Microsoft didnt get away scot free. The state settled with them on the condition that Microsoft would pay the legal expenses for the State of New Mexico.
In related news, Microsoft is pulling all copies of Win 98/ME/NT/2000 off the shelves in New Mexico and replacing them with Windows 3.1
This Cnet Story talks about MS going to use Verisign for all Hailstorm and Passport Authentication as part of.Net
I guess we would all be more trusting if it were Verisign and not MS.
"There will be an incredible amount of interest in this among the academic and research communities," said David Stutz, general program manager for Shared Source CLI at Microsoft. "There are a lot of positive lessons to be learned from the open source example," he added.
A lot of positive lessons to be learned from the Open Source example ?? Well thats what we have been trying to say all this while.. jeez..
The best part I liked of AI was...
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Teddy himself. They didnt make him to life like, just like a toy.. He was the best thing I liked about the movie.
I thought the end was a bit overdone. But Kubrick and Spielberg tried to capture the essence of the whole story, the journey of a robotic child to become human. Was kind of ironic since all we could see now, are people who tend to be like machines, being more and more infatuated and dependent on technology.
I thought it was a bit too dragging, but I am willing to forgive them on that. There were a couple of moments, when I even had a lump on my throat. But Spielberg wanted to make this movie infinitely sad, coz we do have the knowledge, that no matter how much "David" try, he could never be a human. Its that infinite sadness that he never come to terms with. And I found that truly sad.
It was a good movie. It had a couple of Kubrick moments (when he is put back in to his old house), and a couple of Spielberg ones. All in all, something I would recommend, but not necessarily keep in line with "2001 : A space odyssey".
Dont get me wrong, Microsoft would have been even bigger if they were broken up. And there was a good chance that they might have started spewing out software which was actually good.
But now, they would just sit back in their comfy chairs and return to producing the same old crap they like to...usual blowware..and thats how they would die..
A moment of silence to commemorate this occasion, when Justice didnt persevere.
Glory to the day when young Carmack stood before his first video game arcade and wished "Gosh! I wish I could do that!"
Hats off to you! Thanks for making a difference. And I am gonna sue your ass for making me waste those countless hours (till daylight broke) pummeling through hordes and hordes of demons and grunts.
What would the impact be, compared to the fact that Oracle would soon be running on Linux and also Informix (acquired by IBM) and DB2 would soon be running on Linux clusters ?
Do you think Redhat could have some clout in convincing the market that it can build a solid database compared to the solutions already out there. Agreed, that Linux is a solid server OS, but that itself wouldnt do. RedHat needs to have a solid solution which doesnt depend on Linux, but be able to stand on its own, in terms of TPS and Performance issues.
Do you really think Gates cares about being set back a couple of millions (even 100) if that were the price to buy the rights to the name ? Moreover, I dont think MS would take a risk such as that, seeing how bad their PR already is. As far as I know/care, these guys got their Lamborghinis.
On a lower scale though. I do want to have the latest Video Card, latest chipset, latest Soundblaster Platinum card, and THX certified speakers..which could set me back a couple of thousand..
But then again theres one thing that sets us apart. The Son of a gun has money, I am broke!
I heard that the GSCube (which is PS3) would be built out of 16 PlayStation chips and helps developers do parallel processing using these 16 chips. If these were just PlayStation chips, then whats IBM doing different. If on the other hand, if this is a totally new architecture with IBM holding the specs to the new chip, which according to the article is faster than a Deep Blue, would be interesting to see.
How about tying up Jon Katz on every weekend so that he doesnt go out, watch any movies, and end up ruining our movie weekends for us.
Just a thought. I got lotsa other ideas too.
Would Satelites and Electronic Surveillance do ?
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One of the world's first radar stations had just been constructed in Hawaii, but Naval officials unaccountably ignored the flight formations it was picking up in the hours before the attack. Today, satellites and electronic surveillance would have made any such stealth impossible.
The same radars, intelligence and all the spy satelites in the world didnt help the US to realize that India was getting ready to test its Nukes underground. So does that mean, that even now, a small determined nation could crept under the shroud of electronic surveillance and sneak right in to the enemy's backyard and plant a surprise ? It sure seems possible.
"Having multiple vendors competing to offer us the best product at the lowest price is worse than having one vendor who can sell the product to us at monopoly prices."
Well, to a manager it would be more interesting to purchase all the subsystems from the same vendor than try to mix and match components from multiple vendors. Believe me, i would choose the former, not to create another monopoly, but to reduce my headaches and also to hold just one entity responsible if some screw up occurs, and not having to run around 5 different vendors who just end up blaming each other and pointing fingers at each other than fixing the problem. Believe me, it has happened and since risk mitigation being such an important factor in project management, unless my manager is Alan Cox himself, he is going to choose multiple solutions from the same vendor. Single accountability.
John Markoff wrote the book about Kevin Mitnick, which helped the govt to build all the stupid accusations against him and to throw him in jail for years together.
Most of the accusations against Mitnick levelled at him by Markoff were absurd and could only be conjured up by someone who didnt have an iota of technical knowledge. This is the guy who lives on trolling to keep his existance together. Its funny to see that he is still alive and kicking. And trolling..
This is not a flame. If you wish, you can read Markoff's book called "Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick, America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw-By the Man Who Did It". John Littman wrote a book which counters all these arguments called "The Fugitive Game" which tries to shed some light in to these absurd allegations against Mitnick.
After which, Shimomura (the so called "hacker" who caught up with Mitnick) and Markoff shared their spoils by pitching together a movie to Miramax about Mitnick, a movie which would even characterise Mitnick as a murderer. Shame on these idiots.
Salon has a nice story of start-up greed and stupidity.
Micheal, you just threw everyone who works in the Valley down the drain. The millions who work here, not all are working for making millions the next day. We are here because we believed in something, we loved the work we were doing and we love the weather down here. Not just because we wanted to be millionaires (ofcourse the thought of that obviously helped). But the way you say it makes it look as if you were some high and mighty puratinist who never cared for a dollar and does editing and readiing all day. Yeah right. Go ask Andover.net..or else..Go figure.
I know its kinda Flaming.. But I just couldnt help it. The idiot had some nerve...
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Well, you gotta tie a rope to our beauty contestants before u do a photo shoot anyway..
Ooops..there goes our Miss Canada...allright..we are down to the final five..er..four contestants..
Microsoft didnt get away scot free. The state settled with them on the condition that Microsoft would pay the legal expenses for the State of New Mexico.
In related news, Microsoft is pulling all copies of Win 98/ME/NT/2000 off the shelves in New Mexico and replacing them with Windows 3.1
that I could lay my hands on that 13 yr old freak whos behind this. To hell with Non-violence, I would bash his head open.
These idiots would never stop, until someone hit them with a baseball bat over their head. And its time someone did.
This Cnet Story talks about MS going to use Verisign for all Hailstorm and Passport Authentication as part of .Net
I guess we would all be more trusting if it were Verisign and not MS.
umm.. You shouldnt do that..Goes against the Shared source model I have been advocating..
- Bill Gates
"There will be an incredible amount of interest in this among the academic and research communities," said David Stutz, general program manager for Shared Source CLI at Microsoft. "There are a lot of positive lessons to be learned from the open source example," he added.
A lot of positive lessons to be learned from the Open Source example ?? Well thats what we have been trying to say all this while.. jeez..
Teddy himself. They didnt make him to life like, just like a toy.. He was the best thing I liked about the movie.
I thought the end was a bit overdone. But Kubrick and Spielberg tried to capture the essence of the whole story, the journey of a robotic child to become human. Was kind of ironic since all we could see now, are people who tend to be like machines, being more and more infatuated and dependent on technology.
I thought it was a bit too dragging, but I am willing to forgive them on that. There were a couple of moments, when I even had a lump on my throat. But Spielberg wanted to make this movie infinitely sad, coz we do have the knowledge, that no matter how much "David" try, he could never be a human. Its that infinite sadness that he never come to terms with. And I found that truly sad.
It was a good movie. It had a couple of Kubrick moments (when he is put back in to his old house), and a couple of Spielberg ones. All in all, something I would recommend, but not necessarily keep in line with "2001 : A space odyssey".
Moderate or Post ?? POST!!!
Dont get me wrong, Microsoft would have been even bigger if they were broken up. And there was a good chance that they might have started spewing out software which was actually good.
But now, they would just sit back in their comfy chairs and return to producing the same old crap they like to...usual blowware..and thats how they would die..
A moment of silence to commemorate this occasion, when Justice didnt persevere.
Why cant we just let Europa be ?
Let the monolith do its work..and one day the children of the new world would meet the children of the old
I am a 2001 : Space Odyssey junkie..
Glory to the day when young Carmack stood before his first video game arcade and wished "Gosh! I wish I could do that!"
Hats off to you! Thanks for making a difference. And I am gonna sue your ass for making me waste those countless hours (till daylight broke) pummeling through hordes and hordes of demons and grunts.
What would the impact be, compared to the fact that Oracle would soon be running on Linux and also Informix (acquired by IBM) and DB2 would soon be running on Linux clusters ?
Do you think Redhat could have some clout in convincing the market that it can build a solid database compared to the solutions already out there. Agreed, that Linux is a solid server OS, but that itself wouldnt do. RedHat needs to have a solid solution which doesnt depend on Linux, but be able to stand on its own, in terms of TPS and Performance issues.
In the world of Proprietary Software, if this happens and people quit, the firm has the responsibility to hire someone smart enough to keep it going.
What happens here is the productivity is stumped till those losers resolve your issues.
Do you really think Gates cares about being set back a couple of millions (even 100) if that were the price to buy the rights to the name ? Moreover, I dont think MS would take a risk such as that, seeing how bad their PR already is. As far as I know/care, these guys got their Lamborghinis.
Dude, The most invasion of privacy has happened in US. And you are worried about others ???
All the worlds are yours
Except Europa
Dont attempt to land in Europa
Explore them together, Explore them in peace..
David Bowman
And invade earth with our own clones ? 4.5 million is quite a formidable army.
On a lower scale though. I do want to have the latest Video Card, latest chipset, latest Soundblaster Platinum card, and THX certified speakers..which could set me back a couple of thousand..
But then again theres one thing that sets us apart. The Son of a gun has money, I am broke!
From the Article : quoted by Mark Levinson
:)
And in the middle of the interview, he suddenly announces that CDs are harmful to people.
I think he meant to say "RIAA harmful to Music"
I heard that the GSCube (which is PS3) would be built out of 16 PlayStation chips and helps developers do parallel processing using these 16 chips. If these were just PlayStation chips, then whats IBM doing different. If on the other hand, if this is a totally new architecture with IBM holding the specs to the new chip, which according to the article is faster than a Deep Blue, would be interesting to see.
How about tying up Jon Katz on every weekend so that he doesnt go out, watch any movies, and end up ruining our movie weekends for us.
Just a thought. I got lotsa other ideas too.
One of the world's first radar stations had just been constructed in Hawaii, but Naval officials unaccountably ignored the flight formations it was picking up in the hours before the attack. Today, satellites and electronic surveillance would have made any such stealth impossible.
The same radars, intelligence and all the spy satelites in the world didnt help the US to realize that India was getting ready to test its Nukes underground. So does that mean, that even now, a small determined nation could crept under the shroud of electronic surveillance and sneak right in to the enemy's backyard and plant a surprise ? It sure seems possible.
Does that make me one ? ;)
"Having multiple vendors competing to offer us the best product at the lowest price is worse than having one vendor who can sell the product to us at monopoly prices."
Well, to a manager it would be more interesting to purchase all the subsystems from the same vendor than try to mix and match components from multiple vendors. Believe me, i would choose the former, not to create another monopoly, but to reduce my headaches and also to hold just one entity responsible if some screw up occurs, and not having to run around 5 different vendors who just end up blaming each other and pointing fingers at each other than fixing the problem. Believe me, it has happened and since risk mitigation being such an important factor in project management, unless my manager is Alan Cox himself, he is going to choose multiple solutions from the same vendor. Single accountability.
Not flaming..just facts.
John Markoff wrote the book about Kevin Mitnick, which helped the govt to build all the stupid accusations against him and to throw him in jail for years together.
Most of the accusations against Mitnick levelled at him by Markoff were absurd and could only be conjured up by someone who didnt have an iota of technical knowledge. This is the guy who lives on trolling to keep his existance together. Its funny to see that he is still alive and kicking. And trolling..
This is not a flame. If you wish, you can read Markoff's book called "Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick, America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw-By the Man Who Did It". John Littman wrote a book which counters all these arguments called "The Fugitive Game" which tries to shed some light in to these absurd allegations against Mitnick.
After which, Shimomura (the so called "hacker" who caught up with Mitnick) and Markoff shared their spoils by pitching together a movie to Miramax about Mitnick, a movie which would even characterise Mitnick as a murderer. Shame on these idiots.
Salon has a nice story of start-up greed and stupidity.
Micheal, you just threw everyone who works in the Valley down the drain. The millions who work here, not all are working for making millions the next day. We are here because we believed in something, we loved the work we were doing and we love the weather down here. Not just because we wanted to be millionaires (ofcourse the thought of that obviously helped). But the way you say it makes it look as if you were some high and mighty puratinist who never cared for a dollar and does editing and readiing all day. Yeah right. Go ask Andover.net..or else..Go figure.
I know its kinda Flaming.. But I just couldnt help it. The idiot had some nerve...