M$ will continue to support w2k thru 2005. But.... the next version of Office will not - which means that next year when people start passing around those.doc files you can't read you'll have to upgrade Office and as a result upgrade to XP
of course.... when I was a kid fish&chips came wrapped in yesterday's newspaper - we'd read while we ate... (unles you were unlucky and got the sports pages)
what do you do when your battery pack dies and your clothes go off?
rumor has it that these sorts of new clothes are first going to be marketted to the Emperor class.. apparently marketting is planning on pointing this out as a feature
I know there's no #3.... which was exactly whay I put in #4 - the tacky sequel that always ruins the series.... (oh wait I guess that might be "the Hobbit" - so maybe not)
"Berman represents California's San Fernando Valley..."
Which of course isn't so much Hollywood as it is porn.... he's not really worried so much about the Lord of the Rings 4" as he is "Debbie does Dallas #76"... which is probabloy much more likely to be on some p2p network anyway....
I used to work somewhere where we designed video cards for Macs - the engineering group was known for pranks and when it was your birthday you were fair game.
Anyway it was the boss's birthday and the night before he carefully locked his office and set traps in the door so he could tell if anyone had been in.... the next morning he comes in, everything seems OK, he checks the door, his chair, his desk, doesn't find anything... sits down to work with his computer.... nolthing happens.... about 1/2 an hour later he realises his screen is slowly getting greener and greener... aha he thinks looks in his system folder, removes a couple of suspicious INITs and reboots, it comes right..... about 1/2 and hour later kit starts going green again.... he pulls some more stuff, reboots again, but no luck.... he's just about to reformat his disk and reload the OS when lunch came around and we explained....
Of course reloading everything wouldn't have done him any good... we'd burned him a custom ROM for his graphics card
I've been an occasional X programmer for years, I've also done some Mac programming (including graphics accelerators for macs) - mac programs have long been able to move windows seamlessly between displays (and span them etc) - equivalent things to xinerama and this new stuff have been around since the mid 80s (actually thinking about it X showed up around then). Remote desktop sharing showed up a little later.
I think X suffered early because of a lack of infrastructure (and competing widget sets) - the Mac world had things like dialog editors and a strong idea of what the UI should look like that really made it easier to write apps.
The windows side reached this level around win95 (well not the xinerama stuff but the rest) as always they were pretty late to the table and borrowed other people's ideas
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yeah "too many errors on a line - make fewer" was always one of my faves
Synopsys a chip-design tool had a netlist plotter than ran under X - it's graphics implementation sucked and when you used it with an X server other than Suns it would get through it's initialisation and start to throw up the first window.... somewhere in there just after the empty window appears on the screen it would decide that things were not all alright with X and it should abort.... of course it had to tell you about that so it tries to throw up a dialog box..... about 1/2 way through that process, after the empty dialog appears on the screen it decides something is wrong.... but it has to tell you about it......
Things get fun fast - new boxes are appearing on the screen as fast as it can create them, meanwhile I'm hunting for the xterm session somewhere under 50 boxes that I created the program from and trying to retain focus so that I can type enough to kill the damn thing....
The biggest mistake that Microsoft has made was ignoring politics for such a long time. Before this case, its net political contribution to either party were nearly nil. As soon as the first writs started to come in, so did money start to pour from Redmond to Washington, now contributions to both parties are in the millions, and Federal prosecutors have become far less eager.
I've lived in the US for nearly 20 years - I've started to forget why US politics seem so corrupt to denziens of other western democracies.... in other countries when someone's found doing this it's a scandal.... here it's business as usuall.
In reality MS has corrupted the political process to its own ends
I know there is a lot of anti-Micro$oft sentiment on this board, but you must admit that a company has the right to protect its trade secrets.
Of course and it was M$'s choice to publish them as part of their settlement with the DOJ.... it's the throwing up of silly barriers to make those settlements meaningless that people are complaining about
I should add that not only is she a guy.... but also he has obviously managed to make it through the Girl Scouts.... obviously his teenage years were either a lot of fun.... or seriously confused.... I'm just waiting for the GSA suit against M$ for either misusing their trademark.... or sneaking a boy into a troop
as many other have pointed she's really a guy.... in clipart drag.... look down further at her open dialog.... her real name seems to be 'Don Funk' (donfu@microsoft.com)
but 'her' name is on there - look at the dialoig box - she's really 'Don Funk' (donfu@microsoft.com).... and as has been pointed out below Don chose his photo from some publically available stock photos so that he could show a little more of his feminine side
Look at the article 'she' shows an example of a file open box.... obviously her real name is 'Don Funk' and quick google search shows 'her' email address is 'donfu@microsoft.com'
requiring a wooden working scale model would discourage all those annoying software and business model patents - "so you've patented 'include files'... lets have a look at this model filing cabinet you've brought in".
As an upside all those old cartoons showing people holding models in the waiting room at the patent office would make sense again....
Seriously though I beleive that all patents should pass the "Edison test" - basicly is it such a revolutionary idea that you think Mr Edison would have been proud of it. You should be able to patent revolutions, not incremental improvements
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Which has got to be just about the stupidest thing possible .... a web site no one's allowed to link to is one that no one can access.
M$ will continue to support w2k thru 2005. But .... the next version of Office will not - which means that next year when people start passing around those .doc files you can't read you'll have to upgrade Office and as a result upgrade to XP
I'm pretty tolerant about /.s occasional posting of the same article twice. But doing it within the same article is just too wierd ...
before they decide it's a great weapon too and start spraying drab olive goo over other parts of the world?
of course .... when I was a kid fish&chips came wrapped in yesterday's newspaper - we'd read while we ate ... (unles you were unlucky and got the sports pages)
rumor has it that these sorts of new clothes are first going to be marketted to the Emperor class .. apparently marketting is planning on pointing this out as a feature
I know there's no #3 .... which was exactly whay I put in #4 - the tacky sequel that always ruins the series .... (oh wait I guess that might be "the Hobbit" - so maybe not)
Which of course isn't so much Hollywood as it is porn .... he's not really worried so much about the Lord of the Rings 4" as he is "Debbie does Dallas #76" ... which is probabloy much more likely to be on some p2p network anyway ....
well - strictly speaking the computer cubist movement were pre-mod ...
Anyway it was the boss's birthday and the night before he carefully locked his office and set traps in the door so he could tell if anyone had been in .... the next morning he comes in, everything seems OK, he checks the door, his chair, his desk, doesn't find anything ... sits down to work with his computer .... nolthing happens .... about 1/2 an hour later he realises his screen is slowly getting greener and greener ... aha he thinks looks in his system folder, removes a couple of suspicious INITs and reboots, it comes right ..... about 1/2 and hour later kit starts going green again .... he pulls some more stuff, reboots again, but no luck .... he's just about to reformat his disk and reload the OS when lunch came around and we explained ....
Of course reloading everything wouldn't have done him any good ... we'd burned him a custom ROM for his graphics card
I think X suffered early because of a lack of infrastructure (and competing widget sets) - the Mac world had things like dialog editors and a strong idea of what the UI should look like that really made it easier to write apps.
The windows side reached this level around win95 (well not the xinerama stuff but the rest) as always they were pretty late to the table and borrowed other people's ideas
yeah "too many errors on a line - make fewer" was always one of my faves
Things get fun fast - new boxes are appearing on the screen as fast as it can create them, meanwhile I'm hunting for the xterm session somewhere under 50 boxes that I created the program from and trying to retain focus so that I can type enough to kill the damn thing ....
I've lived in the US for nearly 20 years - I've started to forget why US politics seem so corrupt to denziens of other western democracies .... in other countries when someone's found doing this it's a scandal .... here it's business as usuall.
In reality MS has corrupted the political process to its own ends
Of course and it was M$'s choice to publish them as part of their settlement with the DOJ .... it's the throwing up of silly barriers to make those settlements meaningless that people are complaining about
I had this vision of a chorus line of "Bob" Dobbs's puffing on their pipes ...
The fact that Don made it all the way through the Girl Scouts with his 'honor' intact is pretty amazing ....
I should add that not only is she a guy .... but also he has obviously managed to make it through the Girl Scouts .... obviously his teenage years were either a lot of fun .... or seriously confused .... I'm just waiting for the GSA suit against M$ for either misusing their trademark .... or sneaking a boy into a troop
as many other have pointed she's really a guy .... in clipart drag .... look down further at her open dialog .... her real name seems to be 'Don Funk' (donfu@microsoft.com)
but 'her' name is on there - look at the dialoig box - she's really 'Don Funk' (donfu@microsoft.com) .... and as has been pointed out below Don chose his photo from some publically available stock photos so that he could show a little more of his feminine side
Look at the article 'she' shows an example of a file open box .... obviously her real name is 'Don Funk' and quick google search shows 'her' email address is 'donfu@microsoft.com'
I've seen the LN2 demo, my physics prof did it 25 years ago - she would blow a plume of LN2 across the room - definitely made the point
speaks just like yoda - "world hello, I am"
make sure you write down the tag and send it back to the appropriate agency ....
As an upside all those old cartoons showing people holding models in the waiting room at the patent office would make sense again ....
Seriously though I beleive that all patents should pass the "Edison test" - basicly is it such a revolutionary idea that you think Mr Edison would have been proud of it. You should be able to patent revolutions, not incremental improvements