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The kernel debugger, ntsd and windbg share a debugging engine, and visual studio is a different one.

At higher levels, VS is a much nicer experience. If you ever need to get down to lower levels, especially windows libraries and services, the power of the ntsd/windbg engine and its extensions make it much more useful. Knowing it also helps when you eventually need to use KD.

That is itself a major issue with many American cities. There doesn't seem to be a way to force amalgamation, leaving the core city to handle more of the cost, and increasing the difficulty and overhead of regional infrastructure like public transit.

No matter what there will still be more than 7 billion people left on earth.

Almost everything about the plan to go to Mars, especially about creating a "backup population" is uncertain. Compare that to the current, immediate suffering and lost potential that is caused by poverty and disease.

I think if you want to maintain the image of a respected journal you should probably disable commenting on the site..

It could be that YouTube videos are the cesspool of the internet and that adding google+ to them isn't a solution to this, just an excuse to try and increase the adoption of google+.

There isn't anything wrong with thinking that YouTube comments are often terrible while also disliking that google is trying to push their own social integration into all of the their services.

All of the detailed views in Google Maps are actually aerial photography rather than satellite images. Much easier to get that kind of detail from 1500ft.

Almost all phones do use the base tower to speed up getting a fix with Assisted GPS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_devices_with_Assisted_G...

That seems like a reasonable use for a $250 computer, but using a $1300 computer with a 2560x1700 display as a dumb terminal is a bit of a waste.

Your average end-user is going to be pretty disappointed when they find out that all they can do with their expensive laptop is browse the internet.

It seems like the best use of this of this might be to run Linux, but if you accept a slightly lower resolution, you can get a pretty decent Thinkpad or Envy that has a lot more flexibility.

Well remember that the car "lost" 60 miles of range overnight. If the Tesla people told him that charging it for a bit would restore the range it is conceivable that he would think that the whole 60 miles would come back. Remember that not everyone has a detailed understanding of how cold temperatures affect lithium ion batteries.

From your own page, with options, it can be configured to be more than $101,000. Its likely that they would have a fully loaded demo car, so this is probably right.

Corruption? Weak willed people? You are living in your own little world.

I have a 5km daily commute that I split between biking (in the summer) and driving. I still could not get by with one car that only has a 200 mile range.

I like to go the cabin in the summer and to the mountains in the winter. In good weather I could make it to both one way, but not return. What if I wanted to go visit family in another city? You can charge it once you get there, but it is slow unless you have the special charger, and will restrict your ability to use the car while there.

These are not isolated or rare situations, there are things that people do all the time.

Tesla cars are intriguing and exciting, but there are still real problems with their mass acceptance. Trying to pass off these problems as trivial, corrupt or ignorant is, well, ignorant.

Unix is an operation system, not a religion. I would argue that the pragmatism and adaptability contributed more to its success than its style.

I may not have picked the best wording, but basically I'm agreeing that overall the disparity is very high. The upside is that games like Man City v Man U or Real Madrid v Barcelona end up being very entertaining.

Contracts would still exist, as well as a few other rules, but for the most part there wouldn't be things like a salary cap.

European club soccer is much closer to this model and it both creates really strong competition at the top end and a large spread between the top and bottom teams in a league. It is also very difficult to move from the bottom to the top without a huge amount of outside revenue.

Pro sports leagues in North America tend to operate as a monopoly, allowed because they have a union to balance it out. That's why both the NHL and NBA settled their lockouts right before the unions were able able to de-certify (NHL) or file an anti-trust (after decertifying in the NBA) lawsuit.

This really isn't much more than a fluff piece giving an excuse for bad management.

It ignores many of the detailed issues and instead makes it entirely about overall revenue using unsourced and likely made up numbers. Missing was any reference to revenue sharing and fact that some teams are turning large profits while others are losing money year after year, but the league insists on keeping teams in unsuccessful locations. The Phoenix Coyotes are a great example of this full of bad business decisions from the start, and only got worse when Jim Balsillie got involved. This shows little evidence of a successful long term plan.

I am not a fan on unions in general, but I see this as a typical issue with American business. Bad decisions are made and instead of management taking responsibility, the blame is simply put onto labour costs, wages are pushed down and the same mistakes happen again.

Well that is his side of the story, which may or may not have any real truth to it. Personally I do not trust a single thing that Conrad Black says. As a Canadian I am upset at how he seems to have used his political clout to get himself a visa and likely have his citizenship restored.

There is a great deal of both misunderstanding and ignorant Microsoft bashing in this comment.

First of all, you are mixing up two completely different concepts.

For character encoding on Windows: For many functions in the Windows API there two versions of a function, one with an A (for ANSI) at the end and one with a W (for wide). This was added to make it easier to support Win32 on both Windows 95, which used 8-bit characters and codepages and Windows NT which was natively utf-16 unicode. At the time utf-16 was considered the best and most standard choice for supporting unicode. In most cases it is implemented as W function with an A function that is little more than a wrapper.

This has nothing to do with what Raymond is describing.

For the 64-32 bit stuff they ensured that all code would compile and work correctly with both 32/64 bit stuff and built two versions, one for ia32 and one for amd64. The kernel would have to be modified to support the amd64 architecture. This is exactly what Linux, OSX and other operating systems that support multiple architectures do. On top of this, because amd64 supports backwards compatibility, they also included an ia32 environment with it as well, but this is optional, so anything that ships with the OS cannot depend on it. I assume this is what OSX does too, the only difference is that with Windows the two versions ship as different SKAs, and MacOSX ships with both versions and installs the one that the computer originally shipped with.

Second, the number of system calls has nothing do with any of this at all.

The map is really interesting, but its hard to read with those two colours. I'd like to see it with just white-blue or white-red.

The Model S is a revolutionary car, but I really hope the the big touch display without physical buttons doesn't become the norm. I really prefer the feedback you get from them while keeping your eyes on the road, especially for common functions like the temperature and basic stereo control.

People will disagree with me, but I have really grown to like the current iDrive system which lets me keep my looking up high while my hand sits in a comfortable position.

They really aren't even going head to head with Microsoft, since the Windows 8 app store is only for "Metro" apps and this will only be for regular Windows apps.

The real danger for Valve is that people will release games for Metro instead of Steam, this is probably them trying to hedge against that.

The sub section branding with the small w and the large first letter looks really awkward. Wiktionary is represented by a wT, but having a T represent a dictionary makes no sense, and there is a similar problem with wikiversity. They also tried clarifying the Species and Source by adding more letters on the latter which is isn't very visually appealing and shows the limitations of this scheme.

I also think that they add too much focus on the site wide navigation stuff at the top, which takes away the focus on the data.

The headline is stating the facts, what you are suggesting is stating the google spin. Its usually a better idea to report the facts rather than the spin. There is no Google bashing in that headline.

There was a lot of negative feedback to this, and this is probably a good step. Its also nice to see the goodwill gesture of fulfilling preorders for free.

It is unfortunate that this kind of information has been spread so widely about Windows 8, but it's just not true.

The desktop is still there, icons are still there, overlapping windows are still there, the only thing gone is the start menu, replaced with the metro launch screen that can launch both desktop and metro apps.

There are still some issues with the two different environments, especially the difference in look and feel, but it still works well.

While that contributed to the fall of RIM, what really did them in was that they didn't have a real operating system that could be leveraged to properly compete with Apple and Android.

Nokia had reached the end of the road on Symbian and needed a new direction.

This is a risky thing to do and going with Windows Phone gave Nokia the backing a very large and still influential company. Going with anything else would have meant going in alone. This includes Android which would be going alone into an already crowded market.

The current situation isn't great for Nokia, but they are in a deal that has the potential to help both companies, Nokia with short term financial help and Microsoft with a strong vendor to create showcase phones and the distribution network to get them into consumers hands.

Contrast this to RIM who tried to go in alone.

EDIT: fixed typo

I have worked with a strict 80 character rule, and I find that it usually causes worse looking code with excessive multi-line statements, poor variable naming and makes refactoring more labour intensive.

I have a soft limit of around 100 characters for C++, which is good for readability and still allows me to have two side by side editing windows.