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Microsoft Launches 'Channel 9' Blog
Decaffeinated Jedi writes "As reported by News.com, Microsoft quietly launched Channel 9, a blog/discussion forum aimed at improving communication with outside developers, on Tuesday. Named for the audio channel that many airlines use to let passengers listen in on crew conversations during flight, Channel 9's creators state the following in a welcoming message: 'Five of us in Redmond are crazy enough to think we just might learn something from getting to know each other...Join in, and have a look inside our cockpit and help us fly the plane.'"
Microsoft are going to ditch the NT mega-kernel and use Plan 9 instead. These are the first tentative steps in the migration from the huge monolithic NT ring-main to the elegance that is Plan 9. [deep voice] From the people who brought you Unix, PLAN 9 [/voice] Da da daaaaaaah bom-bom bom-bom bom-booom
Simon
Physicists get Hadrons!
I give you 7 of 9
Not sure just how quiet it can be now that it's being seen by MILLIONS OF USERS EVERY MINUTE.
Does registration require removing my shoes?
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Launch all sig
I would not fly a constantly crashing plane anymore.
There you are, staring at me again.
The most important operating system is not Windows.
Finally Microsoft figured it out.
EVERYDAY IS CATURDAY
I spend enough of the day on slashdot and fark.
I don't have time to listen to Codekeeper Willie talk about typesetting and anthropology.
Join in, and have a look inside our cockpit and help us fly the plane
Cue 'If Microsoft ran an airline' jokes in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...
Proceed to put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye...
Ok, someome please tell me I'm not the only one who heard Lawrence's voice from Office Space, yelling "Hey Peter! Check out Channel 9! Breast exam!"
--JoeProgram Intellivision!
a blog/discussion forum aimed at improving communication with outside developers
What they're really saying: "Hey guys, we need to innovate. Come on in and help us innovate something. If you tell us what to do, then you'll better like what we license and charge you for."
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Boutros boutros ghali
(Or do you mean a different Channel 9?)
Daviid: Quando es il dejeuner que la nyktos?
La Rutha: O no. Aga non es functivo, ma microsoftos destructivos la dejeuner.
Daviid: De nada. Mater que pater beefsteak cuisinarti tel para.
Lizabet: El parenticos favoritos!
Alberto: Scorchio!
Who does Microsoft thing they are appealing to? A bunch of 10 year olds? I'd be a little concerned about the conversation going on inside the cockpit. "Ever seen a grown man naked?"
---Technology will liberate us if it doesn't enslave us first.
I would try to come up with a name for it that is an acronym for "Borg," but I'm feeling really tired this afternoon.
AAAAHHHHHHH! Watch out for that giant freaking penguin that's about to eat the plane!!!!
Aw, hell. It's too late anyway.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
it's hosted on a distributed network of zombie windows machines
I don't know if I would want to listen in on the crew.
5. Hey dude, got anything to eat? I've really got the muchies right now.
4. Do you smell that? <sniff> <sniff> It's like a burning smell...
3. Dallas Tower, we have a flameout on starboard engine 2.
2. Jesus H. Cripes, Climb! Climb!
And the number one thing you don't want to hear on channel 9:
1. Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name...
Liberals call everyone Nazis yet they are the closest thing to it.
I'm reading these people's posts, and ... I know that slashdotters can be pretty dumb, and many of us are the type to get wedgies in high school, but we don't project a face that's that lame, do we? Geeks without the rebel in them are just ... dorks.
Even our windows supporters are way more hardcore than those dweebs.
PULL THE NOSE UP! PULL THE NOSE UP! WE'RE GONNA CRASH!!!! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Segment fault at <a very personal memory address>
Open Standards Portal
Huh? Is this a joke or something? Well, if it is a joke, I just don't get it. Oh.. wait, is this a joke about Microsoft? Perhaps about Windows? Wait, that might be it. Windows crashing right? Is that the joke? Are you saying Windows crashes a lot and making a joke about that? Oh, yeah, wow. That is funny. Wow. Good stuff. I'd mod you up if I could because I wouldn't have thought of something that funny. No, my humor is much more dull than jokes about Microsoft Windows crashing. Heh. I probably would have made some dumb joke about a blue screen. Not very original. But, wow, a joke about it crashing is much funnier.
Thank you so much.
Forget the whales - save the babies.
Wouldn't a longhorn evangelist be a lady who enjoys large equipment?
That's what I thought at first, too -- an orchestrated PR effort -- but honestly, that site is too badly done. There's no way this is an official MS project.
May we never see th
OK- who among you really answered Yes to that? I mean, if Microsoft said it's safe then it must be, right?
Ceci n'est pas une sig.
:wq!
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SVM, ERGO MONSTRO.
found it: Famous Last Words
Finally, I've got a low user ID at a respected Tech site! wait...
::click a dee click click::
::Jack booted thugs storm a small apartment and a man is drug kicking and screaming into the night.::
"I find microsoft products to be less robust and not as flexable as unix based systems. Even apple has moved to such a platform. Why can't microsoft provide analogues to these tools and systems?" (post)
So I can pick another. For some strange reason I just don't want my flight from Atlanta to Phoenix "blue-screening".
Uhm, ok so my reasoning isn't so strange.
Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change the world. It's the only thing that ever has.
'Five of us in Redmond are crazy enough to think
The Fav Five want me to join them in their cock pit? No, I wont do it!!!