"A French intelligence report has accused U.S. secret agents of working with computer giant Microsoft."
This is an interesting acusation, and may very well be true, but how does one define "working with"?
1) Call Micros~1 tech support. 2) Sit on hold for hours on end listening to the nail-grating advertisements. 3) Listen to a tech pick up the phone and answer "wusup dude?" 4) Explain how your windows peecee constanly locks up with a blue screen every time the computer actually gets used. 5) Listen to the little dude squirm.
Congradulations, you're "working with micros~1". The broad acusations in this press release could indeed be very true, but not relivant.
Another interesting quote is: " the National Security Agency (NSA) helped install secret programmes on Microsoft software..."
people install applications onto the os everyday! Does this mean there is some kind of link between the program being installed and the OS? _________________________
Kyle's mom's a bitch She's mom is a big fat bitch She's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world She's a stupid bitch if there ever was a bitch She's a bitch to all the boys and girls
On Monday she's a bitch On Tuesday she's a bitch On Wednsday through Saturday she's a bitch Then on Sunday, just to be different, she's a superkinkamayamayabeeatch
Have you ever met my friend Kyle's mom? She's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world She's a mean 'ol bitch and she has stupid hair She's a big big big big big gig bitch Big big big big big big big bitch, she's a stupid bitch Kyles mom, she's a big fat fucking biiiiiiitch
Big old fucking bitch ass mooooom Yeah Chaaaa
Just what was the acadamey thinking when it decided to honor these little songs?
P.S.I really don't have a point, but I couldn't pass up the chance to use the word bitch a dozen times and not be offtopic!) _________________________
A Document Browser Our initial attempts at producing a more efficient human interface centered around something resembling the browser from the Smalltalk programming environment. The Smalltalk browser is a window with a top portion composed of a few panes allowing the hierarchical selection of an object and a bottom pane in which the contents of the selected object are displayed. For our model we were interested in trying to avoid a strictly hierarchical filing system. The document browser top panes contained various attributes which could be selected to narrow the choice of objects. In this model documents could be located by type of document, keyword, author, etc. The paper prototype (figure x) seemed to work well for selecting an object, but became awkward when trying to perform other operations such as moving, copying, or creating something new. It also lacked a certain approachability. It's operation was not at all obvious when first encountered. _________________________
Often, When one product is behind in market-share (micros~1 in server space) they will attempt compare and contrast their product to the leader in that market. this is a common marketing tactic in any market, with any product.
MS has been claiming unix is dead for more than 15 years, and they continue to try and convince people that they must make a choice between Linux/Unix and NT.
The real issue here is conectivity and interoperablility. When comparing OSs, look for one that "plays well with each other"(netBSD vs free BSD vs Redhat). micros~1 has spent millions and gone *way* out of their way, time and time again, to put barriers between unix and windows, then marketing the differance in the marketplace, asking users to "choose". This fucked-up aproach adds to the TCO (Total cost of ownership) of window~1
So, the short answer to the question is both operating systems have their place.
If you consider that Mozilla (which is not an entire OS, but rather, just the internet platform) currently has more than 2500 bugs in bugzilla, is it so shocking that this more-complicated-than-screem-3-overcoded-clusterfs ck-w2k has so many?
Is it the case that younger generations increasingly exposed to drugs and raves can better appreciate virtual reality or the Internet?
Like so much dribble back in the 60s, this is just another reach to justify drug use on a massive scale. It killed people then, and it'll kill people now.
1968 Drugs will make the Gratefull Dead sound better. 2000 Drugs will make the internet better.
Sugesting that this particular generation has been inoculated by slamming in the pit at burning man and pulling hits off a huka is just wrong, wrong wrong.
I'm the happy user of a Dragon Systems naturally speeking and I love it. I would like to take issue with your statements concerning VRsoftware. The voice to text training has an option to read back what you said. It really is pretty amazing how lazy most people are when it comes to proper pronunciation. When I slur my words, Dragon slurs my text. GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out)! To illustrate this, use your challenge on yourself. Record someones (relaxed) voice reading 4 chapters of text and take a week to convert it to text and see what you get. _________________________
From the article: "German scientists have recently demonstrated that a single fullerene molecule, composed of a sphere of 60 carbon atoms (the famous "buckyball"), can be in two places at once.
Now if I can only send my "buckyself to work, while I stay at home and read (/.) all day.:) _________________________
Now think to yourself, in exactly how many of those places would talking aloud (esp to a little black box)
The same thing could be said before cell-phones became more widespread. At first it will seem a little strange, but once more people get used to it, I really don't see a social problem.
Even now, it's common for people to walk down the street "talking to a little [black box] cell-phone". _________________________
Like micros~1 missing the internet message in the early 90s, It looks as if Intel has missed the wireless/handheld message and is now trying to catch up with Transmeta and StrongARM. For the moment, the bulk of the CPU market is still in desktop peecees but that is changing fast. The only questions is, is Williamette "to little to late"? _________________________
Mark my words. Some day, in the not to distant future, some zippy little pin-head from micros~1 will be in your office telling you how they "extended" that "old outdated DNS system". _________________________
. . the E*Trade dancing monkey. Funny stuff _________________________
The reason we explore . .
on
On to Mars
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· Score: 2
..is to learn. When human kind reaches to extend it's capabilities, we seek knowledge to better understand things around us. In the case of the MPL, this education can still be realized.
The MPL gave us no telemetry upon entering the Mars atmosphere, and the reasons for it's lack of comunication (what we have here, is a failure to comunicate. name that movie?) is still not known at this time.
The good news is, we can still gain the education and learn what happened to the lander by sending another to see what there is to see. As mentioned in the article, " The cost of the Mars Polar Lander was $165 million. In an $8 trillion economy, that is a laughable sum."
Futurists speek of nanotech making it possible to send hundreds of tiny "nano-bots" out to explore other planets. Because they are so affordable, half can fail, and the rest will finish the mission. This prediction is dead on, but what if we could do that today?
What if the economic conditions changed enough to make this approach feasable? Instead of making the bots smaller, the economy grew enough to make the full size bot more affordable. $8 trillion is a lot of money for this country, and we could spend it on learning more about what went wrong. _________________________
The reason men subsribe is for the interesting and insightfull interviews with famous and influential people. Questions for "Destiny". Likes: Sunrises and candy-canes Dislikes: Mean people and hangnails
In light of your comments regarding the constitution you couldn't be more wrong. I think you should put down the huka and beer-bong and actually attend a class. _________________________
Before everyone crys censorship and phone M(S)onopoly, lets look at the larger issue.
Dialpad.com is relying on the trust of other networks in order to deliver there packets. They have no right what ever to access a university network that is payed for by tuition and tax payer dollars.
What's interesting is, this trust model persists throughout the net, and is essential to it's survival. When someone abuses the bandwidth without "giving back" in some form, the trust model is broken, and the admin did the right thing.
In the famous words of someone who I can't remember: Internetworking means we're all in this together.
Dialpad.com(and other companies freeloading bandwidth) need to understand that. _________________________
Coming Soon! Download Version 1.00 of YETI@Home for: Windows, BeOs, OS2, Linux, Amiga Workbench, Atari ST, Altair, TRS-80, Vectrex, Babbage's Difference Engine, Palm Pilot, Sega Genesis and Timex Indiglo (sorry, not available for Macintosh).
LOL! a Babbage's Difference Engine client that won't run an a mac.
Once installed, the YETI@Home client will not interrupt your daily computer usage. In fact, the application can run virtually unnoticed in the background for years, much like the Libertarian Party.
"Here's the haystack with the needle you requested."
This is an interesting legal move to help prevent leeking, but what it did for micros~1 is gave the prosocuter a stick to beat them with.
Like a boy crying wolf, MSs crys for help in keeping things secret go unheard when most the documents are just noise. I can't help but notice the simularity between this and the security through obscurity point made in the DeCSS story. _________________________
I agree with your assessment of the internets influence as a "consumer watch dog" (with millions of eye balls, no monopolistic practice goes un-noticed).
But the question remains, what historical archive is there out there? Where can I find MS and NS press releases from 1996? Where does one go to find company histories?
What's interesting is, most of the time, the companies are the ones maintaining there own historical archive. Doesn't this make them their own historian? Wouldn't companies be free to exploit revisionist practices on their own actions? (perhaps a more informed (/.er) can point to me a resource I'm not aware of).
Microsoft's initial tendency to overdesignate documents as confidential likely was not aimed at the news media, but at other potential plaintiffs, Boyce observed.
"We want to be perfectly frank about it, Microsoft would have liked to have tried this case in secret because there's no question what's going to happen now, the sharks are circling out there, and this isn't going to be the only antitrust action that's going to be filed against Microsoft, at least if [media reports] are correct, there are just a lot of potential litigants out there waiting to pounce," he said.
That's interesting. After knowing of MSs behavior for years and years, it's good to see other people opening their eyes to what they've been up to.
What does it say of a company and it's buisness practises when "the sharks are circling" and, "[there are] a lot of potential litigants out there waiting to pounce."?
Some of you might blame the sharks who are circling, but where there's smoke, there's fire. MS wouldn't be atracting so many sharks if it wouldn't have left the water so bloody with destroyed companies.
What MS forgot is: In a growth market, a rising tide floats all boats. _________________________
John's (that's me) Linux focus has always been on the desktop. MY goal when we created John LINUX OS was to take the rock solid Debian distribution and KDE desktop and build an easy to install and simple to use Linux distribution for desktop users that would act as a platform for our applications (John Office 2000 for Linux and our graphics suite for Linux). That is still our focus - and providing a distribution that non-technical users would be comfortable with was key to bringing our applications to Linux. We have made a few partnership announcements (my dog flash helps with document shreding) in the past few days , but these partnerships are part of our core competency - creating user-friendly applications and GUI. Certainly configuration for Samba and other server tools are available in John LINUX OS as they are in other distributions, but we want to maintain our focus on the desktop and provide a clean, easy experience for our users.
Don't you just love that merketing-buzzword fluff!?? It's funny, laugh. _________________________
Slashdot Mirror
This is an interesting acusation, and may very well be true, but how does one define "working with"?
1) Call Micros~1 tech support.
2) Sit on hold for hours on end listening to the nail-grating advertisements.
3) Listen to a tech pick up the phone and answer "wusup dude?"
4) Explain how your windows peecee constanly locks up with a blue screen every time the computer actually gets used.
5) Listen to the little dude squirm.
Congradulations, you're "working with micros~1". The broad acusations in this press release could indeed be very true, but not relivant.
Another interesting quote is: " the National Security Agency (NSA) helped install secret programmes on Microsoft software..."
people install applications onto the os everyday! Does this mean there is some kind of link between the program being installed and the OS?
_________________________
She's mom is a big fat bitch
She's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world
She's a stupid bitch if there ever was a bitch
She's a bitch to all the boys and girls
On Monday she's a bitch
On Tuesday she's a bitch
On Wednsday through Saturday she's a bitch
Then on Sunday, just to be different, she's a superkinkamayamayabeeatch
Have you ever met my friend Kyle's mom?
She's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world
She's a mean 'ol bitch and she has stupid hair
She's a big big big big big gig bitch
Big big big big big big big bitch, she's a stupid bitch
Kyles mom, she's a big fat fucking biiiiiiitch
Big old fucking bitch ass mooooom
Yeah
Chaaaa
Just what was the acadamey thinking when it decided to honor these little songs?
P.S.I really don't have a point, but I couldn't pass up the chance to use the word bitch a dozen times and not be offtopic!)
_________________________
A Document Browser
Our initial attempts at producing a more efficient human interface centered around something resembling the browser from the Smalltalk programming environment. The Smalltalk browser is a window with a top portion composed of a few panes allowing the hierarchical selection of an object and a bottom pane in which the contents of the selected object are displayed. For our model we were interested in trying to avoid a strictly hierarchical filing system. The document browser top panes contained various attributes which could be selected to narrow the choice of objects. In this model documents could be located by type of document, keyword, author, etc. The paper prototype (figure x) seemed to work well for selecting an object, but became awkward when trying to perform other operations such as moving, copying, or creating something new. It also lacked a certain approachability. It's operation was not at all obvious when first encountered.
_________________________
MS has been claiming unix is dead for more than 15 years, and they continue to try and convince people that they must make a choice between Linux/Unix and NT.
The real issue here is conectivity and interoperablility. When comparing OSs, look for one that "plays well with each other"(netBSD vs free BSD vs Redhat). micros~1 has spent millions and gone *way* out of their way, time and time again, to put barriers between unix and windows, then marketing the differance in the marketplace, asking users to "choose". This fucked-up aproach adds to the TCO (Total cost of ownership) of window~1
So, the short answer to the question is both operating systems have their place.
1)window~1: clueless newbies
2)unix: serious internetworking
The real question is which unix is best for me?
_________________________
What does this say for the news ethic at MSNBC? Where is the protest from the news department at NBC news?
NBCs partner is diluting the NBC news brand name, and lowering the credibility of NBC.
_________________________
Should be enough for everyone. ;)
_________________________
I think not.
_________________________
Like so much dribble back in the 60s, this is just another reach to justify drug use on a massive scale. It killed people then, and it'll kill people now.
1968 Drugs will make the Gratefull Dead sound better.
2000 Drugs will make the internet better.
Sugesting that this particular generation has been inoculated by slamming in the pit at burning man and pulling hits off a huka is just wrong, wrong wrong.
_________________________
I'm the happy user of a Dragon Systems naturally speeking and I love it. I would like to take issue with your statements concerning VRsoftware.
The voice to text training has an option to read back what you said. It really is pretty amazing how lazy most people are when it comes to proper pronunciation. When I slur my words, Dragon slurs my text. GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out)!
To illustrate this, use your challenge on yourself. Record someones (relaxed) voice reading 4 chapters of text and take a week to convert it to text and see what you get.
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Thank you for the correction :)
_________________________
"German scientists have recently demonstrated that a single fullerene molecule, composed of a sphere of 60 carbon atoms (the famous "buckyball"), can be in two places at once.
Now if I can only send my "buckyself to work, while I stay at home and read (/.) all day. :)
_________________________
The same thing could be said before cell-phones became more widespread. At first it will seem a little strange, but once more people get used to it, I really don't see a social problem.
Even now, it's common for people to walk down the street "talking to a little [black box] cell-phone".
_________________________
Like micros~1 missing the internet message in the early 90s, It looks as if Intel has missed the wireless/handheld message and is now trying to catch up with Transmeta and StrongARM.
For the moment, the bulk of the CPU market is still in desktop peecees but that is changing fast.
The only questions is, is Williamette "to little to late"?
_________________________
Mark my words. Some day, in the not to distant future, some zippy little pin-head from micros~1 will be in your office telling you how they "extended" that "old outdated DNS system".
_________________________
. . the E*Trade dancing monkey.
Funny stuff
_________________________
The MPL gave us no telemetry upon entering the Mars atmosphere, and the reasons for it's lack of comunication (what we have here, is a failure to comunicate. name that movie?) is still not known at this time.
The good news is, we can still gain the education and learn what happened to the lander by sending another to see what there is to see. As mentioned in the article, " The cost of the Mars Polar Lander was $165 million. In an $8 trillion economy, that is a laughable sum."
Futurists speek of nanotech making it possible to send hundreds of tiny "nano-bots" out to explore other planets. Because they are so affordable, half can fail, and the rest will finish the mission. This prediction is dead on, but what if we could do that today?
What if the economic conditions changed enough to make this approach feasable? Instead of making the bots smaller, the economy grew enough to make the full size bot more affordable. $8 trillion is a lot of money for this country, and we could spend it on learning more about what went wrong.
_________________________
Likes: Sunrises and candy-canes
Dislikes: Mean people and hangnails
_________________________
In light of your comments regarding the constitution you couldn't be more wrong. I think you should put down the huka and beer-bong and actually attend a class.
_________________________
Dialpad.com is relying on the trust of other networks in order to deliver there packets. They have no right what ever to access a university network that is payed for by tuition and tax payer dollars.
What's interesting is, this trust model persists throughout the net, and is essential to it's survival. When someone abuses the bandwidth without "giving back" in some form, the trust model is broken, and the admin did the right thing.
In the famous words of someone who I can't remember: Internetworking means we're all in this together.
Dialpad.com(and other companies freeloading bandwidth) need to understand that.
_________________________
LOL! a Babbage's Difference Engine client that won't run an a mac.
Once installed, the YETI@Home client will not interrupt your daily computer usage. In fact, the application can run virtually unnoticed in the background for years, much like the Libertarian Party.
LOL!
_________________________
This is an interesting legal move to help prevent leeking, but what it did for micros~1 is gave the prosocuter a stick to beat them with.
Like a boy crying wolf, MSs crys for help in keeping things secret go unheard when most the documents are just noise. I can't help but notice the simularity between this and the security through obscurity point made in the DeCSS story.
_________________________
But the question remains, what historical archive is there out there? Where can I find MS and NS press releases from 1996? Where does one go to find company histories?
What's interesting is, most of the time, the companies are the ones maintaining there own historical archive. Doesn't this make them their own historian? Wouldn't companies be free to exploit revisionist practices on their own actions? (perhaps a more informed (/.er) can point to me a resource I'm not aware of).
_________________________
"We want to be perfectly frank about it, Microsoft would have liked to have tried this case in secret because there's no question what's going to happen now, the sharks are circling out there, and this isn't going to be the only antitrust action that's going to be filed against Microsoft, at least if [media reports] are correct, there are just a lot of potential litigants out there waiting to pounce," he said.
That's interesting. After knowing of MSs behavior for years and years, it's good to see other people opening their eyes to what they've been up to.
What does it say of a company and it's buisness practises when "the sharks are circling" and, "[there are] a lot of potential litigants out there waiting to pounce."?
Some of you might blame the sharks who are circling, but where there's smoke, there's fire. MS wouldn't be atracting so many sharks if it wouldn't have left the water so bloody with destroyed companies.
What MS forgot is: In a growth market, a rising tide floats all boats.
_________________________
640 thousand service packs should be enough for everybody!
--
Bill Gates
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Don't you just love that merketing-buzzword fluff!??
It's funny, laugh.
_________________________