-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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, St�rungen zu beseitigen, und durch Reichtum, so entspringt doch die reinste Sicherheit aus der Ruhe und dem R�ckzug aus der Masse. (Epikur) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE79CVgeSeJPuOA2l4RAptoAJ44Nm+LfGzNO8HLFBAolYhpcEs3UwCeLN0h lS1HrSV3/cF1Z6H90brF/0Y= =kCNF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
