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What is .NET?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the funny-you-should-ask dept.

CyberBry writes "There's a great technical overview of Microsoft .NET over at arstechnica: "In a remarkable feat of journalistic sleight-of-hand, thousands of column inches in many "reputable" on-line publications have talked at length about .NET whilst remaining largely ignorant of its nature, purpose, and implementation. Ask what .NET is, and you'll receive a wide range of answers, few of them accurate, all of them conflicting. Confusion amongst the press is rampant. The more common claims made of .NET are that it's a Java rip-off, or that it's subscription software. The truth is somewhat different.""

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  1. great article! by timdorr · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Wow. 2 Slashdottings for us Arsians in such a sort span of time... I hope some of your guys get subscriptions to that site to help us with the bandwidth bill.. =D

    Back on topic, I can attest that this is a great article. Before, all I knew of .NET was something about subscription services and some set of servers... Now it all makes sense...

    Great read!

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  2. I just don't like Passport. by amhax · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I hate the idea that only one password gets me into everything. Do I want to trust Microsoft to be the weakest link in my security scheme? I don't have much faith in their security products thusfar, what is to insure that their password DB isn't cracked and everything I use is exploited because of it.

    I prefer my internal(memorized) password list.

  3. Re:I honestly can't figure out by sydb · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    People have been saying it for ages and I ignored it till now but it's true: Slashdot is becoming more and more riddled with idiots.

    Someone posts that and get's modded insightful? The poster clearly hasn't even read the article, never mind actually making an insightful comment about the subject in question, about which prisoner-of-enigma clearly knows nothing.

    I hit the karma limit a while back by posting sensible, informed, sometimes witty comments. And yet here we are, people wanting informed, reasoned, exciting discussion, struggling to be heard against a cacophony of nonsense which gets promoted to the top.

    Hmmm, sounds just like the Top 40.

    Here's the sad fact: populism sucks, and moderation is populism in action. What does this say about democracy? I wouldn't like to think, but hey: George W Bush.

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  4. Ok. Rant mode. by amhax · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Ok, now THIS post is offtopic. Whoever the fucking moron is who fucked me over by modding me down is a fucking idiot. In no way was my above post offtopic. If I hadn't been modded down, then I might have enough karma to be invited to Meta-Moderate, in which case I would have rammed that stupid moderation down your ass. The topic was on .NET, which is a STRATEGY of providing standardized webservices on the Internet. Microsofts front cash cow of promoting and utilizing .NET IS their Passport system. By voicing an opinion of mine that was CLEARLY on topic, and then being modded down this shows one of two things:
    • The moderator is a moron who knows absolutely nothing on the topic.
    • There is a problem with the moderation system and things should change
    I know this is a stale, trite argument that is not going to do anything, but seriously. I post and read Slashdot daily because so far, none of the moderation problems have affected me. I didn't realize how serious the problems were. This site is geared towards a community of individuals with a slightly higher level of intelligence, but this system seems to be degrading to a level of absolute un-usability.

    Make Corrections As Needed
  5. Re:You honestly can't figure out... by sydb · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I put my karma behind what I say, unlike you.

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  6. Re:You honestly can't figure out... by sydb · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Also, it's decrying, not decreying. Oh, and there's no irony involved, Alanis.

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  7. .NET is by JewFish · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    .NET is the latest greatest Not Engineered Technology to come from Microsoft.

  8. Arstechnica?? by CragHopper · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is it just me or is blatantly ripping off some other company's wierd name pretty the mark of uncreative losers. And it seems even lamer now that ars digita has just gone down for the count.