The harsh truth

I’m a nerd. Everyone who visits here should know that. As such, I tinker with everything I have and usually find its limits sooner or later. This is how I have come to appreciate the .Net framework from Microsoft. Honestly, such unity is awesome. It seems rather large and truly limited for the time being, but Vista should make that non-existant.

But… some older boys have been talking to me (my coworkers) and explaining different problems. It goes along with computer problems… and they all get blamed on Microsoft Windows. Granted, a lot of the problems that plague Windows is the users. This is very true. The problem is that Windows has become too open for users, in my opinion. Honestly, why have we allowed people to get so far from standards? For more creativity!

But, no. That isn’t right. It’s like the web standards project. I am a huge advocate of standards (i’m sorry i’m an ass, everyone, but it’s worth it in the end). As such, I have come to see that the only advantages of allowing for non-compliant creations merely makes people able to make things faster and without as much knowldege. But is that better? Read the rest of this entry »