Sun Runner: Canned BJ software

[Parker]

> And guess what, you can't.

It's getting there. I'm currently testing a Linux simulator. There are Linux blackjack practice programs available, although they are admittedly pretty crude at this stage, expecially when compared to Casino Verite.

> Shoot, I just this morning have the IT guy here
> considering making my next PC a MAC! ("Well,
> I'll have to do blah, blah, blah, but, well, I
> guess so, I really like MACS ...") Getting off
> the PC wagon is a pain in the ass .. for the
> regular guy that is.

It's sorta like quitting smoking -- rough at first, but highly beneficial in the long run.

> PS -I know money isn't everything and a poor
> measuring stick of many things .. but with
> that 'brain-dead' OS that Gates taped
> together and you keep referring to .. he
> won. The game is over. We can pontificate
> all we want, but as I said, as long as his
> train dosen't jump the track, those guys are
> large and in charge and the rest of us are
> going to learn to like it.

Over??? Are you kidding? It's just beginning to heat up! Microsoft may have won the first few skirmishes, and certainly has built up a commanding lead, but this is a marathon, not a sprint.

Rememer, it's only been about 12 years since Linux was nothing but a project for some Finnish computer geek college kid.

Now, we have companies like IBM and Novell investing heavily in Linux. Linux already has a major share of the server market, and is just now beginning to penetrate the desktop market. Hell, IBM ran a series of commercials during the last Superbowl that promoted Linux. That has certainly never happened before.

Linux has Microsoft seriously concerned, a major accomplishment in itself.

They don't know how to deal with it.

They can't buy it -- nobody owns Linux.

They can't beat it in price wars -- Linux is free.

The next few years should be quite interesting, to put it mildly.

[V-man]

Norm,
I thought you use C to write your CV suite?
If not, can you share your experience with some IT couters here?

[Norm Wattenberger]

CV products are VB6 applications. When I was a yout; BASIC was a joke language. But, it grew up just as I grew up. CVData/CVCX have a modern architecture. There are four simulators: Standard, multi-tracking, CVCX(Parallel), and Index generation. They exist as separate activeX objects running in separate address spaces from the main program. But, they are generated from the same basic code using compile time logic. This architecture is forward-looking. It is trivial to modify and maintain. New functions can be added and tested in minutes. It makes use of the advertised advantages of object oriented languages without bowing to the OOP religion.

C and worse C++ are geek languages. They were designed by people that want programming to be more complex than it needs to be. They are promulgated by computer science professors that are more interested in maintaining a cloud of mysticism about their chosen field than in enabling future developers.

Just my not so humble opinion.

[Sun Runner]

>> with that 'brain-dead' OS that Gates taped
>> together and you keep referring to .. he
>> won. The game is over.

I'll admit I got a little carried away on that one. But they do have a commanding lead.

The only thing that would make me happier than seeing someone or something actually competing with MS, is seeing about half a dozen of the little geek bastards that are screwing with everybody -many just for sport -be brought up before a judge somewhere, bitch-slapped in public (as someone else said) and then sent to be bubba's cell mate for about five years.

(Where did I put that Prozak!)