"I'm quite tech-savvy". Understand that when someone says something like this, it's like a girl saying "I have gigantic boobies": not only is it faintly goofy-sounding, but the information being imparted will either be obvious to the observer or clearly untrue. In neither case is it an advantage to make the statement, and it can only hurt you if the observer disagrees.
And since you call yourself an NT and VB \"guru\", and you're talking about UNIX, that makes you an A-cup girl in a prom dress, and let me tell you, honey, no amount of Kleenex is gonna help.
I was going to argue some technical points, but I need another beer. Hang on. --- Benjy Feen http://www.monkeybagel.com ---
Let's face it: The differences between Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are essentially related to marketing and distribution. As far as fundamental tenets and conceptual bases go, they're all at least as alike as NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux, but Christianity happened to have a charismatic leader at a critical point, and so gained a lot of market share and lots of support from government and industry. Now Islam has the greatest user base, and there are more Linux desktops than Jews in the world, and the reason isn't because of any substantive differences -- it's all about their marketing. Oy vey!
Let's be clear: anyone who thinks dominance comes from having the best product should go sit on that stack of Betamax video tapes for a while until it sinks in.
This is a call-to-arms for those looking to get into the game. For all those who complain that they're forever being overlooked: Stand on a fucking chair if you have to, and figure out what it takes to make more people like you and listen to what you say. And if you want to keep screaming and waving that bloody mallet and slavering and dripping gore on the linoleum and hollering "WHY WON'T ANYONE JOIN ME IN MY HOLY MISSION OF TRUTH?!", well, fine. You can go sit with the other cult members. The Christians and Muslims and Jews and Linux users may get criticized for being mainstream, but at least they're friendly and don't make such a mess. And, oh, by the way: they're 90% of your potential market, so you'd best treat them nice. (Me, I'm a Unitarian. We just drink coffee and pontificate.)
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"I'm quite tech-savvy". Understand that when someone says something like this, it's like a girl saying "I have gigantic boobies": not only is it faintly goofy-sounding, but the information being imparted will either be obvious to the observer or clearly untrue. In neither case is it an advantage to make the statement, and it can only hurt you if the observer disagrees.
And since you call yourself an NT and VB \"guru\", and you're talking about UNIX, that makes you an A-cup girl in a prom dress, and let me tell you, honey, no amount of Kleenex is gonna help.
I was going to argue some technical points, but I need another beer. Hang on.
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Benjy Feen
http://www.monkeybagel.com
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Let's be clear: anyone who thinks dominance comes from having the best product should go sit on that stack of Betamax video tapes for a while until it sinks in.
This is a call-to-arms for those looking to get into the game. For all those who complain that they're forever being overlooked: Stand on a fucking chair if you have to, and figure out what it takes to make more people like you and listen to what you say. And if you want to keep screaming and waving that bloody mallet and slavering and dripping gore on the linoleum and hollering "WHY WON'T ANYONE JOIN ME IN MY HOLY MISSION OF TRUTH?!", well, fine. You can go sit with the other cult members. The Christians and Muslims and Jews and Linux users may get criticized for being mainstream, but at least they're friendly and don't make such a mess. And, oh, by the way: they're 90% of your potential market, so you'd best treat them nice. (Me, I'm a Unitarian. We just drink coffee and pontificate.)
Love,
Benjy
www.monkeybagel.com
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Benjy Feen
http://www.monkeybagel.com
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