The Army may have more grunts than the Marines, but as in this case, Quality makes up for Quantity.
The Marines may be part of the Navy Department, but by GOD, they're the Men's Department.
The Marines stole the eagles wings from the Air Force, the anchor from the Navy and the rope from the Army Mountain warfare school and proceeded to conquer the world.
I fully agree. IBM tried this years ago with OS/2 Warp and Merlin. Then w95 came out and invalidated everything they said. End of OS/2 as a possible competitor. To bad. I liked Merlin and currently have it on one PC on my network just to play my Dos games.
If Lindows is creating confusion, then any fence maker should sue ole Billy for using the word Gates. Make him stop using such a confusing word that means an opening in a fence.
Same anology that M$ is using. Billy doesn't get his way twice in the US, go crying to the other countries because he is sooo persecuted. Next M$ will be going after Anderson Windows and other window makers for houses.
The Marine Corps was not always under MS's thumb. They used to have the largest Banyan network in the world. If memory serves me correctly, they used to have over 10K servers under Banyan. We had problems under Banyan, but nothing like they have under MS. I left the MC before they discarded Banyan, but everyone knew it was coming. Banyan was a great system, but MS and other reasons made it obsolete.
But the troops were not always as poorly trained as they appear now (in IT training, not combat). I saw it as a Sgt back in the early 90's. The training changed at Quantico (Computer Science School) to where the NCO's in the field had to take the new troops under our wing and train them because they were darn near incompetent when they graduated. It was sad to see that the Data Dinks had fallen so low.
Yes, the MC does train a lot, but I was in charge of the Micro Repair shop, Network Control, Mainframe Ops and Banyan Admininstration as a Sgt. I walked away from that billet with a personal request from HQMC to do circuit provisioning for the MC before it went to DISN. I had some Corporals who I would not let them touch my PC's for any reason. This was when A+ was a four hour course and a test to be certified. I think the MC has gone the wrong way in computing (toward MS) but their are individuals who are intelligent and knowledgeable and have learned on their own other operating systems and have become superior Data Dinks. As for those who rely on MS..... I shake my head but have no sympathy for you.
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The Army may have more grunts than the Marines, but as in this case, Quality makes up for Quantity. The Marines may be part of the Navy Department, but by GOD, they're the Men's Department. The Marines stole the eagles wings from the Air Force, the anchor from the Navy and the rope from the Army Mountain warfare school and proceeded to conquer the world.
I fully agree. IBM tried this years ago with OS/2 Warp and Merlin. Then w95 came out and invalidated everything they said. End of OS/2 as a possible competitor. To bad. I liked Merlin and currently have it on one PC on my network just to play my Dos games.
I hope the world will one day be X-Microsoft and X-Gates. That will make me X-static. :)
If Lindows is creating confusion, then any fence maker should sue ole Billy for using the word Gates. Make him stop using such a confusing word that means an opening in a fence.
Same anology that M$ is using. Billy doesn't get his way twice in the US, go crying to the other countries because he is sooo persecuted. Next M$ will be going after Anderson Windows and other window makers for houses.
The Marine Corps was not always under MS's thumb. They used to have the largest Banyan network in the world. If memory serves me correctly, they used to have over 10K servers under Banyan. We had problems under Banyan, but nothing like they have under MS. I left the MC before they discarded Banyan, but everyone knew it was coming. Banyan was a great system, but MS and other reasons made it obsolete. But the troops were not always as poorly trained as they appear now (in IT training, not combat). I saw it as a Sgt back in the early 90's. The training changed at Quantico (Computer Science School) to where the NCO's in the field had to take the new troops under our wing and train them because they were darn near incompetent when they graduated. It was sad to see that the Data Dinks had fallen so low. Yes, the MC does train a lot, but I was in charge of the Micro Repair shop, Network Control, Mainframe Ops and Banyan Admininstration as a Sgt. I walked away from that billet with a personal request from HQMC to do circuit provisioning for the MC before it went to DISN. I had some Corporals who I would not let them touch my PC's for any reason. This was when A+ was a four hour course and a test to be certified. I think the MC has gone the wrong way in computing (toward MS) but their are individuals who are intelligent and knowledgeable and have learned on their own other operating systems and have become superior Data Dinks. As for those who rely on MS..... I shake my head but have no sympathy for you.