> I ended up being a Transformer for Halloween (Voltron, specifically :),
> and ended up being teased even more.. this is probably when I started
Hey! Voltron wasn't a transformer... Transformers I thought were kind of
dumb because they were easy to figure out how it transformed. Voltron was
Here is my take on it...
If you really want insight into the case, you really need to READ the
case : http://usvms.gpo.gov/findfact.html
It is NOT a case about people being jealous of Bill Gates and Microsoft
for being successful and making a lot of money. It is a case about
Microsoft's flag
More :)
> It feels new to me though even though I've been using computers since the
> atari800 :)
Right, Computing as we know it today is new. "desktop computing" to be
specific, has gone from the "early adopter" stage to more mainstream.
> They came up with an operating system that would run
*sigh* some people just don't GET it... (I guess that's why we have
discussions)
> > > what practice do you consider to be illeagle that they commited?
> >
> > Tying in their products. That's the BIG thing. Say you owned 80% of the
> > gas stations, and you were 1 of 50 car manufacturers. S
Me again
> Ahh something I know about... YIPPIE!! MS Excel came out on the Macintosh
> platform BEFORE any other platform... and it came out aleast sometime
IIRC, MS bought Excel from another company. It's possible that it was
already made for the Mac, but did they keep on updating it for the
> Ahh I was wrong about the date of MSexcel for macintosh...
> The first version of excel written was for the macintosh 512K back in
> 84-85 according to:http://dss.cba.uni.edu/dss/sshistory.html
Wow... something relatively innovated by Microsoft... Thanks for the
link.
> > Yeah but they also
Personally this is what I want...
Click on Start and have folders that open that say "Imaging", "Games",
"office", "internet". Open up "internet" and see "Icq", "Netscape",
"AIM", "WS_FTP"... etc. MS makes it EXTREMELY difficult to customize it
how you want it. You can't get rid of the "Pro
> what hardware do you have that you can't use?
> btw a great source of games is lokisoft www.lokisoft.com
> they have a newsgroup for recommendations.. also there are lots of sites
> that cover how to run common games in wine..
DVD, Winmodem (on my laptop) and on my desktop I have a CD-R and AF
