RE: [Dev-C++] Longhorn

[Ioannis V. <iv...@at...>]

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> Of OROSZI Balazs
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 2:04 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] Longhorn
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> *You are absolutely right!*
> If THAT is low-level, what is this:
> Celeron 433MHz
> 256 MB RAM
> GeForce2 MX400 32 MB
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> Is this already junk then? I can play UT2003 with decent speed.
> Probably M$ adds this all eye-candy stuff to get people's attention.=20
> Through the time of history, it was *ALWAYS* easier to get peoples=20
> attention with *visual* beauty, rather than rational thinking...
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> Of course, this "bending" and other nonsense will cover all=20
> the security=20
> bugs, and will drive off the attention from the backdoors in=20
> Longhorn,=20
> what M$ leaves behind for himself. (Nimda not used an=20
> accidental bug -=20
> they just found the backdoor what M$ left behind for itself...)
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> I'm still using Win98, but mostly for playing. I think I will NEVER=20
> upgrade any higher. If Win98 will no longer be supported by anything,=20
> then I will move to Linux and KDE. I don't like my personal computer=20
> being watched - specially not by Microsoft...



You remind me the old days when I was talking with my friends that =
Windows
3.x/95 had nothing new to offer, and we were already doing whatever we
needed with DOS. :) Well, the truth is that indeed we are wasting a lot =
of
horsepower for graphics, icons etc. But then how less-technical-savvy* =
could
join computers and that means to get more customers?

Now with the data base file system (WinFS)  where you will not search =
for
jpgs but for "my christmas photos", or "my emails of 24/12/2003" you =
will
need more horse power so as the system to analyze your phrases, but that
will help more less-technical-savvy* to join.=20


In a technical note, as horse power increases the abstraction will =
increase
too. And this in all levels, user experience, programming apis etc.



* less-technical-savvy=3D Some people call them amusingly as "idiots".



Ioannis Vranos
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