. Longhorn's ability to run the Win32 API will be through a compatibility layer, similar to the DOS compatibility layer in XP. However, WinXP's ability to run Indigo and Avalon, the two pillars of Longhorn, will be done through a forward compatibility layer.
You don't know what you're talking about. The Win32 API will be there and accessed in exactly the same way. There is no 'win32' compatibility layer like the DOS layer. The.NET runtime sits ontop of the win32 api. They're simply using.NET to write a lot of the new features in Longhorn. There
That's a classic fallacy committed by armchair "scientists." You're assuming something that hasn't been observed. "Just because we haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't happen," you say. Well, yes, that's exactly what the scientific method does mean. If we haven't seen it, there's no evidence to support it. And we've been looking for a long, long time.
I am a scientist.
Is it possible that abiogenesis occurs on other planets or something? Sure, it's possible. But it's also possible that I will sprout wings and fly, that water will spontaneously turn to wine, or that the sun will fail to rise tomorrow. But we have no evidence to believe any of these things. They're all completely unsupported by the facts.
No, the facts indicate that life began on this planet. It wasn't "always" here. Most scientists believe the big bang or something similar started the universe -- at a time where life as we know it didn't exist. All this implies that life began at some time from non-living matter.
The fact is, life is made up of certain molecules and there is no reason why the structure of these molecules can't be written down on paper by one person and then constructed at some time in the future by another person (with the ability to construct atom-by-atom).
The opposite of this theory, the theory of abiogenesis, is given as an example of a scientific theory that was once believed but that we now know to be false
bullshit. is this some sneaky way to prove creationism?
By your arguments, sperm is "alive". The question then is not whether something is alive but what can we ethically do with certain types of life. From my perspective, sSome life is more important than others (humans vs bacteria for example).
You can account for everyone by making your API *extensible* which MS.NET not. They have difficulty designing abstract APIs. They should steal more from Java2.
Afganistan: Outside Kandahar mostly ruled by loal warlords, whose loyality is really doubtfull. Law and order has not been restored in Afganistan after the fall of the Taliban rule
Are you fucking insane? Where do you get that idea from? I'm not saying that the country is perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than it was 3 years ago. Most of the country outside Kandahar is NOT ruled by warlords unless you consider governers (who are supportive of the government), many of whom are or were military leaders 'warlords'.
Iraq: Daily reports of wounded or killed American soldiers, especially since the official war ended. An undisclosed, but very high, number of civilian casualities. Some humanitarian organisations estimates this to be over 100.000 individuals.
ROFL. Please link to the humantiarian organisation that still claims such a number. The 120,000 number has generally been discredited. They estimated it based on 'reported civilian deaths' and guestimated for provinces for which they had no data.
Rest of the world: More people hates the USA than before Bush took office. In many parts of the world, the us is no longer seen as the leader of the free world or the big idol, to whom other countries can look up to. This is especially true among the closest allies of the United States, such as Germany and France.
Gee maybe it's a problem with france and their close ties with Saddam... you know, the oil for weapons contracts...
For instance, Germany has been a very close ally to the US in more than 50 years, and has followed the US through thick and thin. Now the Germans put the foot down, but the US isn't listening.
WEST GERMANY was a close ally because American soldier (you know, the evil baby killers) defended them from communism fo 40 years.
And what the hell is your (and the rest of slashdot's) obssession with popularity anyway? This isn't fucking high school.
And to all the military-centric folks: No, a great big military doesn't help, because you are not fighting an organized army
WTF? So numbers don't help because you're not fighting an organised army? WTF? Perhaps they should reduce troop numbers to 3?
At a first glance, that might look reasonable; however, once you start to get a lot of songs (and you start to approach RAND_MAX), it will skew your result in favor of low-ID songs.
Not only that but if num_songs isn't a prime number then you will get an uneven skew towards certain songs.
Ironic that most slashdotters are anti-capitalist leftist but when it comes to toys such as these (which wouldn't have been developed with the pace they are without capitalism), they seem to forget their hip and "progressive" ideals.
No you're not dead on. You've bought up idea that's by no means unoriginal and by your own admission would not be easy to do. You used the fact that they could target certain *proteins* on the *surface* of the cell to somehow imply and project your alarmist illusion that they could somehow now just target certain *ethnically distinct* *genes* *inside* the cell.
Exactly: the reason they bought Connectix, not VMWare, was that Microsoft and Connectix are both nine letter: they wouldn't need to deal with any pesky offset differences when they did a global search and replace...
Are you saying they didn't get source code for their money and have to do search and replace on binaries?
Just one example is your "tablet" device won't have an acive digitizer that lets you handwrite with your palm/hand resting on the screen at the same time. It uses a touch panel which is unsuitable for handwriting.
Are you saying a Tablet PC is only a tablet PC if it runs XP ? It sounds funny.
Yes. I'm not saying other devices aren't "tablets-type devices" but they aren't "tablet pcs" which are usually totally different beasts and give a totally different user experience.
Like I said, it would be like comparing Pocket PCs with Palm devices. They are similar but totally different when you use them.
I would suggest that you go to a store and test out a real tablet pc to see what they can really do.
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The Bluepad isn't a tablet pc and if your Tablet PC came with Windows CE.NET it isn't a tablet.
Tablet PCs have specific specifications such as active digitizers that only respond to pens (important for handwriting) and they need to run Windows XP Tablet PC edition for the amazing handwriting recognition.
It's understandable that people get tablet pcs confused cause there's quite a market out there for slate style devices now.
The blueslate isn't any more a tablet pc than a palm pilot is a pocket pc. They may look the same but they're different beasts close up.
Tablets one pretty darn good for writing emails and Slashdot posts (like this one) while sitting on the couch or a bean bag.
I have an NEC litepad pad which is just over a cm thick and about the size of a magazine. I use it almost exclusively for web browsing.
Tablets are also great for note taking and brain storming. Imagine being able to take handwritten notes and diagrams where all the text is searchable (even if it has been written on an angle).
IMHO, the form factor and amazing handwriting recognition are the two killer features of slate tablets.
Try not to think of a tablet as a notebook replacement (they're too low spec for that). Input is definitely slower but you can do it anywhere, even while lying in bed or whilst slouching on a bean bag.
My advice to anyone wanting a tablet is to get a slate (not a convertable) and make sure it comes with windows XP tablet PC edition. Anything else and you'll probably wonder what the point is.
FYI, tablet pc was the top search item in Froogle for 2004. 2005 may be the year of the tablet.
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I guess you don't know that was over 700 years ago.
Yes. I think we should also blame the other Tim who invented HTTP and HTML (both text based).
I mean, what's wrong with a WWW based on the superior binary DOC format?
Ha, now Sony has your IP address.
. Longhorn's ability to run the Win32 API will be through a compatibility layer, similar to the DOS compatibility layer in XP. However, WinXP's ability to run Indigo and Avalon, the two pillars of Longhorn, will be done through a forward compatibility layer.
You don't know what you're talking about. The Win32 API will be there and accessed in exactly the same way. There is no 'win32' compatibility layer like the DOS layer. The
Is that a crime (as in against the law)?
That's a classic fallacy committed by armchair "scientists." You're assuming something that hasn't been observed. "Just because we haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't happen," you say. Well, yes, that's exactly what the scientific method does mean. If we haven't seen it, there's no evidence to support it. And we've been looking for a long, long time.
I am a scientist.
Is it possible that abiogenesis occurs on other planets or something? Sure, it's possible. But it's also possible that I will sprout wings and fly, that water will spontaneously turn to wine, or that the sun will fail to rise tomorrow. But we have no evidence to believe any of these things. They're all completely unsupported by the facts.
No, the facts indicate that life began on this planet. It wasn't "always" here. Most scientists believe the big bang or something similar started the universe -- at a time where life as we know it didn't exist. All this implies that life began at some time from non-living matter.
The fact is, life is made up of certain molecules and there is no reason why the structure of these molecules can't be written down on paper by one person and then constructed at some time in the future by another person (with the ability to construct atom-by-atom).
What the fuck are you on?
It's like sitting there looking at a lump of clay for 10 years and then claiming that abiogenesis is impossible.
The opposite of this theory, the theory of abiogenesis, is given as an example of a scientific theory that was once believed but that we now know to be false
bullshit. is this some sneaky way to prove creationism?
By your arguments, sperm is "alive". The question then is not whether something is alive but what can we ethically do with certain types of life. From my perspective, sSome life is more important than others (humans vs bacteria for example).
s/grandure/grandeur
Hey, anything CBS reports may be false but it's still accurate.
<delusion type="of grandure">
<signoff>
Courage
</signoff>
</delusion>
We'll all find out later in life when we're 40 and slobbering all over ourselves and mumbling incoherent nothings.
You're new around here aren't you?
You can account for everyone by making your API *extensible* which MS.NET not. They have difficulty designing abstract APIs. They should steal more from Java2.
.NET developer btw.
This is coming from a
Afganistan: Outside Kandahar mostly ruled by loal warlords, whose loyality is really doubtfull. Law and order has not been restored in Afganistan after the fall of the Taliban rule
Are you fucking insane? Where do you get that idea from? I'm not saying that the country is perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than it was 3 years ago. Most of the country outside Kandahar is NOT ruled by warlords unless you consider governers (who are supportive of the government), many of whom are or were military leaders 'warlords'.
Iraq: Daily reports of wounded or killed American soldiers, especially since the official war ended. An undisclosed, but very high, number of civilian casualities. Some humanitarian organisations estimates this to be over 100.000 individuals.
ROFL. Please link to the humantiarian organisation that still claims such a number. The 120,000 number has generally been discredited. They estimated it based on
'reported civilian deaths' and guestimated for provinces for which they had no data.
Rest of the world: More people hates the USA than before Bush took office. In many parts of the world, the us is no longer seen as the leader of the free world or the big idol, to whom other countries can look up to. This is especially true among the closest allies of the United States, such as Germany and France.
Gee maybe it's a problem with france and their close ties with Saddam
For instance, Germany has been a very close ally to the US in more than 50 years, and has followed the US through thick and thin. Now the Germans put the foot down, but the US isn't listening.
WEST GERMANY was a close ally because American soldier (you know, the evil baby killers) defended them from communism fo 40 years.
And what the hell is your (and the rest of slashdot's) obssession with popularity anyway? This isn't fucking high school.
And to all the military-centric folks: No, a great big military doesn't help, because you are not fighting an organized army
WTF? So numbers don't help because you're not fighting an organised army? WTF? Perhaps they should reduce troop numbers to 3?
At a first glance, that might look reasonable; however, once you start to get a lot of songs (and you start to approach RAND_MAX), it will skew your result in favor of low-ID songs.
Not only that but if num_songs isn't a prime number then you will get an uneven skew towards certain songs.
recognizing the true aggressor
Perhaps it would help to recognise that there is no true aggressor.
It's actually a bitmap (not a jpeg) and DIBs store the image upside down.
Ironic that most slashdotters are anti-capitalist leftist but when it comes to toys such as these (which wouldn't have been developed with the pace they are without capitalism), they seem to forget their hip and "progressive" ideals.
No you're not dead on. You've bought up idea that's by no means unoriginal and by your own admission would not be easy to do. You used the fact that they could target certain *proteins* on the *surface* of the cell to somehow imply and project your alarmist illusion that they could somehow now just target certain *ethnically distinct* *genes* *inside* the cell.
I still can't get the Nvidia driver utilities off, but MS is not to blame in that case.
Display Properties -> Settings -> Advanced -> nView -> GeForce4 (next to device settings) -> Desktop Utilities -> Display the QuickTweak icon in the taskbar.
Yes and 1+1=2
Please mod me informative now!
Exactly: the reason they bought Connectix, not VMWare, was that Microsoft and Connectix are both nine letter: they wouldn't need to deal with any pesky offset differences when they did a global search and replace...
Are you saying they didn't get source code for their money and have to do search and replace on binaries?
Just one example is your "tablet" device won't have an acive digitizer that lets you handwrite with your palm/hand resting on the screen at the same time. It uses a touch panel which is unsuitable for handwriting.
Are you saying a Tablet PC is only a tablet PC if it runs XP ? It sounds funny.
Yes. I'm not saying other devices aren't "tablets-type devices" but they aren't "tablet pcs" which are usually totally different beasts and give a totally different user experience.
Like I said, it would be like comparing Pocket PCs with Palm devices. They are similar but totally different when you use them.
I would suggest that you go to a store and test out a real tablet pc to see what they can really do.
The Bluepad isn't a tablet pc and if your Tablet PC came with Windows CE.NET it isn't a tablet.
Tablet PCs have specific specifications such as active digitizers that only respond to pens (important for handwriting) and they need to run Windows XP Tablet PC edition for the amazing handwriting recognition.
It's understandable that people get tablet pcs confused cause there's quite a market out there for slate style devices now.
The blueslate isn't any more a tablet pc than a palm pilot is a pocket pc. They may look the same but they're different beasts close up.
Tablets one pretty darn good for writing emails and Slashdot posts (like this one) while sitting on the couch or a bean bag.
I have an NEC litepad pad which is just over a cm thick and about the size of a magazine. I use it almost exclusively for web browsing.
Tablets are also great for note taking and brain storming. Imagine being able to take handwritten notes and diagrams where all the text is searchable (even if it has been written on an angle).
IMHO, the form factor and amazing handwriting recognition are the two killer features of slate tablets.
Try not to think of a tablet as a notebook replacement (they're too low spec for that). Input is definitely slower but you can do it anywhere, even while lying in bed or whilst slouching on a bean bag.
My advice to anyone wanting a tablet is to get a slate (not a convertable) and make sure it comes with windows XP tablet PC edition. Anything else and you'll probably wonder what the point is.
FYI, tablet pc was the top search item in Froogle for 2004. 2005 may be the year of the tablet.