You could do a similar spot against Windows ME saying "Windows ME: why 2001 won't be like 2001."
Or a documentary type of commercial, showing how the multitasking technology was sat on by Microsoft for about ten years, anyhow. Squeezing as much profit out of as little technology gain as possible.
"Does your computer live up to your expectations? The role of MS in keeping technology down..." Roll the film of all those companies that died, or were absorbed. Just the facts. All those technologies that never saw the light of day.
It could be like a political campaign commercial.
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It is enough that we have the war on terrorism. we also have the war on drugs, the wart on Microsoft (typo left in), and the browser wars.
now we get to stir up the editor wars and the distro wars.
This keeps up, and I'll have a reason to be at war with just about everyone I run into.
Since the software is never distributed on CD-ROM, the service is never placed into a form that people can resell (transfer). Since people are forced to go to the manufacturer for the software, and since the manufacturer determines what versions are available when, for how long, and at what cost, they can accomplish both a) and b).
You know that someone is going to come along with a remake of the infamous Apple 1984 commercial, promoting a rebellion against the Beast. Maybe with a take on the old myths of hell, where all of the people think they are eating the finest grub, but instead are revealed to be eating ashes and slime from the Abyss. The number of Advertising campaigns that could be mocked up around this are amazing.
And irony of Ironies, they could even be paid for by IBM. I can even imagine a voice over that says something like "hey we thought we were evil. Then we met Microsoft, evil on a scale that is simply awe-inspiring." Or mock commercials with the Ferengi advertising for Microsoft.Net
All you have to do is push the idea of "Don't Get Suckered by Microsoft!"
Can someone explain to me *why* a developer would strip off copyright info
For it to make sense, you have to accept the idea that there may be people who seem to be part of your community, but are not, because they do not share your sense of ethics and fairplay.
If you have a couple of newbie developers who want to show off their programming skilz and want to short cut the process of doing the work themselves. Then it is easy to cut'n'paste and hope you don't get caught.
In this case, because of the conscious choice that has to be made when you select to do a cut'n'paste, you have to assume a conscious choice was made to omit the copyright data. You certainly would not want an unconscious choice being made.
The response to this by the original author is very generous, he just needs his work properly credited.
But honestly, all the other work of those developers is now under suspicion. It will have to be gone over to make sure they didn't do this someplace else. This is a real drag for RedHat, and the crew that has to go pick through the work. These guys also have to develop a sense of ethics and fairplay.
Yeah, heaven forbid that these geeks, after putting in 80 hour weeks, would feel they're entitled to anything other than an asskick out
the door- far more important that some grasping VC gets.04% of his bad investment back after the fire sale...
There was that article on F**cked Company and here on Slash about the guy who sent out the memo detailing his rage at people who were only putting in 40 hrs a week on the job. (can't find the link quickly, but I remember it)
How many weeks can you run at 80+ hourd a week before you start to burn out? even if you have been sold on that dream of the company going big?
Reminds me of one gal I know who was hired at a company at big bucks, and went max out for the first month or so. When she cut back to more human levels of effort, people had gotten used to her level of production, and had started to depend on it. This was not a good thing.
So some companies can also get used to people producing at maxed out levels of production. This is not a good thing.
So I can understand people making the justifications they do. But it was sort of a trap of the spirit, baited with greed. Once you are in the trap, it is hard to find a way out, even if you wanted to.
Given the new commercial and political environment, (since Sept 11), the demand for computers and technology may be greatly diminished. The demand for new hardware was definitely dropping off before, now even more so.
I think this will put a major crunch into development projects like Mono and.Net
Obviously this interview was probably done a few weeks ago, so I wonder how things have changed over there.
I'm just wonder how much demand there will be for projects like this, especially if MS is betting the farm on it. You can only bet the farm so many times before you loose.
Given the events of September 11, alot of companies are going to take a long hard look at how they do business.
For example, because of all of the companies that had all their key people located in one place at the trade center, and the resulting loss of people and their knowledge, many businesses are probably looking more at how to decentralize to reduce the risk.
There is also the now probable recession, just given the drop in business for the travel and entertainment industries. So many businesses are likely cutting back.
How does this effect Microsoft? Many businesses have reasons, now more than ever, to NOT go through with the Microsoft upgrade program.
And then, there will be the cost efficiency of Linux. Businesses will add up the costs, recognise that the FUD about reducing the cost of business with Microsoft is in fact a financial trap.
Microsoft, if it is smart, may change their policy to extend or eliminate their deadline.
The business enviromnent may have become the wrong time to do a major product launch.
MS may well wind up stampeding customers into the hands of their opponents.
although I can see this being more useful in zero g space, like the space shuttle, rather that the standard keyboard. Then it could also double as the head for a two fisted joystick for piloting.
Q: I'm confused. If I am using a laserdisc player, do I play DAPHNE with my computer
monitor or do I use a TV or what?
A: DAPHNE, when used with a laserdisc player, uses a TV (or VCR) for output. What you do is plug a laserdisc player into
your computer, then you plug a TV into your laserdisc player. You control the game using your computer's joystick or
keyboard, but you watch the action on your TV. The arcade game worked like this too; it didn't do any of its own graphics,
it relied exclusively on the laserdisc player for the video.
ahhhh
so i'll need an all in wonder card or something to have everything in my PC, along with the laser disc and laser disc player
You realize, of course, that we are going to need to have a first person shooter based on Afghanistan, hunting done the Taliban in their caves, hunting for Bin Laden, and do not shoot the innocent civilians and refugees.
Who wants to bet someone is working on this even as we speak?
If you're happy and you know it, clink your chains...
Sadly, there is a large part of the population, who given the choice, do not choose on the dynamic of freedom vs slavery.The choose on the dynamic of comfoprt vs pain. They would rather have a comfortable slavery.
Almost any condition can be acceptable if you choose it. What is a pain is when you want to change your mind, and you are not permitted to put that into action. This becomes the option of freedom vs imprisonment, and ultimately slavery.
The Problem in the proposals is that even in email headers that is substantially more information than in telephone laws. And that is where the potential for abuse comes in.
In computing, Garbage in = Garbage out. This applies to people. People educated with garbage will make garbage decisions. They do not even have to be evil (though that helps)
And someone will have the best reasons to abuse the system in some way.
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I recall a classic bit from way back about other discoveries of beer and/or alchohol and other organics found floating free in space.
Imagine pictures of Spock as the designated driver while Kirk and McCoy are out on the ship hull sucking in
as much alchohol as possible.
Heck, it might even be in the Slashdot archives someplace
I know that the majority of programmers working at Microsoft are rather bright.
I wouldn't mind it one bit if they all took a sick day at the same time, to tell Microsoft that they are sick of the Lawyers and the Marketroids screwing around with the public like this.
This has nothing to do with the quality of the product.
It was for reason like this that people start to sabotage repressive regimes.
This is evil, whoever put it in. And they wonder why people don't like them.
In times like these people and companies should assert and protect their rights. Not try to rip them off.
I can recall some years ago, like on the 20th anniversary or something, there was a late night broadcast of the entire first moon moon landing, however many hours long it was.
It was was something like 6 hours long.
I wonder if it is available anyplace.
(There was also one a similar brodcast about pioneer going past neptune. That one I think I taped, and have it buried someplace)
We need a couple of anti Microsoft free speech sites built using front page, just so that we can have a class action suit against Microsoft for violation of our civil rights.
Funny, I didn't think that The History of the Peloponisian(sp) War was written in or about the second half of the 20th century, but hey, who knows....
True enough, although most folks have never heard of that.
Just observing the phenomena
Most folks first got an idea as to how gruesome war can be by seeing actual battle footage on the Nightly News. Their reactions and protests were natural as far as not wanting things to be so gruesome. Also in this regard, alot of folks grow up never really making a connection between the meat in the supermarkets and the limbs and bodies of creatures they see on the farm.
So there has beren a lot on insulation from reality, not wanting to see what is there.
You didn't relate ALL the history of what you call the Philippine "pacification", but what was really an invasion.
I figured that an expert would be willing to supply the details.
The US has an unfortunate history of military intervention in places due to the pressure of certain commercial interests. Hawaii was another bloody mess like that.
Slashdot Mirror
Or a documentary type of commercial, showing how the multitasking technology was sat on by Microsoft for about ten years, anyhow. Squeezing as much profit out of as little technology gain as possible.
"Does your computer live up to your expectations? The role of MS in keeping technology down ..." Roll the film of all those companies that died, or were absorbed. Just the facts. All those technologies that never saw the light of day.
It could be like a political campaign commercial.
now we get to stir up the editor wars and the distro wars.
This keeps up, and I'll have a reason to be at war with just about everyone I run into.
Time to call a time-out.
You know that someone is going to come along with a remake of the infamous Apple 1984 commercial, promoting a rebellion against the Beast. Maybe with a take on the old myths of hell, where all of the people think they are eating the finest grub, but instead are revealed to be eating ashes and slime from the Abyss. The number of Advertising campaigns that could be mocked up around this are amazing.
And irony of Ironies, they could even be paid for by IBM. I can even imagine a voice over that says something like "hey we thought we were evil. Then we met Microsoft, evil on a scale that is simply awe-inspiring." Or mock commercials with the Ferengi advertising for Microsoft .Net
All you have to do is push the idea of "Don't Get Suckered by Microsoft!"
For it to make sense, you have to accept the idea that there may be people who seem to be part of your community, but are not, because they do not share your sense of ethics and fairplay.
If you have a couple of newbie developers who want to show off their programming skilz and want to short cut the process of doing the work themselves. Then it is easy to cut'n'paste and hope you don't get caught.
In this case, because of the conscious choice that has to be made when you select to do a cut'n'paste, you have to assume a conscious choice was made to omit the copyright data. You certainly would not want an unconscious choice being made.
The response to this by the original author is very generous, he just needs his work properly credited.
But honestly, all the other work of those developers is now under suspicion. It will have to be gone over to make sure they didn't do this someplace else. This is a real drag for RedHat, and the crew that has to go pick through the work. These guys also have to develop a sense of ethics and fairplay.
Maybe they have a future at MS... [joke!]
;-)
After all, many people reading here work at Microsoft [Joke!]
But seriously, the viewpoint is different. And so, while they are closely allied, they are not they same.
But setting up a system for political action would be difficult to administer.
There is definitely a need for a slash based political site as a start.
But I wonder about running such a foundation with a slash based democracy of sorts to determine policy and direction.
Some things would never get settled.
There was that article on F**cked Company and here on Slash about the guy who sent out the memo detailing his rage at people who were only putting in 40 hrs a week on the job. (can't find the link quickly, but I remember it)
How many weeks can you run at 80+ hourd a week before you start to burn out? even if you have been sold on that dream of the company going big?
Reminds me of one gal I know who was hired at a company at big bucks, and went max out for the first month or so. When she cut back to more human levels of effort, people had gotten used to her level of production, and had started to depend on it. This was not a good thing.
So some companies can also get used to people producing at maxed out levels of production. This is not a good thing.
So I can understand people making the justifications they do. But it was sort of a trap of the spirit, baited with greed. Once you are in the trap, it is hard to find a way out, even if you wanted to.
I think this will put a major crunch into development projects like Mono and .Net
Obviously this interview was probably done a few weeks ago, so I wonder how things have changed over there.
I'm just wonder how much demand there will be for projects like this, especially if MS is betting the farm on it. You can only bet the farm so many times before you loose.
I want to get enough folks established off planet before we turn it into a billiard ball.
For example, because of all of the companies that had all their key people located in one place at the trade center, and the resulting loss of people and their knowledge, many businesses are probably looking more at how to decentralize to reduce the risk.
There is also the now probable recession, just given the drop in business for the travel and entertainment industries. So many businesses are likely cutting back.
How does this effect Microsoft? Many businesses have reasons, now more than ever, to NOT go through with the Microsoft upgrade program.
And then, there will be the cost efficiency of Linux. Businesses will add up the costs, recognise that the FUD about reducing the cost of business with Microsoft is in fact a financial trap.
Microsoft, if it is smart, may change their policy to extend or eliminate their deadline.
The business enviromnent may have become the wrong time to do a major product launch.
MS may well wind up stampeding customers into the hands of their opponents.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/dama ge.map.html
Note that a High speed line would nice to have when viewing this
although I can see this being more useful in zero g space, like the space shuttle, rather that the standard keyboard. Then it could also double as the head for a two fisted joystick for piloting.
;-)
A: DAPHNE, when used with a laserdisc player, uses a TV (or VCR) for output. What you do is plug a laserdisc player into your computer, then you plug a TV into your laserdisc player. You control the game using your computer's joystick or keyboard, but you watch the action on your TV. The arcade game worked like this too; it didn't do any of its own graphics, it relied exclusively on the laserdisc player for the video.
ahhhh
so i'll need an all in wonder card or something to have everything in my PC, along with the laser disc and laser disc player
Who wants to bet someone is working on this even as we speak?
Just how hard is it to run a set of patch cables? The performance loss is far less than what you get on MP3 as it is.
And besides, I can see some audio geek in a pro studio getting pissed off at the king of poop, and making a copy just to screw with him
If you're happy and you know it, clink your chains ...
Sadly, there is a large part of the population, who given the choice, do not choose on the dynamic of freedom vs slavery.The choose on the dynamic of comfoprt vs pain. They would rather have a comfortable slavery.
Almost any condition can be acceptable if you choose it. What is a pain is when you want to change your mind, and you are not permitted to put that into action. This becomes the option of freedom vs imprisonment, and ultimately slavery.
The Problem in the proposals is that even in email headers that is substantially more information than in telephone laws. And that is where the potential for abuse comes in.
In computing, Garbage in = Garbage out. This applies to people. People educated with garbage will make garbage decisions. They do not even have to be evil (though that helps)
And someone will have the best reasons to abuse the system in some way.
Imagine pictures of Spock as the designated driver while Kirk and McCoy are out on the ship hull sucking in as much alchohol as possible.
Heck, it might even be in the Slashdot archives someplace
I wouldn't mind it one bit if they all took a sick day at the same time, to tell Microsoft that they are sick of the Lawyers and the Marketroids screwing around with the public like this.
This has nothing to do with the quality of the product.
It was for reason like this that people start to sabotage repressive regimes.
This is evil, whoever put it in. And they wonder why people don't like them.
In times like these people and companies should assert and protect their rights. Not try to rip them off.
It was was something like 6 hours long.
I wonder if it is available anyplace.
(There was also one a similar brodcast about pioneer going past neptune. That one I think I taped, and have it buried someplace)
There are fringe groups out there getting paranoid about this even as we speak.
Conspiracy theories implicate every moneyed interest imaginable. Sadly , some of these may even be true.
Time to stock up the old Y2K bunker. Get them while they're cheap
Sadly, they call this HYPE, which is what Google does not do.
Google has a product that works well. most places do not want to spend the time and monewy to grow such a product.
What is wrong with that picture?
You can waste more time trying to trying to get a quick buck...
Maybe we should just sue anyhow.
And they wonder why people don't like them
I used to like their stuff, and then they lost my trust and admiration.
That is the essential point, and it is the most damning.
They are going to need about 5 or ten years of marketing honesty and products that don't screw with me to earn it back.
Their behavior and attitude has made them a liability to me.
Sorry
most city governments are run by people who are not blessed with guru level knowledge. Most are AOLers. They get confused easily.
So if you have a larger group of geeks you can go in and take charge of this for the sake of the community. And of course, for your own benefit.
there is not a lot of motivation otherwise. They have a lot of other issues on their plate. Small things like taxes, etc.
True enough, although most folks have never heard of that.
Just observing the phenomena
Most folks first got an idea as to how gruesome war can be by seeing actual battle footage on the Nightly News. Their reactions and protests were natural as far as not wanting things to be so gruesome. Also in this regard, alot of folks grow up never really making a connection between the meat in the supermarkets and the limbs and bodies of creatures they see on the farm.
So there has beren a lot on insulation from reality, not wanting to see what is there.
The reality check just bounced
I figured that an expert would be willing to supply the details.
The US has an unfortunate history of military intervention in places due to the pressure of certain commercial interests. Hawaii was another bloody mess like that.