I work in a small MS shop.
We use windows because our customers use windows.
We use office because our customers use office.
As for development, we use the best tools we can find. For C++, we use Visual C++. For Java we use NetBeans (fyi: OpenSource).
In general, when we need something we look for the free solution, if there isn't a quality one, we open up the pocketbook. Both management and customer love that approach.
For the record we use tons of MS products, and we never seem to get hit by these viruses/skiddies/etc.. (we do web development among other things) Maybe its cause our SAs actually do their jobs:)
I hear ya. I went and took the java programmer certification exam cause my boss wanted to send me to java school for two weeks and I didn't want to waste my time
You say that MS did not steal Linux code. Then you proceed to give a technical argument which I assume is supposed to prove that MS did not steal Linux code (which it doesn't). Finally at the end, you say you compared Win2k code to (I assume) Linux code and (I assume) they did not match.
If your technical argument was enough to support your claim, then you would not have had to say that you compared the code and it didn't match. Throw out your technical argument and you are left with. "MS didn't steal Linux code because I compared the code of the two OSs and they don't match".
No way you have the source code for Win2k, and no way you compared millions of lines of code to look for similarities.
All you are is someone who heard about VMS and VAX somewhere and decided to go trolling with it.
Hmm, in both the Java and C++ IDEs I use, all I have to do is right click on the function and select "Go to definition" or something like that. That opens the file containing the definition and puts the cursor on the function in question. But usually I don't need to see the actual source file. Since I do mostly OO programming, my IDEs lets me see any methods available to a given object as well as their signatures.
Was just thinking the same thing. The dude in the pic is using an old warped wooden racquet. I'll go out on a limb here and say a pro serve looks more like the racquetball:)
So you're saying Torment is better than Ultima IV & V, but you've never actually played them?;)
Actually those 3 are my all time favorites. Ultima IV&V were so epic. Ultima VI was awful, it was my last Ultima. You couldn'd type anything you wanted when speaking, you instead had to select from options when speaking, plus it had crap like you couldn't leave the first city unless you completed a few small quests (hmmm.. sounds like the mold of all the modern RPGs) And the worst part about it was that they scaled down the size of the continent I miss the days where you could run outta the first city and get lost in the middle of nowhere. The best was getting your ass beat by groups of dragons and demons when all you had was a dagger:)
No more mapping the dungeons by hand. no more keeping your own handwritten journal:(
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sigh :(
Kawa rocked, then the big boys take it over and it gets really buggy.
And now they are canning it??
What a waste of a once great product
I get a whopping 40 minutes on a full battery :)
Disease
Disease
Spreading the disease
I email my grandma now cause she kept FedExing me Yersinia pestis
I work in a small MS shop.
:)
We use windows because our customers use windows.
We use office because our customers use office.
As for development, we use the best tools we can find. For C++, we use Visual C++. For Java we use NetBeans (fyi: OpenSource).
In general, when we need something we look for the free solution, if there isn't a quality one, we open up the pocketbook.
Both management and customer love that approach.
For the record we use tons of MS products, and we never seem to get hit by these viruses/skiddies/etc.. (we do web development among other things)
Maybe its cause our SAs actually do their jobs
I hear ya.
I went and took the java programmer certification exam cause my boss wanted to send me to java school for two weeks and I didn't want to waste my time
ahh, the good ole berserker runs in the castle
and let us not forget that Cobra is an international terrorist organization!!
crappy cprappity crap crap
pure BS
You say that MS did not steal Linux code. Then you proceed to give a technical argument which I assume is supposed to prove that MS did not steal Linux code (which it doesn't). Finally at the end, you say you compared Win2k code to (I assume) Linux code and (I assume) they did not match.
If your technical argument was enough to support your claim, then you would not have had to say that you compared the code and it didn't match. Throw out your technical argument and you are left with. "MS didn't steal Linux code because I compared the code of the two OSs and they don't match".
No way you have the source code for Win2k, and no way you compared millions of lines of code to look for similarities.
All you are is someone who heard about VMS and VAX somewhere and decided to go trolling with it.
Hmm, in both the Java and C++ IDEs I use, all I have to do is right click on the function and select "Go to definition" or something like that. That opens the file containing the definition and puts the cursor on the function in question.
But usually I don't need to see the actual source file. Since I do mostly OO programming, my IDEs lets me see any methods available to a given object as well as their signatures.
Was just thinking the same thing. The dude in the pic is using an old warped wooden racquet. I'll go out on a limb here and say a pro serve looks more like the racquetball :)
So you're saying Torment is better than Ultima IV & V, but you've never actually played them? ;)
:)
:(
Actually those 3 are my all time favorites. Ultima IV&V were so epic.
Ultima VI was awful, it was my last Ultima. You couldn'd type anything you wanted when speaking, you instead had to select from options when speaking, plus it had crap like you couldn't leave the first city unless you completed a few small quests (hmmm.. sounds like the mold of all the modern RPGs)
And the worst part about it was that they scaled down the size of the continent
I miss the days where you could run outta the first city and get lost in the middle of nowhere.
The best was getting your ass beat by groups of dragons and demons when all you had was a dagger
No more mapping the dungeons by hand. no more keeping your own handwritten journal