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I've had very bad sentiments towards Microsoft ever since my Amiga days, but you've got to admit that W2K is the first decent OS from Redmond (the blue screens are a 16bit/Win95 legacy). Its not perfect (BeOS is the closest we've got to perfect, but alas, we ran out of breath on the last mile). Almost every other system out there is more friendly towards developers. Every time I sit in front of Windows I miss my Terminal/BASH window, multiple workspaces, logical directory structures, logical API's, mountable foreign filesystems etc

Even though I dream of driving a Ferarri or a Porsche on special fuel, at the end of the day the market is optimised for medium sized family cars which run on unleaded fuel, have cheap spare parts (inferior quality) and allow the standard car CD player to be installed since the mounting plate is the correct size. The bizarre thing is that if everyone were to purchase Ferarri's, the shear economy of scale would bring their price down to a point where everyone could afford to drive it. Then we'd dream for station wagons (or whatever) since they're multipurpose heavy duty vechicles, but since their demand is low they'd cost more and run on diesel or similar.

After 15 years of this, you're finally worn out and just decide to blend in. Your new expensive Sony car CD played fits perfectly in the mounting bracket. Only on weekends do you take your lovely Ferarri for a spin and dare to dream of a different world.

Back to Civ3 (opps, I meant work).