NSI is throwing out a bone to the comunity, but in the end they're just providing a forum for people to log their disputes.
While this is an interesting PR move, it doesn't solve the underlying problem of domain squaters, and their practice of scalping a name.
Actually, I'm curious why more states haven't tried enforcing their scalping laws (i.e. some laws allow for no more than ~10% over the retail price). Scalpers are an interesting breed. They make money off of someone elses (often short lived) brand name. When a record company hears someone scalping a ticket, they often don't take action because it's good PR in that the person hearing story thinks "wow, they payed X to see Y?, they *must* be good). Similarly, this is often the case in domain squating (i.e. ~X million for blahblahblah.com? wow..e-commerce must be hot).
Now allow me to be clear here, I'm not talking obvios domain names without brand name investment, I'm talking about names that people (companies) have spent a lot of money to build brand awarness. Scalping this well built up name is wrong and more states should use the scalping laws already on the books. _________________________
..The twentieth century featured any number of -isms. .. . . this new Belle Epoque, this delightful era .. . ..a different cultural reality.. ..We have a new economy, but we have no new intelligentsia. .. . ..technology made a new era obvious. . .. ..Our time calls for intelligent fads .. ..The Internet is the natural test-bed for this fast-moving, fast-vanishing, start-up society... ..the user in a vast unfolding nexus of interlinked experience. .. . ..and seems lacking in moral seriousness -- but only only by the rigid standards of the past century, . .. . . Technology can no longer bind us in a vast tonnage of iron, barbed wire and brick. .. ..Waves will be arriving with the somnolent regularity of Waikiki breakers. This "revolution" .. ..Its a golden opportunity for techno-dandyism. . .. ..The channels exist now to give creativity away, at no cost, to millions. . . . ..Today, sitting quietly and thinking is the worlds greatest generator of wealth and prosperity. . . . . and the Internet has made a new intelligentsia possible. .. . . the human race will begin to obtain what it really wants. .. . ..and ability that have previously existed only in myth. .. ..That fate is written on the forehead of the 21st century in letters of fire. .. ..The pace of change is melting former physical restraints into a maelstrom of reformattable virtualities. .
and last but not least...we have yet another y2kism: The mushroom clouds of the twentieth century have parted. We find ourselves on a beach, with wave after frothy wave of transformation. We have means, motive, and opportunity. Spread the light.
It reads like a Captan Kirk log on crack!
Now bruce, you know everyone loves ya, and it's with that shining love that I point out that you've gotten a little to excited about a new millenium. Time and tehnology move forward, and we are too.
1) one, one 'cause you left me. 2) two two for my family. 3) three three for my heartache. 4) four four for my headache. 5) five five for my lonley. 6) six six for my sorrow. 7) seven seven no tomorrow. 8) eight eight I forget what eight was for. 9) nine nine cause I've lost god. 10) ten ten ten ten for everything everything.
Re: your comments: You can't even move the panel out of the way, as most use some sort of scripting that doesn't allow you to move ANY part of the panel off-screen.
Starting last year, I took the $20/month I was paying to my local ISP and bought a cheap second (used) monitor for $100, and a second video card for $140.
I fire up Altavista free access (now with 4 local numbers in my area) and run the main monitor at 1280x1024 and the second @ 1024x768. The blipvert stays in the far upper left corner of the second monitor, and goes mostly unnoticed, while I continue to work on the main monitor with a full view.
The way I look at it, I would have spent about $250 this year for dialup access($20x12=240). Moreover, next year, not having an ISP to pay for, I'll have the Xtra video card and monitor payed for.
The conection is faster and more reliable that the last 2 ISPs I've tried in my area, and I've never been happier. Who knows, with all I'm saving, maybe next year I might be able to spring for a bigger 2nd monitor.:)
The question to ask yourself is: Would last years ISP bill pay for a second video card and monitor? _________________________
Allow me to be one of the many, many people to nominate the Ziff-Davis (ZD Group) in it's many forms.
Their particular style of "rip and read" journalism, and complete lack of objectivity over the years, has earned them the respect and honor of only the most "clue starved" trolls all over the world. It is my belief that this perverse propagation of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) puts the ZD Group among the front runners in the race for a firm twack with the/. Cluestick.
More to the point, I would like to nominate the hard work and dedication of the many ZDnet interns who (like so many sweatshop workers in a Nike factory) tirelessly toil to cut and paste microsoft press releases into Jerry Bursts' article of the day.
ZDs' blatant pursuit of mediocrity makes them a prime candidate for The Cluestick Award for FUD in Journalism. _________________________
Allow me to be one of the many, many people to nominate the Ziff-Davis (ZD Group) in it's many forms.
Their particular style of "rip and read" journalism, and complete lack of objectivity over the years, has earned them the respect and honor of only the most "clue starved" trolls all over the world. It is my belief that this perverse propagation of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) puts the ZD Group among the front runners in the race for a firm twack with the /. Cluestick.
More to the point, I would like to nominate the hard work and dedication of the many ZDnet interns who (like so many sweatshop workers in a Nike factory) tirelessly toil to cut and paste microsoft press releases into Jerry Bursts' article of the day.
ZDs' blatant pursuit of mediocrity makes them a prime candidate for The Cluestick Award for FUD in Journalism. _________________________
MICHIGAN, Jan. 1 -- In an effort to prove how wired the world has become, a web site programer walked out of empty Michigan house on Saturday without a computer and said he doesn't plan to log-on until 2001.
HIS PLAN: live exclusively offline, including making his own food, getting furniture from a store and actually trying on clothes at the store and hosting a 24-hour technology news site.
'Our vision is that new online shoppers will go to our site to learn how to delete windows,' said Rob Malda, who legally changed his name to/.Guy and set up a company,/.Guys Inc., for the stunt.
After locking himself outside the rented house Saturday, he added: 'I'm not going in until Bill Gates admits he's a loon.'
The 'live' part of the/.Guy stunt involves 24-hour streaming tech stories from hundreds of story submiters set up throughout the world. One of Robs partners reviews books at the kitchen, several face the living room, and one even sits on a bathroom shelf -- turned away from the toilet and bathtub.
The/.Guy project, which sounds like a cross between the enviro-colonization experiment Biosphere and the film "behind the green door," has a few ground rules. Malda can have visitors. He simply can't go closer than the front porch.
'We certainly don't recommend that people lock themselves away from their computers, but we will prove that it can be done,' said Jeff Bates, a friend of Malda's and president of/.Guy Inc.
Malda's first monthly paycheck from the company will be $1, but it will double every time a windows machine crashes as an incentive to stay out side of the house, Hemos said.
Hemos helped line up sponsors to sustain Malda through the year, including Red Hat, which donated the winter coat, and Ace Hardware, which agreed to keep the snow blower gased up all winter.
Michigan-based Andover.net sold there/. shares when it realized its company could be hurt from a Malda death due to outdoor exposure.
'We are going to have people say, 'Hey, /. Guy, how do I uninstall my win-modem or how do I get this or that Web site?' said /.'s CowboyNeal. 'And when he uses our site, that's how people will learn about us.'
Similar experiments have been undertaken before -- 'The National Enquirer' locked two New Yorkers out of their 'e-cave' for a week last year without a refrigerator, a $500 daily stipend, or computer and Internet access -- but Malda has vowed to live off small rodents and AOL CDs longer than anyone else has so far.
Sunday afternoon, the Web site story board showed Malda sitting on porch chatting with visitors.
Among his first buys offline buys: shampoo, toilet paper, cleaning supplies and carry-out food.
With apologies in advance to tmbg. I give you: .com man
dot-com man, dot-com man doing the things a dot-com can what's he like? It's not important dot-com man is he a dot, or is he a com? when he's underwater does he get wet or does the water get him instead? nobody knows dot-com man
Re: your comments:Serial protocols are useful for anything long-range, but when you need to deliver data between few devices located in the same box, and have to do it fast, one wire instead of 64 means theoretically 64 times less bandwidth, and in relaity at least twice less, no matter what. Only when the length of the line is enough to cause distortion/desynchronization of the signals serial protocol becomes superior to parallel one, and even that isn't true in all cases.
I would agree with your assesment of the limitations listed above, but I would point out that what's changing is the definition of 'the box'. Lines are incresingly being blured between where the box ends and the network begins. Highspeed External I/O is proving to be a nesesity in this networked world of ours.
There was a time when a user was happy with just an isolated box. Then LAN funtionality became increasingly needed (got boxen without a NIC? no?).
Today, without massive conectitity, the 'puter will quickly become a doorstop of funtionality. That is why these new standards make logical sence for today, and into the near future. _________________________
This architecture does not have to be faster than SBus and PCI initially, but it has to have the potential to increase its performance by ten times or more in the next four years. _________________________
"In order to comvince me to buy it, you have to let me download, compile, run, test, and use it on a daily basis.... for that matter I'd like to run it for 60 years before paying you.... did I mention I'm a smoker?"
60 years is a little to much, but 60 day terms aren't out of the question.:) I'm not talking a bout free and unfettered use of the application( programers are people too) but what I am talking about is companies putting there CVS where their mouth is.
More to the point, the idea of reading a review, and going down to the store to buy it out of the box just doesn't appeal to many admins these days. _________________________
What does it say about Bill Gates that the inclusion of Bill Gates on this list has gotten more heated response than the inclusion of Adolf Hitler? _________________________
Windows NT did run on a PPC in 1995. In fact, it ran on a PPC until Motorola decided that it wasn't worth the money it was costing them to subsidize Microsoft's development process. Ditto for the Alpha in 32-bit mode; until Compaq pulled the plug, we continued to develop for it, painful though it was. (We still develop for the Alpha for the 64-bit version. Until we have enough IA-64 boxes to go around, it's the only place that realistic testing can be performed.)
If my companies existance is based on NT running on a certain platform, having as much information about that platforms stability and continued development is extreamly valuable. When changes happen to the code base being used to develop my platform of choice, I want see it in the dev. tree so I can make educated decisions on the direction of my company. This is why Open tools are not only needed, but it's downright suspicious when they are not employed.
The fact that the list of boxen that NT runs on changed show much in only 5 years (how many platforms for 2000?) is another reason why an open development model should be adopted by all. _________________________
What follows is an actual conversation that took place before my dear mum sent me a file, and why year versioning isn't good.
Mom: Yea, our office has the Microsoft 98 Me: Mom, that's the operating system, What word processor? Mom: Word? yea..we use Word. Word Perfect 98. Me: Is that Word, or Word Perfect? Mom: I don't know, it's the one with the little squiglies. Me: They both use that interface for spell checking, could you just copy and paste the text into the email? Mom: huh? Why don't they all just use one system.
And in one bright, shining moment in my mums 'puter understing and growth, she wraped her mind around the value of standards, and open documentation, and I wanted to jump for joy.
In summary, Year versioning is a confusing marketing ploy that's not good for developers or end users. _________________________
Re:These nightly builds turn me off. It's worse than seeing Suse or Redhat come out with 3 to 4 releases in one year. And, this did happen last year. Why can't software producers release once, not so often, and provide a non-crashing quality product. That's what the end user wants. You can get away with nightly builds with developers, but the public-at-large won't be pleased.
I would have to agree that the usability of most nightly builds are less than reliable, and deploying such builds is very *very* risky. What nightly builds do offer is a 'snapshot' of the development currently underway. This is an invaluable tool to defud FUD and gives someone looking to make a buying a decision the chance to test the product before deploying.
Consider this blurb from a a 1995 Byte magazine article: According to Microsoft, NT is for everyone else--especially business users who can appreciate its robust security, superior crash protection, symmetric multitasking, and CPU portability. Ultimately, however, Microsoft would love it if its software were running on all hardware, everywhere.
After reading the article and looking at the roadmap one would be under the assumtion that WinNT would run on PPC in 1995.
Having access to the nightly NT build would help you confirm or deny weather or not this was indeed the case. _________________________
Please allow me a moment to expand on why Mozilla has it right, and why it matters to other software development models being used.
Mozilla offers: 1)Nightly builds. 2)Access to the bug database. 3)Browsing the source. 4) Milestone releases.
These features matter, because the next time some overstuffed suit walks into my office and starts puking out buzzwards and promising pie in the sky vaporware, I can confirm of deny the claims with the above tools. Agreeing on a perticular piece of software is an intelectual partnership that needs be bolstered with cold hard code in order for a purchasing party to reach "buy in" on the concept.
These tools cost very little to open to the buying public (considering they are already in use in-house) and should be a standard selling tool in this century.
Moreover, if you notice the tree forking in a direction not to your liking, it gives you time to look for other sources for that solution.
So in summary, name it whatever you want (2000.1.1 blah blah blah) but follow mozillas' lead on opening the tools. _________________________
Slashdot Mirror
While this is an interesting PR move, it doesn't solve the underlying problem of domain squaters, and their practice of scalping a name.
Actually, I'm curious why more states haven't tried enforcing their scalping laws (i.e. some laws allow for no more than ~10% over the retail price). Scalpers are an interesting breed. They make money off of someone elses (often short lived) brand name. When a record company hears someone scalping a ticket, they often don't take action because it's good PR in that the person hearing story thinks "wow, they payed X to see Y?, they *must* be good). Similarly, this is often the case in domain squating (i.e. ~X million for blahblahblah.com? wow..e-commerce must be hot).
Now allow me to be clear here, I'm not talking obvios domain names without brand name investment, I'm talking about names that people (companies) have spent a lot of money to build brand awarness. Scalping this well built up name is wrong and more states should use the scalping laws already on the books.
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#define Signal11 'Pot'
#define Money__ 'Kettle'
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. . this new Belle Epoque, this delightful era .
. .
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. .
.
.
.
. .
. . Technology can no longer bind us in a vast tonnage of iron, barbed wire and brick. .
.
.
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. .
. . and the Internet has made a new intelligentsia possible. .
. . the human race will begin to obtain what it really wants. .
. .
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and last but not least...we have yet another y2kism:
The mushroom clouds of the twentieth century have parted. We find ourselves on a beach, with wave after frothy wave of transformation. We have means, motive, and opportunity. Spread the light.
It reads like a Captan Kirk log on crack!
Now bruce, you know everyone loves ya, and it's with that shining love that I point out that you've gotten a little to excited about a new millenium. Time and tehnology move forward, and we are too.
Let's not reformat now. We've come to far.
_________________________
o/~ Old mother regan, she's so dumb, she's so danerous, how come she don't go faaaaar way o/~
All hail the mighty femes
_________________________
1) one, one 'cause you left me.
2) two two for my family.
3) three three for my heartache.
4) four four for my headache.
5) five five for my lonley.
6) six six for my sorrow.
7) seven seven no tomorrow.
8) eight eight I forget what eight was for.
9) nine nine cause I've lost god.
10) ten ten ten ten for everything everything.
_________________________
You can't even move the panel out of the way, as most use some sort of scripting that doesn't allow you to move ANY part of the panel off-screen.
Starting last year, I took the $20/month I was paying to my local ISP and bought a cheap second (used) monitor for $100, and a second video card for $140.
I fire up Altavista free access (now with 4 local numbers in my area) and run the main monitor at 1280x1024 and the second @ 1024x768. The blipvert stays in the far upper left corner of the second monitor, and goes mostly unnoticed, while I continue to work on the main monitor with a full view.
The way I look at it, I would have spent about $250 this year for dialup access($20x12=240). Moreover, next year, not having an ISP to pay for, I'll have the Xtra video card and monitor payed for.
The conection is faster and more reliable that the last 2 ISPs I've tried in my area, and I've never been happier. Who knows, with all I'm saving, maybe next year I might be able to spring for a bigger 2nd monitor. :)
The question to ask yourself is:
Would last years ISP bill pay for a second video card and monitor?
_________________________
Allow me to be one of the many, many people to nominate the Ziff-Davis (ZD Group) in it's many forms.
Their particular style of "rip and read" journalism, and complete lack of objectivity over the years, has earned them the respect and honor of only the most "clue starved" trolls all over the world. It is my belief that this perverse propagation of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) puts the ZD Group among the front runners in the race for a firm twack with the /. Cluestick.
More to the point, I would like to nominate the hard work and dedication of the many ZDnet interns who (like so many sweatshop workers in a Nike factory) tirelessly toil to cut and paste microsoft press releases into Jerry Bursts' article of the day.
ZDs' blatant pursuit of mediocrity makes them a prime candidate for The Cluestick Award for FUD in Journalism.
_________________________
Allow me to be one of the many, many people to nominate the
Ziff-Davis (ZD Group) in it's many forms.
Their particular style of "rip and read" journalism, and complete
/. Cluestick.
lack of objectivity over the years, has earned them the respect
and honor of only the most "clue starved" trolls all over the
world. It is my belief that this perverse propagation of
Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) puts the ZD Group among the
front runners in the race for a firm twack with the
More to the point, I would like to nominate the hard work and
dedication of the many ZDnet interns who (like so many sweatshop
workers in a Nike factory) tirelessly toil to cut and paste
microsoft press releases into Jerry Bursts' article of the day.
ZDs' blatant pursuit of mediocrity makes them a prime
candidate for The Cluestick Award for FUD in Journalism.
_________________________
the world has become, a web site programer walked out of
empty Michigan house on Saturday without a computer and
said he doesn't plan to log-on until 2001.
HIS PLAN: live exclusively offline, including making his
own food, getting furniture from a store and actually
trying on clothes at the store and hosting a 24-hour
technology news site.
'Our vision is that new online shoppers will go to our /.Guy and /.Guys Inc., for the stunt.
site to learn how to delete windows,' said Rob
Malda, who legally changed his name to
set up a company,
After locking himself outside the rented house Saturday,
he added: 'I'm not going in until Bill Gates admits he's a loon.'
The 'live' part of the /.Guy stunt involves
24-hour streaming tech stories from hundreds of story submiters
set up throughout the world. One of Robs partners reviews books
at the kitchen, several face the living room, and one even sits on a
bathroom shelf -- turned away from the toilet and bathtub.
The /.Guy project, which sounds like a cross
between the enviro-colonization experiment Biosphere and
the film "behind the green door," has a few ground rules.
Malda can have visitors. He simply can't go closer than the
front porch.
'We certainly don't recommend that people lock /.Guy Inc.
themselves away from their computers, but we will prove that it
can be done,' said Jeff Bates, a friend of Malda's and
president of
Malda's first monthly paycheck from the company
will be $1, but it will double every time a windows machine crashes
as an incentive to stay out side of the house, Hemos said.
Hemos helped line up sponsors to sustain Malda through the
year, including Red Hat, which donated the winter coat, and
Ace Hardware, which agreed to keep the snow blower gased up all winter.
Michigan-based Andover.net sold there /. shares
when it realized its company could be hurt from a Malda
death due to outdoor exposure.
'We are going to have people say, 'Hey,
/. Guy, how do I uninstall my win-modem or
/.'s CowboyNeal. 'And when he uses our site,
how do I get this or that Web site?' said
that's how people will learn about us.'
Similar experiments have been undertaken before --
'The National Enquirer' locked two New Yorkers out of
their 'e-cave' for a week last year without a refrigerator, a
$500 daily stipend, or computer and Internet access -- but
Malda has vowed to live off small rodents and AOL CDs
longer than anyone else has so far.
Sunday afternoon, the Web site story board showed
Malda sitting on porch chatting with visitors.
Among his first buys offline buys: shampoo, toilet
paper, cleaning supplies and carry-out food.
© 2000 /. Press. All rights reserved.
_________________________
I give you:
dot-com man, dot-com man
doing the things a dot-com can
what's he like?
It's not important
dot-com man
is he a dot, or is he a com?
when he's underwater
does he get wet
or does the water get him instead?
nobody knows
dot-com man
thank you
_________________________
When attempting to watch sir clueless, the video stream gave me the following:
Information on this page requires a plug-in for:
video/x-ms-asf-plugin
Perhaps this 24 hour/7 days a week broadcast of the Blue Screen Of Death would be more aply hosted on:
RebootGuy.com
_________________________
Well put!
Especially the middle rant from Richard Heritage. It's just stupid.
_________________________
I would agree with your assesment of the limitations listed above, but I would point out that what's changing is the definition of 'the box'. Lines are incresingly being blured between where the box ends and the network begins. Highspeed External I/O is proving to be a nesesity in this networked world of ours.
There was a time when a user was happy with just an isolated box. Then LAN funtionality became increasingly needed (got boxen without a NIC? no?).
Today, without massive conectitity, the 'puter will quickly become a doorstop of funtionality. That is why these new standards make logical sence for today, and into the near future.
_________________________
the implementation of external, non-shared, non-blocking
switched connections lower latency communications between multiple channel entities, particularly between systems in a cluster
dynamic system configuration and hot swapping virtual controllers implemented in software, eliminating many host adapters
smaller system dimensions due to the elimination of host adapters and the reduction in power and cooling requirements
new memory and memory controllers for connecting to the serial channel
an increase in the number of host-based storage and data-management applications
the blurring of the distinction between I/O and networking
_________________________
This architecture does not have to be faster than SBus and PCI initially, but it has to have the potential to increase its performance by ten times or more in the next four years.
_________________________
60 years is a little to much, but 60 day terms aren't out of the question. :) I'm not talking a bout free and unfettered use of the application( programers are people too) but what I am talking about is companies putting there CVS where their mouth is.
More to the point, the idea of reading a review, and going down to the store to buy it out of the box just doesn't appeal to many admins these days.
_________________________
Word Frequency
tesla 36
turing 28
Einstein 26
Newton 24
vinci 22
Copernicus 13
leonardo 11
edison 11
Linus 9
Gutenberg 9
Galileo 9
Babbage 9
_________________________
What does it say about Bill Gates that the inclusion of Bill Gates on this list has gotten more heated response than the inclusion of Adolf Hitler?
_________________________
If my companies existance is based on NT running on a certain platform, having as much information about that platforms stability and continued development is extreamly valuable. When changes happen to the code base being used to develop my platform of choice, I want see it in the dev. tree so I can make educated decisions on the direction of my company. This is why Open tools are not only needed, but it's downright suspicious when they are not employed.
The fact that the list of boxen that NT runs on changed show much in only 5 years (how many platforms for 2000?) is another reason why an open development model should be adopted by all.
_________________________
Mom: Yea, our office has the Microsoft 98
Me: Mom, that's the operating system, What word processor?
Mom: Word? yea..we use Word. Word Perfect 98.
Me: Is that Word, or Word Perfect?
Mom: I don't know, it's the one with the little squiglies.
Me: They both use that interface for spell checking, could you just copy and paste the text into the email?
Mom: huh? Why don't they all just use one system.
And in one bright, shining moment in my mums 'puter understing and growth, she wraped her mind around the value of standards, and open documentation, and I wanted to jump for joy.
In summary, Year versioning is a confusing marketing ploy that's not good for developers or end users.
_________________________
I would have to agree that the usability of most nightly builds are less than reliable, and deploying such builds is very *very* risky. What nightly builds do offer is a 'snapshot' of the development currently underway. This is an invaluable tool to defud FUD and gives someone looking to make a buying a decision the chance to test the product before deploying.
Consider this blurb from a a 1995 Byte magazine article:
According to Microsoft, NT is for everyone else--especially business users who can appreciate its robust security, superior crash protection, symmetric multitasking, and CPU portability. Ultimately, however, Microsoft would love it if its software were running on all hardware, everywhere.
After reading the article and looking at the roadmap one would be under the assumtion that WinNT would run on PPC in 1995.
Having access to the nightly NT build would help you confirm or deny weather or not this was indeed the case.
_________________________
Mozilla offers:
1)Nightly builds.
2)Access to the bug database.
3)Browsing the source.
4) Milestone releases.
These features matter, because the next time some overstuffed suit walks into my office and starts puking out buzzwards and promising pie in the sky vaporware, I can confirm of deny the claims with the above tools. Agreeing on a perticular piece of software is an intelectual partnership that needs be bolstered with cold hard code in order for a purchasing party to reach "buy in" on the concept.
These tools cost very little to open to the buying public (considering they are already in use in-house) and should be a standard selling tool in this century.
Moreover, if you notice the tree forking in a direction not to your liking, it gives you time to look for other sources for that solution.
So in summary, name it whatever you want (2000.1.1 blah blah blah) but follow mozillas' lead on opening the tools.
_________________________
I want nightly builds.
Access to the bug database.
Browse the source.
My advise to software marketeers?
Release early and release often, and above all, be open.
_________________________
If it's from Microsoft, it has to suck
Happy new year.
_________________________
He's a small man with petty ideals and vision.
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