Re:Salon's worsening coverage, with article quotes
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If you had looked at the articles listed, you'd have seen they were published in 2000 and earlier. My point was that Salon has gone from being pro-open source to hailing Bill Gates as the bringer of a new utopia, and favorably comparing him to Gutenberg.
While I think you're trying to prove me wrong, you've instead demonstrated my point.
Salon's worsening coverage, with article quotes
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Remember when Salon used to be pro-open source? Anyway, I looked through their archives, and over the last year, pro-open source / anti-MS articles have all but disappeared.
Anyway, here are some choice quotes from the article, which reads like Bill Gates himself wrote it:
"All hail.Net!
Microsoft's new software development tools are more than just nifty -- they are a great boon to humanity."
"In 1454, Johann Gutenberg changed the world forever when the first of his Bibles rolled off the world's first printing press. Three centuries later, in 1791, Charles Babbage was born. Best known for his Difference Engine and Analytical Engine, his work is widely acknowledged as providing the earliest steppingstones from which the modern computer would emerge. Again, the world would never be the same."
"William Henry Gates arrived on the planet in 1951. Whether you love him or detest him with every ounce of your moral fiber, there is no denying the contribution Bill has made to this earth. Without Microsoft, the PC we have today would be a very different beast. Without Microsoft, ".Net" would be just another domain name suffix."
"Right now, the Web is no more than a mirror image of the bad old mainframe days with dumb clients speaking to central all-powerful servers..Net will free us from that..Net is about your data and your applications running anywhere, on any device, at any time..Net is about freedom to share information, freedom to get at and manipulate data in the ways that you want to manipulate it..Net is the future."
".Net and the fundamental concepts surrounding it are a major step forward for software development as a whole, and a stunning leap forward for realizing the true potential of the Internet as a means of communicating and sharing information."
"Now that it's finally available, Visual Studio.Net will usher in a new age of connectivity and usability the likes of which has only previously been imagined by science fiction authors. Every facet of our lives will be connected, but not from the point of view of increasing the pain we feel as slaves to our machines. The results of Visual Studio.Net's deployment will be an increased level of freedom, with the machines finally realizing their true potential as information manipulators and slaves to humanity."
If I remember correctly, the Weirding Way was developed by the Atreides (with the help of Jessica), and was one reason the Emperor conspired with the Harkonnens again them.
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If you had looked at the articles listed, you'd have seen they were published in 2000 and earlier. My point was that Salon has gone from being pro-open source to hailing Bill Gates as the bringer of a new utopia, and favorably comparing him to Gutenberg.
While I think you're trying to prove me wrong, you've instead demonstrated my point.
Remember when Salon used to be pro-open source? Anyway, I looked through their archives, and over the last year, pro-open source / anti-MS articles have all but disappeared.
.Net!
.Net will free us from that. .Net is about your data and your applications running anywhere, on any device, at any time. .Net is about freedom to share information, freedom to get at and manipulate data in the ways that you want to manipulate it. .Net is the future."
Anyway, here are some choice quotes from the article, which reads like Bill Gates himself wrote it:
"All hail
Microsoft's new software development tools are more than just nifty -- they are a great boon to humanity."
"In 1454, Johann Gutenberg changed the world forever when the first of his Bibles rolled off the world's first printing press. Three centuries later, in 1791, Charles Babbage was born. Best known for his Difference Engine and Analytical Engine, his work is widely acknowledged as providing the earliest steppingstones from which the modern computer would emerge. Again, the world would never be the same."
"William Henry Gates arrived on the planet in 1951. Whether you love him or detest him with every ounce of your moral fiber, there is no denying the contribution Bill has made to this earth. Without Microsoft, the PC we have today would be a very different beast. Without Microsoft, ".Net" would be just another domain name suffix."
"Right now, the Web is no more than a mirror image of the bad old mainframe days with dumb clients speaking to central all-powerful servers.
".Net and the fundamental concepts surrounding it are a major step forward for software development as a whole, and a stunning leap forward for realizing the true potential of the Internet as a means of communicating and sharing information."
"Now that it's finally available, Visual Studio.Net will usher in a new age of connectivity and usability the likes of which has only previously been imagined by science fiction authors. Every facet of our lives will be connected, but not from the point of view of increasing the pain we feel as slaves to our machines. The results of Visual Studio.Net's deployment will be an increased level of freedom, with the machines finally realizing their true potential as information manipulators and slaves to humanity."
If I remember correctly, the Weirding Way was developed by the Atreides (with the help of Jessica), and was one reason the Emperor conspired with the Harkonnens again them.
No, E.T. was made by Universal.