Curiosity got the best of me. I installed Windows XP on an extra computer at work today. I really don’t want to go into it because I know that Kev is tired of hearing about Microsoft. Plus everyone is to busy snickering and giggling to try anything serious out. Let’s just say that the GUI is pretty insulting but the install went smoothly.
As the U.S. economy continues to stagnate and layoffs proliferate, workplace experts say, it is becoming more important than ever for employers to be vigilant against retaliation by the people they are letting go.
Or maybe employers can start treating their laid-off employees with some dignity and compassion. IHT article, via the Bitchlog.
This “Code Red” worm thing is so out of hand. So many resources are being spent (including our taxpayer dollars) to deal with the crap that Microsoft puts out.
I say we hold Microsoft accountable and charge them with negligence and hand them the bill….if only that was a real possibility.
Here is an interesting article on HyperTransport.
Looks like it’s shaping up to be a face-off between Intel and its lapdogs (direct quote from the article, not mine) and the rest of the computer industry (which includes nVidia, Cisco and Sun). Interestingly, Apple is the only PC manufacturer on the HyperTransport consortium, with the rest of the PC industry squarely in the aforementioned lapdog category. Not that they’d have a choice anyway – they are little more than package and distribution channels for Intel and Microsoft these days.
Strangely enough, the article doesn’t mention the big fence-sitter – IBM, whose membership could decide the winner.
Macintosh and XBox sharing the same system architecture – imagine that!
This apparent interference came in the form of Microsoft’s announcement Monday that computer manufacturers who put any icons on the desktop of Windows XP — the new version of its operating system — must also include an icon for MSN, Microsoft’s ISP.
Wha-? Who-the-? How-the-? It’s entirely too frustrating that they keep doing this, and I’m seriously getting sick of hearing about it, writing about it, thinking about it. And it’s an OS I don’t even fucking use! I haven’t seen a Windows desktop or Windows IE explorer window in action since last January, and still it upsets me that they try to do this shit. I don’t know how many times I’ve vowed ‘never to report on MS doing something stupid again.’ And yet I keep doing it, over and over and over. Because they keep finding new ways to stick their head in the sand. I have no doubt that there are smart people at Microsoft, but whoever the hell makes and approves these kinds of decisions should be fucking fired. Wait. I don’t mean fired, I mean fired AT. With a shotgun.
I hate to say this, but the internet is very boring right now. I know Alternate sure as hell is.
But what site isn’t boring, you ask? Well, Urban Forest just got redesigned by yours truly.
So while I was in Nebraska burning myself to a crisp, Jen @ the Bitchlog blogged for 24 hours straight for charity. Go check it out. Gives you a glimpse of what blogs would be like if the bloggers only blogged non-stop instead of having to work for a living. The result? Deeply personal and interesting stories and ideas. A little too much to read for this short attention-span society? Possibly, but still very entertaining.
If you ever go to Lake McConaughy in Nebraska, don’t forget to put sunscreen on your feet. Just a word of advice. When you’re standing on a deck, and the breeze picks up a little, and you wince in pain as it lightly brushes the tops of your feet, that’s bad.
“Stopping just short of accusing Microsoft of stalling, the Justice Department asked an appeals court to deny the company’s request to re-examine whether the software maker illegally mixed software code for two products.”
“The Internet is an important cultural phenomenon, but that doesn’t excuse its failure to comply with basic economic laws,”
What I sense here is a group of business men who made some very bad business decisions. Rather than blame themselves it seems easier to blame the structure of the internet as being inefficient and “anarchist.” I think it is obvious to anyone that has the slightest clue about the internet that it isn’t the internet that has failed. I would classify it as one of the most successful “inventions” ever. It’s more popular than religion, but not quite as popular as sex (although it fills the void for some).
