Shills don't need to demonize Google. Their own CEO has done a fairly good job of it on his own.
It's not just that, though... Google likes to tout how they're big in to open source. This is true... but only the parts that have the potential increase Google's market-share. How Google's mail and search systems work, for example, are tightly guarded secrets. Even Google's web server is not open source, despite the rumors that it's Apache-based.
And yet Microsoft did pull off exactly such a transition once, and did so at a time when it was even more of a monopoly than it is now. Windows NT (which became 2000, XP, etc.) was just as different "under the hood" from Windows 3.x/95/98/ME as Mac OS X was from the classic Mac OS
My understanding was that Windows 95 introduced the Win32 API to the consumer versions of Windows, which may or may not have already existed in NT. It was definitely in the next version of NT, NT 4.0.
In other words, the two had the same basic API despite the platform differences... and applications could be written to run on both as long as NT's security model got taken into account.
... but unfortunately they granted a patent on that in 1987 and don't have the money for the absurd licensing fee the patent holder is asking. Unfortunately the "novel" method patented covers both clockwise and counterclockwise but they're currently looking into rotating them 179 degrees, making the document slightly slanted but avoiding royalties.
Of course, one would hope that the Patent and Trademark office would be smart enough to realize that a 1987 patent expired in 2007.
The whole Apple-Yahoo-MS-Google circle jerk posturing is delirious. If next week Steve Jobs called a press conference and sliced his dick off with a silver scalpel in a room full of stunned reporters, I have no doubt that -- not to be outdone -- Sergey Brin would cut off his with a chainsaw on nation-wide TV seven days later.
True, btu at least Sergey could use any Android-compatible chainsaw or bandages, rather than just ones gotten from the Apple Grocery Store.
Does this satisfy your need? Windows 7 in 7 Screenshots.
So there's a problem, we don't know what it is, and Windows can't fix it.
Out of curiosity, in your last screenshot, did you try clicking the "View Problem Details" button to see if Windows would tell you what the problem is?
Then I found a lot of the same games were available for my iPod Touch for a fraction of the price.
Same games? What, do you only buy generic games or something?
I'll name some that I have that aren't on the iPhone. I'll even section the firsty-party games off in a separate section, since you'll never see those on the iPhone.
First-Party: Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story Professor Layton and the Curious Village Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box (Professor Layton and Pandora's Box in Europe) The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks New Super Mario Bros.
Third-Party: Konami's Time Hollow Konami's Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow Konami's Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin Konami's Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia Cing's Hotel Dusk: Room 215 Cing's Trace Memory (Another Code: Two Memories in Europe) Capcom's Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Capcom's Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice for All Capcom's Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations Capcom's Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
These are just the ones I have sitting in the cabinet next to my computer.
Not only that, but it takes 40 minutes to download a gigabyte thanks to the slow 802.11b connection.
I'm not sure where you or Ars draw the connection that 802.11b is at fault here. At, 11 Mbps, a 1GB download would have taken 12.41 minutes... That is, 8 bits per byte / 11Mbps * 1024 MB / 60 seconds per minute.
I don't know about where you live, but 11Mbps is still faster than my Internet connection... or any non-business class connection I can get here. Even if they have a reasonably fast connection, say 6Mbps, Sony's service could also just be slow to download.
Microsoft is going to support win32 as long as Intel makes chips that are 32-bit only
What makes you think that? I seem to remember that Intel still makes 16-bit chips, yet Microsoft discontinued MS-DOS and Windows 3.x.
I already answered that:
(used in Netbooks)
In other words, they're already selling versions of Windows that the Atom will run. Back in January 2009, to PC World reported "the percent [of netbooks sold with Windows] is over 90% for the last three months (November, December, January)." (Source)
Why would Microsoft drop support for these computers if they have 90% of the market?
About the only "evil" I could see is an authoritative DNS server looking at the first three octets and deciding to return a black holed address because they don't like that country. But that's already very possible without it. I do it all the time on my PHPNuke discussion boards - NukeSentinel allows me to enter large ranges of IP addresses to block, and anyone visiting from those ranges gets a very low-bandwidth "go away" message.
Whoa, who said it was an authoritative DNS server making that decision? Any upstream DNS provider could choose to do that, not just the authoritative DNS servers.
Hell, the US Government could lock it at the A root if they so chose, and if you don't like it, well... tough.
Also, what exactly does this do to DNS caching? Right now, if you ask for google.com, the DNS servers are going to cache the four addresses returned for it. However, storing geographic information along with that is going to mean a lot higher cache miss rates.
At a guess, the entity with the largest transfer of legal BitTorrent feeds is Blizzard software; it's the primary distribution method for World of Warcraft updates.
In fact, unless the user is knowledgeable, they won't know any other way to get said updates. The game's launcher automatically detects when a new version of the game is available (because it's an MMORPG, the client needs to be updated when the servers are updated), and launches Blizzard's BitTorrent downloader.
Online gaming, even remotely related to the current forms and standards, isn't even old enough for kindergarten class yet.
That's weird, I could have sworn that Quakeworld was from 1997 or so. You expect 13 year olds in your Kindergarten classes?
Quakeworld pioneered the client/server system most PC FPS games on the net still use to this day. There are some that skip it (MW2), or slap a front end on it (L4D), but it's still around.
Lately, there's been a resurgence in retro games. Five years ago, you could have said Sierra's old adventure games were all abandonware. Yet, today you can buy most of the King's Quest and all of the Space Quest games on Steam.... possibly through Good Old Games
The rise of digital distribution services, due to their popularity and ease, is suddenly causing companies to un-abandoning those "abandonware" titles.
Firefox aims to be a full-featured product, as you mention; the others aim at being lightweight and promoting Web standards, which were Firefox's original goals.
I seem to recall those being Mozilla Suite (now Seamonkey)'s goal. FireFox's goal was to be a lighter-weight version of the Mozilla Browser.
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Shills don't need to demonize Google. Their own CEO has done a fairly good job of it on his own.
It's not just that, though... Google likes to tout how they're big in to open source. This is true... but only the parts that have the potential increase Google's market-share. How Google's mail and search systems work, for example, are tightly guarded secrets. Even Google's web server is not open source, despite the rumors that it's Apache-based.
My understanding was that Windows 95 introduced the Win32 API to the consumer versions of Windows, which may or may not have already existed in NT. It was definitely in the next version of NT, NT 4.0.
In other words, the two had the same basic API despite the platform differences... and applications could be written to run on both as long as NT's security model got taken into account.
Yes, but Firefox has things from HTML 4.01 that it still doesn't implement correctly. The col tag and its attributes come to mind.
Of course, one would hope that the Patent and Trademark office would be smart enough to realize that a 1987 patent expired in 2007.
True, btu at least Sergey could use any Android-compatible chainsaw or bandages, rather than just ones gotten from the Apple Grocery Store.
No, actually the behavior was changed to automatically reboot when the computer blue screens (unless Windows hasn't finished starting up).
I've seen it before after installing a buggy ATI driver. This was years ago, though.
Every version of Windows I've ever installed asks you if you want to format the drive.
This includes Windows 7.
Out of curiosity, in your last screenshot, did you try clicking the "View Problem Details" button to see if Windows would tell you what the problem is?
Same games? What, do you only buy generic games or something?
I'll name some that I have that aren't on the iPhone. I'll even section the firsty-party games off in a separate section, since you'll never see those on the iPhone.
First-Party:
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
Professor Layton and the Curious Village
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box (Professor Layton and Pandora's Box in Europe)
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
New Super Mario Bros.
Third-Party:
Konami's Time Hollow
Konami's Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
Konami's Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
Konami's Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
Cing's Hotel Dusk: Room 215
Cing's Trace Memory (Another Code: Two Memories in Europe)
Capcom's Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Capcom's Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice for All
Capcom's Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations
Capcom's Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
These are just the ones I have sitting in the cabinet next to my computer.
I'm not sure where you or Ars draw the connection that 802.11b is at fault here. At, 11 Mbps, a 1GB download would have taken 12.41 minutes... That is, 8 bits per byte / 11Mbps * 1024 MB / 60 seconds per minute.
I don't know about where you live, but 11Mbps is still faster than my Internet connection... or any non-business class connection I can get here. Even if they have a reasonably fast connection, say 6Mbps, Sony's service could also just be slow to download.
I already answered that:
In other words, they're already selling versions of Windows that the Atom will run. Back in January 2009, to PC World reported "the percent [of netbooks sold with Windows] is over 90% for the last three months (November, December, January)." (Source)
Why would Microsoft drop support for these computers if they have 90% of the market?
Windows 7 Professional you mean. It was only called Business in Vista; it was Professional for 2000/XP and is again for 7.
So, in other words "I know I couldn't find anything in the PC world that is a Mac."
Warning, circular logic detected!
Microsoft is going to support win32 as long as Intel makes chips that are 32-bit only, like most of the Intel Atom line (used in Netbooks).
Whoa, who said it was an authoritative DNS server making that decision? Any upstream DNS provider could choose to do that, not just the authoritative DNS servers.
Hell, the US Government could lock it at the A root if they so chose, and if you don't like it, well... tough.
Also, what exactly does this do to DNS caching? Right now, if you ask for google.com, the DNS servers are going to cache the four addresses returned for it. However, storing geographic information along with that is going to mean a lot higher cache miss rates.
Why is that a con again?
In other words, rather than not buying something, you should vocally boycott it.
At a guess, the entity with the largest transfer of legal BitTorrent feeds is Blizzard software; it's the primary distribution method for World of Warcraft updates.
In fact, unless the user is knowledgeable, they won't know any other way to get said updates. The game's launcher automatically detects when a new version of the game is available (because it's an MMORPG, the client needs to be updated when the servers are updated), and launches Blizzard's BitTorrent downloader.
Fun fact: Games on Steam that have CD keys usually have some option in Steam's menu to see what that key is.
So, the hard part is finding the install files.
But all of those require me to use a different distribution platform! So, I can't go for a walk and read a book and cook at the same time!
That's weird, I could have sworn that Quakeworld was from 1997 or so. You expect 13 year olds in your Kindergarten classes?
Quakeworld pioneered the client/server system most PC FPS games on the net still use to this day. There are some that skip it (MW2), or slap a front end on it (L4D), but it's still around.
The term "abandonware" is... iffy at best.
Lately, there's been a resurgence in retro games. Five years ago, you could have said Sierra's old adventure games were all abandonware. Yet, today you can buy most of the King's Quest and all of the Space Quest games on Steam.... possibly through Good Old Games
The rise of digital distribution services, due to their popularity and ease, is suddenly causing companies to un-abandoning those "abandonware" titles.
I seem to recall those being Mozilla Suite (now Seamonkey)'s goal. FireFox's goal was to be a lighter-weight version of the Mozilla Browser.
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