Well, I'm for one feel uncomfortable whenever Bill get's involved with something that could affect all of us. Those of us who already saw his failed attempt to grab control of the Internet by moving standard exisiting services over to new "better" MS services. This fortunately failed as nobody wanted it. So I'm not eager to see them ruin it by creating a new "better" Internet.
Well I can understand being happy having a cordless optical mouse. I just got mine back after waiting for three weeks. Logitech almost refused to cover the warranty after 9 months because I use Linux. He claimed that he could not help me unless I installed Windows. Of course it was just plain dead and did not care what O/S it was running under.
If I had not insisted that I knew what I was talking about, the tech was just going to hang up.
What I don't understand is why the world should care about our new mice?
I was part of a team that lit up a dark fiber running under Hollywood Blvd, which had been there for three years. Pacific Bell (owner of the fiber) was delighted, needless to say.
So this affected Pac Bell and a few labs doing work or the movie industry. No traffic or people otherwise were interrupted.
Now, I knew about how the press operated but had never really seen it first hand.
There I was with the Mayor of LA, TV reporters and whatnot. The questions the mayor was hit with was along the line of what bad things this might have done to the neighborhood. If people was suffering!?!
You were wondering what it was that we had done, if you listend to them. As if we had introduced wild wolfs to "keep the streets safe".
He was attacked! It was quite the eye opener. All they were interested in was something sensational to say. Sickening!
I'll never trust the media to have my interests at heart, just how to CREATE a sensational thing to write.
(Sure there should be objective reporters, but I don't think their editors like objective stories when it can be sensational.)
OS/2, hmm. Their marketing people promoted Warp as in warped picture, rather than the intended warp speed. And it was never even corrected! I was kinda closely involved with OS/2 and could not believe my eyes when I saw how their marketing screwed up.
Whatever they are, we should focus on our own solutions and let them spend their time FUDding. The best defense, is to flourish!
To hell with all the ones saying it cannot be done, we've been doing it and we are undoubtedly the fastest growing grassroot movement on the face of earth.
Why, because of the joy to create solutions for others. The pride of seing your solution working!
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Well, I'm for one feel uncomfortable whenever Bill get's involved with something that could affect all of us. Those of us who already saw his failed attempt to grab control of the Internet by moving standard exisiting services over to new "better" MS services. This fortunately failed as nobody wanted it. So I'm not eager to see them ruin it by creating a new "better" Internet.
Well I can understand being happy having a cordless optical mouse. I just got mine back after waiting for three weeks. Logitech almost refused to cover the warranty after 9 months because I use Linux. He claimed that he could not help me unless I installed Windows. Of course it was just plain dead and did not care what O/S it was running under.
If I had not insisted that I knew what I was talking about, the tech was just going to hang up.
What I don't understand is why the world should care about our new mice?
Has slashdot been taken over by aliens? : )
You are missing one order of magnitude. Which one is it?
I was part of a team that lit up a dark fiber running under Hollywood Blvd, which had been there for three years. Pacific Bell (owner of the fiber) was delighted, needless to say.
So this affected Pac Bell and a few labs doing work or the movie industry. No traffic or people otherwise were interrupted.
Now, I knew about how the press operated but had never really seen it first hand.
There I was with the Mayor of LA, TV reporters and whatnot. The questions the mayor was hit with was along the line of what bad things this might have done to the neighborhood. If people was suffering!?!
You were wondering what it was that we had done, if you listend to them. As if we had introduced wild wolfs to "keep the streets safe".
He was attacked! It was quite the eye opener. All they were interested in was something sensational to say. Sickening!
I'll never trust the media to have my interests at heart, just how to CREATE a sensational thing to write.
(Sure there should be objective reporters, but I don't think their editors like objective stories when it can be sensational.)
OS/2, hmm. Their marketing people promoted Warp as in warped picture, rather than the intended warp speed. And it was never even corrected! I was kinda closely involved with OS/2 and could not believe my eyes when I saw how their marketing screwed up.
Whatever they are, we should focus on our own solutions and let them spend their time FUDding.
The best defense, is to flourish!
To hell with all the ones saying it cannot be done, we've been doing it and we are undoubtedly the fastest growing grassroot movement on the face of earth.
Why, because of the joy to create solutions for others. The pride of seing your solution working!