Reduce the number of products! They should have stayed focused on the OS and left the rest alone. MS wasn't a bunch of mean asshats before they had a vested interest in Office. When it was just DOS/Windows they were pretty cool with most people (safe Lotus, but they always seemed to have it in foir those guys).
If MS put everything they had into making Windows the best OS out there, and let other companies develope products to run under Windows, rather than taking over every market that runs under Windows, no one would have aproblem with them at all.
And the certainly wouldn't have all those damned Outlook virii that rampage across the Net!
Windows 2000 SP 2 doesn't have those nasty EULAs in them. And that's what my systems run. I also still run MediaPlayer 6 for the same reasons.
I use Win2K because everything I run needs Windows. I don't use XP because I do not like the invasive EULAs and I think it is a bloated pile of useless eye-candy.
MS concerned with losing face? You don't remember Microsoft Bob, do you? Uncle Bill doesn't give a damn a bout losing face. He's worth tens of billions of dollars. What Bill IS concerned with is control. He's a control freak above all else. Never forget that.
If Microsoft declines, future legal actions could point to their anti-competitive behavior in this area.
Say what? The XBox is a console, not a PC. And even if it was a PC, MS is not a monopoly player in the PC hardware business.
If they agree, Xbox will lose more money than it already is losing, because people will be able to buy the handle and get their razors elsewhere.
How many Linux users out there have a boner for putting Linux on an XBox? Outside of the "I'll do it because it's not supposed to be possible" crowd? A few hundred? A thousand? How much money does MS lose per XBox? $50.00, $100.00? How much money does MS have in liquid assets (cash on hand)? An estimated $40,000,000,000.00 (US). How many millions of Xboxes would have to be turned into crappy PCs running Linux before MS even felt the damage?
You have better luck draining the Pacific Ocean with a teaspoon.
If you want to mod your XBox because it's a challange, or you like turning everything around you into a Linux box, fine. Do it. Have a blast. If you are modding your XBox to stick it to the Man please invest in something resembling a clue.
True, but you could mount collectors/deflectors on it. Put some massive magnettic toroids up there and grab some garbage! Hell, they could make back on the ebay auctions what it cost to do it! Who wouldn't pay big money for a bolt that's been in orbit for 20 years? That lost Gemini glove could command a HUGE price!
I wasn't a true nerd, I had social skills and actually knew popular kids, but I alwasy knew I didn't fit in with the general population of teh school. Being smarter than those troglodites was all I really had. I didn't intentionally look down on them, but it's hard to respect ass-kissers and muscle-bound jerks who are getting by on the thickness of the brown goo on theor noses or their ability to play sports when you actually study and try to know what the hell the teachers are talking about.
Every group lords their chosen "gift" over the others. The jocks lorded their gridiron skills and the schools willingness to let them do as they please as long as they win. The cheerleaders lorded their desirability over the other girls. The rich kids lorded their parents money over the less furtunate. It's what every group does. Don't single out the nerds and brains because they had something you couldn't ever have.
In high school I had several classes with more than six classmates with the same first name as myself. Luckily no two of us went by the same derivation. I have a fried with the same first and last name as myself. There is also a minister in my town with the same first and last name as myself who lives three blocks away on the same street as I do. This has probably cause him a world of embarrassment.
While that may be true, did you check to see if Opera is sedning out screwy.CSS to sabotage NS 4.7 or is the problem that Netscape 4.7 is a festering pile of lizard excrement? Given the lack of propper.CSS support in Netscape 4.7 (the bane of my existance when I was doing web page developement) and has a LOT of issues with W3C standard HTML, I'm inclined to go with option 2.
The ads are there. They just turn them off for a few days as a "being nice" gesture.
I am a registered Opera user, I just haven't gotten around to registering this install since the last nuke from orbit OS disaster and the ads are there as I type this in the Bork edition.
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Sarah Michelle Gellar? I thought they were talking about Steve Miles Gibson! Glad I got that cleared up!
Obviously the mods don't read Jerry Pournell's (sp?) collumn.
Mr. Niven,
I'll dispence with the mindless fawning and dreadful toading and get righ to my questions:
1: Are organ banks still a concern for Mankind, or will the ability of cloning individual organs make them a moot point?
And on a lighter note:
2: What did you think about Halo, the game?
Reduce the number of products! They should have stayed focused on the OS and left the rest alone. MS wasn't a bunch of mean asshats before they had a vested interest in Office. When it was just DOS/Windows they were pretty cool with most people (safe Lotus, but they always seemed to have it in foir those guys).
If MS put everything they had into making Windows the best OS out there, and let other companies develope products to run under Windows, rather than taking over every market that runs under Windows, no one would have aproblem with them at all.
And the certainly wouldn't have all those damned Outlook virii that rampage across the Net!
Windows 2000 SP 2 doesn't have those nasty EULAs in them. And that's what my systems run. I also still run MediaPlayer 6 for the same reasons.
I use Win2K because everything I run needs Windows. I don't use XP because I do not like the invasive EULAs and I think it is a bloated pile of useless eye-candy.
Afraid the Berzerkers are coming? It's far too late to do anything about it now.
When I grow up I want to be a quantum mechanic!
I rememember watching the launch on TV. I also remember watching Neil Armstrong step onto the moon for the first time.
So I should leave my porn at home?
That's Godwin's Law.
When it can't play XBox ganmes, or it gets banned from XBox Live.
Everything does too need Linux! My comode wouldn't back up so often if it wasn't subjected to so much bloated...
Um, wait.. Wrong bloat. Sorry.
MS concerned with losing face? You don't remember Microsoft Bob, do you? Uncle Bill doesn't give a damn a bout losing face. He's worth tens of billions of dollars. What Bill IS concerned with is control. He's a control freak above all else. Never forget that.
Say what? The XBox is a console, not a PC. And even if it was a PC, MS is not a monopoly player in the PC hardware business.
If they agree, Xbox will lose more money than it already is losing, because people will be able to buy the handle and get their razors elsewhere.
How many Linux users out there have a boner for putting Linux on an XBox? Outside of the "I'll do it because it's not supposed to be possible" crowd? A few hundred? A thousand? How much money does MS lose per XBox? $50.00, $100.00? How much money does MS have in liquid assets (cash on hand)? An estimated $40,000,000,000.00 (US). How many millions of Xboxes would have to be turned into crappy PCs running Linux before MS even felt the damage?
You have better luck draining the Pacific Ocean with a teaspoon.
If you want to mod your XBox because it's a challange, or you like turning everything around you into a Linux box, fine. Do it. Have a blast. If you are modding your XBox to stick it to the Man please invest in something resembling a clue.
The XBox isn't a PC? Sure, it uses PC parts, but that doesn't make it any more a PC than using a G4 processor and an ATI GPU makes a GameCube a Mac.
It is not in Microsoft's interests to go along with this.
Sounds like the last time I used Linux.
And next week he discovers that water is wet, death sucks and Republicans are evil.
When I'm to lazy to do THAT myself, kill me.
True, but you could mount collectors/deflectors on it. Put some massive magnettic toroids up there and grab some garbage! Hell, they could make back on the ebay auctions what it cost to do it! Who wouldn't pay big money for a bolt that's been in orbit for 20 years? That lost Gemini glove could command a HUGE price!
I wasn't a true nerd, I had social skills and actually knew popular kids, but I alwasy knew I didn't fit in with the general population of teh school. Being smarter than those troglodites was all I really had. I didn't intentionally look down on them, but it's hard to respect ass-kissers and muscle-bound jerks who are getting by on the thickness of the brown goo on theor noses or their ability to play sports when you actually study and try to know what the hell the teachers are talking about.
Every group lords their chosen "gift" over the others. The jocks lorded their gridiron skills and the schools willingness to let them do as they please as long as they win. The cheerleaders lorded their desirability over the other girls. The rich kids lorded their parents money over the less furtunate. It's what every group does. Don't single out the nerds and brains because they had something you couldn't ever have.
In high school I had several classes with more than six classmates with the same first name as myself. Luckily no two of us went by the same derivation. I have a fried with the same first and last name as myself. There is also a minister in my town with the same first and last name as myself who lives three blocks away on the same street as I do. This has probably cause him a world of embarrassment.
Girls with dual floppies make my hard drive spin.
While that may be true, did you check to see if Opera is sedning out screwy .CSS to sabotage NS 4.7 or is the problem that Netscape 4.7 is a festering pile of lizard excrement? Given the lack of propper .CSS support in Netscape 4.7 (the bane of my existance when I was doing web page developement) and has a LOT of issues with W3C standard HTML, I'm inclined to go with option 2.
The ads are there. They just turn them off for a few days as a "being nice" gesture.
I am a registered Opera user, I just haven't gotten around to registering this install since the last nuke from orbit OS disaster and the ads are there as I type this in the Bork edition.
The point is that MSN is deliberatly sending Opera users bad .CSS.