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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."
me! me! me! me! I *do* have an opinion!
Now what was it about again?
- In Memoriam: Jeroen de Bruin (1972-2004), bye bro
Good timing
Good post
Precise & on topic
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Don't you know that the rules of slashdot state that the editors drool over each and every linux non event?
I predict this is going to be an underrated discussion because not only is this article written by a linux person, it's also about the evil of microsoft.
I hate MS as much as linux zealots do, but I don't care about the hassle of using another OS as crummy as what MS makes even if it's free.
- Kaos games and encryption systems developer
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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.
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.
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.
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