Do you have a Windows Tattoo?

Does Bill G. have a Windows Tattoo?

How many people have windows tattoos?

Here is Charles Petzold's Windows Tattoo.




Actually, Bill G has one of these.

Beer28 wrote:

It's a good thing he can afford laser removal. I had a friend have quite a few of them removed, and he said it wasn't pleasant.

What makes you think he would want Laser Removal.  I plan to have the newer Windows emblem tattooed on my Arm.

"Many people know about Don's infamous IUNKNWN license plates" quote from Adam Nathan
, he was THE COM evagalist for Microsoft, so i am wonder why not use COM to implement his Indigo .

There is a guy at work that has the plates AFK - LOL

Beer28 wrote:

It's a good thing he can afford laser removal. I had a friend have quite a few of them removed, and he said it wasn't pleasant.

Well, the scars from you carving Tux into your forehead might never heal fully... </joke>

LeighSword,

Don wasn't working for Microsoft in his COM days, he was working for DevelopMentor, his own training company.

He moved to Microsoft at around the time of the release of .NET 1.0. He was quite eloquent on how .NET fixed some of the problems of COM and how COM had gone about as far as it could go.

Why would you use COM to implement Indigo?  It's not at all the right tool for the job - is it? COM+ has some of the architecture required, but as I undestand Indido, it sits between the developer, and COM+ or remoting, or Web services, by providing a common layer for interoperability between distributed services.

mule wrote:

LeighSword,

Don wasn't working for Microsoft in his COM days, he was working for DevelopMentor, his own training company.

He moved to Microsoft at around the time of the release of .NET 1.0. He was quite eloquent on how .NET fixed some of the problems of COM and how COM had gone about as far as it could go.

Why would you use COM to implement Indigo?  It's not at all the right tool for the job - is it? COM+ has some of the architecture required, but as I undestand Indido, it sits between the developer, and COM+ or remoting, or Web services, by providing a common layer for interoperability between distributed services.

yes, .Net has fiexed some of SMALL problems of COM (may be VB developer's problem only), but also brings some critical defects, such as source code security and perfomance.

I know less about Indigo, I have wrote both .Net Web Serivce and ATL Web Service, and ATL Server has Thread Pool and Memory Cache that improve the performance MUCH, can not image how fast it is before you get it a try, so I think ACE and ATL Server is worth than Indigo(based on .Net) to focus on.

I hope MS continue to develop the next version Binary COM that  steal some advantages from .NET(such it's architecture), and only for C++ programmers(not another CIL).

MS should let market to decide which is the better.

leighsword wrote:

yes, .Net has fiexed some of SMALL problems of COM (may be VB developer's problem only), but also brings some critical defects, such as source code security and perfomance.

I don't understand where this ".NET has bad performance" myth comes from. .NET's performance is NOT a "critical defect". Why do you think Indigo as almost 100% managed code?

Just because it's .NET and is a managed language doesn't mean that people can write any piece of crap code they want. Writing performant code in .NET takes just as much consideration to algorithms and data structures as any other programming language.

I think that if people took the time to see the performance .NET code can deliver they'd be pleasantly surprised.

It's like the myth about .NET "taking all my memory" and people calling SetWorkingSet or GC.Collect all over the place. That's no substitue for bad programming practices

But mine is much bigger and I think I was first....

I just want to say this is one of strangest threads I have ever seen.

So, who was the first person to request a "MS VISTA" license plate?  Is anyone still driving around with a "WIN NT4" plate?

billh wrote:

I just want to say this is one of strangest threads I have ever seen.

The end is NIGH!

People are receiving the marks of the beast!

W3bbo wrote:

billh wrote: I just want to say this is one of strangest threads I have ever seen.

The end is NIGH!

People are receiving the marks of the beast!

Hmmm.  All it needs now is some type of bar code underneath it, and some type of authentication mechanism--to see whether it is "Genuine" or not.

:O

PocketXP wrote:

Does Bill G. have a Windows Tattoo?

How many people have windows tattoos?

Here is Charles Petzold's Windows Tattoo.

I wonder if he had to get permission from Microsoft to reproduce their trademark?

I read a while ago about Disney sueing tattooists who reproduced their characters and there was one person only I think who has written permission to get tattoos of all their characters on them - and they are actually going to get covered in all 100+ characters. Mad.

No windows tattoo, but my right arm has a 3/4 sleeve of tribal with my boyz names in chinese

Actually, I have permission from Microsoft. I´m also a "Microsoft Certified Tattoo"

And to all of you that take this thread too serious... don´t... have fun you only get angry if you don´t.

Maybe a penguin on my other arm in the future?

I think my issue is the whole idea of tatooing something "corporate" on your arm...

A product logo as tattoo?

Stupid.

I don't even put bumper stickers on my car. Why would I tattoo a logo onto my body?