Who'd have thought a company that wants to totally control their customers' PCs would have "privacy concerns"?
Oh, wait, I guess they mean that Bill is concerned that he might not be able to invade your privacy in the pursuit of every last dime in your pocket...
I mean, if you don't know where that dime is, you can't get it, right?
When are people going to realize that Bill Gates is NOT a "geek", he's NOT a "genius", he's NOT a "techie" - he's a Harvard poker-playing, misogynist, greedy, rich, son of an asshole lawyer who's only interested in picking your pocket?
And everybody who works for him wants to be him and will say or do anything he says.
Including the half of/. that consists of Microsoft shills...
First they buy off Sun, then they use some consortium nobody every heard of to denounce Linux. And of course Sun goes along because Schwartz and McNealy are still smarting because Linux is kicking Solaris's ass in the marketplace.
And EDS needs to recover from their Windows disaster in Britain where 80,000 PC's were crashed due to their stupidity.
"I was just illustrating that having parallel platforms stagnates progress."
Uuhh, like Windows 9x and Windows NT?
Bullshit when it applies to Linux. Having two highly competitive desktop platforms like GNOME and KDE results in both getting better faster.
And it's nonsense to say that Linux programs don't usually use the same layout and menus. There's no significant difference between Windows and Linux in that regard. Some authors don't follow the standards, but most do. Certainly all the major applications do. And nit-picking one or two menu entries on some specific Linux program (which is no doubt your next tack) doesn't change that fact.
Anybody switching from the Windows 2000 GUI to the XP GUI is going to have MAJOR problems with figuring out where everything is on the Start menu. Instead of having things in a clearly defined place, you have to read an entire panel of SENTENCES to figure out where what you want to do is located. Which is why MS allowed you to switch back to "classic view".
Anybody who says Windows is easier to use than Linux is simply wrong.
"Leagues ahead of the competition" - well, if that's what you want to call a convicted monopolist who uses coercive contracts to gain advantage over other companies' superior products...when they aren't "borrowing" the technology directly...
Not to mention that Bill's "charity" is a stock laundering scheme run by his father to influence other companies by investments - just like any major rich person's foundation is.
"Lots of money means the potential to be hella innovative by hiring the right people."
Right - so why did they piss away $37 billion in a one-time stock prop scheme instead of spending it on something useful like advancing the state of the art in software?
Answer: Bill doesn't give a shit, that's why.
Microsoft has NEVER hired the right people. They hire 25-year-olds out of Computer Science 101 who haven't a fucking clue how to write software.
And while they're at it, Bill has said, "We can hire two women for every man and they'll do the grunt work because they're just women."
That's how billionaires get laid, I guess...Worked for Hugh Hefner...
Oh, wait, sorry, forgot that getting laid is irrelevant here...
I don't think it's an issue whether corporate politics will scare Ozzie, I think the issue is whether Microsoft brought him on board just as a sop to get his company and fully intend to dump him as as soon as they can later.
NONE of that stuff can be considered "advancing computer science even a LITTLE bit".
And I'm sure a little detective work would find prior art for most of it, as well, even if said prior art might never had made it into a mainstream product to the degree it has in MS products.
"Instead of being famous for writing CP/M and DR-DOS Kildall could have used the money he made to do something really creative. But he did not."
I agree. And that's the MAIN reason I can't stand Bill Gates and Microsoft. With scores of billions in resources, these fucktards can't advance the state of computer science even a LITTLE bit?
No, they've got to piss away billions on a one-time PR/stock manipulation scheme. ANd contribute more billions to a "charitable foundation" whose primary function is to manipulate stocks in companies Bill wants to control.
Which is what you get when a greedy rich kid like Gates gets involved in technology.
Fuck him.
The sooner this asshole goes out of business, the better for the world.
Unfortunately he has enough cash socked away that he'll probably never be dragged down enough to eat the shit he deserves.
Aleister Crowley said it best: "The Christians to the lions!"
I say we deal with "decency" matters by bringing back the Roman Games, rounding up all Christians (AND Jews AND Muslims and assorted spinoff cults - but not Buddhists or Taoists or pagans) and feed them to lions.
Actually, I'm not sure we want to insult lions' tastes that way - maybe we should feed them to cockroaches...
Another one I heard about relates to the famous COndi Rice remark that "nobody ever thought about it" - which was a bare-faced lie. I read that the New York Transit Authority has helicopters on line to protect the WTC - and that these choppers do regular drills - and have for the last twenty years - except on one day: you guessed it.
I agree with you that a lot of these sites are conspiracy nuts - but a lot of this stuff seems to be too well documented to be dismissed as coincidence - as the Associated Press article tries to do.
I haven't bothered to go read all the primary source documents on this stuff - I'm satisfied that much of it does exist and that it isn't all made up by conspiracy nuts.
Especially given the facts about the "Northwoods Documents" (the 1960's plan by the Joint Chiefs to fake terrorist incidents as an excuse to invade Cuba - some of them VERY elaborate - including the faked shooting down of an airliner) - the book about them just came out. Google for that stuff - ABC News had an article about it some time ago, and there's likely newer material since the book came out.
My point wasn't that Saudi Arabia organized the event. It was that it was pointless where they came from, so a valid ID would be pointless - unless one wants an excuse to invade somebody else altogether, which is what the US did.
Of course, the neocons have Saudi Arabia in their sights as well. But clearly Israel was more interested in taking out Iraq, and now Syria and Iran. And Bush is Sharon's poodle, just as Blair is Bush's.
As for who conceived 9/11, I believe it was conceived by Mossad, introduced to Al Qaeda through double agents, planned in Tel Aviv and Dick Cheney's offices, assisted by Mossad agents who were known to be following the Al Qaeda personnel for months before the attack, and allowed to happen by "coincidental" phoney "exercises" which diverted US aircraft and confused FAA operators until the operation was successful - all run by Dick Cheney personally while Bush was "out of the loop" (like Reagan and the Contra scam that was run by George Bush Senior - and about as likely).
Sergeant Terry Yeakey. Here's the link - I don't vouch for the provenance of the Website; I got the article emailed to me by another party. There's a ton of other stuff on the conspiracy sites according to a Google.
The hijackers were Saudis - we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan.
Even though, I would note, they found a pristine hijacker passport sitting in the rubble of the World Trade Center.
Wow! What a coincidence!
Almost as likely as the Oklahoma City cop who believed the Federal Building bombing was a set-up - who then "committed suicide" (while being followed by FBI agents) by slashing his arms repeatedly, cutting his throat TWICE, then crawling 8,000 feet to shoot himself in the head with a gun - which could not be found by dozens of fellow officers searching for it - until five minutes after the FBI SAIC showed up - who promptly "found" it (although it has yet to be identified as to exactly what gun it is.)
When I was arrested for bank robbery, part of the process involved a pre-sentencing interview by the Parole Department. I told them I worked at BOFA for two and a quarter years from January 1985 to April of 1987.
When they contacted BOFA to verify this, BOFA could not find any record I'd worked there, either under my name or SSN.
At the sentencing hearing, my PD told the judge he was prepared to produce names of supervisors, etc., to verify I had worked there. The judge decided that was unnecessary, commenting "It really makes you wonder how well they're keeping your money."
If they can't find employees, I'm sure they have no trouble losing customers.
BOFA is your typical big corporation - worse, a big bank. This means virtually everyone in the organization is incompetent and couldn't care less about their job.
As an example, I worked on customer support of the Microstar cash management system sold by BOFA's Automated Treasury Services Division to Fortune 1000 corporation treasury departments. This software package included a subsystem from a third party company which was riddled with bugs. When we in support were advised that the rest of that company's package was to be purchased and resold to replace the in-house developed part of the system, we advised against it. Ignoring us, management went ahead which resulted in 400 bugs in the bug database after rollout.
In the meantime, management concluded that the market for this package was "saturated" (no such thing in software - you upgrade and resell - where would Microsoft be if they thought the market was "saturated" after Windows 3.1?), so they either re-assigned or laid everybody off. The managers were promoted, and everybody else got dumped (or fired, in my case.)
$5? That would just about cover the time it took you to tear your hair when their stupid software trashed your Great American Novel called "Viruses I Have Known and Loved"...
This is nothing but a cheap promo stunt thought up by some Microsoft idiot. Even Bill probably laughed at this one..
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Microsoft "raises privacy concerns"...
Wow.
Who'd have thought a company that wants to totally control their customers' PCs would have "privacy concerns"?
Oh, wait, I guess they mean that Bill is concerned that he might not be able to invade your privacy in the pursuit of every last dime in your pocket...
I mean, if you don't know where that dime is, you can't get it, right?
When are people going to realize that Bill Gates is NOT a "geek", he's NOT a "genius", he's NOT a "techie" - he's a Harvard poker-playing, misogynist, greedy, rich, son of an asshole lawyer who's only interested in picking your pocket?
And everybody who works for him wants to be him and will say or do anything he says.
Including the half of
Read my DSL connection.
Fuck you.
More Microsoft-sponsored FUD.
First they buy off Sun, then they use some consortium nobody every heard of to denounce Linux. And of course Sun goes along because Schwartz and McNealy are still smarting because Linux is kicking Solaris's ass in the marketplace.
And EDS needs to recover from their Windows disaster in Britain where 80,000 PC's were crashed due to their stupidity.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
"I was just illustrating that having parallel platforms stagnates progress."
Uuhh, like Windows 9x and Windows NT?
Bullshit when it applies to Linux. Having two highly competitive desktop platforms like GNOME and KDE results in both getting better faster.
And it's nonsense to say that Linux programs don't usually use the same layout and menus. There's no significant difference between Windows and Linux in that regard. Some authors don't follow the standards, but most do. Certainly all the major applications do. And nit-picking one or two menu entries on some specific Linux program (which is no doubt your next tack) doesn't change that fact.
Anybody switching from the Windows 2000 GUI to the XP GUI is going to have MAJOR problems with figuring out where everything is on the Start menu. Instead of having things in a clearly defined place, you have to read an entire panel of SENTENCES to figure out where what you want to do is located. Which is why MS allowed you to switch back to "classic view".
Anybody who says Windows is easier to use than Linux is simply wrong.
"What purpose would it serve?"
Er - being "charitable" perhaps?
"Leagues ahead of the competition" - well, if that's what you want to call a convicted monopolist who uses coercive contracts to gain advantage over other companies' superior products...when they aren't "borrowing" the technology directly...
Not to mention that Bill's "charity" is a stock laundering scheme run by his father to influence other companies by investments - just like any major rich person's foundation is.
Moron.
How's the weather up in Redmond, shill?
It's in one the bios of him - can't remember which one, I read it some years ago. "Hard Drive", maybe?
"Lots of money means the potential to be hella innovative by hiring the right people."
Right - so why did they piss away $37 billion in a one-time stock prop scheme instead of spending it on something useful like advancing the state of the art in software?
Answer: Bill doesn't give a shit, that's why.
Microsoft has NEVER hired the right people. They hire 25-year-olds out of Computer Science 101 who haven't a fucking clue how to write software.
And while they're at it, Bill has said, "We can hire two women for every man and they'll do the grunt work because they're just women."
That's how billionaires get laid, I guess...Worked for Hugh Hefner...
Oh, wait, sorry, forgot that getting laid is irrelevant here...
How's the weather today in Redmond, MS shill?
An even more comprehensive review is found here.
You want a source?
I originally got the story from, IRRC, Spin Magazine, which did an article on it.
This article, from The Oklahoma Gazette, August 7, 1997, is more comprehensive.
"Department of Justice is having trouble finding abuses of the USA PATRIOT Act"
These assholes covered up the murder of a Federal inmate at the Oklahoma City Transit Center, among numerous other situations.
"what are the overall effects of such a mass departure?"
Obviously it means
But I don't know how to represent a negative number in the real world (other than temperature).
I guess I could represent it by saying
I don't think it's an issue whether corporate politics will scare Ozzie, I think the issue is whether Microsoft brought him on board just as a sop to get his company and fully intend to dump him as as soon as they can later.
We'll see in a year.
Offer somebody some money and a stupid title and they'll pimp out their mothers.
Anybody betting Ozzie won't last a year at Microsoft?
NONE of that stuff can be considered "advancing computer science even a LITTLE bit".
And I'm sure a little detective work would find prior art for most of it, as well, even if said prior art might never had made it into a mainstream product to the degree it has in MS products.
"Instead of being famous for writing CP/M and DR-DOS Kildall could have used the money he made to do something really creative. But he did not."
I agree. And that's the MAIN reason I can't stand Bill Gates and Microsoft. With scores of billions in resources, these fucktards can't advance the state of computer science even a LITTLE bit?
No, they've got to piss away billions on a one-time PR/stock manipulation scheme. ANd contribute more billions to a "charitable foundation" whose primary function is to manipulate stocks in companies Bill wants to control.
Which is what you get when a greedy rich kid like Gates gets involved in technology.
Fuck him.
The sooner this asshole goes out of business, the better for the world.
Unfortunately he has enough cash socked away that he'll probably never be dragged down enough to eat the shit he deserves.
was carrying the Linksys, I'd find it!
And if Sharon was with her, I'd find it fast!
Well, no, I don't buy nigger music, actually...
The Corrs and Tori Amos are more my speed.
Aleister Crowley said it best: "The Christians to the lions!"
I say we deal with "decency" matters by bringing back the Roman Games, rounding up all Christians (AND Jews AND Muslims and assorted spinoff cults - but not Buddhists or Taoists or pagans) and feed them to lions.
Actually, I'm not sure we want to insult lions' tastes that way - maybe we should feed them to cockroaches...
Do a Google - there's tons of references.
Here's one from the Memory Hole site.
Another one I heard about relates to the famous COndi Rice remark that "nobody ever thought about it" - which was a bare-faced lie. I read that the New York Transit Authority has helicopters on line to protect the WTC - and that these choppers do regular drills - and have for the last twenty years - except on one day: you guessed it.
I agree with you that a lot of these sites are conspiracy nuts - but a lot of this stuff seems to be too well documented to be dismissed as coincidence - as the Associated Press article tries to do.
I haven't bothered to go read all the primary source documents on this stuff - I'm satisfied that much of it does exist and that it isn't all made up by conspiracy nuts.
Especially given the facts about the "Northwoods Documents" (the 1960's plan by the Joint Chiefs to fake terrorist incidents as an excuse to invade Cuba - some of them VERY elaborate - including the faked shooting down of an airliner) - the book about them just came out. Google for that stuff - ABC News had an article about it some time ago, and there's likely newer material since the book came out.
My point wasn't that Saudi Arabia organized the event. It was that it was pointless where they came from, so a valid ID would be pointless - unless one wants an excuse to invade somebody else altogether, which is what the US did.
Of course, the neocons have Saudi Arabia in their sights as well. But clearly Israel was more interested in taking out Iraq, and now Syria and Iran. And Bush is Sharon's poodle, just as Blair is Bush's.
As for who conceived 9/11, I believe it was conceived by Mossad, introduced to Al Qaeda through double agents, planned in Tel Aviv and Dick Cheney's offices, assisted by Mossad agents who were known to be following the Al Qaeda personnel for months before the attack, and allowed to happen by "coincidental" phoney "exercises" which diverted US aircraft and confused FAA operators until the operation was successful - all run by Dick Cheney personally while Bush was "out of the loop" (like Reagan and the Contra scam that was run by George Bush Senior - and about as likely).
Sergeant Terry Yeakey. Here's the link - I don't vouch for the provenance of the Website; I got the article emailed to me by another party. There's a ton of other stuff on the conspiracy sites according to a Google.
Well, they didn't, did they?
The hijackers were Saudis - we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan.
Even though, I would note, they found a pristine hijacker passport sitting in the rubble of the World Trade Center.
Wow! What a coincidence!
Almost as likely as the Oklahoma City cop who believed the Federal Building bombing was a set-up - who then "committed suicide" (while being followed by FBI agents) by slashing his arms repeatedly, cutting his throat TWICE, then crawling 8,000 feet to shoot himself in the head with a gun - which could not be found by dozens of fellow officers searching for it - until five minutes after the FBI SAIC showed up - who promptly "found" it (although it has yet to be identified as to exactly what gun it is.)
Wow! What a coincidence!
I'll take that and raise you with a shot of me and Sharon AND Andrea Corr...
When I was arrested for bank robbery, part of the process involved a pre-sentencing interview by the Parole Department. I told them I worked at BOFA for two and a quarter years from January 1985 to April of 1987.
When they contacted BOFA to verify this, BOFA could not find any record I'd worked there, either under my name or SSN.
At the sentencing hearing, my PD told the judge he was prepared to produce names of supervisors, etc., to verify I had worked there. The judge decided that was unnecessary, commenting "It really makes you wonder how well they're keeping your money."
If they can't find employees, I'm sure they have no trouble losing customers.
BOFA is your typical big corporation - worse, a big bank. This means virtually everyone in the organization is incompetent and couldn't care less about their job.
As an example, I worked on customer support of the Microstar cash management system sold by BOFA's Automated Treasury Services Division to Fortune 1000 corporation treasury departments. This software package included a subsystem from a third party company which was riddled with bugs. When we in support were advised that the rest of that company's package was to be purchased and resold to replace the in-house developed part of the system, we advised against it. Ignoring us, management went ahead which resulted in 400 bugs in the bug database after rollout.
In the meantime, management concluded that the market for this package was "saturated" (no such thing in software - you upgrade and resell - where would Microsoft be if they thought the market was "saturated" after Windows 3.1?), so they either re-assigned or laid everybody off. The managers were promoted, and everybody else got dumped (or fired, in my case.)
So, yes, no surprise these morons lose customers.
Bill is about money and nothing else.
$5? That would just about cover the time it took you to tear your hair when their stupid software trashed your Great American Novel called "Viruses I Have Known and Loved"...
This is nothing but a cheap promo stunt thought up by some Microsoft idiot. Even Bill probably laughed at this one..
Oh, wait, Bill never laughs...