Hey it probably windows fault, haha. Nvidia develops most of the stuff on linux then ports it to Windows. The reason they don't GPL there drivers is so no one steals code from them like ATI, if ATI wasn't a problem they would proabably be GPL. Then again I'm the kind of person who tell the waiter what the food is exactly from the menu.
would be thrown out of the court. Its like me suing the dog next-door for breathing because I patented respiration. There should be laws against this type of harrassment, that's basically what it is. You should find out if that company is suing other people , band together and sue the company for all their worth, then try and get the judge to make the company all your legal fees because of the absurdness of the law suit, and countersue them for lost wages, punitive damages(I've got stress), and wasting your time.
the only way they'll be able to get a share is by releasing something Open-Soucre not Shared-Source, and hey everybody would get a piece of the action wouln't they.
Hey, Hey, Hey the monkey boy clip has endless replay value, so does Developers, Developers, Developers, boy I wish we actually had some here at Microsoft.
Mac - Pc haters for the most part actually know what they are talking about while most "How to turn on your computer for dummies" kind of people hate Macs because they probably can't afford them or they are too dumb to actually research it and just read that Micro$oft biased PC-World Magazine. I'm sure if Macs were cheaper they would dominate the market and if it was before the PC took off. Ah those were the times when most computers had no monitors and you plugged it into your tv.
I think I went in for some RCA cables. I didn't see any, well I went up to the counter to ask where they were. They guy comes around the counter walks over to the area I was looking at and picks up a Cat5e cable.
"Here You Go," said the dullard.
"Why the hell did you just give me Cat5 cable," said I.
"Its what you asked for, RCA cable"
"No this is Cat5, it clearly says it on the box"
"This is what I've been given out for weeks"
"Thats surprising you have plenty of Cat5 cable yet you seem to have no RCA cable
I then walked out, and made my own RCA cable. last time I ever went in a Radio Shaft.
Don't both gasping, Microsoft couldn't make anything better than Linux/Unix or Unix/Linux (just so I'm not biased). If they were able to do that then Linux/Unix wouldn't exsist today. Just like them trying to get a community like Linux and OSS has, but SSI is no where as good as the GPL, and it probably never will be unless its just about exactly(oximoron) the same as GPL, so if your going to gasp at something, you can gasp at microsoft stupidity tring to beat linux, well no don't cause your going to passout.
Feature drill-down
OK, let's take a closer look at the new features in the Longhorn alpha.
Welcome screen
The Longhorn alpha's Welcome screen (Figure) is a slightly modified version of the one in Windows XP, and it now features a time and date display, a frequent customer request. I wouldn't make too much of the color scheme or look and feel of the Longhorn Welcome screen, as this is bound to change. The design does resemble prototypes I've seen at the Microsoft campus (Figure), however.
Desktop and Start Menu
At first blush, the Longhorn desktop and Start Menu (Figure) are no different from their XP equivalents. However, there are a few small changes. First, you can add My Contacts and My Hardware nodes to the Longhorn Start Menu (Figure). My Contacts is non-functional in the build I saw, but I suspect that it's simply the friendly new name for the new Windows Address Book, which will be consolidated into the Windows Future Storage (WinFS) file system. My Hardware, clearly, is a friendly and more accessible Device Manager, though the version in the Longhorn alpha is limited (Figure).
My Computer and Explorer views
In My Computer, a few new features become visible. Under the scenes, the WinFS file system isn't implemented yet, but the services are running, and they tied the system up in knots, and must be turned off before the performance returns to normal. My Computer now features disk space graphics under each drive and a slightly modified Task pane, with integrated searching (Figure). There are new Explorer views as well, including a new Preview mode used in certain types of folders, which I discuss in the next section. The About Windows dialog (Figure) identifies Longhorn as Windows 6.0.
In Folder Options, a few new options are available, though their purpose is unclear (Figure). They are "Use breadcrumb bar" and "Use Domain Folder Sharing Wizard."
Special Shell Folders
Special shell folders such as My Documents, My Pictures, and My Music have been revamped to support the new Preview view style (Figure). This view style splits the folder view horizontally, providing a graphical, Web-like preview pane that is specific to the currently displayed content. In My Pictures, for example, you see options for viewing a slide show, creating an album, and burning a DVD (Figure). When you display a picture, the image's meta-data information is displayed in the Preview pane (Figure). Music folders are similar: Select a music file and its meta-data is displayed (Figure). A new Pivots choice in the toolbar expands to show grouping choices (Figure); for music, you will see options such as "Albums Grouped by Artist" and "Music Grouped by Album." The Preview area is resizable now (Figure), and as you drag the divider bar down, more information is displayed (Figure).
Display Properties
While the old Display Properties dialog is temporarily still available, Microsoft provides a preview of the new Display Properties application, which was written with the new.NET-based Avalon APIs (Figure). Most of the Display Properties nodes are broken in this build, providing either a bizarre XML error message (Figure) or a simple "under construction" message (Figure). One node that does work, however, is Display Connection Settings, which provides information about your display adapter and monitor (Figure).
Plex: A new visual style
You can use the old Display Properties dialog to enable the new Plex visual style (Figure), which has been touted on various Windows enthusiast sites lately. I don't consider Plex to be particularly attractive or clean, personally, and it resembles many of the home-made XP themes that you can find online (Figure). I prefer the standard blue XP style to Plex, and expect this visual style to disappear by later builds. In fact, Plex is so bad, that I originally thought that this Longhorn alpha was nothing more than a hacked-together XP build. I still wonder about it.
Sidebar
In the Taskbar settings dialog, you can enable the Sidebar (Figure), arguably Longhorn's most discussed feature. The Sidebar is basically a side-mounted menu of sorts, very much like the MSN 8 Dashboard, that lets you display XML-based components, called Tiles. When you enable the Dashboard, it appears (blank) on the right side of the screen by default (Figure). You can minimize it, add Tiles, toggle which side of the screen it appears on, resize it, and determine whether it's translucent (which Microsoft calls transparent). Available Tiles include a clock, a virtual desktop manager, a Most Frequently Used (MFU) programs list, the Quick Launch toolbar, an Internet search bar, a My Photos slide show, and a "user tile," which lets you quickly switch between users (Figure).
Each Tile can be resized (Figure), moved up or down in the Sidebar, or minimized, and some offer a pop-up menu that lets you access hidden features (Figure). You can also choose to use the Sidebar as your taskbar, in which case the normal taskbar disappears and the Start button moves to the Sidebar (Figure). Now, when you click the Start button, the Start Menu cascades out from the side of the screen instead of the bottom (Figure).
Conclusions
Longhorn isn't far enough along at this point to make any relevant conclusions. As I noted previously, the alpha build I've seen is analogous to early Whistler builds, or perhaps the first December 1996 Memphis release (which became Windows 98), because it's really just a holding place for a few technology tests at this point. Ultimately, the best is yet to come for Longhorn, but some of the bits present here are still interesting. With over two years of development time left, don't be surprised if the final Longhorn version bears little resemblance to what we see here today.
--Paul Thurrott
November 13, 2002
Get some tissue paper, when they call at a reasonable hour like those telemarketers do, put the tissue paper on the phone talk into it for about 5 seconds and hang up, now have your family members stand by to disconnect every phone in the house. Pretty soon they will have to find somewhere else to go, if they live close to you a restraining order helps.
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Hey I don't know if you do know but many times in history religon has been the cause of many empires fall, the Roman Empire for instanced fell because of Christianity well atleast the Eastern Roman Empire, the Western prospered for another 1000s years.
If Microsoft gave the Windows source out to the world untouched. Like that would happen, and just maybe it would stop propeganda there all together. Hey India wouldn't be a poor country if they didn't let religon rule there lives.
for the board manufactures not to put the DRM chip in, there is no law saying they have to and who cares if users can't run windows, hey no drm chip microsoft goes bankrupt and end of drm, and Palladium, end result linux becomes widely used os, another alternative is to write a letter a day for the U.S. goverment to halt DRM developent as well as retract the DMCA once an for all, I do as much as possible.
I'm sure it will never run out since copywrite laws will be extend a gillon times in the future:) That is the say the US still exsists in 9000(hopes for a star trek universe, and reincarnation)
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Your just saying that because you are:
A) Stuck on a window machine
B) You don't know how to use linux.
Guess what, you still have to pay for a game even if its on an open source platform. If the game is good people will pay it, the reason that there are less users is because there aren't enough games on Linux, I'm stuck dual booting between Windows and Linux because of this. Why do you think that there are so many Linux game servers. Elite Force for an example is one, it would be dead today if it wasn't for Linux. Linux's Golden Age will come and I'm sure your going to:)
A) Have to use linux because Microsoft went bankrupt.
B) Figure out how to use Linux.:)
I have a dual-booted system though. I would be 100% Linux if it wasn't for games. My passion is also my unfortunate fate. Thanks Justice system for letting Microsoft get away with giving they're API's to whome ever they please.
of a republic is. People represent people in goverment. They don't have to be voted in, they can be appointed to. Just because its not the way it is in America doesn't mean its not a republic. Some other republics are(were) USSR, Iraq, U.K., etc.
Then its not such a reasonable request to open the source, not to mention the enourmous amounts of thrid party patches to fix the bugs and the botched microsoft patches, but hey if they did windows might become a decent operating system,
I'm sure some people think that they're children should be taken away. Some people's ways of raising a kid is different from yours or mine. None of them are wrong unless they lead to the death of your kid, someone elses kid or pregancy of another. If either of them happen I'd say your a bad parent.
It seems we are standing idle by when the DMCA for the US anyway are ruining our lives. You know what you could do write a letter to your senator every day and if enough people did that we may change something.
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Hey it probably windows fault, haha. Nvidia develops most of the stuff on linux then ports it to Windows. The reason they don't GPL there drivers is so no one steals code from them like ATI, if ATI wasn't a problem they would proabably be GPL. Then again I'm the kind of person who tell the waiter what the food is exactly from the menu.
would be thrown out of the court. Its like me suing the dog next-door for breathing because I patented respiration. There should be laws against this type of harrassment, that's basically what it is. You should find out if that company is suing other people , band together and sue the company for all their worth, then try and get the judge to make the company all your legal fees because of the absurdness of the law suit, and countersue them for lost wages, punitive damages(I've got stress), and wasting your time.
the only way they'll be able to get a share is by releasing something Open-Soucre not Shared-Source, and hey everybody would get a piece of the action wouln't they.
I've got your nose for real now?
Hey, Hey, Hey the monkey boy clip has endless replay value, so does Developers, Developers, Developers, boy I wish we actually had some here at Microsoft.
Mac - Pc haters for the most part actually know what they are talking about while most "How to turn on your computer for dummies" kind of people hate Macs because they probably can't afford them or they are too dumb to actually research it and just read that Micro$oft biased PC-World Magazine. I'm sure if Macs were cheaper they would dominate the market and if it was before the PC took off. Ah those were the times when most computers had no monitors and you plugged it into your tv.
Alcoholics Anonymous? Gee whats next MSindows "If you can't beat them join them and hope that Linux can handle our instablilty"
"Here You Go," said the dullard.
"Why the hell did you just give me Cat5 cable," said I.
"Its what you asked for, RCA cable"
"No this is Cat5, it clearly says it on the box"
"This is what I've been given out for weeks"
"Thats surprising you have plenty of Cat5 cable yet you seem to have no RCA cable
I then walked out, and made my own RCA cable. last time I ever went in a Radio Shaft.Now they are doing police work, what next they become the established goverment of the U.S. too.
Don't both gasping, Microsoft couldn't make anything better than Linux/Unix or Unix/Linux (just so I'm not biased). If they were able to do that then Linux/Unix wouldn't exsist today. Just like them trying to get a community like Linux and OSS has, but SSI is no where as good as the GPL, and it probably never will be unless its just about exactly(oximoron) the same as GPL, so if your going to gasp at something, you can gasp at microsoft stupidity tring to beat linux, well no don't cause your going to passout.
Feature drill-down OK, let's take a closer look at the new features in the Longhorn alpha. Welcome screen The Longhorn alpha's Welcome screen (Figure) is a slightly modified version of the one in Windows XP, and it now features a time and date display, a frequent customer request. I wouldn't make too much of the color scheme or look and feel of the Longhorn Welcome screen, as this is bound to change. The design does resemble prototypes I've seen at the Microsoft campus (Figure), however. Desktop and Start Menu At first blush, the Longhorn desktop and Start Menu (Figure) are no different from their XP equivalents. However, there are a few small changes. First, you can add My Contacts and My Hardware nodes to the Longhorn Start Menu (Figure). My Contacts is non-functional in the build I saw, but I suspect that it's simply the friendly new name for the new Windows Address Book, which will be consolidated into the Windows Future Storage (WinFS) file system. My Hardware, clearly, is a friendly and more accessible Device Manager, though the version in the Longhorn alpha is limited (Figure). My Computer and Explorer views In My Computer, a few new features become visible. Under the scenes, the WinFS file system isn't implemented yet, but the services are running, and they tied the system up in knots, and must be turned off before the performance returns to normal. My Computer now features disk space graphics under each drive and a slightly modified Task pane, with integrated searching (Figure). There are new Explorer views as well, including a new Preview mode used in certain types of folders, which I discuss in the next section. The About Windows dialog (Figure) identifies Longhorn as Windows 6.0. In Folder Options, a few new options are available, though their purpose is unclear (Figure). They are "Use breadcrumb bar" and "Use Domain Folder Sharing Wizard." Special Shell Folders Special shell folders such as My Documents, My Pictures, and My Music have been revamped to support the new Preview view style (Figure). This view style splits the folder view horizontally, providing a graphical, Web-like preview pane that is specific to the currently displayed content. In My Pictures, for example, you see options for viewing a slide show, creating an album, and burning a DVD (Figure). When you display a picture, the image's meta-data information is displayed in the Preview pane (Figure). Music folders are similar: Select a music file and its meta-data is displayed (Figure). A new Pivots choice in the toolbar expands to show grouping choices (Figure); for music, you will see options such as "Albums Grouped by Artist" and "Music Grouped by Album." The Preview area is resizable now (Figure), and as you drag the divider bar down, more information is displayed (Figure). Display Properties While the old Display Properties dialog is temporarily still available, Microsoft provides a preview of the new Display Properties application, which was written with the new .NET-based Avalon APIs (Figure). Most of the Display Properties nodes are broken in this build, providing either a bizarre XML error message (Figure) or a simple "under construction" message (Figure). One node that does work, however, is Display Connection Settings, which provides information about your display adapter and monitor (Figure).
Plex: A new visual style
You can use the old Display Properties dialog to enable the new Plex visual style (Figure), which has been touted on various Windows enthusiast sites lately. I don't consider Plex to be particularly attractive or clean, personally, and it resembles many of the home-made XP themes that you can find online (Figure). I prefer the standard blue XP style to Plex, and expect this visual style to disappear by later builds. In fact, Plex is so bad, that I originally thought that this Longhorn alpha was nothing more than a hacked-together XP build. I still wonder about it.
Sidebar
In the Taskbar settings dialog, you can enable the Sidebar (Figure), arguably Longhorn's most discussed feature. The Sidebar is basically a side-mounted menu of sorts, very much like the MSN 8 Dashboard, that lets you display XML-based components, called Tiles. When you enable the Dashboard, it appears (blank) on the right side of the screen by default (Figure). You can minimize it, add Tiles, toggle which side of the screen it appears on, resize it, and determine whether it's translucent (which Microsoft calls transparent). Available Tiles include a clock, a virtual desktop manager, a Most Frequently Used (MFU) programs list, the Quick Launch toolbar, an Internet search bar, a My Photos slide show, and a "user tile," which lets you quickly switch between users (Figure).
Each Tile can be resized (Figure), moved up or down in the Sidebar, or minimized, and some offer a pop-up menu that lets you access hidden features (Figure). You can also choose to use the Sidebar as your taskbar, in which case the normal taskbar disappears and the Start button moves to the Sidebar (Figure). Now, when you click the Start button, the Start Menu cascades out from the side of the screen instead of the bottom (Figure).
Conclusions
Longhorn isn't far enough along at this point to make any relevant conclusions. As I noted previously, the alpha build I've seen is analogous to early Whistler builds, or perhaps the first December 1996 Memphis release (which became Windows 98), because it's really just a holding place for a few technology tests at this point. Ultimately, the best is yet to come for Longhorn, but some of the bits present here are still interesting. With over two years of development time left, don't be surprised if the final Longhorn version bears little resemblance to what we see here today.
--Paul Thurrott
November 13, 2002
Get some tissue paper, when they call at a reasonable hour like those telemarketers do, put the tissue paper on the phone talk into it for about 5 seconds and hang up, now have your family members stand by to disconnect every phone in the house. Pretty soon they will have to find somewhere else to go, if they live close to you a restraining order helps.
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Hey I don't know if you do know but many times in history religon has been the cause of many empires fall, the Roman Empire for instanced fell because of Christianity well atleast the Eastern Roman Empire, the Western prospered for another 1000s years.
If Microsoft gave the Windows source out to the world untouched. Like that would happen, and just maybe it would stop propeganda there all together. Hey India wouldn't be a poor country if they didn't let religon rule there lives.
for the board manufactures not to put the DRM chip in, there is no law saying they have to and who cares if users can't run windows, hey no drm chip microsoft goes bankrupt and end of drm, and Palladium, end result linux becomes widely used os, another alternative is to write a letter a day for the U.S. goverment to halt DRM developent as well as retract the DMCA once an for all, I do as much as possible.
I'm sure it will never run out since copywrite laws will be extend a gillon times in the future :) That is the say the US still exsists in 9000(hopes for a star trek universe, and reincarnation)
Your just saying that because you are: A) Stuck on a window machine B) You don't know how to use linux. Guess what, you still have to pay for a game even if its on an open source platform. If the game is good people will pay it, the reason that there are less users is because there aren't enough games on Linux, I'm stuck dual booting between Windows and Linux because of this. Why do you think that there are so many Linux game servers. Elite Force for an example is one, it would be dead today if it wasn't for Linux. Linux's Golden Age will come and I'm sure your going to :)
A) Have to use linux because Microsoft went bankrupt.
B) Figure out how to use Linux. :)
I have a dual-booted system though. I would be 100% Linux if it wasn't for games. My passion is also my unfortunate fate. Thanks Justice system for letting Microsoft get away with giving they're API's to whome ever they please.
Yeah it may not be a republic offically but Parliament does reprensent people. They make law and repeal them.
of a republic is. People represent people in goverment. They don't have to be voted in, they can be appointed to. Just because its not the way it is in America doesn't mean its not a republic. Some other republics are(were) USSR, Iraq, U.K., etc.
Then its not such a reasonable request to open the source, not to mention the enourmous amounts of thrid party patches to fix the bugs and the botched microsoft patches, but hey if they did windows might become a decent operating system,
I'm sure some people think that they're children should be taken away. Some people's ways of raising a kid is different from yours or mine. None of them are wrong unless they lead to the death of your kid, someone elses kid or pregancy of another. If either of them happen I'd say your a bad parent.
It seems we are standing idle by when the DMCA for the US anyway are ruining our lives. You know what you could do write a letter to your senator every day and if enough people did that we may change something.
then why should you care. If its works well, is secure, and puts Microsoft in a bad position why care.