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[Sajt]

Ewwww....

Sajt, you let me down. You should have built your own.
http://web.media.mit.edu/~ladyada/make/minty/

It's not like I bought it myself

I only really use it as a small portable hard disk anyway. Stupid headphones won't stay in.

[Monster]

iPods suck ass. Way too expensive, and the ipod video's picture/video quality isn't the best. Battery life isn't too spectacular either. Get a Creative Zen Vision: m. It WILL blow you away. 14 hours music, 4 hours video, has a radio, and tons of other features for about the same price as an ipod.

[Canadian*Sniper]

They work and I enjoy it so stfu

been using my ipod for 2 years now.

[Monster]

Only reason everyone wants an ipod, is because everyone else has one. They don't bother to look up other better mp3 players.

[Sajt]

That's why I got an Ipod. To fit in with my 14 year old buddies. Monster you are a laugh and a half.

[vegetous]

[flame mode on]

Oh, and I don't listen to Qradio. WMP doesn't support that kind of file. And stop calling me baby, I'm quite past the age of 1 1/2.

My God, you're not only a ***, you're also a noob!

[flame mode off]






BTW.: it was a joke!

[Bank]

Ipod is a terrible music player, only successful because of their ingenious marketing ploy.

[Monster]

Yes, I completely agree Bank. That was more of what I was trying to say Sajt.

[Canadian*Sniper]

Ipod is a terrible music player, only successful because of their ingenious marketing ploy.

I could say the same about Telus.

I got my iPod on sale and it's quite outdated. When you have a job, $300 for a toy doesn't seem so bad.

[Baker]

I support the IPod largely because the alternative players/music services all use Microsoft's DRM crap. I'd rather support something open source, but since there really isn't an integrated solution, I prefer the least restrictive of the available options.

At least with the IPod you can burn a CD with the songs you made, rip them and re-use. So you at least "own" what you "bought" online.

I hate Microsoft's idea of DRM and more or less find most of Microsoft's products these days ghastly (IE , Microsoft Bloato Orifice 2006 , WMA's DRM, .NET = .aweful, etc. etc.)

[Canadian*Sniper]

.NET = .aweful

You really think you were going to get away from saying that?!

.NET <3 joo!

As much as I'd rather be programming in C++ and C, .NET and Java Sun are the two popular technologies these days. Gotta think smart if you want to survive in the industry.

[Baker]

You really think you were going to get away from saying that?!

.NET <3 joo!

As much as I'd rather be programming in C++ and C, .NET and Java Sun are the two popular technologies these days. Gotta think smart if you want to survive in the industry.

Name a single application that the average consumer uses that has ANY .Net in it whatsoever.

I dare YOU!

(Don't name something dumb like an operating system either!)

[Canadian*Sniper]

You're right Baker... No one uses .Net. Boy am I a fool to program in .NET to make a living. Oh dear oh dear...

It's not a matter of applications, It's a matter of business. Web applications are a good example. The job market for .NET is immense and you can't deny that. Maybe it will be replaced next year but right now, .NET and Java are the now.

what kind of an answer were you looking for? Macromedia flash? Photoshop? Google? You ask a stupid question you get a stupid answer.

[Baker]

OwNeD!!

Find a single app in all of Download.com with more than 500,000 downloads that uses .NET, heheh.

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I'm not saying .NET isn't a good thing to find a job -- corporations are like lemmings looking to commit suicide off the vendor lock cliff just because all the other corps are doing it, I am saying .NET is so good that no distributed applications use it. (That's not a compliment.)

And Google, which does more data than just about any company in the world doesn't use it either.

[Canadian*Sniper]

what kind of an answer were you looking for? Macromedia flash? Photoshop? Google? You ask a stupid question you get a stupid answer.

No seriously I'm asking you what kind of answer you were looking for. The statistics are out there that .NET and Java are the hot technologies and I'm in the damn field as a contractor. You're nothing thinking of the logic here. You're asking a question where I assume what the "average user" is. Are you talking about computer joe shmoes? Delevopers? Administrators?

.NET is a business, not just a bunch of programming languages.

Answer the question. Am I trying to enlightnen you or are you just trying to prove a point that you dislike Windows? I'm pro Linux as well but I'm not ignorant.

edit: i see you made changes to your last post. Average Users go to Download.com? Since when? .NET is still a new technology so give it time. I do know of a lot of .NET applications that I use on a dialy bases such as Easy SMPP, SharpMud and Zer0FTP but they're not mainstream to the average user.