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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: True, but I never buy these PCs that are equivalent to Macs. I paid $400 for my home machine and there is no Mac equivalent for it (Mini is nowher near the HP machine I bought when it comes to power andd features and is still more expensive). I am sending this post from a Lenovo netbook that I paid $335.00. What is Mac equivalent for it? iPhone?
If buying cheap hardware with a severely limited useful life works for you, then I'm certainly not going to stand in your way. I configure system that will last me at least 5-6 years. My last PC is still going strong and will probably go to my nephews to use.
Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: How do you know it? Are you sure there are no people who bought their Macs 10 years ago and never upgraded? Or you simply ignore them?
A bit of both, actually. Supporting out-of-date hardware and operating systems is the bane of any developer who targets Microsoft's operating systems. Apple makes things a bit simpler. Yes, there is something of a planned obsolescence with Apple, but this results in fewer support issues for both software and hardware vendors. Customers end up paying in one of two ways: Either they pay for upgrades, or they pay for support when they don't want to upgrade. A practice that many Mac developers have embraced is that they keep the previous, unmaintained version(s) of a product around for those who won't upgrade their computer or OS.
Paul
A .NET developer who now drinks the Ruby and Cocoa Koolaid.
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While I am definitely waiting for Windows 7's official release, the beta has been installed on all systems on my home network for a few months, and its a rock solid joy to use. Barring any major changes before the official release, I can't say that buying it for real will be as exciting as getting my hands on C# 4 and its dynamic capabilities.
Most of all, though, will be .NET 4.0. Contracts, parallel processing, tuples, ISet<T>, co/contra variance, improved GC...yeah, can't wait for it.
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can't wait too
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Widows seven is also on my home system. I'd put it on my system at work but the fact that I would lose or have to reinstall my applets, you know things like vs 2003, vb6, office 97,2003 stuff like that. I just hope the production release of win 7 doesn't want to wipe out the registry.
When prediction serves as polemic, it nearly always fails. Our prefrontal lobes can probe the future only when they aren’t leashed by dogma. The worst enemy of agile anticipation is our human propensity for comfy self-delusion. David Brin
Buddha Dave
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David Lane wrote: win97
Yusuf
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Window 95 maybe and office 97. Anyway we are not allowed to require our users to upgrade to dot net(how lame is that?) so VB6 is still a must.
When prediction serves as polemic, it nearly always fails. Our prefrontal lobes can probe the future only when they aren’t leashed by dogma. The worst enemy of agile anticipation is our human propensity for comfy self-delusion. David Brin
Buddha Dave
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I see... Maybe you better off running your legacy development environment in a virtual machine running on top of a Windows XP?
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outsch indeed...lament for the future much?
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Jon Rista wrote: Contracts, parallel processing, tuples, ISet<t>, co/contra variance,
Ack. I still don't even know how to use Linq.
Marc
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Great thing about new features is you don't have to use em.
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I swear if they screw around with my tools again I'm gonna kill someone!
The 3 that will give me nightmares however are Win, VS and .net, as they represent my primary tool set.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Agreed
You don't have to be mad to live here [UK], but it helps.
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It would be nice to have time to catch our breaths.
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just as you get use to one version and become proficient in it another one comes out.
cheers,
Donsw
My Recent Article : Optimistic Concurrency with C# using the IOC and DI Design Patterns
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Well, it's not like you're completely lost between each version. It's a matter of ~3/4 weeks before you feel comfortable with the new VS.
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Err, that's the point..? right? I mean c'mon, you want to stop taking advantage of the latest and greatest ideas? doubt it.
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Coming from MicroSoft does not necessarily make it either the latest, or the greatest.
I dread MVC becoming a built-in for VS. I'll start getting tons of resumes from people who know everything about MVC, but can't even define the concept of a pattern, much less the actual implementation of one of the more conceptually complex ones.
Grim
MCDBA, MCSD, MCP+SB
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When is the last time they added a feature to Office that a regular person actually used. I generally find that they just re-arrange the menu items, change the graphics and re-release.
Hogan
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Need revenue stream so must release every so many years. Users will not be happy with their upgrade price if they do not see any changes so the GUI must be changed in some way..
John
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IMO Office 2003 was good enough. The media & its junkies are one major factor that drives the need for new releases. If you don't have a new release in the pipeline that the media can prattle on about then you get no coverage and hence your usage volumes decline.
Another factor that drives new releases is that the copy-cats will catch up and maybe go past you, a good example is Open Office. Prior to Office 2007 I mostly used Open Office, but when I upgraded one system to Office 2007 for compatibility reasons I soon wanted it everywhere. So I bought a multi machine license and installed it on my other two machines, I've not used OOo since.
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Agreed. Talk about copy cats... I bought a mini laptop [^]last week. With Circuit City going out of business, I decided to get my share. Almost every mini laptop had the exact same processor, screen, ram, and hard drive. So I bought the cheapest one You're completely correct, I got the cheapest one when the features are exactly the same.
Hogan
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