Well, if they make current Windows filing systems and WinFS incompatible and drop the name Windows, then they could, conceivably, get out of DoJ oversight.
"Current Windows based software will not be compatible with the Longhorn filesystem".
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Aparently, MS is actually planning to make it completely incompatible with the current filing systems. It's not like this is a by-product of the changes that they are making.
Aparently, if they make it incompatible with Windows, then it will be free from DoJ oversight because the settlement uses the term "Microsoft Windows" throughout. If they make the two incompatible and drop the Windows name, then they could argue that this new OS is exempt from the agreement.
Well, it is a rather effective way to remove the effects of DoJ oversight. If it isn't compatible with Windows, then it isn't Windows, and therefore, it doesn't fall under their anti-trust settlement.
I agree that there should be a way to emulate normal file system behavior on such a system, and that there is no technological reason for the two to be incompatible. However, it seems that they are.
That's a bit like saying that most prototypes never make it into production, so we can't look at them and learn possible features of actual devices.
A lot of the technologies that it uses will probably become part of a commercial device. Really, the MIThril bus is ingenious. It reminds me of the display cable for the G4 Cube. Power and display data in one cable.
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That article has a collection of things that MS has said about Longhorn. They state "Current Windows based software will not be compatible with the Longhorn filesystem". They cite as their source the following article:
Look up some information on MIThril. It's a cool wearable computing platform that seems to me to be similar to what you are talking about. It has removable components that all network to one another over a rather interesting bus and add all sorts of fun functionality.
They could be designing this to be some sort of a headless computer. Then, you use either a PDA sized, laptop sized, or desktop sized terminal to access its processing power and storage. This could be quite cool if done right.
Yes, I know that. However, from what I've been reading all over the Internet, Blackcomb will have the first full implementation of WinFS, which means that it will break compatibility with all existing programs. MS has already said that every program will have to be rewritten, even their own.
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Oops. They do call it WinFS, but it really isn't yet. It isn't finished, so it's more like a preview of parts of WinFS.
The "innovation" of libraries is obviously stolen from NeXT. I am also sure that I've seen that layout for contacts a while ago, but I can't remember where.
I mean, come on Microsoft! At least TRY to make it look original!
Well, for processor intensive tasks like rendering in Maya, having a 3D accelerated desktop could improve performance significantly.
Now, I agree that a lot of the stuff that this would be used for is simply eye candy, but some of it is really pretty useful.
I also _really_ like how OSX is first rendered to a PDF and then that file is displayed full screen. It reminds me of a game that I saw once with a triple buffered display. It was quite smooth, even on some pretty lousy graphics hardware.
233 MHz G3s run OSX at an acceptable speed. It isn't great, but it's good enough to actually use it. The only real reason to get a G4 is that Apple now uses it in everything except for the iBooks, therefore, to get a new Apple, you almost have to get a G4 based model.
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The new features of the current itteration of the filing system IS journaling. WinFS isn't out yet, nor was it slated to be included in Longhorn last time I checked.
What I find odd is that Apple had a database based filing system for years. The Newton has no files, only entries in a database. I don't know if it was around before that, but I didn't find any whitepapers on it until after the Newton came out.
Well, that and the fact that WinFS will break EVERY SINGLE PROGRAM for Windows. I don't see MS being quite that stupid. However, it appears that they are. They have stated that backwards compatibility will not be a design feature.
They ARE going to get rid of 99.99999% of the apps on the market with Blackcomb. Also, I would imagine that requireing all sorts of DRM in the peripherals would drive the cost up.
I was never really scared by Myst, but that could be because I never played any sort of first-person shooter. I loved the music. It was truly amazing. Almost as good as Homeworld's.
Rivin was significantly cooler, in my opinion, because there was far more depth to the game in that there were more than four endings. You could do things in a particular order and get one outcome, but if you left one out, Ghen would shoot you. My mom beat that game something like three hours before I did, and I had to deal with school. Man, was I ever adicted to it.
Myst III only has three possible endings as far as I could tell. That's really pretty sad. You can only die if you do something REALLY stupid at the end. However, I liked the gameplay a lot, not to mention the absolutely stunning visuals. I hope that they write another with an even better story and more possible endings (hopefully at different points in the story). Myst III was just too linear.
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If you think that that's cool, you have to see a flying robots competition. I missed seeing the one a few years ago in Disney World by three days.
Well, that particular year had the first score by any team. It was spectacular. The team that scored used a helicopter design. It was really quite simple. Unfortunately, they didn't have a way to drop the disks in the goal, so the robot just ended up hovering over it for a while. That was the coolest competition of true robots that I've ever seen.
I actually saw a cool show on PBS about Aibo soccer teams. I forget which show it was. Nova, I think.
Anyway, most of the teams had left their Aibos motions fundamentaly alone. The winning team, however, made their robo dogs crawl around on their elbows. They used their forearms to keep other players from stealing the ball. It was really a pretty ingenious tactic and the other teams quickly duplicated it.
Nope. He always recommended being nice to the people, or at least seeming to be.
"Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him, and then he will always find them faithful."
Our government is doing something similar, but they are using terror tactics to make us need them. Let us arrest people without warrants or the terrorists will get you! Let us imprison people indefinitely without charges, or the terrorists will get you! Next, they'll be saying "Every citizen needs to carry papers all of the time, or the terrorists will get you!" and then "We need to check your papers whenever you go anywhere, or the terrorists will get you!"
At that point, we might as well be in Soviet Russia.
What part of "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated" does our government not understand?
What about "No person shall be... deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"?
I'm going to get a pocket copy of the Constitution and its Amendments. I suggest that everyone do the same.
This has the potential to be worse than a/.ing, in that they would almost need to have computers dedicated to DoSing someone. That kind of systematic attack would surely strike terror into the heart of any sysadmin.
Therefore, the RIAA member companies are engaging in state supported terrorism!
I wonder what would happen if someone DoSed the DoSers.
Well, I know that, but the question is, are the remote and case buttons logicaly separated. The hold switch probably just disconnects the control hardware from power. That is the single most effective way to prevent controls from operating that I know of.
Anyway, the controls could be elecricly parallel to each other such that the 'play/pause' on the remote is inditinguishable from the 'play/pause' on the iPod case.
As for speed, the guy before you had a very good point. The iPod probably can't sense enough keypresses per second to make the idea viable.
A lot of them probably talked about the famous "flaming powerbook". The 5300 series originally came with a Li-Ion battery that, under very specific circumstances, would burst into flames.
The entire 5300 line was probably the single worst line of laptops that Apple has ever made. Problems with the case, AppleTalk, the AC adapter, the trackpad, the battery, the power management circuitry in general, and myriad other issues plagued them.
However, I still own one and it is actually pretty reliable now that Apple has serviced it (read: sent me a new 5300 with my old hard drive). And the best part about it, they replaced it for free in less than a month.
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Well, if they make current Windows filing systems and WinFS incompatible and drop the name Windows, then they could, conceivably, get out of DoJ oversight.
I got it from here:
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http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html#longh
"Current Windows based software will not be compatible with the Longhorn filesystem".
Aparently, MS is actually planning to make it completely incompatible with the current filing systems. It's not like this is a by-product of the changes that they are making.
Aparently, if they make it incompatible with Windows, then it will be free from DoJ oversight because the settlement uses the term "Microsoft Windows" throughout. If they make the two incompatible and drop the Windows name, then they could argue that this new OS is exempt from the agreement.
Well, it is a rather effective way to remove the effects of DoJ oversight. If it isn't compatible with Windows, then it isn't Windows, and therefore, it doesn't fall under their anti-trust settlement.
I agree that there should be a way to emulate normal file system behavior on such a system, and that there is no technological reason for the two to be incompatible. However, it seems that they are.
That's a bit like saying that most prototypes never make it into production, so we can't look at them and learn possible features of actual devices.
A lot of the technologies that it uses will probably become part of a commercial device. Really, the MIThril bus is ingenious. It reminds me of the display cable for the G4 Cube. Power and display data in one cable.
NTFS is only partially journaling.
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http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html#longh
Now, perhaps WinFS isn't the database based file system that they talk about there. Oh, wait, it is.
http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html#longhorn
That article has a collection of things that MS has said about Longhorn. They state "Current Windows based software will not be compatible with the Longhorn filesystem". They cite as their source the following article:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=4163
Her name is Teresa Nakra.
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http://www.wired.com/news/images/0,2334,58679-7
Look up some information on MIThril. It's a cool wearable computing platform that seems to me to be similar to what you are talking about. It has removable components that all network to one another over a rather interesting bus and add all sorts of fun functionality.
They could be designing this to be some sort of a headless computer. Then, you use either a PDA sized, laptop sized, or desktop sized terminal to access its processing power and storage. This could be quite cool if done right.
Yes, I know that. However, from what I've been reading all over the Internet, Blackcomb will have the first full implementation of WinFS, which means that it will break compatibility with all existing programs. MS has already said that every program will have to be rewritten, even their own.
Oops. They do call it WinFS, but it really isn't yet. It isn't finished, so it's more like a preview of parts of WinFS.
The "innovation" of libraries is obviously stolen from NeXT. I am also sure that I've seen that layout for contacts a while ago, but I can't remember where.
I mean, come on Microsoft! At least TRY to make it look original!
Well, for processor intensive tasks like rendering in Maya, having a 3D accelerated desktop could improve performance significantly.
Now, I agree that a lot of the stuff that this would be used for is simply eye candy, but some of it is really pretty useful.
I also _really_ like how OSX is first rendered to a PDF and then that file is displayed full screen. It reminds me of a game that I saw once with a triple buffered display. It was quite smooth, even on some pretty lousy graphics hardware.
233 MHz G3s run OSX at an acceptable speed. It isn't great, but it's good enough to actually use it. The only real reason to get a G4 is that Apple now uses it in everything except for the iBooks, therefore, to get a new Apple, you almost have to get a G4 based model.
The new features of the current itteration of the filing system IS journaling. WinFS isn't out yet, nor was it slated to be included in Longhorn last time I checked.
What I find odd is that Apple had a database based filing system for years. The Newton has no files, only entries in a database. I don't know if it was around before that, but I didn't find any whitepapers on it until after the Newton came out.
Well, that and the fact that WinFS will break EVERY SINGLE PROGRAM for Windows. I don't see MS being quite that stupid. However, it appears that they are. They have stated that backwards compatibility will not be a design feature.
They ARE going to get rid of 99.99999% of the apps on the market with Blackcomb. Also, I would imagine that requireing all sorts of DRM in the peripherals would drive the cost up.
I was never really scared by Myst, but that could be because I never played any sort of first-person shooter. I loved the music. It was truly amazing. Almost as good as Homeworld's.
Rivin was significantly cooler, in my opinion, because there was far more depth to the game in that there were more than four endings. You could do things in a particular order and get one outcome, but if you left one out, Ghen would shoot you. My mom beat that game something like three hours before I did, and I had to deal with school. Man, was I ever adicted to it.
Myst III only has three possible endings as far as I could tell. That's really pretty sad. You can only die if you do something REALLY stupid at the end. However, I liked the gameplay a lot, not to mention the absolutely stunning visuals. I hope that they write another with an even better story and more possible endings (hopefully at different points in the story). Myst III was just too linear.
If you think that that's cool, you have to see a flying robots competition. I missed seeing the one a few years ago in Disney World by three days.
Well, that particular year had the first score by any team. It was spectacular. The team that scored used a helicopter design. It was really quite simple. Unfortunately, they didn't have a way to drop the disks in the goal, so the robot just ended up hovering over it for a while. That was the coolest competition of true robots that I've ever seen.
I actually saw a cool show on PBS about Aibo soccer teams. I forget which show it was. Nova, I think.
Anyway, most of the teams had left their Aibos motions fundamentaly alone. The winning team, however, made their robo dogs crawl around on their elbows. They used their forearms to keep other players from stealing the ball. It was really a pretty ingenious tactic and the other teams quickly duplicated it.
That's technicaly called a splashdown, not a landing.
Nope. He always recommended being nice to the people, or at least seeming to be.
... deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"?
"Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him, and then he will always find them faithful."
Our government is doing something similar, but they are using terror tactics to make us need them. Let us arrest people without warrants or the terrorists will get you! Let us imprison people indefinitely without charges, or the terrorists will get you! Next, they'll be saying "Every citizen needs to carry papers all of the time, or the terrorists will get you!" and then "We need to check your papers whenever you go anywhere, or the terrorists will get you!"
At that point, we might as well be in Soviet Russia.
What part of "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated" does our government not understand?
What about "No person shall be
I'm going to get a pocket copy of the Constitution and its Amendments. I suggest that everyone do the same.
This has the potential to be worse than a /.ing, in that they would almost need to have computers dedicated to DoSing someone. That kind of systematic attack would surely strike terror into the heart of any sysadmin.
Therefore, the RIAA member companies are engaging in state supported terrorism!
I wonder what would happen if someone DoSed the DoSers.
Well, I know that, but the question is, are the remote and case buttons logicaly separated. The hold switch probably just disconnects the control hardware from power. That is the single most effective way to prevent controls from operating that I know of.
Anyway, the controls could be elecricly parallel to each other such that the 'play/pause' on the remote is inditinguishable from the 'play/pause' on the iPod case.
As for speed, the guy before you had a very good point. The iPod probably can't sense enough keypresses per second to make the idea viable.
A lot of them probably talked about the famous "flaming powerbook". The 5300 series originally came with a Li-Ion battery that, under very specific circumstances, would burst into flames.
The entire 5300 line was probably the single worst line of laptops that Apple has ever made. Problems with the case, AppleTalk, the AC adapter, the trackpad, the battery, the power management circuitry in general, and myriad other issues plagued them.
However, I still own one and it is actually pretty reliable now that Apple has serviced it (read: sent me a new 5300 with my old hard drive). And the best part about it, they replaced it for free in less than a month.