Month: February 2004
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Intentional Leak?
Did Micro$oft intentionally leak portions of it’s source code to the Windoze operating system to cripple the open source movement? It seems like a distinct possibility when you read quotes like the following from eweek:Perhaps most at risk is the open-source community and particularly Linux, which are built on the trust among code contributors that…
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Progress
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld Magazine
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Fear
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.Seneca
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Getting the most from your IT department
When you call us to have your computer moved, be sure to leave it buried under half a ton of postcards, baby pictures, stuffed animals, dried flowers, bowling trophies and children’s art. We don’t have a life, and we find it deeply moving to catch a fleeting glimpse of yours.Don’t write anything down. Ever. We…
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Proust
Proust describes rounding a bend in the road: he sees a stand of trees he’s seen before, but whether he first saw them in a dream or in the distant real past, he can’t say. "I watched the trees gradually recede, waving their despairing arms, seeming to say to me: ‘What you fail to learn…
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Crocodiles love dogs
A dog barks nearby. "Crocodiles love dogs," [Mark] Read [Biologist, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service] tells me. "To crocs their barking is like the jingle of an ice-cream truck to a child."Smithsonian, page 92, November 2001