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That's funny - when we were looking at Coq about, wow, 10 years ago to do some logic analysis/validation, everyone pronounced it "Coke". Well, I guess we weren't thinking about chicken, wine, garlic, olive oil and bacon, aka coq du vin. If we had, we would have known how to pronounce it.
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"Good evening Mr & Mrs Cox" said the poor sod at parent/teacher interview night.
Problem was, their daughter's name was Helena Dix.
We got to rib him for that one for an entire 'nother year after that.
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Screenshots of Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 11 operating system have appeared online today. Icon hardly wait!
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Is Microsoft stealing from Apple again!?! 
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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...both stealing originally from Xerox. So what?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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True, along with stealing the mouse. I can't stand the Apple OS and seeing that Microsoft is going in that direction just convinces me that Microsoft has run out of ideas.
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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🎶🎶🎶
Well Stevie said to Xerox
"Boys, turn your heads and cough."
And when no-one was looking
He ripped their interfaces off
Stole every feature that he had seen
Put it in a cute box with a tiny little screen
Mac OS 1 ran that machine
Only cost five thousand bucks
🎶🎶🎶
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Curved window corners! Exciting.
But what, I wonder, is the rationale for centering the task bar icons, especially the Start button. I can see no logically better-than-before reason for that (particularly the Start button) apart from "shiny, new, different".
This means that the Start button location will change depending on how many icons there are in the task bar. So you will not be able to reliably find it in the bottom left hand corner of the screen. I know that from a remote tech support perspective, this will unnecessarily complicate things. From a usability perspective it will also require a look-and-find-before-clicking process instead of automatically moving to the bottom left hand corner.
Oh well, the need to fiddle with the familiar and successful is unstoppable, it seems.
Let's hope that centred positioning of the Start button is an optional feature, rather than enforced.
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Rounded corners! The level of innovation here is just mind blowing! 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Maybe this was their takeaway from being told to fold their stuff until it's all sharp corners and shove it up their ...!@F@.bp8S#@#$$ CARRIER LOST
Software Zen: delete this;
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Cool. So everyone gets to have the old look back again..
At least the 'center all the crap on the taskbar' thing is an option..
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Centering the Start button and pinned icons is ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing stupid, assuming this is real. That means that the Start button changes position all the time. Dumb.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Stealing Apple's dock 5 years after Apple itself are turning it more and more into a Windows taskbar just makes no sense.
Are they going to add Launchpad next?
Having commonly used apps at your finger tips is great. Having them centered and having the list grow and shrink as apps are launched and closed will drive every OCD user out there bonkers. And why go to the trouble of cleaning up the taskbar if the start menu is now just a murky mess?
That's it, I'm going back to DOS.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Want an NFT of the original source code for the web? You'll soon be able to get your chance. Now you can compile your very own web
I *really* thought/hoped we were done with that whole NFT thing. /sigh
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Oh, Funge it!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Are these the original bits (using the original magnetic fields!) used to store the original copies of the files? Given that these files have been copied more than once to various media, what makes them more valuable than any other (fungible) copy of the same files?
At least with the Tulip Bubble of the 17th century, you got a tulip bulb. Here, you don't even get that!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Full Vanilla Doom Engine Runs on the RF Module of an IKEA TRÅDFRI Lamp. "Bork! Bork! Bork!"
Loads of asterisks on this one, but still pretty impressive (IMO).
Also a highlight for me was the barest mention of YMODEM. {fluttery sigh}. I miss those days.
Edit: replaced with an article about it (the original seems to have gone away)
modified 15-Jun-21 11:59am.
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That link is not working for me.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Seems to have disappeared. Replaced with an article about it.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: YMODEM
"Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time... A long time."
Software Zen: delete this;
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XModem, YModem, Oh kiddies, choke on that! 
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I see your YMODEM and I raise you Kermit 
Mircea
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I remember using command-line Kermit a long time ago. It was also one of the file transfer protocols supported by ProComm, a full-screen MS-DOS communications and terminal emulator program I used a lot back in the day.
As they say, good times .
Software Zen: delete this;
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I started telecommuting when telecommuting was not a word. ProComm with Kermit/XMODEM/YMODEM/ZMODEM was the tool of the trade to log into company's BBS at a blazing 9600 bauds.
Now I'm stuck with this 500M fiber link and drooling for 1G. Boy, aren't we spoiled!
Mircea
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