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Ok. Longhorn... cattle... hayfield.
Why is that even noteworthy? (he asks Mr. Nice Guy).
Why is that even noteworthy? (he asks Mr. Nice Guy).
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it's so funny i forgot to laugh.
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I shouldn't have to tell you, youOriginally posted by JohnT
Ok. Longhorn... cattle... hayfield.
Why is that even noteworthy? (he asks Mr. Nice Guy).
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Azazel figured it out. Just keep looking at the freakin' pic until you get it! 
HAVE A DAY.
<--- Quote by Former U.S. President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
"And there will be strange events in the skies--signs in the sun, moon, and stars. And down here on earth the nations will be in turmoil, perplexed by the roaring seas and strange tides. The courage of many people will falter because of the fearful fate they see coming upon the earth, because the stability of the very heavens will be broken up. Then everyone will see the Son of Man arrive on the clouds with power and great glory. So when all these things begin to happen, stand straight and look up, for your salvation is near!" --Luke 21:25-28
For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the call of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, all the Christians who have died will rise from their graves. Then, together with them, we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and remain with him forever. --1 Thessalonians 4:16-17Comment
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it's still not that funny.B♭3Comment
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I'd simply describe it as not funny, and be over with it.
Sorry Mr. Nice Guy, try again.
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Color me clueless but I'm totally missing it.Originally posted by Mr. Nice Guy
I shouldn't have to tell you, you! Azazel figured it out. Just keep looking at the freakin' pic until you get it!
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I read up a bit on Longhorn the other day, but i can't say im 100% whats new about it. Noticed it seems to be using some hybrid XML intergated with .NET/C# .. but not sure to the extent of this , id heard a long way back that they were removing the WinXX environment and replacing it with some kind of .NET kernal ???? But im not at all convinced by that.
Id always thought it was Win64 (using WOW to run 32bit apps) and came with .NET installed, and has some extra wizzy XML based script ??
Any more to it ??"Wherever wood floats, you will find the British" . NapoleonComment
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And I thought physics jokes were bad.
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longhorn's the next version.
uses ntfs file system, but changes the way you store files. gone are the directories (well, folders these days) of ages past. you're going to be able to search them as you would a database.
you've got a new programming system. instead of having the piss-poor win32 api, you're getting a brand-new clean winfx api. unfortunately, rather than being direct hooks into the os, like win32, winfx will be managed code--meaning that there's going to be an added layer of separation between the program and the kernel.
there's also supposed to be a brand new graphics engine, which will do to windows what quartz did to osx.B♭3Comment
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Guess you'll just stay clueless.Originally posted by JohnT
Color me clueless but I'm totally missing it.
HAVE A DAY.
<--- Quote by Former U.S. President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
"And there will be strange events in the skies--signs in the sun, moon, and stars. And down here on earth the nations will be in turmoil, perplexed by the roaring seas and strange tides. The courage of many people will falter because of the fearful fate they see coming upon the earth, because the stability of the very heavens will be broken up. Then everyone will see the Son of Man arrive on the clouds with power and great glory. So when all these things begin to happen, stand straight and look up, for your salvation is near!" --Luke 21:25-28
For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the call of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, all the Christians who have died will rise from their graves. Then, together with them, we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and remain with him forever. --1 Thessalonians 4:16-17Comment
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uses ntfs file system, but changes the way you store files. gone are the directories (well, folders these days) of ages past. you're going to be able to search them as you would a database.
How do you get rid of directories?Comment
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Color me clueless but I'm totally missing it.
Longhorn... bull... Longhorn... bull
Help, John?
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How do you get rid of directories?
you don't. you make it invisible to the user, though. the way storage is to work, at least according to them, is going to be a filesystem similar to the linux project "storage".
one uses metadata, stores it in a database. the sytem itself sorts the files to wherever they go, but when a person looks for a file, it runs a query on the system.
whatever the query returns...
that's how they plan on speeding up document, image, video, and music searches.B♭3Comment
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So I'll still see a nice directory stucture?Comment
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The familiar Explorer directoy structure will exist in Longhorn, but it's a "secondary" mechinism to the WinFS method.
As for Avalon doing what Quartz did to OS X, that's somewhat misleading -- Quartz is hardware accelerated, but it's not fully 3D like Avalon.
Windows are merely textures in Avalon, the desktop is stored in the GPU RAM, and vertex/pixel shading (DX9) can be done on all Windows.
Quartz is extremely primitive in comparison."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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