It also tends to amaze me that alot computer professionals don't seem to get the TRUE point of software. Use the best tools to get the job done in the best way, in the least amount of time (without compromising the best part...). Whether it be a MS product, freeware, etc. In my opinion, limiting yourslef to one OS or one line of products means your limiting your skill-set...course this is open to de(flame)bate.
As a VB programmer, I find myself continually shunned in certain elements of the "community" for my use of MS products. Sorry, but I guess I owe my job to Gates. Not to fill the man's already super-inflated ego, but Microsoft made the personal computer TRULY marketable with an astounding saturation. Not an opinion, just a fact. True the ethics of their business practicies may be in question, but what was the phrase? "Dog eat dog"? I think alot of professionals, even the Linux supporters, owe their positions to a company that made joe-shmo buy a hunk of silicon, jack it into the wall and plug in to the net.
I dunno, call me devil's advocate, I see a whole conglomeration of factors here
Shared bandwidth- after using my cable modem at home I've noticed a SIGNIFICANT slowdown at peak periods. Perhaps it's due to the infancy of the infrastructure or my next door neighbor downloading the digital trailer for Phantom Menace. Any attempt by the provider to regulate the floodgates seems understandable to me.
Personal servers- it's grand and all that higher bandwidth is coming, but consider the negatives. Every gum-chewing-tattooed alterna-teen has the ability to toss up a site using his newfangled DSL/Cable modem. Course the more sights you got up there, the more traffic, etc. etc. The business world is making it's attempts to squelch the little guy by slowing down the home-grown sites. It's not right, of course, it's business. I could go on for days about stories of big business pushing out small business.
Though, I'm not to worried. I'm just gonna sit around on my but 'till wireless comes into the game. Then see them try to stop me.:)
Doing nothing but computers isn't living at all, let alone living well.
I'd have to beg to differ there. I don't know about others but the computer offers something unique for me.
I, myself, tend to compare the computer to more of a (metaphorically speaking) musical instrument than anything else.
To me, when I sit down to the computer and code, it becomes an extension of myself. I love to delve into multimedia programming. Lines upon lines of endless code, working towards some end result...some visual product.
Albeit, that's not all I do, but I sure do a hella lot of it. To me, the "geek/nerd-computer-tunnel-vision" is a release. I'd like to think there's something Zen about it.:)
Either that or spend a weekend dumster diving behind the local F.D. and buy a spanner wrench from Home Depot... lil' buggers won't know what hit them. Works great for crowd control too!
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Eh, figured it'd have to happen sooner or later. RIAA was having puppies. Still, time to evaluate other methods of listening to MP3s:
List goes on...
Screw the record execs... They aren't gonna get me without a fight. 'Sides there's always going to be a way around SDMI. It's called MP3.
Jonny Angel
*cough* *cough* open source *cough* *cough*
Jonny Angel
I agree whole-heartedly.
:)
It also tends to amaze me that alot computer professionals don't seem to get the TRUE point of software. Use the best tools to get the job done in the best way, in the least amount of time (without compromising the best part...). Whether it be a MS product, freeware, etc. In my opinion, limiting yourslef to one OS or one line of products means your limiting your skill-set...course this is open to de(flame)bate.
As a VB programmer, I find myself continually shunned in certain elements of the "community" for my use of MS products. Sorry, but I guess I owe my job to Gates. Not to fill the man's already super-inflated ego, but Microsoft made the personal computer TRULY marketable with an astounding saturation. Not an opinion, just a fact. True the ethics of their business practicies may be in question, but what was the phrase? "Dog eat dog"? I think alot of professionals, even the Linux supporters, owe their positions to a company that made joe-shmo buy a hunk of silicon, jack it into the wall and plug in to the net.
Gotta respect that.
Jonny Angel
I dunno, call me devil's advocate, I see a whole conglomeration of factors here
Though, I'm not to worried. I'm just gonna sit around on my but 'till wireless comes into the game. Then see them try to stop me. :)
Jonny Angel
I'd have to beg to differ there. I don't know about others but the computer offers something unique for me.
I, myself, tend to compare the computer to more of a (metaphorically speaking) musical instrument than anything else.
To me, when I sit down to the computer and code, it becomes an extension of myself. I love to delve into multimedia programming. Lines upon lines of endless code, working towards some end result...some visual product.
Albeit, that's not all I do, but I sure do a hella lot of it. To me, the "geek/nerd-computer-tunnel-vision" is a release. I'd like to think there's something Zen about it. :)
Jonny Angel
Either that or spend a weekend dumster diving behind the local F.D. and buy a spanner wrench from Home Depot... lil' buggers won't know what hit them. Works great for crowd control too!
Jonny Angel