Did you ever consider that it might be a good thing to work with Microsoft products?
Before I'm summarily skewered by the anti-Microsoft zealots, let me say this: you're a student--shouldn't your goal be to broaden your experience?
Not that there is anything wrong with liking and using Linux or UNIX, but if you do that to exclusion you risk the same narrowmindedness that the Linux zealots denounce in Microsofties. Pure UNIXites and devoted Microsoft lovers are equally offensive.
Despite what you hear on/. Microsoft has done some good work and has some good ideas and products. Think of it like international travel--you may want to spend your summer in sunny France, but Iceland is all that's available. It may not be your first pick, but it will be enlightning nonetheless (for those of you wondering, Iceland would be my first pick).
This may be slightly off topic, but is relevant to this story.
Has anyone else noticed the lag Slashdot has in getting the news out lately? The fungus story was in New Scientist a month or more ago, and this latest update about James Cameron was posted to Space.com last week (which I found from the Space.com Slashbox on the front page).
Jesus, you'd think that/. would pay attention to the common sources of information from which people submit stories. How irritating is it to tune in and see media stories that have been around for a month recapped on/. like they're something new? Does this mean the crew is working on a new software release, or just buried under the load of submitted stories? No news is better than old news.
So don't run it... I suppose you checked the entirety of the Linux source code before running that? Get a life, it's an mp3 player for Christ's sake--data loss my ass.
I didn't realize that posting insanely paranoid delusions could get you moderated up so highly--I'm going to have to change my posting strategy.
This'll bake your noodle--the whole reason the contest was announced was to identify the insurgents who post to Slashdot, so that they can later be prosecuted as co-conspirators and for incitement to illegal activities.
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Before I'm summarily skewered by the anti-Microsoft zealots, let me say this: you're a student--shouldn't your goal be to broaden your experience?
Not that there is anything wrong with liking and using Linux or UNIX, but if you do that to exclusion you risk the same narrowmindedness that the Linux zealots denounce in Microsofties. Pure UNIXites and devoted Microsoft lovers are equally offensive.
Despite what you hear on /. Microsoft has done some good work and has some good ideas and products. Think of it like international travel--you may want to spend your summer in sunny France, but Iceland is all that's available. It may not be your first pick, but it will be enlightning nonetheless (for those of you wondering, Iceland would be my first pick).
Has anyone else noticed the lag Slashdot has in getting the news out lately? The fungus story was in New Scientist a month or more ago, and this latest update about James Cameron was posted to Space.com last week (which I found from the Space.com Slashbox on the front page).
Jesus, you'd think that /. would pay attention to the common sources of information from which people submit stories. How irritating is it to tune in and see media stories that have been around for a month recapped on /. like they're something new? Does this mean the crew is working on a new software release, or just buried under the load of submitted stories? No news is better than old news.
So don't run it... I suppose you checked the entirety of the Linux source code before running that? Get a life, it's an mp3 player for Christ's sake--data loss my ass.
I didn't realize that posting insanely paranoid delusions could get you moderated up so highly--I'm going to have to change my posting strategy. This'll bake your noodle--the whole reason the contest was announced was to identify the insurgents who post to Slashdot, so that they can later be prosecuted as co-conspirators and for incitement to illegal activities.