but the Intel guys know that the real key to making the sale is taking the management out for food, fun, and a night they won't be able to tell their wives about.
Motorol...uh.. Freescale knows how to throw a steak dinners and BareNakedLadies Concert. They through a hell of a party at the Hard Rock CityWalk in Orlando for their 1 yr anniversary (on the last day) as a thank you to its customers.
Freescale Technology Forum 3 days. I highly recommend attending next year's.
Despite everything certain safety requirements are to be placed against the prOn the one hand this is the requirements to the tightness of the plant, which is ensured by a permanent slight negative pressure connected with a safety disconnection.
Obviously machine translated. Interesting stuff. Really just recycling oil (Plastic,PVC,Tires) into diesel. I like it, kills two birds(cats?) with one stone. Landfill Reduction, Diesel Production.
Never fly here in the US unless you cut in Dick Cheney.
Microsoft would pay some money to Time Warner for the AOL stake, leaving the two companies approximately equal partners in the venture, the Post said.
So instead of my worst fears of AOL owning Batman & Bugs Bunny, I get Batman & Bugs and Bill owning AOL.
TimeWarner, this is a boneheaded mistake on top of the one you made purchasing AOL in the first place. Once you bought it you had a chance to change it into a real company. Now you will let MS Borg it. There never was much help for you if you were an AOL subscriber, now you are officially FsckedXP.
Does this mean that AOL will stop eating IE every automatic AOL update? Could shake the PC repair industry to its core.
From TFA: At any point in our history, we've had competitors who were better at doing something. Novell was the best at file servers. Lotus was the best at spreadsheets. WordPerfect was the best at word processing.
So its not just me. Even the Founder knows they suck (comparatively)
Right now, because of the breadth of what we do, we have that in many areas. Nokia is way ahead of us in phones; we're closing the gap. Sony is ahead of us in video games. We're just on the verge of something (the Xbox 360) that will help us close the gap there. In Web search, Google is the far-away leader. Big honeymoon for them. Even if they do "me, too" type stuff, people think, "wow." nd Apple in music has done a fantastic job.
We interupt this Bill Gates Honesty Break to bring you the following.
In those areas where somebody else has done well, that's great. We'll match what they do, we'll bring new things to it, do it better and integrate it in with other things. And so it's very healthy for the consumer. We see that in search, we see it in music. It's not new at all that that's out there
Translation: We make inferior products, bundle them, make exclusive deals, failing all else we buy the competitor and bury/integrate their product.
eg... Thats funny, this article wasn't even mildy amusing.
On a side note, Now I have 9 different Windows OS, 10 Office Suites, not to buy.
Many Linux Distros = Good
You miss the point entirely. Choice is a good thing, unless the choices are Evil, Hobbled Evil, Crippled Evil, Evil for Tykes. Corporate Evil, or Mom & Pop Evil.
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, public health, and making ice without electricity, what have the Romans ever done for us?
fSCKING jUDEAN pEOPLES fRONT.
We are the Peoples Front of Judea.
We Should all respect His or Her Right to be or not be a Woman or man.
BTW.. Only the ACTUAL Supreme Court can decide what is Unconstitutional.
Unacceptable.. Hmmm Lockhead wouldn't be my first choice either, especially if the goal is to keep costs down.
Unnecessary, Come on man. We lose information on a daily basis. We've already paid for it. You want it to decay on magnetic tape? NASA Photos, Log data, NOAA, ARMY, Nuke teting, all of this should be preserved and made available. I for one don't want to have to load the Reels to access that info anymore. Might as well ask my kids to load the punch cards for census data.
Always have a designated place for your recovery and forensic live cds close by.
I ship a LiveCD that fits the customers usage with almost every pc I repair. Next call, I can check the hardware by having the customer boot the cd, sometimes can walk them through repairing the MBR.
Spread the Penguin ........Thta sounds alot worse than I thought.
I was the biggest Sonic fan until the 3d ones came out.
Sonic3d for DGEN uhhh... Sega Genesis. http://www.mobygames.com/game/genesis/sonic-3d-bla st/screenshots Simply Awesome. At the time it was mesmerizing, and I don't just throw that word around, I mean, sit any pre-teen kid in front of it today and come back in 4 hrs, if you don't make them take a break they won't.
I see this clearly now, MS sees that any discussion involving switching over to linux gets the overwhelming response: "I need to boot Windows to run MY Games." If PC games keep sliding off the shelf we won't need them anymore.
"We're putting the 'game' back in Windows," explained group manager Chris Donohue.
Start with Halo 2 Jackasses. The loss of the first one for 3 yrs was a bitch. The second feels like its never coming.
"We're over the hump with Xbox 360 so now ready to build Windows as a platform."
What the hell was it before you started humping the 360?
Nothing to do with the movie. That Game came out just before the film. You could almost use the same review. Although you couldnt leap a block at a time or make HULK Gloves out of cars you could smash/weaponize damn near everything.Also it was Cell-shaded I believe. Pretty Good Casual Game, wish it would run under Cedega
I read the polite letter from Microsoft's outside recruiter.
I read the (I piss on you) response from ESR
I wrote my own response to his response.
BEGIN QUOTE ->
Without parroting every other post, I'm dissapointed. Your time is precious I'm sure, but, I would have hoped you would take this opportunity to get some more insight and find out what they offer you. Even If you found it unnacceptable, you could report the results. What if they want to set up a new open source steering group at MS. You're content to leave that job in the Gentoo guys hands alone surrounded by MS borg engineers. If you are the visionary you claim (I make no judgement either way, I appreciate the work you do.) you need to know where/how your enemy is strategizing. From the outside you can react, from the inside you can be proactive. (Think along the lines of AOL and Nullsoft. You see it now?)
Once again I am saddened. Maybe RMS and Linus will think out their responses a little more carefully. I really have a hard time understanding why you chose a typical slashdiot antiMS diatribe.
We do/will coexist with these guys. 2 PCs in my office 1 Windows, 1 Linux. (about 125 embedded linux devices in varying stages of programming) The more we can convince them of the advantages of working with us, the less they will work against us. You have a position of some authority in the FOSS community, which should be used it wisely/judiciously. I would have fired you if you sent that response through my server. Very Unproffessional.
Having said that, I also understand that you hold firmly to your convictions. As an individual, you have every right to express yourself like an ass, and you have yet again exercised that right. (In my opinion to the detriment of us all.)
Then again, Maybe its all much simpler. Maybe just Maybe you were afraid you wouldn't be able to say no (alleged convictions be damned) to the dump truck full of scratch they were gonna offer you, Surely you won't have to make that tough choice now. But you also have ruined any chance of steering change from the inside.
Then there is the peer pressure issue. Maybe you saw the reaction/backlash to Daniel Robbins accepting a position at MS. But careful reading of that backlash will lead you right through all the points of this post.
Maybe its simpler than all that and you are a juvenile sophmoric technophile. Having read almost all of your writings and speeches and books, I hadn't come to that conclusion. Could you just clear it up for me? I can't quite decide.
I know M$ has a really bad history, but lets give them some credit to putting more than 10 minutes of thought into something as crucial to their software as the file&print sharing protocol.
You must be new here. Make it work. Ship IT. At MS it has always been thus.
The problem is there is no other impetus on campus except to make it work. Ugly kludges and security holes are all hidden behind the proprietary wall. It may even be a constantly embarassing problem, that has to be patched with new ugly proprietary cludges. There may even be "unknown vulnerabilities, not kludged yet.(nobody complains nobody fixes) All these years later, the EU says MS must show there protocols, vulnerabilities and all.
I don't give microsoft credit, they got enough of my money. If they want more they have to change. If IBM can do it, anybody can.
Head this whole thing off. REDHAT Style. OpenSource the next itteration of windows. Start a community project, hmmm take over REACTOS, Fill it full of trademarks and Copyright images and charge 100 bucks for win98 for the next 10 yrs. Eventually someone will rip the trademarks & images out but by that time your n the next Rev.
What's to lose? Dominance? Still bundle with new PCs at a price. Still have (now-Legal) casual copying reinforce your marketshare. Free beta-testers and coders to improve your product. Goodwill from the FOSS world. (Admit it we all would like to see MS become more human and would welcome them to the light side.) The only downside is I can see is the possibility of forking. The fork would not be much of a threat from OED or ODM only if you don't play nice with FOSS.
Maybe I could arrange a meeting with IBM, WindRiver and even a few Apple OSX guys, to help get this point across. Maybe even SUN.
Why all the fighting? Won't someone think of the children?
I see the almost unanimous reponse is negative.
It seems every linked Escapist article is, some for fair reasons. But, the artcle after is pretty good almost every time.
Not usually journalism, but interesting none the less. I just thought the editors at the Escapist (if they still read slashdot after the last 2 posts) would like to hear something other than complaints about formatting/graphics.
FTA:
Morrowind was a blast. I never paid for it. World of Warcraft cost me $70, if you count the two months I paid for the subscription, and it's one of the least compelling games I've ever played. Does paying for WoW take away from the great games like Morrowind I stole?
Unfortunately, it does..... ....I managed to send an unspoken message to Bethesda Softworks: "Your game isn't as good as this crappy one I just shelled out 70 bones for.
If we're not exciting these eyeballs better than anyone else, people will go watch Lost.
I'd rather watch my hard drive try to survive another week than another 5 mins of Reality TV.
Hello, TV & Film industry, can we get some scripted products please, anyone...
I am embarrassed to admit, I have watched a whole episode of Filthy Rich Cattle Drive. Come on, its got Noah Blake (Berretta Jr. can't be far behind, Oh yeah, that would require a script.)
Quoth the Wikipedia:
For example, U.S. copyright law, 17 U.S.C. 105, releases all works created by the U.S. government into the public domain, patent applications as part of the terms of granting the patent to the invention are public domain, patent law excludes inventions that obviously follow from prior art, and agreements that Germany signed at the end of World War I released such trademarks as "aspirin" and "heroin" into the public domain in many areas.
See, some new Patent Applications just "fell into" PD while I was typing this.
I think you meant very little of interest to you personally, created in your lifetime, has fallen into the Public Domain. I think if you investigate a little harder that could be proven untrue as well.
Slashdot Mirror
Motorol...uh.. Freescale knows how to throw a steak dinners and BareNakedLadies Concert. They through a hell of a party at the Hard Rock CityWalk in Orlando for their 1 yr anniversary (on the last day) as a thank you to its customers.
Freescale Technology Forum 3 days. I highly recommend attending next year's.
Guess they didn't invite Steve.
Actually I want one too.
Despite everything certain safety requirements are to be placed against the prOn the one hand this is the requirements to the tightness of the plant, which is ensured by a permanent slight negative pressure connected with a safety disconnection.
Obviously machine translated. Interesting stuff. Really just recycling oil (Plastic,PVC,Tires) into diesel. I like it, kills two birds(cats?) with one stone. Landfill Reduction, Diesel Production.
Never fly here in the US unless you cut in Dick Cheney.
If this isn't the grossest mismanagement of government funds this side of the Atlantic I don't know what is.
- IRAQ
- http://www.occupationwatch.org/reports/archives/2
0 05/06/us_mismanagemen.html
More mismanagement of govt funds on this side of the atlantic infoStrategic Missle Defence
New Orleans
http://www.taxpayer.net/
http://councilfor.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagena
http://www.akdart.com/waste.html
I could go on all day.
So instead of my worst fears of AOL owning Batman & Bugs Bunny, I get Batman & Bugs and Bill owning AOL.
TimeWarner, this is a boneheaded mistake on top of the one you made purchasing AOL in the first place. Once you bought it you had a chance to change it into a real company. Now you will let MS Borg it. There never was much help for you if you were an AOL subscriber, now you are officially FsckedXP.
Does this mean that AOL will stop eating IE every automatic AOL update? Could shake the PC repair industry to its core.
At any point in our history, we've had competitors who were better at doing something. Novell was the best at file servers. Lotus was the best at spreadsheets. WordPerfect was the best at word processing.
So its not just me. Even the Founder knows they suck (comparatively)
Right now, because of the breadth of what we do, we have that in many areas. Nokia is way ahead of us in phones; we're closing the gap. Sony is ahead of us in video games. We're just on the verge of something (the Xbox 360) that will help us close the gap there. In Web search, Google is the far-away leader. Big honeymoon for them. Even if they do "me, too" type stuff, people think, "wow." nd Apple in music has done a fantastic job.
We interupt this Bill Gates Honesty Break to bring you the following.
In those areas where somebody else has done well, that's great. We'll match what they do, we'll bring new things to it, do it better and integrate it in with other things. And so it's very healthy for the consumer. We see that in search, we see it in music. It's not new at all that that's out there
Translation: We make inferior products, bundle them, make exclusive deals, failing all else we buy the competitor and bury/integrate their product.
eg... Thats funny, this article wasn't even mildy amusing.
On a side note, Now I have 9 different Windows OS, 10 Office Suites, not to buy.
Many Linux Distros = Good
You miss the point entirely.
Choice is a good thing, unless the choices are Evil, Hobbled Evil, Crippled Evil, Evil for Tykes. Corporate Evil, or Mom & Pop Evil.
fSCKING jUDEAN pEOPLES fRONT.
We are the Peoples Front of Judea. We Should all respect His or Her Right to be or not be a Woman or man.
BTW.. Only the ACTUAL Supreme Court can decide what is Unconstitutional.
Unacceptable.. Hmmm Lockhead wouldn't be my first choice either, especially if the goal is to keep costs down.
Unnecessary, Come on man. We lose information on a daily basis. We've already paid for it. You want it to decay on magnetic tape? NASA Photos, Log data, NOAA, ARMY, Nuke teting, all of this should be preserved and made available. I for one don't want to have to load the Reels to access that info anymore. Might as well ask my kids to load the punch cards for census data.
We'd have o have constant impeachment hearings and the best we would be left with is http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/norton-bio.ht ml
She is pretty cute though.
Unfortunately the only feasible thing is to wait for 2008 hoping W doesn't get us all killed or bankrupt by then.
She is kinda cute for a Republican
I ship a LiveCD that fits the customers usage with almost every pc I repair. Next call, I can check the hardware by having the customer boot the cd, sometimes can walk them through repairing the MBR.
Spread the Penguin
........Thta sounds alot worse than I thought.
Been Playing UT2k4 for about a year with mod called HaloUT http://torlan.dragonstarelite.com/
Much more fun halo experience.
Still i'd like to see a Bungie release for PC. Not getting an XBOX.
Sonic3d for DGEN uhhh ... Sega Genesis. http://www.mobygames.com/game/genesis/sonic-3d-bla st/screenshots
Simply Awesome. At the time it was mesmerizing, and I don't just throw that word around, I mean, sit any pre-teen kid in front of it today and come back in 4 hrs, if you don't make them take a break they won't.
"We're putting the 'game' back in Windows," explained group manager Chris Donohue.
Start with Halo 2 Jackasses. The loss of the first one for 3 yrs was a bitch. The second feels like its never coming.
"We're over the hump with Xbox 360 so now ready to build Windows as a platform."
What the hell was it before you started humping the 360?
Those cars did suck man.
Yeah, but what about a game based off a movie that was produced by the game The Movies http://www.lionhead.com/themovies/
Or a movie based on a game based off a movie created with The Movies game.
My head hurts.
Linkyhttp://movies.about.com/cs/thehulk/a/hulkgame news.htm
This title is more like a Comic Book World version. More Marvel Villains than the previous which stuck pretty close to the events in the movie.
I read the (I piss on you) response from ESR
I wrote my own response to his response.
BEGIN QUOTE ->
Without parroting every other post, I'm dissapointed. Your time is precious I'm sure, but, I would have hoped you would take this opportunity to get some more insight and find out what they offer you. Even If you found it unnacceptable, you could report the results. What if they want to set up a new open source steering group at MS. You're content to leave that job in the Gentoo guys hands alone surrounded by MS borg engineers. If you are the visionary you claim (I make no judgement either way, I appreciate the work you do.) you need to know where/how your enemy is strategizing. From the outside you can react, from the inside you can be proactive. (Think along the lines of AOL and Nullsoft. You see it now?)
Once again I am saddened. Maybe RMS and Linus will think out their responses a little more carefully. I really have a hard time understanding why you chose a typical slashdiot antiMS diatribe.
We do/will coexist with these guys. 2 PCs in my office 1 Windows, 1 Linux. (about 125 embedded linux devices in varying stages of programming) The more we can convince them of the advantages of working with us, the less they will work against us. You have a position of some authority in the FOSS community, which should be used it wisely/judiciously. I would have fired you if you sent that response through my server. Very Unproffessional.
Having said that, I also understand that you hold firmly to your convictions. As an individual, you have every right to express yourself like an ass, and you have yet again exercised that right. (In my opinion to the detriment of us all.)
Then again, Maybe its all much simpler. Maybe just Maybe you were afraid you wouldn't be able to say no (alleged convictions be damned) to the dump truck full of scratch they were gonna offer you, Surely you won't have to make that tough choice now. But you also have ruined any chance of steering change from the inside.
Then there is the peer pressure issue. Maybe you saw the reaction/backlash to Daniel Robbins accepting a position at MS. But careful reading of that backlash will lead you right through all the points of this post.
Maybe its simpler than all that and you are a juvenile sophmoric technophile. Having read almost all of your writings and speeches and books, I hadn't come to that conclusion. Could you just clear it up for me? I can't quite decide.
- End QUOTE
He rolls around on them, obviously.
You must be new here. Make it work. Ship IT. At MS it has always been thus.
The problem is there is no other impetus on campus except to make it work. Ugly kludges and security holes are all hidden behind the proprietary wall. It may even be a constantly embarassing problem, that has to be patched with new ugly proprietary cludges. There may even be "unknown vulnerabilities, not kludged yet.(nobody complains nobody fixes) All these years later, the EU says MS must show there protocols, vulnerabilities and all.
I don't give microsoft credit, they got enough of my money. If they want more they have to change. If IBM can do it, anybody can.
Head this whole thing off. REDHAT Style. OpenSource the next itteration of windows. Start a community project, hmmm take over REACTOS, Fill it full of trademarks and Copyright images and charge 100 bucks for win98 for the next 10 yrs. Eventually someone will rip the trademarks & images out but by that time your n the next Rev.
What's to lose? Dominance? Still bundle with new PCs at a price. Still have (now-Legal) casual copying reinforce your marketshare. Free beta-testers and coders to improve your product. Goodwill from the FOSS world. (Admit it we all would like to see MS become more human and would welcome them to the light side.) The only downside is I can see is the possibility of forking. The fork would not be much of a threat from OED or ODM only if you don't play nice with FOSS.
Maybe I could arrange a meeting with IBM, WindRiver and even a few Apple OSX guys, to help get this point across. Maybe even SUN.
Why all the fighting? Won't someone think of the children?
Not usually journalism, but interesting none the less. I just thought the editors at the Escapist (if they still read slashdot after the last 2 posts) would like to hear something other than complaints about formatting/graphics.
FTA:
Morrowind was a blast. I never paid for it. World of Warcraft cost me $70, if you count the two months I paid for the subscription, and it's one of the least compelling games I've ever played. Does paying for WoW take away from the great games like Morrowind I stole? Unfortunately, it does.....
....I managed to send an unspoken message to Bethesda Softworks: "Your game isn't as good as this crappy one I just shelled out 70 bones for.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/8/28
Pretty accurate description of the evolution of the "new geek". He'll be praising Stallman by the end of the year....
Welcome Friend.
I'd rather watch my hard drive try to survive another week than another 5 mins of Reality TV.
Hello, TV & Film industry, can we get some scripted products please, anyone...
I am embarrassed to admit, I have watched a whole episode of Filthy Rich Cattle Drive. Come on, its got Noah Blake (Berretta Jr. can't be far behind, Oh yeah, that would require a script.)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/15/22492
All this found in 5minutes at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain
Public Domain Movies http://www.openflix.com/
The mouse that ate the public domain http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20020305_s prigman.html
Moglen and Lessig in 2001 Conference on Public Domain http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/mpegcast.html
Quoth the Wikipedia: For example, U.S. copyright law, 17 U.S.C. 105, releases all works created by the U.S. government into the public domain, patent applications as part of the terms of granting the patent to the invention are public domain, patent law excludes inventions that obviously follow from prior art, and agreements that Germany signed at the end of World War I released such trademarks as "aspirin" and "heroin" into the public domain in many areas.
See, some new Patent Applications just "fell into" PD while I was typing this.
I think you meant very little of interest to you personally, created in your lifetime, has fallen into the Public Domain. I think if you investigate a little harder that could be proven untrue as well.
ERROR::ERROR /Linguo
Ha Ha...You suck./Nelson