http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/ Engadget Comments for Gates and space-ace Simonyi gift $30m for giant telescope http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/
(I'm not an MS fanboy, I love OS X.)]]>Jan 5th 2008 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/...I've been wondering what it was!

And if the open source laptop idea resurrects PPC in a serious way, well, it will be interesting.
I hope it does.

...and at least Bill Gates isn't as insane as Ballmer. Still, once a monopolist, alwa--- well, we'll see, won't we?]]>Jan 6th 2008 2:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/Jan 6th 2008 3:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/Jan 5th 2008 11:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/Jan 6th 2008 1:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/Jan 6th 2008 2:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/Jan 6th 2008 3:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/Jan 6th 2008 4:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/Jan 6th 2008 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/Jan 6th 2008 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/Jan 6th 2008 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/Jan 6th 2008 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/

Ooh btw, what i was wondering, Windows Vista was build upon XP?, XP on 2000?, 2000 on NT? NT on 95 / 98? 95 on 3.x?(i always founded stuff in 95 from 3.x) Please correct me if i'm wrong, but does this mean that Windows Vista is still based of Windows 3.x that was in stores in 1990? ]]>Jan 6th 2008 5:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/
In fact, WinNT has more in common with OS/2.

As for Vista, while it wasn't 'rebuilt from scratch', it has massive changes in some of the most basic parts. Its display system is quite different now and resembles X11's display or MacOS's display manager system more than anything else.

More of the driver architecture has been moved out of the Kernel making the OS stabler.

Of course, all of this also makes it harder to support old apps and drivers - which is what's causing most of the frustration with Vista.

Believe me, if Win7 is 'completely rewritten', Vista will look like a cakewalk compared to it. Hopefully they'll get integrated virtualisation of WinXP and WinVista into it by then.]]>Jan 6th 2008 6:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/Jan 6th 2008 6:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/Jan 6th 2008 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/Gates-and-space-ace-Simonyi-gift-30m-for-giant-telescope/
They'll almost certainly be compressed in multiple formats and multiple resolutions. Some people will want the images in as close to unprocessed format as possible. Other people will just want to look at the nice pictures.

That alone will contribute to the terabytes per day.]]>Jan 6th 2008 6:28AM