>On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 02:59:42AM +0800, "å??ç?¢ >Wei-Yee Chan (Made in >Chinar)" wrote: >> What exactly do U mean by "real work"? U don't mean >to say that >Windoze >> users or people working in industries other than >yours are slackers, >do >> U? ;-) =Ooh, no! That wasn't my intention. From this you can infer that the few java developers we have here still working under windoze are slackers too. And I know they aren't. :) Anyway, I was talking here about my field without any attempt to generalize. >> >> To be fair to everyone, I'd have to say that as far >as I know, >Windoze >> can pretty much do what Linux is capable of doing. I >don't know much >> about your industry though, so I would have to >reserve comment in >your case. >> >You have to stop saying things like this. They are >simply not true. >If you want to say Windows is easier for people who >aren't very >sophisticated in computer use , OK. But as far as doing >much of what >Linux is capable of doing, that is just plain >Balderdash. -- = I really don't know what's Balderdash but I do know that most of our work can be described as building sophisticated pipelines and changing them as fast as possible according to our research goals. We are heavily relying on scripting capabilities any unix system can provide. You don't have this under windows. You also don't have the same reliability. I hope this will give you a few hits for why we are not using windows. regards, Val __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com
