I'd like to take a leading role in the "Freedom to Innovate Network." I believe that the freedom to innovate is critical for all companies, Microsoft and others.
I believe the first step this organization should take would be to ensure that strict and severe measures are taken against Microsoft, so that Microsoft is required to innovate if it desires to keep its monopoly. I believe that predatory tactics such as buying then disbanding companies which threaten to come up with new, potentially-competitive products, and maintaining a chokehold on the industry by letting others blaze trails then underselling them, are completely contrary to any interpretation of the "Freedom to Innovate."
I got to thinking about that. I thought, why restrict this reasoning to just computers?
So I picked up a blue Bic ballpoint pen in my hand, and I am declaring it now an integral part of my body. I am obviously not Homo Sapiens any more, since I am now distinguished by my ability to write indelible marks on certain surfaces without the need for any additional, separate tools. To paraphrase Microsoft's argument:
There are several ways to create marks on paper. One way is to use a pencil or a pen. Because that is the choice most people make, it's commonly accepted that a pen is a separate tool. But the writing-related abilities in my new body comprise many elements, including the muscles in my hand and forearm and the clicky thing on top of the pen that I can make noise with. Depending on the context, it's common for me to use the term "pen" to refer to any one of these elements, but this does not mean that the pen in my hand is a separate tool like the pens that other people use. Although I have other pens which I loan to people sometimes, there is no identifiable "pen" which can be excised from my body without degrading my basic capabilities: if you remove the pen from my hand, then I lose the important ability to create marks on paper, and the pen is useless when removed from my hand. I got this pen from a K-mart at the same time as I got some deodorant and potato chips, so it's obvious that this pen is simply one element of a larger plan which affects my entire body and how I interoperate with other people. Rather than view this Bic as a pen that sits in my hand, it is more correct to view my hand and forearm as an advanced writing implement which is capable of many various tasks. My psychiatrist contends that people universally regard pens as tools and not as part of the human body, but he offered only anecdotal support for that "proposition" whose relevance is dubious anyway.
Yes, Microsoft has ticked off Judge Jackson -- but that can work in their favor. If he makes a decision based on his personal feelings towards the witnesses in the trial, or (more importantly) if Microsoft can introduce reasonable cause to believe that he was biased by any personal opinions towards any of the witnesses, this makes it much easier for them to appeal the case. If Judge Jackson had lost his temper with any of the Microsoft witnesses, Microsoft would probably have moved for a mistrial.
What I don't understand is this: Microsoft is basing a large part of their defense on the state of the market today. Aren't they on trial for past misdeeds? It sounds like if Judge Jackson decides the market is healthy today, Microsoft will get off free and clear -- what about all of the predatory business practices they've been exercising for the past ten years?
I just picked up the US Dreamcast today, and on page 12 of the manual appears this warning:
Main Unit Memory The Dreamcast contains a Main Unit Memory. The main unit memory contains: 1. Main Unit ID (identification number) which is set when the Dreamcast was manufactured and 2. Play History.
Interesting... I wonder what "Play History" means?
"Hello, Sega technical support. You brought your system in for a repair under warranty last week, but when our technician examined it, he found that you have used it to play three imported games and two games with specific serial numbers which are known as widely pirated. This constitutes improper use of the system, and therefore your warranty is void."
What a thoroughly annoying article. Click for more. He could have come across as hip and web-savvy if he had linked directly from words in his article, but separating the links made the article sound mundane and dorky. Click for more.
I faced a similar but lesser problem: I had two computers and one set of Sambridge Soundworks speakers which I wanted them to share. People on Usenet told me to just us a Y-splitter to hook both computers to the speakers simultaneously, but the little I remember of EE in college taught me never to connect two outs or you'll blow them!
The solution I found was a $20 three-source switchbox from Radio Shack, three Y adapter cables (mini stereo plug to R/L phono plugs) for like $2.50 each, and a fem/fem mini stereo gender changer. I hooked the two computers into the switchbox, then connected the switchbox to the wire-with-volume-dial that came with the Cambridge Soundworks amp.
It works great! I can only listen to one computer at a time, but how often do I really need to listen to both of them?
No anti-aliased fonts?
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KDE2 looks pretty... but gosh, don't all those fonts look ugly and pixellated?
The web page at " http://www.antionlin e.com/archives/editorials/packetstorm.html" says that the PacketStorm web site contained "altered pictures of [John Vranesevich's] family, to 'stories' about [him] which contain images ranging from people engaged in homosexual activities, to a nun that appears to be covered in seminal fluid."
Umm, this seems like it would have been a fairly easy thing to verify before taking action, wouldn't it? Am I right to assume that PacketStorm never contained anything of that sort?
A vague rumor I heard: In Episode II, Anakin returns to Tatooine to free his mother, but this is strongly against Obi-Wan's wishes.
Now for my two-cent analysis of it: I can envision a headstrong/overconfident Anakin fearing for his mother, seeing a vision of her in pain, and rushing back to Tattoine to save her, under the protest of Obi-Wan and Yoda. This would echo part of Return of the Jedi, and Lucas likes that sort of thing. I can even see Obi-Wan's attempts to stop him causing a rift between Obi-Wan and Anakin, and I'd say it's likely that someone would be eager to use Anakin's weakness -- his love for his mother -- to gain the young Jedi's trust.
MkLinux was wonderful when it initially came out, and it gave my 6100 another good year of life. I even ran MkLinux on my G3/300 for a little while... but as soon as I switched over to monolithic LinuxPPC and saw the perceived speed of my system increase by a significant amount, I never looked back.
Now that LinuxPPC is out, fast, stable, and up-to-date with the Intel world, why is the Mac still the base development platform for MkLinux? Why not develop it on a system which won't run Linux yet? For that matter, if porting it to a new system is just a matter of porting Mach, why don't we see MkLinux running on a whole lot of other architectures these days?
Another thing I'm curious about: why isn't Linus Torvalds supporting MkLinux more strongly? I know he's a proponent of portable implementations of Linux, so it seems odd to me that he seems so focused on the Intel port of monolithic Linux.
On Pac-Man: If, when no monsters are nearby, you go up into one of the alleys which are immediately northeast and southeast of your starting location, and you just sit there against the wall... you can then walk away and take a bathroom break, get something to eat, whatever. The monsters will continue roaming the maze indefinitely without finding you.
The AI in Civilization II is so bad, it's the best argument in favor of open source I've ever seen.
Not only are the AI's so dumb that they have to cheat in order to keep up with a human player, but even the unit movement intelligence is horrendous. I've had times when I've directed a unit to move from point A to point B which is ten squares down a straight road, and what happens? The unit's first move is to hop OFF the road onto a mountain square, or instead it gets locked in a step-forward-step-backward loop until its movement points are exhausted. Give me a weekend and I could code a pathseeker that could literally run circles around the one in Civ II.
If you're dumb enough to hand control of one of your cities to an AI advisor, you'll later find out that the computer has built lots of useless improvements there which are sucking up your income in maintenance costs.
Another example of a bad AI pathfinder was the one in Myth I. If you told your journeyman to heal an archer standing right next to him at one end of a line of archers, your journeyman would stroll in front of the archers to the OTHER end of the line, getting hit by their arrows en route, then he would turn around and come BACK in front of your archer line again, and only then would he heal the original target. Kudos to Bungie for fixing this in Myth II.
I'm glad to see discussion about bad AI's here; it gives me a chance to vent about games whose AI's have bugged me for years.;-)
Why did they have to Hollywoodize the movie so much? Truth is stranger than fiction, and there are a lot of true stories which would have been far more entertaining to watch than the stuff they made up.
For example: Woz and Jobs deciding that if they couldn't think of a name for their company within an hour, they'd name it after this fruit they brought in for lunch. Or Jobs paying an advertising firm to come up with a distinctive logo... and getting the overdetailed (and short-lived) Newton-under-a-tree logo. Or IBM being all set to ink a deal to put CP/M on their PC's, which would have made Gary Kildall rich, except that he took that day to go out flying, and that one decision changed history and ruined Gary's life.
They obviously wanted this movie to be a creative take on the 'relationship' between Jobs and Gates. Viewed that way, it didn't work either; none of the characters in the movie got my sympathy, and I wasn't able to relate to any of them (thank goodness!). If the movie had put us into the mind of Jobs the tortured soul trying to change the world, or Gates the megalomaniac playing his enemies off each other, it would have worked so much better, but both of them came off as basket cases.
What *did* work, fortunately, was the way they capped both ends of the movie with the '1984' commercial. Showing the 'making of' the commercial was a stroke of genius, and pure fun.:-)
One fun thing to look for: J. G. Herzler, "Martok" from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as Ridley Scott in the opening sequence. It's good to see there's life after Star Trek.
Oh, by the way, someone on the set should have been paying attention: the pronunciation is "AL-tair", not "al-TAIR".
Sure, viruses can be (and are) written for Unix systems; just like Windows viruses, they prey on weaknesses in the system caused by software bugs or poor administration. The difference is that the typical owner of a Unix box tends to be more knowledgeable about security than the typical owner of a Windows system, and Unix tends to have fewer security holes than Windows by virtue of having a better-developed permissions system and by having been around longer.
It's not fair to say that a ten-line script can infect a Unix system -- the mere fact that there is such a wide range of flavors of Unix available is enough to guarantee that a single ten-line script won't work on more than a small percentage of Unix systems out there. Besides, with Linux, holes are patched and patches are distributed as quickly as they're found -- often within hours of the dicovery of a security hole.
If there were as many flavors of Windows as there were of Unix, if Windows vendors had to continually compete to make their systems faster and leaner and more stable and more secure, I guarantee you that you wouldn't see viruses and trojan horses such as this one proliferate nearly as much.
A worm strikes Corporate America hard because Corporate America is so strongly standardized on Microsoft Office and Microsoft Exchange... and then, because the cost and hassle of trying to find viable/compatible replacements for these applications is so high, ANOTHER worm hits Corporate America and does another round of damage, incurring further costs in terms of lost work and damage control, and STILL no one seriouly considers moving from Microsoft software to some other solution...
And yet the Department of Justice still needs to prove that Microsoft's business practices are harming consumers?
Stupid me, I was so busy building the Ep1 Lego sets I got at midnight, that I missed the Star Wars music video on TV. The site above which has it in MPEG format has been slashdotted already. Does anyone else have it up on the net, or do you know when either MTV or VH1 will broadcast it again?
Gates published his book to draw some attention towards himself and away from his company's woes. Time Magazine published excerpts from it so that people would raise a fuss and other people would buy a copy of Time to see what all the fuss is about. Both of them want your attention; you're giving it to them in spades.
As Mae West said, "I don't care what you say about me, as long as you spell my name right." It's the same concept as when a web site such as CNet publishes a story titled something like "Does Linux Suck?" because they *know* it's going to draw the attention of the exact group of people they want to advertise at.
The greatest danger in this is that Joe Sixpack may read his copy of Time and think that Unca Bill is really a pretty nice guy, and then he sees all of these SlashDotters foaming at the mouth and he decides to keep away from whatever they're selling.
"Sony has stated that the system will hit sometime in Winter 99 (meaning between January and March)."
Huh? No way is this coming out by March 99, and probably not even by March 2000; there hasn't even been any news yet about third-party companies signing on to make games for it. I want this as bad as the next glassy-eyed joystick junkie, but I'd say that Christmas 2000 is a much more likely timeframe for it.
And what's this about "Sony has stated"? As far as I know, they haven't even acknowledged the existence of the thing yet, have they?
"Little"? You do realize, I hope, that you're going to move the Slashdot Effect out of cyberspace and into the Real World (tm). Just try to picture how many tens of thousands of local Slashdot contributors and lurkers will read this item between now and tonight, and they'll all descend en masse on the cafe in a shoulder-rubbing session not seen since the Mozilla party almost a year ago.
By the way, I question your priorities -- net access is nice, but my requirements for an eating establishment usually involve edible food...?
Okay, say Microsoft loses (which isn't too much of a stretch). Say they're only slapped with a fine of a meager couple billion. End of story, right?
Wrongo. That's when the fun begins. As soon as Microsoft is declared to be at fault (no matter what the penalty) lawsuits will immediately be filed. Netscape, Apple, Sun, and Caldera are definites; AOL, Intel, and Be are likely; and you'll probably see some come in from PC makers and lots of other little companies who got squashed along the way.
This is why Microsoft is screaming its innocence before an onslaught of incriminating evidence: from a legal defense standpoint, it has to. If it weakens its stance for even a moment, if it even hints that it recognizes it might have used poor judgement or behaved inappropriately, that's all it takes to legitimize a wrongful-damages lawsuit against Microsoft.
I guarantee you that Microsoft's legal woes are far, far from over. Give it at least three or four years before the end is even in sight.
A copy of the article which was up on zdnet this morning went into detail about another interesting issue: apparently Allchin, who has been using the term "virgin system" throughout his testimony, admitted he uses it to refer not only to systems which only have Windows 98 installed, but also to systems which have MS Office installed and to systems which have had registry entries tweaked by hand before being used for tests.
However, that version of the story was taken off of zdnet, and it doesn't appear to be anywhere else currently for some reason.
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I'd like to take a leading role in the "Freedom to Innovate Network." I believe that the freedom to innovate is critical for all companies, Microsoft and others.
I believe the first step this organization should take would be to ensure that strict and severe measures are taken against Microsoft, so that Microsoft is required to innovate if it desires to keep its monopoly. I believe that predatory tactics such as buying then disbanding companies which threaten to come up with new, potentially-competitive products, and maintaining a chokehold on the industry by letting others blaze trails then underselling them, are completely contrary to any interpretation of the "Freedom to Innovate."
I got to thinking about that. I thought, why restrict this reasoning to just computers?
So I picked up a blue Bic ballpoint pen in my hand, and I am declaring it now an integral part of my body. I am obviously not Homo Sapiens any more, since I am now distinguished by my ability to write indelible marks on certain surfaces without the need for any additional, separate tools. To paraphrase Microsoft's argument:
There are several ways to create marks on paper. One way is to use a pencil or a pen. Because that is the choice most people make, it's commonly accepted that a pen is a separate tool. But the writing-related abilities in my new body comprise many elements, including the muscles in my hand and forearm and the clicky thing on top of the pen that I can make noise with. Depending on the context, it's common for me to use the term "pen" to refer to any one of these elements, but this does not mean that the pen in my hand is a separate tool like the pens that other people use. Although I have other pens which I loan to people sometimes, there is no identifiable "pen" which can be excised from my body without degrading my basic capabilities: if you remove the pen from my hand, then I lose the important ability to create marks on paper, and the pen is useless when removed from my hand. I got this pen from a K-mart at the same time as I got some deodorant and potato chips, so it's obvious that this pen is simply one element of a larger plan which affects my entire body and how I interoperate with other people. Rather than view this Bic as a pen that sits in my hand, it is more correct to view my hand and forearm as an advanced writing implement which is capable of many various tasks. My psychiatrist contends that people universally regard pens as tools and not as part of the human body, but he offered only anecdotal support for that "proposition" whose relevance is dubious anyway.
Yes, Microsoft has ticked off Judge Jackson -- but that can work in their favor. If he makes a decision based on his personal feelings towards the witnesses in the trial, or (more importantly) if Microsoft can introduce reasonable cause to believe that he was biased by any personal opinions towards any of the witnesses, this makes it much easier for them to appeal the case. If Judge Jackson had lost his temper with any of the Microsoft witnesses, Microsoft would probably have moved for a mistrial.
What I don't understand is this: Microsoft is basing a large part of their defense on the state of the market today. Aren't they on trial for past misdeeds? It sounds like if Judge Jackson decides the market is healthy today, Microsoft will get off free and clear -- what about all of the predatory business practices they've been exercising for the past ten years?
Main Unit Memory
The Dreamcast contains a Main Unit Memory. The main unit memory contains: 1. Main Unit ID (identification number) which is set when the Dreamcast was manufactured and 2. Play History.
Interesting... I wonder what "Play History" means?
"Hello, Sega technical support. You brought your system in for a repair under warranty last week, but when our technician examined it, he found that you have used it to play three imported games and two games with specific serial numbers which are known as widely pirated. This constitutes improper use of the system, and therefore your warranty is void."
What a thoroughly annoying article. Click for more. He could have come across as hip and web-savvy if he had linked directly from words in his article, but separating the links made the article sound mundane and dorky. Click for more.
I faced a similar but lesser problem: I had two computers and one set of Sambridge Soundworks speakers which I wanted them to share. People on Usenet told me to just us a Y-splitter to hook both computers to the speakers simultaneously, but the little I remember of EE in college taught me never to connect two outs or you'll blow them!
The solution I found was a $20 three-source switchbox from Radio Shack, three Y adapter cables (mini stereo plug to R/L phono plugs) for like $2.50 each, and a fem/fem mini stereo gender changer. I hooked the two computers into the switchbox, then connected the switchbox to the wire-with-volume-dial that came with the Cambridge Soundworks amp.
It works great! I can only listen to one computer at a time, but how often do I really need to listen to both of them?
When is Linux going to learn how to anti-alias fonts, similar to what SmoothType (" http://kaleidoscope.net/greg/smoothtyp e.html") does for the Mac?
Umm, this seems like it would have been a fairly easy thing to verify before taking action, wouldn't it? Am I right to assume that PacketStorm never contained anything of that sort?
A vague rumor I heard: In Episode II, Anakin returns to Tatooine to free his mother, but this is strongly against Obi-Wan's wishes.
Now for my two-cent analysis of it: I can envision a headstrong/overconfident Anakin fearing for his mother, seeing a vision of her in pain, and rushing back to Tattoine to save her, under the protest of Obi-Wan and Yoda. This would echo part of Return of the Jedi, and Lucas likes that sort of thing. I can even see Obi-Wan's attempts to stop him causing a rift between Obi-Wan and Anakin, and I'd say it's likely that someone would be eager to use Anakin's weakness -- his love for his mother -- to gain the young Jedi's trust.
Time will tell.
MkLinux was wonderful when it initially came out, and it gave my 6100 another good year of life. I even ran MkLinux on my G3/300 for a little while... but as soon as I switched over to monolithic LinuxPPC and saw the perceived speed of my system increase by a significant amount, I never looked back.
Now that LinuxPPC is out, fast, stable, and up-to-date with the Intel world, why is the Mac still the base development platform for MkLinux? Why not develop it on a system which won't run Linux yet? For that matter, if porting it to a new system is just a matter of porting Mach, why don't we see MkLinux running on a whole lot of other architectures these days?
Another thing I'm curious about: why isn't Linus Torvalds supporting MkLinux more strongly? I know he's a proponent of portable implementations of Linux, so it seems odd to me that he seems so focused on the Intel port of monolithic Linux.
http://www.theforce.net/humor/ music/mp3s/cantina.mp3
Also, "Yoda's Sunscreen" is pretty funny:
http://www.theforce.net /humor/music/mp3s/yoda_sunscreen.mp3
You can find these and more at" http://www.theforce.net/humor/music/".
On Pac-Man: If, when no monsters are nearby, you go up into one of the alleys which are immediately northeast and southeast of your starting location, and you just sit there against the wall... you can then walk away and take a bathroom break, get something to eat, whatever. The monsters will continue roaming the maze indefinitely without finding you.
;-)
Even good AI's have their weaknesses.
The AI in Civilization II is so bad, it's the best argument in favor of open source I've ever seen.
;-)
Not only are the AI's so dumb that they have to cheat in order to keep up with a human player, but even the unit movement intelligence is horrendous. I've had times when I've directed a unit to move from point A to point B which is ten squares down a straight road, and what happens? The unit's first move is to hop OFF the road onto a mountain square, or instead it gets locked in a step-forward-step-backward loop until its movement points are exhausted. Give me a weekend and I could code a pathseeker that could literally run circles around the one in Civ II.
If you're dumb enough to hand control of one of your cities to an AI advisor, you'll later find out that the computer has built lots of useless improvements there which are sucking up your income in maintenance costs.
Another example of a bad AI pathfinder was the one in Myth I. If you told your journeyman to heal an archer standing right next to him at one end of a line of archers, your journeyman would stroll in front of the archers to the OTHER end of the line, getting hit by their arrows en route, then he would turn around and come BACK in front of your archer line again, and only then would he heal the original target. Kudos to Bungie for fixing this in Myth II.
I'm glad to see discussion about bad AI's here; it gives me a chance to vent about games whose AI's have bugged me for years.
Why did they have to Hollywoodize the movie so much? Truth is stranger than fiction, and there are a lot of true stories which would have been far more entertaining to watch than the stuff they made up.
:-)
For example: Woz and Jobs deciding that if they couldn't think of a name for their company within an hour, they'd name it after this fruit they brought in for lunch. Or Jobs paying an advertising firm to come up with a distinctive logo... and getting the overdetailed (and short-lived) Newton-under-a-tree logo. Or IBM being all set to ink a deal to put CP/M on their PC's, which would have made Gary Kildall rich, except that he took that day to go out flying, and that one decision changed history and ruined Gary's life.
They obviously wanted this movie to be a creative take on the 'relationship' between Jobs and Gates. Viewed that way, it didn't work either; none of the characters in the movie got my sympathy, and I wasn't able to relate to any of them (thank goodness!). If the movie had put us into the mind of Jobs the tortured soul trying to change the world, or Gates the megalomaniac playing his enemies off each other, it would have worked so much better, but both of them came off as basket cases.
What *did* work, fortunately, was the way they capped both ends of the movie with the '1984' commercial. Showing the 'making of' the commercial was a stroke of genius, and pure fun.
One fun thing to look for: J. G. Herzler, "Martok" from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as Ridley Scott in the opening sequence. It's good to see there's life after Star Trek.
Oh, by the way, someone on the set should have been paying attention: the pronunciation is "AL-tair", not "al-TAIR".
Sure, viruses can be (and are) written for Unix systems; just like Windows viruses, they prey on weaknesses in the system caused by software bugs or poor administration. The difference is that the typical owner of a Unix box tends to be more knowledgeable about security than the typical owner of a Windows system, and Unix tends to have fewer security holes than Windows by virtue of having a better-developed permissions system and by having been around longer.
It's not fair to say that a ten-line script can infect a Unix system -- the mere fact that there is such a wide range of flavors of Unix available is enough to guarantee that a single ten-line script won't work on more than a small percentage of Unix systems out there. Besides, with Linux, holes are patched and patches are distributed as quickly as they're found -- often within hours of the dicovery of a security hole.
If there were as many flavors of Windows as there were of Unix, if Windows vendors had to continually compete to make their systems faster and leaner and more stable and more secure, I guarantee you that you wouldn't see viruses and trojan horses such as this one proliferate nearly as much.
And yet the Department of Justice still needs to prove that Microsoft's business practices are harming consumers?
I'm really looking forward to the Linux releases of these games! Now I have even less of a reason to ever leave LinuxPPC. :)
I'm hoping that the LinuxPPC binaries will be no more than a simple recompile?
Stupid me, I was so busy building the Ep1 Lego sets I got at midnight, that I missed the Star Wars music video on TV. The site above which has it in MPEG format has been slashdotted already. Does anyone else have it up on the net, or do you know when either MTV or VH1 will broadcast it again?
And if you still get the "needs four megs" error, delete your q3config.cfg file from your demoq3 folder. That solved the problem for me.
Gates published his book to draw some attention towards himself and away from his company's woes. Time Magazine published excerpts from it so that people would raise a fuss and other people would buy a copy of Time to see what all the fuss is about. Both of them want your attention; you're giving it to them in spades.
As Mae West said, "I don't care what you say about me, as long as you spell my name right." It's the same concept as when a web site such as CNet publishes a story titled something like "Does Linux Suck?" because they *know* it's going to draw the attention of the exact group of people they want to advertise at.
The greatest danger in this is that Joe Sixpack may read his copy of Time and think that Unca Bill is really a pretty nice guy, and then he sees all of these SlashDotters foaming at the mouth and he decides to keep away from whatever they're selling.
"Sony has stated that the system will hit sometime in Winter 99 (meaning between January and March)."
Huh? No way is this coming out by March 99, and probably not even by March 2000; there hasn't even been any news yet about third-party companies signing on to make games for it. I want this as bad as the next glassy-eyed joystick junkie, but I'd say that Christmas 2000 is a much more likely timeframe for it.
And what's this about "Sony has stated"? As far as I know, they haven't even acknowledged the existence of the thing yet, have they?
"Little"? You do realize, I hope, that you're going to move the Slashdot Effect out of cyberspace and into the Real World (tm). Just try to picture how many tens of thousands of local Slashdot contributors and lurkers will read this item between now and tonight, and they'll all descend en masse on the cafe in a shoulder-rubbing session not seen since the Mozilla party almost a year ago.
By the way, I question your priorities -- net access is nice, but my requirements for an eating establishment usually involve edible food...?
Wrongo. That's when the fun begins. As soon as Microsoft is declared to be at fault (no matter what the penalty) lawsuits will immediately be filed. Netscape, Apple, Sun, and Caldera are definites; AOL, Intel, and Be are likely; and you'll probably see some come in from PC makers and lots of other little companies who got squashed along the way.
This is why Microsoft is screaming its innocence before an onslaught of incriminating evidence: from a legal defense standpoint, it has to. If it weakens its stance for even a moment, if it even hints that it recognizes it might have used poor judgement or behaved inappropriately, that's all it takes to legitimize a wrongful-damages lawsuit against Microsoft.
I guarantee you that Microsoft's legal woes are far, far from over. Give it at least three or four years before the end is even in sight.
A copy of the article which was up on zdnet this morning went into detail about another interesting issue: apparently Allchin, who has been using the term "virgin system" throughout his testimony, admitted he uses it to refer not only to systems which only have Windows 98 installed, but also to systems which have MS Office installed and to systems which have had registry entries tweaked by hand before being used for tests.
However, that version of the story was taken off of zdnet, and it doesn't appear to be anywhere else currently for some reason.