Microsoft are legendary for their contempt for established standards, and corrupting the established standard web fonts to "encourage" adoption Vista is just par for the course.
Announced in 1991 to distract from the lack of anything dramatically new in Windows 3.0.
Expected in 1994. Pushed to late 1995, pushed to late 1996, intended to debut in 1997. Changed to a vision.
Core features dropped. Ended up as polish on the existing Windows 3.0: Windows 95.
Longhorn:
Announced in 2001 to distract from the lack of anything dramatically new in Windows XP.
Expected in 2003. Pushed to 2004, 2005, pushed to late 2006, intended to debut in 2007.
Core features dropped. Ends up as polish on the existing Windows XP: Windows Vista.
Windows 7:
Announced in 2008 to distract from the lack of anything dramatically new in Windows Vista.
Expected in 2010. Pushed to 2014, 2015, pushed to late 2016, intended to debut in 2017.
Core features dropped. Ends up as polish on the existing Windows Vista: Windows 7.
Fraud as a Business Plan
The magic of the Internet is helping to point out the tragic fallacy of believing in Microsoft's promises. Microsoft assures us that it won't ever slip half a decade between operating systems again, but what about the fact that that's all it has ever done? http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/4E2A8848-5738-45B1-A659-AD7473899D7D.html
people rarely, if ever, joke about something anything that affects and hurts them.
Come to Australia then.
I've been a volunteer ambulance officer for decades, and I've seen people keep their sense of humour in the most horrific circumstances.
Went to a car rollover once. The driver had been seriously injured and trapped inside the inverted vehicle. He'd been there for almost an hour before anyone had found him (this was remote WA), and it took another half an hour to cut him out. We put him in the stretcher while the ambulance was reversing to us. As we moved towards the ambulance, he looked at the back wheel of his trashed car and said "Anyone got a shifter? I wouldn't mind adjusting the brakes now I can get to 'em easy."
Mr Roberts has encapsulated my own belief nicely, though I think the full quote is slightly less apposite.
"I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." And I would like to include an attribution, but Slashdot only allows 120 characters in a sig.
In comes a god. This god can see everything and will punish and reward you after your death. It's the perfect control tool.
Punishment and reward probably came later.
Early beliefs were probably some form of animism, and the Shamans who claimed to understand the spirits used that to gain power and status in their immediate lives.
Wait 'till the kid's a teenager. then you can get your own back.
If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the commandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth obedience: 19 They shall take him and bring him to the ancients of his city, and to the gate of judgment, and shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and stubborn, he slighteth hearing our admonitions, he giveth himself to revelling, and to debauchery and banquetings: The people of the city shall stone him: and he shall die.
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
The "acts human" date still remains circa 40,000 to 60,000 B.C. (at least last time I heard).
Depends what you mean by "acts human".
TFA says;
Photos from the cave at Pinnacle Point in South Africa show where the team found ochre, bladelets and evidence of shellfish Ochre and bladelets imply tool creation and use, as well as decoration. The oysters suggest sophisticated seduction techniques which may be beyond many Slashdotters, even today.
This is used throughout computing, why you think this shouldn't still hold, i dunno.
Because it's a kludge that chews CPU and disk cycles.
Microsoft was trying to develop WinFS for a reason, and Sun's ZFS is already available. This sort of data management is more efficiently done at filesystem level.
My code has enough bugs without risking picking some up from my compiler.
Then use Cygwin, like everybody else.
There's no "pure" version of GCC for Windows is because there's no demand for anyone to build one. The only reason you'd want to would be if you had some fundamental objection to Cygwin.
I'd like to propose the wording "widespread document-format".
Don't give the astroturfer credibility.
To suggest "Microsoft made a perfectly reasonable request." in the face of all the evidence of corruption is blatant spin. Microsoft's efforts with OOXML have always been nothing more than an attempt to spike potential competition.
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Sounds to me like your spelling and comprehension are roughly equivalent.
I'd say your critique of evolution lacks credibility too, but on the evidence available, I don't blame you for wanting a god to look after you.
Microsoft are legendary for their contempt for established standards, and corrupting the established standard web fonts to "encourage" adoption Vista is just par for the course.
It's subjective all right.
On my screens, Consolas is marginally better than Lucida and significantly better than Courier, but the rest of the Vista fonts are less readable.
None of them are different enough to make it worthwhile running Vista...
It's what the OP asked for.
Why are you complaining?
Check the times. This was posted first, the one you're quoting second. I'm happy to recycle.
But wait, we have more evidence here -- the infamous google test.
I lived, worked and developed software through the era. I did the Google post to show the AC how dumb it was to try to revise history.
I guess you're still trying. Good luck with that, 'cause theres plenty of us with memories intact.
- Announced in 1991 to distract from the lack of anything dramatically new in Windows 3.0.
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Expected in 1994. Pushed to late 1995, pushed to late 1996, intended to debut in 1997. Changed to a vision.
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Core features dropped. Ended up as polish on the existing Windows 3.0: Windows 95.
Longhorn:- Announced in 2001 to distract from the lack of anything dramatically new in Windows XP.
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Expected in 2003. Pushed to 2004, 2005, pushed to late 2006, intended to debut in 2007.
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Core features dropped. Ends up as polish on the existing Windows XP: Windows Vista.
Windows 7:- Announced in 2008 to distract from the lack of anything dramatically new in Windows Vista.
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Expected in 2010. Pushed to 2014, 2015, pushed to late 2016, intended to debut in 2017.
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Core features dropped. Ends up as polish on the existing Windows Vista: Windows 7.
Fraud as a Business Plan The magic of the Internet is helping to point out the tragic fallacy of believing in Microsoft's promises. Microsoft assures us that it won't ever slip half a decade between operating systems again, but what about the fact that that's all it has ever done? http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/4E2A8848-5738-45B1-A659-AD7473899D7D.htmlNo, Casablanca, via Half-Life 2.
Sorry, can't help myself.
*Sob* Poor Laslow. The finest mind of your generation, and you're using **Windows**?
Download sizes;
Version 1.0 * Current: 1.0.9, 16-Apr-1994 * Size: 1.3 KB(bz2)
Version 2.6 * Current: 2.6.23, 09-Oct-2007 * Size: 5.8 MB(bz2)
http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/
In use;
Linux kernel 2.6.23, 1.8M on disk and 2.3M in RAM.
I don't have a copy of the 1.0 kernel to compare with, sorry.
Here's another one for ya... http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/4E2A8848-5738-45B1-A659-AD7473899D7D.html
Microsoft are the kings of targeted vapourware.
They spent most of the '90s poisoning the well for their competitors with this tactic. What makes you think they're not doing the same thing again?
Come to Australia then.
I've been a volunteer ambulance officer for decades, and I've seen people keep their sense of humour in the most horrific circumstances.
Went to a car rollover once. The driver had been seriously injured and trapped inside the inverted vehicle. He'd been there for almost an hour before anyone had found him (this was remote WA), and it took another half an hour to cut him out. We put him in the stretcher while the ambulance was reversing to us. As we moved towards the ambulance, he looked at the back wheel of his trashed car and said "Anyone got a shifter? I wouldn't mind adjusting the brakes now I can get to 'em easy."
Punishment and reward probably came later.
Early beliefs were probably some form of animism, and the Shamans who claimed to understand the spirits used that to gain power and status in their immediate lives.
Wait 'till the kid's a teenager. then you can get your own back.
If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the commandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth obedience: 19 They shall take him and bring him to the ancients of his city, and to the gate of judgment, and shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and stubborn, he slighteth hearing our admonitions, he giveth himself to revelling, and to debauchery and banquetings: The people of the city shall stone him: and he shall die. Deuteronomy 21:18-21While that may seem like the most logical explanation for parenthood on Slashdot, there are a few of us who are not, in fact, virgins.
Depends what you mean by "acts human".
TFA says;
Photos from the cave at Pinnacle Point in South Africa show where the team found ochre, bladelets and evidence of shellfish Ochre and bladelets imply tool creation and use, as well as decoration. The oysters suggest sophisticated seduction techniques which may be beyond many Slashdotters, even today.Because it's a kludge that chews CPU and disk cycles.
Microsoft was trying to develop WinFS for a reason, and Sun's ZFS is already available. This sort of data management is more efficiently done at filesystem level.
Then use Cygwin, like everybody else.
There's no "pure" version of GCC for Windows is because there's no demand for anyone to build one. The only reason you'd want to would be if you had some fundamental objection to Cygwin.
Most of us would at least check SourceForge before making silly accusations.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=200665
Kerberos
Java
HTML
RSS
MAPI
Etc, etc...
It's also a difficult competitor they'd like to destroy.
Those of us familiar with decades of Microsoft dirty tricks have good reason to be suspicious of their motives.
ISO committees are generally co-operative groups. It's unprecedented that any company game the system on this scale.
Microsoft shafted them.
Don't give the astroturfer credibility.
To suggest "Microsoft made a perfectly reasonable request." in the face of all the evidence of corruption is blatant spin. Microsoft's efforts with OOXML have always been nothing more than an attempt to spike potential competition.
Microsoft?