Respond To The Tunney Act

Jeremy White writes "Two nights ago, I was discussing the Microsoft Antitrust trial, and the comment period required by the Tunney Act, with someone who cares as deeply about this case as I do. The person I was talking to had an inside connection that knew the tally and basic shape of the comments actually being sent in about this case. I learned that it's time to stop procrastinating, or Microsoft buys this one."

Comments

Re:The scramble for first post.

[smooc]

me! me! me! me! I *do* have an opinion!

Now what was it about again?

Re:actually...

[TurboRoot]

Alanis Morisette is a moron.

The only irony is that she wrote an entire song abuot irony, and the only ironic thing is that there is no irony in the entire song.

Re:actually...

[kin_korn_karn]

Ironic that you should bring her up. I was just thinking that she sucked this morning when the idiots on the radio played her music.

Re:The scramble for first post.

[ethereal]

My MSDN documentation experience (though not about hidden APIs): yesterday, I wanted to do two nonstandard things in Visual Basic (*spits*). In both cases the builtin MSDN library searches couldn't find anything helpful. In both cases I started up exceed, fired up Netscape from my real workstation, searched for the same thing on Google, and in each case the right answer was within the top three search results. Humorously, in one case the answer was even on msdn.microsoft.com, but their builtin search tools couldn't find it while Google could :)

MSDN is good documentation if you want to do things the Microsoft Way. But Heaven help you if you want to stretch yourself a little, or if you want to apply concepts from the rest of computer science (you remember, it's that discipline that Microsoft hasn't entirely bought yet). Ultimately, Microsoft tools and MSDN just make me wish that I could do the whole damn thing in Perl - I'd have been done days ago.

Now ending this off-topic rant.