It's always amazing to me how many people mock Windows and yet there is nothing better out there.
Sure it has issues, but show me another product of any nature that does EVERYTHING.
Like what? If you're talking about specific programs not being developed for OS X, you're right. If you're talking about the capability of the OS, you are not.
There are thousands of things that Windows does that OS X does not, most of them involved in the corporate/IT part of the equation that 90% of users never know about.
There are thousands of things that Windows does that OS X does not, most of them involved in the corporate/IT part of the equation that 90% of users never know about.
I like Macs, they're beautiful, slick, well built, very intuitive, the software/OS (I think) is a little more practical and certainly more "user friendly", but at the cost of being less "robust" and technically useful.OS X is less robust? Nah. That thing is rock solid. It's built on a BSD core. Windows XP is a lot more solid than previous versions of Windows, but I have yet to have a crash on OS X.
Also, just from a bug-finding standpoint, Windows is one of the only products in the world that has that many people trying to break it on a regular basis.
I still think that in the long run Linux has the potential to blow everything else out of the water. But if that it to happen the Linux developers need to start focusing on basic things like a foolproof way to install and de-install ALL programs. At the moment there are several installation standards out there and far too many programs will only install from the command line.
The modern computer is the ONLY appliance out there expected to be able to do pretty much anything.
Plus, if half the internet ran on Linux, it would fail daily. You could never, EVER, protect an open source OS if it had even a fraction of the people hacking on it that Windows has.
Plus, if half the internet ran on Linux, it would fail daily. You could never, EVER, protect an open source OS if it had even a fraction of the people hacking on it that Windows has.
I still think that in the long run Linux has the potential to blow everything else out of the water. But if that it to happen the Linux developers need to start focusing on basic things like a foolproof way to install and de-install ALL programs. At the moment there are several installation standards out there and far too many programs will only install from the command line.
If you look at the average open source contributor, they're not writing software for their grandmother or wife, they're writing software for themselves. People who write software don't mind the command lines or README docs or things like that.
I think that's the real problem with open source. Without the motivation to bring it to the masses, what motivation do open source contributors have to make things more friendly? Kinda goes back to the whole "Invisible Hand" thing you learned about in high school economics.
I was hoping BeOS would go further, I liked that.
Isn't Apple just making fancy mp3/video players?
There isn't nearly as much money in desktops as there is in servers and corporate licensing.
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Awwww, come on Chad. You KNOW shmokes knows better. After all, he's still in college (at 27) and has Google. That's way more credible than having years of experience as a software engineer at a major corporation. ;)
I started my degrees (B.A.s in Poli Sci and Info. Systems and a minor in French) in January 2003 and will finish them this December.
Because being a software engineer at a major corporation tells Chad where MS is getting their money...
Don't forget humble and soft-spoken. ::)
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Because being a software engineer at a major corporation tells Chad where MS is getting their money... Chad's gut tells him that MS doesn't make much from OS sales for home computers. My gut tells me that he's wrong. That's all there is to it.
Actually, a decade of experience in maintaining corporate licensing agreements is what forms my opinion. People outside the industry have NO IDEA how much money a company will pay for a site license for the OS... then take that figure and multiply it by TEN for development/IDE laden OS licenses... this doesn't even figure SERVER licensing. A 4 CPU XP Server license, for ONE BOX, is well into the thousands.
I haven't always worked in a large corporation, and I haven't always been software engineer. I was for a while, but now I'm actually something like Configuration Management Lead Architect.
C'mon, I need my spot back.
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Well, half right...
People in software engineering would know exactly what it means, and it actually is pretty specific.
..... but now I'm actually something like Configuration Management Lead Architect.
I work as a software engineer and have been developing kernel-space software for Embedded Linux for some time now. I worked as a Configuration Manager for a while as well. It is a very well defined job. Unfortunately, you need tons of patience (the userbase is a bunch of know-it-all developers), and you need tons of time.
Chad, I did not enjoy working as a CM, but I very clearly (and painfully) understand the need for the role. You must be a saint to do this full-time.
* al jazeera tried to use akamai to protect its web presence, but,
since it hates freedom too much, its contract was cancelled.
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