[BEGIN RANT] Seriously...the amount of people on this board who bash MS...it gets annoying. Yes, there are things you can do with Linux & not with Windows. Yes, Bill Gates is filthy rich and I'd love to have his money and I'm jealous as hell.
But...fuck...just trashing on MS 'cause "everybody else is doing it" is...I'm not sure what. Stupid is the only word I've got. [END RANT]
Okay, so it does suck a little that Microsoft is not supporting their software before they officially said they would stop supporting it.
However...
NT? That's like the 95 of the NT Kernel. Please move on...there is nothing else there. Microsoft seems to realize this. They're just trying to kill it off. (Much like they are working to kill of 95/98/ME by writing applications that DO NOT WORK for those systems. Ex. Office 11)
800 bucks for a 15-inch screen? Where the hell are you getting your pricings at? I can get a 15-inch LCD for 150. It doesn't get expenseive until 18-inch and higher. (A good 17 inch I can get for under 500.)
Yes, there are (many) bugs in software. Windows has 'em, Linux has 'em -- any large piece of code is going to have bugs. No matter how much testing is peformed all the bugs cannot be caught due to what kind of stresses users put software through. (Today's testing methods are very inefficient...but that's a whole 'nother store.)
Anyway, whether this story is real or not, I have to agree with "Bill." I think idiot users are half the problem. I used to help with tech support as a summer job awhile back, and when customers called in complaining about some piece of software, it was, 90% of the time, something they had done that was very stupid. I mean, hell, wouldn't software design be extremely easy if designers didn't have to worry about "error catching" and "user input"? Most definitely.
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[BEGIN RANT]
Seriously...the amount of people on this board who bash MS...it gets annoying. Yes, there are things you can do with Linux & not with Windows. Yes, Bill Gates is filthy rich and I'd love to have his money and I'm jealous as hell.
But...fuck...just trashing on MS 'cause "everybody else is doing it" is...I'm not sure what. Stupid is the only word I've got.
[END RANT]
That bugs ya? How about the Asian culture -- to them, our whole damn continent is "The West" ;-)
P.S. I don't mean to be disrespectful to Asians in anyway. Just trying to make a humerous point. If I failed, the mods will show.
Which VisualStudio are you using? VS.NET is pretty damn nice...
(I've use Eclipse & Websphere on a frequent basis, so, I'm basing my opinion on the use of both IDEs)
Okay, so it does suck a little that Microsoft is not supporting their software before they officially said they would stop supporting it.
However...
NT? That's like the 95 of the NT Kernel. Please move on...there is nothing else there. Microsoft seems to realize this. They're just trying to kill it off. (Much like they are working to kill of 95/98/ME by writing applications that DO NOT WORK for those systems. Ex. Office 11)
800 bucks for a 15-inch screen? Where the hell are you getting your pricings at? I can get a 15-inch LCD for 150. It doesn't get expenseive until 18-inch and higher. (A good 17 inch I can get for under 500.)
Call me stupid (okay...so...don't), but I kinda like the "garish" Windows XP look. Besides, with a good StyleXP skin, Windows can look downright cool.
Honestly, I find the original Windows look...boring...
Yes, there are (many) bugs in software. Windows has 'em, Linux has 'em -- any large piece of code is going to have bugs. No matter how much testing is peformed all the bugs cannot be caught due to what kind of stresses users put software through. (Today's testing methods are very inefficient...but that's a whole 'nother store.)
Anyway, whether this story is real or not, I have to agree with "Bill." I think idiot users are half the problem. I used to help with tech support as a summer job awhile back, and when customers called in complaining about some piece of software, it was, 90% of the time, something they had done that was very stupid. I mean, hell, wouldn't software design be extremely easy if designers didn't have to worry about "error catching" and "user input"? Most definitely.
Okay...my two cents. Spend it how you will.
"Scientists have described how wires can now be made by yeast organisms..."
So does the mean that computer viruses of the future will be known as...yeast infections?