"IBM needed an OS, and if MS wasn't there, CP/M was. So on that front we'd just have different person reaping the rewards there. Of course, Kildall was a business moron and blew his chance at that time."
If Kildall signed a deal with IBM, it would have been Bill Gates who died in a bar fight.
It looks like M$ has run out of people on earth to steal technology from, so they are looking to other worlds. Like all M$ ideas, this is not an original and has been
done before
Al Franken's newest book is also selling for $12 used. His older books are selling for as low as $3.50. With a paper book, I can wait a few months and pick up a used copy for cheap. I can also resell it when I am done and get some of my money back. I can also keep it and read it again years later.
E-books have no aftermarket. Also, if my player breaks, I lose all my books.
Get the e-books in open format and get the price significantly cheaper than paper books and the market will take off. People are not willing to pay the same or more for a product that is (at least for now) inferior to a paper book.
>Forget the synopsis... I want NBC to re-show the original series!
"The Action Channel" has been showing "V" for the last several months. In fact, it showing on right now.
5:15 PM Channel 530 ACTNw Tuesday, 10 V: The Final Battle 85 min. Conclusion. Espionage, a form of germ warfare and the threat of nuclear annihilation figure in the showdown between the aliens and the freedom fighters. Mike Donovan: Marc Singer. Julie: Faye Grant. Diana: Jane Badler. John: Richard Herd. Ham Tyler: Michael Ironside. Sean: Eric Johnston.
Category: Sci-fi & Paranormal
Additional Airings Date Time Channel VCR Plus+ Friday, 20 12:10 AM 529 ACTNe N/A Friday, 20 3:10 AM 530 ACTNw N/A
I would like to congratulate fellow Twilight
Tales member Richard Chwedyk for winning the Nebula for Bronte's Egg
and for allowing Twilight Tales to
post it on the Web site.
<blatant plug>
If any Sci-Fi or Horror fans visit Chicago, come to Twilight Tales on Monday night for
Chicago's longest running (10 years) genre specific reading group.
</blantant plug>
Slashdot - History for Nerds, Reported after the stuff no longer matters! (c)
Re:Spielberg Over the Hill?
on
Taken?
·
· Score: 1
Yeah, Spielberg is laughing all the way to the bank. According to SciWire, Taken got HUGE ratings. It help the SciFi channel take the top rating for a basic cable channel for the first time in it's 10 year history. Taken was watched by over 23 million people and got a 4.1 average rating. This pulled the SciFi channel up to a 2.8 rating.
It obviously appealed to a lot of people who normally wouldn't watch SciFi.
It's on ABC after Nightline. I'm setting my Tivo for it.
"Genius is perhaps something one is born with. Creativity is something I think which requires effort."
--Daniel Socolow, director MacArthur Fellows Program
It's a cross between the Publishers Clearinghouse Prize Patrol and that classic television show "The Millionaire," where a man comes to your home and presents you with a check for $1 million. Suddenly and without warning, you receive a call that makes you $500,000 richer. But you haven\222t entered a contest. You've been secretly nominated and then selected as a MacArthur Fellow.
For this year's 24 winners, ranging in age from 29 to 60, the news came both as a shock and in strange ways. Photographer Camilo Jose Vergara was shopping for a mattress when he retrieved a message on his cellphone that the MacArthur Foundation President was looking for him. Vergara began photographing the World Trade Center towers in 1970 with the construction cranesbehind them. Today, his exhibition of World Trade Center photographs is at the New York Historical Society.
He's one of the new crop of MacArthur Fellows correspondent Michele Norris will introduce you to this evening on UpClose. She'll profile seven of the winners, including Liz Lerman of Takoma Park, Md., an award-winning choreographer; George Lewis, a LaJolla, Calif. jazz trombonist and composer at the University of California, San Diego; Liza Lou, a +California artist who turns glass beads into something extraordinary; New York+documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson who picks historical African-American +subjects for his spotlight; Daniela Rus, an associate professor at Dartmouth +who works with robots that can change their shape; and Brian Tucker, a Palo +Alto seismologist who works to minimize damage from natural disasters in +developing countries.
What these and the other 17 MacArthur Fellows have in common is a sudden infusion of cash -- $100,000 each year for the next five years -- to pursue their creative interests or whatever they choose. There are no strings attached.
They've been nicknamed the Genius Awards. But Daniel Socolow, the director of the MacArthur Fellows Program tells UpClose: "The true genius is that the awards are designed to remind us that once a year that extraordinary talent can be found anywhere."
Richard Harris Senior Producer Nightline UpClose
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Lindows has backed down from their original claims of being able to run Windows applications. The only Windows app they currently claim to be able to run is Office 2000. (from the Lindows FAQ)
"LindowsOS^(TM) has been optimized to run certain Microsoft® Windows "bridge" programs. So far, Microsoft® Office 2000 applications like Microsoft® Word, Microsoft® Excel and PowerPoint® have been certified to run under LindowsOS. We term these applications "bridge" programs because they will help you switch to the LindowsOS environment.
Even if you don't have a copy of Microsoft Office, LindowsOS computers come with software to view, print and copy MS Word files, MS PowerPoint files and MS Excel documents. To edit Microsoft Office compatible files, we'd recommend one of the office suites in our Click-N-Run Warehouse^(TM) such as StarOffice^(TM) or OpenOffice.
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I'm still waiting on my forty acres and a mule!
If Kildall signed a deal with IBM, it would have been Bill Gates who died in a bar fight.
It looks like M$ has run out of people on earth to steal technology from, so they are looking to other worlds. Like all M$ ideas, this is not an original and has been done before
http://www.debian.org/vote/howto_vote
"Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC September 25, 1998"
I guess it is too late to vote then!
If that doesn't bring the link down, nothing will!
He should have to duel with Eric Raymond to defend Windows' honor.
Only if Cowboy Neal was in a movie so we could have a Cowboy Neal option.
Oh, that was ones and zeros.
Or maybe the higher ups at Dell have been toking a few too many with "The Dell Dude"
Huh, I thought these guys were the original Spam Kings.
I want to send him a few million emails asking him if he needs a larger penis.
E-books have no aftermarket. Also, if my player breaks, I lose all my books.
Get the e-books in open format and get the price significantly cheaper than paper books and the market will take off. People are not willing to pay the same or more for a product that is (at least for now) inferior to a paper book.
Dude, You're Getting a Cell
He is not in jail, though. His case was dismissed as long as he stays out of trouble.
'Dell Dude' released after marijuana arrest
>Forget the synopsis... I want NBC to re-show the original series!
"The Action Channel" has been showing "V" for the last several months. In fact, it showing on right now.
5:15 PM Channel 530 ACTNw Tuesday, 10
V: The Final Battle
85 min.
Conclusion. Espionage, a form of germ warfare and the threat of nuclear annihilation figure in the showdown between the aliens and the freedom fighters. Mike Donovan: Marc Singer. Julie: Faye Grant. Diana: Jane Badler. John: Richard Herd. Ham Tyler: Michael Ironside. Sean: Eric Johnston.
Category: Sci-fi & Paranormal
Additional Airings
Date Time Channel VCR Plus+
Friday, 20 12:10 AM 529 ACTNe N/A
Friday, 20 3:10 AM 530 ACTNw N/A
I would like to congratulate fellow Twilight Tales member Richard Chwedyk for winning the Nebula for Bronte's Egg and for allowing Twilight Tales to post it on the Web site.
<blatant plug>
If any Sci-Fi or Horror fans visit Chicago, come to Twilight Tales on Monday night for Chicago's longest running (10 years) genre specific reading group.
</blantant plug>
"This helps explain how dreck like Kangaroo Jack makes it to theaters."
Hollywood will keep making dreck as long as it makes money.
BOX OFFICE SUMMARY FOR "KANGAROO JACK"
Box Office Total: $65,708,774
Box Office Opening: $16,580,209
No. of Weeks at #1: 1
No. of Weeks in Top 10: 5
BOX OFFICE HISTORY
Week Rank Wkd. Gross Theaters Per Theater Cumulative
1 1 $16,580,209 2,818 $7,770 $21,895,483
2 2 $11,548,247 2,848 $4,055 $35,112,415
3 4 $9,048,362 2,848 $3,177 $45,886,113
4 7 $6,105,250 2,848 $2,144 $53,035,263
5 8 $3,953,199 2,535 $1,986 $58,954,899
6 13 $1,988,368 1,742 $1,141 $61,901,888
7 17 $1,363,485 1,545 $883 $63,609,564
8 19 $772,413 1,110 $696 $64,691,137
9 23 $352,060 615 $572 $65,478,341
10 44 $108,774 216 $504 $65,708,774
Box office cumulative figures also include daily grosses from Monday through Thursday (not shown).
Bill Gates Rants about Users Stealing Software
Bill Gates Rants about Software Copyrights
Slashdot - History for Nerds, Reported after the stuff no longer matters! (c)It obviously appealed to a lot of people who normally wouldn't watch SciFi.
"There have already been some interesting comments posted on his website"
I hope you are not talking about that shot of that guy's ass!
"Microsoft treats security vulnerabilities as public relations problems" Bruce Schneier.
It's a great collection of software to wean people off the "software horders".
When you update the site, don't forget to add the best IRC client to you list - XChat!
OK. I'll license my .sig under the Gnu Free Documentation License. Happy Hacking...
It's on ABC after Nightline. I'm setting my Tivo for it.
i lyNews/u pclose_email_form.html
r equest.d ll?LIST&room=tv_upclose
"Genius is perhaps something one is born with. Creativity is something I
think which requires effort."
--Daniel Socolow, director MacArthur Fellows Program
It's a cross between the Publishers Clearinghouse Prize Patrol and that
classic television show "The Millionaire," where a man comes to your home
and presents you with a check for $1 million. Suddenly and without
warning, you receive a call that makes you $500,000 richer. But you
haven\222t entered a contest. You've been secretly nominated and then
selected as a MacArthur Fellow.
For this year's 24 winners, ranging in age from 29 to 60, the news came
both as a shock and in strange ways. Photographer Camilo Jose Vergara was
shopping for a mattress when he retrieved a message on his cellphone that
the MacArthur Foundation President was looking for him. Vergara began
photographing the World Trade Center towers in 1970 with the construction cranesbehind them. Today, his exhibition of World Trade Center photographs is
at the New York Historical Society.
He's one of the new crop of MacArthur Fellows correspondent Michele Norris
will introduce you to this evening on UpClose. She'll profile seven of
the winners, including Liz Lerman of Takoma Park, Md., an
award-winning choreographer; George Lewis, a LaJolla, Calif. jazz
trombonist and composer at the University of California, San Diego; Liza Lou, a
+California artist who turns glass beads into something extraordinary; New York+documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson who picks historical African-American
+subjects for his spotlight; Daniela Rus, an associate professor at Dartmouth
+who works with robots that can change their shape; and Brian Tucker, a Palo
+Alto seismologist who works to minimize damage from natural disasters in
+developing countries.
What these and the other 17 MacArthur Fellows have in common is a sudden
infusion of cash -- $100,000 each year for the next five years -- to
pursue their creative interests or whatever they choose. There are no
strings attached.
They've been nicknamed the Genius Awards. But Daniel Socolow, the
director of the MacArthur Fellows Program tells UpClose: "The true genius
is that the awards are designed to remind us that once a year that
extraordinary talent can be found anywhere."
Richard Harris
Senior Producer
Nightline UpClose
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Open Source Software for Windows
Lindows has backed down from their original claims of being able to run Windows applications. The only Windows app they currently claim to be able to run is Office 2000. (from the Lindows FAQ)
"LindowsOS^(TM) has been optimized to run certain Microsoft® Windows "bridge" programs. So far, Microsoft® Office 2000 applications like Microsoft® Word, Microsoft® Excel and PowerPoint® have been certified to run under LindowsOS. We term these applications "bridge" programs because they will help you switch to the LindowsOS environment.
Even if you don't have a copy of Microsoft Office, LindowsOS computers come with software to view, print and copy MS Word files, MS PowerPoint files and MS Excel documents. To edit Microsoft Office compatible files, we'd recommend one of the office suites in our Click-N-Run Warehouse^(TM) such as StarOffice^(TM) or OpenOffice.