I seem to remember seeing a note on the VMWare site (somewhere in the FAQ?) that they were working on an OS X version of VMWare... something like 6 months ago. They have been working on it for a while so it's not a 'new thing' for them as much as working on getting it right. I've used VMWare for a while and really like it, now all I need is a new intel Mac to run it on.:)
Something I've wondered about and have started playing around with on my dev boxes is the performance/capabilities difference between running ASP.NET in an MS environment (win2k server + IIS, it's what I got) VS running ASP.NET on Mono (Linux (Ubuntu/RedHat) + Apache) if the performance is similer MS may soon find that they have totaly lost control of ASP.NET and it is now in the OSS wild.
And what about the LISA and NeXT OS? Watching a demo that Steve Jobs did of a NeXT box I saw a lot of things that are now in OS X, and it was out there before Longhorn.
The speed problem can often be solved just buy getting a faster hardware. The main reason Linus rejected microkernels back in the day was because the cost of context switches was prohibitive. Today hardware is lot faster (roughtly Moore's law), so context switches will be alright on a 3GHz Pentium IV machines while it would not be doable on a 33Mhz machines.
It's interesting that most microkernel advocates admit that it was to slow for older hardware but that doesn't matter now that machines have gotten so fast, yet when any review is done on an OS one of the main criteria is speed doing a task. It's by no means the defining criteria but it is an important one, especially in the Server realm. Even with the proposed stability of a microkernel many server roles are better served by something that is simpler and faster.
Where volume is concerned simplicity is better then anything else, many times I've had to sit down and work hard to optimize a recursive algorithm or an algorithm that is run thousands of times, even the smallest change that saves one or two compute cycles per run often saves 10 to 100 milliseconds when run N times on a full system. Several times I've seen "better" methods get tossed when they realize that it will not run quickly on production systems because the complexity can't handle the volume.
Thanks for the reasonable reply, and I can see the point being made... but on first sight the only thing that comes to a person's mind is... well... "wtf"... and bewilderment...
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Actually going side by side trying to get the same options the prices come out to:
Macbook Pro: $2799
Dell Precision M90: $3119 (after a $175 discount)
Now it's true that the screen is different (15.4 Macbook VS 17 Dell) and you can push the Dell PC to much higher specs, but still I think the Macbook wins on this one, even if it's just barely.
It is interesting to note the memory options on the Dell notebook, first off all of them are 2 DIMMs, meaning that after you grab your memory option you can't upgrade it without throwing out your existing ram, on the MacBook the standard ram is 1GB and 1 DIMM, easy expansion option there! The other thing is that the option on the Dell for 4GB of ram is a cost of $2560 just for the upgrade!!! that's almost the base price for the whole Laptop! Unless you have an application that absolutly needs 4GB of ram no-one will be buying that option.
Another interesting option is the included software, the Mac includes iLife 06 on all it's models, this includes Garageband, iMovie, iDVD, and a few other great apps for editing audio and video. The closest you can get from Dell is the Adobe Production Studio Standard for an additional $799. I have no doubt that the Adobe option is a more professional product then iLife, but if we are looking at your average parent wanting to edit video of thier kid that's the only option that Dell provides. The Mac defenetly wins on that one.
More points for Mac, Bluetooth and Wireless are built in, for the Dell you have to select options for both, and only the Bluetooth can be built in, the wireless is actually a card that you have to plug in to use. Also the M90 has no built in video option, and no add-on option for video
One final point (in my scoring) for the Mac, it includes ALL of it's software on media (you get the install CD/DVDs for everything) on the Dell it's a seperate option that you have to check, by default you get it all on a 'recovery partition' on the harddrive. That's one of the worst ideas they ever came out with, not only does it use up some of your hard drive space for nothing, but it's also very easy for a virus or user error to corrupt (and yes, I've seen a PC with no media where the OS and the recovery partition were toast, they were totaly SOL on that one). Now granted the option to get your media from Dell is free, it's still an added option that you must check in order to get the media, and if you forget it's a major hassle to get it afterwords.
So on those counts the Mac wins over the Dell Precision M90, now you add the capablility for the Mac to dual-boot or VM into WinXP and the Mac OS X's Stability, usability, and performance, and the M90 is blown away.
Now all I have to do is save up enough pennies.....
The Specs: Dell Precision M90
Core Duo 2.16 CPU
17inch LCD
1GB SDRAM 2DIMM (upgradable to 2GB for $260 or 4GB for $2560)
100 GB 7200RPM Hard Drive
8xDVD+/-RW (options are for either DVDRW or CDRW, not both together)
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M, 256MB (upgradeable to 2500M, 512MB for $249)
Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g mini-card (upgradeable to intell 3945 802.11a/g for $29)
Dell Wireless 350 Bluetooth Module
The Specs: Apple MacBook Pro
Core Duo 2.16 CPU
15.4 inch LCD
1GB SDRAM 1DIMM (upgradable to 2GB for $300)
100 GB 7200RPM Hard Drive
SuperDrive DVD+/-RW/CD-RW
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 256MB
Built-in 802.11g and Bluetooth
What are you talking about? My 72 year old mother using outlook and IE has crashed her XP box, and it's a nice new HP, not even a year old! XP also needs the restart solution at least twice a month.
On my own box I've had to go back to win2k, I think it's something with odd hardware and XP. XP refuses to install 99% of the time, and if you do actually get it installed within 6 to 8 months it's toast and needs to reinstall... fun and games...
While this IS better then 98 it's still much worse then Linux or Mac. Most Linux boxes that I've used stay up as long as they have power.
Thanks for the Link! There's another bunch of my $$$ gone!
Seriously I would be glad to see the continuation of the serenity/firefly 'verse in any format: Season2+ on TV/iTunes/DVD, Comicbook, Non-ComicBook (words without pictures), Animated, even audio stories/dialog.
Back when win 2k was just being released with AD I was in the midst of a class on Novell's network security model, they look supprisingly similer... like Microsoft got inspired by something that Novell had done...
Unfortunetly both are very complex and potentialy confusing, but Novell had it out for a while, so it as least was stable. Since then I've gotten out of the networking and gone into asp, asp.net, and javascript programming, where things make a little sense..... right?... (even I don't believe it)
Nor have I had any issues with Windows Update on XP or Windows 2000/2003 Server or Professional. While patches may be a little lacking in expediency (sp?) it couldn't be easier to do.
I used to work at a place that used Adobe Premier for production video editing at a college, EVERY TIME a windows update was applied to that computer it would BREAK Adobe Premier and we would have to reinstall it, we found out that it would still load and run but it would corrupt the project files which basicly trashed all the work we had done on that video. This was on a 2ghz Intel box running Windows XP. We finaly had enough and switched to a Mac box with the Mac version of Adobe Premier, and haven't looked back!
I'm not sure which part of the software is at fault (adobe premier or Win XP) but the end result ruined a lot of work.
Koolance http://www.koolance.com/shop/default.php?cPath=28_ 43 has some great cases, though they stay with the blocky cases they do a very nice job of integrating the radiator, resevior, pumps and fans cleanly into the case. They look like the cases are custom built by Koolance even though they are standard cases that are modified.
The best thing they offer is temperature monitoring hardware that will increase the fan speed when the temp starts climing and will shut down the PC if it goes past the limit (very nice if something breaks down it will shut it off before letting it roast). I got one from them for an Athalon 1ghz CPU that would idle at 120f, with this system it would idle at around 85f and wouldn't get over 105f unless I had the wood-stove stoked (in which case the room temp was over 100).
When I do my next upgrade I'll be getting a new case from them to go with it, even if the CPU I get doesn't generate all that much heat.
Is that why many places still run with NT4 and Win98? I'm working at a small (but growing) company building dynamic websites (ecomerce and such), 6 months ago we FINALY dropped support for Netscape 4! THERE ARE STILL PEOPLE WHO USE NETSCAPE 4 OUT THERE!!! We are helping someone with a product that doesn't work with any version of IE except 5.x! I've done support for small businesses that still use Win 3.11!!
Most businesses are not worried about having the 'cutting edge' software, but ARE concerned with Making a Profit, all computer issues are "if it ain't broke, don't even Touch it! we can't afford to do anything with it!".
The only places that worry about the cutting edge are computer focused businesses, software development, etc. Just about everyone else does the cost/benifit analisys and decides to stay with what they got. (after all, how many viruses are out there for Win 3.11!):)
I'm not totaly sure since I'm still learning the tech behind it but this sounds like the method that AJAX uses (XMLHTTPRequest + JavaScript + DHTML) for all it's communication.
It's just that if you look at Microsoft's early history, it was all about "sticking it to the man".
I'd like to know how that works when you are 'the man' getting stuck? In those early days IBM was 'the man' (along with all the other UNIX Mainframe people) and the Microsoft was a company built out of the homebrew meetings and Gate's basement. In those days Microsoft was the Rebel. Nowadays Microsoft is 'the man', they are the overlords, the Evil Empire, the oddly dressed guy named 'cats' saying something about 'base'.
I think the problem is that Microsoft has lost the edge of the customer's perception, also I think the customer base has grown more intelligent over the years. Most people working with computers today have Grown up with computers and are starting to look for something different, and in doing so have found alternatives to MS that work better, and are starting to find them before MS copies them. They are starting to see the trend that MS has of seeing something good and trying to take it over (and doing it badly 1/2 the time).
Unfortunately the majority of people using computers are barely computer literate and just want to plug something in and do what they want without fuss. That is where Microsoft should focus; making a product that plugs in and does what you want with no fuss muss or anything else. However I think Mac already has a big edge in that market that MS will never catch up with. (with Mac's closed architecture they can control combinations and improve reliability/interoperability/ease-of-use easily, however MS has to support in some way a nearly infinite amount of 3rd party stuff that has problems interacting with each other and with the OS, MS is kinda in a bind there)
I think the thing that Bill Gates fears has come true but in a way that he hasn't quite expected, others are more innovative then he is and MS is loosing the race, but it isn't from one competitor but from the community itself (Open Source). Because MS has spread out into so many markets and so many products they are getting competition in each market that they are unable to quickly respond to, they are loosing the battle, slowly.
I don't think that we will ever see MS completely disappear, but I think they will slowly fade into the background as newer and faster products/companies/OS communities keep showing up with better products. In the end I think they will be like IBM, not out of the computer market, just not a leader.
I would suggest that there are a TON more then 150,000 people out there who would be willing to buy it on iTunes, personally I would put the estimate and around 2mil, however the easy way to find out would be to get the number of people who have bought the DVD series and take a percentage from there (maybe 60% for a conservative estimate). Unfortunately I doubt that Fox would be intelligent enough to do anything like this, the only way you would be able to do it is if you could buy out the rights from Fox and have someone more intelligent own them and decide Firefly's fate.
Over the years I've gotten the impression that Fox is run by pet rocks with bad attitudes.
Use this link instead, this lists all the images from the bomis site (mostly soft porn, and some not-so-soft porn) if you list all images that have anything to do with the word bomis it can quickly get to hard porn.
Have you ever noticed that Google has a better indexing of www.microsoft.com and can find Microsoft articles better then MS's own built in site search? Check it out sometime:
vbscript : www.microsoft.com
Chaim79 was beginning to behave strangely, or rather, not beginning to behave strangely but beginning to behave in a way which was strangely different from other strange ways in which he more regularly behaved.
I noticed the Pimsleur series you mentioned and have looked them up, they seem to have a good selection (interested in Russian language myself). I am interested in learning other languages via audio book.
Other then Pimsleur (seemed pricey) are there any other Audio Books for learning a new language that someone would recommend?
I totaly agree with you, Right now at my Home I have Mac (10.4), Win (xp and 2000) and Linux running, I plan on having at least one more box up and running with Free BSD and maybe another linux box within a couple of months. All of these are full computers. I do have VMware running on the XP with both win2k and Linux setup to run (don't use it all that much but it's there).
All in all I use a bunch of different OS's for different purposes. Right now I think that Mac (10.4) is way better then win XP, and with the price of Mac boxes and even the OS dropping I think the price thing that everyone mentions is pretty much gone. http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/A ppleStore/(mac mini $499, iMac $1299, Power Mac $1999, prices equal to current PC offerings).
I think there are places for each OS, though since I found Mac I've been moving further away from Win (for so many reason) but still use it (and Visual Studio) for development work,.NET is a powerful idea/system and VS is a great IDE.
I don't think I could go back to using ONLY one OS for my work, it would just be to limiting.
Erik
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Erik was beginning to behave strangely, or rather, not beginning to behave strangely but beginning to behave in a way which was strangely different from other strange ways in which he more regularly behaved.
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I seem to remember seeing a note on the VMWare site (somewhere in the FAQ?) that they were working on an OS X version of VMWare... something like 6 months ago. They have been working on it for a while so it's not a 'new thing' for them as much as working on getting it right. I've used VMWare for a while and really like it, now all I need is a new intel Mac to run it on. :)
What are you talking about? We drive on the Right side of the road.
You mean the price has gone up??? Damn... better start procreating if I want one...
Something I've wondered about and have started playing around with on my dev boxes is the performance/capabilities difference between running ASP.NET in an MS environment (win2k server + IIS, it's what I got) VS running ASP.NET on Mono (Linux (Ubuntu/RedHat) + Apache) if the performance is similer MS may soon find that they have totaly lost control of ASP.NET and it is now in the OSS wild.
Or just use it for target practice: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35214685@N00/93589746 /
And what about the LISA and NeXT OS? Watching a demo that Steve Jobs did of a NeXT box I saw a lot of things that are now in OS X, and it was out there before Longhorn.
It's interesting that most microkernel advocates admit that it was to slow for older hardware but that doesn't matter now that machines have gotten so fast, yet when any review is done on an OS one of the main criteria is speed doing a task. It's by no means the defining criteria but it is an important one, especially in the Server realm. Even with the proposed stability of a microkernel many server roles are better served by something that is simpler and faster.
Where volume is concerned simplicity is better then anything else, many times I've had to sit down and work hard to optimize a recursive algorithm or an algorithm that is run thousands of times, even the smallest change that saves one or two compute cycles per run often saves 10 to 100 milliseconds when run N times on a full system. Several times I've seen "better" methods get tossed when they realize that it will not run quickly on production systems because the complexity can't handle the volume.
Thanks for the reasonable reply, and I can see the point being made... but on first sight the only thing that comes to a person's mind is... well... "wtf"... and bewilderment...
And did anyone else notice that he had some resemblance to Bill Gates? Not a look-alike, but close enough to remind you of him. Very sneaky.
Actually going side by side trying to get the same options the prices come out to:
Now it's true that the screen is different (15.4 Macbook VS 17 Dell) and you can push the Dell PC to much higher specs, but still I think the Macbook wins on this one, even if it's just barely.
It is interesting to note the memory options on the Dell notebook, first off all of them are 2 DIMMs, meaning that after you grab your memory option you can't upgrade it without throwing out your existing ram, on the MacBook the standard ram is 1GB and 1 DIMM, easy expansion option there! The other thing is that the option on the Dell for 4GB of ram is a cost of $2560 just for the upgrade!!! that's almost the base price for the whole Laptop! Unless you have an application that absolutly needs 4GB of ram no-one will be buying that option.
Another interesting option is the included software, the Mac includes iLife 06 on all it's models, this includes Garageband, iMovie, iDVD, and a few other great apps for editing audio and video. The closest you can get from Dell is the Adobe Production Studio Standard for an additional $799. I have no doubt that the Adobe option is a more professional product then iLife, but if we are looking at your average parent wanting to edit video of thier kid that's the only option that Dell provides. The Mac defenetly wins on that one.
More points for Mac, Bluetooth and Wireless are built in, for the Dell you have to select options for both, and only the Bluetooth can be built in, the wireless is actually a card that you have to plug in to use. Also the M90 has no built in video option, and no add-on option for video
One final point (in my scoring) for the Mac, it includes ALL of it's software on media (you get the install CD/DVDs for everything) on the Dell it's a seperate option that you have to check, by default you get it all on a 'recovery partition' on the harddrive. That's one of the worst ideas they ever came out with, not only does it use up some of your hard drive space for nothing, but it's also very easy for a virus or user error to corrupt (and yes, I've seen a PC with no media where the OS and the recovery partition were toast, they were totaly SOL on that one). Now granted the option to get your media from Dell is free, it's still an added option that you must check in order to get the media, and if you forget it's a major hassle to get it afterwords.
So on those counts the Mac wins over the Dell Precision M90, now you add the capablility for the Mac to dual-boot or VM into WinXP and the Mac OS X's Stability, usability, and performance, and the M90 is blown away.
Now all I have to do is save up enough pennies.....
The Specs: Dell Precision M90Core Duo 2.16 CPU
17inch LCD
1GB SDRAM 2DIMM (upgradable to 2GB for $260 or 4GB for $2560)
100 GB 7200RPM Hard Drive
8xDVD+/-RW (options are for either DVDRW or CDRW, not both together)
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M, 256MB (upgradeable to 2500M, 512MB for $249)
Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g mini-card (upgradeable to intell 3945 802.11a/g for $29)
Dell Wireless 350 Bluetooth Module
The Specs: Apple MacBook Pro
Core Duo 2.16 CPU
15.4 inch LCD
1GB SDRAM 1DIMM (upgradable to 2GB for $300)
100 GB 7200RPM Hard Drive
SuperDrive DVD+/-RW/CD-RW
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 256MB
Built-in 802.11g and Bluetooth
What are you talking about? My 72 year old mother using outlook and IE has crashed her XP box, and it's a nice new HP, not even a year old! XP also needs the restart solution at least twice a month.
On my own box I've had to go back to win2k, I think it's something with odd hardware and XP. XP refuses to install 99% of the time, and if you do actually get it installed within 6 to 8 months it's toast and needs to reinstall... fun and games...
While this IS better then 98 it's still much worse then Linux or Mac. Most Linux boxes that I've used stay up as long as they have power.
Thanks for the Link! There's another bunch of my $$$ gone! Seriously I would be glad to see the continuation of the serenity/firefly 'verse in any format: Season2+ on TV/iTunes/DVD, Comicbook, Non-ComicBook (words without pictures), Animated, even audio stories/dialog.
Back when win 2k was just being released with AD I was in the midst of a class on Novell's network security model, they look supprisingly similer... like Microsoft got inspired by something that Novell had done...
Unfortunetly both are very complex and potentialy confusing, but Novell had it out for a while, so it as least was stable. Since then I've gotten out of the networking and gone into asp, asp.net, and javascript programming, where things make a little sense..... right?... (even I don't believe it)
I used to work at a place that used Adobe Premier for production video editing at a college, EVERY TIME a windows update was applied to that computer it would BREAK Adobe Premier and we would have to reinstall it, we found out that it would still load and run but it would corrupt the project files which basicly trashed all the work we had done on that video. This was on a 2ghz Intel box running Windows XP. We finaly had enough and switched to a Mac box with the Mac version of Adobe Premier, and haven't looked back!
I'm not sure which part of the software is at fault (adobe premier or Win XP) but the end result ruined a lot of work.
Koolance http://www.koolance.com/shop/default.php?cPath=28_ 43 has some great cases, though they stay with the blocky cases they do a very nice job of integrating the radiator, resevior, pumps and fans cleanly into the case. They look like the cases are custom built by Koolance even though they are standard cases that are modified.
The best thing they offer is temperature monitoring hardware that will increase the fan speed when the temp starts climing and will shut down the PC if it goes past the limit (very nice if something breaks down it will shut it off before letting it roast). I got one from them for an Athalon 1ghz CPU that would idle at 120f, with this system it would idle at around 85f and wouldn't get over 105f unless I had the wood-stove stoked (in which case the room temp was over 100).
When I do my next upgrade I'll be getting a new case from them to go with it, even if the CPU I get doesn't generate all that much heat.
Is that why many places still run with NT4 and Win98? I'm working at a small (but growing) company building dynamic websites (ecomerce and such), 6 months ago we FINALY dropped support for Netscape 4! THERE ARE STILL PEOPLE WHO USE NETSCAPE 4 OUT THERE!!! We are helping someone with a product that doesn't work with any version of IE except 5.x! I've done support for small businesses that still use Win 3.11!!
:)
Most businesses are not worried about having the 'cutting edge' software, but ARE concerned with Making a Profit, all computer issues are "if it ain't broke, don't even Touch it! we can't afford to do anything with it!".
The only places that worry about the cutting edge are computer focused businesses, software development, etc. Just about everyone else does the cost/benifit analisys and decides to stay with what they got. (after all, how many viruses are out there for Win 3.11!)
I'm not totaly sure since I'm still learning the tech behind it but this sounds like the method that AJAX uses (XMLHTTPRequest + JavaScript + DHTML) for all it's communication.
I'd like to know how that works when you are 'the man' getting stuck? In those early days IBM was 'the man' (along with all the other UNIX Mainframe people) and the Microsoft was a company built out of the homebrew meetings and Gate's basement. In those days Microsoft was the Rebel. Nowadays Microsoft is 'the man', they are the overlords, the Evil Empire, the oddly dressed guy named 'cats' saying something about 'base'.
I think the problem is that Microsoft has lost the edge of the customer's perception, also I think the customer base has grown more intelligent over the years. Most people working with computers today have Grown up with computers and are starting to look for something different, and in doing so have found alternatives to MS that work better, and are starting to find them before MS copies them. They are starting to see the trend that MS has of seeing something good and trying to take it over (and doing it badly 1/2 the time).
Unfortunately the majority of people using computers are barely computer literate and just want to plug something in and do what they want without fuss. That is where Microsoft should focus; making a product that plugs in and does what you want with no fuss muss or anything else. However I think Mac already has a big edge in that market that MS will never catch up with. (with Mac's closed architecture they can control combinations and improve reliability/interoperability/ease-of-use easily, however MS has to support in some way a nearly infinite amount of 3rd party stuff that has problems interacting with each other and with the OS, MS is kinda in a bind there)
I think the thing that Bill Gates fears has come true but in a way that he hasn't quite expected, others are more innovative then he is and MS is loosing the race, but it isn't from one competitor but from the community itself (Open Source). Because MS has spread out into so many markets and so many products they are getting competition in each market that they are unable to quickly respond to, they are loosing the battle, slowly.
I don't think that we will ever see MS completely disappear, but I think they will slowly fade into the background as newer and faster products/companies/OS communities keep showing up with better products. In the end I think they will be like IBM, not out of the computer market, just not a leader.
Ok... switch that to a TONNE more...
I would suggest that there are a TON more then 150,000 people out there who would be willing to buy it on iTunes, personally I would put the estimate and around 2mil, however the easy way to find out would be to get the number of people who have bought the DVD series and take a percentage from there (maybe 60% for a conservative estimate). Unfortunately I doubt that Fox would be intelligent enough to do anything like this, the only way you would be able to do it is if you could buy out the rights from Fox and have someone more intelligent own them and decide Firefly's fate.
Over the years I've gotten the impression that Fox is run by pet rocks with bad attitudes.
Use this link instead, this lists all the images from the bomis site (mostly soft porn, and some not-so-soft porn) if you list all images that have anything to do with the word bomis it can quickly get to hard porn.
= &safe=off&q=site%3Abomis.com
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr
Have you ever noticed that Google has a better indexing of www.microsoft.com and can find Microsoft articles better then MS's own built in site search? Check it out sometime: vbscript : www.microsoft.com
Chaim79 was beginning to behave strangely, or rather, not beginning to behave strangely but beginning to behave in a way which was strangely different from other strange ways in which he more regularly behaved.
I noticed the Pimsleur series you mentioned and have looked them up, they seem to have a good selection (interested in Russian language myself). I am interested in learning other languages via audio book. Other then Pimsleur (seemed pricey) are there any other Audio Books for learning a new language that someone would recommend?
I totaly agree with you, Right now at my Home I have Mac (10.4), Win (xp and 2000) and Linux running, I plan on having at least one more box up and running with Free BSD and maybe another linux box within a couple of months. All of these are full computers. I do have VMware running on the XP with both win2k and Linux setup to run (don't use it all that much but it's there).
All in all I use a bunch of different OS's for different purposes. Right now I think that Mac (10.4) is way better then win XP, and with the price of Mac boxes and even the OS dropping I think the price thing that everyone mentions is pretty much gone. http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/A ppleStore/(mac mini $499, iMac $1299, Power Mac $1999, prices equal to current PC offerings).
I think there are places for each OS, though since I found Mac I've been moving further away from Win (for so many reason) but still use it (and Visual Studio) for development work, .NET is a powerful idea/system and VS is a great IDE.
I don't think I could go back to using ONLY one OS for my work, it would just be to limiting.
Erik
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Erik was beginning to behave strangely, or rather, not beginning to behave strangely but beginning to behave in a way which was strangely different from other strange ways in which he more regularly behaved.