All I gotta say - my macs are unix boxes.....
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as a bsd and irix sysadmin and developer for over four years, i can fairly claim expertise when comparing oses. you, on the other hand, have no such experience: you're just parroting talking points from slashdot. get outta my os discussion, nub.
Ooooooo a sysadmin and a developer! I dont know why I thought I should even type anything in this thread among the likes of you! Also 4 years? Thats all you have under your belt? Shyt dood I was working on DSP signal processing code in C+ for 6 years before I even got into business development.
no, the 4 years was my salaried time in the hardcore UN*X trenches. I have another 8 in MS-specific development, and 15+ overall as a hobbyist developer and admin on both UN*X and MS platforms. lrn2read, qq more, etc.
(also dsp code? jesus fuck. i was doing that as a sophomore in college. didn't orcad make that wholly unnecessary, given what a tedious and mindless exercise it is?)
I was writing c code using vi on QNX boxes back when you were playing Comander Keen shareware on your 386. At this point in my life sysadmins and developers are about as valuable as entry level fry chefs. (geeks rule, but business dev and sales rules geeks)
dude, i *still* write C/C++ using WinVI. (okay; I moved on to Source Insight. What!) At least I'm still up-to-date and relevant. You consistently demonstrate very poor knowledge of the current computing space, and I will illustrate this as your whining progresses. Fuck, I'm a middle management schlub -- I have no compelling immediate reason to keep my skills up-to-date -- but I do because in the long-term it is what is best for my business acumen, my employees, and my customers.
No really not to be rude - I am in business development now - but your (my e-penis is threatened) attitude is just pretty damn shitty at times.
My e-penis isn't threatened. I simply don't like people who are consistently and persistently clueless. Shame on me for having standards. No, that's wrong -- shame on me for harrassing easy targets.
I dont need to tell you every detailed minute detail of why I prefer OS X to WinX - I generally respect and like your opinions but your constant trolling and silly 12 year old attitude of "ProfessorPoles preferences are the law" is self serving and very closed minded.
You could at LEAST give me some indicator that you know what you're talking about. I haven't seen anything opf the sort -- at best, you parrot the spin from Slashdot; at worst, you mumble a bunch of gibberish and I just scratch my head, wondering where the stack overflow occurred.
Regardless of what you say;
- There is a large contengency of people who prefer OS X to Win for many reasons (and we dont need to take 4-5 hours to explain the lifetime of PC usage experience that got us to the point)
Oh my,
argumentum ad populi! Lots of people prefer Britney Spears to The Flecktones, too, and I'm sure they have "many reasons," none of which have to do with musical prowess.
- There is a large contengency of people who think PC gaming is shyt and only play consoles
Indeed, and they are frightened fuckwits who can't use computers, to a man/woman/androgyne. Most of them see no reason to have an arbitrary spelling of "shit," though. Is this a whiteboy hiphop thing? I get all my street cred via Saint Cornelius, and "shyt" is new on me, mate.
Does this mean that your opinions are bad? No they are just opinions - but stop talking to people like everything you 'prefer' is law - because its not and your "4 years" (lol) experience as a "developer" doesnt make your opinion any more or less valid than the thoughts of me or any other user who may post on this forum or the worst GAFtard over at GAF.
a) there are no laws on internet forums but what your insecurity dictates
b) i am quite a bit smarter and more educated than the average gaffer, and much better at articulating my ideas
the collusion of these two rules generally results in reactions like yours.
You post like a short bitter middle aged old man.
i am not short; i am only occasionally bitter in the fashion of most folks; and i am not sure how i would avoid being middle-aged
Synbios - it is true - OS X is MUCH more stable and features far superior memory management. "Developers", "server geeks" and "rack monkeys" prefer Winblos and winblos server because it keeps them in jobs.
...or it could be hardware has surpassed the need for micro-management of resources; and that cost of deployment, role specialization, migration strategies, and application development are actually important to REAL developers and administrators in the REAL software service and infrastructure management spaces, but what do I know? (Oh wait; it's my job.)
ANYONE who manages alot of boxes (500+ servers) will prefer a *NIX variant to Winblos Server any day of the week for these very reasons. Anyone who throws them self on the floor and declares their love for Winblos Server is either at a SMB with a CTO who makes poor lazy technology choices are at an non-efficient enterprise where he wants the constant Windows Server uptime and maintinance issues to keep him hooked up in the job security department.
I have managed "a lot" of boxes; I have developed enterprise clustering applications; and I work with many, many of these customers you so ignorantly mock. Windows Server deployments have uptimes comparable to ANY stable UN*X platform, and maintenance costs are an order of magnitude lower -- the numbers AND the steady march of Windows Server into shops everywhere demonstrates that. You really are NOT selling me on any industry experience. If someone fed me this excuse you just gave above in an interview, I'd wouldn't call security -- I'd call the comedy police. Even the most rabid UN*X admin fanboys I deal with recognize Windows Server as an extremely high-quality and dangerous competitor in the server market. Our own Frag -- a REAL UN*X developer -- will back me up on this.
That said, I'm not sure why I feel the urge to call out internet posers, but nothing you say adds up beyond a very surface level. If me pulling the credentials card bugs you so much, don't stick your hammy hand in the fire. What I say sure isn't law, but you don't hafta act like it is, either,
senor.
