They probably figured they needed to do something. After all... a 800 lb gorilla (called Microsoft) just entered their space. So they are screwed anyways.
"Two weeks ago, when Time Warner Inc. was on the cusp of signing a sweeping online deal with Microsoft Corp., a team of executives from the media company's AOL unit traveled to the beast's lair in Redmond, Wash., to make sure everything was in order.... They had found some of Microsoft's morals to be evil, while the contemplated joint venture with the satanic king contained what they thought were hellish pitfalls."
I was once at a party with Buxton. We were both jammed in a corner but when he found out I was a mere programmer he immediately turned his back to me (basically snubbing me). Fine with me - I thought he wasn't so brilliant anyway.
Guess, what Bill - you might learn something by talking to us mortals.
I wonder if this is all lies. After all why would they want to tell the competition how to complete with them. Yeah, sure do the laundry for every one. Then when they hear next week that Microsoft has started a laundry service for their employees Google can laugh and laugh.
Why can't they just put the entire olypmics IT dept in a few shipping containers and ship it from city to city?! What a waste to redevelop/deploy it again every two years.
> Instead of the freewheeling anything-goes nature of Google Base
So instead of something cool, open ended and something that will have uses its designers never imagined (like the Internet itself) they have made something boring, predictable and something that's been done about 100 times before. Congratulations.
Oh yeah, and they are Wal-Marting a bunch of small local businesses like newspapers and craigslist. Nice.
> I am completely against 1 tier health system: imagine a world where > only Microsoft was allowed to write software and to write software you > had to work for Microsoft.
Of course, you know nearly everyone on Slashdot hates Microsoft and that's why you picked them. But the monopoly in healthcare in Canada isn't like Microsoft its sometimes mismanaged and slow but not evil. Maybe more like IBM. If it was like Google (fast moving and innovative) it would be great.
Also you forgot the "secret". Most Canadians live within 200 miles of the US border. If you have money you can go there for an MRI.
> By definition, anyone who reads a newspaper online at home can afford a > computer and an Internet connection, which means they aren't at the > very bottom of the economic pile
Slashdot Mirror
But do you want a magnet your your computer?!
Handy for bulk erasing magnetic media too.
Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player 10 are required - yuck.
I think it would be cool if it was a wireless Usenet. Usenet uses a flood algorithm. In the olde days you could sent mail thru it.
And everytime the cracker time finds a hole Balmer throws a chair at them.
So evil MSFT is still evil. Hardly news.
They probably figured they needed to do something. After all... a 800 lb gorilla (called Microsoft) just entered their space. So they are screwed anyways.
Well maybe. Remember they we late to the party(s) but still killed Netscape and AIM.
Yeah but it might work. I bet a 100 headlines this week are going to use it as a verb.
So now I gotta buy all new DVDs? ;-(
Also one word: porn.
No way they would ever sell, say, a
Google Mini
Should read:
... They had found some of Microsoft's morals to be evil, while the contemplated joint venture with the satanic king contained what they thought were hellish pitfalls."
"Two weeks ago, when Time Warner Inc. was on the cusp of signing a sweeping
online deal with Microsoft Corp., a team of executives from the media company's AOL unit traveled to the beast's lair in Redmond, Wash., to make sure everything was in order.
How's business at your outside firm that checks for P2P applications?
My local linux LUG gets abotu 100 people per meeting. Useful for casual chat.
I was once at a party with Buxton. We were both jammed in a corner but when he found out I was a mere programmer he immediately turned his back to me (basically snubbing me). Fine with me - I thought he wasn't so brilliant anyway.
Guess, what Bill - you might learn something by talking to us mortals.
Welcome to him, Microsoft.
Would make more sense to delete it after its read.
As soon as I discovered Postfix I tossed my complicated sendmail books. M4 macros, yuck.
If there was a little logo banks, etc can put on their site:
[we proudly use Secure DNS]
Soon everyone would want it.
I wonder if this is all lies. After all why would they want to tell the competition how to complete with them. Yeah, sure do the laundry for every one. Then when they hear next week that Microsoft has started a laundry service for their employees Google can laugh and laugh.
Since nobody is using the name OpenDoc maybe we can now us it as a short form for OpenDocument.
I which they could keep their URLs (on microsoft.com) fixed. That way links to the site won't alaways be broken. Its not that hard.
Why can't they just put the entire olypmics IT dept in a few shipping containers and ship it from city to city?! What a waste to redevelop/deploy it again every two years.
> Instead of the freewheeling anything-goes nature of Google Base
So instead of something cool, open ended and something that will have uses its designers never imagined (like the Internet itself) they have made something boring, predictable and something that's been done about 100 times before.
Congratulations.
Oh yeah, and they are Wal-Marting a bunch of small local businesses like newspapers and craigslist. Nice.
Yeah, CGI is still wonderful. Performance is its only problem. I hope Apache can do something to improve that someday.
> I am completely against 1 tier health system: imagine a world where
> only Microsoft was allowed to write software and to write software you
> had to work for Microsoft.
Of course, you know nearly everyone on Slashdot hates Microsoft and that's why you picked them. But the monopoly in healthcare in Canada isn't like Microsoft its sometimes mismanaged and slow but not evil. Maybe more like IBM. If it was like Google (fast moving and innovative) it would be great.
Also you forgot the "secret". Most Canadians live within 200 miles of the US border. If you have money you can go there for an MRI.
> By definition, anyone who reads a newspaper online at home can afford a
> computer and an Internet connection, which means they aren't at the
> very bottom of the economic pile
Or they are at school, library, work, etc.