01-30-2005, 01:15 AM
If you had read my other posts you might have seen that i am really depressed about what is happening currently (truly in the past few years) in informational technology.
In the past, until WinXP a strange, but good think was going: borders between old software, and new ones were not really exist. Usually all old DOS programs ran on Windows based computers like in the past if they not became easier to use due to that the hardware's propeties could be asked easier in Windows. This gained hope to programmers: anyone might feel that she or he can go forth step by step as long as he or she wants: there is no problem. And can develop software as long as if he or she wants as everything is remaining compatible. So i think this gave a great hope to people who had some affinity to it: with learning everything can be reached step by step.
But now as i can see and feel everything was changed dramatically. First of all Gates completely gave up DOS: i think this was not just an accident. This might have been made many people turning away from programming who stuck at DOS. After hopefully DOS began to start reviving again, but this is not the same as things were before. Not to mention that Gates did not stop: i think it is not just an accident too that holding SHIFT or pressing it 5 times brings up some helping function of Windows. Many games used SHIFT as an action key. At an other side a security function that disables all the JavaScript greatly stinks too: JavaScript is typically for poor HTML writers who have not got own servers.
The hard development what is going on in IT is horrible too. Everything is going so fast that there is no time to use up a hardware's full functionality, or to write a really professional thing what takes more years. So i think as the borders finally risen again, now forever between old and new, their role is changed too. From the past there may be many things what will be remembered for a long time like at C64, but from the news i think this will be rare. Now this became a horrible race for more and more money where quality is not important anymore. Of course (i hope) this not applies to everything, but many of them. What is not from now that will be outdated when it will be released. Quality simply needs time to make it well.
So i think it would be good for the world (yes, as now many things are being controlled by computers) if Gates' company was shoot into atoms by by the law. It would slow the things down a little so everyone might take a breath and possibly everything could clear a little.
This not only applies for Micro$ofts world. As hardware creators mostly support MS, it greatly affects Linux too, and everything else. For them it would be really good if Micro$oft could be stopped or at least slowed down somehow what would make them more spread.
Of course there is still some hope. Many people hated and hates the new Windows. Hope that if Gates creates some new "breakthrough", it will be so horrible (MS will try to go too far) that many people finally switches to Linux, or at least keeps using the old Windows. In this madness around the IT it is possible. Micro$oft can collapse into itself by a wrong move, and as it completely relies on Windows, that would be it's last move.
So currrently i see things this way. I do not say that everything is true as i say, but i think i have at least a little truth. I am doing my work by this ideology: DOS is something clean: i am triing to work on real "art" there. I program for Windows (95) as well, but i still far more like 16 color screens in 640Kb of memory than all of the advantages of 32 bit programming (Possibly i will write retroish software for Windows too).
In the past, until WinXP a strange, but good think was going: borders between old software, and new ones were not really exist. Usually all old DOS programs ran on Windows based computers like in the past if they not became easier to use due to that the hardware's propeties could be asked easier in Windows. This gained hope to programmers: anyone might feel that she or he can go forth step by step as long as he or she wants: there is no problem. And can develop software as long as if he or she wants as everything is remaining compatible. So i think this gave a great hope to people who had some affinity to it: with learning everything can be reached step by step.
But now as i can see and feel everything was changed dramatically. First of all Gates completely gave up DOS: i think this was not just an accident. This might have been made many people turning away from programming who stuck at DOS. After hopefully DOS began to start reviving again, but this is not the same as things were before. Not to mention that Gates did not stop: i think it is not just an accident too that holding SHIFT or pressing it 5 times brings up some helping function of Windows. Many games used SHIFT as an action key. At an other side a security function that disables all the JavaScript greatly stinks too: JavaScript is typically for poor HTML writers who have not got own servers.
The hard development what is going on in IT is horrible too. Everything is going so fast that there is no time to use up a hardware's full functionality, or to write a really professional thing what takes more years. So i think as the borders finally risen again, now forever between old and new, their role is changed too. From the past there may be many things what will be remembered for a long time like at C64, but from the news i think this will be rare. Now this became a horrible race for more and more money where quality is not important anymore. Of course (i hope) this not applies to everything, but many of them. What is not from now that will be outdated when it will be released. Quality simply needs time to make it well.
So i think it would be good for the world (yes, as now many things are being controlled by computers) if Gates' company was shoot into atoms by by the law. It would slow the things down a little so everyone might take a breath and possibly everything could clear a little.
This not only applies for Micro$ofts world. As hardware creators mostly support MS, it greatly affects Linux too, and everything else. For them it would be really good if Micro$oft could be stopped or at least slowed down somehow what would make them more spread.
Of course there is still some hope. Many people hated and hates the new Windows. Hope that if Gates creates some new "breakthrough", it will be so horrible (MS will try to go too far) that many people finally switches to Linux, or at least keeps using the old Windows. In this madness around the IT it is possible. Micro$oft can collapse into itself by a wrong move, and as it completely relies on Windows, that would be it's last move.
So currrently i see things this way. I do not say that everything is true as i say, but i think i have at least a little truth. I am doing my work by this ideology: DOS is something clean: i am triing to work on real "art" there. I program for Windows (95) as well, but i still far more like 16 color screens in 640Kb of memory than all of the advantages of 32 bit programming (Possibly i will write retroish software for Windows too).
fter 60 million years a civilization will search for a meteorite destroying most of the living creatures around this age...
There must be a better future for the Cheetahs!
http://rcs.fateback.com/
There must be a better future for the Cheetahs!
http://rcs.fateback.com/
