Microsoft innovations: Around 1980, IBM wanted Bill Gates to write an operating system for them. Since he had never written an operating system, he bought the rights to QDOS from the author, Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Works, for fifty grand and kept his deal with IBM a secret from Paterson and SCW. Gates then talked IBM into letting Microsoft retain the rights to his new MSDOS and to market the operating system separate from the IBM PC.
So much for innovation at Microsoft. It's what they did then and what they do now.
In all the furor over this, everyone seems to have missed Microsoft's major announcement that the upcoming Microsoft Office 12 (modestly priced from $149 to $499, more or less, depending on who you know) will allow users to export a document in PDF format. Woweeee! Whoop-de-doo! And thank you, Redmond
If this cutting edge Microsoft technology doesn't permanently kill Google and Sun, and probably even Linux and Macs, then I don't know what will.
Really, is this the kind of task that a business would trust to a person who does not know the difference between "you're" and "your?"
And, yes, I know I'll probably get reamed for asking this.
Here in Arizona, we are not yet modern enough to use Daylight Savings Time. And we do not care about DST. Not for a second. Or for an hour forward or back.
Slashdot story:...a new type of photovoltaic cell which, unlike almost all the cells currently in use, does not silicon.
I do not, will not silicon!
Even on the telephone,
I do not, will not silicon!
Threaten me, yes, with a stone,
Use a nasty, ugly tone,
I do not, will not silicon!
Entice my with your saxophone,
Play for me on your trombone,
Or disks upon your gramophone,
I do not, will not silicon!
Tell me jokes that make me moan.
Create puns that make me groan.
I do not, will not silicon!
No matter how the place was zoned,
Even in those joints high-toned,
I've never, ever siliconed.
Even with my girlfriend, Joan,
When she's bent on getting prone
And her nether parts are shown,
I do not, will not silicon!
Some day when I'm way past grown,
I will be quite widely known -
There it is on my headstone,
"He did not, would not silicon."
Yeah, I only got 73 unsolicited emails informing me of this, so, yeah, I guess it has finally peaked at last, thank goodness. Of course, some of them were from people I don't know and some were from people I do know, and so it's impossible to tell which were automatically sent to me by worms and which were sent to me by helpful friends who often act like worms.
I just went to the escrabble site and there it said "greetings, Slashdot readers. Due to a huge number of visitors coming in from the site Slashdot.org, e-Scrabble games are temporarily unavailable."
Ok, we've done it! You can call off the lawyers now.
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I wasn't thinking coherently for a moment there.
I've always heard that the ability to write coherently is the result of the inability to think coherently.
Microsoft innovations: Around 1980, IBM wanted Bill Gates to write an operating system for them. Since he had never written an operating system, he bought the rights to QDOS from the author, Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Works, for fifty grand and kept his deal with IBM a secret from Paterson and SCW. Gates then talked IBM into letting Microsoft retain the rights to his new MSDOS and to market the operating system separate from the IBM PC.
So much for innovation at Microsoft. It's what they did then and what they do now.
In all the furor over this, everyone seems to have missed Microsoft's major announcement that the upcoming Microsoft Office 12 (modestly priced from $149 to $499, more or less, depending on who you know) will allow users to export a document in PDF format.
Woweeee! Whoop-de-doo! And thank you, Redmond
If this cutting edge Microsoft technology doesn't permanently kill Google and Sun, and probably even Linux and Macs, then I don't know what will.
Really, is this the kind of task that a business would trust to a person who does not know the difference between "you're" and "your?" And, yes, I know I'll probably get reamed for asking this.
Here in Arizona, we are not yet modern enough to use Daylight Savings Time. And we do not care about DST. Not for a second. Or for an hour forward or back.
You are all absolutely correct, the noun silicon is pronounced sil'-i-kan. As a verb, however, silicon is pronounced sil-i-cone'.
You stand corrected.
Yeah, I only got 73 unsolicited emails informing me of this, so, yeah, I guess it has finally peaked at last, thank goodness. Of course, some of them were from people I don't know and some were from people I do know, and so it's impossible to tell which were automatically sent to me by worms and which were sent to me by helpful friends who often act like worms.
I just went to the escrabble site and there it said "greetings, Slashdot readers. Due to a huge number of visitors coming in from the site Slashdot.org, e-Scrabble games are temporarily unavailable." Ok, we've done it! You can call off the lawyers now.