Yeh, they are GREAT products. But who
buys this software anymore? The only reason people buy that kind of software now is if they are using it to make a profit.
As far as the whole .net thing goes.
That's total bullshit. I mean Java is way more powerful than any language that MS supports in that dumb package, except for C++. And the whole "visual" thing, doesn't go down very well. Java was designed in such a way that Sun made it internet-ready without even noticing it. Just the way that it handles security issues and stuff like that. Java applets that could be loaded onto an internet page, and give you sport updates, stock quotes, the time, count the number of visitors.
About 6 years ago we truly stepped into the computer age. 486's disappeared, then came the P100's, then the P200's and in the past 4 years they have gone from 200 Mhz to 2.2 GHz (i believe this is the highest). Now we are embarking into the "information technology age" where we are all bent on using the internet to get information out to people at faster speeds and make a nice profit doing it.
And now with the other jump of internet programming to put dynamic content on the net, for example the personalization on
this board. You login and you write your posts and log out. When I look at the internet and how far it has come in the past few years I think "WOW", the possibilities are endless.
I think that when you get to the point where you can even order your groceries online without even setting foot into a supermarket,
THAT IS PROGRESS. But who knows I could be wrong and all this "convenience" could be our undoing. After all the internet can smash all barriers of personal interaction completely, and all we will be is a whole bunch of people staring at a computer screen all day chatting and doing work over the internet.
It's pretty scary when you think about it, how far we have come and how far we can still go. When talking to someone in Japan is as easy as the click of a button, and a translator over the internet changes his japanese text to english so that I can read it, we have the world at our finertips and I believe that that is what the internet is all about. It's not what everyone says, it isn't a "community" it is a meeting place, a meeting place for the
entire world.
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Anyways, I have said too much, that is kinda a rant there, when you can go from talking about the .net studio being bullshit to your views on the internet you have crossed that fine line, from response to rant. Still I would enjoy it very much to read about what you guys think so just post it in this topic, I think we have nailed down the whole "Another Microsoft Security Hole" thing. Heh.
Crapshoot70 (this isn't my
real name)
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I don't like anyone...but everyone LOVES me 
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AKA...The Post Pirate 
sorry my bad. errr wait I said, "never will use linux" not "don't use linux" 
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