Unless you’re a pre-teen girl, you should enjoy this article. Apparently a sampling of the Backstreet Boys music has been utilized as an anti-student-protester tool at a Canadian university. Cool.
A protester was quoted as saying, “This is probably the first time the Backstreet Boys have been deliberately used as a form of sleep deprivation torture.”
We can only hope it will not be the last.
If you were thinking about licensing the concepts from George Orwell’s future-past novel “1984” for web or electronic use, you will want to talk to the folks over at Newspeak.com. The main purpose of their site seems to be to pawn these rights they aquired from Mr. Orwell’s estate.
But aside from the subtle pushing of their licensing rights, there are actually some pretty interesting parallels drawn between the book and the modern world…good food for thought. I like the main interface too – it features Warhol-esque portraits of Hitler, Mao Tse Tung, Stalin, someone else I don’t recognize but who probably is/was a pretty bad guy, and then smiling down at the end of the line is Mr. Bill Gates. Check it out.
Windows 2001 released ahead of schedule?
Apparently someone has gotten a hold of a development build of Win2k+1 and splattered it all over the net. Does anyone else see this as really stupid?
For a moment, let’s just put aside the utter confusion of the Windows development cycle…neptune, odyssey, whisler, blackcomb, mars – sounds like the cast of a bad sci-fi movie. To ponder what the hell Microsoft is thinking at any particular moment could land you in an institution.
But honestly, if you found a development build of a Windows product that is not even slated for release until next summer, and will undoubtedly not be finished and released until 12-16 months after the end of the year it was named for, would you install it and send it to all of your friends? Granted, there is the techno-geek curiosity factor, but what are you going to learn? With over a year to go until release, this project will probably get combined, cancelled and restarted 60 times before it goes to market, if it does at all. From the article: “So far As noted by ActiveWin, the pirated Whistler build looks almost identical to Windows 2000 Professional.” Surprise, surprise, surprise. Another planned pointless upgrade.
Hell, I don’t consider Windows 2000 stable, desirable or different enough to justify installing yet, and it HAS been officially released…let’s keep crappy future Windows products in the uncertain future, shall we? Let Microsoft do their own testing. 🙂
Heres a little quick bit of comedy to lighten the atmosphere here at alternate.
Apparantly the singer of Blink182’s dog was having digestive problems and had to go to the vet for an enema, the funny thing is the doctor was hip enough to know the name of the Blink album and to find it quite funny… (the record is named Enema of the state)
According to this article it appears that Netscape is planning on releasing Netscape 6.0 in the next 25 days…
UHM, what the fuck happened to Netscape 5.0???
I guess Microsoft must of purchased it from AOL… (laf)
I found an interesting article about a group of hackers called the “Crime Boys” who apparently hacked all the NT servers they could get their hands on at various government facilities… BUT the interesting part is that they got denied when they tried to hack into the ARMY web servers. The ARMY’s NT/IIS servers had recently been replaced by Apple’s MacintoshOS and Star Nine’s WebStar http server which proved to be an unhackable combo. Gotta love it!
Okay. Here we go again. According to this Excite.com article, Compaq and MS are going to “hard code” MSN into new Compaq Presario computers, with ” special keyboard buttons and additional software that will allow users to quickly access the Internet through MSN.”
Great.
Is it just me, or are PC companies getting dumber and dumber? Instead of educating consumers and giving them the possibility of making choices for themselves, they’re going to make it even easier to get on the internet. I’ve got an idea. How about if people who don’t know how to use the internet don’t use it? Or more to the point: How about if people uneducated about the internet and technology get educated about them instead of letting Bill Gates do the thinking for them? And why isn’t anyone encouraging education about these issues?
Oh, wait. I know. Then Compaq, eMachines and Microsoft would stop making money. Right.
For all you online form junkies, there is an interesting informal Internet Usage Survey going on that some of you might enjoy filling out. Its primary purpose is to study personal Internet surfing habits
BUT the cool thing is that they dont ask for personal information such as your name, email, or telephone number. All they ask is that you fill out the questionnaire to the best of your ability.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot the point… the findings will be available at the site which would be great stuff for all you ebusiness folks that are always on the hunt for the most recent internet stats.
Apple is having a promotion for purchasers of an iMac or iBook from now until June 18, 2000.
64MB of FREE additional memory at no cost when you purchase an iMac or iBook and a Hewlett-Packard 800, 900 or 1200 Series color printer.
The FREE RAM can be had at the Apple Store. Go get it.
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