Will Linux takeover Microsoft?
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Today's FoxTrot[^] :laugh: -Nick Parker
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:laugh: [edit] I seem to recall reading somewhere that the colour can be changed :) [/edit] Paul ;)
Garfield.Bark(); **---Configuration: garfield - Win32 Deworm---** C:\garfield.cpp(9) : error C2039: 'Bark' : is not a member of 'CCat'I think it's some sort of registry option, but I think it only works on 95/98/Me. "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
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...but as much fun as an "all Bück Dich, all the time" nightclub must be, you may want to try a few others now and then, just to mix it up a bit... :rolleyes:
Shog9
Let your mercy spill / On all these burning hearts in hell If it be your will / To make us well...
Having been around for nearly a year, I've noticed: You, Paul Watson and I seem to be the only ones who change the subject field when we reply. :rolleyes: :laugh: Vikram.
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.- Dijkstra KI klike KDE kand kuse kit, kbut KI kmust kadmit, kstarting kall knames kwith K kis ksilly. KI khope kthey kwill kgive kup kthis kwhole kscheme ksoon kand kcome kup kwith kreal knames. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.
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Now i've definately done my fair share, but why does everyone always insult bill gates for writing an imperfect operating system. If you think you could do better, why do you have your salary, and not his? *.* cin >> knowledge;
It's called marketing/sales, it has nothing to do with the quality or otherwise of the product. It is where is software guys fail!
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. - Isaac Newton 1676
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Having been around for nearly a year, I've noticed: You, Paul Watson and I seem to be the only ones who change the subject field when we reply. :rolleyes: :laugh: Vikram.
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.- Dijkstra KI klike KDE kand kuse kit, kbut KI kmust kadmit, kstarting kall knames kwith K kis ksilly. KI khope kthey kwill kgive kup kthis kwhole kscheme ksoon kand kcome kup kwith kreal knames. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.
Vikram Punathambekar wrote: You, Paul Watson and I seem to be the only ones who change the subject field when we reply you should really look harder. -c CheeseWeasle
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Having been around for nearly a year, I've noticed: You, Paul Watson and I seem to be the only ones who change the subject field when we reply. :rolleyes: :laugh: Vikram.
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.- Dijkstra KI klike KDE kand kuse kit, kbut KI kmust kadmit, kstarting kall knames kwith K kis ksilly. KI khope kthey kwill kgive kup kthis kwhole kscheme ksoon kand kcome kup kwith kreal knames. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.
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...since you made a good joke. :laugh: Vikram.
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.- Dijkstra KI klike KDE kand kuse kit, kbut KI kmust kadmit, kstarting kall knames kwith K kis ksilly. KI khope kthey kwill kgive kup kthis kwhole kscheme ksoon kand kcome kup kwith kreal knames. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.
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Having been around for nearly a year, I've noticed: You, Paul Watson and I seem to be the only ones who change the subject field when we reply. :rolleyes: :laugh: Vikram.
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.- Dijkstra KI klike KDE kand kuse kit, kbut KI kmust kadmit, kstarting kall knames kwith K kis ksilly. KI khope kthey kwill kgive kup kthis kwhole kscheme ksoon kand kcome kup kwith kreal knames. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.
Remember my Cricket posts, when I used to annoy everyone by changing the title os the post to something Cricket related? BTW, Happy Independence Day! :cool:
Regards,Rohit Sinha
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
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It's called marketing/sales, it has nothing to do with the quality or otherwise of the product. It is where is software guys fail!
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. - Isaac Newton 1676
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It's called marketing/sales, it has nothing to do with the quality or otherwise of the product. It is where is software guys fail!
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. - Isaac Newton 1676
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Remember my Cricket posts, when I used to annoy everyone by changing the title os the post to something Cricket related? BTW, Happy Independence Day! :cool:
Regards,Rohit Sinha
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
- Mother TeresaWell, on second thoughts, I've started the greatest subject-changing exercise in CP history. :cool: Rohit Sinha wrote: Happy Independence Day! Yup, Cheers! But why is Bob still naked? :| Vikram.
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.- Dijkstra KI klike KDE kand kuse kit, kbut KI kmust kadmit, kstarting kall knames kwith K kis ksilly. KI khope kthey kwill kgive kup kthis kwhole kscheme ksoon kand kcome kup kwith kreal knames. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.
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Having been around for nearly a year, I've noticed: You, Paul Watson and I seem to be the only ones who change the subject field when we reply. :rolleyes: :laugh: Vikram.
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.- Dijkstra KI klike KDE kand kuse kit, kbut KI kmust kadmit, kstarting kall knames kwith K kis ksilly. KI khope kthey kwill kgive kup kthis kwhole kscheme ksoon kand kcome kup kwith kreal knames. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.
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Well, on second thoughts, I've started the greatest subject-changing exercise in CP history. :cool: Rohit Sinha wrote: Happy Independence Day! Yup, Cheers! But why is Bob still naked? :| Vikram.
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.- Dijkstra KI klike KDE kand kuse kit, kbut KI kmust kadmit, kstarting kall knames kwith K kis ksilly. KI khope kthey kwill kgive kup kthis kwhole kscheme ksoon kand kcome kup kwith kreal knames. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.
Vikram Punathambekar wrote: But why is Bob still naked? Perhaps because it's still 14th at his place? ;)
Regards,Rohit Sinha
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
- Mother Teresa -
It's called marketing/sales, it has nothing to do with the quality or otherwise of the product. It is where is software guys fail!
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. - Isaac Newton 1676
Ted Ferenc wrote: It's called marketing/sales, it has nothing to do with the quality or otherwise of the product. It is where is software guys fail! If you think that is true, go and use WordPerfect or Lotus 123 for awhile. Oh, and use Paradox for your database. Delphi is a good product, you can write code in that. Oh, and in case you are thinking that MS rolled over OS/2 with marketing hype, then think about this... OS/2 had a bug that made it crash requiring a hard disk formatting and reinstallation (according to John Dvorak). How's that for a bug? You can do everything a normal computer user does without using any MS products (word processing, spreadsheet, email, contact management, database). Have fun!
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That is just a myth. If you look at the time when IE, Excel and Word took over, they where all getting better reviews than the other packages. Tim Smith I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art.
CP is is Up I can reply now! It's called marketing when you say to a magazine, "we want to advertise our new product in your magazine, our budget is 1,000,000 USD for the 1st month, and 500,000 for the next 11 months. Oh by the way would you mind reviewing it as well?" I used to work in the newspaper industry, a very good, obvious, example of this is in your free newspapers have a look at the articles and check if the compnay mentioned in the article has any adverts in the paper and how big are they wrt to the article? I don't want to criticise Excel, etc. just pointing out marketing strategies. :suss:
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. - Isaac Newton 1676
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Ted Ferenc wrote: It's called marketing/sales, it has nothing to do with the quality or otherwise of the product. It is where is software guys fail! If you think that is true, go and use WordPerfect or Lotus 123 for awhile. Oh, and use Paradox for your database. Delphi is a good product, you can write code in that. Oh, and in case you are thinking that MS rolled over OS/2 with marketing hype, then think about this... OS/2 had a bug that made it crash requiring a hard disk formatting and reinstallation (according to John Dvorak). How's that for a bug? You can do everything a normal computer user does without using any MS products (word processing, spreadsheet, email, contact management, database). Have fun!
I use Opera for surfing unless the site is non standard and OpenOffice. I was around when Worperfect, Lotus and dBase ruled. As we all know it is far easier to copy than to innovate, Microsoft's early attempts were bad, ever tried Windows 1.0? If you then give your products away "free" with each PC you get a user base, over the years you issue updates, for a fee of course, and eventually you can kill the opposition. But the opposition can and does aid this process a classic example was the British Motorbike industry. Also there was a saying in the early days "a release of MSDOS is not finished unless Lotus 123 crashes" which may or my not be true. Also which version of Windows would you say is totally secure and stable and how long has it taken to achieve this?
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. - Isaac Newton 1676
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I use Opera for surfing unless the site is non standard and OpenOffice. I was around when Worperfect, Lotus and dBase ruled. As we all know it is far easier to copy than to innovate, Microsoft's early attempts were bad, ever tried Windows 1.0? If you then give your products away "free" with each PC you get a user base, over the years you issue updates, for a fee of course, and eventually you can kill the opposition. But the opposition can and does aid this process a classic example was the British Motorbike industry. Also there was a saying in the early days "a release of MSDOS is not finished unless Lotus 123 crashes" which may or my not be true. Also which version of Windows would you say is totally secure and stable and how long has it taken to achieve this?
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. - Isaac Newton 1676
I strongly disagree. Wordperfect and Lotus ruled some time ago, but they couldn't catch up with Microsoft. Microsoft did not copy. Instead, those companies were so slow to copy MSs innovations! About Linux vs Windows: Well, this is a completely stupid discussion. Everybody have a taste. Personally, I never liked Linux. I use Linux for most of the time, however I still hate it. My Windows XP Prof. crashed only once for the last 2 months. However, my freaking Redhat Linux 9 crashes at least twice everyday. Also, it has been more than 1.5 years since I reinstalled Windows. Isn't this a quite good performance? I don't think that there are important security issues in WinXP. Even if there are some, I am using Norton Internet Security and I really dont care about the rest. Mustafa Demirhan http://www.macroangel.com
"What we do in life echoes in eternity" - Gladiator
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I strongly disagree. Wordperfect and Lotus ruled some time ago, but they couldn't catch up with Microsoft. Microsoft did not copy. Instead, those companies were so slow to copy MSs innovations! About Linux vs Windows: Well, this is a completely stupid discussion. Everybody have a taste. Personally, I never liked Linux. I use Linux for most of the time, however I still hate it. My Windows XP Prof. crashed only once for the last 2 months. However, my freaking Redhat Linux 9 crashes at least twice everyday. Also, it has been more than 1.5 years since I reinstalled Windows. Isn't this a quite good performance? I don't think that there are important security issues in WinXP. Even if there are some, I am using Norton Internet Security and I really dont care about the rest. Mustafa Demirhan http://www.macroangel.com
"What we do in life echoes in eternity" - Gladiator
It's not that I'm lazy, it's just that I just don't careMustafa Demirhan wrote: About Linux vs Windows I agreee, I like Unix but no longer use it, as you say it is personal preference. We are getting into what came first the Chicken or the Egg discussion here. Lotus 123 was the reason lots of people bought their 1st PC in MSDOS days. All of us are influenced by marketing whether or not we realise it after all why do people buy bottled water when tap water is free and, arguably, is safer to drink? In the UK at least, tap water has to pass more tests that bottled. I remember being being Toronto when 98 was released and seeing the CN tower festooned with a 98 banner, this sort of marketing gets you noticed. In the early days I prefered to use CP/M, MSDOS was worse BUT it at least gave us a "standard" operating system to work to. Other companies did serously loose the plot, my comments were just to say that although you may have the worlds best mouse trap unless you market it properly no one will buy it.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. - Isaac Newton 1676
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...but as much fun as an "all Bück Dich, all the time" nightclub must be, you may want to try a few others now and then, just to mix it up a bit... :rolleyes:
Shog9
Let your mercy spill / On all these burning hearts in hell If it be your will / To make us well...
:laugh: Did you know that pink has a calming effect on people? I saw a show in Discovery about it. Apparently they paint the rooms pink where they put arrested people to calm them down. And I think a pink screen of death would be better for a frustrated mind. :) -- Serial killers don't kill their boyfriends.
