Are they going to redesign those "most used apps" too? A simple touch friendly veneer won't do much good if all it does is throw you into an instance of the Gimp or OO.org.
IANAL, but I suspect the power derives from the Commerce Clause of the Constitiution, the Interstate Commerce Act and the airlines' legal status as "common carriers".
"There is clear separation between active apps (in the bar) and the list of apps you'd like to run (in the Start menu)."
Well, not really. Running apps and "pinned" app icons can be mixed together on the taskbar, like on the Mac's dock. The running apps have a extra glass highlight around them.
But since the Start menu is still there, you don't have to use it this way. You could just un-pin all your apps and only use the taskbar for running apps. Best of both worlds.
Windows has had contextual menus on taskbar buttons since Windows 95. They're even extendable, though few bother to do so, and do it poorly when they do (ie: putting extra items below the close item). Windows 7 is providing a better organized UI and API for using and extending right click activities.
And try holding a dragged item over a taskbar button. The window will activate and you can drop the item anywhere in it.
Your info sounds a bit stale. KDE stopped using CORBA years ago and replaced it with DCOP (and is now replacing that with DBUS, which you didn't mention as yet another IPC mechanism). AFAIK OpenOffice.org never used CORBA. Their (yet another) object model is called UNO.
You also forgot about sunrpc, and XPCOM from Mozilla.
Actually, he said Moonlight could be like a "light version" of WPF, much like Silverlight could be if it were set up to run outside the context of a browser plugin.
Hardware acceleration of OpenGL on Windows has always been done via an ICD (well, there was an MCD model too but I don't think anyone uses that now). Legacy ICDs on Vista don't support the DWM so, no you don't get your fancy glass when running OpenGL apps on these drivers. But there is a ICD API version for Vista that does support running with the DWM enabled. So maybe you should see if your graphics card vendors support it.
For the last several years of our CompUSA's life, they never had more that one checkout lane open (usually at the "customer service" desk) even though they had at least 4 physical checkout lanes/stations.
The Fry's Line of Death might look bad, but most of the time it was much quicker than waiting in a five deep line while the person at the head tried to return something.
Considering the amazing amount of ignorance here and elsewhere in the OSS community about what WinFS was supposed to do, I doubt its equivalent will ever get built by the OSS community.
Actually there is a good reason, and 2 ways to get around it:
1: Legacy ICD's - These are the ICD's that are available today for use on Windows XP. These will continue to work on Windows Vista, but will disable the DWM when they are loaded in to the process of the application that's using OpenGL. The reason for this is that Legacy ICD's operate directly on the GPU without going through Windows at all, and we have no way of redirecting application's output in a stable, predictable manner.
2: Windows Vista ICD's - this is a new path for 3rd party ICD's introduced for Windows Vista that will work in a way that is compatible with desktop composition. Essentially allowing direct access to the GPU for hardware accellaration, but then having the final surface that appears to be the front buffer to the application actually be a shared surface that gets composed by the DWM
You mean like on their website (or their Google ad) where they call it Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger (as well as Mac OS X 10.4, Mac OS X, and Mac OS X Tiger) in several places?
For those worried about a lack of physical feedback when clicking with this mouse:
The Mouse Is The Button
On Mighty Mouse, the entire top shell is the actual button. As with previous versions of the Apple mouse, simply press on the upper surface to click -- the body pivots up and down to actuate the clever click mechanism.
The Lisa was released in 1983 and the overlapping windows were part of the design as early as 1981. X1 was released in June 1984 though it is unclear when its development first started. That doesn't sound "well-established" to me.
Until Tiger the Apple menu didn't activate with the mouse in the corner. It was a couple of pixels away. In the Classic Mac OS, the Application Menu in the upper right was also a couple of pixels away from the corner IIRC.
And even in Tiger, both the Apple and Spotlight menus are visually a couple of pixels away from the corners, even though they now register clicks in the screen corner if something else is not assigned to that corner (like Expose).
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1000 Internets to anyone that recreates that diagram in the style of a WOPR simulation.
Are they going to redesign those "most used apps" too? A simple touch friendly veneer won't do much good if all it does is throw you into an instance of the Gimp or OO.org.
Here's an interesting article that in-part covers how No Fly Lists butt heads with Constitutional rights to free travel.
http://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/115-8/Florence.pdf
IANAL, but I suspect the power derives from the Commerce Clause of the Constitiution, the Interstate Commerce Act and the airlines' legal status as "common carriers".
Alt+Mousedrag in Visual Studio
"There is clear separation between active apps (in the bar) and the list of apps you'd like to run (in the Start menu)."
Well, not really. Running apps and "pinned" app icons can be mixed together on the taskbar, like on the Mac's dock. The running apps have a extra glass highlight around them.
But since the Start menu is still there, you don't have to use it this way. You could just un-pin all your apps and only use the taskbar for running apps. Best of both worlds.
Windows has had contextual menus on taskbar buttons since Windows 95. They're even extendable, though few bother to do so, and do it poorly when they do (ie: putting extra items below the close item). Windows 7 is providing a better organized UI and API for using and extending right click activities.
And try holding a dragged item over a taskbar button. The window will activate and you can drop the item anywhere in it.
Windows Update in Vista doesn't require a browser.
Though XPCOM can't do interprocess so nevermind that. I don't know if UNO can.
Your info sounds a bit stale. KDE stopped using CORBA years ago and replaced it with DCOP (and is now replacing that with DBUS, which you didn't mention as yet another IPC mechanism). AFAIK OpenOffice.org never used CORBA. Their (yet another) object model is called UNO.
You also forgot about sunrpc, and XPCOM from Mozilla.
Actually, he said Moonlight could be like a "light version" of WPF, much like Silverlight could be if it were set up to run outside the context of a browser plugin.
Hardware acceleration of OpenGL on Windows has always been done via an ICD (well, there was an MCD model too but I don't think anyone uses that now). Legacy ICDs on Vista don't support the DWM so, no you don't get your fancy glass when running OpenGL apps on these drivers. But there is a ICD API version for Vista that does support running with the DWM enabled. So maybe you should see if your graphics card vendors support it.
For the last several years of our CompUSA's life, they never had more that one checkout lane open (usually at the "customer service" desk) even though they had at least 4 physical checkout lanes/stations.
The Fry's Line of Death might look bad, but most of the time it was much quicker than waiting in a five deep line while the person at the head tried to return something.
"That is something my local compusa DID carry and is listed as a local $5.00 item."
The last time I ever considered buying a cable at CompUSA (several years ago) was when they wanted $12 for one of those.
Of course, this kind of thing never happens on a Linux Desktop.
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Considering the amazing amount of ignorance here and elsewhere in the OSS community about what WinFS was supposed to do, I doubt its equivalent will ever get built by the OSS community.
Actually there is a good reason, and 2 ways to get around it:
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1: Legacy ICD's - These are the ICD's that are available today for use on Windows XP. These will continue to work on Windows Vista, but will disable the DWM when they are loaded in to the process of the application that's using OpenGL. The reason for this is that Legacy ICD's operate directly on the GPU without going through Windows at all, and we have no way of redirecting application's output in a stable, predictable manner.
2: Windows Vista ICD's - this is a new path for 3rd party ICD's introduced for Windows Vista that will work in a way that is compatible with desktop composition. Essentially allowing direct access to the GPU for hardware accellaration, but then having the final surface that appears to be the front buffer to the application actually be a shared surface that gets composed by the DWM
From: http://blogs.msdn.com/kamvedbrat/archive/2006/02/
A line like that is usual followed by an "Oh, wait..."
You could at least be honest and compare the same version of Windows as the OP. XP Home OEM is $91.95 at Newegg
MS Office Basic (Word, Excel, Outlook) OEM is $167.05, $147.05 after rebate.
We're getting closer to those theoretical secret Dell prices.
You mean like on their website (or their Google ad) where they call it Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger (as well as Mac OS X 10.4, Mac OS X, and Mac OS X Tiger) in several places?
Or not.
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The Mouse Is The Button
On Mighty Mouse, the entire top shell is the actual button. As with previous versions of the Apple mouse, simply press on the upper surface to click -- the body pivots up and down to actuate the clever click mechanism.
http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/design.html
The Lisa was released in 1983 and the overlapping windows were part of the design as early as 1981. X1 was released in June 1984 though it is unclear when its development first started. That doesn't sound "well-established" to me.
Until Tiger the Apple menu didn't activate with the mouse in the corner. It was a couple of pixels away. In the Classic Mac OS, the Application Menu in the upper right was also a couple of pixels away from the corner IIRC.
And even in Tiger, both the Apple and Spotlight menus are visually a couple of pixels away from the corners, even though they now register clicks in the screen corner if something else is not assigned to that corner (like Expose).