The Really Real Real Reason for the Windows 10 name
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In base 8 there is no number 9, same as there is no number 2 in binary.
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In base 8 there is also no 8. Hence, since we've already had Windows 8 base 8 doesn't work.
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How can they be so sure that all ...
if(version.StartsWith("Windows 1")) // Windows 1.0/1.1/etc.
... code is already out of production ;)
That's a damn good question you just raised here! :-D :laugh:
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In base 8 there is also no 8. Hence, since we've already had Windows 8 base 8 doesn't work.
The topic discusses the number 9. In my view the number 8 is irrelevant in this context. But we can start using base-9 math if it will make you feel better.
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a take on someone else's "pun" Windows 8 Windows 8.1 (8 + 1 = 9) Windows 8.1 Update 1 (8 + 1 + 1 = 10) Windows 10
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert EinsteinI think a lot of people are misreading it as "Windows Ten". It's clearly "Windows Two".
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Just wondering ... seeing all the hype about it being SSSSOOOO "wonderful" ... did they think of it i.t.o. "It's a totally 'new' windows - like in Windows 2.0"? ... And then realizing: "That's already been used" ... And then some "brilliant" meeting participant "remembering" that "computers count in 1s & 0s" ... I can just imagine the sort of meeting (having had several of those myself - ending in me just hanging my head)
I thought that myself, but then I realized that Intel processors are little-endian. Which would make it "Windows One", surely?
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a take on someone else's "pun" Windows 8 Windows 8.1 (8 + 1 = 9) Windows 8.1 Update 1 (8 + 1 + 1 = 10) Windows 10
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein -
I thought that myself, but then I realized that Intel processors are little-endian. Which would make it "Windows One", surely?
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It's a binary number and part of the new low-numbering scheme. XBOX ONE, Windows TWO. Makes sense. ;-)
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Good point! No counting of any chickens allowed (especially not with Microsoft's invention of a new numbering system)!
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a take on someone else's "pun" Windows 8 Windows 8.1 (8 + 1 = 9) Windows 8.1 Update 1 (8 + 1 + 1 = 10) Windows 10
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert EinsteinWindows 10 ie- Starts with a 1 (positive) and ends with a 0 (non-positive)- if it really follows Win8 :laugh: Hope it is more like a TEN- sportslike lucky number for all ;)
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a take on someone else's "pun" Windows 8 Windows 8.1 (8 + 1 = 9) Windows 8.1 Update 1 (8 + 1 + 1 = 10) Windows 10
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert EinsteinMy kids told me that MS had to use 10, because 7 8 9. :rolleyes:
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a take on someone else's "pun" Windows 8 Windows 8.1 (8 + 1 = 9) Windows 8.1 Update 1 (8 + 1 + 1 = 10) Windows 10
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert EinsteinI think it's because they introduced Windows 95 using the Rolling Stone's "Start Me Up". They're just trying to speed towards Windows 11 so they can use Spinal Tap's "Gimme Some Money".
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he probably means base 10, as in 8 + 1! ;P
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Wait until Visual Studio (15)9 comes out, all octal and hex references will have been removed to enforce the MS paradigm.
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a take on someone else's "pun" Windows 8 Windows 8.1 (8 + 1 = 9) Windows 8.1 Update 1 (8 + 1 + 1 = 10) Windows 10
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert EinsteinMaybe they are just Red Dwarf[^] fans. They skipped series 9. Series VIII - Back to Earth - Series X From the above link: "Red Dwarf series 9 is actually mentioned in Back To Earth as being the 'best season ever' by the sc-fi memorabilia shop owner. And earlier, when Lister reads the back of the DVD box for Back To Earth, it says, "Back To Earth takes place after series 10"." So, series 9 was the best, but never existed. Maybe now Microsoft will claim that Windows 9 was the 'best Windows ever!' without ever actually having to make it. :laugh:
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To make the adjustment more sensible, I say we just remove the number 9 from the face of the planet. It sucked anyway.
Jeremy Falcon
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Wait until Visual Studio (15)9 comes out, all octal and hex references will have been removed to enforce the MS paradigm.
So, when there will be base-9 notation support? :rolleyes:
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How can they be so sure that all ...
if(version.StartsWith("Windows 1")) // Windows 1.0/1.1/etc.
... code is already out of production ;)
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The topic discusses the number 9. In my view the number 8 is irrelevant in this context. But we can start using base-9 math if it will make you feel better.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
DJ van Wyk wrote:
But we can start using base-9 math if it will make you feel better.
Well, he's right, the point of using base-8 was to remove the digit 9. Base-2 makes more sense since it is already an established base system extensively used and it doesn't have a 9 either. Computers don't have a 9 in their operating system, but that doesn't stop them from printing 9. We programmers seem to like base 10 so the program adjusts it to suit us dumb clucks on the other end of the screen. What, you can't tell at a glance what 10110001001101 is? If you can, wow, I'm impressed. I admit it, I can't. I can tell at a glance what 9 base 10 is in binary. In base 8, 9 (9 in base ten, hex, etc.) is 11. Back to that long number 2^10 is 1024, so 1024+2048+8192+64+8+4+1=11,341 (That was assuming the string of 1's and 0's were a base 2 number.) I calculated the numbers on the left in my head but the final number used the calculator. Too lazy to drag out pencil and paper or finger math from memory. Shoot, I mention finger math and I remember it) I also can't write out the decimal number without looking up on the web what comes up after a trillion, but I know it's a hundred and one of them. I'd also have to look up the British names too, but I think a trillion is the first that diverges from American standard names. Anyway, base 9 is the only base number that would display 9 as 10.