So I grudgingly decided to dive into Microsoft’s “Big New Incompatible Thing”, .NET, after realizing that I’m a bit behind atm.
Hmmmm, OK, so it’s hardly new, but it recently has been getting so far integrated into Windows that I saw it as a necessity.
So, I DLed VS ‘08 Pro (With all the languages), and the entire MSDN documentation onto my HDD, and here are my thoughts…
The .NET Framework my .NET apps were using was 3.5, so I was using the new stuff. As well as learning the “Three NETs”, I read about it’s architecture and how it basically works. I also read about how to write the .NET CLS IL (Equivalent of ASM in native code). My god, it’s so much clearer than ASM!
The first thing to understand is that .NET apps are 100% portable, as long as you don’t tie yourself in down with non-portable libs. All .NET incarnations seemingly support the same small base, so across .NET apps, there is portability for all the basic functions. The small base seems the same across MS .NET, Mono and the rest of them.
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You are here today witnessing the beginning of a revolution! Today I am officially declaring that Post-Grunge never existed. All the fanatics are just gonna have to go home, party’s over.
Post-Grunge is supposed to be a music genre that according to Wikipedia, is nothing more then radio friendly grunge. (We all know the impeccable credibility of wikipedia; the most well respected educational outlet on earth.) I can recall hearing a new grunge band on the radio almost every week while riding the bus to school. It perplexes me to think that the music has not changed much, but the genre apparently has.
Who came up with this genre? What was the purpose behind it? Allmusic.com is a truly respected source for musical information. They claim, “The major difference is that while the Seattle bands were firmly rooted in underground alternative rock of the ’80s, post-grunge was influenced by what grunge became — a wildly popular form of inward-looking, serious-minded hard rock.” I certainly can’t believe it was an attempt to make the genre’s more specific…nothing’s changed!
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Almost everyone can probably remember the first time they encountered the concept of infinity. At first it seems like an absurd idea. How can anything possibly go on forever? As a young child you learn virtually everything through tangible experiences. So when confronted by something as abstract as infinity most children will think that it simply cannot exist. After all, you cannot see or touch infinity (nor smell or taste it for that matter!) How is a young child supposed to understand something that they can’t sense? With this said, a lot of adults also encounter this bewilderment.
One of these adults is my dad. As soon as infinity is mentioned he becomes a vehement atheist, in terms of infinity. “How can something go on forever? Infinity is just a big cheat!” he can be heard saying in dismay. These sorts of thoughts don’t really cross the minds of children, but that doesn’t stop them from using infinity in their arguments. A frequently heard phrase at my first school was “I’ve got infinity of them”. This would always appear when two kids would be having a disagreement about who had more Pokemon cards or something equally pointless! Any mention of infinity was almost always then followed by someone saying “I’ve got infinity plus 1” or something along those lines.
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