I'm not sure where they got that name from, the beta site has displayed "Microsoft Command Shell" since it was put up a long time ago. Anyone know where the name Monad comes from?
As a side note, MSH rocks! The idea that everything is an object that can be piped elsewhere is simple yet adds a world of power.
It's well and good that Apple wants to give us Windows developers something to play with, but this sounds a lot like UPnP. Anyone familiar with both care to comment on the differences?
for the rest...of us...that care about stability...heat is an issue...as well...as...the required...cooling...does makes it sound...like my vacuum cleaner...only louder...This translate into....considerable costs...due to reduced concentration while...actually....trying...to do some...work.
Microsoft released community previews of Avalon and Indigo a couple days ago. For the most part, Avalon has been working for me. I havn't used Indigo yet.
As far as I can tell Avalon isn't hardware accelerated yet but it is still pretty low in CPU usage. The fairly simple calculator sample included uses 25 megs of RAM though!
Fun stuff to play with, even if it's not production ready.
what if google decided to sell slim clients with internet access, letting you browse the web, email, word process. it makes sense for people that don't do anything more.
Visual C++.NET 2003 has a compile switch that makes your app check the return address, so that is nothing new. DEP interacts with the NX bit on the CPU to stop data-only memory from being executed, which should prevent a lot of buffer overflows.
It's not really that hard if that's what you have in mind. Things like Boost can really help, if you can convince whoever your coding for that portability is a good thing.
The problem usually comes when dealing with the GUI or other slightly lower level system functions which sometimes can't be wrapped elegantly.
When you put quotes around it, yes it does mean exactly that. Specifically, google returns the text Results 1 - 10 of about 5,290 for "Bill Gates is the devil", so I'd say his answer is full of shit.
Are you certain the quotes weren't added in the text? That or when the interviewer told him "in quotes" was removed. Gates' answer is fine.
It has been stated several times that Longhorn will have different levels, degrading graphics for crappy graphics cards. The minimum level requires DX7, which is a Geforce2 (available in 2001, I think). It steps up with each DX version you support. If your computer doesn't have Geforce2 capabilities by 2007, chances are the rest of your computer is old enough that graphics should be the last thing on your mind.
The major difference is floating point speeds - AMD chips tend to excel far past P4s in this area. Hence why they are usually best for games no matter what "end" you are at.
Not to mention AMD chips have a much better price/performance ratio. Though their expensive A64 line is quickly killing this trend.
It's your own fault if you buy their products. Their existance in your country doesn't effect you in an way but giving you (or your government) another choice.
Only on Slashdot would something like this get modded up. Do you honestly believe Microsoft knew about the exploits before stamping the CDs and left them out to later sell security software?
Microsoft has money to burn, and PR is everything. They wouldn't take such a huge PR hit and be known as such an insecure company just to get a few people to buy $50 in softare.
who wouldn't pay $80 for a card with 16mb of video ram? you can get a faster geforce4 card for the same price. no applications that use dx9 are going to run properly on the thing anyway, so what's the point?
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I, for one, welcome our new smiley overlords. (prior art?)
I'm not sure where they got that name from, the beta site has displayed "Microsoft Command Shell" since it was put up a long time ago. Anyone know where the name Monad comes from?
As a side note, MSH rocks! The idea that everything is an object that can be piped elsewhere is simple yet adds a world of power.
if it's cheap and can bring down walls with ease, i think demolition crews would use it quite a bit. plus, liquifying stuff is cool.
has support for all the latest "bells and whistles", and it is FASTER than the equivalent XP machine. Where's my ConnectEx then?
It's well and good that Apple wants to give us Windows developers something to play with, but this sounds a lot like UPnP. Anyone familiar with both care to comment on the differences?
for the rest...of us...that care about stability...heat is an issue...as well...as...the required...cooling...does makes it sound...like my vacuum cleaner...only louder...This translate into....considerable costs...due to reduced concentration while...actually....trying...to do some...work.
Shatner, is that you!?
Microsoft released community previews of Avalon and Indigo a couple days ago. For the most part, Avalon has been working for me. I havn't used Indigo yet.
As far as I can tell Avalon isn't hardware accelerated yet but it is still pretty low in CPU usage. The fairly simple calculator sample included uses 25 megs of RAM though!
Fun stuff to play with, even if it's not production ready.
what if google decided to sell slim clients with internet access, letting you browse the web, email, word process. it makes sense for people that don't do anything more.
No,
Visual C++.NET 2003 has a compile switch that makes your app check the return address, so that is nothing new. DEP interacts with the NX bit on the CPU to stop data-only memory from being executed, which should prevent a lot of buffer overflows.
It all makes sense now! Doom 3 must be based on Slash; it would why all the levels look like dupes of the last.
Oh! Here I was confused broadband had other uses. Thanks for clearing that up!
It's not really that hard if that's what you have in mind. Things like Boost can really help, if you can convince whoever your coding for that portability is a good thing.
The problem usually comes when dealing with the GUI or other slightly lower level system functions which sometimes can't be wrapped elegantly.
The main strength of ST-TOS is that it dealt directly with the social issues of the day.
Are you saying we need a ship cast from Janet Jackson's boob that goes to fight the evil terra on Iraqi Prime?
When you put quotes around it, yes it does mean exactly that. Specifically, google returns the text Results 1 - 10 of about 5,290 for "Bill Gates is the devil", so I'd say his answer is full of shit.
Are you certain the quotes weren't added in the text? That or when the interviewer told him "in quotes" was removed. Gates' answer is fine.
Just curious, why could you use the API to build spam?
Unless you mean I/O completion ports for sending it en-mass without another SMTP server.
They could use XHTML 1.1 and create a new DTD on top of it. That was the whole point of 1.1 - to modulize things.
Think I read somewhere that dual core CPUs from AMD are supposed to fit in the same slots
It has been stated several times that Longhorn will have different levels, degrading graphics for crappy graphics cards. The minimum level requires DX7, which is a Geforce2 (available in 2001, I think). It steps up with each DX version you support. If your computer doesn't have Geforce2 capabilities by 2007, chances are the rest of your computer is old enough that graphics should be the last thing on your mind.
Plenty fast? Yes. Fastest? No.
The major difference is floating point speeds - AMD chips tend to excel far past P4s in this area. Hence why they are usually best for games no matter what "end" you are at.
Not to mention AMD chips have a much better price/performance ratio. Though their expensive A64 line is quickly killing this trend.
Really? More than Boost? A few of their libraries will be in the next C++ standard.
It's your own fault if you buy their products. Their existance in your country doesn't effect you in an way but giving you (or your government) another choice.
Only on Slashdot would something like this get modded up. Do you honestly believe Microsoft knew about the exploits before stamping the CDs and left them out to later sell security software? Microsoft has money to burn, and PR is everything. They wouldn't take such a huge PR hit and be known as such an insecure company just to get a few people to buy $50 in softare.
who wouldn't pay $80 for a card with 16mb of video ram? you can get a faster geforce4 card for the same price. no applications that use dx9 are going to run properly on the thing anyway, so what's the point?
Wiktionary is a pretty good dictionary also, maybe they should join forces?
Having another window control popups is a feature of javascript (and html, via target=""), nothing new. They are just looking for hits.