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Most of those companies wouldn't be where they're at without Micron memory!
(not that I'm biased or anything...)
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I can't believe you forgot this option.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Nobody grows up without Lego!
Kitty at my foot and I waAAAant to touch it...
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Why not, they are technology company too...
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. T.Jefferson
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Because they wrote their entire app in PHP, so they are considered an anti-technology company.
Am I funny yet?
Seriously, though...PHP?
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Well, that thing is certainly a money maker for them but that's not the only thing they do After all they created Open Compute Project[^] and a lot of other open source stuff.
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. T.Jefferson
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I agree with you. It is amazing that they've taken the technology as far as they have and that they've been able to make so much money from the FB site. Plus the committment to open source is definitely admirable.
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Not trying to defend PHP (or Facebook's use of it, for that matter), but they have done some really cool stuff with it to make it better, such as this[^].
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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That's pretty cool stuff. The one good thing about PHP is that it is alot of fun to do some simple things.
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That would get my vote.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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My favorite[^] for a few decades, since National Semiconductor ceased to be doing much. I don't even know if they still exist, but National published the best reference data of all for a long time. TI and Analog have taken over that niche, I think...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Google Technology is more than i like it..... It will be the future leader of the modern technology era. Because it main feature is open source and it is more user friendly...
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..what with all the mistakes, weird decisions, bugs and security problems, the disaster(s) of Windows 8/8.1 and Windows Phone (thankfully inhaling it's last few breaths having killed off the only manufacturer 100% backing it), unfinished/unpolished products (the eighty-five-percent-ers as I call them - 85% complete to a reasonable level, botch the rest and ship it regardless)?
I could have understood any of the other companies being popular, but I've been let down by Microsoft more than any other technology company.
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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On the other hand, most of the people here (myself included) have made their living from MS - dumb to bite the hand, etc.
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Me too, but I'll bite any hand that keeps poking me in the eye!
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Microsoft screws the stuff up so that we __ the genius technology consultants __ can fix the crap and get paid. They can't say it out loud.
For example, with Windows 10 there will be multitudinous "challenges" which can only be resolved by skilled (paid) workers. That is where we will fly in and create crappy solutions on top of the crappy OS.
It's a wonderful food chain.
User: I can't...
Skilled Laborer: Of course you can't, but I wrote a PowerShell script which...
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Okay, I'll give you all that!
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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If that is the only reason that you are voting for Microsoft then you have lost your passion in the industry. I suggest you look elsewhere for the multitudes of other more exciting technologies out there.
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Brian Schummer wrote: If that is the only reason that you are voting for Microsoft then you have lost your passion in the industry
Oh no! I love what I do and and I appreciate MS for providing me with the platform that allows me to do it. I've used many different technologies/tools/languages over the last 30 odd years and, ultimately, they are all just tools.
Brian Schummer wrote: I suggest you look elsewhere for the multitudes of other more exciting technologies out there.
Really? Like what? You're over thinking it - technology isn't exciting, it's actually pretty dull - it's what you do with it!
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Microsoft has provided a platform and made it inexpensive and easy to download and get started on. They suck you in and this is why they are as big as they are. Not because it is the near best out there.
Perhaps, it is a difference in opinion or semantics but I find a lot of technology exciting.
VR, IofT, even mobile development still to name a few. However, Microsoft appears late in getting a lot of stuff out there.
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Brian Schummer wrote: Not because it is the near best out there.
Never said that. MS has a lot of shortcomings; however, out of all the tools I have used, they are about the easiest to use and make money with.
The excitement should come from what you create, not how.
Brian Schummer wrote: VR, IofT, even mobile development still to name a few. However, Microsoft appears late in getting a lot of stuff out there.
I get excited about what I create, not the tools I use to do it. It would be like asking Rembrandt if he gets excited by paint brushes or painting.
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I get a sense of accomplishment with the things that I create. I enjoy what I build. However, I also get excited by new tools that I use. The things that can make my job easier.
I'm sure Rembrandt loved his paintings but if there was a new brush that allowed him to paint difficult strokes easier then he would love that brush too.
In software, the stuff you build can become tools for others to use. Shouldn't they be as excited about using it as you were for creating it?
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This conversation is going to end up as deep and complicated the rabbit's hole tool I once built...
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