Windows (apparently... my 8 experience consists of an hour or two yesterday) "pauses" or "freezes" these apps when you switch to something else, and will close them later if it deems it necessary.
I used Vista from day one until the day Win7 was released (MSDN sub), and UAC never bothered me. I understand that your experience was typical, but it was certainly possible to use without having to dread UAC.
No programs other than PowerShell are involved here. No external processes are being started. If that was still too much typing, you could alias some of the cmdlets to shorter names.
The version numbers don't, however, reveal how much changed between Vista and Windows 7. Certainly less than what changed between XP and Vista, but more than what changed between 98 and ME, I'd say.
Either way, Vista was released because SOMETHING had to be released, regardless of whether it was ready or not. I never had much trouble with it, but I ran it on capable hardware; it didn't scale well on the low end, I'm told. I think that a lot of the trouble people had with it was really due to drivers and especially applications that were written poorly and assumed they could and should do all sorts of things that MS had been saying not to do for a long time.
Erm, you stated that using Linux "means saving tens, even hundreds of thousands of dollars of licence fees". I'm not sure how that became four billion. Let's do it in reverse:
"You use Linux, saving tens, even hundreds of thousands of dollars of license fees, and pretty soon, even your hardware is free! You can drop your $5b budget down to a Starbucks gift card and an iPad for browsing thingverse and instructables!"
I know, right, I mean, when you've only got $9 billion in the budget, you can go around willy-nilly spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on license fees!
That's silly. Is a swimming pool a swimming pool if I fill it full of concrete? Is a lake a lake if I drain all the water out? Is Optimus Prime a semi truck when he's walking around on two legs? Of course not.
Look, noone is saying your iPad isn't a tablet when you're carrying it around all by itself. When you've got it encumbered by all these external peripherals (tethered, tied to, weighed down by, attached to, use whatever word you like there), you've fundamentally changed its nature. You're free to change it back into a tablet whenever you want, but that's what you're doing, CHANGING it.
If the value of precious metals is static, and the USD price of gold is going through the roof, wouldn't that mean the value of the dollar is getting lower all the time? If the dollar was in a "bubble", then a dollar would buy more and more gold, not less, correct?
This is a legitimate question. I'm neither an economist nor currency expert.
Once docked its really not a tablet anymore is it?
So, pairing it with my iPad no longer makes my iPad an iPad? If I also have power and the hdmi output hooked up to my projector, it's no longer an iPad? How's that?
It's still an iPad, just not a tablet anymore. Otherwise, any touch-screen laptop (HP Pavillion TX2000Z, HP g7-1310us, others) is also a tablet, right?
I believe (and this is an opinion) that the defining characteristics of a tablet are thin, light, touchscreen, self-contained input. Once you add a dock, screen, and keyboard, you're outside of the tablet definition.
Bill gives specific reasons why tablets don't work in education. Do you have reasons that they do, other than "tablets are not toys, you fucking luddite"?
To be ACID the database must flush new data to disk (all the way to the platters, through the RDBMS cache, the OS cache, the controller cache if there is any, and the on-disk cache) at every transaction commit. If the RDBMS just puts the data in memory, and then the power goes out, then your data is lost, and the system isn't ACID.
The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn programming.
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I understand you were going for an analogue, but it made no sense. You should've involved cars somehow instead.
It's even less outlandish to think of WinPhone (and pretty much every other OS) as simply having the ability to hide and show the UI of a particular process on demand. I don't understand at all what the 'notification area' has to do with it.
Well, no, not really. More like apps on your phone. They're still "there" but they don't show any UI or consume CPU. The "notification area" on Windows is purely a UI thing. There's nothing special about icons there, or the processes that create them. They're exactly like any other process, except they're more likely than normal to hide their main window.
Alt-F4 doesn't exit Metro (sorry, Modern) applications. Thanks for playing, though.
BTW, in case you're curious, the answer is, "you don't, not without pulling up the task manager and killing it". Windows (apparently... my 8 experience consists of an hour or two yesterday) "pauses" or "freezes" these apps when you switch to something else, and will close them later if it deems it necessary.
I used Vista from day one until the day Win7 was released (MSDN sub), and UAC never bothered me. I understand that your experience was typical, but it was certainly possible to use without having to dread UAC.
At least with Vista you could kill UAC and tweak it into a halfway usable OS
Your credibility = zero, now. Thanks for playing.
If you had to "kill UAC", then it was because of your shitty software, not Vista's security policies.
Like I said... there are no companies producing video cards today with stable, quality drivers.
Your video card's driver sucks. Install a working version, or switch to a company that provides working drivers (haha, as if that existed...)
That's not the Bash answer, that's the GNU textutils answer. Since you asked, however, I'll give you the PowerShell answer:
get-content .\datasheet_text.txt | foreach-object { $_ -replace '[^a-zA-Z ]', '' } | foreach-object { -split $_ } | group-object | sort-object count -desc | select-object -first 10
That is, of course, quite verbose, and dangerously understandable by coworkers. In the real world, you'd want to do it like this:
gc .\datasheet_text.txt | % { -split ($_ -replace '[^a-zA-Z ]', '') } | group | sort count -des | select -f 10
No programs other than PowerShell are involved here. No external processes are being started. If that was still too much typing, you could alias some of the cmdlets to shorter names.
It runs on the 2.0 framework, so you don't need the latest version of .NET.
In the cameraman's defense, (s)he most likely was not prepared for what happened... (s)he obviously forgot (s)he was filming and put the camera down.
The version numbers don't, however, reveal how much changed between Vista and Windows 7. Certainly less than what changed between XP and Vista, but more than what changed between 98 and ME, I'd say.
Either way, Vista was released because SOMETHING had to be released, regardless of whether it was ready or not. I never had much trouble with it, but I ran it on capable hardware; it didn't scale well on the low end, I'm told. I think that a lot of the trouble people had with it was really due to drivers and especially applications that were written poorly and assumed they could and should do all sorts of things that MS had been saying not to do for a long time.
Why do corporations and governments have any say in who we love, live with, and raise together?
Corporations don't have any say. They have an opinion, but that's different. You have a say (because you vote), they have an opinion.
Erm, you stated that using Linux "means saving tens, even hundreds of thousands of dollars of licence fees". I'm not sure how that became four billion. Let's do it in reverse:
"You use Linux, saving tens, even hundreds of thousands of dollars of license fees, and pretty soon, even your hardware is free! You can drop your $5b budget down to a Starbucks gift card and an iPad for browsing thingverse and instructables!"
I know, right, I mean, when you've only got $9 billion in the budget, you can go around willy-nilly spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on license fees!
That's silly. Is a swimming pool a swimming pool if I fill it full of concrete? Is a lake a lake if I drain all the water out? Is Optimus Prime a semi truck when he's walking around on two legs? Of course not.
Look, noone is saying your iPad isn't a tablet when you're carrying it around all by itself. When you've got it encumbered by all these external peripherals (tethered, tied to, weighed down by, attached to, use whatever word you like there), you've fundamentally changed its nature. You're free to change it back into a tablet whenever you want, but that's what you're doing, CHANGING it.
If the value of precious metals is static, and the USD price of gold is going through the roof, wouldn't that mean the value of the dollar is getting lower all the time? If the dollar was in a "bubble", then a dollar would buy more and more gold, not less, correct?
This is a legitimate question. I'm neither an economist nor currency expert.
If FPGA was a good choice as GPU, I think Nvidia, ATI, and co would have figured that out by now.
Thing is, for what it's doing, a $0.50 microcontroller would be sufficient.
Once docked its really not a tablet anymore is it?
So, pairing it with my iPad no longer makes my iPad an iPad? If I also have power and the hdmi output hooked up to my projector, it's no longer an iPad? How's that?
It's still an iPad, just not a tablet anymore. Otherwise, any touch-screen laptop (HP Pavillion TX2000Z, HP g7-1310us, others) is also a tablet, right?
I believe (and this is an opinion) that the defining characteristics of a tablet are thin, light, touchscreen, self-contained input. Once you add a dock, screen, and keyboard, you're outside of the tablet definition.
Bill gives specific reasons why tablets don't work in education. Do you have reasons that they do, other than "tablets are not toys, you fucking luddite"?
Now you're dependent on your internet connection, which, for me at least, has historically been less stable than my hardware. YMMV.
To be ACID the database must flush new data to disk (all the way to the platters, through the RDBMS cache, the OS cache, the controller cache if there is any, and the on-disk cache) at every transaction commit. If the RDBMS just puts the data in memory, and then the power goes out, then your data is lost, and the system isn't ACID.
Your question is silly, and the answer is obvious:
country....population....area
Iceland....320,060.......103,001 km2
USA........313,753,000...9,826,675 km2
Add to that the fact that 2/3 of the population of Iceland is in one single metropolitan area, and you can see what's going on there.
How about this (from the very first question):
The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn programming.