Anti-Microsoft people should come up with extensions to.Net which fragment it, just like Microsoft tried to do with Java.
Successful fragmentation would require the vaunted killer app to:
a) move the mainstream to Linux
b) adopt this envisioned.Net extension
Lot of static friction to overcome there. The last time Mr. Softy blew off a challenge was the Internet, circa early nineties, and we saw how swift and serious the course alteration there was.
The VCL components, written in Object Pascal, clearly aren't std::C++. However, BCB5 does include the Rogue Wave standard library. You can do all of the ANSI/ISO stuff you want in a console application.
You just have to draw the obvious line between the interface and the pieces you want to be portable.
So my Latin is out of date. At least you didn't order me to write it out one hundred times before dawn, or face emasculation.
While no big MS fanatic...
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I accomplish the bulk of my cheesy business tasks in VB, against the O97 object model. Fantastic toybox. Pooh on the whole XP licensing fiasco.
For fun and excitement, I like Borland C++ Builder. Is there anything you really can't do with that?
On topic, I want to pose the following: what would motivate me to explore Ruby, as opposed to C#, beyond my disdain for Redmond? Looking for technical arguments, not political ones.
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Why do people prefer to be lied to when they know the truth?
Deception starts with the individual, and feeds on itself. Note the drug addict.
I love every SJG product I've ever had. OK, Up Harzburk was not a shining moment. Hope they recover.
Depending on the price, I would strongly consider running Darwin with MS Office. You improve stability without dropping the file-level compatibility required in the business setting.
In so doing, though, Apple undercuts its hardware sales, so figure the odds.
Clearly, it's not cheap to drop a new building with late-model gear, fight the local regulatory battle for rights-of-way, and lay a better network around your favorite navigational hazard (Verizon, in my case) but I'm surprised at how impossible the task seems to be.
Balls, man: if you want to destroy your wetware, you can get all of the hard drugs you want, and they're not even legal. Broadband, which any wired person would want, seems as difficult as finding decent political candidates.
a) Crib its best functionality ideas within Open Source, without infringing on patents,
b) Ignore.Nyet, and
c) Tell Alchin that real people in actual business situations judge the MS subscription-based model for productivity applications "un-American". Entertainment, al la AOL, is one thing, but my word processor is quite another. Find another victim.
Hey, let's build a black box for rentals. With a hard drive to store data, we can store all kinds of information about user habits. With GPS and a tachometer feed, for example, we can pinpoint exact speed and location of all speeding infractions.
A stable reference and strain gauges can offer insight into reckless driving, as well.
At turn-in time, this data is sent, via Bluetooth to a waiting Beowulf cluster, where we figure out exactly how much to pry from the renter.
A follow-on market might be fathers with expensive rides and frisky teenagers.
What can we name this company, and who'll handle the IPO?
Is there any corporate memory of MS's early 90's bait-and-switch with OS/2? Of the industry perception that IBM was some goliath felled by an unlikely David what couldn't operate a comb? Will a signifcant cadre of IBMers gather, sip their Perrier, and burn Billy G. in effigy as Linux surmounts 'Dozexx in market share?
Viewing IBM's sudden recent embrace of Linux, I couldn't help but wonder if the whole thing isn't, at some level, a collosal prostate check.
Can you script SmartSuite as well as you can Office using VBA?
Credit where it is due: you can do some fairly sophisticated stuff, even at the Office97 SR-2b level, slinging VBA.
Clearly, I speak of stand-alone situations where performance isn't a requirement, but, admit it: that is a significant chunk of the business problem space.
If I thought SmartSuite (or Corel's Perfect Office product) had as consistent an interface, I'd have migrated a while ago.
I don't mind admitting that I can whip out stuff using MS Office and VBA posthaste, but the 'only install twice' licensing I saw mentioned in a Ballmer interview is something that has to be explained to me in detail before I'll assume the purchasing position. I have had too many Registry-driven problems not cured by anything less than wiping the drive.
In defense of Redmond, I have had good results on the last couple of occasions I've used the no-charge tech support.
3. The only way you can make this claim is via a one-dimensional view of the issue.
4. Just which US military has these Generals?
Conclusion: you work for DISA or SUN, or are into recreational trolling.
As a son of a son of a sailor, and having just rolled off of ten years of active duty, I can tell you that GCCS (pronounced 'Geeks') is a niche product (albeit a critical one) used by gnomes buried in an unspecified location. The bulk of the computers in the military (excluding real-time, ordnance handling stuff) are running 'Doze and Orifice97.
The military, God bless it, is a strange, warped reality, speaking a language into which 'business model' is un-translatable. An electromagnetic pulse of sufficient magnitude to smoke every existing Intel chip in the military inventory MIGHT open the door for your general to ask the obvious question, but don't get overconfident.
As far as "putting me in my place" goes, I'll split the difference and say it's mutual.
GS needs some of those best and brightest in order to have an intelligent GS sector to make good decisions. that's a large reason why i myself am going to give up a good decade or more of my time to the army once i graduate.
My best suggestion is that you pursue a small community within the Army. Don't want to diminish what sounds like some good youthful enthusiasm, but file this away: human organizations don't scale well. The 'outfit', be it Army, Navy, strait government, or dare I say, any company, acquires inertia proportional to population.
Bear John 15:2 in mind, and note the general non-application of this wisdom.
Aw, c'mon: do you feel there is enough information in the post to make a judgement regarding the "biggest motivator"?
Also, while I have the utmost respect for those who operate under a vow of poverty, I do not.
As far as this "greater potential for public good and service," I gave ten years of active service in the military, and continue to serve in the reserves. Dunno exactly what the implied 'render unto Caesar' requirement is, but I can state with confidence that I've done something.
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a) move the mainstream to Linux
b) adopt this envisioned .Net extension
Lot of static friction to overcome there. The last time Mr. Softy blew off a challenge was the Internet, circa early nineties, and we saw how swift and serious the course alteration there was.
You just have to draw the obvious line between the interface and the pieces you want to be portable.
For fun and excitement, I like Borland C++ Builder. Is there anything you really can't do with that?
On topic, I want to pose the following: what would motivate me to explore Ruby, as opposed to C#, beyond my disdain for Redmond? Looking for technical arguments, not political ones.
Deception starts with the individual, and feeds on itself. Note the drug addict.
I love every SJG product I've ever had. OK, Up Harzburk was not a shining moment. Hope they recover.
In so doing, though, Apple undercuts its hardware sales, so figure the odds.
Clearly, it's not cheap to drop a new building with late-model gear, fight the local regulatory battle for rights-of-way, and lay a better network around your favorite navigational hazard (Verizon, in my case) but I'm surprised at how impossible the task seems to be.
Balls, man: if you want to destroy your wetware, you can get all of the hard drugs you want, and they're not even legal. Broadband, which any wired person would want, seems as difficult as finding decent political candidates.
The Senate and the Roman People. Or does this mean something else in /.-land?
a) Crib its best functionality ideas within Open Source, without infringing on patents,
b) Ignore .Nyet, and
c) Tell Alchin that real people in actual business situations judge the MS subscription-based model for productivity applications "un-American". Entertainment, al la AOL, is one thing, but my word processor is quite another. Find another victim.
A stable reference and strain gauges can offer insight into reckless driving, as well.
At turn-in time, this data is sent, via Bluetooth to a waiting Beowulf cluster, where we figure out exactly how much to pry from the renter.
A follow-on market might be fathers with expensive rides and frisky teenagers.
What can we name this company, and who'll handle the IPO?
Conversely, I finished my master's degree and dropped my previous employer like a bad habit.
Moral: The first concern is employer/employee relationship. Education is a subsequent investment built upon that relational foundation.
Is there any corporate memory of MS's early 90's bait-and-switch with OS/2? Of the industry perception that IBM was some goliath felled by an unlikely David what couldn't operate a comb? Will a signifcant cadre of IBMers gather, sip their Perrier, and burn Billy G. in effigy as Linux surmounts 'Doze xx in market share?
Viewing IBM's sudden recent embrace of Linux, I couldn't help but wonder if the whole thing isn't, at some level, a collosal prostate check.
Credit where it is due: you can do some fairly sophisticated stuff, even at the Office97 SR-2b level, slinging VBA.
Clearly, I speak of stand-alone situations where performance isn't a requirement, but, admit it: that is a significant chunk of the business problem space.
If I thought SmartSuite (or Corel's Perfect Office product) had as consistent an interface, I'd have migrated a while ago.
In defense of Redmond, I have had good results on the last couple of occasions I've used the no-charge tech support.
2. Do you really believe this?
3. The only way you can make this claim is via a one-dimensional view of the issue.
4. Just which US military has these Generals?
Conclusion: you work for DISA or SUN, or are into recreational trolling.
As a son of a son of a sailor, and having just rolled off of ten years of active duty, I can tell you that GCCS (pronounced 'Geeks') is a niche product (albeit a critical one) used by gnomes buried in an unspecified location. The bulk of the computers in the military (excluding real-time, ordnance handling stuff) are running 'Doze and Orifice97.
The military, God bless it, is a strange, warped reality, speaking a language into which 'business model' is un-translatable. An electromagnetic pulse of sufficient magnitude to smoke every existing Intel chip in the military inventory MIGHT open the door for your general to ask the obvious question, but don't get overconfident.
Actually, even ASCII art, in its stark minimalism, could be 'fine art'.
Who knows? Time knows. If the work still has impact in succeeding generations, it's art, IMHO.
The chaplaincy is an interesting field, due to the ecumenical nature of the military. You can expect a challenge.
Godspeed, boss.
Bear John 15:2 in mind, and note the general non-application of this wisdom.
Regards,
Chris
Aw, c'mon: do you feel there is enough information in the post to make a judgement regarding the "biggest motivator"?
Also, while I have the utmost respect for those who operate under a vow of poverty, I do not.
As far as this "greater potential for public good and service," I gave ten years of active service in the military, and continue to serve in the reserves. Dunno exactly what the implied 'render unto Caesar' requirement is, but I can state with confidence that I've done something.