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The most expensive game in the world.
The embedded contest announced in October '98
continues. Microsoft and Sun starring in Java vs. WinCE set-top-box
wrestling. After the Sun turn, which was paid by AOL, it's Microsoft
turn. They invested $5b into AT&T to install 2.5 million of WinCE
set-top-boxes. That means $2,000 per single customer. Big deal.
The next turn is Sun, which doesn't have so much cash. Who's going to
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You are welcome to evaluate one of the coolest software I ever saw -
vmware. That's a
full-featured computer emulator running under Linux or NT. You can
boot virtually any OS in the window, and this OS will operate with
confidence that it is running exclusively on the real computer.
This wonderful work receives the Hacker's dream
award. The future of this project is decided by DOJ - may or may
not OEM's break the "Windows experience". If they could - it maybe
a great idea to ship Windows as application on Linux workstations.
Many people need PowerPoint. |
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Joke of the month from Marc
Andreessen about Web usage statistics:
"The Net used to be 50 percent men and 50
percent men pretending to be women".
Well, in fact behind the Net Stock Rush there is a very basic idea:
e-commerce Moguls like Amazon have a huge database of customer
records. If they know what books this person reads, they know everything.
It was only a dream for KGB to know what books people read. By the way,
investors pay $5,000 per reader.
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Do you know that George W. Bush registered
bushsucks.com domain? No award for that -
other people might have to make it useful.
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It's amazing, IBM might loose it's Windows license for so-called
IBM compatible computers, as stated at DOJ trial. Next time
IBM should eat its children like Cronos did. So, Microsoft definitely
becomes Hera, powerful and jealous. We can see how it turns everybody
into the cow - investing more and more billions into attractive
and naive Io's. Then competitors become bully - but they should
remember that Hera is going to blind every Tiresias who say that
Unix experience give ten times more pleasures than the Windows one.
I'm curious, are we going to remember all this
Mythology fifteen years later?
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