Wow we have to go 2 decades back to find an example.
No, it was an example to show how far back their intentional breakage of backwards compatibility runs. IOW, you can't state that oh, it was only since 2xxx. It actually goes back further, to DOS days as well, as in almost to the inception of the company.
Then you can go look up how.NET's incompatibilities between versions cause havoc.
Nope, very rarely has there been any breakage of backwards compatibility except in areas that were required for critical fixes.
Seriously if you struggle using Windows 10 coming from Windows 7 just because they changed the start menu then computers aren't for you. I am curious as to what exactly you are having so much difficulty with though.
It's not the start menu, or lack thereof, it is the randomization of the location of configuration applications and options, which have changed with each major windows release, including the menu organization itself. Such as how to forcibly configure wireless networking to connect to a non broadcasting SSID on a specific channel in a congested wireless environment, or to test that the connectivity is good. Those things used to be simple and intuitive, now they are hidden behind layers of irrelevant crap IMNSHO. As for Win10, I won't run that pile of spy-ware on any network connected computer, ever. (If you're slow, that means it's been relegated to unusable status as far as I'm concerned.)
You jest, but Windows is far and above king of backward compatibility as far as APIs are concerned.
We can start with Office95 breaking backwards compatibility with all previous versions of Office, and the attempt to do the same with Office 2010. Then you can go look up how.NET's incompatibilities between versions cause havoc. Don't forget to look up Win32 System API calls, especially in the security area. Finally, finish off with retraining everyone on every release of a MS product because the GUI has randomly been redesigned, and I use "designed" as a concept loosely here, other than maybe to cause maximize confusion in users as a primary goal.
Backwards compatibility? Only enough so they can use it as a marketing bullet by saying you don't "have" to upgrade your other latest MS software....
My platform is Pro Liberty. In the case where there is any doubt, I will choose the side that lets people decide what is best for themselves, rather than some bean counter or bureaucrat in a far away place. This includes all the proposals to help people by taking from others. You cannot have a free society where caring is coerced by threat of government guns.
So you have no problem with them letting you bleed out after a car crash, or watching you gurgle away after pulling you out of a pool? After all, there was no insurance card available, and can't do anything without proof of payment.
What's interesting is I see myself as a (fiscal) conservative with decidedly libertarian and some liberal leanings, but realize I don't want to live in a true Libertarian "utopia" because there is no such thing. You can't be an idealist without being a hypocrite. The above examples are but an initial sample of scenarios that can continue to be taken to the extremes to show why all proposals that do not take into account general basic care in emergency situations will fail, and why our current morass of healthcare is doomed to failure as well.
Living in a society has costs. If you don't like it, move to certain areas of the middle east or africa, where you are free to live your life as you see fit, as long as you can keep others from imposing their will on you.
For doing anything with a Mac, you really need an SSD and 16GB of RAM. Once you have that, OSX works beautifully, and XCode starts up instantly. Without an SSD and plenty of RAM, you're fucked.
That is true for any system. I ran a cleaned XP on an SSD - it's amazing how fast it is. Same with Win7. Or Linux. Or OS/2 (in a VM even). It's amazing what a 10 fold increase in disk I/O and a 100 fold decrease in latency will do for performance.
XCode only took 5-10 minutes to download and install, even on a really crappy broadband connection. Yes, it's 1.5GB. But at even 1.5Mbps average download it's just a shade over 2 hours. So how bad exactly was your "quick and stable connection" since every cable and fiber connection advertises speeds in excess of 10 Mbps these days in the US?
I think that is partly due to marketing, partly due to not everyone deciding that OpenGL was worth the effort to improve for whatever reason, but mostly I suspect because OpenGL was "open" at a time video card makers wanted to be closed.
I suppose you're not opposed to Bernie Madoff's investment plan then, nor WorldCom's Ebber's statements about the finances? Or a host of others that "thought" differently.
...the 1982 report said: "If the earth is on a warming trend, we're not likely to detect it before 1995. This is about the earliest projection of when the temperature might rise the 0.5 needed to get beyond the range of normal temperature fluctuations."
It is most interesting that even internal oil company reports stated things like this, and that there are still people fervently in denial about global warming.
I wanted to come here and make some snarky 1 liner about how advertisers are useless parasites on the internet ecosystem. This is far far better. Too bad we can't mod you to +11.
So you have to be willing to imagine a future when they are far, far better than today. Because chemical rockets aren't it.
Exactly my point. The Ion drive was a nice step forward although it too is a reaction drive and is limited by physics we all know and understand today. Solar sails have their uses and possibilities, but still offer no leap forward. We'd need to understand some new physics before a leap can occur.
Nuclear, or even anti-matter/matter, engines are still propellant based, and Orion from the 50s was and is a viable system. Only issue is an Orion craft would realistically have to be built in orbit, preferably around the moon, and fired off so it's not pointing at earth. It's also more suited to much longer voyages, rather than intra-solar system.
That said, physics needs to give us a new means of traveling from one point in space to another before a true advance in space travel technology can happen.
I'd say the majority came out in the 60s-90s, with a few new bands in the 2000s through today. The number of decent new bands seems to have dwindled rapidly, and access to them is being choked by the virtual duopoly of ClearChannel and Infinity, at least in the US. Finding decent new music has become much more difficult, at least in my experience. There's lots of poppy crap that will not be offensive for the first couple of listens, but rapidly becomes annoying after that. Unless, of course, you're a fan of the new empty country-pop-rock, trance-electronic, or (c)rap that's flooding everything.
Sybase thought it had made some extra money from an obsolete codebase. They were about to come out with their new engine, and figured if MS wants to pay for this stinking pile of crap, why not. Their mistake was that MS cut the price and backed it to the hilt while Sybase failed to get much advertising time for their new engine. So it worked better than Access, worse than everything else out there. That was enough to get it traction. MS SQL is still a crappy DB.
You can use alternate services instead of iMessage. There's always Pidgin/Adium with OTR. Using out of band fingerprint verification, it may be the most secure form of chat communication possible.
Let's take this a step further - Apple added MAC address randomization to ios 8. Android can't be far behind, so what, exactly, is this going to do other than result in more home invasions on known false pretenses?
This would be akin to backdooring a safe. Not something Apple wants to do. It's not that it cannot be done, it's that doing so violates the security and integrity promises made to customers, and then those customers would go elsewhere, effectively ruining the business.
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Wow we have to go 2 decades back to find an example.
No, it was an example to show how far back their intentional breakage of backwards compatibility runs. IOW, you can't state that oh, it was only since 2xxx. It actually goes back further, to DOS days as well, as in almost to the inception of the company.
Then you can go look up how .NET's incompatibilities between versions cause havoc.
Nope, very rarely has there been any breakage of backwards compatibility except in areas that were required for critical fixes.
Then I suppose this page is pure fiction?
Seriously if you struggle using Windows 10 coming from Windows 7 just because they changed the start menu then computers aren't for you. I am curious as to what exactly you are having so much difficulty with though.
It's not the start menu, or lack thereof, it is the randomization of the location of configuration applications and options, which have changed with each major windows release, including the menu organization itself. Such as how to forcibly configure wireless networking to connect to a non broadcasting SSID on a specific channel in a congested wireless environment, or to test that the connectivity is good. Those things used to be simple and intuitive, now they are hidden behind layers of irrelevant crap IMNSHO. As for Win10, I won't run that pile of spy-ware on any network connected computer, ever. (If you're slow, that means it's been relegated to unusable status as far as I'm concerned.)
And I'm wondering where the obligatory xkcd post is.
I loaded CarTunes. The provided music app always kinda sucked, IMNSHO.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world...
You jest, but Windows is far and above king of backward compatibility as far as APIs are concerned.
We can start with Office95 breaking backwards compatibility with all previous versions of Office, and the attempt to do the same with Office 2010. Then you can go look up how .NET's incompatibilities between versions cause havoc. Don't forget to look up Win32 System API calls, especially in the security area. Finally, finish off with retraining everyone on every release of a MS product because the GUI has randomly been redesigned, and I use "designed" as a concept loosely here, other than maybe to cause maximize confusion in users as a primary goal.
Backwards compatibility? Only enough so they can use it as a marketing bullet by saying you don't "have" to upgrade your other latest MS software....
My platform is Pro Liberty. In the case where there is any doubt, I will choose the side that lets people decide what is best for themselves, rather than some bean counter or bureaucrat in a far away place. This includes all the proposals to help people by taking from others. You cannot have a free society where caring is coerced by threat of government guns.
So you have no problem with them letting you bleed out after a car crash, or watching you gurgle away after pulling you out of a pool? After all, there was no insurance card available, and can't do anything without proof of payment.
What's interesting is I see myself as a (fiscal) conservative with decidedly libertarian and some liberal leanings, but realize I don't want to live in a true Libertarian "utopia" because there is no such thing. You can't be an idealist without being a hypocrite. The above examples are but an initial sample of scenarios that can continue to be taken to the extremes to show why all proposals that do not take into account general basic care in emergency situations will fail, and why our current morass of healthcare is doomed to failure as well.
Living in a society has costs. If you don't like it, move to certain areas of the middle east or africa, where you are free to live your life as you see fit, as long as you can keep others from imposing their will on you.
For doing anything with a Mac, you really need an SSD and 16GB of RAM. Once you have that, OSX works beautifully, and XCode starts up instantly. Without an SSD and plenty of RAM, you're fucked.
That is true for any system. I ran a cleaned XP on an SSD - it's amazing how fast it is. Same with Win7. Or Linux. Or OS/2 (in a VM even). It's amazing what a 10 fold increase in disk I/O and a 100 fold decrease in latency will do for performance.
XCode only took 5-10 minutes to download and install, even on a really crappy broadband connection. Yes, it's 1.5GB. But at even 1.5Mbps average download it's just a shade over 2 hours. So how bad exactly was your "quick and stable connection" since every cable and fiber connection advertises speeds in excess of 10 Mbps these days in the US?
"Apples and Oranges"?
I think that is partly due to marketing, partly due to not everyone deciding that OpenGL was worth the effort to improve for whatever reason, but mostly I suspect because OpenGL was "open" at a time video card makers wanted to be closed.
I suppose you're not opposed to Bernie Madoff's investment plan then, nor WorldCom's Ebber's statements about the finances? Or a host of others that "thought" differently.
...the 1982 report said: "If the earth is on a warming trend, we're not likely to detect it before 1995. This is about the earliest projection of when the temperature might rise the 0.5 needed to get beyond the range of normal temperature fluctuations."
It is most interesting that even internal oil company reports stated things like this, and that there are still people fervently in denial about global warming.
I wanted to come here and make some snarky 1 liner about how advertisers are useless parasites on the internet ecosystem. This is far far better. Too bad we can't mod you to +11.
So you have to be willing to imagine a future when they are far, far better than today. Because chemical rockets aren't it.
Exactly my point. The Ion drive was a nice step forward although it too is a reaction drive and is limited by physics we all know and understand today. Solar sails have their uses and possibilities, but still offer no leap forward. We'd need to understand some new physics before a leap can occur.
Nuclear, or even anti-matter/matter, engines are still propellant based, and Orion from the 50s was and is a viable system. Only issue is an Orion craft would realistically have to be built in orbit, preferably around the moon, and fired off so it's not pointing at earth. It's also more suited to much longer voyages, rather than intra-solar system.
That said, physics needs to give us a new means of traveling from one point in space to another before a true advance in space travel technology can happen.
At least with OPM you know who has it.
Everyone?
I'd send in everyone you don't like... from a largely anonymous source, of course :)
You'd have 1 nickel.
I'd say the majority came out in the 60s-90s, with a few new bands in the 2000s through today. The number of decent new bands seems to have dwindled rapidly, and access to them is being choked by the virtual duopoly of ClearChannel and Infinity, at least in the US. Finding decent new music has become much more difficult, at least in my experience. There's lots of poppy crap that will not be offensive for the first couple of listens, but rapidly becomes annoying after that. Unless, of course, you're a fan of the new empty country-pop-rock, trance-electronic, or (c)rap that's flooding everything.
This is automatic, meaning that all iphones running iOS 8 and up do this. So that's only a few million devices.
MSVS and MS SQL Server on Linux and OS X would be sweet.
Please no.
Sybase thought it had made some extra money from an obsolete codebase. They were about to come out with their new engine, and figured if MS wants to pay for this stinking pile of crap, why not. Their mistake was that MS cut the price and backed it to the hilt while Sybase failed to get much advertising time for their new engine. So it worked better than Access, worse than everything else out there. That was enough to get it traction. MS SQL is still a crappy DB.
You can use alternate services instead of iMessage. There's always Pidgin/Adium with OTR. Using out of band fingerprint verification, it may be the most secure form of chat communication possible.
Let's take this a step further - Apple added MAC address randomization to ios 8. Android can't be far behind, so what, exactly, is this going to do other than result in more home invasions on known false pretenses?
This would be akin to backdooring a safe. Not something Apple wants to do. It's not that it cannot be done, it's that doing so violates the security and integrity promises made to customers, and then those customers would go elsewhere, effectively ruining the business.