Part of the trouble I'm having with this is that I actually feel better about XP (SP1)* than I have about any other MS OS I've used so far. There have been no compatability problems, it's nicely configurable, and it's been rock-solid stable for me to date. I'd prefer they didn't screw it up. Who knows? Maybe they've learned something over the last decade or so. But as a longtime Win98 user, I think I'm understandably gun-shy.
*I haven't yet worked up the nerve to upgrade to SP2.
Well, they're not saying are they? Did the article say how they were implementing these double directory entries? I wouldn't put it past them to delete both if you delete one. "Ah," says Clippy, "you want to delete 'the file'! Here ya go! Have a nice day!"
But what the article did say about defragging was that it would take place "automatically" "if it is required." That's not the same thing as writing contiguous files in the first place, or some other sensible scheme that makes defragging unnecessary.
I understand you want to give credit where credit is due, but none appears here so far. Based on MS' track record, I'll believe it works well when I see it and not before.
Which means, for example, Longhorn will automatically clean up, or "defragment," your hard drive, if it is required. You won't even know it's happening.
The fuck I won't. When my hard drive starts rattling for no apparent reason and any app that needs to page in some memory slows to a crawl, I'll know for sure a defrag is happening.
If you put in a DVD, the volume will automatically adjust and the video will just start playing full screen.
Unless I don't happen to want it to play fullscreen. At least if it starts in a window there's an obvious "maximize" button to change that. How is it supposed to simplify things to remove all visible controls?
You also will be able to put files simultaneously in different folders, and find the one you want with much more ease than you can today.
Yeah, great. This isn't a symlink because that's what they call an "alias". Is it a cross-linked directory entry? What happens when you delete one of the "copies" in an environment where every legacy user in the world is used to see two real copies if they see the same file in two places?
Longhorn doesn't just show you an icon for a document, for example, but rather an itsy-bitsy picture of the first page.
OK, can someone please explain to me why I'd want this? It'll be too small to read, so unless you put the title up in big bold letters at the top you won'd be able to see anything helpful in text documents. My wife is a professional writer: they don't use things like that when preparing a manuscript for submission. Even then you won't have anything you couldn't have gotten from the filename. You know, that label on the file that's supposed to tell you what's in it? And how will it make things easier to find in a directory with 100 or so files in it without inducing eyestrain?
Windows is only getting started, as far as Allchin is concerned.
Windows 1.0 was released in 1985. Sorry Allchin, but 20 years is a long time to still be "only getting started" even for a defense contractor. Why have you taken so much time and still not gotten it right?
Your post is only barely relevant to the parent, which was about how "Immaculate Conception" really has to do with the birth of Mary, not Jesus, and is closely bound up with the Roman Catholic dogma of Original Sin. (It was not defined as dogma until Vatican I in the 19th Century.)
However, with regard to the Virgin Birth, there's no translation at all. The Gospels were written in Greek, not Hebrew, and it's the Greek that says "parthenos", or virgin. The "translation error" is in the passage from Isaiah where the Hebrew "almah" is translated into Greek as parthenos. However, that translation was not made by Christians, but by Jewish scholars about 200 BC in the Septuagint Old Testament. I strongly suspect they were reasonably conversant with all the possible readings of that particular word.
Could you please enlighten us on how 15th Century Europeans were supposed to quantitatively measure the salinity of the Pacific Ocean? How many Europeans of the time had even seen the Pacific?
Of course they're dangerous. They also suck down massive amounts of power. Between that and the heat they put out, stressing a building's HVAC system something fierce, flat panel displays pay for themselves in energy savings in a year or so.
That's one reason government agencies switched, but there are other factors. As is well-known from such classic scientific research milestones as the G-bomb, the first private venture into space using insufficient spacecraft shielding, or poisoning by spiders exposed to ionizing radiation, the kind of hazardous rays that CRTs emit (especially from the back) have been known to induce superpowers in humans. Since the extent and strength of these powers are not predictable, the government is doing everything it can to avoid having them bestowed on listless, apathetic bureaucrats.
Bill Gates acquired superpowers years ago, of course, so he got rid of his CRT because he no longer needed the radiation. His power? He attracts money. The whole Microsoft thing is just a front to keep his power from public view so he can just exercise it over the normal course of the day. (And a good thing too. Can you imagine him in spandex?)
For true powers-seeking geeks, of course, the best course of action is to surround yourself with as many CRTs as possible. Gaming and graphic hardware companies know this, and since geeks are their main customer base both industries have been working toward their empowerment for quite some time now. This is the real reason for nVidia's TwinView technology, for example, and also the real reason why games are not developed for Linux necessitating a Windows box sitting next to the useful one. (After all, the more boxes you have in your house, the more CRTs you have pumping out those healthful X-rays.) It's no coincidence that most games involve the exercise of some kind of superhuman ability: they're trainers.
Sure, there's a serious risk of contracting some kind of cancer here, but considering the potential gains a cost/benefit analysis clearly favors bathing yourself in that wonderful blue glow.
Fry's door check is completely voluntary. I've blown past them on a number of occasions and they made no serious attempts to stop me.
As has been pointed out here several times before, Fry's doesn't check outgoing receipts because they don't trust their customers, but because they don't trust their employees. They're looking for the kind of scam that can be worked with the cooperation of the cashier. Kinda gives you a warm, fuzzy feeling about ever working there, huh?
No, a species is defines as a genetically isolated population. Dogs and wolves are considered seperate species even though they're genetically compatable because they simply don't interbreed under normal conditions.
Either this is an inadequate definition, or biologists really aren't all that interested in rigor. By this definition we ought to consider Canis chihuahuaensis and Canis lupocanishibernensis different species, but both Mexican Shorthairs and Irish Wolfhounds are Canis domestica even though they obviously can't interbreed on their own. (And why would anyone want to help the process along?)
An imaginitive anthropologist would have named them Homo suzensis or Homo pedevillosi or something like that. Or possibly Homo tolkieni. But no, we get floresiensis which makes them sound like they had sound tooth enamel or something.
No. Middle-earth is just a translation of the old Northern Eurpoean name for the part of the world inhabited by men as opposed to the gods, giants or other fantastic creatures: Midgard. It's just another name to call the world, not the particular name of Tolkien's imaginary world. He actually conceived of his stories as taking place the real world, but in an imaginary time.
According to Tolkien, Minas Tirith was about at the latitude of Venice, and the Shire does correspond more or less to England. Don't trust the movies; they compressed the geography tremendously. (You'd never guess from the climactic scene that Barad-dur was supposed to be over 100 miles from the gates of Mordor now, would you?)
Apple: You're comparing apples (heh) and oranges. Apple is a hardware company, Mircosoft is a software company. You want Apple's OS, you have to buy Apple's hardware. MS doesn't have that hurdle to shoveling its schlock.
Linux took a long time to become a viable desktop alternative. It arguably is now. In the meantime it's done a nifty job of penetrating the server market.
All the same, I'm not so sure about a GoogleOS. GoogleDesktopEnvironment maybe, which would just be another way to deliver services, but there's a whole lot more to an OS than that and I just don't see Google heading in that direction.
Indeed. There are games that not only provide the client for free, but give you some free time to try it out before you buy. The only good reason I can think of for doing this myself is that Blizzard knows they have their customer base by the short hairs and that their particular market will bear this kind of fee structure.
If even teams of such people struggle for so long to produce a major upgrade to Windows, then that seems to me to be a sign that they're now dealing with an unmanageable monstrosity, rather than a sign of organizational paralysis.
More likely it's the other way around. Far more projects fail because of management problems than technical. Take a look at the CMM for Software Engineering sometime. Apart from some procedural stuff that any sensible software engineer would want to do anyway, it's all about management.
Are you kidding? If an asteroid really was going to collide with the Earth in 24 years to you honestly think NASA would pass up a funding opportunity like that? The adminstrators (and aerospace contractors) would all be doing their Happy Dance o' Money like they haven't done since the Apollo program.
The rest of the academic community is only being nice allowing medics and dentists to call themselves "doctor".
Nope, sorry.
Physicians in the US don't have PhDs, they have MDs. It's a different kind of degree requiring an different training regimen -- but the word "doctor" still appears in it and it's more advanced than a Master's.
In the US it's also correct for medical pracitioners alone to use "Dr." socially, and not for PhD holders, kind of the inverse of the UK situation. This is partly because in academia if you have a PhD but no other academic title you're at the bottom of the professional ladder. To call a Professor "Dr." is a positive insult, and the touchier types will really go off on you. They'd rather hear "Mr." than "Dr." but "Professor" is better than either.
One occasionally encounters "Dr." in either ecclesiastical or corporate environments. Most Protestant ministers don't hold doctorates so it's a mark of distinction in an otherwise non-hierarchical environment. They therefore cling to it. (Their "preaching robes" are actually academic gowns, and DDs or PhDs get the velvet stripes on the sleeves.)
In a corporate environment a PhD will often use "Dr." to get across to the PHBs that he really does know what he's talking about, and it tends to intimidate them. They generally don't expect it from their co-workers, and certainly wouldn't use it if they were to venture onto a college campus.
6 months in jail nothing? For a 16-year-old? In Texas?
I'm sorry, but you have no sense of perspective. This kid did the equivalent of peeking at the answer book, and you think he's getting off easy with jail time, mainly because the teacher was too stupid to notice an extra bit of hardware connected to her machine.
If this kid actually gets sentenced to prison, he'll be lucky if he comes out intact. The punishment would in no way fit the crime.
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*I haven't yet worked up the nerve to upgrade to SP2.
But what the article did say about defragging was that it would take place "automatically" "if it is required." That's not the same thing as writing contiguous files in the first place, or some other sensible scheme that makes defragging unnecessary.
I understand you want to give credit where credit is due, but none appears here so far. Based on MS' track record, I'll believe it works well when I see it and not before.
The fuck I won't. When my hard drive starts rattling for no apparent reason and any app that needs to page in some memory slows to a crawl, I'll know for sure a defrag is happening.
If you put in a DVD, the volume will automatically adjust and the video will just start playing full screen.
Unless I don't happen to want it to play fullscreen. At least if it starts in a window there's an obvious "maximize" button to change that. How is it supposed to simplify things to remove all visible controls?
You also will be able to put files simultaneously in different folders, and find the one you want with much more ease than you can today.
Yeah, great. This isn't a symlink because that's what they call an "alias". Is it a cross-linked directory entry? What happens when you delete one of the "copies" in an environment where every legacy user in the world is used to see two real copies if they see the same file in two places?
Longhorn doesn't just show you an icon for a document, for example, but rather an itsy-bitsy picture of the first page.
OK, can someone please explain to me why I'd want this? It'll be too small to read, so unless you put the title up in big bold letters at the top you won'd be able to see anything helpful in text documents. My wife is a professional writer: they don't use things like that when preparing a manuscript for submission. Even then you won't have anything you couldn't have gotten from the filename. You know, that label on the file that's supposed to tell you what's in it? And how will it make things easier to find in a directory with 100 or so files in it without inducing eyestrain?
Windows is only getting started, as far as Allchin is concerned.
Windows 1.0 was released in 1985. Sorry Allchin, but 20 years is a long time to still be "only getting started" even for a defense contractor. Why have you taken so much time and still not gotten it right?
However, with regard to the Virgin Birth, there's no translation at all. The Gospels were written in Greek, not Hebrew, and it's the Greek that says "parthenos", or virgin. The "translation error" is in the passage from Isaiah where the Hebrew "almah" is translated into Greek as parthenos. However, that translation was not made by Christians, but by Jewish scholars about 200 BC in the Septuagint Old Testament. I strongly suspect they were reasonably conversant with all the possible readings of that particular word.
Because the jocks will beat the shit out of you if you do that.
Could you please enlighten us on how 15th Century Europeans were supposed to quantitatively measure the salinity of the Pacific Ocean? How many Europeans of the time had even seen the Pacific?
That's one reason government agencies switched, but there are other factors. As is well-known from such classic scientific research milestones as the G-bomb, the first private venture into space using insufficient spacecraft shielding, or poisoning by spiders exposed to ionizing radiation, the kind of hazardous rays that CRTs emit (especially from the back) have been known to induce superpowers in humans. Since the extent and strength of these powers are not predictable, the government is doing everything it can to avoid having them bestowed on listless, apathetic bureaucrats.
Bill Gates acquired superpowers years ago, of course, so he got rid of his CRT because he no longer needed the radiation. His power? He attracts money. The whole Microsoft thing is just a front to keep his power from public view so he can just exercise it over the normal course of the day. (And a good thing too. Can you imagine him in spandex?)
For true powers-seeking geeks, of course, the best course of action is to surround yourself with as many CRTs as possible. Gaming and graphic hardware companies know this, and since geeks are their main customer base both industries have been working toward their empowerment for quite some time now. This is the real reason for nVidia's TwinView technology, for example, and also the real reason why games are not developed for Linux necessitating a Windows box sitting next to the useful one. (After all, the more boxes you have in your house, the more CRTs you have pumping out those healthful X-rays.) It's no coincidence that most games involve the exercise of some kind of superhuman ability: they're trainers.
Sure, there's a serious risk of contracting some kind of cancer here, but considering the potential gains a cost/benefit analysis clearly favors bathing yourself in that wonderful blue glow.
...of Ulm!
As has been pointed out here several times before, Fry's doesn't check outgoing receipts because they don't trust their customers, but because they don't trust their employees. They're looking for the kind of scam that can be worked with the cooperation of the cashier. Kinda gives you a warm, fuzzy feeling about ever working there, huh?
Ghibli films are released in the US by Disney dubbed, not subtitled. Their poor performance at the US box office has nothing to do with subtitles.
Are you kidding? To a true Tolkien fan this is worthy of m4d Pr0pz!
Either this is an inadequate definition, or biologists really aren't all that interested in rigor. By this definition we ought to consider Canis chihuahuaensis and Canis lupocanishibernensis different species, but both Mexican Shorthairs and Irish Wolfhounds are Canis domestica even though they obviously can't interbreed on their own. (And why would anyone want to help the process along?)
An imaginitive anthropologist would have named them Homo suzensis or Homo pedevillosi or something like that. Or possibly Homo tolkieni. But no, we get floresiensis which makes them sound like they had sound tooth enamel or something.
According to Tolkien, Minas Tirith was about at the latitude of Venice, and the Shire does correspond more or less to England. Don't trust the movies; they compressed the geography tremendously. (You'd never guess from the climactic scene that Barad-dur was supposed to be over 100 miles from the gates of Mordor now, would you?)
Linux took a long time to become a viable desktop alternative. It arguably is now. In the meantime it's done a nifty job of penetrating the server market.
All the same, I'm not so sure about a GoogleOS. GoogleDesktopEnvironment maybe, which would just be another way to deliver services, but there's a whole lot more to an OS than that and I just don't see Google heading in that direction.
Posted above without preview; I see that you don't. But many other non-religious believers here do. I wonder why.
It wouldn't matter in the least. Why do you assume it should?
Indeed. There are games that not only provide the client for free, but give you some free time to try it out before you buy. The only good reason I can think of for doing this myself is that Blizzard knows they have their customer base by the short hairs and that their particular market will bear this kind of fee structure.
So clearly the pot is a pinko commie. Probably a liberal too. Obviously not Revere Ware.
More likely it's the other way around. Far more projects fail because of management problems than technical. Take a look at the CMM for Software Engineering sometime. Apart from some procedural stuff that any sensible software engineer would want to do anyway, it's all about management.
Are you kidding? If an asteroid really was going to collide with the Earth in 24 years to you honestly think NASA would pass up a funding opportunity like that? The adminstrators (and aerospace contractors) would all be doing their Happy Dance o' Money like they haven't done since the Apollo program.
Nope, sorry.
Physicians in the US don't have PhDs, they have MDs. It's a different kind of degree requiring an different training regimen -- but the word "doctor" still appears in it and it's more advanced than a Master's.
In the US it's also correct for medical pracitioners alone to use "Dr." socially, and not for PhD holders, kind of the inverse of the UK situation. This is partly because in academia if you have a PhD but no other academic title you're at the bottom of the professional ladder. To call a Professor "Dr." is a positive insult, and the touchier types will really go off on you. They'd rather hear "Mr." than "Dr." but "Professor" is better than either.
One occasionally encounters "Dr." in either ecclesiastical or corporate environments. Most Protestant ministers don't hold doctorates so it's a mark of distinction in an otherwise non-hierarchical environment. They therefore cling to it. (Their "preaching robes" are actually academic gowns, and DDs or PhDs get the velvet stripes on the sleeves.)
In a corporate environment a PhD will often use "Dr." to get across to the PHBs that he really does know what he's talking about, and it tends to intimidate them. They generally don't expect it from their co-workers, and certainly wouldn't use it if they were to venture onto a college campus.
Which is my point. How that comes to "defend[ing] bad behavior" is a mystery to me.
Nicer? Possibly, if by that you mean "slicker". More useful? I'll believe it when I see it.
6 months in jail nothing? For a 16-year-old? In Texas?
I'm sorry, but you have no sense of perspective. This kid did the equivalent of peeking at the answer book, and you think he's getting off easy with jail time, mainly because the teacher was too stupid to notice an extra bit of hardware connected to her machine.
If this kid actually gets sentenced to prison, he'll be lucky if he comes out intact. The punishment would in no way fit the crime.