Women and men tend to have different priorites and needs in order to be happy in a workplace - one of the big ones for many women is the social sphere. I know that, for me, the deciding factor was that I wound up feeling as if I was spending a third of my life around people I didn't particularly like, didn't find to be particularly able to have small-talk with, and generally just left me feeling pretty cut-off from the world.
(And, for anyone who says "Work is about work, not socialization, silly female!" let me just say: Men tend to also have certain needs from a workplace that seem just as silly - that whole alpha monkey/competitive thing is pretty goddamn funny and sad. Isn't work supposed to be about work, not establishing who's dick is bigger?)
I'd say half the people I work with are women. And although they're all nice and I have nothing against them, I do feel like I'm being driven crazy by all of the incessant yammering and giggling all day. I want some silence so I can concentrate. I found it odd to read here womens accounts of how they want their work environment to be a fun social place. Personally, I want to get my work done and go home. My co-workers are just that, co-workers. We can all be friendly, without having to be friends. There isn't enough time in the day to chat and I don't want to work late. It's nothing personal.
I have no idea what you're talking about with the alpha male competitive thing. Except for the occasional joke, I've never seen anything like that. I'm not saying that it's not out their, but then I'm not actually sure what you're talking about. Do they arm wrestle where you are, or are you just talking about excessive pride in their work? You sure it's an "alpha-male" thing and not just a desire to get the best possible outcome when performance reviews kick in?
I wonder if most women just don't like to work after hours?
I'm sure I'd be considered downright sexist in some of my views and I think women just don't get computers in the way men do. That being said, I think women are typically very hard workers. I had always considered that the only equalizing factor in this field. In my experience, they usually work longer hours than the men.
That being said, if you're just talking about side projects, I'd agree. If you don't have coding projects going on outside of work, then you'll likely never rise above the level of mediocre programmer. It's a sign that you're not interested in computers as much as you are the paycheck. Nothing wrong with that, but it does explain different peoples' skill levels.
If anything, I think men need to rebalance their life, between their employment and interests.
The problem with that is much of what interests women doesn't interest most men. Women are more social creatures. Men get married because it's "the next step" and is the path to children, but men aren't inculcated with the same passion for family that women are. Women's interests seem to center around social constructs. In fact, that emphasis on socialization has always seemed unbalanced to me and I think that's the reason women don't excel in some professions as much as I would like to see.
Personally, I've chosen not to get married because frankly, it seems like a better deal for women then men. I would much rather go home and work on whatever I want, rather than visiting the in-laws or talking about my day. That's not to say that I don't have interests outside my occupation, it's more to say that I don't consider being a husband and father an interest as much as role. If I were to embrace that role, I would have little time for actual interests.
Most techie guys that I've talked to are convinced that all women who've ever even thought of getting into the industry are untapped fountains of innovation in a conveniently sexy package.
Believe me, most techie guys are not saying women are untapped fountains of innovation behind your back. That doesn't mean they don't like to work with women, it's just that they've never encountered a female uber programmer, despite plenty of female programmers. And if there are any, they are exceedingly rare.
Bad code is part of why I've long asserted a minimum of 95% (it's probably closer to 98%) of the people in the IT/IS/MIS industry who write code for a living aren't qualified to do so. Were mechanical engineers, architects, or physicians to make a tiny percentage of the errors coders make, chaos would ensue. If you want your code to look better [by contrast], however, place it side-by-side with overshored code.
Most software doesn't kill people and waste millions of dollars in raw materials if it fails.
Agreed on the offshore code. I don't feel threatened by India or China in the slightest when I see what they write. Code != engineering, no matter how many software engineering titles there are out there. Societies that embrace individualism are more likely to turn out good code than are societies that embrace conformity. It's more art than math.
Yeah, I've noticed this too, across the board. Corporations, these days, seem to foster a contempt for their customers. The blame for failure is often shifted onto the customer when it's usually due to a lack of vision. Corporations also seem to think that the path to profit is through controlling everything.
How many products do you buy, thinking it would be great if it can do this, only to realize that it'll never do this, because the company is too afraid of the consequences. Compare your typical PVR with something like MythTV and you'll see my point. Look at all the business that MP3s have stirred up. If the corporate world had its way, we'd have never know what an MP3 is, and they wouldn't have made all those profits.
I really despised Microsoft back in the 95/98 days because of its instability. With Win 2000, the instability no longer plagued me and I no longer hated them so much. But my resentment has been building up again given that Microsoft seems intent on giving control of my computer to everyone but me. Linux was only a (long-time) hobby of mine until I started reading up on Vista. It seemed so onerous and controlling that I won't use it (legal or not). Linux requires a greater effort, but I'm just sick of not being treated like I'm Microsoft's bread and butter. And it has come a long way since '96.
I find myself boycotting companies at a drop of a hat these day over these issues. When are they gonna wake up and rediscover their profit motive? Even at the large company I work, I have to constantly bring up the notion of "profit" to my management. They usually give me a tilted-head confused dog expression before saying something to the effect of "oh yeah." When corporations become too big, most of the employees fail to see the connection between pleasing the customer and their own paycheck.
And the C programmers are writing the same line 6200 times over again in an attempt to keep it from seg faulting or buffer overrunning. Java may arguably take more code but C/C++ always takes longer to develop.
Yeah, I was shocked by that. Where does that figure come from? No wonder we're losing to India. If you're a software engineer who only writes 6200 lines of code a year, then you're likely nothing more than a dumbass slacker. Either that or I need to be asking for a serious raise. I'm usually too busy doing other tasks to get to writing code as often as I'd like but I've easily passed the 12 thousand mark for this year (granted that includes newlines and comments, but still). Fuck it! I'm gonna start spending more time on/.
My current job involves real time financial data delivery. Writing that in Python or Java would (probably) not work out too well.
When I was a Smalltalk (interpreted) developer, there were a lot of high-paying jobs in the NYC financial district for it. I knew a guy making $200/hour doing it because there was such a demand for Smalltalk developers. In fact, it seemed like Smalltalk only really took off on Wall Street. I had always thought it was because an application that may (or may not) run a few milliseconds slower still ran faster than one that had crashed due to some mysterious seg fault. That and they wanted their applications delivered in a timely manner I'm sure.
The languages used may have changed, but the amount of (and use cases for) interpreted vs. native code hasn't changed that much over the decades. Shiny-new Java didn't change it, neither did.Net. Nor will Ruby on Rails. It's the same old song, covered by some fresh new 'hip' band.
Don't think for a second that interpreted languages are taking over; or that they're losing ground. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I don't believe that at all. There was a time where I was seeing most enterprise applications being developed in C/C++. Now, it's almost exclusively Java. And our support people love us for it. The lack of memory leaks and mysterious crashes and the decreased time-to-develop have all but made compiled languages obsolete on the back-ends. There is no going back and I suspect this is true in most companies.
Also, don't forget what makes Java shinier than the other interpreted languages, a massive standardized class library. A class library that is easy to use because it's so well documented (more than say C++ STL library by leaps and bounds). That probably has more to do with its success than any other factor, including portability.
Hence "Net Neutrality" is a _good_ thing, but it is confusing when people refer to the "Net Neutrality Bill" because what the bill actually proposes is the opposite, which often seems to be the case nowadays...kinda like Doublespeak.
Could you please explain this. The major telecom company I work for has been pressuring us to support this bill despite the "unfortunate" net neutrality provisions. I found that odd since they're one of the strongest backers of the tier-internet thing, but now they are supporting a bill against it. A google of the Net Neutrality bill led me to the Wiki site you posted. It "sounds" good. But you're saying the bill is the opposite?
I'm glad I didn't call in my support to any congressmen. If it's a bill, I figured it had to be bad. If you're telling me my instinct is right, I'd like to see the proof. I guess I'm just not googling as well as I use to.
Part of me has never believed such zealous statements, but after reading this article, there's no way I'm installing that POS. I would still like to game, but I'll likely cut most gaming out of my life if the games don't run on XP. Since most gaming companies are owned by Microsoft, I'm not waiting on Linux ports anytime soon. I'll be playing Unreal on 64-bit Gentoo till I'm old and gray I suppose.
As for techies being smarter than the majority? Not really. They are more capable of more focused, dedicated tasks.
My job as a software engineer convinces me I'm smart because I can't think of another job that requires you to multitask more or a job that requires you to constantly learn as many new things. Whatever you think of it, I certainly wouldn't call it focused. And stupid people certainly wouldn't be able to do it. I woudn't classify "stupid techies" as actual techies since they're not actually doing the job.
For the record, one punch can CERTAINLY kill if the person is hit in the correct way....especially if the one throwing the punch is a Russian boxer named Drago.
If I had eight weeks of vacation, I'd be retired by now. I have so many good software ideas, but never enough time to implement them. I can't bring myself to code much after a long work day of it. The weekends are mostly spent on the household chores that I wasn't able to get to during the work week. And much of my lousy 2 weeks of vacation are taken up visiting family and friends around Christmas. And I don't even have a wife and kids to deal with. I don't see myself ever having enough time for the whole wife & kids thing.
Right now, my plan is to save up enough to quit for a few years. But I'd much rather be able to develop my ideas, without having to give up the security of my day job. From my perspective, our crazy work hours undermine our economy since it's small businesses that are responsible for the greatest innovations. Most of my corporate work day is spent on bureaucracy and explaining things to other people, rather than actual development.
The personal computer software culture in the United States is much like that of automakers in the United States circa the sixties, who insisted that the low quality of U. S. autos was the result of the best and wisest judgement... and that public toleration of low quality, as reflected in good sales and profits, validated their judgement.
Amen brother! I never understand people who defend buggy software. My group develops software, we test it and then hand it over to the customer. We almost never have a customer report bugs that aren't the result of a misunderstanding (like not realizing what they sign off on in the service design document). The few bugs that crop up are minor and we usually catch them (and fix them) before our customers ever realized their existence. Our schedules are very tight and are marketing and sales folks are constantly promising features and timeframes behind our backs. Yet we still pull it off.
Of course, deep down I know why this is. Programs written in C/C++ are buggy and slow to develop. Programs written in Java aren't. Now I know people hate Java here, because it's "slow." But I've also seen comments here from people who say "when's the last time you wrote 100 lines of code without a bug in it?" Um, all the time. I can write thousands of lines without a bug. I may not get to choose those times, but it's common. It's not just because I'm some uber programmer, it's because I'm writting in a language that doesn't seg fault. I'm writing in a language that tells me, to the line, where my error is, I get a human readable description and the stacktrace makes it clear how I got there. I've had to recently go back to C++ for some things and it's an utterly savage language. It has it's uses (games, device drivers, etc), but beyond those, people shouldn't be programming in it anymore. I'm not saying Java is the answer, it isn't for most non-enterprise software. But bounded languages like that are what's needed to avoid churning out crap code. Escpecially in a fast paced development environment.
Capitalism will never go away because it's intrinsic to human nature. It's a civilized version of "survival of the fittest". There really is no alternative as evidenced by the fact that people who preach its destruction have no idea what might take it's place. Human work will always have value as long as there are people who don't want to work or there are people incapable of producing anything. And that will always be the case. Robots and AIs will always be limited in what they can do (or what we'll allow them to do). And in any case, someone has to design them.
Exactly. If there were a viable alternative, a country that won't follow us down the drain when our economy finally goes under, I'd be living there already.
I was referring to things like Sydney reading a report on "Project Christmas" in the finale, only for the report to have completely changed by the next premiere (Dad killed Mom, sort of). Or the Rimbaldi stuff which was all over the place, from possible life extension, to zombie manifestations in the last season finale. I also thought the whole doing away with SD-6 thing was when they started to get off track. But then no, let's bring back Sloane, this time as the head of a CIA unit (height of ridiculousness). People are always dieing and then are brought back. Sloane is evil, then he's good, then he's evil, then he's good yet again. The show is all over the place and even the creators have acknowledged this. That's why Abrams was always apologizing for it.
Document conversion from MS Office is a problem still, but even Microsoft has problems converting between various versions of MS Office, so it's hardly a showstopper.
This is the ultimate showstopper. I can look at Word docs in linux, I just can't edit them because the numbering gets screwed up. This may be a Microsoft problem underneath, but it doesn't change the fact that the docs just don't match up. I still have to reboot into Windows. And yes, I'm using the latest OpenOffice.
A terabyte is a lot. It will be a lot 5 years later, and quite a lot even 10 years later.
It's already not enough for me. I have several 500 MB drives and although I have some room now, I likely won't in a year or so. If you do anything with video or backups then no amount of space is enough. Especially not a measly terabyte.
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Women and men tend to have different priorites and needs in order to be happy in a workplace - one of the big ones for many women is the social sphere. I know that, for me, the deciding factor was that I wound up feeling as if I was spending a third of my life around people I didn't particularly like, didn't find to be particularly able to have small-talk with, and generally just left me feeling pretty cut-off from the world.
(And, for anyone who says "Work is about work, not socialization, silly female!" let me just say: Men tend to also have certain needs from a workplace that seem just as silly - that whole alpha monkey/competitive thing is pretty goddamn funny and sad. Isn't work supposed to be about work, not establishing who's dick is bigger?)
I'd say half the people I work with are women. And although they're all nice and I have nothing against them, I do feel like I'm being driven crazy by all of the incessant yammering and giggling all day. I want some silence so I can concentrate. I found it odd to read here womens accounts of how they want their work environment to be a fun social place. Personally, I want to get my work done and go home. My co-workers are just that, co-workers. We can all be friendly, without having to be friends. There isn't enough time in the day to chat and I don't want to work late. It's nothing personal.
I have no idea what you're talking about with the alpha male competitive thing. Except for the occasional joke, I've never seen anything like that. I'm not saying that it's not out their, but then I'm not actually sure what you're talking about. Do they arm wrestle where you are, or are you just talking about excessive pride in their work? You sure it's an "alpha-male" thing and not just a desire to get the best possible outcome when performance reviews kick in?
I wonder if most women just don't like to work after hours?
I'm sure I'd be considered downright sexist in some of my views and I think women just don't get computers in the way men do. That being said, I think women are typically very hard workers. I had always considered that the only equalizing factor in this field. In my experience, they usually work longer hours than the men.
That being said, if you're just talking about side projects, I'd agree. If you don't have coding projects going on outside of work, then you'll likely never rise above the level of mediocre programmer. It's a sign that you're not interested in computers as much as you are the paycheck. Nothing wrong with that, but it does explain different peoples' skill levels.
If anything, I think men need to rebalance their life, between their employment and interests.
The problem with that is much of what interests women doesn't interest most men. Women are more social creatures. Men get married because it's "the next step" and is the path to children, but men aren't inculcated with the same passion for family that women are. Women's interests seem to center around social constructs. In fact, that emphasis on socialization has always seemed unbalanced to me and I think that's the reason women don't excel in some professions as much as I would like to see.
Personally, I've chosen not to get married because frankly, it seems like a better deal for women then men. I would much rather go home and work on whatever I want, rather than visiting the in-laws or talking about my day. That's not to say that I don't have interests outside my occupation, it's more to say that I don't consider being a husband and father an interest as much as role. If I were to embrace that role, I would have little time for actual interests.
Most techie guys that I've talked to are convinced that all women who've ever even thought of getting into the industry are untapped fountains of innovation in a conveniently sexy package.
Believe me, most techie guys are not saying women are untapped fountains of innovation behind your back. That doesn't mean they don't like to work with women, it's just that they've never encountered a female uber programmer, despite plenty of female programmers. And if there are any, they are exceedingly rare.
Bad code is part of why I've long asserted a minimum of 95% (it's probably closer to 98%) of the people in the IT/IS/MIS industry who write code for a living aren't qualified to do so. Were mechanical engineers, architects, or physicians to make a tiny percentage of the errors coders make, chaos would ensue. If you want your code to look better [by contrast], however, place it side-by-side with overshored code.
Most software doesn't kill people and waste millions of dollars in raw materials if it fails.
Agreed on the offshore code. I don't feel threatened by India or China in the slightest when I see what they write. Code != engineering, no matter how many software engineering titles there are out there. Societies that embrace individualism are more likely to turn out good code than are societies that embrace conformity. It's more art than math.
Yeah, I've noticed this too, across the board. Corporations, these days, seem to foster a contempt for their customers. The blame for failure is often shifted onto the customer when it's usually due to a lack of vision. Corporations also seem to think that the path to profit is through controlling everything.
How many products do you buy, thinking it would be great if it can do this, only to realize that it'll never do this, because the company is too afraid of the consequences. Compare your typical PVR with something like MythTV and you'll see my point. Look at all the business that MP3s have stirred up. If the corporate world had its way, we'd have never know what an MP3 is, and they wouldn't have made all those profits.
I really despised Microsoft back in the 95/98 days because of its instability. With Win 2000, the instability no longer plagued me and I no longer hated them so much. But my resentment has been building up again given that Microsoft seems intent on giving control of my computer to everyone but me. Linux was only a (long-time) hobby of mine until I started reading up on Vista. It seemed so onerous and controlling that I won't use it (legal or not). Linux requires a greater effort, but I'm just sick of not being treated like I'm Microsoft's bread and butter. And it has come a long way since '96.
I find myself boycotting companies at a drop of a hat these day over these issues. When are they gonna wake up and rediscover their profit motive? Even at the large company I work, I have to constantly bring up the notion of "profit" to my management. They usually give me a tilted-head confused dog expression before saying something to the effect of "oh yeah." When corporations become too big, most of the employees fail to see the connection between pleasing the customer and their own paycheck.
I know you've been modded up already and I know it's a day old, but thank you for hitting the nail on the head.
And the C programmers are writing the same line 6200 times over again in an attempt to keep it from seg faulting or buffer overrunning. Java may arguably take more code but C/C++ always takes longer to develop.
Yeah, I was shocked by that. Where does that figure come from? No wonder we're losing to India. If you're a software engineer who only writes 6200 lines of code a year, then you're likely nothing more than a dumbass slacker. Either that or I need to be asking for a serious raise. I'm usually too busy doing other tasks to get to writing code as often as I'd like but I've easily passed the 12 thousand mark for this year (granted that includes newlines and comments, but still). Fuck it! I'm gonna start spending more time on /.
My current job involves real time financial data delivery. Writing that in Python or Java would (probably) not work out too well.
When I was a Smalltalk (interpreted) developer, there were a lot of high-paying jobs in the NYC financial district for it. I knew a guy making $200/hour doing it because there was such a demand for Smalltalk developers. In fact, it seemed like Smalltalk only really took off on Wall Street. I had always thought it was because an application that may (or may not) run a few milliseconds slower still ran faster than one that had crashed due to some mysterious seg fault. That and they wanted their applications delivered in a timely manner I'm sure.
The languages used may have changed, but the amount of (and use cases for) interpreted vs. native code hasn't changed that much over the decades. Shiny-new Java didn't change it, neither did .Net. Nor will Ruby on Rails. It's the same old song, covered by some fresh new 'hip' band.
Don't think for a second that interpreted languages are taking over; or that they're losing ground. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I don't believe that at all. There was a time where I was seeing most enterprise applications being developed in C/C++. Now, it's almost exclusively Java. And our support people love us for it. The lack of memory leaks and mysterious crashes and the decreased time-to-develop have all but made compiled languages obsolete on the back-ends. There is no going back and I suspect this is true in most companies.
Also, don't forget what makes Java shinier than the other interpreted languages, a massive standardized class library. A class library that is easy to use because it's so well documented (more than say C++ STL library by leaps and bounds). That probably has more to do with its success than any other factor, including portability.
Hence "Net Neutrality" is a _good_ thing, but it is confusing when people refer to the "Net Neutrality Bill" because what the bill actually proposes is the opposite, which often seems to be the case nowadays...kinda like Doublespeak.
Could you please explain this. The major telecom company I work for has been pressuring us to support this bill despite the "unfortunate" net neutrality provisions. I found that odd since they're one of the strongest backers of the tier-internet thing, but now they are supporting a bill against it. A google of the Net Neutrality bill led me to the Wiki site you posted. It "sounds" good. But you're saying the bill is the opposite?
I'm glad I didn't call in my support to any congressmen. If it's a bill, I figured it had to be bad. If you're telling me my instinct is right, I'd like to see the proof. I guess I'm just not googling as well as I use to.
Part of me has never believed such zealous statements, but after reading this article, there's no way I'm installing that POS. I would still like to game, but I'll likely cut most gaming out of my life if the games don't run on XP. Since most gaming companies are owned by Microsoft, I'm not waiting on Linux ports anytime soon. I'll be playing Unreal on 64-bit Gentoo till I'm old and gray I suppose.
As for techies being smarter than the majority? Not really. They are more capable of more focused, dedicated tasks.
My job as a software engineer convinces me I'm smart because I can't think of another job that requires you to multitask more or a job that requires you to constantly learn as many new things. Whatever you think of it, I certainly wouldn't call it focused. And stupid people certainly wouldn't be able to do it. I woudn't classify "stupid techies" as actual techies since they're not actually doing the job.
Actually, I thought the main character's name was Cornenlius.
That was one of the many fake names he used at one of his support groups. He didn't even have a name in the book.
For the record, one punch can CERTAINLY kill if the person is hit in the correct way. ...especially if the one throwing the punch is a Russian boxer named Drago.
If I had eight weeks of vacation, I'd be retired by now. I have so many good software ideas, but never enough time to implement them. I can't bring myself to code much after a long work day of it. The weekends are mostly spent on the household chores that I wasn't able to get to during the work week. And much of my lousy 2 weeks of vacation are taken up visiting family and friends around Christmas. And I don't even have a wife and kids to deal with. I don't see myself ever having enough time for the whole wife & kids thing.
Right now, my plan is to save up enough to quit for a few years. But I'd much rather be able to develop my ideas, without having to give up the security of my day job. From my perspective, our crazy work hours undermine our economy since it's small businesses that are responsible for the greatest innovations. Most of my corporate work day is spent on bureaucracy and explaining things to other people, rather than actual development.
The personal computer software culture in the United States is much like that of automakers in the United States circa the sixties, who insisted that the low quality of U. S. autos was the result of the best and wisest judgement... and that public toleration of low quality, as reflected in good sales and profits, validated their judgement.
Amen brother! I never understand people who defend buggy software. My group develops software, we test it and then hand it over to the customer. We almost never have a customer report bugs that aren't the result of a misunderstanding (like not realizing what they sign off on in the service design document). The few bugs that crop up are minor and we usually catch them (and fix them) before our customers ever realized their existence. Our schedules are very tight and are marketing and sales folks are constantly promising features and timeframes behind our backs. Yet we still pull it off.
Of course, deep down I know why this is. Programs written in C/C++ are buggy and slow to develop. Programs written in Java aren't. Now I know people hate Java here, because it's "slow." But I've also seen comments here from people who say "when's the last time you wrote 100 lines of code without a bug in it?" Um, all the time. I can write thousands of lines without a bug. I may not get to choose those times, but it's common. It's not just because I'm some uber programmer, it's because I'm writting in a language that doesn't seg fault. I'm writing in a language that tells me, to the line, where my error is, I get a human readable description and the stacktrace makes it clear how I got there. I've had to recently go back to C++ for some things and it's an utterly savage language. It has it's uses (games, device drivers, etc), but beyond those, people shouldn't be programming in it anymore. I'm not saying Java is the answer, it isn't for most non-enterprise software. But bounded languages like that are what's needed to avoid churning out crap code. Escpecially in a fast paced development environment.
Capitalism will certainly destroy itself one day.
Capitalism will never go away because it's intrinsic to human nature. It's a civilized version of "survival of the fittest". There really is no alternative as evidenced by the fact that people who preach its destruction have no idea what might take it's place. Human work will always have value as long as there are people who don't want to work or there are people incapable of producing anything. And that will always be the case. Robots and AIs will always be limited in what they can do (or what we'll allow them to do). And in any case, someone has to design them.
Exactly. If there were a viable alternative, a country that won't follow us down the drain when our economy finally goes under, I'd be living there already.
Never caught it on TechTV, but I must be part of that target audience since I only watch the show for her.
I was referring to things like Sydney reading a report on "Project Christmas" in the finale, only for the report to have completely changed by the next premiere (Dad killed Mom, sort of). Or the Rimbaldi stuff which was all over the place, from possible life extension, to zombie manifestations in the last season finale. I also thought the whole doing away with SD-6 thing was when they started to get off track. But then no, let's bring back Sloane, this time as the head of a CIA unit (height of ridiculousness). People are always dieing and then are brought back. Sloane is evil, then he's good, then he's evil, then he's good yet again. The show is all over the place and even the creators have acknowledged this. That's why Abrams was always apologizing for it.
Document conversion from MS Office is a problem still, but even Microsoft has problems converting between various versions of MS Office, so it's hardly a showstopper.
This is the ultimate showstopper. I can look at Word docs in linux, I just can't edit them because the numbering gets screwed up. This may be a Microsoft problem underneath, but it doesn't change the fact that the docs just don't match up. I still have to reboot into Windows. And yes, I'm using the latest OpenOffice.
Ok, so about how many full installs of Duke Nukem Forever will fit on a 750 gig drive?
Answer: Infinite
A terabyte is a lot. It will be a lot 5 years later, and quite a lot even 10 years later.
It's already not enough for me. I have several 500 MB drives and although I have some room now, I likely won't in a year or so. If you do anything with video or backups then no amount of space is enough. Especially not a measly terabyte.