I didn't say there were. What I did say was that MS claimed C# was the way of windows programming for the future. And then they failed to deliver by delivering a half-ass language.

Yes, it serves fine as a Java competitor, if it could only get to be a little faster. At least it's faster than Ruby, Grails, et al.

Ah - there's the rub. Systems programming was one of C#'s original purposes. I never said when the systems coding took place. It was years ago. I would not try it today, it'd be pointless,and quite possibly easier and faster to do in Java, Ruby, Scala, or Lisp, which should say everything you need to know or hear about the state of systems programming in C#, at least on Windows. It's also an indictment of the language itself.

And amazingly enough that need is not decreasing with time.

I prefer my address bar to, well, work with addresses, and search to do search. Surprise. I especially hate chrome doing a search on localhost when I want to go to http://localhost./

But that's just me, and I guess according to your opinion mine's worth less than yours. Consider this though - Until Chrome, I don't believe anyone had combined the two. Ever wonder why an ad company that serves ads on searches created a browser with this default?

[ducks]

Thanks for the warning! :)

    But can it identify pie? Sometimes I need a computer to determine what kind of pie a pie is. Is it raspberry pie, raspberry cobbler, raspberry rhubarb pie, raspberry jam sandwich, apple pie, apple crumb pie, or apple cobbler. Could it identify doughnuts too? I hate thinking I'm about to eat a Boston cream doughnut, just to find out they put that nasty lemon filling in.

    Voice recognition has already been done.. Dessert identifiers, *that* is the future! Desert identifiers would be useful too, but may be slightly off topic.

I don't use SuSE, either. I wasn't happy with the way that Novell bought DR-DOS and basically laid there like a dead fish.

I've been planning to avoid MS Win8 from the beginning. If I wanted a tablet, i'd have one by now. If I have new hardware, I'll put the OS I want on it, and if I can't then I won't buy it. It's that simple.

This whole thing makes me pissed at RH/Fedora because they're effectively letting MS think they can turn this into a "win/win" situation: MS either makes money selling half-assed operating systems that hardware is locked into using or MS makes money by licensing access to that hardware.

Screw them, screw the hardware.

I think it sets a really bad precedence, to be perfectly honest, and I don't like it a bit.

As for the beer, don't lose sleep over it: I don't drink.

Really?

What would constitute really gross as compared to mostly gross or just plain "damn, doesn't that hurt?"