Nvidia has been doing that forever and they're considered by many to have the most stable highest performing driver in the desktop market. In fact ATI has been trying to go to a unified driver for some time (due in part to Nvidia's positive feedback from users who like not being able to mess up driver selection).
I hardly think Ayn Rand would have approved of Microsoft's behavior I don't remember Harry Reardon making it only so his steel rails would work with only his steel trains to phase everyone out, in fact her characters tended to make things better for everyone in the process (even the competitors that lost could, if they so chose use the competition to make themselves better) cause it was in their self-interest to make a buck and not have the other effective inventors and business men hate them (splitting the effective up instead of unifying them against the stupid and ineffectual), which who actually "likes" or benefits wholly from working with microsft. Microsoft wouldn't have pissed off most of the world and started strong grassroots support for alternatives , if they were actually behaving in their true own self-interest. They got greedy for power, and money. Long term health of the company be damned.
Fair enough, it was a pointless stupid statement. In all honesty though I have a loathing for VB programs that I've used from time to time (I know depends on the quality of the coder), but I'd like to think that reason there has been no clone is the lack of desire to clone it. If your refering to a nice IDE the new kdevelop coming out soon looks really solid (support for Java, C++, and C), QT designer is an easy to use GUI designer (for the more drag and drop minded gui designer). So for the IDE there are some products out there that at least I like to use. But I'm not a big fan of the VB programmer culture or the language its just never appealed to me at all.
So sorry I resorted to grumpy name calling, but honestly I just don't understand how something like VB could ever keep you from using Linux as your main OS. As a programming environment they're tons of great tools, a giant library of existing code for you to use and learn from, and if you bored learning one language you can choose from dozens of others with active communities.
Just my opinion, no harm intended. I just really like using my Linux OS all the time (cept when I'm at my second job and forced to use windows).
VB!!!!! nuff said, your not ready for linux. Plenty of stuff out there that does everything that VB does and more, while being easy to use and scriptable
try linux and transgaming $5 a month for binaries and support or free CVS download. Been playin Civ3 on it for months (no windows boxes in house, sadly the one I'm posting on at work is 2k)
I don't think your case by case experience is indicative of anything, nor anyone elses for that matter. Two different people can build identical computers, using identical software and have widely different results (jumper setup, quirks of the motherboard bios, irq setup). Now take that fact and start throwing in different hardware and different OS's. The fact of the matter is that in the hands of an individual familar with the components and the software they can get a PC working fine. That means windows 2000, Suse, XP, Slackware, and even vile win98 (or 95).
People get religious over AMD/Intel, 98/XP, Windows/Linux, hey if 300,000+ people use something and you can't figure it out, maybe the product isn't the one to blame. Argurments over configuration issues just don't usually fly (Issues with flawed design do definitely occur, but not AT ALL as frequently as people think).
Sorry for biting on the troll btw but I couldn't help it
Not agreeing that Unix FP extensions aren't broken (I haven't used them enough to be an authority on the subject, I try to avoid supporting microsoft server technology if I can help it), but its a flawed argument to say because he had some many phone calls, that anything is broken. If you've ever done tech support everything involves a lot of hand holding, I've had thousands of phone calls in tech support about STANDARDS, let alone Microsoft generated standards.
We are talking about front page customers here, I've had who knows how many phone calls about people who blew out their motherboard by changing mice while the machine was on repeatedly, does that mean their motherboard design is broken. All technology requires some understanding of what to do. Front page users are not the most sophisticated web designers.
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Nvidia has been doing that forever and they're considered by many to have the most stable highest performing driver in the desktop market. In fact ATI has been trying to go to a unified driver for some time (due in part to Nvidia's positive feedback from users who like not being able to mess up driver selection).
I hardly think Ayn Rand would have approved of Microsoft's behavior I don't remember Harry Reardon making it only so his steel rails would work with only his steel trains to phase everyone out, in fact her characters tended to make things better for everyone in the process (even the competitors that lost could, if they so chose use the competition to make themselves better) cause it was in their self-interest to make a buck and not have the other effective inventors and business men hate them (splitting the effective up instead of unifying them against the stupid and ineffectual), which who actually "likes" or benefits wholly from working with microsft. Microsoft wouldn't have pissed off most of the world and started strong grassroots support for alternatives , if they were actually behaving in their true own self-interest. They got greedy for power, and money. Long term health of the company be damned.
Fair enough, it was a pointless stupid statement. In all honesty though I have a loathing for VB programs that I've used from time to time (I know depends on the quality of the coder), but I'd like to think that reason there has been no clone is the lack of desire to clone it. If your refering to a nice IDE the new kdevelop coming out soon looks really solid (support for Java, C++, and C), QT designer is an easy to use GUI designer (for the more drag and drop minded gui designer). So for the IDE there are some products out there that at least I like to use. But I'm not a big fan of the VB programmer culture or the language its just never appealed to me at all.
So sorry I resorted to grumpy name calling, but honestly I just don't understand how something like VB could ever keep you from using Linux as your main OS. As a programming environment they're tons of great tools, a giant library of existing code for you to use and learn from, and if you bored learning one language you can choose from dozens of others with active communities.
Just my opinion, no harm intended. I just really like using my Linux OS all the time (cept when I'm at my second job and forced to use windows).
VB!!!!! nuff said, your not ready for linux. Plenty of stuff out there that does everything that VB does and more, while being easy to use and scriptable
try linux and transgaming $5 a month for binaries and support or free CVS download. Been playin Civ3 on it for months (no windows boxes in house, sadly the one I'm posting on at work is 2k)
I don't think your case by case experience is indicative of anything, nor anyone elses for that matter. Two different people can build identical computers, using identical software and have widely different results (jumper setup, quirks of the motherboard bios, irq setup). Now take that fact and start throwing in different hardware and different OS's. The fact of the matter is that in the hands of an individual familar with the components and the software they can get a PC working fine. That means windows 2000, Suse, XP, Slackware, and even vile win98 (or 95).
People get religious over AMD/Intel, 98/XP, Windows/Linux, hey if 300,000+ people use something and you can't figure it out, maybe the product isn't the one to blame. Argurments over configuration issues just don't usually fly (Issues with flawed design do definitely occur, but not AT ALL as frequently as people think).
Sorry for biting on the troll btw but I couldn't help it
Not agreeing that Unix FP extensions aren't broken (I haven't used them enough to be an authority on the subject, I try to avoid supporting microsoft server technology if I can help it), but its a flawed argument to say because he had some many phone calls, that anything is broken. If you've ever done tech support everything involves a lot of hand holding, I've had thousands of phone calls in tech support about STANDARDS, let alone Microsoft generated standards. We are talking about front page customers here, I've had who knows how many phone calls about people who blew out their motherboard by changing mice while the machine was on repeatedly, does that mean their motherboard design is broken. All technology requires some understanding of what to do. Front page users are not the most sophisticated web designers.