I wonder if William Gibson would consider having that made into a movie. I am sure that there must be quite a few people out there who were forever changed by his writings. (as I was)
I agree that Linus should have gotten to use the theater as well. And yes, from what I heard from co-workers who arived late to COMDEX, people were standing on one another to see Bill. The theater was filled(myself included) and they filled 6 confrence rooms (standing room only) to watch him on bigscreen TV's.
As a strong supporter of Linux, I felt very lucky that I just happened to be standing outside the confence room that they moved him too at the last sec. I was able to get a great seat within the first 5 rows. I thought that he was going to make a great presentation, and really get people hyped up about Linux.
However, I must admit that I was disappointed in him. His MS bashing was almost childish(my oppinion) and while this did get the crowd excited, there are better was that he could have done it.
I was able to be there, and see both Bill, ad Linus speak. Bill was there to show off Win2k and a very cool new mouse (no moving parts!) All in all a pretty good presentation (my humble oppinion).
Torvalds' did anything he could to get the crowd going. His speech was not well prepared, so to keep people excited he resorted to the typical MS bashing.(I had kinda hoped that he was above that level). He later appeared at the Linux Pavillion to give away some free stuff, and do more MS bashing, to a roaring crowd.
Just goes to show that just because a guy has great ideas for software, it dosn't mean that he is any more mature than the next guy.(too bad)
I ordered 1x16M flash card from them last week, and recieved it two days later. They did mess up the order though, they sent me another RIO player as well as the flash card. The shipping invoice did not list the RIO, & the total price did not reflect it either. However, my cc has not been billed yet!
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Now that would rule!
I wonder if William Gibson would consider having that made into a movie. I am sure that there must be quite a few people out there who were forever changed by his writings. (as I was)
I agree that Linus should have gotten to use the theater as well.
And yes, from what I heard from co-workers who arived late to COMDEX, people were standing on one another to see Bill. The theater was filled(myself included) and they filled 6 confrence rooms (standing room only) to watch him on bigscreen TV's.
As a strong supporter of Linux, I felt very lucky that I just happened to be standing outside the confence room that they moved him too at the last sec. I was able to get a great seat within the first 5 rows. I thought that he was going to make a great presentation, and really get people hyped up about Linux.
However, I must admit that I was disappointed in him. His MS bashing was almost childish(my oppinion) and while this did get the crowd excited, there are better was that he could have done it.
ps Bill's presentation was actually pretty good
I was able to be there, and see both Bill, ad Linus speak. Bill was there to show off Win2k and a very cool new mouse (no moving parts!)
All in all a pretty good presentation (my humble oppinion).
Torvalds' did anything he could to get the crowd going. His speech was not well prepared, so to keep people excited he resorted to the typical MS bashing.(I had kinda hoped that he was above that level).
He later appeared at the Linux Pavillion to give away some free stuff, and do more MS bashing, to a roaring crowd.
Just goes to show that just because a guy has great ideas for software, it dosn't mean that he is any more mature than the next guy.(too bad)
I ordered 1x16M flash card from them last week, and recieved it two days later. They did mess up the order though, they sent me another RIO player as well as the flash card. The shipping invoice did not list the RIO, & the total price did not reflect it either. However, my cc has not been billed yet!
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