We need an openly web accessible XML based repository of information where the DEPOSITOR of information is and is held responsible for its accuracy.
Furthermore it can ONLY be entered with your knowledge and approval using a biometric key to access the information. No cheezy password scheme will do. Period. None. Fuggedaboudid Bub.
The encryption/decryption of the data could be done using another biometric key. (Retinal pattern with fingerprints and DNA as backups. Use one to be sure, two to know or all three to be CERTAIN.)
This way, the information is a shit-load harder to steal or forge. It also means that you KNOW what information's on there. You were present when it was recorded. And you know who has access because are present when its accessed.
The rest is untrustworthy and therefore should be untrusted (trusted as far as the drive which stores it can be thrown.)
That will take care of crap in your Experion or Equifax records.
That will take care of bogus credit card transactions.
That will take care of liens being slapped on people's houses because the previous owner took out a second mortgage and "neglected" to inform the buyer.
The 'net as we KNEW it has moved over to [secret] and to InterNet2.
The military has its own ultra-secure network that's NOT connected.
Academe has its own ultra-high-performance network that's NOT connected.
Face it, the originators of the internet, the military and academe no longer have any interest, need or say in what's happening.
The 'net that we're using now is a floundering piece of commercialized, lowest-common-denominator drivel that's going to descend into a pay-per-packet, metered, toll-gated rabbit warren of compromised hardware, lowest bidder SLAs (service level agreements) and cracked-all-to-Hell software and protocols.
But it'll be just good enough for the business who'll use it (because they have no other choice.)
And it'll be brought to you by people who didn't want it, didn't believe in it, and only see it as a way to make a buck now that all this silly inventiveness is over and the boring business of business can resume.
And you? Bwahahaha. Like they give a fuck. Pay and shut up.
They definitely don't make the hardware. Its definitely NOT the cost. Since when did M$ ever give a fuck about cost? If they cared about cost, the M$ tithe to PC makers would drop like a stone. A broadcast station is around $100 or less if you've got some ingenuity?
Are the revenues from their cable company (ComCast etc.) purchases not enough to keep them out of the playground?
Have they just dumped their shares in some 10/100/1000BaseT cable company and are going for revenge after the wire maker's CEO pissed off Gates?
Or is it that they didn't define the standards?
HA HA!
Look for their customers, the ones who keep taking it in the shorts, using hardware which is saddled with their drivers, to suddenly develop some incompatibility with non-M$ APs and broadcast stations. Embrace, envelop and smother. Being the 800 lb gorilla again Mr. Gates?
Kee-rist. You can smell this one coming a mile away.
I can see this in a boardroom in Redmond: "There's got to be some way to choke the life out of a 1.2GHz CPU to keep people on the upgrade treadmill."
"How about we keep it so busy trying to keep up with real-time events with our crappy OS that they have to get a monster machine just to connect to OUR APs? If we control the modems, we'll be able to wring another GB of RAM and GHz of speed to wade through our bloatware" "There won't be a repeat of the Windows For Workgroups 3.11 this time. We'll control the NIC cards."
There's the DMCA (or whatever floated to the top of the "Alphabits"TM bowl of some congressman's breakast that morning,) to slap you down with if you even try that.
M$ is well known in its rapacity and IBM was deservedly the subject of the longest antitrust suit of the last century/millenium. Both have been money mills for lawyers on both sides of the issue.
All traffic will have to go through their gates (no pun intended,) and they will collect a tithe on every packet.
Look for rapid adoption of IPv6 after that since they will need to identify the source, route and destination of every packet in order to charge you for every hop.
Shades of Canada's x.25 packet network which use to cost me plenty every month.
The costs will realign themselves to make it impossible to for individuals to contemplate downloading squat since the cost of transmission will equal or exceed the cost purchase of a hard good.
Only businesses will be able to use the net and the size of those businesses will scale with the cost per packet. Eventually, only the rich and large corporations will be on the net and by then it won't be worth using.
If there is anything that the last series of wars has shown its that armies and money aren't power, control of communications is power.
And the powerful don't share with the powerless (that means YOU) regardless of the potential benefits for anyone involved.
Instead they hoard communications, distort and prevaricate and depending on the armaments available send out the bombers, the local equivalent of the "Ton Ton Macoute" or their own children, the ones who who haven't yet starved to death, out amongst the crowd wearing bombs strapped to their chests.
I'm reminded of Big Brother. Control the language of discourse and you control the content of discourse.
When Smalltalk came out in the 80's nobody knew what a __Class__ was, but it was a mystery and had some prestige, Microsoft adopted it for prestige and marketing BS. Now that we know and understand a bit more, Microsoft is unable to get milage out of using it to spread the fog anymore.
They will now start to misuse another word, __type__, which has a very specific meaning, (an inextensible storage layout and set of internal operands,) and use it to make people forget about encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism and taxonomic organization of code.
In six months they will try to turn back the clock of CompSci discourse to levels not seen since the early seventies, when computers were big expensive, complicated machines ruled by a lab-coated priest hood.
They will be aided in this by the fact that the machine taking up the desktop is more powerful than the machines that took up entire rooms back them.
They may succeed except that the people who handle all the damn money and power don't trust anything but Unix to handle the incredible amount of transactions posted every day.
M$ is okay for the secretaries who just type letters and put together powerpoint obfuscations, but its not for real computing.
Nobody uses anything M$ does on anything important. Just ask Bill Gates "Would you want a pacemaker running on anything M$ has in its arsenal?"
Talk about the "Blue Screen of Death."
Chaos is Fractal, a second-order derivative.
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Unfortunately for people who maintain that man is ineffable and that God is unknowable, the facts are that man is statistically predictable, easily manipulatable and, while he is imbued with a lab animal's right to do whatever he damn well chooses in a carefully controlled experiment, he rarely does so he is reducible to a mathematical theorem.
As for God, when he calls you on the phone, tells you where Bin Laden's hiding and what the results of tomorrow's lotto pick, then you can publish a paper on his existence. Until then, less God and more functioning brain cells, please.
If you want to stop 'em accuse 'em of wanting to support child pornography but making sure that they get their tithe everytime some kid takes it in the shorts.
And thay ultimately want to shut down the telephone system so that criminals and terrorists can't communicate to plan their crimes.
When Spam and tke town criers shilling their crap is all that can be found, that's when the interneyt will have been led out to a small balcony, had a rope tied to its neck and it will have willingly jumped off.
The internet is not a broadcast media. It really isn't. That's why we have web sites and search engines.
Okay search technology sucks. Its stupid (but not as stupid as what passes for a "clever"ad,) and needs some hard work to do what a five year-old can do in an instant, use some common sense.
Improve the search engines so that when I'm searching for Chinese food restaurants I don't get sites from everywhere from Nanking to Tierra del Fuego when I live in one small town. That a worth while expenditure of time, money and energy.
This attempt to coopt my browser on my machne is a violation of my right as a consumer NOT to have to be subjected to an invasion of my environment by some idiot who's trying so fucking hard to flog whatever shit he's pimping that he doesn't realize that I would immediately boycot ANY company stupid enough to use it.
We got rid of billboards all over the highwqays. I haven't got a phone call from a telemarketer in months. The volume of junk mail is way down (except from idiots trying to extend credit cards to a currently unemployed man.) The numbers of crap flyers that smother the newspaper is down a bit over here. We are slowly getting rid of Spam by putting that scum in jail.
Advertising is NOT the best way to get a message across. It just makes me pissed off and really conterproductive when I REFUSE ON GP to buy something, regardless of its intrinsic qualities, because the people marketing it are annoying my ass off.
And considering the crap they push at us, I ain't missin' a thing am I? I've bought all the music I'm ever going to. It ain't worth what they're charging.
It can be on vinyl, CD or MP3, at some point, quality get so low you don't want to play/hear it. Long before that, the content is so lousy, you can't be bothered to listen.
The argument against MP3s is totally bogus. I hear music in bars (noisy drunks,) and in elevators and shopping malls. (gag.)
At some point you have go into a "media outlet" to ask the underpaid, surly, pimply-faced, badly-dressed little twerp at the counter 'neath the poster for the "Bad/naughty/virginal/sassy Bitch" "du jour": "Do you feel lucky punk? Well do you? 'Cause your music sucks and the bubble-head/butt/tits hanging over your head doesn't look like she knows which end to suck on."
You want a prediction? The increase in unit price will be inversely proportional to the sales volume. In two years, CDs will go for forty bucks a pop (and it will be pop pap,) and then Mr. Edison's little talking machine will be quiet. At last.
That means that software has to be connected (there's NO such thing as a security hole if you're unplugged,) and somebody (a university somewhere, or Kagi, or another commercial entity that charges software producers who can pay [not free ware] a tithe,) has to set up a registry for ALL software.
All systems should run over the net to the registry once a day and see if there are any updates to ANY installed software and when there are, inform the root and/or the system owner. S/He'll then have a decision to make.
That also means that only legal, registered copies can request updates, patches and fixes and if your system is illegal and unregistered, you're on your own. Simple enough, just send all those registration cards to the registration point and you can check-in. Don't and you can't.
"came up with a way to make routers themselves "locationally intelligent"?in other words, the GPS-based encryption itself would change dynamically as it moved through the path from owner to user."
Knowing how hard its been to get the router manufacturers to adopt IPv6, I think she's smoking "Happy Pixy Dust."
Only M$ could come up with the excuse that the consumers would have to pay __more__ for getting what they want instead of what ever competition busting crapola M$ wants to shovel their way.
That displays the kind of arrogant blustering ''bull dada'' I've come to expect from 'em. That's the reason I use Macs and Linux.
Pardon the wiki style but i --love__ 'em. They __persist__. This wioll be gone by tomorrow.
A: 'z wha' u gots in duh middle o' u ass.
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'Nuf said. Never liked drive letters (Stupid, stupid concept.)
Even in CP/M I was using volume names on my Osborne 1. (Okay, it was an ugly kludge with the diskette volume label, but it worked the same as the RSTS/E on the PDP-11 and VMS on the 360 that I used to pay the bills.)
I'm going to buy one as soon as I can just to rip ALL my old CDs and maybe fit an mpg movie on there too.
Just to piss off the --AAs.
The non productive Luddite bastards.
Fuck'em where they breathe.
Send Jack Valenti to hide in a cave with Mullah Omar and Osama.
Get people used to Mac stuf. Start small. Like ...
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This is a conspiracy by the AI (Apple Illuminati.)
To wean the Windoz Weineez off of the Redmond teat, you have to start small. Like iPod sized. Fits in your hands and fills your ears so you can't hear Balmer as he prances around the stage like some hideous crack-crazed poofter.
Then you get them to expect devices and design that are way cool and have some really nice friendly plain and clean features.
Apple makes sexy hardware. TiBook, iBook, iMac, iPod and PowerPC boxes that you don't have to hide like you were ashamed of 'em. M$ manages to make monstrous mice.
(Oh yeah, and the XBox. Sorry Mr Gates, I know better. I have to put up with your crap software at work. No effin' way I'll have to reboot in the middle of a game. I'd buy a Play Station if I was going to buy anything. Like, I'm over 8 years old. Wrong audience.)
Apple has way cool OS X Aqua. M$ does windows.
If YOU had a choice men, would you stay with the clunker from the office or drive the sleek sports model? Would you rather have a fantasy date with the cleaning lady after a hard, sloppy day of cleaning toilets or the sexy babe in reception after a languid, lazy day of lookin' good...
If YOU had a choice women, would you stay with a cheap photocopier from the office or play with the latest color Xerox that does everything INCLUDING make the coffee? Would you rather have a fantasy date with the buggy, smelly, itchy elevator repairman in your building or step out with some Fabio look-alike with brains and a sense of humour?
There is Linux for services (not tacky, sleazy, natsy. buggy, pululating, virus-prone NT sevices either,) and OS X for the desktop.
Be afraid Mr. Gates. Be very afraid. Take a few billion and retire. Maybe go back to school and finish an engineering degree. Get a skill.
This is yet another example of a lawyer having his head firmly wedged up his ass and being surprised that maybe not everything is brown and smells like shit.
Jobs should fire the fucking lawyer, who does nothing but cost him money and piss off his customers.
In fact, I'm going to write to him right now and suggest exactly that. Bye.
Wang Mini Computer Systems sell a top of the l;ive 2200 system and neglect to tell the guy he sold it to, a drug store owner, that it had to be programmed.
The guy took it, put in a wood shed out behing his little counrtyu drugstore and left it there for a couple of years until it finally got reposessed and made its way to our software firm where we were programming Wang 2200 machine (in BASIC.:-)
I met that salesman and he was an absolute sleaze.
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We need an openly web accessible XML based repository of information where the DEPOSITOR of information is and is held responsible for its accuracy.
Furthermore it can ONLY be entered with your knowledge and approval using a biometric key to access the information. No cheezy password scheme will do. Period. None. Fuggedaboudid Bub.
The encryption/decryption of the data could be done using another biometric key. (Retinal pattern with fingerprints and DNA as backups. Use one to be sure, two to know or all three to be CERTAIN.)
This way, the information is a shit-load harder to steal or forge. It also means that you KNOW what information's on there. You were present when it was recorded. And you know who has access because are present when its accessed.
The rest is untrustworthy and therefore should be untrusted (trusted as far as the drive which stores it can be thrown.)
That will take care of crap in your Experion or Equifax records.
That will take care of bogus credit card transactions.
That will take care of liens being slapped on people's houses because the previous owner took out a second mortgage and "neglected" to inform the buyer.
The 'net as we KNEW it has moved over to [secret] and to InterNet2.
The military has its own ultra-secure network that's NOT connected.
Academe has its own ultra-high-performance network that's NOT connected.
Face it, the originators of the internet, the military and academe no longer have any interest, need or say in what's happening.
The 'net that we're using now is a floundering piece of commercialized, lowest-common-denominator drivel that's going to descend into a pay-per-packet, metered, toll-gated rabbit warren of compromised hardware, lowest bidder SLAs (service level agreements) and cracked-all-to-Hell software and protocols.
But it'll be just good enough for the business who'll use it (because they have no other choice.)
And it'll be brought to you by people who didn't want it, didn't believe in it, and only see it as a way to make a buck now that all this silly inventiveness is over and the boring business of business can resume.
And you? Bwahahaha. Like they give a fuck. Pay and shut up.
I'll get my stuff off the net from people who don't assume that I'm a criminal.
What? We've been pithed or sumt'n?
We can't see a Japanese Anime and appreciate it for what it is?
What pisses me off is the assumption that people are morons and need to be spoonfed everything.
That's what keeps us watching crap that our culture has to adapt from somewhere else because we don't reward native original thought.
And you know the financial rewards will all go to the studio and the original artist and creator of Akira won't even get a ticket to the premiere.
FUCK THE MPAA!!!!!
FUCK THIS SPOONFEEDING THE US AUDIENCE PAP AND PABULUM.
I SAW IT IN THE ORIGINAL AND I WILL BOYCOTT THIS FARCE.
Why would M$ be pushing for wireless broadband?
They definitely don't make the hardware. Its definitely NOT the cost. Since when did M$ ever give a fuck about cost? If they cared about cost, the M$ tithe to PC makers would drop like a stone. A broadcast station is around $100 or less if you've got some ingenuity?
Are the revenues from their cable company (ComCast etc.) purchases not enough to keep them out of the playground?
Have they just dumped their shares in some 10/100/1000BaseT cable company and are going for revenge after the wire maker's CEO pissed off Gates?
Or is it that they didn't define the standards?
HA HA!
Look for their customers, the ones who keep taking it in the shorts, using hardware which is saddled with their drivers, to suddenly develop some incompatibility with non-M$ APs and broadcast stations. Embrace, envelop and smother. Being the 800 lb gorilla again Mr. Gates?
Kee-rist. You can smell this one coming a mile away.
I can see this in a boardroom in Redmond: "There's got to be some way to choke the life out of a 1.2GHz CPU to keep people on the upgrade treadmill."
"How about we keep it so busy trying to keep up with real-time events with our crappy OS that they have to get a monster machine just to connect to OUR APs? If we control the modems, we'll be able to wring another GB of RAM and GHz of speed to wade through our bloatware"
"There won't be a repeat of the Windows For Workgroups 3.11 this time. We'll control the NIC cards."
Naughty naughty...
There's the DMCA (or whatever floated to the top of the "Alphabits"TM bowl of some congressman's breakast that morning,) to slap you down with if you even try that.
Don't you know yet that YOU have no rights?
regrouping and clamping down.
M$ is well known in its rapacity and IBM was deservedly the subject of the longest antitrust suit of the last century/millenium. Both have been money mills for lawyers on both sides of the issue.
All traffic will have to go through their gates (no pun intended,) and they will collect a tithe on every packet.
Look for rapid adoption of IPv6 after that since they will need to identify the source, route and destination of every packet in order to charge you for every hop.
Shades of Canada's x.25 packet network which use to cost me plenty every month.
The costs will realign themselves to make it impossible to for individuals to contemplate downloading squat since the cost of transmission will equal or exceed the cost purchase of a hard good.
Only businesses will be able to use the net and the size of those businesses will scale with the cost per packet. Eventually, only the rich and large corporations will be on the net and by then it won't be worth using.
If there is anything that the last series of wars has shown its that armies and money aren't power, control of communications is power.
And the powerful don't share with the powerless (that means YOU) regardless of the potential benefits for anyone involved.
Instead they hoard communications, distort and prevaricate and depending on the armaments available send out the bombers, the local equivalent of the "Ton Ton Macoute" or their own children, the ones who who haven't yet starved to death, out amongst the crowd wearing bombs strapped to their chests.
I'm reminded of Big Brother. Control the language of discourse and you control the content of discourse.
When Smalltalk came out in the 80's nobody knew what a __Class__ was, but it was a mystery and had some prestige, Microsoft adopted it for prestige and marketing BS. Now that we know and understand a bit more, Microsoft is unable to get milage out of using it to spread the fog anymore.
They will now start to misuse another word, __type__, which has a very specific meaning, (an inextensible storage layout and set of internal operands,) and use it to make people forget about encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism and taxonomic organization of code.
In six months they will try to turn back the clock of CompSci discourse to levels not seen since the early seventies, when computers were big expensive, complicated machines ruled by a lab-coated priest hood.
They will be aided in this by the fact that the machine taking up the desktop is more powerful than the machines that took up entire rooms back them.
They may succeed except that the people who handle all the damn money and power don't trust anything but Unix to handle the incredible amount of transactions posted every day.
M$ is okay for the secretaries who just type letters and put together powerpoint obfuscations, but its not for real computing.
Nobody uses anything M$ does on anything important. Just ask Bill Gates "Would you want a pacemaker running on anything M$ has in its arsenal?"
Talk about the "Blue Screen of Death."
Unfortunately for people who maintain that man is ineffable and that God is unknowable, the facts are that man is statistically predictable, easily manipulatable and, while he is imbued with a lab animal's right to do whatever he damn well chooses in a carefully controlled experiment, he rarely does so he is reducible to a mathematical theorem.
As for God, when he calls you on the phone, tells you where Bin Laden's hiding and what the results of tomorrow's lotto pick, then you can publish a paper on his existence. Until then, less God and more functioning brain cells, please.
I hadn't seen a PDP-11 in YEARS!
In some respects a worthwhile projects. In many others, tits on a bull. But still...
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
until the scourge of YOUR beer is stopped.
That's not the way the world works.
If you want to stop 'em accuse 'em of wanting to support child pornography but making sure that they get their tithe everytime some kid takes it in the shorts.
And thay ultimately want to shut down the telephone system so that criminals and terrorists can't communicate to plan their crimes.
When Spam and tke town criers shilling their crap is all that can be found, that's when the interneyt will have been led out to a small balcony, had a rope tied to its neck and it will have willingly jumped off.
they haven't got a lot smarter since I left.
The internet is not a broadcast media. It really isn't. That's why we have web sites and search engines.
Okay search technology sucks. Its stupid (but not as stupid as what passes for a "clever"ad,) and needs some hard work to do what a five year-old can do in an instant, use some common sense.
Improve the search engines so that when I'm searching for Chinese food restaurants I don't get sites from everywhere from Nanking to Tierra del Fuego when I live in one small town. That a worth while expenditure of time, money and energy.
This attempt to coopt my browser on my machne is a violation of my right as a consumer NOT to have to be subjected to an invasion of my environment by some idiot who's trying so fucking hard to flog whatever shit he's pimping that he doesn't realize that I would immediately boycot ANY company stupid enough to use it.
We got rid of billboards all over the highwqays. I haven't got a phone call from a telemarketer in months. The volume of junk mail is way down (except from idiots trying to extend credit cards to a currently unemployed man.) The numbers of crap flyers that smother the newspaper is down a bit over here. We are slowly getting rid of Spam by putting that scum in jail.
Advertising is NOT the best way to get a message across. It just makes me pissed off and really conterproductive when I REFUSE ON GP to buy something, regardless of its intrinsic qualities, because the people marketing it are annoying my ass off.
And considering the crap they push at us, I ain't missin' a thing am I? I've bought all the music I'm ever going to. It ain't worth what they're charging.
It can be on vinyl, CD or MP3, at some point, quality get so low you don't want to play/hear it. Long before that, the content is so lousy, you can't be bothered to listen.
The argument against MP3s is totally bogus. I hear music in bars (noisy drunks,) and in elevators and shopping malls. (gag.)
At some point you have go into a "media outlet" to ask the underpaid, surly, pimply-faced, badly-dressed little twerp at the counter 'neath the poster for the "Bad/naughty/virginal/sassy Bitch" "du jour": "Do you feel lucky punk? Well do you? 'Cause your music sucks and the bubble-head/butt/tits hanging over your head doesn't look like she knows which end to suck on."
You want a prediction? The increase in unit price will be inversely proportional to the sales volume. In two years, CDs will go for forty bucks a pop (and it will be pop pap,) and then Mr. Edison's little talking machine will be quiet. At last.
Music is merely the least unpleasant noise.
and inform the user/owner.
That means that software has to be connected (there's NO such thing as a security hole if you're unplugged,) and somebody (a university somewhere, or Kagi, or another commercial entity that charges software producers who can pay [not free ware] a tithe,) has to set up a registry for ALL software.
All systems should run over the net to the registry once a day and see if there are any updates to ANY installed software and when there are, inform the root and/or the system owner. S/He'll then have a decision to make.
That also means that only legal, registered copies can request updates, patches and fixes and if your system is illegal and unregistered, you're on your own.
Simple enough, just send all those registration cards to the registration point and you can check-in. Don't and you can't.
"came up with a way to make routers themselves "locationally intelligent"?in other words, the GPS-based encryption itself would change dynamically as it moved through the path from owner to user."
Knowing how hard its been to get the router manufacturers to adopt IPv6, I think she's smoking "Happy Pixy Dust."
We make smalltalk and Smaltalk makes us.
Only M$ could come up with the excuse that the consumers would have to pay __more__ for getting what they want instead of what ever competition busting crapola M$ wants to shovel their way.
That displays the kind of arrogant blustering ''bull dada'' I've come to expect from 'em. That's the reason I use Macs and Linux.
Pardon the wiki style but i --love__ 'em. They __persist__. This wioll be gone by tomorrow.
'Nuf said. Never liked drive letters (Stupid, stupid concept.)
Even in CP/M I was using volume names on my Osborne 1. (Okay, it was an ugly kludge with the diskette volume label, but it worked the same as the RSTS/E on the PDP-11 and VMS on the 360 that I used to pay the bills.)
I'm going to buy one as soon as I can just to rip ALL my old CDs and maybe fit an mpg movie on there too.
Just to piss off the --AAs.
The non productive Luddite bastards.
Fuck'em where they breathe.
Send Jack Valenti to hide in a cave with Mullah Omar and Osama.
This is a conspiracy by the AI (Apple Illuminati.)
To wean the Windoz Weineez off of the Redmond teat, you have to start small. Like iPod sized. Fits in your hands and fills your ears so you can't hear Balmer as he prances around the stage like some hideous crack-crazed poofter.
Then you get them to expect devices and design that are way cool and have some really nice friendly plain and clean features.
Apple makes sexy hardware. TiBook, iBook, iMac, iPod and PowerPC boxes that you don't have to hide like you were ashamed of 'em. M$ manages to make monstrous mice.
(Oh yeah, and the XBox. Sorry Mr Gates, I know better. I have to put up with your crap software at work. No effin' way I'll have to reboot in the middle of a game. I'd buy a Play Station if I was going to buy anything. Like, I'm over 8 years old. Wrong audience.)
Apple has way cool OS X Aqua. M$ does windows.
If YOU had a choice men, would you stay with the clunker from the office or drive the sleek sports model? Would you rather have a fantasy date with the cleaning lady after a hard, sloppy day of cleaning toilets or the sexy babe in reception after a languid, lazy day of lookin' good...
If YOU had a choice women, would you stay with a cheap photocopier from the office or play with the latest color Xerox that does everything INCLUDING make the coffee? Would you rather have a fantasy date with the buggy, smelly, itchy elevator repairman in your building or step out with some Fabio look-alike with brains and a sense of humour?
There is Linux for services (not tacky, sleazy, natsy. buggy, pululating, virus-prone NT sevices either,) and OS X for the desktop.
Be afraid Mr. Gates. Be very afraid. Take a few billion and retire. Maybe go back to school and finish an engineering degree. Get a skill.
This is yet another example of a lawyer having his head firmly wedged up his ass and being surprised that maybe not everything is brown and smells like shit.
Jobs should fire the fucking lawyer, who does nothing but cost him money and piss off his customers.
In fact, I'm going to write to him right now and suggest exactly that. Bye.
Wang Mini Computer Systems sell a top of the l;ive 2200 system and neglect to tell the guy he sold it to, a drug store owner, that it had to be programmed.
:-)
The guy took it, put in a wood shed out behing his little counrtyu drugstore and left it there for a couple of years until it finally got reposessed and made its way to our software firm where we were programming Wang 2200 machine (in BASIC.
I met that salesman and he was an absolute sleaze.
Talk about selling a pig in a poke.
Sounds suspicious to me...
This very small fish just happens to get busted when the --AAs are trying to brand us all as thieves.
How much was his gear worth? Maybe a tax-deductible hour or tow of Valenti's pay?
I smell a rat.