It is in fact a wrapper around these things as well as DirectX. I don't expect to see much of it on non-Windows platforms anytime soon. But I'd love to be proven wrong. It's one of the better UI technologies out there.
IIRC, SQL Server originated as a fork of Sybase, which originally was a UNIX product. I doubt that much of the original code remains, nearly 30 years later, but, at least in hindsight, it seems to me that they ought to have abstracted away the OS calls from the very beginning, thus preserving the code's ability to run on either *nix, OS/2 (at the time), Windows, or whatever else might have surfaced.
People in BOTH places who want to use force to get what is not rightfully theirs can all go f*** off. Rural should not subsidize urban. Urban should not subsidize rural. No one should subsidize anyone. Only then do we have a chance to evolve toward a society based on voluntary interaction rather than force, theft, and murder writ large.
People in the U.S. do overwhelmingly tend to be stupid and uncultured, in ways that vary by class, but that is not entirely their fault; it is in large part the result of a government indoctrination system (schools and media) designed and intended to create exactly that result.
Young whippersnapper. In my day we had only IP by Carrier Pigeon (RFC 1149) and we couldn't send cat videos. The cats had an annoying habit of eating the carrier pigeons before they could deliver the video.
You might be surprised. There is abundant natural beauty in this region, though more than its fair share of challenges as well, mostly of a man-made nature. The downtown Cleveland skyline, though not Chicago or Manhattan, is also pretty spectacular at night, particularly for a city of less than 400 thousand.
I'm very pro-modern-nuke, and not terribly concerned about AGW, but, still, I must agree at least that most if not all of these plants need to be shut down. They are old, dangerous, and close and/or downwind to major population centers. The two nearest to me, Perry (already slated to be closed soon) and Davis-Besse, are more than 30 years old, and have had multiple publicly-reported incidents. Some are even older. My hope though is that the huge drop in capacity will be replaced by something that this generally economically depressed and polluted region can afford, without increasing the morbidity and mortality associated with older coal plants. The two possibilities I can see are natural gas and more modern/efficient nuclear. Newer, CO2-sequestering coal plants might be an option in some places, and would greatly lift the fortunes of nearby coal-mining regions which are even more depressed than northeast Ohio, but I can't see us being able to afford those here.
As I read things, it is a possibility, but a small one.
The much more likely, and therefore concerning possibility, is that people who can be publicly identified as not leaning heavily Marxist will be discouraged from making future improvements to the kernel. Since Marxists are either ignorant or psychopathic, or both, almost by definition, this means the quality of the kernel codebase, as well as the kernel community, will decline over time, until saner and better people decide to fork it.
Not posting as AC because I don't object to being modded down for speaking truth as best I understand it.
The *BSDs, at least those that are still actively maintained, are probably the closest thing right now. But Linux will survive even after Mr. Torvalds. It probably will not evolve in exactly the same fashion, but it will survive.
Some of us do understand the existential threat posted by all forms of leftism, socialism, and communism. Unfortunately, mostly, it's those of us who grew up during the Cold War, who had friends who barely escaped from communism with their lives, who were taught in school why freedom and slavery can never co-exist and why one or the other must prevail. We're at least in our 50s now and we won't be around forever. Our only hope, really, is that we can convince younger generations to understand and to be willing to fight for freedom, in whatever manner is necessary. Funnily enough, it isn't really us who are doing that convincing very effectively. It's the left themselves. When allowed to do so, they take gleeful delight in demonstrating why they must never be allowed to rule anything or anyone, at least, not until they learn how to rule their own selves.
"Aspie" doesn't imply "dickish." The difficulty we have in reading emotions, unless they are very well spelled out (and sometimes even then), can manifest in a much broader variety of ways. For instance, I certainly can be a jackass, but, much more often, I fall quite far on the opposite end: trying to delay conflict, even when it is inevitable and when delay is only going to make it worse. Sometimes I wish I could just tell off people - not in a purposefully rude way, but direct and clear and just as blunt as it needs to be, though not drastically more so. I generally can't. Usually because by the time I'm ready to do so, the situation has already escalated beyond the point where nothing short of full-blown "dickishness" is likely to achieve the hoped-for results. I've seen this same thing in others throughout my career as well. Some people whom we call "high-functioning" actually manage to get it right most of the time, because even though they may not understand other people's feelings much better than others near us on the Aspie spectrum, they've learned ways of dealing with "normals" that don't stray too far in either direction.
Understood; otherwise, corporate America would never have given up Windows 7. Still, for the ordinary consumer, Windows 10 is a privacy nightmare, and for that reason I still stick with Linux wherever possible and Windows only when absolutely necessary.
Either you missed the point or I didn't state it clearly enough. It isn't that W10 isn't an OS. Apart from hyperbole (great-great-great grandfather post) no one is claiming that. I am saying that it's a steaming pile of privacy-invading garbage piled on top of an OS.
The one is expressly designed to lead to the other. This is acknowledged by such distinct thinkers as Frederic Bastiat (advocate of liberty and free markets), and Karl Marx (inventor of modern socialism/communism).
It's a steaming pile of spyware built on top of an arguably otherwise acceptable operating system. If we could have the latter without the former, I'd have very few complaints. But, since we can't, I remain completely uninterested in switching from desktop Linux (Gentoo + XFCE).
That may be true in much of the U.S., Canada, and Australia. However, sufficiently high population densities, such as in NYC, change that equation. Way easier/faster/cheaper to get to Manhattan from the boroughs or even sufficiently far uptown by subway, rather than car. Dense urban cores are only possible or useful if there is good mass transit at least to and from those cores, and vice versa. Also, some cities, such as Hong Kong (IIRC), recover 100% of operating costs from the farebox; thus, it is possible, at least in concept, to operate transit profitably. But, again, only given sufficient population and job density.
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Hawai'i is almost on the other side of the world!!!
They should make a Star Trek episode with a plot something like that! Oh, wait . . . .
It is in fact a wrapper around these things as well as DirectX. I don't expect to see much of it on non-Windows platforms anytime soon. But I'd love to be proven wrong. It's one of the better UI technologies out there.
UWP is assuredly NOT WPF. It was meant to replace it, but it didn't, because it threw users of legacy Windows versions under the bus.
IIRC, SQL Server originated as a fork of Sybase, which originally was a UNIX product. I doubt that much of the original code remains, nearly 30 years later, but, at least in hindsight, it seems to me that they ought to have abstracted away the OS calls from the very beginning, thus preserving the code's ability to run on either *nix, OS/2 (at the time), Windows, or whatever else might have surfaced.
People in BOTH places who want to use force to get what is not rightfully theirs can all go f*** off. Rural should not subsidize urban. Urban should not subsidize rural. No one should subsidize anyone. Only then do we have a chance to evolve toward a society based on voluntary interaction rather than force, theft, and murder writ large.
Hear, hear.
Sorry. Can't do that. My system runs pulseaudio.
People in the U.S. do overwhelmingly tend to be stupid and uncultured, in ways that vary by class, but that is not entirely their fault; it is in large part the result of a government indoctrination system (schools and media) designed and intended to create exactly that result.
Young whippersnapper. In my day we had only IP by Carrier Pigeon (RFC 1149) and we couldn't send cat videos. The cats had an annoying habit of eating the carrier pigeons before they could deliver the video.
You might be surprised. There is abundant natural beauty in this region, though more than its fair share of challenges as well, mostly of a man-made nature. The downtown Cleveland skyline, though not Chicago or Manhattan, is also pretty spectacular at night, particularly for a city of less than 400 thousand.
I'm very pro-modern-nuke, and not terribly concerned about AGW, but, still, I must agree at least that most if not all of these plants need to be shut down. They are old, dangerous, and close and/or downwind to major population centers. The two nearest to me, Perry (already slated to be closed soon) and Davis-Besse, are more than 30 years old, and have had multiple publicly-reported incidents. Some are even older. My hope though is that the huge drop in capacity will be replaced by something that this generally economically depressed and polluted region can afford, without increasing the morbidity and mortality associated with older coal plants. The two possibilities I can see are natural gas and more modern/efficient nuclear. Newer, CO2-sequestering coal plants might be an option in some places, and would greatly lift the fortunes of nearby coal-mining regions which are even more depressed than northeast Ohio, but I can't see us being able to afford those here.
He reliably pisses off lefties. That should count for something.
As I read things, it is a possibility, but a small one.
The much more likely, and therefore concerning possibility, is that people who can be publicly identified as not leaning heavily Marxist will be discouraged from making future improvements to the kernel. Since Marxists are either ignorant or psychopathic, or both, almost by definition, this means the quality of the kernel codebase, as well as the kernel community, will decline over time, until saner and better people decide to fork it.
Not posting as AC because I don't object to being modded down for speaking truth as best I understand it.
The *BSDs, at least those that are still actively maintained, are probably the closest thing right now. But Linux will survive even after Mr. Torvalds. It probably will not evolve in exactly the same fashion, but it will survive.
Not all of Michigan can fairly be described as third-world. Parts of Detroit, Flint, etc. are much worse. :)
Some of us do understand the existential threat posted by all forms of leftism, socialism, and communism. Unfortunately, mostly, it's those of us who grew up during the Cold War, who had friends who barely escaped from communism with their lives, who were taught in school why freedom and slavery can never co-exist and why one or the other must prevail. We're at least in our 50s now and we won't be around forever. Our only hope, really, is that we can convince younger generations to understand and to be willing to fight for freedom, in whatever manner is necessary. Funnily enough, it isn't really us who are doing that convincing very effectively. It's the left themselves. When allowed to do so, they take gleeful delight in demonstrating why they must never be allowed to rule anything or anyone, at least, not until they learn how to rule their own selves.
"Aspie" doesn't imply "dickish." The difficulty we have in reading emotions, unless they are very well spelled out (and sometimes even then), can manifest in a much broader variety of ways. For instance, I certainly can be a jackass, but, much more often, I fall quite far on the opposite end: trying to delay conflict, even when it is inevitable and when delay is only going to make it worse. Sometimes I wish I could just tell off people - not in a purposefully rude way, but direct and clear and just as blunt as it needs to be, though not drastically more so. I generally can't. Usually because by the time I'm ready to do so, the situation has already escalated beyond the point where nothing short of full-blown "dickishness" is likely to achieve the hoped-for results. I've seen this same thing in others throughout my career as well. Some people whom we call "high-functioning" actually manage to get it right most of the time, because even though they may not understand other people's feelings much better than others near us on the Aspie spectrum, they've learned ways of dealing with "normals" that don't stray too far in either direction.
I think you just discovered the whole point of this and any similar type of "legislation."
Understood; otherwise, corporate America would never have given up Windows 7. Still, for the ordinary consumer, Windows 10 is a privacy nightmare, and for that reason I still stick with Linux wherever possible and Windows only when absolutely necessary.
As people once thought in Argentina, Venezuela, and South Africa among many other places.
Either you missed the point or I didn't state it clearly enough. It isn't that W10 isn't an OS. Apart from hyperbole (great-great-great grandfather post) no one is claiming that. I am saying that it's a steaming pile of privacy-invading garbage piled on top of an OS.
The one is expressly designed to lead to the other. This is acknowledged by such distinct thinkers as Frederic Bastiat (advocate of liberty and free markets), and Karl Marx (inventor of modern socialism/communism).
It's a steaming pile of spyware built on top of an arguably otherwise acceptable operating system. If we could have the latter without the former, I'd have very few complaints. But, since we can't, I remain completely uninterested in switching from desktop Linux (Gentoo + XFCE).
Prices are all over the map but in general are WAY higher than 20 years ago. Most NYC neighborhoods are also much safer than 20 years ago.
That may be true in much of the U.S., Canada, and Australia. However, sufficiently high population densities, such as in NYC, change that equation. Way easier/faster/cheaper to get to Manhattan from the boroughs or even sufficiently far uptown by subway, rather than car. Dense urban cores are only possible or useful if there is good mass transit at least to and from those cores, and vice versa. Also, some cities, such as Hong Kong (IIRC), recover 100% of operating costs from the farebox; thus, it is possible, at least in concept, to operate transit profitably. But, again, only given sufficient population and job density.