One of the MANY flaws of this argument is that there is no way to tell what, in the long run, qualifies as a 'severely disabled' infant. My son is a wonderful example. At 3 months old he was diagnosed with large rapidly growing cysts in his brain. They had been present since long before birth and had caused malformations in his brain. He required immediate surgery to relieve the pressure in his brain. He hemmoraged during the operation and required an emergency craneotomy (That is, they removed a one inch diameter peice of his skull so they could reach inside and cauterize the area). After the operation the doctors told us that a lot of blood washed over his brain and along with the cystic material and malformations that we would be 'lucky' if he were only moderatly mentally retarded. We were also told that his motor control would be poor and that he may never even sit up. That was three years ago. My happy, walking, running and talking son scores in the 75% percentile on cognitive ability tests and attends a typical pre-school. In short, the doctors were wrong. I'll repeat it again if you missed it, the doctors were dead wrong. Which would have been the case if we lived in a "Singerian" world. Yes, there are still issues. For example he does not have great motor control so while he walks fine, he runs like a drunk linebacker and still has to use the hadrail to ascend or descend a flight of stairs. He also gets speech therapy 3 days a week. How about his quality of life, and the quality of life of my family? Just fine thank you. The moral of the story? Yes, there are birth defects and syndromes where the outcome is guaranteed to be grim. But for the rest of the cases, we just don't know. I don't know. You don't know. The doctors don't know. -joe
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If I setup my server using all the optimizations and tricks that the MS team used to get their winning numbers, would MS still provide me support for that machine? I doubt it.
Can I even find out the tweaks they used?
A better comparison would have been Linux and NT installs fresh out of the box with no tweaking. I don't have the time to keep track of such tweaks to my systems. I try to keep them as close to fresh installs as possible so that I can maintain them easily and rebuild them quickly.
Did it ever occur to you what might happen when a Windows programmer starts poking around on linux?
I will tell you. I know since I am a Windows programmer learning linux.
I am in awe of such a clear, clean and well designed system. The openness of the system is refreshing. After having spent many hours trying to reverse engineer binary files and snoop around APIs I needed but were poorly or incorrectly documented it is wonderful to be able to dig though the source code and see what is really going on. The more I learn, the more frustrated I get with MS and any proprietary operating system or software.
You don't realize how bad you have it until you see how nice the other folks live!
Now, some caveats to the above statements; I do have a BS in Computer Science and I program in C++ not VB (No, not with MFC), so I'm sorry I don't fit into your prejudiced little box.
Yes, there are poor Windows programmers. Yes, alot of them use VB and have no idea how an operating system works. That frustrates me to no end that they call themselves programmers. My point is not to lump us all into one bucket and end up alienating people that could really help.
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Ok, so it replaces the car.
Think, how fast can you run...
One of the MANY flaws of this argument is that there is no way to tell what, in the long run, qualifies as a 'severely disabled' infant. My son is a wonderful example. At 3 months old he was diagnosed with large rapidly growing cysts in his brain. They had been present since long before birth and had caused malformations in his brain. He required immediate surgery to relieve the pressure in his brain. He hemmoraged during the operation and required an emergency craneotomy (That is, they removed a one inch diameter peice of his skull so they could reach inside and cauterize the area). After the operation the doctors told us that a lot of blood washed over his brain and along with the cystic material and malformations that we would be 'lucky' if he were only moderatly mentally retarded. We were also told that his motor control would be poor and that he may never even sit up. That was three years ago. My happy, walking, running and talking son scores in the 75% percentile on cognitive ability tests and attends a typical pre-school. In short, the doctors were wrong. I'll repeat it again if you missed it, the doctors were dead wrong. Which would have been the case if we lived in a "Singerian" world. Yes, there are still issues. For example he does not have great motor control so while he walks fine, he runs like a drunk linebacker and still has to use the hadrail to ascend or descend a flight of stairs. He also gets speech therapy 3 days a week. How about his quality of life, and the quality of life of my family? Just fine thank you. The moral of the story? Yes, there are birth defects and syndromes where the outcome is guaranteed to be grim. But for the rest of the cases, we just don't know. I don't know. You don't know. The doctors don't know. -joe
If I setup my server using all the optimizations and tricks that the MS team used to get their winning numbers, would MS still provide me support for that machine? I doubt it.
Can I even find out the tweaks they used?
A better comparison would have been Linux and NT installs fresh out of the box with no tweaking. I don't have the time to keep track of such tweaks to my systems. I try to keep them as close to fresh installs as possible so that I can maintain them easily and rebuild them quickly.
Did it ever occur to you what might happen when a
Windows programmer starts poking around on linux?
I will tell you. I know since I am a Windows
programmer learning linux.
I am in awe of such a clear, clean and well
designed system. The openness of the system
is refreshing. After having spent many hours
trying to reverse engineer binary files and snoop
around APIs I needed but were poorly or
incorrectly documented it is wonderful to be able
to dig though the source code and see what is
really going on. The more I learn, the more
frustrated I get with MS and any proprietary
operating system or software.
You don't realize how bad you have it until
you see how nice the other folks live!
Now, some caveats to the above statements; I
do have a BS in Computer Science and I
program in C++ not VB (No, not with MFC), so
I'm sorry I don't fit into your
prejudiced little box.
Yes, there are poor Windows programmers. Yes,
alot of them use VB and have no idea how an
operating system works. That frustrates me to no
end that they call themselves programmers. My
point is not to lump us all into one bucket and
end up alienating people that could really help.