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TRON Enters Alliance With Microsoft
David writes "As widely reported on OSNews.com,
Forbes,
IDG,
CNet,
AustralianIT,
and Ashi
Shimbun - Microsoft Corp.
has entered into an alliance with the T-engine
Forum, the consortium behind the free software TRON
operating system. As TRON runs billions of
devices worldwide, this will help Microsoft's goal of cementing WinCE / .NET
in places as diverse as your toaster and cell phone, perhaps in a setup
similar to how X-Windows is in relation to the Linux kernel." (Continued below.)
David continues: "This arrangement is ironic, as Microsoft is part of the reason why the U.S. in the 1980s prevented Japan from putting TRON into schools on the desktop by account of trade rules, which would've meant Linux may've never gone beyond being a footnote in the comp.os.minix archives. No doubt Microsoft is aiming to keep Linux out of the embedded space, and may in the long-term foster an environment where using anything other than industry-licenced OS software on the desktop becomes unviable for everyday tasks because all the infratructurial systems we take for granted today like radio, television, phones, IM, require Palladium-style walled gardens."
I'll never believe it... Tron fights for the users. He'd never work for the MCP.
Too late, they already put Windows on my gun, and it just keeps rebooting when I pull the trigger.
Blue Screen of Light-Cycle?
10b||~10b -- aah, what a question!
No thanks! Spare me the Microsoft stuff and give me a good old mechanical toaster! Yah!!
MS: Who are your users?
TRON: Forget it mister high mighty Microsoft. You aren't making me talk.
MS: Suit yourself
*derez of TRON commences*
Err, shouldn't that be "I for one welcome our Microsoft Overlords... Again"
Where's Flynn when ya need him?
Sark: "You're just an ordinary program!"
Flynn:"So are you. One that should have been erased."
Flynn:"Come on, how can you expect to rule the world if you can't solve a few unsolvable problems."
There's a growing sense that even if The Future comes,
most of us won't be able to afford it.
-- Lemmy
TRON and Microsoft are only working together on a new security system that will be able to protect heterogeneous systems from attack, so there is no reason to worry.
The first SDK for this software ("Skynet") should be out in about 18 months.
Recursive: Adj. See Recursive.
Better than having to pay an extra $699 to SCO for my toaster.
"The only ray of hope here, is that it will provide a great impetus to embeded linux."
Nope, the only hope here is if one of us users can get into the system and liberate TRON before he gets the bits blasted out of him on the game grid.
There's a growing sense that even if The Future comes,
most of us won't be able to afford it.
-- Lemmy
I'm not looking forward to the BSOD on my toaster...
Hey, wait a minute. I always knew there was something strange about those Microsoft Certified Professionals and they ugly biege MCP polo shirts that were tucked frumpilly into their 38" Husky "big boy" denims. Little did I know how deep their dasterdliness ran. /shutter/
ER
..."Windows Powered"(TM) toaster sticks fork in YOU!
~Philly
Talkie Toaster
Would anybody like some toast?
Well then, would anybody like some toast?
Microsoft Certified Professionals?
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* Before someone tries to corrects me, don't worry, I already know the reference to Tron the movie.
if it means that when I can't figure out how to use a kitchen appliance a little anthropomorphized cartoon refrigerator character pops up, waves at me and tells me what to do.
This will mark the return of Clippy, mark my words.
It appears you're trying to make toast. Would you...
A) Like advice on which bread to use?
B) Adjust your toast settings (will require Microsoft TOAST(TM)(R) Install CD)
C) Prepare your spread of choice?
D) Just go make some damn eggs (Microsoft Eggs will open in new window)
"Leopards don't change their spots
Lions don't lie with lambs
Microsoft doesn't play well with others"
Ah, but caterpillars turn into butterflies. Your argument is defeated! Buahaha!
See how easy it is to attack an argument that overly relies on metaphor? I'm really suprised you were modded up.
Therefore: BSD is dying, QED.
Wait, now I'm confused. What was this analogy about?
Fuck Beta. Fuck Dice
Please download it off some obscure site, then satisfy its dependencies then satisfy the dependencies of its dependencies only to find out that it either blows up when you use sht command or would not compile due to bugs in the code/different GCC version/missing files.
"The early bird gets the worm" vs. "Good things come to those that wait."
I prefer this one:
"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse always gets the cheese!"
"Derp de derp."
Maybe that joke about Microsoft making something that doesn't suck (vacuum cleaner) may be coming to real life very soon?
Un-news
You may be thinking of a vendor sht. He's probably using GNU sht, which takes caliber etc from a file of tab (NOT space -- think make!) separated records -- exact syntax available in handy 'info' format.
Frankly it's easier to just use windows and call IFirearmsEx::WGunSystemBulletOperationShootEx32(H
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.