if you break it down to pure ethical question, i think dave may be right about a microsoft breakup being not nearly enough.
blech. i lost all my cookies. very annoying. and my icq hasn’t been opening for the past few days. just tries to connect, all the while sucking 95%+ cpu cycles until it locks up my system.
here’s a little piece in yesterday’s usa today that asks the question, what if microsoft hadn’t been a bully?
sometimes dvorak talks out of his ass, but sometimes he doesn’t.
Here’s the thing: Microsoft has a war chest of some $20 billion dollars that it can use to go out and buy companies left and right, but there are no companies left to buy! All the real innovators have gone into other markets. And if Microsoft tried to buy into a new market such as CAD/CAM or embedded systems, its own executives would ruin the acquisitions. It’s a lose-lose situation.
these doj vs microsoft joke images are mildly humorous. i like the monopoly cards. the santa one is pretty good as well.
whoa shiznit, 30 second exposures w/ a cooled nikon 990. very few stuck pixels, very low noise. pretty amazing.
next on my todo list is setting up sendmail for randomfoo and procmailing all my mail to that address from now on.
whoa, i’m listening to the star wars soundtrack, and all of a sudden i realize, the channels are reversed! the bass is on the right and the high strings are on the left! first time i noticed that… and then when i start typing i just realized that wait a minute, i’m not in the orchestra playing (youth orchestra flashback), so when your in the audience the channels are supposed to be that way.
that’s my crazy anecdote for the day.
for all those nikon d1 owners who don’t feel like paying an extra $500 to get your 16bpc files, bibble looks pretty rockin.