We here at Microsoft take pride in heart-warming stories such as the following:
One day a woman called Senator Paul Wellstone. She told him that other children teased her son. She said the children called her son "retard." She asked the Senator if he would agree to meet the boy.
The Senator told her yes. He said, "I know what it's like when people make fun of you."
After their visit, the woman sent the Senator a letter. She told what had happened afterward.
After the visit, the boy talked to the children who teased him. He told them, "I met with Senator Wellstone, and he has a learning disability, and he's the United States senator, and he's not stupid, and I'm not stupid."
The Senator keeps a picture of the boy on his desk. It is there to remind him "of why I just feel good about being here."
We here at Microsoft have no problem with allowing folks to carry stun guns. The problem is when they expect to use them ON other people. When they do that, then they need to allow us to carry a big ugly pic of Bill and Monica goin' at it.
Cellphones are fine and good for folks who don't keep up with the latest and greatest technological innovations.
However, here at Microsoft, we take pride in finding the "Next Big Thing"(TM) and carrying those plans through the various stages of development -- Requirements, Specifications, Design, Implementation, and Integration. With that being said, I ask "Why not simply use Microsoft software to make those phone calls rather than cellphones made in the Eastern Block of Europe?"
Using any PocketPC device or standard Windows XP operating system-enabled laptop, one could easily make these calls from a plane as long as some type of broad connection to the Internet was available.
With PocketPC and/or XP, phone sex is so easy, no wonder it's #1!
Perhaps scientists and engineers should consider porous silicon rather than glass (well, at least at this stage in the game [glass infancy]).
I remember recently reading about a new sensor based on porous silicon. Apparently, it has a unique metallization process that is very sensitive. Moreover, it uses less power and is, overall, cheaper to create and maintain.
There's a nice article at http://unisci.com/stories/20021/0313025.htm that touches on some of these issues. It should make for a good read, especially if you're not a total expert on silicon applications in engineering.
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Xandros 1.0
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· Score: -1, Flamebait
It's Linux. Give them a few years (well, maybe a decade or so) to fully copy our innovative new products. And then by the time they finish copying us their shit will be obsolete.
Here's to Office 95 on Linux (I think it's called Star Orifice or Wide Open Office or something gay like that).
Why are we still TALKING about this?
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Xandros 1.0
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· Score: -1, Troll
I swear to God that I've been hearing the same old cliched reviews/write-ups/editorials/etc. from the Linux camp for YEARS and YEARS.
It's the same old compatibility deal. The whole world runs Windows on their PCs, but you people feel the need to buy Macs or custom-build your PC and then install some distribution of Linux that's run by, like, 7 people.
Join the free world. Christ, with this whole Internet thing you'd think some of you would actually want to be able to share files like Word processing documents, Movies, Music, etc.
But I NEVER hear about you guys making movies or doing anything interesting. Hmmm, is there good music-making software for Linux? Nope. Oh yeah. Um, well... Or do you guys talk about games? Yeah, some do, but usually fucking Railroad Tycoon 2 from like 1996 or some other dogshit like that that just barely runs with WINE.
TIME TO SHARE WORD DOCS, MEDIA PLAYER MOVIES/MUSIC, GAMES, ETC. WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND *THE REST OF THE FREEDOM-LOVING FREE WORLD*.
I posted a simple question to which there should be a simple answer given in the same polite, non-offensive term that it was asked.
Instead, I was given a half-correct answer by someone with a bad attitude who considers my appropriate and candid question to be Fear, Uncertainty, & Doubt.
Perhaps you should put down your C++ manual and pick up an Oxford English dictionary.
I have friends who are nearly experts at working with Perl and consider it a powerful and very expressive language.
However, now that languages like Java and, more recently, C#, are out, I'm curious as to where Perl fits into the big picture. Sure, Perl is almost like a glue language that can piece low-level and high-level code together, but to some extent so are Java and C#.
What I'm asking is, essentially, the following: "When C# does everything that Java does, and Java does everything that C++ does, and it all runs on any platform and is amazingly documented with code examples and Web-based forums for assistance with any questions that come up, why should I learn a very complex language that's primarily used for scripts on Open-Source platforms like Linux and Solaris?"
The Earth of course revolves around the sun completing one revolution every year, but the Moon also revolves around the Earth in its own orbit.
Whether this new planet is actually a satellite of Earth is still to be determined. Also, a similar orbit does not mean that the climate is also known to be similar a priori.
The Earth's ecliptic orbit in summation with the Moon's orbit around the Earth means that the Moon must intersect the ecliptic; in fact, it will have to do so at two distinct points.
Has anyone found these nodal points for "Earth's Little Brother" yet? That's the true test of whether or not we will truly be affected by such circumstances.
One Answer, But An Important One
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· Score: 1, Interesting
I can definitively say that Microsoft's DirectX researchers are already working on utilizing AGP 8X with the alpha versions of the game library DirectX that is currently being developed.
Although most PC users are only utilizing 2X or 4X at the present time, we fully expect at least half of the gaming population to buy new machines and video cards that support this new milestone in AGP by Christmas of 2004 or so, if not (much) earlier depending on how development carries on.
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We here at Microsoft take pride in heart-warming stories such as the following:
One day a woman called Senator Paul Wellstone. She told him that other children teased her son. She said the children called her son "retard." She asked the Senator if he would agree to meet the boy.
The Senator told her yes. He said, "I know what it's like when people make fun of you."
After their visit, the woman sent the Senator a letter. She told what had happened afterward.
After the visit, the boy talked to the children who teased him. He told them, "I met with Senator Wellstone, and he has a learning disability, and he's the United States senator, and he's not stupid, and I'm not stupid."
The Senator keeps a picture of the boy on his desk. It is there to remind him "of why I just feel good about being here."
We here at Microsoft have no problem with allowing folks to carry stun guns. The problem is when they expect to use them ON other people. When they do that, then they need to allow us to carry a big ugly pic of Bill and Monica goin' at it.
Cellphones are fine and good for folks who don't keep up with the latest and greatest technological innovations.
However, here at Microsoft, we take pride in finding the "Next Big Thing"(TM) and carrying those plans through the various stages of development -- Requirements, Specifications, Design, Implementation, and Integration. With that being said, I ask "Why not simply use Microsoft software to make those phone calls rather than cellphones made in the Eastern Block of Europe?"
Using any PocketPC device or standard Windows XP operating system-enabled laptop, one could easily make these calls from a plane as long as some type of broad connection to the Internet was available.
With PocketPC and/or XP, phone sex is so easy, no wonder it's #1!
Perhaps scientists and engineers should consider porous silicon rather than glass (well, at least at this stage in the game [glass infancy]).
I remember recently reading about a new sensor based on porous silicon. Apparently, it has a unique metallization process that is very sensitive. Moreover, it uses less power and is, overall, cheaper to create and maintain.
There's a nice article at http://unisci.com/stories/20021/0313025.htm that touches on some of these issues. It should make for a good read, especially if you're not a total expert on silicon applications in engineering.
It's Linux. Give them a few years (well, maybe a decade or so) to fully copy our innovative new products. And then by the time they finish copying us their shit will be obsolete.
Here's to Office 95 on Linux (I think it's called Star Orifice or Wide Open Office or something gay like that).
I swear to God that I've been hearing the same old cliched reviews/write-ups/editorials/etc. from the Linux camp for YEARS and YEARS.
It's the same old compatibility deal. The whole world runs Windows on their PCs, but you people feel the need to buy Macs or custom-build your PC and then install some distribution of Linux that's run by, like, 7 people.
Join the free world. Christ, with this whole Internet thing you'd think some of you would actually want to be able to share files like Word processing documents, Movies, Music, etc.
But I NEVER hear about you guys making movies or doing anything interesting. Hmmm, is there good music-making software for Linux? Nope. Oh yeah. Um, well... Or do you guys talk about games? Yeah, some do, but usually fucking Railroad Tycoon 2 from like 1996 or some other dogshit like that that just barely runs with WINE.
TIME TO SHARE WORD DOCS, MEDIA PLAYER MOVIES/MUSIC, GAMES, ETC. WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND *THE REST OF THE FREEDOM-LOVING FREE WORLD*.
I posted a simple question to which there should be a simple answer given in the same polite, non-offensive term that it was asked.
Instead, I was given a half-correct answer by someone with a bad attitude who considers my appropriate and candid question to be Fear, Uncertainty, & Doubt.
Perhaps you should put down your C++ manual and pick up an Oxford English dictionary.
I have friends who are nearly experts at working with Perl and consider it a powerful and very expressive language.
However, now that languages like Java and, more recently, C#, are out, I'm curious as to where Perl fits into the big picture. Sure, Perl is almost like a glue language that can piece low-level and high-level code together, but to some extent so are Java and C#.
What I'm asking is, essentially, the following: "When C# does everything that Java does, and Java does everything that C++ does, and it all runs on any platform and is amazingly documented with code examples and Web-based forums for assistance with any questions that come up, why should I learn a very complex language that's primarily used for scripts on Open-Source platforms like Linux and Solaris?"
The Earth of course revolves around the sun completing one revolution every year, but the Moon also revolves around the Earth in its own orbit.
Whether this new planet is actually a satellite of Earth is still to be determined. Also, a similar orbit does not mean that the climate is also known to be similar a priori.
The Earth's ecliptic orbit in summation with the Moon's orbit around the Earth means that the Moon must intersect the ecliptic; in fact, it will have to do so at two distinct points.
Has anyone found these nodal points for "Earth's Little Brother" yet? That's the true test of whether or not we will truly be affected by such circumstances.
I can definitively say that Microsoft's DirectX researchers are already working on utilizing AGP 8X with the alpha versions of the game library DirectX that is currently being developed.
Although most PC users are only utilizing 2X or 4X at the present time, we fully expect at least half of the gaming population to buy new machines and video cards that support this new milestone in AGP by Christmas of 2004 or so, if not (much) earlier depending on how development carries on.