Re: career choice to Java or .NET

XP at the local government runs even slower than W98 and crashes more
often. It is time to stop farting around inventing new fancy features
and start over and the basics right so that machines don't crash
simply because some application did not play perfectly by the rules.

No, it is not. Reinventing the wheel is pointless. It is time to stop
farting around and get a bunch of Linux weenies and a bunch of Nielsen
Norman Group usability geeks crammed together into an oversized sardine
can (may require additional components not supplied, including, but not
limited to, the guns you'll need to accomplish this task and a way to
lock the tin from the outside after). With some luck, maybe a stable OS
with a real user interface will come out if you wait a few years and
then open the tin again.

We already have interfaces and data formats and common app suites in
portable languages like C on the one hand, and a kernel that actually
works on the other. The odd thing is nobody ever seems to really get
around to combining them in one box.

Connecting to the Internet is a bit like moving from rural community
to Harlem. You MUST get street smart very quickly.

What kind of environment do your production systems that don't use the
network run in? A cleanroom? I'd say "Connecting to the Internet is a
bit like moving from Harlem to Baghdad. ONE fully automatic assault
rifle is just not enough anymore -- please pass the RPG launcher..." :)

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