No, it's not. Windows Messenger is MSN Messenger's bastard, mutant son with ugly flecky skin, an abhorrant fear of the sun and a hellish need to eat raw fish.
Me: "I want to log into MSN, please" WM: "No... nobody gets past, gollum! Nasssty userses, we must be upgraded first! Thisss version won't work, preciouses! Not thiss one!" Me: "Err, it's okay, I'll just run MSN messenger.." WM: "Ha! The parent is well hidden, gollum! Nasssty users will never find it without getting deep into Program Files! Never!" Me: "No, here it is..." (double-click) Another instance of WM launches, fails to log in and cackles horribly. Much searching finally reveals the MSN messenger hiding somewhere.
Honestly, I'm just waiting for it to creep out and bite off my finger one of these days...
This is spooking me out, too. I'm hoping to switch sometime this summer, and try and get my folks to do the same. Windows has been going down the drain lately, what with spyware, virii problems, and my laptop just generally reaching its you-have-to-reformat-everything time, but I woulda hoped for a good fight.
Now is when Microsoft should go back to the basics and try and come up with sometime truely innovative. Blow your mind out innovative, right up on the desktop where the user can see. Not just Win95+Tiger, which is what Longhorn looks like, but something so radical it makes everybody take a step back and go "Wow".
And if there's one company with the money resources to just sit pretty and do it, it's Microsoft.
There are probably a whole lotta things I'm ignoring, because I'm sleepy like hell, but if by next year when I'm used to MacOSX I'm not looking at Windows screenshots and drooling, I'd be very very disappointed.
I hadn't heard about Opera 8, and if it wasn't for the slashvertisement, I'd've been in the dark.
This is well timed - just today I installed iTunes, was completely bowled over, and was wondering - if a non-free music player can be this cool, what about a non-free web browser?
nice to see them CEOs get out of the comfy office once in a while...
If it can survive the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Trall, it can survive a bad movie.
You could use it to hold popcorn, to wrap yourself in if the theatre is too cold, and if you carry a tube of cyanide stitched into the lining, you could kill yourself if it is too much to bear.
Most importantly, you could cry into it if the reviews are right...
The incredibly amazing Wiki idea was first conceived and executed at C2.com by Ward Cunningham.
Personally, I think that Wiki is the most important part of the Wikipedia package. That's what attracted me there to begin with: the idea that Anybody could edit Anything, Anytime, Anyhow. It's like natural selection with words, and it's a lot of fun. If you make a big contribution with any worth, you're pretty much guaranteed that some of it is going to stay on for ages and ages - and it's a great kick coming back to a 'pedia article months down the line and thinking, hey, I came up with that sentence!
And then you go, what a stupid sentence, and hit the "Edit this page" button...
Slashdot Mirror
Crap. Here I was just about to buy a PowerBook ...
:|
Maybe by the time I buy it, the instructions will ask me to drop it from 3 inches in the air.
Oh, and does this mean Apple will have to fire Jobs again? Bummer.
Windows Messenger (a sister to MSN Messenger)
... nobody gets past, gollum! Nasssty userses, we must be upgraded first! Thisss version won't work, preciouses! Not thiss one!" .." ..." (double-click) Another instance of WM launches, fails to log in and cackles horribly. Much searching finally reveals the MSN messenger hiding somewhere.
...
No, it's not. Windows Messenger is MSN Messenger's bastard, mutant son with ugly flecky skin, an abhorrant fear of the sun and a hellish need to eat raw fish.
Me: "I want to log into MSN, please"
WM: "No
Me: "Err, it's okay, I'll just run MSN messenger
WM: "Ha! The parent is well hidden, gollum! Nasssty users will never find it without getting deep into Program Files! Never!"
Me: "No, here it is
Honestly, I'm just waiting for it to creep out and bite off my finger one of these days
Opera does this already.
Is for the clueless masses still trademarked? I heard Microsoft is changing its motto to It just works ...
Nice first post.
This is spooking me out, too. I'm hoping to switch sometime this summer, and try and get my folks to do the same. Windows has been going down the drain lately, what with spyware, virii problems, and my laptop just generally reaching its you-have-to-reformat-everything time, but I woulda hoped for a good fight.
Now is when Microsoft should go back to the basics and try and come up with sometime truely innovative. Blow your mind out innovative, right up on the desktop where the user can see. Not just Win95+Tiger, which is what Longhorn looks like, but something so radical it makes everybody take a step back and go "Wow".
And if there's one company with the money resources to just sit pretty and do it, it's Microsoft.
There are probably a whole lotta things I'm ignoring, because I'm sleepy like hell, but if by next year when I'm used to MacOSX I'm not looking at Windows screenshots and drooling, I'd be very very disappointed.
Funniest. Slashdot. Post. EVER!
:)
Thanks for the laugh
Don't you mean in the Mysterious Future? ;)
Oops yeah :) my bad. I did mean closed source; thanks for clarifying.
:|
p.s. Opera is cool. Dunno how long the shine will last
It's MARKETING!
...
I hadn't heard about Opera 8, and if it wasn't for the slashvertisement, I'd've been in the dark.
This is well timed - just today I installed iTunes, was completely bowled over, and was wondering - if a non-free music player can be this cool, what about a non-free web browser?
nice to see them CEOs get out of the comfy office once in a while
If it can survive the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Trall, it can survive a bad movie.
...
You could use it to hold popcorn, to wrap yourself in if the theatre is too cold, and if you carry a tube of cyanide stitched into the lining, you could kill yourself if it is too much to bear.
Most importantly, you could cry into it if the reviews are right
SPOILER WARNING!!!
...
The series results in the Earth getting horribly, completely, totally obliterated.
Thrice.
Judging this book by its cover mightn't be such a great idea, either.
Don't Panic? Yeah, right
Me too!
...
Do you get error code "4.09 Windows XP? Am I on candid camera?" too? Maybe we should report this
C2.com is mentioned in the TFA (or should that be TFsummary?). Sigh.
H2G2 is older than the 'pedia, so it's actually a better hitchhiker's guide than H2G2.
...
I can't believe I'm arguing about this
1. They cost the same. :).
2. Wikipedia has the words "Edit this page" in large, friendly letters on (almost) every page. Beat that
(p.s. there is NOTHING friendly about sharp, *pink* letters. Brrr.)
The incredibly amazing Wiki idea was first conceived and executed at C2.com by Ward Cunningham.
...
Personally, I think that Wiki is the most important part of the Wikipedia package. That's what attracted me there to begin with: the idea that Anybody could edit Anything, Anytime, Anyhow. It's like natural selection with words, and it's a lot of fun. If you make a big contribution with any worth, you're pretty much guaranteed that some of it is going to stay on for ages and ages - and it's a great kick coming back to a 'pedia article months down the line and thinking, hey, I came up with that sentence!
And then you go, what a stupid sentence, and hit the "Edit this page" button
Encyclopedia Galactica
We call it Google in Singapore, is that what do you guys call it in America?
Wikipedians. Lots of Wikipedians. :)
Good enough for ya? :)
Freedom's Special Computer Knights
They're French?? I thought they were American!
I know ... but it's so much fun to rename it to "New Delhi" once you take over!
a civ-crazy Indian
1 word:
Oh.
Like somebody else already pointed out, stealth mode is something firewalls should just have.
Yes, this is verily the first evidence for the lost civilization of the Ancient Geeks.
Done!
So what's the next task?
Indeed, the engravers were working so fast that they hardly noticed they had captured one of Sargon's armies on the move.
Hey, that sounds interesting! What's the story there?