Re: This made my day ;)
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On Wednesday 14 November 2001 20:39, Jens Benecke wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 07:31:37PM +0100, Franz Keferboeck wrote:
> > On Wednesday 14 November 2001 17:52, Jens Benecke wrote:
> > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/media/677.jpg
> > > http://freespace.virgin.net/andrew.harrison4/
> > >
> > > Wait for it, it's worth it. ;)
> >
> > It is... "everything clicks. even this you don't want to..."
>
> Well... XP would be much better if it didn't contain all these MS-isms that
> try to lure you into total Microsoft control. (Media Player, Passport,
> Hotmail, WMA, Product Activation, etc etc etc ...)
>
> > I just had to correct a homework (of a 1st semester computer science
> > student) who attached winXP screenshots... I didn't know that it is THAT
>
> er... what kind of exercise requires screenshots??
Well, require's the wrong term; he just attached! We want the (damn)
Java-code (i hate java...), the inputs as well as the outputs (even with
windows you can do such primitive piping I think...); But this guy attached a
screenshot of the editor he typed the java-code with (????) and a
command-window where he executed the code with...
However, we had some exercises last year where we had to attach screenshots;
these were those dealing with AWT and Swing; these made me hate Java so much
- - and love QT/KDE, which is with c++ the best framework with the best (though
not fastest) programming language available (but that's just my opinion and i
don't want to offend anybody...)
<SNIP>
> This is and will stay "Windows for Teletubbies" for me. That's what it
> looks like, and that's the target audience. If you're still six, you might
> enjoy all these blinkenlights, but serious professional work seems next to
> impossible.
I never hear this, "Windows for Teletubbies", but it's nice;-) What you said
about the audience:
If anybody REALLY thought about it and came to the conclusion that he/she
wants to work with windows, i'll respect that (though there'll be a lot and
long discussions...). But if someone calls himself a "Computer Scientist" and
he likes windows because "I don't have to think about anything", it's a
contradictio in eo! But: Almost no-one makes a decission by usign windows!!!
I want to make a survey asking people in the street "Why did you choose
MS-Windwos?". Noone chose it, "is there something else?" or "It was with my
computer" will be the answers! Microsoft's domination is NOT a matter of it's
"Operating System's" strength (I think we all agree on this) but it's impact
on media and vendors. Not a single daily Newspaper wrote about KDE 2.0, Linux
2.4, Gnome 1.4 or anything like that; but ALL had an article about the latest
Windows in their "Technology"-section (which is a populistic column for
gamers and wannabes...)
OK, pretty much philosophy (and a lot of typos), but i had to get rid of
this!!!
Franz
- --
Wenn auch die Sicherheit vor den Menschen bis zu einem gewissen Grade
eintritt durch eine bestimmte Macht, Störungen zu beseitigen, und
durch Reichtum, so entspringt doch die reinste Sicherheit aus der Ruhe
und dem Rückzug aus der Masse. (Epikur)
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