Windows 95 had this thing called a Start Menu which allowed all your applications to be grouped in one place completely seperately from their installation directories? This is something that MacOS didn't have until quite recently. Ever hear of the Apple Menu? It's been around for a long, long time. All Apps can be aliased there.
Windows World - Windows with all the compatible stuff to make it run yesteryear software. Windows Beyond - Windows, smaller, faster, lighter with NO legacy support. It's not going to happen. Which is a damn shame. What is going to happen (my glass ball predicts), is that Windows 7 is going to be more of the same bloat. Think about it... Now the hardware/software conspiracy is to go multi-core and 64bit. No-one in their right mind at MS is going to produce a cut down kernel type basic os. Instead they're going to add so much junk that in Dec 2009, we'll all have to throw our LCDs out, buy a touch screen and run at least 8gb ram on a quad core box. It's going to get a lot worse than it is better. The only hope is that XP in some form is going to survive thanks to Atom.
You imply and interesting point that I've been thinking about for a while, and that is that computer evolution has gone down the wrong path. What we have today is not the computer future I had hoped. Now it seems to be very restrictive. Whether it was the death (lack of support) of Hypercard, Logo, AD/DA RS323 programming languages, has made the computer a 'user tool', pre-defined push and pull style comms machine. I think it could have been so much better.
you may return it to your place of purchase for a full refund,..... if applicable. Just means that the EULA refers to a machine bundled with the MS os but you didn't buy it, it is part of a multiple licence agreement etc.
There was an interesting book on cryptography which I loaned to a friend, that surmised that the law of cryptography which state that every code can be broken is now defunct due to quantum cryptography. This in effect means that the science of cryptography has met its end in terms of development. Like the game of checkers, there are no more moves to make. At the time of publication (2002?), the longest distance an encrypted quantum message sent and received was approximately 50kms and considered to be impossible to break.
Jacard Loom cards are data, not code. Even though I said before that it is debatable that Jaquard looms are computers, I'll still contend your statement. There is a warf and weave as well as the data. There are also colour selections as well. The punch card in this case is programmed to select when and where each colour is to be picked up from a spool and used in the weft, warp or weave. In a 3 colour pattern, a simple code would be similar to:
Position = 0 to End Color A If 1 then weave: Next position Color B If 1 then weave: Next position Color C If 1 then weave: Next position New Card End
Obviously if there is no hole then there is no thread and a gap is formed as in embroidery. They are branch instructions. So the punch card does contain the data and code. The machine itself operates with many of these cards, enough to make a repeating pattern after which it is reloaded to make continuous fabric.
You could actually make punch cards that add 1 + 1 and display the result on a piece of textile.
Believe it or not, the Jaquard Loom - 1801 (which is still in operation today), is the oldest known powered, programmable 'computer'. It's output is not text or numeration, but textile. If there is a hole (or binary 1), it allows thread to go through. So it is digital and not an analog computer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard It is debatable if it is a computer, but the original post wanted to know about code running today. Well the code is there as punch cards. Each set of cards can make a particular pattern in textiles. Copies of the code still run today. Also, Babbage wanted to use a similar punch card system to program his engines. Now if we are talking analog computing 'code' then that is a different story.:) It's all there folks!
lol I can see it now.... 2011: New apps and games only come in 30 bit. So now we need to upgrade from 24 bit to 30 bit. The die-hard 24 bit-ters are holding out with their defunct copies of XP and DirectX9. Even Ubuntu's Zulu Zygote now has full 30 bit support.....
Hey! There was nothing wrong with VGA was there? I mean Dukem Nukem v 1.0 was playable.....
Great stuff! Mind you, I played WIZBALL on a C64 for months... But seriously, all of this is new to me. I keep thinking that you guys play table tennis in a tent somewhere in the desert between bullets. I suppose that's old school thinking. Thanks for the enlightenment.
I know I'm missing something here. Whatever brain cells I have left aren't firing properly, BUT: WTF are US troops playing video games on? Laptops? Pay a few $ at an Iraqi internet cafe? Also, what kind of minimal system requirement do these new EA games need to run and can military issue hardware cope with it all? Are they running XP or Vista or their own custom OS? The reason for why EA is doing this as reported seems to be a con. Just doesn't make sense
Chief among the voices in opposition to this measure were members of the armed forces ???
But Earth DOES have a 2nd moon. It is called Anoolios, a dark fragment and has already been documented from Persian folk history. Just because NASA can't find it, doesn't mean that it doesn't exist!
That's something I've not considered... Where the hell can you buy pornstars? I mean how much are they worth? Do you have to feed them??? More info pls.
Thanks for the info. I'm a bit pissed off that there's no IE7 as some builds require it. Even though I'm pushing Firefox on some of the installs, it would of been nice to have.
Must agree with you. But much of the problem are empty 'user reviews' that these shopbot pages encode, so Google thinks that it's worthy of inclusion. Frankly, there are a few other annoying bugs. Hopefully they'll be fixed one day. Annoyingly, a lot of other search engines are 'google powered' and have the same faults.
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Windows Beyond - Windows, smaller, faster, lighter with NO legacy support. It's not going to happen. Which is a damn shame. What is going to happen (my glass ball predicts), is that Windows 7 is going to be more of the same bloat.
Think about it... Now the hardware/software conspiracy is to go multi-core and 64bit. No-one in their right mind at MS is going to produce a cut down kernel type basic os. Instead they're going to add so much junk that in Dec 2009, we'll all have to throw our LCDs out, buy a touch screen and run at least 8gb ram on a quad core box. It's going to get a lot worse than it is better.
The only hope is that XP in some form is going to survive thanks to Atom.
You imply and interesting point that I've been thinking about for a while, and that is that computer evolution has gone down the wrong path.
What we have today is not the computer future I had hoped.
Now it seems to be very restrictive. Whether it was the death (lack of support) of Hypercard, Logo, AD/DA RS323 programming languages, has made the computer a 'user tool', pre-defined push and pull style comms machine. I think it could have been so much better.
uhh... Fembots? (keeping with the theme).
Yeah, well I'm still waiting for someone to clean my telephone....
Stop the service then disable it in msconfig. Works for me. :)
There was an interesting book on cryptography which I loaned to a friend, that surmised that the law of cryptography which state that every code can be broken is now defunct due to quantum cryptography.
This in effect means that the science of cryptography has met its end in terms of development.
Like the game of checkers, there are no more moves to make.
At the time of publication (2002?), the longest distance an encrypted quantum message sent and received was approximately 50kms and considered to be impossible to break.
There is a warf and weave as well as the data. There are also colour selections as well. The punch card in this case is programmed to select when and where each colour is to be picked up from a spool and used in the weft, warp or weave.
In a 3 colour pattern, a simple code would be similar to:
Position = 0 to End
Color A
If 1 then weave: Next position
Color B
If 1 then weave: Next position
Color C
If 1 then weave: Next position
New Card
End
Obviously if there is no hole then there is no thread and a gap is formed as in embroidery.
They are branch instructions. So the punch card does contain the data and code. The machine itself operates with many of these cards, enough to make a repeating pattern after which it is reloaded to make continuous fabric.
You could actually make punch cards that add 1 + 1 and display the result on a piece of textile.
Believe it or not, the Jaquard Loom - 1801 (which is still in operation today), is the oldest known powered, programmable 'computer'. It's output is not text or numeration, but textile. :)
If there is a hole (or binary 1), it allows thread to go through. So it is digital and not an analog computer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard
It is debatable if it is a computer, but the original post wanted to know about code running today.
Well the code is there as punch cards. Each set of cards can make a particular pattern in textiles. Copies of the code still run today.
Also, Babbage wanted to use a similar punch card system to program his engines.
Now if we are talking analog computing 'code' then that is a different story.
It's all there folks!
For whoever orchestrated that, would you all please stop droning on and on!
Geez I know I'm highly strung, but this is the pits!
lol I can see it now....
2011: New apps and games only come in 30 bit. So now we need to upgrade from 24 bit to 30 bit.
The die-hard 24 bit-ters are holding out with their defunct copies of XP and DirectX9. Even Ubuntu's Zulu Zygote now has full 30 bit support.....
Hey! There was nothing wrong with VGA was there?
I mean Dukem Nukem v 1.0 was playable.....
Great stuff!
Mind you, I played WIZBALL on a C64 for months...
But seriously, all of this is new to me. I keep thinking that you guys play table tennis in a tent somewhere in the desert between bullets. I suppose that's old school thinking.
Thanks for the enlightenment.
If your calculations are correct then Texas is 32.687 times the size of Wales in case you are from the UK.
WTF are US troops playing video games on? Laptops?
Pay a few $ at an Iraqi internet cafe?
Also, what kind of minimal system requirement do these new EA games need to run and can military issue hardware cope with it all? Are they running XP or Vista or their own custom OS?
The reason for why EA is doing this as reported seems to be a con. Just doesn't make sense Chief among the voices in opposition to this measure were members of the armed forces ???
But Earth DOES have a 2nd moon. It is called Anoolios, a dark fragment and has already been documented from Persian folk history.
Just because NASA can't find it, doesn't mean that it doesn't exist!
That's something I've not considered... Where the hell can you buy pornstars?
I mean how much are they worth?
Do you have to feed them???
More info pls.
Not to mention all the additional ones caused by space debris, tiny meteors, even bigger meteors, alien spaceships and really, really big meteors.
Thanks for the info. I'm a bit pissed off that there's no IE7 as some builds require it. Even though I'm pushing Firefox on some of the installs, it would of been nice to have.
I think that it is still going to cause problems. My local computer mag site already has it as a download and will prolly be on their next cover disk: http://www.pcauthority.com.au/Download/109499,microsoft-windows-xp-service-pack-3.aspx
But as someone else pointed out, not many who run Dynamics will ever bother to do a manual update.
Must agree with you. But much of the problem are empty 'user reviews' that these shopbot pages encode, so Google thinks that it's worthy of inclusion.
Frankly, there are a few other annoying bugs. Hopefully they'll be fixed one day. Annoyingly, a lot of other search engines are 'google powered' and have the same faults.
Thank you! I was hoping for a full body shot...
Her site: http://www.sallyknyvette.co.uk/actingshowreel.php?scheme=brown has a 5 min compilation vid which contains a few secs of her in a black swimsuit still looking gorgeous.
The Blonde was very hot (forgot name). Servalan was a bit too mature and thin for my tastes....
All it is is changing pixels. After all, it's still a 2D screen that displays as a bitmap. Sometimes a step backwards is valuable too.
Yeah sure. But don't tell anyone :)