Windows 9 will be designed primarily for the 3D interface. Instead of tiles, Metro 3D will be a big pile of blocks in various primary colors. Then we can all sit in our playpen and play with our Fisher-Price blocks, the ultimate end game in the drive by Microsoft to make the desktop user friendly.
Windows 1.0 the Motion Picture: Lame. No support for the V'Ger graphics adaptor.
Windows 2.0 the Wrath of Copy Con: Good. First overlapping windows allows you to hide your ploy to drop Reliant's shields from the superior intellect.
Windows 3.1 the Search for WinSock: Lame. Program manager was clunky, the program group icons were all the same and not configurable. Look at it sideways and it crashed faster than the USS Enterprise on the Genesis planet.
Windows 4 (95) the Voyage to Start: Great. Established a GUI paradigm copied by KDE, Gnome, and many others.
Having dropped the Start Menu in the initial release, and cluttered the desktop with boring tiles, the first Windows 8 maintenance service pack will replace those tiles with a host of animated sprites. Click on the Pearly "Gates" to access the Cloud. Click on the lie detector sprite to verify your CD has been paid for using the Microsoft Trusted Customer Media Player. Click on the flying chair to register a bug report.
The thing is, the US doesn't control the Internet now. There's a US company called ICANN that governs which names resolve to IP's on the World Wide Web to keep people from walking over each other. But the WWW is only part of the Internet. Think USENET, Peer2Peer, IRC, FTP...
Yeah, the replacement to Windows 8 will bring back the Start Button. Microsoft will advertise it with a commercial featuring the Rolling Stones' song "Start Me Up".
Online advertisers should be encouraged to sign up to self-regulatory codes of conduct.
Ad buys have a built-in encouragement mechanism. You spend x dollars for an ad, and you get x+y dollars back in new revenues. Google's idea is like saying companies should be encouraged to boycott advertising in the Superbowl because the state it's being played in doesn't celebrate Martin Luther King Day. It feels good in principle, but it pisses off the shareholders.
The future isn't PCs, tablets, or phones. It's smart glasses, with blinks and eye movements replacing the mouse. Cross your eyes to zoom. We just need to make sure cars have a safety interlock so you can't drive with your smart glasses on.
Okay, it's a race, you sit there on that Windows 7 box with MP3s scattered all over the drive, round them up with your mouse and move them to this USB stick.
Reading between the lines, they found 180 countries with at least one Windows 8 phone user. The twelve or fourteen other countries that "didn't make the cut" didn't have a single user.
Fast forward to Los Angelese, November 2019. Tyrell Corporation asserts their 2010 patent for "single click" RNA transcription. A judge orders that the Genentech nanofactories keeping the subject alive have to be de-activated for patent infringement. The subject is dead before he leaves the table.
Possible solution: run your browser from a custom partition sized just big enough for the browser executables. Let it fill the rest of the way up with Internet temp files until the OS reports no more space on the drive. Then Google won't be able to store cookies, secret or no.
Newer is not better. I run Win98SE on this $35 used Compaq (running on top of DOS 7.10) and I run XP on another one for my Cakewalk music apps. I boot Puppy Linux 4.3.1 from DOS with LINLD. Chat with Mirc 5.9. Listen to tunes with Winamp 2.80. Do my budget and diet on Excel 4.0. Write stuff on Wordstar 5.5 (DOS) and make it printer-ready in Wordperfect 8 and/or Open Office. I'm happy as a clam, but I ain't making Microsoft any richer.
Computers still have hard drives. It's not completely out of the question for the government to require consumers to report how much hard drive space is utilized for media storage, and charge a $/GB tax.
Well, then, I would just take my MP3 and AVI archives, zip 'em up as an executable zip file named VeryImportantProgram.exe, and report that space utilization as application storage.
You know what they do to music these days? First of all, they use auto-tune to make it seem like Lindsey Lohan can actually stay on key, then they record the track so hot if you import it into Audacity it looks like a solid blob. All those square waves, that's clipping, but it makes the "artist" sound "edgy". When all the popular music is recorded like that, it doesn't matter if you get it at 64 kbps and listen with Dollar Store earbuds. So I go USENET for lossless, and to grab entire albums, including the cover art.
Someday some genius is going to have the bright idea of being the sole content provider who does not mine users' personal data for targeted ads. And people will sign up in droves for all the pent-up demand.
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Windows 9 will be designed primarily for the 3D interface. Instead of tiles, Metro 3D will be a big pile of blocks in various primary colors. Then we can all sit in our playpen and play with our Fisher-Price blocks, the ultimate end game in the drive by Microsoft to make the desktop user friendly.
Windows 1.0 the Motion Picture: Lame. No support for the V'Ger graphics adaptor.
Windows 2.0 the Wrath of Copy Con: Good. First overlapping windows allows you to hide your ploy to drop Reliant's shields from the superior intellect.
Windows 3.1 the Search for WinSock: Lame. Program manager was clunky, the program group icons were all the same and not configurable. Look at it sideways and it crashed faster than the USS Enterprise on the Genesis planet.
Windows 4 (95) the Voyage to Start: Great. Established a GUI paradigm copied by KDE, Gnome, and many others.
Having dropped the Start Menu in the initial release, and cluttered the desktop with boring tiles, the first Windows 8 maintenance service pack will replace those tiles with a host of animated sprites. Click on the Pearly "Gates" to access the Cloud. Click on the lie detector sprite to verify your CD has been paid for using the Microsoft Trusted Customer Media Player. Click on the flying chair to register a bug report.
The thing is, the US doesn't control the Internet now. There's a US company called ICANN that governs which names resolve to IP's on the World Wide Web to keep people from walking over each other. But the WWW is only part of the Internet. Think USENET, Peer2Peer, IRC, FTP...
United Nations: A place where dictators opposed to free speech (Castro, Putin, Ahmedinejad, Mugabe, Obama, Chavez, Kim Jong Un) demand to be heard.
Assets, including the source code to EDLIN, DOS 4.0, Bob, Windows ME, and Vista. Knock yourself out.
Yeah, the replacement to Windows 8 will bring back the Start Button. Microsoft will advertise it with a commercial featuring the Rolling Stones' song "Start Me Up".
Online advertisers should be encouraged to sign up to self-regulatory codes of conduct. Ad buys have a built-in encouragement mechanism. You spend x dollars for an ad, and you get x+y dollars back in new revenues. Google's idea is like saying companies should be encouraged to boycott advertising in the Superbowl because the state it's being played in doesn't celebrate Martin Luther King Day. It feels good in principle, but it pisses off the shareholders.
Defunding SETI would be a successful search result for intelligent life down here.
The future isn't PCs, tablets, or phones. It's smart glasses, with blinks and eye movements replacing the mouse. Cross your eyes to zoom. We just need to make sure cars have a safety interlock so you can't drive with your smart glasses on.
Are you using a unix port of Lynx? The win32 version says no support for secure login.
Ironically, Captcha is a purely GUI phenomenon.
Okay, it's a race, you sit there on that Windows 7 box with MP3s scattered all over the drive, round them up with your mouse and move them to this USB stick.
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I'll do the same thing with CMD.exe.
xcopy c:\*.mp3 g:\
del c:\*.mp3
I win!
I want justice. Next time they take away a second from the day, I want one of these "stories" to be expunged.
Reading between the lines, they found 180 countries with at least one Windows 8 phone user. The twelve or fourteen other countries that "didn't make the cut" didn't have a single user.
Fast forward to Los Angelese, November 2019. Tyrell Corporation asserts their 2010 patent for "single click" RNA transcription. A judge orders that the Genentech nanofactories keeping the subject alive have to be de-activated for patent infringement. The subject is dead before he leaves the table.
Only in states with medical marijuana laws, like this one.
Possible solution: run your browser from a custom partition sized just big enough for the browser executables. Let it fill the rest of the way up with Internet temp files until the OS reports no more space on the drive. Then Google won't be able to store cookies, secret or no.
Newer is not better. I run Win98SE on this $35 used Compaq (running on top of DOS 7.10) and I run XP on another one for my Cakewalk music apps. I boot Puppy Linux 4.3.1 from DOS with LINLD. Chat with Mirc 5.9. Listen to tunes with Winamp 2.80. Do my budget and diet on Excel 4.0. Write stuff on Wordstar 5.5 (DOS) and make it printer-ready in Wordperfect 8 and/or Open Office. I'm happy as a clam, but I ain't making Microsoft any richer.
Computers still have hard drives. It's not completely out of the question for the government to require consumers to report how much hard drive space is utilized for media storage, and charge a $/GB tax.
Well, then, I would just take my MP3 and AVI archives, zip 'em up as an executable zip file named VeryImportantProgram.exe, and report that space utilization as application storage.
Problem: You can't roll back to 7 once you start down the dark path of 8. Forever will those metro tiles dominate your destiny.
You know what they do to music these days? First of all, they use auto-tune to make it seem like Lindsey Lohan can actually stay on key, then they record the track so hot if you import it into Audacity it looks like a solid blob. All those square waves, that's clipping, but it makes the "artist" sound "edgy". When all the popular music is recorded like that, it doesn't matter if you get it at 64 kbps and listen with Dollar Store earbuds. So I go USENET for lossless, and to grab entire albums, including the cover art.
Someday some genius is going to have the bright idea of being the sole content provider who does not mine users' personal data for targeted ads. And people will sign up in droves for all the pent-up demand.
The Wizarding World better get off their ass. The Muggles are catching up to them.