J
Agree with you on the GTO though I have a feeling even powerball
wouldn't be enough, Every time I think i'd like a frazer (I'd go for a
308GT4, as it would go with the 914/6 as oddball mid engined cars,
brilliant styling, love bertone) I drive one and its enough to put me
off, they are the worlds fastest trucks, they have appeal because they
look fast standing still (and they stand still a lot!) I'm also told the
servicing is as simple as 1, 2, 3 ($1K the first year, $2K the second
$3K thereafter)
N
James Sugrue wrote:
Awesome. Bit of a Ferrari man myself, but can appreciate a classic (or 2). I
started a Ferrari fund last year, but it keeps getting raided to pay for
sensible things like maintenance to house, tax etc.
I want a 308GTS - always like those, or if I win powerball in the w/e then a
1962 250 GTO which IMO is the finest looking car ever produced.
Not a big fan of Ferrari's latest stuff as far as looks go.
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1973 911E 'Eva',
1970 194/6 'Eric',
Replica 1964 904 'Yet to be named'
N
James Sugrue wrote:
What models?
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As I own 2 Porsches (and am building a replica of one as well) I'd have
to take umbridge at the comparison. Porsche do not propose that their
car is universal and get it accepted as a standard (.NET), Porsche do
not sign license agreement for technology and then intentionally attempt
to break it (Java), they just make cars that burn the same fuel, run on
the same roads and take the same format tyres as everyone else (as an
aside can anyone think of any other item which is speced in imperial,
metric/dimensionless at the same time ie 225/15/60)
The IT industry is by its very nature based on a high level of
interoperability which might be is against the creed of the free-est of
the free marketeers but the free market doesn't work for monopolies
which is why this is legislated. No-one prevents M$ from stating that
they don't conform to the standards. My point is that M$ will abandon
.NET if it feels like it and you are probably more at risk from
disruption by following M$ than you are by standing aside. M$ on one
hand are disruptive (.NET XAML etc) and on the other slow (ie compare
the dev rate on Windows to Linux)
I feel for Borland as they are stooges in some respects, they get beaten
up all the time but kept alive for the facade of competition they
represent (so that M$ doesn't get legislated against)
I am considering upgrading from Win2K Pro soon any suggestions?
N
James Sugrue wrote:
Playing devils advocate for a minute....
Clearly breaking apps is a different story, but isn't evolving your
business
model to take on your competitors just good business sense?
I would argue that some of the stuff they are doing in the .NET space is
innovative, whereas others is taking someone else's idea and making it
better. Isn't that just the way the world works? Ferrari(or Porsche if
you
prefer) didn't invent the car they just build on Benz's ideas and made
them
better. Do you feel the same about them?
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Im not quite sure how numbers could be 'anti .NET' but i'm not surprised
by the numbers 0.1% would have been to much.
Does anyone remember OS/2 and how one of the office apps used to fall
over in it
Its quite obvious how M$ work, muddy, divide, conquer, The
examples of this are endless and .NET is just one to slow Java, if XUL
takes off, we bring in XAML, If Ajax gets a foothold ...
Freedom to innovate..bullshit
N
Jeremy North wrote:
On 4/28/06, Richard Vowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What a very interesting post. Thanks KuetFung!
Take Grimes' posts with a grain of salt. He is very anti-.NET.
Jeremy
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