Re: career choice to Java or .NET

In article <1141241292.297396.208070@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Twisted took the hamburger, threw it on the grill, and I said "Oh
wow"...

Ever heard the phrase "my way or the highway?" The Newspeek equivalent
is "the Microsoft way or the airfare to India where everything else is
being outsourced". It is awkward and doesn't rhyme, which is exemplary
of how Microsoft, in addition to being evil, just plain can't get
anything right -- even its own antitrust defense exhibits. (Though one
or two of the goons presumably knew it didn't matter because of the
huge wad passed under the judge's bench, or was it the huge jar of
sleeping pills slipped into the vending machine?

Actually, they stalled and weaseled when it came time to put the head on
the chopping block. And the government pretty just said "Well, okay. You
can slide."

IIRC, the judge actually hit them hard, then it all broke down when it
came time to actually assess the penalties through some kind of
arbitration.

The guy snoozed all
the way through the trial as I remember it...likewise, the goons at the
top know it doesn't matter if longhorn doesn't ship until doomsday,
doesn't work, crashes more often than win3.11, doesn't keep out the
stupidest and most naive attempt at hacking or virus-writing, or, for
that matter, doesn't compile, because everyone will be forced to buy a
copy with their next hardware upgrade even if the only thing it's good
for is demonstrating that the HDD has enough space on it to store a big
Linux distro and a good-sized swap partition too.)



--
trippy
mhm31x9 Smeeter#29 WSD#30
sTaRShInE_mOOnBeAm aT HoTmAil dOt CoM

NP: "Doughnut Song" -- Tori Amos

"Now, technology's getting better all the time and that's fine,
but most of the time all you need is a stick of gum, a pocketknife,
and a smile."

-- Robert Redford "Spy Game"




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