The Really Real Real Reason for the Windows 10 name
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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
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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.
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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.
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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:
The topic discusses the number 9. In my view the number 8 is irrelevant in this context.
To be precise, the topic never discussed 9 except in the explanation of getting from version 8 to 10. The elephant in the room is that Microsoft's versions go from 8 to 10. Base 8 isn't a good explanation for that because then it should go from version 7 to 10 in that case. However, there isn't a really good explanation for Microsoft's naming conventions. Remember Windows 99? Well, if you're 15 or less, you wouldn't. (Maybe even 20 or less.) But that'd be a good explanation for the introduction of Windows 14, not 10. Even the "explanation" lists version 10 twice in the series, so this really should be version 11 by its logic. The best explanation is that Microsoft's naming convention is erratic and inconsistent. Don't expect it to make sense.
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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
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So, when there will be base-9 notation support? :rolleyes:
Gosh, I hadn't thought it through that far. I'm sure it will be included in the VS (15)9 release - but perhaps someone with more free time than sense could bang a VS toolkit add-in together so we could get some early practice....
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I thought it was because they wanted to avoid the possibility of Apple commercials with a frantic Hitler yelling "Windows!!! Nein!!! Nein!!! Nein!!!"