Some of Mark's blog entries in the past have cited shortcomings and oversights in Windows systems and he has often provided utilities to get around/address them. Now that Mark is a Microsoft employee, will such criticism be forthcoming, or silenced?
In my community, we had a similar incident, a community activist videotaping police, charged with multiple counts of felony eavesdropping, technically guilty. The county state's attorney was a long-time, popular incumbent from my political party, call him "Gorman".
My response, after examining the accountability of the parties involved, was to argue for Gorman's culpability in this with all my friends and acquaintances every time the subject came up, and I made sure it came up a lot. I spoke with friends active in the other party about who they would be running, photocopied articles, passed them around, helped the opposing party in this race only.
Big surprise. Gorman lost handily in the next election.
As much as I love this stirring, foundational oratory myself, for purposes of clear communication (as opposed to rhetorical smackdowns, which are really more fun), simply distinguish between legal rights and quasi-Declaration inalienable rights, and any other class of rights you are talking about (along with its appropriate provenance). Nobody else does it, and in an earlier time, you would be thought wise, but now you will simply be accused of disempowering someone or other.
I concur. In fact, I did what you are trying to do, complete with Engineering Open House project that conversed, and stored info in a semantic network. Then I had wonderful interviews with various NLP heavyweights (of the era). When one gentleman said, "I'm going to do everything I can to see you get an offer", I realize in retrospect that he meant, "...since you only have a Bachelor's Degree."
CS, lots of graph theory and algorithms. Take a few linguistics courses on the side. What he said. Then do this in grad school.
MS is always going to pushing the envelope in areas like speech recognition
When I got my sub-$1000 eMac, I was more than a little surprised that, out of the box, by checking one option, I could say into the air, "Computer, get my mail." and it would. "Computer, close this application." - the whole StarTrek package, era-adjusted. Like your sub-$1000 Windows system, right?
This weekend reminds us that, when the Death Star pulls up to a little planet, that the outcome depends on what little planet the Death Star is pulling up to...
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And also he's ticked about Google's corporate slogan, "Don't Be Evil", since it is an obvious take-off on Microsoft's corporate slogan...
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HAHAHAHAHA!!! Oh, man...
Thanks.
Good one.
My response, after examining the accountability of the parties involved, was to argue for Gorman's culpability in this with all my friends and acquaintances every time the subject came up, and I made sure it came up a lot. I spoke with friends active in the other party about who they would be running, photocopied articles, passed them around, helped the opposing party in this race only.
Big surprise. Gorman lost handily in the next election.
Go thou and do likewise.
If a man is talking in a forest, and there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?
It would seem that evil retreats when forcibly confronted. -- Yarnek of Excalbia, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.5
He's learned from Microsoft that coercion works better than the alternatives most of us use to persuade others. A man consistent in his principles.
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As much as I love this stirring, foundational oratory myself, for purposes of clear communication (as opposed to rhetorical smackdowns, which are really more fun), simply distinguish between legal rights and quasi-Declaration inalienable rights, and any other class of rights you are talking about (along with its appropriate provenance). Nobody else does it, and in an earlier time, you would be thought wise, but now you will simply be accused of disempowering someone or other.
I concur. In fact, I did what you are trying to do, complete with Engineering Open House project that conversed, and stored info in a semantic network. Then I had wonderful interviews with various NLP heavyweights (of the era). When one gentleman said, "I'm going to do everything I can to see you get an offer", I realize in retrospect that he meant, "...since you only have a Bachelor's Degree." CS, lots of graph theory and algorithms. Take a few linguistics courses on the side. What he said. Then do this in grad school.
They could call it something catchy, like .NET!
Ah, but have they registered enough domain names? ;-) That's always the hard part when lots of tech-literate people hate you...
When I got my sub-$1000 eMac, I was more than a little surprised that, out of the box, by checking one option, I could say into the air, "Computer, get my mail." and it would. "Computer, close this application." - the whole StarTrek package, era-adjusted. Like your sub-$1000 Windows system, right?
This weekend reminds us that, when the Death Star pulls up to a little planet, that the outcome depends on what little planet the Death Star is pulling up to...
And also he's ticked about Google's corporate slogan, "Don't Be Evil", since it is an obvious take-off on Microsoft's corporate slogan...