First I admit that I make my living with Microsoft products on a Microsoft OS. I like only one thing about Microsoft's products:
They are _everywhere_.
When you go to a warehouse they are using NT (or 2000 in some of the more progressive companies). Home (l)users use Windows '98 (Except for the masochists that moved to ME). In my dealings I come across NT greater than 80% of the time. As we all know NT is now several generations old. Most companies still have not assimilated W2K. And now Microsoft is debuting a new OS. This is going to fragment the Microsoft camp. Already NT commands and procedures do not work in 2000. Adding XP into the mix will only exacerbate this. Like the Linux Distribution flame wars the Microsoft camp will fragment and fight against one another.
Maybe this is the best thing Microsoft could do for Linux and BSD.
I must concur.
Do not neglect Sun. Java is already a multi-platform application language that needs help to fight against M$. Most of us in the Linux community have not warmed up to Java as we should.
Why make it easier for M$ to gain market share in programming languages? M$ may inadvertently pay most of our salaries, but that does not mean we need to give them a hedgerow into the Linux community so that they may siphon out some of our newest members with a 'simple' (read 'I am too lazy to learn a language that I have to think to use') multi-platform language.
I must agree.
Most of the people who visit this web sight are not fond of Microsoft, it business practices, or its power.
Conservatives(most Republicans) wish to remove the single OS for life (cradle to grave) dependance plan that the liberals favor.
Dependance means that you have given up a portion of your power to something else. People who use Microsoft producs give up the power to create secure stable networks. Like wise people who vote liberal give up the power to keep what they earned insted of giving it to others who are not earning it for themselvs.
Politics will Never die. Politics have been practiced from the first day three primates met at the same location and decided who was going to be the dominant one. You had a winner a loser and a supporter. The problem with politics in America today is that we are a Democracy where any one can vote. There are no prerequisites to voting other than reaching an arbitrary number of days with some sort of brain function, and just enough ambition to fill out your voter registration card when you get your drivers licenses renewed. You do not need to know the issues to vote. You do not need to research the best solutions to vote. You just need to make it to the ballot box. America's problem is not her politicians. You cannot blame the fox for eating the chickens when locked in the coop. Americans do not want to be bothered with details. They want to watch their sitcoms and eat pre-packaged food.
Those of us who are (self) educated enough to know how to perform meaningful research on the web, and have tried to teach some one out side the industry to duplicate the same search, know that too many Americans are too lazy to learn. They do not care any more. They will not change a 200-year-old system based on a 10000-year-old system.
Therefore, politics as we know it will perpetuate indefinitely, or be taken over from the inside by the power hungery.
Slashdot Mirror
Amazingly I actually got to see all three clocks. I think this gives testimate to the power of open source software (apache and PHP)
First I admit that I make my living with Microsoft products on a Microsoft OS. I like only one thing about Microsoft's products:
They are _everywhere_.
When you go to a warehouse they are using NT (or 2000 in some of the more progressive companies). Home (l)users use Windows '98 (Except for the masochists that moved to ME). In my dealings I come across NT greater than 80% of the time. As we all know NT is now several generations old. Most companies still have not assimilated W2K. And now Microsoft is debuting a new OS. This is going to fragment the Microsoft camp. Already NT commands and procedures do not work in 2000. Adding XP into the mix will only exacerbate this. Like the Linux Distribution flame wars the Microsoft camp will fragment and fight against one another.
Maybe this is the best thing Microsoft could do for Linux and BSD.
I saw it! I saw it!
Opps I clicked a link... No more Banjo for me
I must concur. Do not neglect Sun. Java is already a multi-platform application language that needs help to fight against M$. Most of us in the Linux community have not warmed up to Java as we should. Why make it easier for M$ to gain market share in programming languages? M$ may inadvertently pay most of our salaries, but that does not mean we need to give them a hedgerow into the Linux community so that they may siphon out some of our newest members with a 'simple' (read 'I am too lazy to learn a language that I have to think to use') multi-platform language.
I must agree. Most of the people who visit this web sight are not fond of Microsoft, it business practices, or its power. Conservatives(most Republicans) wish to remove the single OS for life (cradle to grave) dependance plan that the liberals favor. Dependance means that you have given up a portion of your power to something else. People who use Microsoft producs give up the power to create secure stable networks. Like wise people who vote liberal give up the power to keep what they earned insted of giving it to others who are not earning it for themselvs.
Politics will Never die. Politics have been practiced from the first day three primates met at the same location and decided who was going to be the dominant one. You had a winner a loser and a supporter. The problem with politics in America today is that we are a Democracy where any one can vote. There are no prerequisites to voting other than reaching an arbitrary number of days with some sort of brain function, and just enough ambition to fill out your voter registration card when you get your drivers licenses renewed. You do not need to know the issues to vote. You do not need to research the best solutions to vote. You just need to make it to the ballot box. America's problem is not her politicians. You cannot blame the fox for eating the chickens when locked in the coop. Americans do not want to be bothered with details. They want to watch their sitcoms and eat pre-packaged food. Those of us who are (self) educated enough to know how to perform meaningful research on the web, and have tried to teach some one out side the industry to duplicate the same search, know that too many Americans are too lazy to learn. They do not care any more. They will not change a 200-year-old system based on a 10000-year-old system. Therefore, politics as we know it will perpetuate indefinitely, or be taken over from the inside by the power hungery.