What Boo should say now...
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From Boo: "This site is designed for 56k modems and above. It will work on slower modems, but your download times may be longer."
What they should have written is: "This site is e-commerce site...it really is...that is designed for an auidenence running Windows 95 and 98. It won't work on other operating system. You need to be register so when we run out of money, we can sell your demographic information to the Gap.com. Our graphic designer have worked in print and are just learning what UI means...please bare with us."
I watched a third-generation video tape copy of Starblzers and RoboTech few months ago and I throughly enjoyed it, now I can hopefully I can watch them tomorrow morning after they recover from the/. effect.
The brief synaposis on/. reads that the people were arrested for just having the program. Am I they only one who interrupted the synaposis this way? Perhaps the entire article should have been more clearly stated or even a better follow-up by the/. staff would have helped.
The entire episode reminded me of playing online Quake a few years ago. Apparently you can be shot and not killed, would it be possible to find a health pack and re-generate your health. Or even, when Mulder ran out of ammo, could he locate an ammo pack and re-arm?
This would be a great opportunity to showcase a new show for "Futurama"...the Aibo and Tama show? They would just stare at each other and respond slowly to one another's reactions, throw in a Furbie and we are talking about Fox's next reality show, "When Robots Stare At Each Other!"
If you want to read an ficitional account of every day life at Microsoft, try reading Douglas Coupland's Microserfs. The book describes a group of friends who watch the lawn get cut everyday or every other day at the same time to ensure the grass is at the same lenght and the email exchange between friends is incredibly funny. Here's a link to the official Douglas Coupland web site. Since I read the book several years ago, I included a posting from the Fatbrain web site: "Microserfs: a hilarious, fanatically detailed, and oddly moving book about a handful of misfit Microsoft employees who realize that they don't have lives and subsequently become determined to get lives inside the lightning-paced world of high-tech 1990s' American geek culture. Amid a Seattle backdrop of software corporate cultishness ("B-B-B-B-Bill!") and the financial terror of San Francisco and Silicon Valley tech startups, the members of Coupland's quirky ensemble "stick a piece of dynamite inside themselves, like a cartoon cat, in the hopes that when they reassemble their exploded pieces they will be somebody different"
A co-worker has been experiencing the bad side of C-host, for the past few days, he's been calling their tech support to YELL at them. So I wondering now, what are the alternative providers?
I am thinking more along lines of someone local so you can stop by their office if something goes wrong.
When I left in 1998, Pittsburgh didn't have much to offer in the technical field besides being involved with UPMC...with CMU there, one would believe that it would be healthy area for startups...I guess not. While I was there, the major was more concerned about sports (Penguins and Steelers stadium deals) than anything else.
The only thing that's technically cool about Pittsburgh are the Honda Civic (???) with the LYCOS paint scheme.
I'm a pseudo-classic car buff even more of an efficent car buff. I want to travel from point a to point b as fast as possible (Does this relate to download times?). Currently, I'm in the market for a new car that will make me an accomplish driver like I am in Gran Turismo 2 so I can compete in real-life time trials.
Honda's S2000 and Toyota's MR-Spyder are two hot cars that I love to have. Neither are "classic" cars however the MR-Spyder is an ode to the "classic" sports car of the 60s which is a great trend.
I recently bought a Sprint cellphone from a Radio Shack and had the worst experience with their sales staff which made me realize that I will never go there again.
Here's a typical shopping experience in a RadioShack, in the future...
Salesperson (min. wage teenager): Hi! What can I get for you? [pointing at Sprint's product]...we have cell phones...
Customer: Can you tell me about them?
Salesperson[grabbing the phamplet]: Let's see! The Qualcom 2700 is a great phone. I don't have one yet but my parent's said I can get one after I work here for a month...this is the phone I want to get!
Customer: Why is this good?
Salesperson: Everyone has them!!! Do you want a computer?
Customer: Maybe.
Salesperson: Well we have this nice Compac Persarios...this is a great home computer! My parents said I can get my first one as soon as I work here for a month.
Customer: Okay.
Salesperson: Do you need a DVD? We have this great DVD players. Everyone has one. I'm going to get one for my parents as soon as I work here for a month.
Customer: Okay.
Salesperson: Do you have an ISP?
Customer: What's an ISP?
Salesperson: Hold on let me check with my mananger, Bob. He's cool. [Salesperson talks with Bob, the RadioShack manager] Its Microsoft's.
Customer: What do you mean by that?
Salesperson: Its' MicroSoft's ISP. Its great. I have this at home already.
Customer: Don't you need a computer before you get an ISP???
Salesperson: Umm...no.
Customer: Sorry I need to go now.
Salesperson: Do you need any batteries?
The point being most Radio Shack employees won't enough to sell anything to a typical consumer.
We have disabled the abilty of the Netscape browser to view our page for specific reasons. Please do not flame the messege board with comments pertaning to the inabilty to view the page in Netscape. Any comments relating to this should be directed at the Webmaster in charge of this page: jsmith@microsoft.com
is anyone getting javascript errors using netscape 4.61 (windoze)? i can't see the page and i am not going to load internet exploder to see their challenge!!!
At my company, the software team is divided about 50%/50% in age (above 35 / below 35) and only two of us "kids" are not married. Of course the two of us don't have any long-term future plans at the company either. The more settled "folks" want to work for the company probably for the rest of their lives and the company will keep them.
If a Internet startup wants a staff, I agree that they would most likely hire "kids" because we really don't have much responsiblities besides playing StarCraft on Battle.net and beta testing Quake3. However they still need some veteran leadership.
A company can benefit by uniting a staff of veterans and rookies like any sports team, both can learn from a symbiotic relationship. Of course, on my software team, one coder is constantly weary of me because I go home, write some code and introduce it at work. She doesn't have the time for that because she's a mother and is raising her children.
Perhaps the trend of immersion web surfing will move over to smell-a-vision too. How does someone actually write web code for this product? mouse=smooth? I hope Team Mozilla will implement the new "tags" for the new browser, perhaps this is already part of IE 5.0 code "enhancements"?
Perhaps the trend of immersion web surfing will move over to smell-a-vision too. How does someone actually write web code for this product? . I hope Team Mozilla will implement the new "tags" for the new browser, perhaps this is already implmentated in IE 5.0?
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From Boo:
"This site is designed for 56k modems and above. It will work on slower modems, but your download times may be longer."
What they should have written is:
"This site is e-commerce site...it really is...that is designed for an auidenence running Windows 95 and 98. It won't work on other operating system. You need to be register so when we run out of money, we can sell your demographic information to the Gap.com. Our graphic designer have worked in print and are just learning what UI means...please bare with us."
Luckily, I came into the office late today and everyone here is scrambling to "repair" their system.
I watched a third-generation video tape copy of Starblzers and RoboTech few months ago and I throughly enjoyed it, now I can hopefully I can watch them tomorrow morning after they recover from the /. effect.
ln -s lnx ms
or
ln -s www.linux.com www.microsoft.com
The brief synaposis on /. reads that the people were arrested for just having the program. Am I they only one who interrupted the synaposis this way? Perhaps the entire article should have been more clearly stated or even a better follow-up by the /. staff would have helped.
The entire episode reminded me of playing online Quake a few years ago. Apparently you can be shot and not killed, would it be possible to find a health pack and re-generate your health. Or even, when Mulder ran out of ammo, could he locate an ammo pack and re-arm?
This would be a great opportunity to showcase a new show for "Futurama"...the Aibo and Tama show? They would just stare at each other and respond slowly to one another's reactions, throw in a Furbie and we are talking about Fox's next reality show, "When Robots Stare At Each Other!"
I wonder how a survey would result if the question was proposed...
Do women play as men?
If you want to read an ficitional account of every day life at Microsoft, try reading Douglas Coupland's Microserfs. The book describes a group of friends who watch the lawn get cut everyday or every other day at the same time to ensure the grass is at the same lenght and the email exchange between friends is incredibly funny. Here's a link to the official Douglas Coupland web site. Since I read the book several years ago, I included a posting from the Fatbrain web site: "Microserfs: a hilarious, fanatically detailed, and oddly moving book about a handful of misfit Microsoft employees who realize that they don't have lives and subsequently become determined to get lives inside the lightning-paced world of high-tech 1990s' American geek culture. Amid a Seattle backdrop of software corporate cultishness ("B-B-B-B-Bill!") and the financial terror of San Francisco and Silicon Valley tech startups, the members of Coupland's quirky ensemble "stick a piece of dynamite inside themselves, like a cartoon cat, in the hopes that when they reassemble their exploded pieces they will be somebody different"
A co-worker has been experiencing the bad side of C-host, for the past few days, he's been calling their tech support to YELL at them. So I wondering now, what are the alternative providers?
I am thinking more along lines of someone local so you can stop by their office if something goes wrong.
When I left in 1998, Pittsburgh didn't have much to offer in the technical field besides being involved with UPMC...with CMU there, one would believe that it would be healthy area for startups...I guess not. While I was there, the major was more concerned about sports (Penguins and Steelers stadium deals) than anything else.
The only thing that's technically cool about Pittsburgh are the Honda Civic (???) with the LYCOS paint scheme.
Perhaps it would have better to say, has any band ever quit their day job by selling music over the Net?
I'm sure Matador and Touch N Go are constantly surfing mp3 sites for their Pavement or Don Caballero. *insert sacarasm*
Has anyone ever heard of a band who has been successfully signed to a MAJOR label by distributing their music on a mp3 site?
This site has to be a joke. Needless to say it sorta reminds me of the "I Kiss You" site with all the careless mispellings.
The owner is selling the mispelled site for $150k, I doubt that anyone would sign a cashier check for that domain.
Here's the WHOIS for buisness.com
Registrant:
MidNet Ireland (BUISNESS2-DOM)
5 Bridge Street
Tullamore, Offaly
ie
Domain Name: BUISNESS.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:Keith, York (YK156) keith@MIDNET.IE
+353 506 22292 (FAX) +353 506 22899
Billing Contact:
Finlay-Bryan, Philip (PF635) philip@MIDNET.IE
+353 506 22292 (FAX) +353 506 22899
Record last updated on 23-Sep-1997.
Record created on 07-Jun-1997.
Database last updated on 30-Nov-1999 13:00:46 EST.
Domain servers in listed order:
RUSTY.MIDNET.IE 194.125.60.15
SIGGI.MIDNET.IE 194.125.60.2
I'm a pseudo-classic car buff even more of an efficent car buff. I want to travel from point a to point b as fast as possible (Does this relate to download times?). Currently, I'm in the market for a new car that will make me an accomplish driver like I am in Gran Turismo 2 so I can compete in real-life time trials.
Honda's S2000 and Toyota's MR-Spyder are two hot cars that I love to have. Neither are "classic" cars however the MR-Spyder is an ode to the "classic" sports car of the 60s which is a great trend.
Here's a typical shopping experience in a RadioShack, in the future...
Salesperson (min. wage teenager): Hi! What can I get for you? [pointing at Sprint's product]...we have cell phones...
Customer: Can you tell me about them?
Salesperson [grabbing the phamplet]: Let's see! The Qualcom 2700 is a great phone. I don't have one yet but my parent's said I can get one after I work here for a month...this is the phone I want to get!
Customer: Why is this good?
Salesperson: Everyone has them!!! Do you want a computer?
Customer: Maybe.
Salesperson: Well we have this nice Compac Persarios...this is a great home computer! My parents said I can get my first one as soon as I work here for a month.
Customer: Okay.
Salesperson: Do you need a DVD? We have this great DVD players. Everyone has one. I'm going to get one for my parents as soon as I work here for a month.
Customer: Okay.
Salesperson: Do you have an ISP?
Customer: What's an ISP?
Salesperson: Hold on let me check with my mananger, Bob. He's cool. [Salesperson talks with Bob, the RadioShack manager] Its Microsoft's.
Customer: What do you mean by that?
Salesperson: Its' MicroSoft's ISP. Its great. I have this at home already.
Customer: Don't you need a computer before you get an ISP???
Salesperson: Umm...no.
Customer: Sorry I need to go now.
Salesperson: Do you need any batteries?
The point being most Radio Shack employees won't enough to sell anything to a typical consumer.
Is it a nice G3? Or a crappy 603/200mhz like my machine! Egads!
Open the sendmail PORT!!!
this was posted on their
message board
We have disabled the abilty of the Netscape browser to view our page for specific reasons. Please do not flame the messege board with comments pertaning to the inabilty to view the page in Netscape. Any comments relating to this should be directed at the Webmaster in charge of this page: jsmith@microsoft.com
Okay I loaded Internet Exploder and read through the source....
SCRIPT language=Jscript --- that's M$ specific code
bgProperties=fixed --- m$ specific?
later in the code they have a section
for script language=javascript
---
I have no idea what this function is however Netscape doesn't like it nor should it.
function done()
{
Windows.style.display = "";
}
Obviously this web site will only work in one browser! Ugh!
is anyone getting javascript errors using netscape 4.61 (windoze)? i can't see the page and i am not going to load internet exploder to see their challenge!!!
Network - AUI, 10bT, 10b2. Pick one. :)
Is it possible to use both simtaneously?
We have to first exam the company...
At my company, the software team is divided about 50%/50% in age (above 35 / below 35) and only two of us "kids" are not married. Of course the two of us don't have any long-term future plans at the company either. The more settled "folks" want to work for the company probably for the rest of their lives and the company will keep them.
If a Internet startup wants a staff, I agree that they would most likely hire "kids" because we really don't have much responsiblities besides playing StarCraft on Battle.net and beta testing Quake3. However they still need some veteran leadership.
A company can benefit by uniting a staff of veterans and rookies like any sports team, both can learn from a symbiotic relationship. Of course, on my software team, one coder is constantly weary of me because I go home, write some code and introduce it at work. She doesn't have the time for that because she's a mother and is raising her children.
The most frequently searched topic is "sex" and hopefully their 16% covers predominantly sex sites so all is actually well.
Should anyone bother with meta tags anymore?
Perhaps the trend of immersion web surfing will move over to smell-a-vision too. How does someone actually write web code for this product? mouse=smooth? I hope Team Mozilla will implement the new "tags" for the new browser, perhaps this is already part of IE 5.0 code "enhancements"?
Perhaps the trend of immersion web surfing will move over to smell-a-vision too. How does someone actually write web code for this product?
. I hope Team Mozilla will implement the new "tags" for the new browser, perhaps this is already implmentated in IE 5.0?