The other problem is much bigger than that.
We only sided with Microsoft in the early 80s because we wanted them to kick IBM in the nutsack.
Now lets not give any one company too much power or AOL/Time Wanker/Redhat will become a bigger monster than IBM or Microsoft ever were.
This whole "implanting" thing sounds painful. I still have bad memories of when the Ef-Bee_Aye burned that barcode into the back of my neck. It really hurt. They didn't even offer me a local. This time I'm gonna demand they gimme a shot of novacaine. and a band aid for the boo-boo. Maybe a squirt of Bactine or some of that Wintermint rubbing alcohol to sterilize the wound. Heh.
Yes, yes, yes. Once every couple of years I pull out "The Left Hand of Darkness" (and "Watchmen" by Alan Moore) just so I remind myself what good writing sounds like. (And yes, every five years I pull out "Dune" and "The Lord of the Rings" but that takes me weeks to get through. But, I can get through "The Left Hand of Darkness" or "Watchmen" in a day and a half, each. I have no choice, they are both so damned addictive I must must must read it all at once.)
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The other problem is much bigger than that.
We only sided with Microsoft in the early 80s because we wanted them to kick IBM in the nutsack.
Now lets not give any one company too much power or AOL/Time Wanker/Redhat will become a bigger monster than IBM or Microsoft ever were.
If Linux could handle multimedia as beautifully as the laste, lamented BeOS, then it would have an easier road to Desktop Domination.
This whole "implanting" thing sounds painful. I still have bad memories of when the Ef-Bee_Aye burned that barcode into the back of my neck. It really hurt. They didn't even offer me a local. This time I'm gonna demand they gimme a shot of novacaine. and a band aid for the boo-boo. Maybe a squirt of Bactine or some of that Wintermint rubbing alcohol to sterilize the wound. Heh.
Yes, yes, yes. Once every couple of years I pull out "The Left Hand of Darkness" (and "Watchmen" by Alan Moore) just so I remind myself what good writing sounds like. (And yes, every five years I pull out "Dune" and "The Lord of the Rings" but that takes me weeks to get through. But, I can get through "The Left Hand of Darkness" or "Watchmen" in a day and a half, each. I have no choice, they are both so damned addictive I must must must read it all at once.)
Actually the sequel is called "The Telling" and the prequel is called "The Disposessed"
...as a side effect of Win 9x relying heavily on DOS, some parts of its code assume you are running on a 4044 chip.