The classic shell in Windows 7 is a theme built atop of Windows 7's non-aero UI. It's dimensions are all wrong, it doesn't line up with anything properly. Spacing/margins/padding are all off by enough to make it bastard ugly. The Classic Shell that was included in Vista was leaps and bounds better because it was actually a classic shell that followed all the old dimensioning rules. There are enough parts that are totally skipped over when dealing with the classic theme that it hardly makes it worth using anymore (all the good parts of the simple theme were stomped on by the "theme" aspect of it.)
The fact that a low end GPU can handle Aero makes me wonder why they couldn't handle the simplified version better. It almost feels like non-GPU was deliberately made as ugly and unworkable as all sin.
I am a minimalist at home anyway so the Aero task bar up on the secondary monitor with Steam as the only thing I really use on that machine makes the whole Windows interface moot anyway. It was a bastard to setup, but after I got everything out of the way I can get back to doing what I need it for.
I guess that really depends on what you use your computer for. Adding that to a PC mainly used to look at porn would make it a more powerful machine for some folks.
Interestingly enough, I noticed no speed difference between Windows XP and Windows 7 except that now Windows 7 wanted me to use my GPU for fancy stuff and if I turned it off, the whole UI felt sluggish, looked terrible, and wasn't at all faster than the good old Win2K looking XP Classic shell.
But not a majority of guns are used in violent crime.
* Roughly 7% of all violent crime in 2008 involved a firearm... ( http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/glance/percentfirearm.cfm ) * Number of violent crimes in the US in 2008 - 1,392,628 ( http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm ) * Quick math: 97483.96... let's say 98,000 * there were over 4 million firearms manufactured in the US 2008 (4,152,082)... this does not include manufactures outside the US. * there were about 3.8 million produced in 2007
That's 2.4%-2.5% of guns produced (just of the US made guns, so this is a high estimate) being used for crime.
True, that's the way VHS tapes used to work. I specifically remember one of the rental stores stating that they needed to buy a $99 version of some movie and couldn't buy the version everyone else got even though it was the same movie but it had a different colored spool or something ridiculous.
Free/Open source can and does pay the bills for many people. Also, I'd love to see free and open designs in the automotive industry. We might actually have competitively priced top end cars for the middle class. I'd bet you might actually have real third party support form that as well instead of relying on OEM parts for everything.
While an entertaining post, one could speculate that building a spinning computer should not actually be that hard these days. You probably couldn't use spinning hard drives but SSD should work fine. Power could easily be supplied with some bushings. The hardest part would be video out, but I think there are high speed wireless video solutions. If not, you may be able to get away with bushings for this as well but your contact area has to be pretty consistent. The rest of the system could be wireless (keyboard, mouse, etc.)
Sure, but if you start up a profit corporation int he US and start pulling in money hand over fist for loaning out books, I'm sure you'll quickly find yourself in court fighting over the rights to loan out full copies of Harry Potter in no time short. Fair Use or not. Some publisher will find a way to justify that your distribution within a club like environment violates their copyright and they want a "nominal" fee for each book loaned out.
I'm fairly certain they were talking about "for profit" libraries. (IE: Corporately run institutions.) University libraries benefit quite a bit from having a library in non-monetary methods but if you were to set up a corporation to run libraries I see no reason why you could not make a profit (eg: Netflix) from a privatized for-profit company. Of course, you lose quite a few "customers" by instituting a Netflix like fee system but you could charge a nominal insurance fee on each book loaned and recover the cost fairly quick. The nice thing about a monthly fee/club status is that the person is far less likely to hold onto the book indefinitely since a non-return means they cannot loan out another book until that one is returned. The one nice thing about a library is that they can index your account by your drivers license so it's harder for you to create a new account to get free stuff.
To be fair, if libraries were privatized, the publishing companies would force them to sign licensing deals and other such nonsense to further bolster their own pockets at the expense of the library. That's the only real reason private libraries could not make money.
It doesn't matter what (s)he buys with that extra $15k... it produces jobs to make the goods that they bought. Granted, those jobs may be Chinese jobs depending on what they are buying, but that's not for you to decide for the person making the money.
I'm sorry, how is a closure handled differently than those languages?
Sure, there's some shorthand involved in certain languages and closures ( {x, y => x + y} ) but Python closures and JavaScript closures are almost identical in shape/form/function:
Python:
def makeInc(x):
def inc(y):
return y + x
return inc inc5 = makeInc(5) inc10 = makeInc(10)
JavaScript:
function makeInc(x) {
return function(y) {
return y + x;
} } inc5 = makeInc(5); inc10 = makeInc(10);
Unfortunately, here in the US I can imagine some people still putting their cars in reverse because they missed their exit. I see it all too often around here because it's apparently too difficult to go up to the next exit and return. They fly over to the shoulder, drop it in reverse and try to squeeze back into the exit lane they missed.
I thought patents were issued to people that work at said company, not the company themselves. How can you auction off something that belongs to a former employee?
Also, why is this happening? If the company owns said patent, shouldn't that patent be null and/or become common when said company closes doors?
That's the problem here, though... they're not saying "There are no more monsters in your closet." They're saying "A monster could jump out at any moment, and only *we* can keep you safe!"
Of course, that gives them control. If we citizens were allowed to protect ourselves at all times there would be no way to control us. As it is now you can't really open carry a weapon without being harassed by officials and people and you have to get special permission to conceal a weapon so they have a method and means to dictate who can protect themselves and a registry of those people that do. The control here is now in their hands that you are now afraid of them taking away your right to carry, permanently, if you do something wrong.
That's because there is a serious dumbing-down of the entire US population. Many of them can't even find or identify the capitol of their own state now
Irony or intent?
Honestly though, you have to wonder what would happen if kids were actually taught about our history, the reasons, and the people that got us here today in a school building that they don't feel ashamed to go to for fear of a brick falling on their head.
MS is still a powerhouse, a huge unglamorous and un-sexy powerhouse.
Like a sumo wrestler... there is an overzealous crowd who caters to their every need bathing them in rose petals while the majority of the world couldn't care less. When they move they push up against someone instead of working with them. It has to be done on their side of the ring. Ask them to run an agility course and they try to plow through the challenges knocking them all down or they include them in their meal rotation.
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The pursuit of happiness I think... oh wait, that's not an enumerated power.
The classic shell in Windows 7 is a theme built atop of Windows 7's non-aero UI. It's dimensions are all wrong, it doesn't line up with anything properly. Spacing/margins/padding are all off by enough to make it bastard ugly. The Classic Shell that was included in Vista was leaps and bounds better because it was actually a classic shell that followed all the old dimensioning rules. There are enough parts that are totally skipped over when dealing with the classic theme that it hardly makes it worth using anymore (all the good parts of the simple theme were stomped on by the "theme" aspect of it.)
The fact that a low end GPU can handle Aero makes me wonder why they couldn't handle the simplified version better. It almost feels like non-GPU was deliberately made as ugly and unworkable as all sin.
I am a minimalist at home anyway so the Aero task bar up on the secondary monitor with Steam as the only thing I really use on that machine makes the whole Windows interface moot anyway. It was a bastard to setup, but after I got everything out of the way I can get back to doing what I need it for.
I guess that really depends on what you use your computer for. Adding that to a PC mainly used to look at porn would make it a more powerful machine for some folks.
Interestingly enough, I noticed no speed difference between Windows XP and Windows 7 except that now Windows 7 wanted me to use my GPU for fancy stuff and if I turned it off, the whole UI felt sluggish, looked terrible, and wasn't at all faster than the good old Win2K looking XP Classic shell.
Duh, backgrounds are terribly complicated. It literally took everything in Windows 95's power to render that thing.
But not a majority of guns are used in violent crime.
* Roughly 7% of all violent crime in 2008 involved a firearm... ( http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/glance/percentfirearm.cfm ) ... let's say 98,000 ... this does not include manufactures outside the US.
* Number of violent crimes in the US in 2008 - 1,392,628 ( http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm )
* Quick math: 97483.96
* there were over 4 million firearms manufactured in the US 2008 (4,152,082)
* there were about 3.8 million produced in 2007
That's 2.4%-2.5% of guns produced (just of the US made guns, so this is a high estimate) being used for crime.
True, that's the way VHS tapes used to work. I specifically remember one of the rental stores stating that they needed to buy a $99 version of some movie and couldn't buy the version everyone else got even though it was the same movie but it had a different colored spool or something ridiculous.
Free/Open source can and does pay the bills for many people. Also, I'd love to see free and open designs in the automotive industry. We might actually have competitively priced top end cars for the middle class. I'd bet you might actually have real third party support form that as well instead of relying on OEM parts for everything.
While an entertaining post, one could speculate that building a spinning computer should not actually be that hard these days. You probably couldn't use spinning hard drives but SSD should work fine. Power could easily be supplied with some bushings. The hardest part would be video out, but I think there are high speed wireless video solutions. If not, you may be able to get away with bushings for this as well but your contact area has to be pretty consistent. The rest of the system could be wireless (keyboard, mouse, etc.)
Sure, but if you start up a profit corporation int he US and start pulling in money hand over fist for loaning out books, I'm sure you'll quickly find yourself in court fighting over the rights to loan out full copies of Harry Potter in no time short. Fair Use or not. Some publisher will find a way to justify that your distribution within a club like environment violates their copyright and they want a "nominal" fee for each book loaned out.
I assume it means using the two services through G+ without actually going to said pages.
I believe they already got their invites...
https://plus.google.com/104560124403688998123/posts
https://plus.google.com/112063946124358686266/posts
I'm fairly certain they were talking about "for profit" libraries. (IE: Corporately run institutions.) University libraries benefit quite a bit from having a library in non-monetary methods but if you were to set up a corporation to run libraries I see no reason why you could not make a profit (eg: Netflix) from a privatized for-profit company. Of course, you lose quite a few "customers" by instituting a Netflix like fee system but you could charge a nominal insurance fee on each book loaned and recover the cost fairly quick. The nice thing about a monthly fee/club status is that the person is far less likely to hold onto the book indefinitely since a non-return means they cannot loan out another book until that one is returned. The one nice thing about a library is that they can index your account by your drivers license so it's harder for you to create a new account to get free stuff.
Yes, people write and sell books all the time and you can go to the library and read a book without having to buy one. What's your point?
To be fair, if libraries were privatized, the publishing companies would force them to sign licensing deals and other such nonsense to further bolster their own pockets at the expense of the library. That's the only real reason private libraries could not make money.
It doesn't matter what (s)he buys with that extra $15k... it produces jobs to make the goods that they bought. Granted, those jobs may be Chinese jobs depending on what they are buying, but that's not for you to decide for the person making the money.
Well, obviously... it's not capitalized so what makes it a "dirty" word? You could be referring to Zeus damning you or FSM...
I'm sorry, how is a closure handled differently than those languages?
Sure, there's some shorthand involved in certain languages and closures ( {x, y => x + y} ) but Python closures and JavaScript closures are almost identical in shape/form/function:
Python:
def makeInc(x):
def inc(y):
return y + x
return inc
inc5 = makeInc(5)
inc10 = makeInc(10)
JavaScript:
function makeInc(x) {
return function(y) {
return y + x;
}
}
inc5 = makeInc(5);
inc10 = makeInc(10);
Unfortunately, here in the US I can imagine some people still putting their cars in reverse because they missed their exit. I see it all too often around here because it's apparently too difficult to go up to the next exit and return. They fly over to the shoulder, drop it in reverse and try to squeeze back into the exit lane they missed.
Hopefully it will include drinking... otherwise your task was a waste.
At least the Slashdot pidgeoned caught on.
I thought patents were issued to people that work at said company, not the company themselves. How can you auction off something that belongs to a former employee?
Also, why is this happening? If the company owns said patent, shouldn't that patent be null and/or become common when said company closes doors?
That's the problem here, though... they're not saying "There are no more monsters in your closet." They're saying "A monster could jump out at any moment, and only *we* can keep you safe!"
Of course, that gives them control. If we citizens were allowed to protect ourselves at all times there would be no way to control us. As it is now you can't really open carry a weapon without being harassed by officials and people and you have to get special permission to conceal a weapon so they have a method and means to dictate who can protect themselves and a registry of those people that do. The control here is now in their hands that you are now afraid of them taking away your right to carry, permanently, if you do something wrong.
That's because there is a serious dumbing-down of the entire US population. Many of them can't even find or identify the capitol of their own state now
Irony or intent?
Honestly though, you have to wonder what would happen if kids were actually taught about our history, the reasons, and the people that got us here today in a school building that they don't feel ashamed to go to for fear of a brick falling on their head.
MS is still a powerhouse, a huge unglamorous and un-sexy powerhouse.
Like a sumo wrestler... there is an overzealous crowd who caters to their every need bathing them in rose petals while the majority of the world couldn't care less. When they move they push up against someone instead of working with them. It has to be done on their side of the ring. Ask them to run an agility course and they try to plow through the challenges knocking them all down or they include them in their meal rotation.