I saw this movie when it was in theatres back in 1998. It's so bad that it's actually kind of funny. It's kind of a fictional "behind the scenes" look at Jerry's show. Look at the Yahoo! movie information and you'll see what I mean.
The new G5 based iMacs are reportedly designed so that the CPU is attached to the monitor - which looks remarkably like a tablet. We'll know in 2 weeks.
Speaking of the new G5 iMac, ThinkSecret has a report that confirms this, along with supposed specs for new 17" and 20" iMacs.
Next year MSFT will release SPF15 for those needing additional protection. SPF 30 and 45 to follow for those extremely pale nerds who never go in the sun
Microsoft has also announced the followup to SPF 15, SPF 30, and SPF 45. In a statement, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced SPF 2007, which analysts believe won't be ready for release until at least 2010.
Kindergarten may have taught them to "do unto others as you would have them do unto you," but that kind of thinking just doesn't work in the courtroom.
Somebody's going to have to sit in the time-out chair.
So I sat with about 150 other "technical decision makers" in a very plush hotel in Holborn while representatives from Microsoft tried their best to convince me that I should not be considering moving to Linux. To run the discussion Microsoft had employed a fake-tan horror who had clearly escaped from daytime TV. He was by turns chummy and condescending. However being a reasonable man I will not hold Microsoft responsible for his failings.
First up was Phillip Dawson who leads Linux research for analysts Meta Group. He quoted heavily from a Meta analysis which shows that Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for linux and windows is comparable. This study has been widely reported in IT press but I can't for the life of me find a link to the original. He made some interesting points about where the datacentre is going to be in a few years. His basic thrust was that everyone is moving from proprietary Unix with its expensive platforms to Windows or Linux on x86 platforms and that it this hardware move, rather than linux versus windows, that will drive all the cost savings. Dawson believes that in a few years the only place we will see proprietary Unix is in very large enterprise databases.
After a promising start, Dawson then got into the territory of why Windows makes more sense for enterprises than Linux. He introduced what was to become a running theme for seminar, Linux is not free. It turns out that the TCO statements made earlier were based on the licensing costs of SuSE professional and Red Hat Enterprise versus Windows. They had refused to consider that people might run a business on something that they could download free from the Internet. Later in the Q and A session Dawson got quite aggravated when people pointed out to him that many Linux-based businesses run quite happily on free linux (this was shouted by the scruffy-looking Debian hackers in the back). I can only assume that businesses that are brave enough to save thousands of pounds per unit by moving away from expensive hardware platforms are meant not to care that they can save another couple of hundred pounds on Microsoft licence fees. Later in the presentation he said "Don't compare to the free downloads. They are not free". Precisely what he meant by this escapes me.
One area the Meta study didn't look at was Linux on the desktop. Phil claimed that linux was not ready for the desktop because it lacked administrative tools. He was carrying on in a similar vein when he said "Management tools on Linux are nearly as good as a DOS prompt".
Nick Barley, business and Marketing Director for Microsoft UK took to the stage to baffle us with market-speak. There was lots of talk about strategy and leveraging which I didn't follow. He talked a bit about Microsoft's shared-source program and tried his hardest to make it sound like open-source, mainly by refusing to say Open-source and talking about shared-source instead. Continuing in Phillip Dawson's footsteps he repeated the mantra "Linux is not free" several times. Although he was at his best when talking about business models amongst Linux distributors claiming that "Linux is moving to the same model that Microsoft has been using".
My absolute favourite part of the talk was when Barley started to extol the virtues of Windows because everything in it was made by one manufacturer. A fair point which would have been well taken had he not gone on to draw an idiotic analogy. He asked us to imagine an aeroplane where different components were made by different companies. Apparently he's never heard of Airbus.
Next up was Nick McGrath head of platform strategy for Microsoft UK. The main bulk of his talk was taken up by a demonstration of a document sharing system based on Microsoft Sharepoint. Very boring for those of us running heterogeneous systems that Sharepoint will not run on. McGrath was much more technically clued up than Barley, and seemed to be aware that the audience was not entirely on his side. He made mention of
Spokane city officials today announced that the city's population has more than quadrupled due to the sudden influx of Internet geeks who are looking for WiFi. Spokane's mayor likes to refer to it as "the Slashdot effect."
Slashdot Mirror
Here's a summary of this month's major news events.
Given that the poster mentioned playing Doom 3 during breaks, I think this link is more appropriate.
"You mean to tell me that you need this $700 graphics card so you can see connection error dialogs at higher resolution?!?!!? Give me a break!"
I saw this movie when it was in theatres back in 1998. It's so bad that it's actually kind of funny. It's kind of a fictional "behind the scenes" look at Jerry's show. Look at the Yahoo! movie information and you'll see what I mean.
The new G5 based iMacs are reportedly designed so that the CPU is attached to the monitor - which looks remarkably like a tablet. We'll know in 2 weeks.
Speaking of the new G5 iMac, ThinkSecret has a report that confirms this, along with supposed specs for new 17" and 20" iMacs.
Imagine a Beow-- *ducks*
"Jane, get me off this crazy thing! JAAAAANE!!!" ~~~~~~~~ *Spppppplat*
USA Today has an article about this as well, along with a photo of the monitor with "mouse ears" and a matching blue printer.
That's all cool, but warp into the future already!
[as Doc Brown] "1.21 gigawatts?!?! How am I going to generate that kind of power? It can't be done, can't!!!"
I hope that site wasn't hosted on a 128K Mac that they brought here in a flying DeLorean.
"Got a flat-screen monitor, 140" wide,
I believe that yours says "Etch-a-Sketch" on the side."
(Another "Weird Al" reference)
How to Disable Windows Messenger Service" courtesy of the University of Virginia.
How about "Google stock"?
Next year MSFT will release SPF15 for those needing additional protection. SPF 30 and 45 to follow for those extremely pale nerds who never go in the sun
Microsoft has also announced the followup to SPF 15, SPF 30, and SPF 45. In a statement, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced SPF 2007, which analysts believe won't be ready for release until at least 2010.
Microsoft to Deploy SPF for Hotmail Users
So, now that Microsoft already dominates the OS and free e-mail markets, it's trying to get into the sunscreen market as well?
I don't know which is worse, the cure or the disease.
Too bad Spidey didn't spin a mirror of that site before it got posted. :(
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Kindergarten may have taught them to "do unto others as you would have them do unto you," but that kind of thinking just doesn't work in the courtroom.
Somebody's going to have to sit in the time-out chair.
How much did you pay for that high? $699?
and then it's going to be a firebird and then a firefox, and then....
A ThunderFox!
Trolle! Trolle!
That's not got much spam in it.
Microsoft Starts its "Get The Facts" Campaign
So I sat with about 150 other "technical decision makers" in a very plush hotel in Holborn while representatives from Microsoft tried their best to convince me that I should not be considering moving to Linux. To run the discussion Microsoft had employed a fake-tan horror who had clearly escaped from daytime TV. He was by turns chummy and condescending. However being a reasonable man I will not hold Microsoft responsible for his failings.
First up was Phillip Dawson who leads Linux research for analysts Meta Group. He quoted heavily from a Meta analysis which shows that Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for linux and windows is comparable. This study has been widely reported in IT press but I can't for the life of me find a link to the original. He made some interesting points about where the datacentre is going to be in a few years. His basic thrust was that everyone is moving from proprietary Unix with its expensive platforms to Windows or Linux on x86 platforms and that it this hardware move, rather than linux versus windows, that will drive all the cost savings. Dawson believes that in a few years the only place we will see proprietary Unix is in very large enterprise databases.
After a promising start, Dawson then got into the territory of why Windows makes more sense for enterprises than Linux. He introduced what was to become a running theme for seminar, Linux is not free. It turns out that the TCO statements made earlier were based on the licensing costs of SuSE professional and Red Hat Enterprise versus Windows. They had refused to consider that people might run a business on something that they could download free from the Internet. Later in the Q and A session Dawson got quite aggravated when people pointed out to him that many Linux-based businesses run quite happily on free linux (this was shouted by the scruffy-looking Debian hackers in the back). I can only assume that businesses that are brave enough to save thousands of pounds per unit by moving away from expensive hardware platforms are meant not to care that they can save another couple of hundred pounds on Microsoft licence fees. Later in the presentation he said "Don't compare to the free downloads. They are not free". Precisely what he meant by this escapes me.
One area the Meta study didn't look at was Linux on the desktop. Phil claimed that linux was not ready for the desktop because it lacked administrative tools. He was carrying on in a similar vein when he said "Management tools on Linux are nearly as good as a DOS prompt".
Nick Barley, business and Marketing Director for Microsoft UK took to the stage to baffle us with market-speak. There was lots of talk about strategy and leveraging which I didn't follow. He talked a bit about Microsoft's shared-source program and tried his hardest to make it sound like open-source, mainly by refusing to say Open-source and talking about shared-source instead. Continuing in Phillip Dawson's footsteps he repeated the mantra "Linux is not free" several times. Although he was at his best when talking about business models amongst Linux distributors claiming that "Linux is moving to the same model that Microsoft has been using".
My absolute favourite part of the talk was when Barley started to extol the virtues of Windows because everything in it was made by one manufacturer. A fair point which would have been well taken had he not gone on to draw an idiotic analogy. He asked us to imagine an aeroplane where different components were made by different companies. Apparently he's never heard of Airbus.
Next up was Nick McGrath head of platform strategy for Microsoft UK. The main bulk of his talk was taken up by a demonstration of a document sharing system based on Microsoft Sharepoint. Very boring for those of us running heterogeneous systems that Sharepoint will not run on. McGrath was much more technically clued up than Barley, and seemed to be aware that the audience was not entirely on his side. He made mention of
Spokane city officials today announced that the city's population has more than quadrupled due to the sudden influx of Internet geeks who are looking for WiFi. Spokane's mayor likes to refer to it as "the Slashdot effect."
Use wget to download the Internet onto the E40 each night, then you'd be able to avoid traffic problems in more ways than one when on the road.