Of course, the business and corporate interests that pay lots of campaign $$$$ to the congress who made this decision, probably aren't all that interested in the "greenies" obtaining proof that global warming IS real.
hm. if you think there has been no ecological damage from nuclear power technology in America, think again, long and hard.
Think about the unmitigated disasters the DOE perpetrated in Richland WA and Savannah GA. The hundreds of square miles of land that are going to be uninhabitable for millions of years because of improper disposal and treatment of wastes. Think about the Tritium in the groundwater in Burr Ridge IL where the first nuclear reactor from the University of Chicago was buried.
In reality, humans don't have a fucking clue what we're doing when it comes to nuclear energy.
Yes, but not being taxed as much, a lot of corporations wouldn't feel as pressured to pay you as much. Your take home pay would probably be about the same, unless of course you OWNED the company.
Well, because it's statistics, dummy. Microsoft thrives on creating statistics, which become a tool for painting a very positive picture of the company by the Marketing geniuses here, in Redmond.
In fact, the marketing statistics are probably MORE important to Microsoft's success than software sales. Look at the inflated stock prices of Yahoo, Amazon, etc. THAT'S what I'm talking about. Microsoft wants a slice of that. If they can spin statistics to say that Hotmail is taking over 90% of the email market, then - DAMN.
So yeah, go ahead and make some new Hotmail accounts. Who cares if they're ablatible. Make a million throwaway accounts. Our Marketing folks LOVE you for it!
Download IE 5, install it, say it sucks and delete it. It still counts as a stat we can use against Nutscrape in the marketing war.
No, AOL wants to ultimately provide a machine, running NO OS, just AOL software.
This is pure, unadulterated evil. Make no mistake.
MS is trying to SAVE the world from this kind of monopolistic crap, and you're all too blind to see it. I know. I work for Microsoft! We're the good guys!
Bill asked me to do this. He came by my cube one night at 4:30am, and said ", why not write a version of Office 2000 for Linux for me - by say, tomorrow afternoon?" and I said, "why?" and he said, "oh, I don't know", and left. Just like that.
It would be hard, because as far as I know, there's no DCOM for Visual Basic that runs on Linux.
Dude, become a DCOMmunist! DCOM solves all that! DCOM is your friend. C'mon over here and give DCOM a little kiss, it gets awfully lonely here at 4:30am when the free coke machine is running low, and the ping-pong paddles are locked up in the workout room.
thanks, buddy! (though I don't believe a word of it).
Office totally ROCKS man! I know, I wrote it. Just because I wrote it on a 500MHz Quad Xeon doesn't mean it wont run on a 486 50!
What the hell, that's what Virtual Memory is for! (and human patience).
But really, if you're gonna drop $1500 for an office suite, you may as well upgrade your hardware too. That's my philosophy when I'm writing code for Bill, anyway.
Speaking of writing code, I was building this bitchin' wizard in MS VC++, and I got all the buttons lined up in the window along the bottom just right. Man, it was frustrating, it took me all day to line up those buttons, but I finally did it. The 3d effect is so cool! They really do look like they're popping right off the screen. As soon as I finish this wizard, then people will be able to figure out how to put their password in when they log into W2K. It's so cool man, it's gonna make it easier to use than a Macintosh.
Anybody see that Pirates of Silicon Valley show the other night? Man, our boy Bill really had that Steve Jobs pissed off and whiney about how Bill out-innovated him with the GUI. Sheesh, what a commie whiner! Reminds me of you Open Source guys. Oh well, the both of you can keep recompiling your kernels while the rest of us are looking at the latest "it is now safe to shut down your computer" screen.
Now listen. I WORK at MS. And I'm telling you, all my cooworkers and I have very much in common. We're all fiercely dedicated. I mean, I guess some of us, primarily the development managers, are just along for the ride, like Pinky. But the rest of us are like: ". . . same thing we do every night Pinky, try and take over the world!".
I mean, don't you Open Source freaks understand how much a better place the world would be if there were only one Operatin System? People would just go out and buy computers, and not have to worry about whether or not there was a first class web browser included, or whether or not their word processor was going to run on it, or whether or not the files they wrote with their word processor could be read by other people (assuming they all have the latest version).
So what IS with you Unix people? It's not like NT is as expensive as Solaris. Bill Gates was the genius that made computing affordable for the rest of us. Have you priced out an SGI machine lately? Oh yeah, SGI now sells x86 boxes running NT, OH! so THAT'S why they're more affordable than the old MIPS/IRIX machines! Without Microsoft, computing would be reserved solely for the corporate elite, and the super-rich, and colleges would still be scrambling for hand-me-downs from corporate upgrades.
People have had enough of the abuse! The world wants machines they can afford, with software they can run without having a hairy Berkely PhD on hand, and they want to be able to use their machine to communicate with others who have MS Windows machines. That's all people want. And we're the great benevolent company that worked so hard to give it to them, and look how successful it's made us!
Very soon, we'll all be able to buy and sell stuff on MSN, using the superior advanced features of IE, and people will actually be able to create data for their own web pages directly from our office apps. How cool is THAT? All thanks to Microsoft innovation!
Keep writing endless patches to your open source web browser. Watch the evil AOL come and turn it into a rolling billboard for AOL. Pretty soon, AOL is going to start selling computers that ONLY dial into AOL and surf the web on the AOL browser, and NOTHING ELSE. Bah! Microsoft will FREE you of those limitations! Don't listen to AOL. AOL is evil. You need Microsoft to protect you from AOL world-domination, and the death of Operating Systems. Our ultimate weapon: 35 million lines of deadly market dominating code! Pay-per-boot for MSN users, requiring a Pentium III with serial number, to protect us from child pornographers, and hackers, and other evil AOL subscribers.
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Of course, the business and corporate interests that pay lots of campaign $$$$ to the congress who made this decision, probably aren't all that interested in the "greenies" obtaining proof that global warming IS real.
hm. if you think there has been no ecological damage from nuclear power technology in America, think again, long and hard.
Think about the unmitigated disasters the DOE perpetrated in Richland WA and Savannah GA. The hundreds of square miles of land that are going to be uninhabitable for millions of years because of improper disposal and treatment of wastes. Think about the Tritium in the groundwater in Burr Ridge IL where the first nuclear reactor from the University of Chicago was buried.
In reality, humans don't have a fucking clue what we're doing when it comes to nuclear energy.
Maybe NASA should raise it's fees the military pays to get it's echelon satellites lofted into geosynchronous orbit to make up the difference.
(ignore the sig on this one. I'm too lazy to switch to my "serious" account)
They also believe in the privatization of security, ie. no military or police. If you want protection from crime, hire a bodyguard.
What happens when the criminals can afford to hire more and better equipped bodyguards (by virtue of the profits they make from crime)?
Yes, but not being taxed as much, a lot of corporations wouldn't feel as pressured to pay you as much. Your take home pay would probably be about the same, unless of course you OWNED the company.
Well, because it's statistics, dummy.
Microsoft thrives on creating statistics, which become a tool for painting a very positive picture of the company by the Marketing geniuses here, in Redmond.
In fact, the marketing statistics are probably MORE important to Microsoft's success than software sales. Look at the inflated stock prices of Yahoo, Amazon, etc. THAT'S what I'm talking about. Microsoft wants a slice of that. If they can spin statistics to say that Hotmail is taking over 90% of the email market, then - DAMN.
So yeah, go ahead and make some new Hotmail accounts. Who cares if they're ablatible. Make a million throwaway accounts. Our Marketing folks LOVE you for it!
Download IE 5, install it, say it sucks and delete it. It still counts as a stat we can use against Nutscrape in the marketing war.
No, AOL wants to ultimately provide a machine, running NO OS, just AOL software.
This is pure, unadulterated evil. Make no mistake.
MS is trying to SAVE the world from this kind of monopolistic crap, and you're all too blind to see it. I know. I work for Microsoft! We're the good guys!
Right!
Bill asked me to do this. He came by my cube one night at 4:30am, and said ", why not write a version of Office 2000 for Linux for me - by say, tomorrow afternoon?"
and I said,
"why?"
and he said, "oh, I don't know", and left. Just like that.
It would be hard, because as far as I know, there's no DCOM for Visual Basic that runs on Linux.
Dude, become a DCOMmunist! DCOM solves all that! DCOM is your friend. C'mon over here and give DCOM a little kiss, it gets awfully lonely here at 4:30am when the free coke machine is running low, and the ping-pong paddles are locked up in the workout room.
Even better! DCOM for Visual Basic!
thanks, buddy! (though I don't believe a word of it).
Office totally ROCKS man! I know, I wrote it. Just because I wrote it on a 500MHz Quad Xeon doesn't mean it wont run on a 486 50!
What the hell, that's what Virtual Memory is for! (and human patience).
But really, if you're gonna drop $1500 for an office suite, you may as well upgrade your hardware too. That's my philosophy when I'm writing code for Bill, anyway.
Speaking of writing code, I was building this bitchin' wizard in MS VC++, and I got all the buttons lined up in the window along the bottom just right. Man, it was frustrating, it took me all day to line up those buttons, but I finally did it. The 3d effect is so cool! They really do look like they're popping right off the screen. As soon as I finish this wizard, then people will be able to figure out how to put their password in when they log into W2K. It's so cool man, it's gonna make it easier to use than a Macintosh.
Anybody see that Pirates of Silicon Valley show the other night? Man, our boy Bill really had that Steve Jobs pissed off and whiney about how Bill out-innovated him with the GUI. Sheesh, what a commie whiner! Reminds me of you Open Source guys. Oh well, the both of you can keep recompiling your kernels while the rest of us are looking at the latest "it is now safe to shut down your computer" screen.
Now listen. I WORK at MS. And I'm telling you, all my cooworkers and I have very much in common. We're all fiercely dedicated. I mean, I guess some of us, primarily the development managers, are just along for the ride, like Pinky. But the rest of us are like: ". . . same thing we do every night Pinky, try and take over the world!".
I mean, don't you Open Source freaks understand how much a better place the world would be if there were only one Operatin System? People would just go out and buy computers, and not have to worry about whether or not there was a first class web browser included, or whether or not their word processor was going to run on it, or whether or not the files they wrote with their word processor could be read by other people (assuming they all have the latest version).
So what IS with you Unix people? It's not like NT is as expensive as Solaris. Bill Gates was the genius that made computing affordable for the rest of us. Have you priced out an SGI machine lately? Oh yeah, SGI now sells x86 boxes running NT, OH! so THAT'S why they're more affordable than the old MIPS/IRIX machines!
Without Microsoft, computing would be reserved solely for the corporate elite, and the super-rich, and colleges would still be scrambling for hand-me-downs from corporate upgrades.
People have had enough of the abuse! The world wants machines they can afford, with software they can run without having a hairy Berkely PhD on hand, and they want to be able to use their machine to communicate with others who have MS Windows machines. That's all people want.
And we're the great benevolent company that worked so hard to give it to them, and look how successful it's made us!
Very soon, we'll all be able to buy and sell stuff on MSN, using the superior advanced features of IE, and people will actually be able to create data for their own web pages directly from our office apps. How cool is THAT? All thanks to Microsoft innovation!
Keep writing endless patches to your open source web browser. Watch the evil AOL come and turn it into a rolling billboard for AOL. Pretty soon, AOL is going to start selling computers that ONLY dial into AOL and surf the web on the AOL browser, and NOTHING ELSE. Bah! Microsoft will FREE you of those limitations! Don't listen to AOL. AOL is evil. You need Microsoft to protect you from AOL world-domination, and the death of Operating Systems.
Our ultimate weapon: 35 million lines of deadly market dominating code! Pay-per-boot for MSN users, requiring a Pentium III with serial number, to protect us from child pornographers, and hackers, and other evil AOL subscribers.
We have a LOT of Compaq equipment here, where I work. The IT guys joke around a lot. They call it:
Completely Obscure, Messy, Proprietary And Quirky.
And why not? They're COMPLETELY in-bed with Microsoft!