Posts by tclicot

Get whimsical and win a Western Digital Black 6TB hard drive

Good Evening Ladies and Germs...

Is that a banana in your pocket or...

Let's all hold hands and contact the Living...

Hello...Hello...

It’s DEJA VU: Customer forgets to tell us about essential feature AGAIN

Blighty

I lived in London in the '70s -- EVERYTHING smelled like soiled underwear...

Trips to Mars may be OFF: The SUN has changed in a way we've NEVER SEEN

Re: Nuclear

And thus, it follows, we don't EVER have much of a chance to create large, complex,COST EFFECTIVE vehicles to go beyond earth orbit/earth-system, without a colony on the Moon, where, if we assemble and launch from that platform, the "gravity well" problem is diminished to a high degree.

And maybe even the problems of water and heavy metals (if we can find or make on the Moon) for shielding and fuel and human sustainability.

Re: Nuclear

It would be IRONIC if these cycles of minimums somehow relate in an important way to MAJOR Ice Ages...

And if so, we humans, as CO2/CH4/NO..etc. emitters, SAVE the entire ecosystem from another 10-100 thousand-year ICE AGE, by additive heat conservation--only time will tell (maybe so much time that we will not be around to test that hypothesis...)

One Windows? How does that work... and WTF is a Universal App?

Shades of HAL/WIN32...

Well,

Back in the day, THAT was the platform we wrote to (and even on diff processors) and the "Win32" app that came out of the hind end of a compiler WAS a universal app...

Now, with so many different presentation UI's, what MS needs to do is get back to basics, and abstract as much of the programmatic support to a "universal OS layer", and THEN present programmers with a new kind of "Win32/64" GUI/Interop API set, with built-in provisos for different platforms (these could be compiler-driven and mostly hidden from the coder).

Forget the multitude of runtimes and "frameworks" for the first-and even second iteration, or they will mire the platform in a maze of confused dependencies.