I think the main goal of this announcement is that Microsoft wants to make it harder for Google to raise money. Maybe they view Google News and the Pyra purchase as signs that Google could become a competitor to MSN, and Microsoft wants to slow them down.
Just how many people need to post that they know what their back tick is for?
There's only one reason the back tick is useful -- Because it has been on keyboards for years. If there had been an inverted exclamation mark, it would now be used in shell scripts and Perl, too. The same can be said for any of the weirder keys.
As things stand, much of the keyboard is wasted space. And it really is wasted -- For every programmer who is glad of their "double S" (he's looking at the ampersand, for those who didn't get it) there are hundreds of users for whom it's just one more thing to search through in the hunt and peck. That's blatantly inefficient -- It would make more sense to have special programmer's keypads, and save a lot of mistypes and desk space for everyone else.
But I do think the comments have given a clear answer to one of the poster's questions...
Would this be doomed to failure because of the tens of thousands of legacy apps that expect things to be the way they are?
Very interesting -- I've been working on color separation and such for real time video processing in DScaler. Any information or references on helping with NTSC hue would be greatly appreciated.
To put this back on topic -- DScaler is very at processing game output, since it can deinterlace (aka line double) and interpolate the video onto a computer monitor.
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I think the main goal of this announcement is that Microsoft wants to make it harder for Google to raise money. Maybe they view Google News and the Pyra purchase as signs that Google could become a competitor to MSN, and Microsoft wants to slow them down.
That's a reasonable possibility. VirtualPC (on my Mac) is much better at running old DOS programs than the compatability environment on my PC.
Just how many people need to post that they know what their back tick is for?
There's only one reason the back tick is useful -- Because it has been on keyboards for years. If there had been an inverted exclamation mark, it would now be used in shell scripts and Perl, too. The same can be said for any of the weirder keys.
As things stand, much of the keyboard is wasted space. And it really is wasted -- For every programmer who is glad of their "double S" (he's looking at the ampersand, for those who didn't get it) there are hundreds of users for whom it's just one more thing to search through in the hunt and peck. That's blatantly inefficient -- It would make more sense to have special programmer's keypads, and save a lot of mistypes and desk space for everyone else.
But I do think the comments have given a clear answer to one of the poster's questions...
Would this be doomed to failure because of the tens of thousands of legacy apps that expect things to be the way they are?Yep.
Very interesting -- I've been working on color separation and such for real time video processing in DScaler. Any information or references on helping with NTSC hue would be greatly appreciated.
To put this back on topic -- DScaler is very at processing game output, since it can deinterlace (aka line double) and interpolate the video onto a computer monitor.