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[Harbinger]

I was reading in Software Colloquium today and came across this thread, in which MWNH says this:

[Jeremy Reimer]

Remember that MWNH stated (and refused to admit he was wrong) that Windows 9x had no memory protection OR pre-emptive multitasking.



If Infopop's search function actually worked, I'd find the thread. It was last year sometime I think. Win9x has limited memory protection, it's true, but it's TOTALLY WRONG to say that it has no memory protection. Win32 apps are fully protected from other Win32 apps. And saying that it has no PMT was just...

But again, this is MWNH we're talking about here, the man who thinks PCs are just "toys" for "PC bunnies" and Real Men use Big Iron.
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[Madan]

A. XP es MUCHO mas bonito que 2k.

B. Win 98 no tiene memoria protejida completa. Win 98, por admitencia de Microsoft tiene memoria protejida "parcial" y, ni la mayoria de la memoria tiene guardia effectiva.

C. MWNH tiene much dinero y puede comprar un Apple Cube si quiere...

D. Ciao.

<j>
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[Harbinger]

Had I retained any of my HS Spanish, I might have been able to comprehend anything after the first sentence. Well, I understand the first half of C but my vocabulary no longer includes the verb "puede."

And shouldn't D be "adios" instead?



Vaya con cajones.
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I heard that even small amounts of smam are highly unstable. Like anti-matter, only with polka dots. -- Mord

I don't make up rumors, I just falsify them. -- HitScan

Pentium-M eats G4 alive so quickly that the G4 is still breathing when the P-M shits it out. End of story. -- Hat Monster

[FondueDaredevil]

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[Magus]

Why are you surprised? That quote is typical MWNH arrogant ignorance.
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<Paolo|Work> anything that has to do with Java is by definition stupid

1 The Network is my domain, I shall not want; 2 though it makes me wait upon collision, it leads me to the Internet; 3 it restores my connection. It leads me in paths of hypertext transfer for google's sake. 4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of power failures, I fear no data corruption; for backups art with me; thy UPS and thy status light, they comfort me. 5 Thou preparest a firewall before me in the presence of my enemies; thou anointest my CD-R with BurnProof, my buffer never underflows. 6 Surely good deals and pr0n shall follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the Datacenter for ever.
-HitScan

Wilde is a 4' chinese man in a bright pink tutu, lime green pimp hat with peacock feathers, and a purple feather boa, wearing tissue stuffed snakeskin combat boots, holding a gun bigger than he is, smoking a cigarette in the parking garage, trying to look menacing while pouting and head banging to Godsmack I stand alone

[jdsmith575]

Here's a nice one:
"UNIX and Linux are the same thing." - my roommate

I gave him a severe beating and am now in county.
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[Madan]

In many South/Central/Caribean-Spanish-speaking nations(as well as parts of Spain), "ciao" can mean "hello" or "goodbye".

Hello, sometimes is also known as "cubo", like in Cuba.

Which, frighteningly enough, sounds like "cube".

I'll let you draw your own conclusions...
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[Magus]

jdsmith:
Linux is a unix-like OS, according to the Penguins.

Madan:
I thought "ciao" was Italian?
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<Paolo|Work> anything that has to do with Java is by definition stupid

1 The Network is my domain, I shall not want; 2 though it makes me wait upon collision, it leads me to the Internet; 3 it restores my connection. It leads me in paths of hypertext transfer for google's sake. 4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of power failures, I fear no data corruption; for backups art with me; thy UPS and thy status light, they comfort me. 5 Thou preparest a firewall before me in the presence of my enemies; thou anointest my CD-R with BurnProof, my buffer never underflows. 6 Surely good deals and pr0n shall follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the Datacenter for ever.
-HitScan

Wilde is a 4' chinese man in a bright pink tutu, lime green pimp hat with peacock feathers, and a purple feather boa, wearing tissue stuffed snakeskin combat boots, holding a gun bigger than he is, smoking a cigarette in the parking garage, trying to look menacing while pouting and head banging to Godsmack I stand alone

[Jeremy Reimer]

[jdsmith575]

"Linux is a unix-like OS" <> "UNIX and Linux are the same thing."

And then I bitch slapped him.
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I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are.
"I can tell that you're a renaissance man... and by that I mean a sissy." - Scott Adams
"Gold Bond works wonders though, it's like 1000 fairies blowing on your nuts." - Short Bus Driver
"I learned something really important in college today. I don't want to be there." - King of the Hill

[longmarch]

[Harbinger]

Back OT:

I read today where RiscRocket claimed that OSX is a brand new OS written from scratch.

Some Mac users responded with, essentially, "WTF are you talking about?"



I'm back momentarily from my 'net sabbatical. May be back after the weekend.
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Gaah. I don’t tend to bother about slashdot, because quite frankly, the whole _point_ of slashdot is to have this big public wanking session with people getting together and making their own “insightful” comment on any random topic, whether they know anything about it or not. -- Linus Torvalds, 20 Aug 2005

I heard that even small amounts of smam are highly unstable. Like anti-matter, only with polka dots. -- Mord

I don't make up rumors, I just falsify them. -- HitScan

Pentium-M eats G4 alive so quickly that the G4 is still breathing when the P-M shits it out. End of story. -- Hat Monster

[Thundar]

Yay!
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[Jeremy Reimer]

[Madan]

I have a question. Parts of OSX are built off of Nix, to be sure.

Is Aqua new or recycled, though? It's new right?

And another question: I've noticed that MS XP's GDI+ doesn't have vector support for images, like X. It seems to be more of a traditional OS UI, ala 2k with ClearType grafted on top. Is this true?

Thanks.
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Lovin' Mely.

[Jeremy Reimer]

Bits of Aqua are new. The bitmaps are new (the sort of thing I can duplicate in 5 minutes in Photoshop) Transparencies, shadows, etc were added. The user interface was changed from Rhapsody.

If we're talking Quartz, the display layer was changed from Display Postcript to Display PDF, which involved a rewrite to avoid Adobe proprietary code. Postcript and PDF are virtually identical-- this was a clever thing done by Adobe to leverage their enormous Postcript investment in the new web world.

Obviously there was quite a lot of work put into turning Openstep into OSX. However, there was even more work put into turning Windows NT 3.1 into Windows XP. A lot more.

Windows XP is NT 5.1, although I would have called it 5.5 or even 6.0.

OSX is, if anything, Openstep 6.2 for PPC. Openstep was always designed to be able to add on different APIs, although until OSX they always stuck with the same NeXTstep one, which is now called Cocoa even if all the API calls do still begin with NS. Adding Carbon was just a matter of adding a new API based loosely on the old crappy MacOS one(easy to do given the structure of Openstep/OSX) and Classic is just a big fat emulator running a copy of OS9 in a window.
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"Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries."
-- Carl Sagan

"Its not a rule. Its just something I noticed. Several of us have more than one sig." - Mord

"No, you are a troll, and I should have never let you back to Ars in after the first 16,000 bannings." - Caesar, to He Who Shall Not Be Named

[Harbinger]