Posts by danny_0x98 158 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Mar 2009
I'm tempted to link to this, though no one ever likes or clicks through.
Still, as my friends have no clue what I'm talking about when I make faux wisdom coinages such as "It takes a lot of semi-colons to write a C program," this is likely to be the best opportunity to share with them a favorite humorist and superb writer.
Microsoft and Apple only compete regarding the operating system when a new system is sold. You have an XP or Vista Dell and OS X is not a choice.
As for established markets not having piracy, the current user of XP or Vista doesn't have to spend for an upgrade unless they see value. In addition, Microsoft couldn't or wouldn't make the XP to Win7 upgrade slam dunk easy. There will be reinstallation of software. Some XP users still have underpowered systems and would have to pay to beef them up. I say you put it all together, apply actions speak louder than words, and Microsoft still would rather you buy a new machine with Win7.
Finally, while Messrs. Ballmer and Turner profess confidence that with Lauren et al they have finally turned the advertising tables, I can imagine a devastating "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ad this fall. As poor PC ponders the prices, limiited deals, rules, upgrade paths, feature sets, and who may buy which version of Win7, he offers his sympathy to Mac because he's facing an upgrade. "Oh," Mac points out "one Snow Leopard, one price, and it has all the features and no software reinstallation and product key wrangling." Complex vs. Simple. It's classic.
I hope I don't prove a point to my detriment, but I write this from my MacBook Pro 15 called "Parsifal." I've been progressing through the alphabet.
Um, when I hit "e" I did use Elrond. Sorry. I was younger. It ran FreeBSD 5.x, does that mitigate the twerpiness a little?
At one job, when I brought some Linux file servers on line to relieve the burden on an ancient small business server, I named them after co-workers' children.
Recently, I've been naming servers after bad former US Presidents. So I have a Polk and a Fillmore. Another name for the series freed up earlier this year and awaits assignment.
I agree about the complainers could have just not watched. Now it's my suspicion that bleeping his language, as is done in US version of Hell's Kitchen, has its merits. Besides taking arrows out of the naysayers' quivers, it also means the viewer is engaged trying to figure out what particular salty term Mr. Ramsay just used.
Back in the good old days of college radio, December 1974, a story ran on the wire about the CIA having layoffs. I assisted the news director of the college station as he telephoned the CIA to ask the question "where do canned spooks go?" The CIA picked up the call, but didn't want to say any thing and really did not want their "no comment" to be recorded. Yeah, go figure. He aired the part prior to their request to stop the recording, and, respecting the the press officer's wishes, obscured the use of the CIA person's name by editing in wacky sound effects.
See guys, you can have fun with this stuff.
The Register 
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2025
