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Microsoft Using .MS TLD
mqudsi writes "Microsoft is using the .MS top-level domain, assigned to the Caribbean island of Montserrat, for its Web 2.0-flavored Popfly project. You can get your own .MS name if you really want to — there are no restrictions on foreign ownership — at $180 US for 2 years. As of this writing microsoft.ms is available." In an obliquely related note, TechBlorge has up a rumination on the resemblance of the Popfly logo to Tux.
Tag: SlowNewsDay
How we know is more important than what we know.
I want the most active domain in the ms tld.
Someone get ComicSans.MS
-- lol pwned
http://i.hate.ms/
That way it really looks Web 2.0!! yay..
They're cute birds... wow..anyone who has a cute bird as a logo is ripping off linux?
First of all, they obviously look similar
really? huh.. you know you're right. If someone hadn't pointed out it was the popfly website, I would have swore I was at a linux site.
The resemblance is damn near perfect. I like the way the pink really brings out the black and white....
this is beyond slow news day.
linuxsavedmefrom.ms
Hey, did you laugh at the pictures like I did?
One was the obligatory girl. She probably did design work. Not that she couldn't code circles around the guys and all, but you know, gotta keep up appearances.
There were three guys on there, I swear, I saw them on NBC's To Catch A Predator getting arrested. It's good microsoft hires ex-cons. Keeps em off the streets.
Sloth from Goonies evidently works there now. Good for him. I'll bet he eats a LOT of Baby Ruths.
There were plenty of forgettable, dorky white guys who, together, probably own every D&D and Warhammer piece ever made.
Finally, the project lead was surely the guy on top (of the pyramid, you perverts!). I guess I have worked on enough projects to know.
*Sigh*
Well, what do you know? popfly.ms IS good for something! It amused me for ten minutes.
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nudewebca.ms
You must be new here...wait, you ARE new here!
For the first time ever, the "you must be new here" meme has been used against...someone new!
Of course Tux fans are paranoid. And don't try to change that, you!, with all your common sense and all. I run a tinfoil haberdashery and make quite a good living at it.
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IONLYUSEWINDOWSINV.MS
I like music
How long before rectu.ms points to goatse?
Crumb's Corollary: Never bring a knife to a bun fight.
http://popfly.ms/Overview/ - click on "watch the popfly screencast"
If you want, watch the video. I have to admit the concept is kinda cool. The way you can edit block code and share it... It seems to me that MS is trying to leverage a community which openly shares code modifications. The problem is that it is all based on a closed-source platform, and I'm sure the best hackers would rather work on an open platform, instead of one which could change or become obsolete without notice.
The funniest part is if you skip to 9:50 when there is a demonstration of a digg reader. The first listed article mentions the exclusive MS / Lenovo deal, but, even better, the second is "Hackers use Windows Update to download..."
Despite Silverlight looking quite polished in the demo, MS still cannot avoid bad press on a free-information internet, and thus, still cannot be cool.
"That's nine managers and six developers. No wonder the team "hustles for resources." They're probably going broke paying management wages to sixty percent of the staff. It says three more people aren't pictured -- we can bet that two of them are more managers."
Three lions escape from the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle.
They decide to split up, to improve the chances that they won't all be caught all at once, and agree to meet three months later to compare notes.
So three months pass by and they all meet. Two of the lions are all skin and bone. One is shaking, he says "I ate one kid at a school and they chased me into the woods. I had to live on voles, shrews, and the occasional mountain biker...stringy, they are." The second lion, also skinny, said "I ate a cop, and they chased me 'round the city and I wound up having to climb up Mt. Ranier and all I could find to eat was squirrels."
So the two look at the third lion and ask why he's so fat and happy:
"I hid in the bushes next to Microsoft's main entrance. I ate a manager a day and nobody noticed."
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BMO
(joke shamelessly stolen and adapted from IBM to Microsoft)
Ah, but now we stumble upon the true way that Microsoft is ripping off of open source. Obviously they combined both logos as a way to drive linux and Adium off of the market. And you know what's also a bird? Pidgins. Could it really be such a coincidence that Tux is a bird, a duck is a bird (twice, once for MS, once for Adium), and that a pidgin is a bird? OH, LORD. WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO.
I wouldn't even call it flamebait. I would, however, call the blogger an idiot.
No, but the dupe of this article next week will be...
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
I don't know what's lamer... the post or the fact that you bothered to read *and* reply to this post.
Oh, wait..... crap.
Does this mean that we can look forward to most of Microsoft disappearing under a volcanic erruption sometime soon?
Terrorists can't threaten a country's freedom and democracy. Only lawmakers and voters can do that.
Hehehe.. you've been in corporate land too long.
No kidding. He actually used the phrase "interface with customers" in a non-ironic way.
Trust me, it really happens. In my previous job we started with two project managers; they were so busy they talked their manager into hiring another PM. So the senior of the two originals became the Project Engineering Manager and spent full time monitoring the status tracking of the other two.
Be honest: By "the senior of the two originals", you mean yourself, and by "full time monitoring the status tracking of the other two", you mean "reading Slashdot", don't you?