Don't forget that Microsoft has had 64-bit versions of Windows NT out before (for Alpha). That was about 10 years before Apple took some CMU freeware, the NExT OS, and MacOS and shoved them together as fast as they could.
Microsoft has a lot more experience with 64-bit desktop OSs than anyone else.
In other words, saying that 1 Cor 9 condemns homosexuality is about as ridiculous as saying that it condemns hererosexuality because it condemns adultry. All it actually condems is homosexuality in the context of certain kinds of prostitution.
And not only that, he still evaded my first question! Where in the "Bible" (either the one given to Moses on Mt. Sinai or the xtian one) does it say ANYTHING about LESBIANS? That was what this poster had claimed. Even a literal interpretation of the Greek for the so-called "New Testament" shows only male homosexuals.
Can you show me where in your "Bible" there's anything against lesbianism?
I, too, am a religious person. But any follower of an Abrahamic religion who makes up things that aren't in the bible as given to Moses is violation at least two of the "10 Commandments" (and several more of the entire 613 commandments), and is sure to face the consequences when its time for you to meet your Creator.
For example, I keep adding "Charles Manson" to the page "list of eagle scouts" (a fact confirmed by many sources, including article in NY Times), and it keeps getting removed. I've been contacted and told they want to keep the list "nice for the kids".
Alrighty then! If OSX is better for you, use it. Just be thankful that you can now choose between several commercial and several free choices for clustering and stop making silly playground arguments.
Probably from a recent Mac users meeting! I've gone to those things, and you see these people who do nothing but run Photoshop all day long skip around and say "Intel is bad because its thegmented!" and other nonsense.
I switched from MP3 and AAC to WMA after conducting extensive personal double-blind listening tests.
WMA is clearly superior for classical and Jazz recordings at low and high bitrates. I also like the choice I get with on-line music providers, and the fact that there are at least 40 commercial WMA players on the market, not to mention about 50% of the newest DVD players on the market play WMA audio files.
The Linux operating system provides a sophisticated framework for running programs
Is it sophisticated or poorly designed? Has anyone ever seen an X Application that looked and felt as nice as a native Windows (or Mac OS X) application? Has anyone ever gotten stuff like drag/drop between applications or ICCCM to work correctly? I'd say it's far from sophisticated--it's clunky, ill conceived, and hard to apply effectively.
Ouch! That hurt! I wish I was as sophisticated a music listener as you and could understand the profound nature of 50-cent and Snoop Dog! However, because I'm simple-minded, I'm stuck listening to symphony orchestras, Operas, and jazz legends.
I buy CDs because they're cheaper! I generally listen to Classical and Jazz which isn't available in any quantity or quality on-line from places like iTunes MS anyway.
Using Amazon to locate used CD dealers, I can always buy a CD cheaper then I could buy the same content itwere availble for.99c/track. Plus I'm getting UNCOMPRESSED PCM, on a durable medium.
First of all, I don't develop exclusivly for Microsoft. I am a Mac developer (I'm a former Apple employee, in fact), a FreeBSD, and a PalmOS developer too! (Not to mention embedded microcontrollers like PIC, etc).
It's just that my personal experience shows that Microsoft's development tools and systems (C#,.NET) are at the present time, the best environments for developing desktop applications. For someone who builds custom vertical solutions, I chose Microsoft.
In the past, I've worked for companies that made high-end shrink-wrap software. The shrink-wrap market is suffering, and I'd hate to see it killed by "political" moves to "open source" cloneware that's unstable, hard to administer, and may cost more in the long run.
Companies like Apple and Sun spent a lot of money on direct and Viral marketing campaigns to make liking Microsoft politically incorrect. (Apple has shills that work message boards like/. making you all a bunch of dupes!). That's a very disturbing trend--worse in my opinion than any pricing strategy Microsoft has ever been criticized for.
As someone who's earned a good living writing computer software and managing software projects over the past 25 years, I'm outraged about this move to "Free Software".
The Government wouldn't be able to get away with replacing other workers and contractors with unpaid volunteers--why should people who write software for a living be treated any differently?
What's especially troubling is that this move is motivated by some off-beat political agenda that makes it unpopular to support American industry like Microsoft and Oracle in exchange for using second-rate software developed by kids overseas.
I tried and rejected Open Office. It is an inferior product.
This is exactly the attitude that cased me to run away from the Macintosh platform. C# and.NET aren't crap. In fact the Gnu folks and Novell's Open Source group are spending considerable time and effort with their own implementations. You don't see a lot of new Objective-C stuff going on outside Apple, do you?
As for the $499 dollar price tag, nice move on Apple's part but to quote Mr Steve Ballmer "DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS"
That's an excellent point (which I talked about here). In fact, the reason I switched from Macintosh development to Windows development is because the tools on Windows are many times better than Apple's crashy UI slapped on top of Gnu's Objective-C compiler and GDB.
Interesting story and it shattered some "myths" -- like Microsoft dumped OS/2 for purely strategic business reasons, not because Windows 3.0 was better.
It's also interesting to note that WAY BACK in 1989 Microsoft was running applications in protected virtual memory spaces on a consumer desktop OS. It wasn't until 2001 that Apple (after at least two failed attempts--Copland, Taligent) was able to do that (by appropriating code from CMU and Berkeley). It was truly a feat to get those early processors (286) to work well.
People sometimes underestimate the true innovation that goes on (and continues to happen) at Microsoft!
Back when Real Names was a business, I was working for a Movie Studio. The Real Names folks almost sounded threatening when they told us that we'd better snatch up our names before someone else did! Thankfully we just ignored them.
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Microsoft has a lot more experience with 64-bit desktop OSs than anyone else.
And not only that, he still evaded my first question! Where in the "Bible" (either the one given to Moses on Mt. Sinai or the xtian one) does it say ANYTHING about LESBIANS? That was what this poster had claimed. Even a literal interpretation of the Greek for the so-called "New Testament" shows only male homosexuals.
I, too, am a religious person. But any follower of an Abrahamic religion who makes up things that aren't in the bible as given to Moses is violation at least two of the "10 Commandments" (and several more of the entire 613 commandments), and is sure to face the consequences when its time for you to meet your Creator.
No entries on Wikipedia can truly be trusted.
Alrighty then! If OSX is better for you, use it. Just be thankful that you can now choose between several commercial and several free choices for clustering and stop making silly playground arguments.
Probably from a recent Mac users meeting! I've gone to those things, and you see these people who do nothing but run Photoshop all day long skip around and say "Intel is bad because its thegmented!" and other nonsense.
Since Women make 59 cents for every dollar earned, encouraging them to go into IT is simply a way to reduce labor costs.
Apple's users wouldn't be Apple's users if they weren't nutty as fruitcakes!
Most of them would be better served with a bottle of Paxil or Lexapro than an iPod.
WMA is clearly superior for classical and Jazz recordings at low and high bitrates. I also like the choice I get with on-line music providers, and the fact that there are at least 40 commercial WMA players on the market, not to mention about 50% of the newest DVD players on the market play WMA audio files.
I applaud Nokia for making such a sound choice.
Is it sophisticated or poorly designed? Has anyone ever seen an X Application that looked and felt as nice as a native Windows (or Mac OS X) application? Has anyone ever gotten stuff like drag/drop between applications or ICCCM to work correctly? I'd say it's far from sophisticated--it's clunky, ill conceived, and hard to apply effectively.
Ouch! That hurt! I wish I was as sophisticated a music listener as you and could understand the profound nature of 50-cent and Snoop Dog! However, because I'm simple-minded, I'm stuck listening to symphony orchestras, Operas, and jazz legends.
Using Amazon to locate used CD dealers, I can always buy a CD cheaper then I could buy the same content itwere availble for .99c/track. Plus I'm getting UNCOMPRESSED PCM, on a durable medium.
It's just that my personal experience shows that Microsoft's development tools and systems (C#, .NET) are at the present time, the best environments for developing desktop applications. For someone who builds custom vertical solutions, I chose Microsoft.
In the past, I've worked for companies that made high-end shrink-wrap software. The shrink-wrap market is suffering, and I'd hate to see it killed by "political" moves to "open source" cloneware that's unstable, hard to administer, and may cost more in the long run.
Companies like Apple and Sun spent a lot of money on direct and Viral marketing campaigns to make liking Microsoft politically incorrect. (Apple has shills that work message boards like /. making you all a bunch of dupes!). That's a very disturbing trend--worse in my opinion than any pricing strategy Microsoft has ever been criticized for.
The Government wouldn't be able to get away with replacing other workers and contractors with unpaid volunteers--why should people who write software for a living be treated any differently?
What's especially troubling is that this move is motivated by some off-beat political agenda that makes it unpopular to support American industry like Microsoft and Oracle in exchange for using second-rate software developed by kids overseas.
I tried and rejected Open Office. It is an inferior product.
There is! Run I.E. in a VirtualPC window.
This is exactly the attitude that cased me to run away from the Macintosh platform. C# and .NET aren't crap. In fact the Gnu folks and Novell's Open Source group are spending considerable time and effort with their own implementations. You don't see a lot of new Objective-C stuff going on outside Apple, do you?
That's an excellent point (which I talked about here). In fact, the reason I switched from Macintosh development to Windows development is because the tools on Windows are many times better than Apple's crashy UI slapped on top of Gnu's Objective-C compiler and GDB.
With the bar on the top!
It's also interesting to note that WAY BACK in 1989 Microsoft was running applications in protected virtual memory spaces on a consumer desktop OS. It wasn't until 2001 that Apple (after at least two failed attempts--Copland, Taligent) was able to do that (by appropriating code from CMU and Berkeley). It was truly a feat to get those early processors (286) to work well.
People sometimes underestimate the true innovation that goes on (and continues to happen) at Microsoft!
This posting is a hoax! The real Don Knuth would have it in TeX format, not PostScript.
...who thinks that murdering innocent women and children is prefectly OK.
I'll just wait for W. Richard Steven's book on IPV6. That'll explain everything.
Bunk! It still happens. You can stamp and scream and "blame the user" buy your "free software" is no bargain.
Back when Real Names was a business, I was working for a Movie Studio. The Real Names folks almost sounded threatening when they told us that we'd better snatch up our names before someone else did! Thankfully we just ignored them.
*I* do!
I switched back to IE from Firefox because I got tired of bugs like this