Just more FUD to get companies to worry and spend MORE money. That is all. I have been a senior programmer for more than a decade. Right after college, I took any-ole-job I could get. The job was for AIG, an insurance company. I was doing some new dev work, however, there was still a ton of Y2K junk going on that I had to waste my time with. So I had to do some COBOL work during that time (ewww). Anyway, the whole Y2K stuff was _way_ overrated. Could there have been some issues if there were not some programming changes? Yes. However, they were nothing like the press made them out to be.
This is just another "journalist" trying to get some name recognition. OMG..Teh..sky..is..falling!
From a programmers perspective, time zone stuff is pretty easy to work around.
I have played them and they are fun, though I wouldn't call them traditional RPG games. They are more of morph of RPG and strategy. Though as I said, they were fun.
AMEN brother! I am a little older (34) than the typical gamer. However, I love me some good RPG. I personally hate how many RPG games have morphed into an action game to keep the kiddies happy.
I want a turn-based or phased combat RPG where I can plan my battles. I want at least 4 characters that I can build up from wimps to uber-fighters/mages/clerics/etc. I want to find and fight for tons of magical items and abilities. The last thing I want in an RPG is a click-feast. There is nothing worse in an RPG (IMO) than having to click like a freak to win a fight. I WANT TO PLAN MY COMBAT.
Sadly, I have not seen a good, modernized, old-school RPG in some time.
No offense, but you must be as dumb as a rock. This is not a "mainstream" application. This is a very business specific application. If the app does what a company needs, not running on MS Windows is _really_ no big deal.
I have been a senior developer for more than a decade now and have worked at 2 fortune 500 companies and 1 fortune 1000 company. All of the big companies use a multi-OS server setup. While most of the desktops are MS Windows, a lot of the servers are *nix. In fact, all of the really critical servers have been Solaris or Linux at the 3 large corps that I have worked at. All of the really big, critical financial systems at all three separate companies have been running Oracle on a non-MS OS.
I personally am glad about that since I program a lot of financial systems. All of the MS-Only SQL Server _certified_ "dba's" that I have worked with have been rocks. On the other hand,_all_ of the Oracle certified DBA's that I have worked with at all three large corps have know their shite!!
Well, kdb+ is proprietary and expensive. Maybe this product will be Open Source or at the very least kill kdb+ on price? There are not many real players in this market, the more the better IMO. What would be best is a competitive Open Source offering in this space. The Open Source product could steal away most of the market share, or at the very least, really drive down prices!:-)
for me the restrictive nature of Apple products is exactly what makes them suck more then Microsoft products
Huh? How do you come by that assumption? Please leave out DRM and iTunes. Microsoft Windows Audio is just as restrictive and closed source, and MS DRM sucks big-time. So how about we just look at the default OS installs?
I personally prefer Ubuntu Linux, however, I have been a professional programmer for MS Windows for more than a decade now, I have two PC systems. One with Ubuntu Linux and one with MS Windows XP pro. I also have an Intel Macbook and an Intel iMac. I triple boot my Intel iMac with Linux, Mac OS X and MS WinXP. I cannot do that with the other PC hardware.
I have found no restrictions on my two Intel Macs that even comes _close_ to the "activation" crap from MS. My WinXP system wants me to "authorize" with MS when I change my hardware. Apple doesnt'. The core of OS X is open source. The core of MS Windows _is not_. OS X uses a shite load of open source software. MS windows does not. In fact, MS windows goes out of its way to pervert standards to lock me in to an MS-Only system. OS X does not.
Stop being a shill for MS. When it comes to lock-down and restrictions, no OS software compares to MS Windows.
Ever see the movie Spaceballs? There was that big vacuum robot maid-thingy that sucked up the air from Planet Druidia. Maybe some geeks at MIT could borrow that and modify it to suck up the debris?
1. Apple - sells its OS on its own hardware, which means that there is no chance it can be pirated.
Lay off the crack man. It is really messing up your brain.
You can "pirate" OS X. Look on any torrent site or usenet. Any one can download the latest OS X without paying for it and install it on their Mac to get a free upgrade. Not only can you get OS X, but you can get iWorks, the latest iLife, Aperture, and plenty of other _very_ expensive Apple software and "pirate" it from torrent sites and usenet. Any non-free software can be "pirated".
2. Redhat - is desparately trying to increase adoption of Linux. Any piracy there will probably help the cause of Linux (and thereby Redhat). Again, no incentive for them to police - they probably get most of their income from bigger corporates anyway.
Huh? You cannot "pirate" Red Hat Linux you moron. You can go on Red Hat's site an download all the freaking source code. Red Hat is Open Source. Companies, like the one I work for, PAY Red Hat for SUPPORT AND SERVICES, _not_ for the software. Man, you are very clueless.
Here's an analogy for you - the government issues currency, which you 'buy' (earn) for your own use. Are you saying then that it makes sense for you to buy counterfeit currency at a lower price, and use it to profit?
????What??? I won't even attempt to answer that. It just makes no sense.
You sound like an MS shill. I use Linux as my main OS. I have no restrictions with it. I also have two Intel Macs and some WinXP boxes. Between MS and OS X, I would take a Mac any day of the week. I am not saying that as some Apple fan-boy. I personally love Linux. However, OS X is very freakin nice. And I am very happy customer of the two Intel Macs that I have bought in the past 3 months.
You can cry all you want about OS X being only on Apple hardware. That is just how it is for now. Apple would not be able to compete against an illegal monopoly like MS right now if Apple released their OS to any old x86 box. Even though the courts told MS they could not require PC makers to only sell MS Windows, MS has found ways around that with "coupons" and "incentives". So for now the situation is still the same. Most of the PC makers sell only MS Windows. A few offer unformatted hard drives, however, you won't get support for any non-MS OS. So just because Dell now offers a _very_ small line of PCs without an OS, doesn't mean that is what most Joe-Users would go for since they would not get support on the OS-side. If Dell offered support for say Fedora and Ubuntu, now that would be something. However, I am glad to see Dell offer a line of PCs without the MS-Tax, it is a nice start.
Until you actually _buy_ a Mac and have experience with it, well you should just shut your trap and stick to shilling for MS. Thanks and have a nice day!
Yawn... I could give you many more "MS Windows horror stories". Though I will spare the/. community because they all know it.
Just because you have one Mac story doesn't mean Macs are bad. Get real, dude.
As far as placing your "faith" in the "Linuxes", well, I am right there with you. I have used Linux for about 10 years now, will continue to do so. However, Linux has nothing to do with our original argument about Mac OS X and MS Windows. Mac OS X kills MS Windows in _every_ aspect. Please spare me your unknown comments until you actually _own_ a Mac.
I was like you in putting down Macs until I actually put my money where my mouth is an bought one. Then I changed my tune, big time.:)
Owwww, you poor baby. Did you lose? What a shame. Too bad you only have the IQ of a nat.
Apple _does_ sell software you stupid idiot. You can buy OS X in many stores. You can buy _many_ other Apple authored software solutions too. Go to Apple.com and click on the "Store" tab. Then click "software". Hmmm, you can get things like iLIfe, iWork, Aperture, Final Cut...
You must be the biggest idiot on/. to date. You should feel proud. Apple _does_ sell software, plenty of it.
I have never met someone as dumb as you sir. It is incredible to know that there are still humans out there with such a low IQ as you. You would make an excellent museum piece.
And you don't think MS is a "hardware" company? For more than a decade, MS controlled all the major hardware companies. You couldn't buy a full PC from a big vendor without MS Windows on it. MS has had much more negative impact on the technology field than Apple has had. Even today, most major PC companies sell computers with MS Windows pre-installed with the MS-Tax. A few companies like Dell offer a _very_ limited supply of computers with no OS on the hard drive.
The only way to get a PC without MS Windows was to build your own. That is out of the realm for most normal users. Your whole argument is mute. MS has controlled more hardware than Apple has.
Like "any other business"? Are you on crack? Name the last time you went to a restaurant and had the restaurant company come to your house to "validate" what you are eating? How about the last time you bought a car and Ford, GM, Toyota, etc. came to "validate" your car and how many drivers you have in it or what gas you use? Oh, what about your auto insurance company? When what the last time they came out to "validate" how many miles you drive to work (which does determine your rate)?
Nope. Most companies do not get away with what MS does. Only a monopoly could. I guess you are too young to remember when you couldn't _buy_ a phone? I am not. I remember having to lease phones! Just like we have to "lease" MS Windows.
If you only want to stay in the software world, well, tell me the last time Apple sent out cronies to "police" their install base? Or how about Red Hat? The only companies that can get away with abuse like MS are monopolies.
Too bad MS got off with only a smack on the wrist for their last monopoly conviction.
Please stop making up excuses for the crap that MS does. They are a really nasty company that needs to go down hard.
I found a few adapters on Apple.com for only $19 USD. They will connect my Intel MacBook and iMac to just about anything. Maybe I can watch all those nice iTMS TV shows on my TV after all.:)
Well, I stopped buying my favorite TV shows off of iTMS because I didn't think I could watch them on my 32" HDTV. If there is an easy way, I am all for it and would buy "The Office", "Desperate Housewives" and a few others from iTMS. I usually cannot watch the shows when they are broadcasted, so I have been just getting them off of usenet. I personally would rather pay a buck or two so I don't feel like I am riping off the people of my favorite TV shows.
The easiest would be with my Macbook so I don't have to move my iMac around. For the Macbook, would I just buy some cable or something?
Thanks.
Take off the blinders? I have been a programmer for more than a decade using MS Windows, Linux and Solaris. I am totally new to Mac. While My OS X install may be limited to an Intel Mac, it has not affected me at all. The hardware is the best I have spent money on in the past 2 decades!. I have owned Dell, HP and IBM. The only hardware that I really liked besides my two Macs have been IBM _before_ they sold to Lenovo.
When I just got my new Intel iMac, I right away opened it up and changed out the hard drive and the memory. It is an all-in-one unit, just like the all-in-one I bought from IBM (NetVista), so there will always be limitations with an all-in-one or laptops on how much hardware you can change out. If you want to be able to change all the hardware, you can get a Mac Pro starting around $2,100. If you compare specs to Dell, the Mac Pro is less money with better hardware. Like it or not, Apple makes really nice hardware and tops it off with very good software (not the best, but certainly _far_ better then the basic stuff that you get with your default MS Windows install).
I can tell that you do not own an iMac or Macbook. I sounded just like you.... until I bought a Macbook and iMac. Just try to take my Intel iMac from me and things will get violent:-).
For more than 2 decades (yes, I am that old), I have done the build-it-your-self-thing. It is way over-rated IMO. I personally rather be limited in the hardware, than be limited in the software. As a programmer, there is nothing worse to me. I hate how MS puts their restriction on me. For the past decade I have programmed mostly MS Windows apps, and I hate how most/all of their programming stack requires MS-Only crap.
Next time before you post your anit-Apple FUD, actually buy a Mac and USE IT. I bet you will change your tune. I did.:-)
I have had to do activation on pre-built WinXP computers. If you change enough hardware in it, you will have to activate it. Vista is a lot more ugly when it comes to activation than WinXP is. Also, if you do an upgrade to WinXP, you will have to activate it. Upgrading a Mac, there is not activation. You could actually buy one copy of OS X and install it as much as you want, though that is not the right thing to do.
That is exactly what I did a few months ago. I dropped my wife's HP laptop and the screen broke. It would have been $600 to fix it so I bought an Intel Macbook. My wife loves it, and so do I. In fact she was always yelling at me for always taking it from her so I said the only way she could keep it is if I got my own Mac. A little later I got an Intel iMac and love it. I triple boot with WinXP for a few games, Visual Studio and MS SQL Server and Linux for my "fix".
There is just no reason to go to the junk that is called Vista. I hope WinXP will still allow me to do the few things I need to in MS Windows for the next 3-5 years, then I can see what the OS landscape is like.
As for others saying Apple is just as bad as MS when it comes to restrictions and DRM, they are clueless. I never had to do any "activation" on my two Intel Macs. The only DRM I have found is with iTMS, so I just don't use it or buy music. I did buy a few TV episodes from iTMS, however when I couldn't burn them to DVD to watch on my big TV, I stopped that as well. OS X is just far better than anything from MS. I get the juicy *nix that I love and a very good user experience for me as well as an easy to use experience for my wife.
VB.Net's kiddie syntax: Class MyClass
Private x As Integer
Public Property X() As Integer
Get
Return x
End Get
Set(ByVal Value As Integer)
x = value
End Set
End Property End Class
C#'s concise syntax: public class MyClass {
int x;
public int X
{
get {return x;}
set {x = value;}
} }
or if you like your code _really_ short: public class MyClass { int x; public int X { get {return x;} set {x = value;} } }
I prefer the first C# example. A few lines here and there add up to thousands on a medium to large project. I think it is silly to have all these different end statements and Dim's and tons of other keywords in VB.Net that are not needed. Anyone should be able to look at code and tell if the code is declaring a variable or a method is returning a value or void.
Uhhh... you really cannot offload security to a client. Trust me. I work for a fortune 500 with more than 150,000 employees. We have converted most of our apps to be web apps. All security was brought to the server side because we had so many issues with clients systems. Any one that offloads security to a client is a dolt IMO. It will come back to bite you big time.:-)
Overly verbose does _not_ mean it is easier to read. Get real. Overly verbose means it takes more code to do the same thing. Overly verbose means it is designed for "programmers" that cannot understand a real programming language that was designed to be concise and efficient. Ever program in COBOL? I had to, when I converted a legacy system to a modern system. COBOL and VB were made for a certain type of "programmer". If you fall into that category, well, I am sorry. Go do a little studying and learn to use a real programming language. It really is not that hard, honest.
Hmmm, making web stuff with proprietary MS crap like "ActiveX" is now bad? That is not the story that MS would say. This is exactly what the companies of Korea that used MS-only crap deserve. Using MS-Only crap will only bite you in the end. Using _any_ proprietary MS-crap has always wound up being a bad choice IME. To bad most business shills give in to the MS marketing machine and continue to use MS-only junk.
Using standards is the _only_ way to go. Every time anyone buys into MS-only crap, they _will_ get burned in the end. As a programmer with more than a decade of experience, I never recommend MS-only junk. I always push for standards, regardless of platform. Too bad the programming market is flooded with a bunch of MS-only, VB-only "programmers". In the past decade, the biggest problems I have seen with systems have all come from "programmers" that only know MS stuff.
All of the programmers I have met that know Linux or Solaris or Mac in addition to MS have all been top notch. All the MS-only, VB-only "programmers" I have met have been _rocks_ and do not deserve a job. Sometimes I am ashamed to be a programmer because of how the market is flooded with all these MS-only, VB-only "programmers". I was hoping that Microsoft's move to.Net would have put all the VB-only "programmers" out of a job. However, MS gave in and brought VB to the.Net platform. What a shame.
Please spare me the "VB is a 'real' programming language now" bunk. It is still a _basic_, overly verbose, child-like language for bottom of the barrel, dime-a-dozen, "programmers".
Mark me troll if you want. However, anyone with any real programming abilities out there would agree.
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Just more FUD to get companies to worry and spend MORE money. That is all. I have been a senior programmer for more than a decade. Right after college, I took any-ole-job I could get. The job was for AIG, an insurance company. I was doing some new dev work, however, there was still a ton of Y2K junk going on that I had to waste my time with. So I had to do some COBOL work during that time (ewww). Anyway, the whole Y2K stuff was _way_ overrated. Could there have been some issues if there were not some programming changes? Yes. However, they were nothing like the press made them out to be.
This is just another "journalist" trying to get some name recognition. OMG..Teh..sky..is..falling!
From a programmers perspective, time zone stuff is pretty easy to work around.
I have played them and they are fun, though I wouldn't call them traditional RPG games. They are more of morph of RPG and strategy. Though as I said, they were fun.
AMEN brother! I am a little older (34) than the typical gamer. However, I love me some good RPG. I personally hate how many RPG games have morphed into an action game to keep the kiddies happy.
I want a turn-based or phased combat RPG where I can plan my battles. I want at least 4 characters that I can build up from wimps to uber-fighters/mages/clerics/etc. I want to find and fight for tons of magical items and abilities. The last thing I want in an RPG is a click-feast. There is nothing worse in an RPG (IMO) than having to click like a freak to win a fight. I WANT TO PLAN MY COMBAT.
Sadly, I have not seen a good, modernized, old-school RPG in some time.
No offense, but you must be as dumb as a rock. This is not a "mainstream" application. This is a very business specific application. If the app does what a company needs, not running on MS Windows is _really_ no big deal.
I have been a senior developer for more than a decade now and have worked at 2 fortune 500 companies and 1 fortune 1000 company. All of the big companies use a multi-OS server setup. While most of the desktops are MS Windows, a lot of the servers are *nix. In fact, all of the really critical servers have been Solaris or Linux at the 3 large corps that I have worked at. All of the really big, critical financial systems at all three separate companies have been running Oracle on a non-MS OS.
I personally am glad about that since I program a lot of financial systems. All of the MS-Only SQL Server _certified_ "dba's" that I have worked with have been rocks. On the other hand,_all_ of the Oracle certified DBA's that I have worked with at all three large corps have know their shite!!
Well, kdb+ is proprietary and expensive. Maybe this product will be Open Source or at the very least kill kdb+ on price? There are not many real players in this market, the more the better IMO. What would be best is a competitive Open Source offering in this space. The Open Source product could steal away most of the market share, or at the very least, really drive down prices! :-)
I personally prefer Ubuntu Linux, however, I have been a professional programmer for MS Windows for more than a decade now, I have two PC systems. One with Ubuntu Linux and one with MS Windows XP pro. I also have an Intel Macbook and an Intel iMac. I triple boot my Intel iMac with Linux, Mac OS X and MS WinXP. I cannot do that with the other PC hardware.
I have found no restrictions on my two Intel Macs that even comes _close_ to the "activation" crap from MS. My WinXP system wants me to "authorize" with MS when I change my hardware. Apple doesnt'. The core of OS X is open source. The core of MS Windows _is not_. OS X uses a shite load of open source software. MS windows does not. In fact, MS windows goes out of its way to pervert standards to lock me in to an MS-Only system. OS X does not.
Stop being a shill for MS. When it comes to lock-down and restrictions, no OS software compares to MS Windows.
Just build a big Roomba thingy. That should get the job done in a few thousand years or so.
Ever see the movie Spaceballs? There was that big vacuum robot maid-thingy that sucked up the air from Planet Druidia. Maybe some geeks at MIT could borrow that and modify it to suck up the debris?
You sir, are correct. Thank you for the correction. :-)
You can "pirate" OS X. Look on any torrent site or usenet. Any one can download the latest OS X without paying for it and install it on their Mac to get a free upgrade. Not only can you get OS X, but you can get iWorks, the latest iLife, Aperture, and plenty of other _very_ expensive Apple software and "pirate" it from torrent sites and usenet. Any non-free software can be "pirated". Huh? You cannot "pirate" Red Hat Linux you moron. You can go on Red Hat's site an download all the freaking source code. Red Hat is Open Source. Companies, like the one I work for, PAY Red Hat for SUPPORT AND SERVICES, _not_ for the software. Man, you are very clueless.
????What??? I won't even attempt to answer that. It just makes no sense.
You sound like an MS shill. I use Linux as my main OS. I have no restrictions with it. I also have two Intel Macs and some WinXP boxes. Between MS and OS X, I would take a Mac any day of the week. I am not saying that as some Apple fan-boy. I personally love Linux. However, OS X is very freakin nice. And I am very happy customer of the two Intel Macs that I have bought in the past 3 months.
You can cry all you want about OS X being only on Apple hardware. That is just how it is for now. Apple would not be able to compete against an illegal monopoly like MS right now if Apple released their OS to any old x86 box. Even though the courts told MS they could not require PC makers to only sell MS Windows, MS has found ways around that with "coupons" and "incentives". So for now the situation is still the same. Most of the PC makers sell only MS Windows. A few offer unformatted hard drives, however, you won't get support for any non-MS OS. So just because Dell now offers a _very_ small line of PCs without an OS, doesn't mean that is what most Joe-Users would go for since they would not get support on the OS-side. If Dell offered support for say Fedora and Ubuntu, now that would be something. However, I am glad to see Dell offer a line of PCs without the MS-Tax, it is a nice start.
Until you actually _buy_ a Mac and have experience with it, well you should just shut your trap and stick to shilling for MS. Thanks and have a nice day!
Yawn... I could give you many more "MS Windows horror stories". Though I will spare the /. community because they all know it.
:)
Just because you have one Mac story doesn't mean Macs are bad. Get real, dude.
As far as placing your "faith" in the "Linuxes", well, I am right there with you. I have used Linux for about 10 years now, will continue to do so. However, Linux has nothing to do with our original argument about Mac OS X and MS Windows. Mac OS X kills MS Windows in _every_ aspect. Please spare me your unknown comments until you actually _own_ a Mac.
I was like you in putting down Macs until I actually put my money where my mouth is an bought one. Then I changed my tune, big time.
Owwww, you poor baby. Did you lose? What a shame. Too bad you only have the IQ of a nat.
/. to date. You should feel proud. Apple _does_ sell software, plenty of it.
Apple _does_ sell software you stupid idiot. You can buy OS X in many stores. You can buy _many_ other Apple authored software solutions too. Go to Apple.com and click on the "Store" tab. Then click "software". Hmmm, you can get things like iLIfe, iWork, Aperture, Final Cut...
You must be the biggest idiot on
I have never met someone as dumb as you sir. It is incredible to know that there are still humans out there with such a low IQ as you. You would make an excellent museum piece.
And you don't think MS is a "hardware" company? For more than a decade, MS controlled all the major hardware companies. You couldn't buy a full PC from a big vendor without MS Windows on it. MS has had much more negative impact on the technology field than Apple has had. Even today, most major PC companies sell computers with MS Windows pre-installed with the MS-Tax. A few companies like Dell offer a _very_ limited supply of computers with no OS on the hard drive.
The only way to get a PC without MS Windows was to build your own. That is out of the realm for most normal users. Your whole argument is mute. MS has controlled more hardware than Apple has.
Like "any other business"? Are you on crack? Name the last time you went to a restaurant and had the restaurant company come to your house to "validate" what you are eating? How about the last time you bought a car and Ford, GM, Toyota, etc. came to "validate" your car and how many drivers you have in it or what gas you use? Oh, what about your auto insurance company? When what the last time they came out to "validate" how many miles you drive to work (which does determine your rate)?
Nope. Most companies do not get away with what MS does. Only a monopoly could. I guess you are too young to remember when you couldn't _buy_ a phone? I am not. I remember having to lease phones! Just like we have to "lease" MS Windows.
If you only want to stay in the software world, well, tell me the last time Apple sent out cronies to "police" their install base? Or how about Red Hat? The only companies that can get away with abuse like MS are monopolies.
Too bad MS got off with only a smack on the wrist for their last monopoly conviction.
Please stop making up excuses for the crap that MS does. They are a really nasty company that needs to go down hard.
Thanks for the info!
:)
I found a few adapters on Apple.com for only $19 USD. They will connect my Intel MacBook and iMac to just about anything. Maybe I can watch all those nice iTMS TV shows on my TV after all.
Well, I stopped buying my favorite TV shows off of iTMS because I didn't think I could watch them on my 32" HDTV. If there is an easy way, I am all for it and would buy "The Office", "Desperate Housewives" and a few others from iTMS. I usually cannot watch the shows when they are broadcasted, so I have been just getting them off of usenet. I personally would rather pay a buck or two so I don't feel like I am riping off the people of my favorite TV shows.
The easiest would be with my Macbook so I don't have to move my iMac around. For the Macbook, would I just buy some cable or something? Thanks.
Take off the blinders? I have been a programmer for more than a decade using MS Windows, Linux and Solaris. I am totally new to Mac. While My OS X install may be limited to an Intel Mac, it has not affected me at all. The hardware is the best I have spent money on in the past 2 decades!. I have owned Dell, HP and IBM. The only hardware that I really liked besides my two Macs have been IBM _before_ they sold to Lenovo.
:-).
:-)
When I just got my new Intel iMac, I right away opened it up and changed out the hard drive and the memory. It is an all-in-one unit, just like the all-in-one I bought from IBM (NetVista), so there will always be limitations with an all-in-one or laptops on how much hardware you can change out. If you want to be able to change all the hardware, you can get a Mac Pro starting around $2,100. If you compare specs to Dell, the Mac Pro is less money with better hardware. Like it or not, Apple makes really nice hardware and tops it off with very good software (not the best, but certainly _far_ better then the basic stuff that you get with your default MS Windows install).
I can tell that you do not own an iMac or Macbook. I sounded just like you.... until I bought a Macbook and iMac. Just try to take my Intel iMac from me and things will get violent
For more than 2 decades (yes, I am that old), I have done the build-it-your-self-thing. It is way over-rated IMO. I personally rather be limited in the hardware, than be limited in the software. As a programmer, there is nothing worse to me. I hate how MS puts their restriction on me. For the past decade I have programmed mostly MS Windows apps, and I hate how most/all of their programming stack requires MS-Only crap.
Next time before you post your anit-Apple FUD, actually buy a Mac and USE IT. I bet you will change your tune. I did.
I have had to do activation on pre-built WinXP computers. If you change enough hardware in it, you will have to activate it. Vista is a lot more ugly when it comes to activation than WinXP is. Also, if you do an upgrade to WinXP, you will have to activate it. Upgrading a Mac, there is not activation. You could actually buy one copy of OS X and install it as much as you want, though that is not the right thing to do.
That is exactly what I did a few months ago. I dropped my wife's HP laptop and the screen broke. It would have been $600 to fix it so I bought an Intel Macbook. My wife loves it, and so do I. In fact she was always yelling at me for always taking it from her so I said the only way she could keep it is if I got my own Mac. A little later I got an Intel iMac and love it. I triple boot with WinXP for a few games, Visual Studio and MS SQL Server and Linux for my "fix".
There is just no reason to go to the junk that is called Vista. I hope WinXP will still allow me to do the few things I need to in MS Windows for the next 3-5 years, then I can see what the OS landscape is like.
As for others saying Apple is just as bad as MS when it comes to restrictions and DRM, they are clueless. I never had to do any "activation" on my two Intel Macs. The only DRM I have found is with iTMS, so I just don't use it or buy music. I did buy a few TV episodes from iTMS, however when I couldn't burn them to DVD to watch on my big TV, I stopped that as well. OS X is just far better than anything from MS. I get the juicy *nix that I love and a very good user experience for me as well as an easy to use experience for my wife.
you would think the guy could buy a hair brush
VB.Net's kiddie syntax:
:-)
Class MyClass
Private x As Integer
Public Property X() As Integer
Get
Return x
End Get
Set(ByVal Value As Integer)
x = value
End Set
End Property
End Class
C#'s concise syntax:
public class MyClass
{
int x;
public int X
{
get {return x;}
set {x = value;}
}
}
or if you like your code _really_ short:
public class MyClass { int x; public int X { get {return x;} set {x = value;} } }
I prefer the first C# example. A few lines here and there add up to
thousands on a medium to large project. I think it is silly to have all
these different end statements and Dim's and tons of other keywords in
VB.Net that are not needed. Anyone should be able to look at code and
tell if the code is declaring a variable or a method is returning a value
or void.
Thanks for playing moron.
Uhhh... you really cannot offload security to a client. Trust me. I work for a fortune 500 with more than 150,000 employees. We have converted most of our apps to be web apps. All security was brought to the server side because we had so many issues with clients systems. Any one that offloads security to a client is a dolt IMO. It will come back to bite you big time. :-)
Overly verbose does _not_ mean it is easier to read. Get real. Overly verbose means it takes more code to do the same thing. Overly verbose means it is designed for "programmers" that cannot understand a real programming language that was designed to be concise and efficient. Ever program in COBOL? I had to, when I converted a legacy system to a modern system. COBOL and VB were made for a certain type of "programmer". If you fall into that category, well, I am sorry. Go do a little studying and learn to use a real programming language. It really is not that hard, honest.
Hmmm, making web stuff with proprietary MS crap like "ActiveX" is now bad? That is not the story that MS would say. This is exactly what the companies of Korea that used MS-only crap deserve. Using MS-Only crap will only bite you in the end. Using _any_ proprietary MS-crap has always wound up being a bad choice IME. To bad most business shills give in to the MS marketing machine and continue to use MS-only junk.
.Net would have put all the VB-only "programmers" out of a job. However, MS gave in and brought VB to the .Net platform. What a shame.
Using standards is the _only_ way to go. Every time anyone buys into MS-only crap, they _will_ get burned in the end. As a programmer with more than a decade of experience, I never recommend MS-only junk. I always push for standards, regardless of platform. Too bad the programming market is flooded with a bunch of MS-only, VB-only "programmers". In the past decade, the biggest problems I have seen with systems have all come from "programmers" that only know MS stuff.
All of the programmers I have met that know Linux or Solaris or Mac in addition to MS have all been top notch. All the MS-only, VB-only "programmers" I have met have been _rocks_ and do not deserve a job. Sometimes I am ashamed to be a programmer because of how the market is flooded with all these MS-only, VB-only "programmers". I was hoping that Microsoft's move to
Please spare me the "VB is a 'real' programming language now" bunk. It is still a _basic_, overly verbose, child-like language for bottom of the barrel, dime-a-dozen, "programmers".
Mark me troll if you want. However, anyone with any real programming abilities out there would agree.