The Voodoo 3 was too little, too late. 32bit color, hardware TnL, 32Mb memory, FSAA, DXT texture compression, all these things the competition had that they didn't. They got lazy and complacent, they thought they were big enough to start telling people what they wanted, but then NVIDIA set us...
> Is OfficeXP much better than Office 95?
Christ man, hardware has unlimited growth potential, office software doesn't!! I can tell you exactly what I want and what we will get in 10 years ( we will be near 1000Ghz processors then ), but please share with us your ideal roadmap for 10 years...
Always get service packs. They fix soo many things it's stupid. Rather than "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", my motto is, "something's always broke, fix it even if you haven't noticed it yet". Not as catchy, but it's much more true.
Don't be fooled by the .NET name. None of the .NET products (Visual Studio.NET, Windows.NET) used the .NET languages, they are different beasts, it's just a whole branding thing Microsoft have going on.
VB wasn't used for any critical parts of Windows, so why should .NET be used now? .NET is...
Actually, it's a mix. The core kernel is C (some assembly), the rest is mainly C++, the higher up you get the more C++ there is. There is _NO_ C# in Windows at all. C#/C++.NET is a replacement for Visual Basic, thus it is not intended for performance-critical applications such as an OS!
In addition to the fabrication technology being shared, so is much of the research that goes into advancements. The major players in the industry aren't as head-on as you think, the infrastructure behind all the top companies are shared, and even between companies such as AMD and Intel they have...
Ok, now you're just being stupid. The cost of distribution or creation has never meant anything in any industry. Each DVDs in my collection cost 50c to produce and I happily paid $25, the P4 3.06Ghz CPU I'm using cost $25 to produce and are sold for $700, software costs a few dollars. The chair...
It's not name calling, because pure communsim is actually a very nice idea. It was what I thought, an interesting comparison between the ideologies. If you consider it name calling then you've missed the point, so nevermind.
I'm in software because it pays very well. I'm not interested in...
If you don't see the tie to communism, then you couldn't have studied much economics, or you are missing the ideology. I'm talking about the ideology here, not any personal predujidices or beliefs you may have about a planned economic system.
Placing something under the GPL is effectively...
But Windows evolves through market demand, it's not a bunch of programmers locked away in a box. The whole free market capitalist system is based on the whole foundation of evolution through demand. Free software doesn't evolve to the same degree, though I won't deny that it is of course guided...
> For a model that doesn't work and defies all logic, OSS has been quite succesful so far, no?
Communism worked quite well in the USSR for the first 70 years ;-)
J/K. But really, if we put it in perspective, the whole GNU movement's had a loong time to prove itself already (their "manifesto"...
Yes, yes, and yes. I use Linux occassionally and recently because I'm interested in its future from an observer's point of view. I know what I'm talking about, but you are of course free to disagree.
Back on topic, When I mentioned money, I'm not talking about the people using Linux, I'm...
> Development tools
I am a professional developer, and nothing comes within two miles of Visual Studio. This is, of course, a matter of opinion, but Visual Studio really has become the gold standard, and without an IDE (and compiler backends) to match, the main development community won't be...
Never mess with hardware to do something software can do even better. Use the Win32 SendInput API functions, in whatever language of your choice. Or gimme $50 and I'll write one for you with a cute little interface.
Again, I said pathetic in scope. You are just being silly if you are going to pretend Linux is on par with Windows XP in areas such as usability, application compatibility and range, multimedia (e.g DirectX), interface, support (Windows comes with great support, and a knowledge library that's...
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