What if M$ hired all the big law firms that dealt with anti-trust? Wouldn't that mean that those firms legally couldn't disclose certain information about M$, because of client confidentiality? Or is that just a practice and not a law?
I think it was good, only because I could pick out about 1 hour of it that I thought wasn't bad (and not very many fight scenes). That is what makes it good, and not great. I think a LOT of movies are good, for very different reasons. Other movies are great for all kinds of reasons. Examples...
Good:
American Ninja
From Dusk Till Dawn
Hackers
Cast Away - a winking whale? puhleeze
Planet of the Apes - nice try
LOTR - epic shmepic, it fits nicely in this category.
Great:
Enter The Dragon
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Reservoir Dogs
The Matrix
The Professional
La Femme Nikika
I understand that Moulin Rouge was a love/hate film, but how can something like that be nominated for best picture? I think everyone kind of agrees that LOTR was good. I did, and I am not a fan. (easy, easy, it's OK). But MR? What a stinker. My fiancee, who is a French teacher, and I were both looking forward to it. We were the only ones in the theatre, and we were laughing out loud at how utterly stupid the movie was. We only lasted a little over half way through it. We kept thinking - the stupidity will stop, and they will get to the movie - but it didn't. There were many things I didn't like about LOTR too (like the Titanic-esque 3 minute pans of the scenery with little CG people walking along) but overall it was a good movie. Too many people hated MR for it to be best picture. At best, it was a Barney show on acid.
I can just see it now: the voting software wouldn't be user-friendly enough, my mom wouldn't be able to figure out how to use it, and just power off the voting station computer.:-)
Count all of the letters A, T, C, and G from all the web pages in the search results and sequence that into a DNA strand to produce the perfect human. Myuhahahahahaha.
Maybe he's just naive, or maybe he's just a great guy (I really suspect the latter).
Or maybe he realizes that they are both so friggin rich now that it doesn't matter. I bet if he was having trouble paying the rent, he would be a little more hurt. It is easy to let something go when you don't need it anymore. Don't get me wrong, I am sure he is a great guy, and I respect him, but NOW is it easy to get over it. I wonder how things would have turned out if he would have found out back then...
I am not sure how they are using it, but here is a link to the story . I submitted this story to/. when it came out, but it got rejected.:-(
Aw heck, here is the text...
SEATTLE--Bank One, the nation's sixth-biggest bank holding company, has struck a $30 million deal to use Microsoft products and services, giving a boost to the software giant's emerging Internet services and business products, the companies said Friday.
The three-year deal calls for Bank One to use Microsoft's.Net technology to build services that could, for example, deliver account billing or investment data to customers over a variety of devices, executives said.
Bank One also will promote Microsoft's Great Plains software for small businesses as well as its bCentral Web site that offers Internet-based services for small companies, they said.
Advertising is covered in the pact as well, with Bank One ads to appear on Microsoft's MSN family of Web sites, which include the MSN.com portal, MSNBC.com news site and MSN Money personal finance site, they said.
"It's really a groundbreaking deal and ties together the assets of MSN and Microsoft to help a business partner," MSN Vice President Rich Bray said in an interview.
For Bank One, the deal is a down payment on a strategy to deliver Web-based financial tools to its 60 million individual, business and investment customers, Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said.
The Internet services revolve around two pieces of Microsoft technology: its Passport online authentication service and.Net alerts, which are used to send messages via e-mail, instant messaging or mobile telephone.
"It's a little blue-sky right now, but built over many years it will deliver new services to customers," Dimon said in an interview. "They (Microsoft) are really committed to making.Net and Passport and all these services more and more user-friendly.''
When I saw a news story a while back about Bank One signing a big deal with MS, I got a little nervous. I like Bank One, and the way I can do pretty much everything with my account online. I emailed them with my concerns, and that if they did indeed plan to rely on MS software for security, I would be taking my business elsewhere. Here was their response...
Thank you for contacting Bank One Online(sm).
Dear Mr. XXXXXXXXXX:
In response to your letter concerning Bank One?s relationship with
Microsoft, we want to assure you that Bank One rigorously screens any
potential partners and continually strives to bring high-quality products
and services to our customers. Bank One is constantly seeking new ways to
service our customers, and we believe Microsoft has technologies and
experience which can help us improve the quality of products and services
that we offer. We continue to work with a wide array of technology
providers in all segments of our business, and we believe Bank One
customers will be well-served by our relationships with Microsoft and other
technology providers. Many of our customers have been supportive of this
relationship and we hope you understand that we use many technology
providers.
We appreciate your business as a Bank One customer and hope you will
continue banking with us. If you have any other questions regarding our
products or services, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Sincerely,
Bank One Online
------
I just emailed them the letter from EPIC, and hopefully they will read it. I urge any of you who are Bank One customers (or any bank for that matter) to contact them and find out if they are planning on using.NET in the future. Send them this letter, let them know if you are opposed to your money and security being handled by MS.
And this is part of the problem, if you perceive there to be a problem - who is this "they" you speak of when referring to Linux?
There is no man behind the curtain. It would have to be a major distribution. Not that it is a bad idea, I like the idea. It would dispel some myths, and promote whatever distro decides to do it.
November 2000 I was looking for a job because the company I worked for went under (heard that one before?). Anyway, I registered with monster.com, and the next day I had 30 emails from recruiters. I ignored probably half of those, because the people they were looking for had NOTHING to do with the experience I had. I got calls (messages) at home about exciting opportunities that I would be perfect for. When I called them back, they were for management positions in non-tech firms.
Bottom line - spamming sucks, no matter who is doing it.
That is kind of what I was getting at. Windows more-or-less requires you to rely on someone else to "patch" your system. Yeah, the patch for this is probably just changing a registry setting. But it is automatic. "Here, just run this program, it will take care of everything. You are too stupid to know what you are doing, let us do it for you." Saying "here, patch your system" is not the same as saying "here is HOW you patch your system". Downloading and double-clicking on an executable is not a sufficient explaination for me personally.
And I understand that most computer users WANT this. If there is some problem with their magical computer thingy, they want something to just fix it. That is part of the real problem here, which goes way beyond this particular issue, that people are patching their systems with blind faith that the patch will "fix" whatever is wrong. Was the name of the registry setting provided? Can you go in and change it manually if you wanted to? I am guessing that it wasn't.
I am no zealot. I understand that things need to work a certain way in the computer world, just because not everyone is comfortable with computers. But it is my machine, I want to know what is going on with it.
I think you are missing the point here. Does a Win2k user have to be connected to the internet in order to fix their system? Yes. Does someone on the Linux system? No. Imagine you manage 100 machines. Which would be easier to fix? Push out lilo.conf files to the Linux machines, or install 100 patches?
I find it rather interesting that for Win2k, you needed to install a patch. For Linux, you can just edit your bootloader with an option, and it does the same thing. Which seems more robust?
Granted, the Win2k patch was probably just a registry tweak, but which could the average user do more easily? Which operating system gives more information to it's users?
Don't worry dude, I am sure Britney will have a "Best Of" compliation box-set out in 5 years, so you can just get that to replace all your coasters.:-)
Hmm, how are you going to run Windows XP on a P133 with 32BM RAM, when XP requrires:
PC with 300 megahertz (MHz) or higher processor clock speed recommended; 233-MHz minimum required;* Intel Pentium/Celeron family, AMD K6/Athlon/Duron family, or compatible processor recommended 128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher recommended (64 MB minimum supported; may limit performance and some features) 1.5 gigabyte (GB) of available hard disk space.* Super VGA (800 × 600) or higher resolution video adapter and monitor CD-ROM or DVD drive Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device
"Will it matter 10 years from now? Most likely not."
And I really hope that the reason it doesn't matter is because our systems will have nearly unlimited memory. You don't really need a VM if you don't have limitations on memory.
Think I am crazy? Think back to what kind of system you were using 10 years ago, and how quickly we have gotten to where we are. What do you think will happen in another 10 years?
Wow, 9-track tapes. That takes me back. I remember getting a job at Motorola when I got out of school, back in '93. I thought 9-track tapes were old THEN. I am actually surprised that it took this long for them to stop being produced. What a cumbersome mess. I got pretty good at spooling them up though. It is amazing how far we have come since then as far as portable storage goes. But then again, I have more memory on my machine than my first computer had in hard drive space. (by a long shot)
I know this is/., games and movies play a huge part in some people's lives, and the comment was said somewhat in jest, but it is sad that anyone thinks it is a good time to be alive because of a video game system and a movie they haven't seen yet.
Don't forget, we are a country at war, there are other countries who are at war and have been at war for a long time, and we still have plenty of incurable diseases. In spite of this, it IS a great time to be alive, but not for the petty, immature, pathetic reasons you listed.
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IANAL, I try and look at things logically.
Good:
American Ninja
From Dusk Till Dawn
Hackers
Cast Away - a winking whale? puhleeze
Planet of the Apes - nice try
LOTR - epic shmepic, it fits nicely in this category.
Great:
Enter The Dragon
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Reservoir Dogs
The Matrix
The Professional
La Femme Nikika
I understand that Moulin Rouge was a love/hate film, but how can something like that be nominated for best picture? I think everyone kind of agrees that LOTR was good. I did, and I am not a fan. (easy, easy, it's OK). But MR? What a stinker. My fiancee, who is a French teacher, and I were both looking forward to it. We were the only ones in the theatre, and we were laughing out loud at how utterly stupid the movie was. We only lasted a little over half way through it. We kept thinking - the stupidity will stop, and they will get to the movie - but it didn't. There were many things I didn't like about LOTR too (like the Titanic-esque 3 minute pans of the scenery with little CG people walking along) but overall it was a good movie. Too many people hated MR for it to be best picture. At best, it was a Barney show on acid.
I am quite certain that US companies could keep this thing alive in court until 2006, if they had to. But I doubt they'll have to worry about it.
I can just see it now: the voting software wouldn't be user-friendly enough, my mom wouldn't be able to figure out how to use it, and just power off the voting station computer. :-)
Count all of the letters A, T, C, and G from all the web pages in the search results and sequence that into a DNA strand to produce the perfect human. Myuhahahahahaha.
Standard /. post
complaining about
Tom's Hardware
not putting enough
information on one page.
We need a "slashbot" that will automatically post all the normal postings we have come to know and love.
Or maybe he realizes that they are both so friggin rich now that it doesn't matter. I bet if he was having trouble paying the rent, he would be a little more hurt. It is easy to let something go when you don't need it anymore. Don't get me wrong, I am sure he is a great guy, and I respect him, but NOW is it easy to get over it. I wonder how things would have turned out if he would have found out back then...
Aw heck, here is the text...
SEATTLE--Bank One, the nation's sixth-biggest bank holding company, has struck a $30 million deal to use Microsoft products and services, giving a boost to the software giant's emerging Internet services and business products, the companies said Friday. The three-year deal calls for Bank One to use Microsoft's .Net technology to build services that could, for example, deliver account billing or investment data to customers over a variety of devices, executives said.
Bank One also will promote Microsoft's Great Plains software for small businesses as well as its bCentral Web site that offers Internet-based services for small companies, they said.
Advertising is covered in the pact as well, with Bank One ads to appear on Microsoft's MSN family of Web sites, which include the MSN.com portal, MSNBC.com news site and MSN Money personal finance site, they said.
"It's really a groundbreaking deal and ties together the assets of MSN and Microsoft to help a business partner," MSN Vice President Rich Bray said in an interview.
For Bank One, the deal is a down payment on a strategy to deliver Web-based financial tools to its 60 million individual, business and investment customers, Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said.
The Internet services revolve around two pieces of Microsoft technology: its Passport online authentication service and .Net alerts, which are used to send messages via e-mail, instant messaging or mobile telephone.
"It's a little blue-sky right now, but built over many years it will deliver new services to customers," Dimon said in an interview. "They (Microsoft) are really committed to making .Net and Passport and all these services more and more user-friendly.''
Thank you for contacting Bank One Online(sm).
Dear Mr. XXXXXXXXXX:
In response to your letter concerning Bank One?s relationship with Microsoft, we want to assure you that Bank One rigorously screens any potential partners and continually strives to bring high-quality products and services to our customers. Bank One is constantly seeking new ways to service our customers, and we believe Microsoft has technologies and experience which can help us improve the quality of products and services that we offer. We continue to work with a wide array of technology providers in all segments of our business, and we believe Bank One customers will be well-served by our relationships with Microsoft and other technology providers. Many of our customers have been supportive of this relationship and we hope you understand that we use many technology providers.
We appreciate your business as a Bank One customer and hope you will continue banking with us. If you have any other questions regarding our products or services, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Sincerely,
Bank One Online
------
I just emailed them the letter from EPIC, and hopefully they will read it. I urge any of you who are Bank One customers (or any bank for that matter) to contact them and find out if they are planning on using .NET in the future. Send them this letter, let them know if you are opposed to your money and security being handled by MS.
Yeah, theirs looks IDENTICAL to yours.
ROTFL
And this is part of the problem, if you perceive there to be a problem - who is this "they" you speak of when referring to Linux?
There is no man behind the curtain. It would have to be a major distribution. Not that it is a bad idea, I like the idea. It would dispel some myths, and promote whatever distro decides to do it.
Bottom line - spamming sucks, no matter who is doing it.
And I understand that most computer users WANT this. If there is some problem with their magical computer thingy, they want something to just fix it. That is part of the real problem here, which goes way beyond this particular issue, that people are patching their systems with blind faith that the patch will "fix" whatever is wrong. Was the name of the registry setting provided? Can you go in and change it manually if you wanted to? I am guessing that it wasn't.
I am no zealot. I understand that things need to work a certain way in the computer world, just because not everyone is comfortable with computers. But it is my machine, I want to know what is going on with it.
I think you are missing the point here. Does a Win2k user have to be connected to the internet in order to fix their system? Yes. Does someone on the Linux system? No. Imagine you manage 100 machines. Which would be easier to fix? Push out lilo.conf files to the Linux machines, or install 100 patches?
I find it rather interesting that for Win2k, you needed to install a patch. For Linux, you can just edit your bootloader with an option, and it does the same thing. Which seems more robust?
Granted, the Win2k patch was probably just a registry tweak, but which could the average user do more easily? Which operating system gives more information to it's users?
Don't worry dude, I am sure Britney will have a "Best Of" compliation box-set out in 5 years, so you can just get that to replace all your coasters. :-)
PC with 300 megahertz (MHz) or higher processor clock speed recommended; 233-MHz minimum required;* Intel Pentium/Celeron family, AMD K6/Athlon/Duron family, or compatible processor recommended 128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher recommended (64 MB minimum supported; may limit performance and some features) 1.5 gigabyte (GB) of available hard disk space.* Super VGA (800 × 600) or higher resolution video adapter and monitor CD-ROM or DVD drive Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device
Um, yeah, that makes sense.
"Will it matter 10 years from now? Most likely not."
And I really hope that the reason it doesn't matter is because our systems will have nearly unlimited memory. You don't really need a VM if you don't have limitations on memory.
Think I am crazy? Think back to what kind of system you were using 10 years ago, and how quickly we have gotten to where we are. What do you think will happen in another 10 years?
Hopefully, we won't even need a VM in 10 years.
Phbbt. You probably had a metal bucket. I had to carve my rock bucket out of rock, using a small pointed stick.
Wow, 9-track tapes. That takes me back. I remember getting a job at Motorola when I got out of school, back in '93. I thought 9-track tapes were old THEN. I am actually surprised that it took this long for them to stop being produced. What a cumbersome mess. I got pretty good at spooling them up though. It is amazing how far we have come since then as far as portable storage goes. But then again, I have more memory on my machine than my first computer had in hard drive space. (by a long shot)
Don't forget, we are a country at war, there are other countries who are at war and have been at war for a long time, and we still have plenty of incurable diseases. In spite of this, it IS a great time to be alive, but not for the petty, immature, pathetic reasons you listed.
The largest case of FUD EVER!
In a couple of years, nobody will remember what a 3.5" diskette was, 'cept us oldtimers who remember what 5.25" and tapes were.