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They didn't want Windows 9 < OS X, so they made Windows 10 == OS X.
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The best reason I have seen on the web is the following:
Quote: A rather unique one was brought forth by a reddit user, claiming to be a Microsoft dev, /u/cranbourne. The user claims that calling it 'Windows 9' would result in errors with legacy code such as this:
if(version.StartsWith("Windows 9")) { /* 95 and 98 */ } else {
Looking at that, it seems rather wild. However, another user searched for this code, and found many examples of it online -- in software designed for Windows. Looking through the search, it does seem plausible. I first saw this in the subreddit /r/ProgrammerHumor, and could not make up my mind if it was not an elaborate joke. However, actually looking at some of the code in GitHub that has variations of this check, made me realize that, somehow, this is the theory that makes the most sense.
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I read something like this on the web recently but I cannot for the life of me find it again.
Does anyone here remember such a piece? Do you happen to have the URL to hand?
Massive thanks in advance to the winner.
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There are hundreds of those. Maybe this one?
http://norvig.com/21-days.html#answers[^]
Approximately infinitely long.
edit: modify "execute typical instruction" to 0.25ns. Nontypical instructions take longer.
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Well given the typical 3GHz clock rate, everything would take 3 billion times as long than 1 hertz. So using the link above, accessing 1MB of memory would take approximately 1.9 years. And that's with no special calculations on top of it.
Jeremy Falcon
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If a CPU cycle took one second, you'd have been dead of old age before your post here was displayed. In fact, you probably would have retired before the machine responded to your click on the Post message button which, in turn, would have been initialized sometime before you were born.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Coming up.......nnnnnnnow!
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(rant-ish question)
So, naturally, I get on the internet and hop on to Microsoft[^] or to the Windows section[^].
Nothing, nada, rien, zip ...
Aren't they supposed to advertised this or do we have to search the internet to know if there will be a broadcast or some official preview/presentation somewhere ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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Its definitely not going to be broadcast. There's about 50 journalists been invited to see it.
Best bet is to find out who they are and keep an eye on what they tweet/publish shortly after the event.
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Perhaps we'd benefits from them being given nice a delousing shower?
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The problem is, you're looking for Windows 9. You should have looked for Windows 10[^] instead.
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Maybe it'll be like the new U2 album on iTunes. It'll just "show up" on your computer one day.
Jeremy Falcon
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There is no Windows 9, therefore there can be no event about it. Haven't you been paying attention? This has been discussed at great length here in the lounge.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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We all owe him an apology. He's right. They jumped straight to 10.
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Well then, my opinion of CP as the IT news source has dropped considerably.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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TTFN - Kent
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Aw, don't feel bad, my opinion dropped equally for all other news sources as well.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Maximilien wrote: Aren't they supposed to advertised this... This seemed like a dramatically premature announcement to me. Very few details provided... I'm not sure why they even held an event.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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Students in Hong Kong protesting! People in the mainland claiming they are not aware or the protest is far fetched! Hmm!
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Everyone who wants to know knows, don't worry.
The general thoughts on the protest are along the lines of "what a bunch of idiots! Whoever they get in their government will be politicians, and there's not one of those people you can trust!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's not that far-fetched.
I was listening to Radio 4 on the way home this evening and they were interviewing a young woman, on her way home from work, who knew nothing about it until a bus driver told her she would not be able to get past the protests.
Bear in mind this is a woman living in Hong Kong who had not heard of the protests until a bus driver informed her of the road blocks.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 30-Sep-14 14:02pm.
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I strolled straight into the middle of riots that had been going on for almost a whole day, a few years back.
In Birmingham.
Not everyone sits in front of the TV watching the news, all day.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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After 45 minutes of media, children's grades, sleep, social skills, and emotional balance start to decline. After four hours, only 1% of children in middle school receive A's in mathematics and English Language Arts. [^]
The Chicago Tribune's reportage included these stimulating factoids:
Parents who took part in the study reported their children used media for an average of 90 to 120 minutes per day.
"Yet when asked specific questions about the devices, the total was commonly between six and eight hours per day," write the authors.
The American Academy of Pediatrics says children spend an average of seven hours a day "on entertainment media, including televisions, computers, phones and other electronics." [^]
Not surprisingly, the "Family Habits" study a recent, and massive (plus 20K ... 50K ? ... respondents), survey of what parents report as their children's use of media correlated with "grades, sociability, and emotional well-being," ... edit ... offers further conclusive evidence that children are essentially an evil, but necessary, phase of human life ... ... end edit ... [1]
The Family Habits study site: [^]. "Results" summarized on that site: >[^].
As a former evil child myself, who grew up without television, but with my ears glued to a big radio-cabinet, listening to series like "The Shadow," I can only imagine the opportunities for creative mayhem and deviance I missed because I lived in this little all-WASP-white cocoon of post Korean war all-electric-kitchen nuclear-fallout-shelter middle-class America.
I had to take refuge in joining the math/short-wave radio geeks in my high-school, but I was a second-class member because I did not wear a pocket-protector, or a slide-rule in a case hanging off my belt.
I did, however, assist Michael Scott (future President of Apple Computer) in testing a "rocket motor" he designed that blew-up, sending two steel road-repair plates we had "borrowed" fifteen feet in the air over our test-pit, and destroying windows in several nearby houses, summoning the police. One neighbor ran from her house screaming: "We don't want another Einstein around here." This was in about 1959, I think.
If I were a parent, with young children, I probably would think seriously about the "Family Habit" study for about five minutes, and then strap my kids into restraining harnesses with the only things being in reach being water, manila paper, and crayons.
[1] content between two WTF icons is intended to be either self-referential, ironic, facetious, or an egregious misrepresentation emanating from the unpredictably demonic human nature of the writer
« I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief » Immanuel Kant
modified 30-Sep-14 14:05pm.
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