Very Computer

Well, well, well.  It seems the almighty Redmond Empire can't get
its Xbox out on time.

Guess Windoze must be dying.

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                            Delenda est Windoze

L: This seems to have reduced my spam. Maybe if everyone does it we

K: Truth in advertising:
        Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
        Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
        Special Interest Sierra Club,
        Anarchist Members of the ACLU
        Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
        The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
        Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,

J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
   The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
   also known as old hags who've hit the wall....

I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
   challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
   between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
   Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole

H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
    premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
    you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
    you are lazy, stupid people"

G:  Knackos...you're a retard.

F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
   *ery while concurrently committing *ery with Tammy Hahn.

E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
   her behavior improves.

D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
   ...despite (C) above.

C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.

B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
   method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
   direction that she doesn't like.

A:  The wise man is mocked by fools.

Talking about games - it's a real shame that more new games are not
released in parallel under Linux. I've just got "Black & White", the new
LionHead game. What a FANTASTIC game so far! The graphics are wonderful
and the AI is second to none! Anyway the annoying thing is that my win
boxen would not run it at a decent speed so I had to install the horror
OS on my unspoiled new Linux box in order to play this wonder of
programming. Annoying, but worth it. btw it took LionHead three years to
craft their masterpiece - perfection takes time (of course I doubt
anyone would claim that delays at Mafia$oft were due to perfection).

Quote:> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/04/13/1236215&mode=thread

> Well, well, well.  It seems the almighty Redmond Empire can't get
> its Xbox out on time.

Here is a quote from the article:

"As with most rumors, there is little hard evidence backing up the theory
that Microsoft will miss it's fall launch, and Microsoft itself has said
that the Xbox is right on schedule if not slightly ahead of production
goals. "

Quote:> Guess Windoze must be dying.

-Todd

Quote:

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Quote:>          PGP public key at http://www.smart.net/~rchason/pubkey.asc
>                             Delenda est Windoze

No?

So why is Linux "dying" because of what happened to Indrema?

Quote:>Here is a quote from the article:

>"As with most rumors, there is little hard evidence backing up the theory
>that Microsoft will miss it's fall launch, and Microsoft itself has said
>that the Xbox is right on schedule if not slightly ahead of production
>goals. "

>> Guess Windoze must be dying.

>Dream on.

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                            Delenda est Windoze

39 lines of sig, to say absolutely *nothing* in the message itself?  Pretty
weenie.

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Hope that helps.

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L: This seems to have reduced my spam. Maybe if everyone does it we

K: Truth in advertising:
        Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
        Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
        Special Interest Sierra Club,
        Anarchist Members of the ACLU
        Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
        The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
        Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,

J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
   The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
   also known as old hags who've hit the wall....

I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
   challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
   between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
   Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole

H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
    premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
    you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
    you are lazy, stupid people"

G:  Knackos...you're a retard.

F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
   *ery while concurrently committing *ery with Tammy Hahn.

E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
   her behavior improves.

D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
   ...despite (C) above.

C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.

B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
   method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
   direction that she doesn't like.

A:  The wise man is mocked by fools.

: On time.  On budget.  Works.  Pick two - or one in an emergency. :)

Kernel panic: no such file, device, or directory.

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The USDA guidelines for dietary fibre is equal to one ounce of sawdust.
The liver makes the vast majority of the cholesterol in your *stream.

I think what you are seeing is the Linux hype dying down in the press and
reality starting to hit companies.  Companies that try to make a profit off
of Linux are failing or their stock almost completely devalued.  Some
projects that used Linux are also failing (Indrema), etc.

Not to say that *everything* is going bad... some of the embedded stuff is
very successful.

Quote:> >Here is a quote from the article:

> >"As with most rumors, there is little hard evidence backing up the theory
> >that Microsoft will miss it's fall launch, and Microsoft itself has said
> >that the Xbox is right on schedule if not slightly ahead of production
> >goals. "

> >> Guess Windoze must be dying.

> >Dream on.

> Yes, I realized as soon as I gave the command to post that I should
> have included some kind of explicit sarcasm marker.

-Todd

Quote:

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Quote:>          PGP public key at http://www.smart.net/~rchason/pubkey.asc
>                             Delenda est Windoze

As to Indrema, it hasn't earned a dime in revenue, just spent all the
money raised from mortgaging the farm, and now wants some VC to ignore
Microsoft and Sony.  They may have been born in the dark, but it wasn't
last night.

Quote:> Not to say that *everything* is going bad... some of the embedded stuff is
> very successful.

> > >Here is a quote from the article:

> > >"As with most rumors, there is little hard evidence backing up the theory
> > >that Microsoft will miss it's fall launch, and Microsoft itself has said
> > >that the Xbox is right on schedule if not slightly ahead of production
> > >goals. "

Quote:

> > >> Guess Windoze must be dying.

> > >Dream on.

> > Yes, I realized as soon as I gave the command to post that I should
> > have included some kind of explicit sarcasm marker.

> Or something that ref`ed the original Indrema article... :)

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As I remember.  When Mozilla shipping date was slipping, Microsoft used
it as the poster child for there "Open Source is a failure, doesn't
deliver on time" etc etc FUD campaign, yet when a Microsoft product
doesn't ship on time, they make up some really lame excuse such as,
"last minute errors found", or, "last minute enhacements needed to be
added".  As I remember, Windows 2000 was meant to be the combining of
Windows 98 and NT into one single source, however, they found out in the
middle of 1998 that they a little "over optimistic" and instead scaled
back their aims, and the rushed job definately shows in the quality of
their product.

Matthew Gardiner

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Running SuSE Linux 7.1

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So I don't see why Windoze is dying.  

By that analogy then Linux is close to dead; since the (sorry forgot the
name) game counsel that WAS going to run on Linux got scrapped.