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From: Saul Luizaga
Subject: Re: Micrsoft trying to buy Yahoo!
Date: 13 Feb 2008 19:59:12
Message: <47b39260@news.povray.org>
Chambers wrote:
> Saul Luizaga wrote:
>>   Listen I come from the time of MS DOS, I was a noob programmer back 
>> then and among compilers, .dll and other basic programming components 
>> the chat between close friends was don't use that MS 
>> compiler/component/program is very slow, is buggy it doesn't do well 
>> this... is crappy. Maybe MS has changed in part that but that's all 
>> I'm admitting.
> 
> So you don't like them today, because you heard gossip about their 
> products 15 years ago?

I read tech news all the time and many ppl complains about MS not doing 
something they should have, like in common sense.

>> About MS (lol)... a few months ago Internet Explorer 7 Team invited 
>> some  Mozilla FIreFox guys to help them better Integrate FireFox into 
>> the, back then, up coming Windows "Long Horn" (Vista), but I read in 
>> some other article later on, that they basically asked for help to 
>> give IE7 tabbed capability and other FireFox security features, with 
>> all the millions, sorry BILLIONS... they ask developers from a 
>> freeware organization ADVICE. MS develops programming laguages... 
>> enough said.
> 
> Wow, you mean they were actually humble enough to ask for advice? That's 
> really impressive, coming from such a big corporation!

In deed, when billions and the MSDN doesn't cut it YOU HAVE TO.


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From: Saul Luizaga
Subject: Re: Micrsoft trying to buy Yahoo!
Date: 13 Feb 2008 20:08:12
Message: <47b3947c@news.povray.org>
I mean, I'm sure MS can do a clone of Firefox with little effort since 
it has HUGE resources, they have the programing languages, the programes 
and the time and money it would require, so I don't understand why MS 
can do it? I'm sure they have very clever ppl that works on a excellence 
basis, so why once in a while MS blows it, and yields crappy results, is 
it marketing?, is it logistic?, is it administrative interference? human 
error? I can, I truly can understand human error but Windows 95?! you 
got to be kidding!


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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: Micrsoft trying to buy Yahoo!
Date: 13 Feb 2008 20:43:38
Message: <47b39cca$1@news.povray.org>
Saul Luizaga escribió:
>  The deal is simple: you don't mess with it, it wont mess with you.

It's not fun if I can't mess with it. That's why I prefer Linux :)


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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: Micrsoft trying to buy Yahoo!
Date: 13 Feb 2008 20:53:23
Message: <47b39f13@news.povray.org>

> I mean, I'm sure MS can do a clone of Firefox with little effort since 
> it has HUGE resources, they have the programing languages, the programes 
> and the time and money it would require, so I don't understand why MS 
> can do it? I'm sure they have very clever ppl that works on a excellence 
> basis, so why once in a while MS blows it, and yields crappy results, is 
> it marketing?, is it logistic?, is it administrative interference? human 
> error? I can, I truly can understand human error but Windows 95?! you 
> got to be kidding!

Administrative interference most probably.

http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html


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From: scott
Subject: Re: Micrsoft trying to buy Yahoo!
Date: 14 Feb 2008 05:23:59
Message: <47b416bf@news.povray.org>
> I mean, I'm sure MS can do a clone of Firefox with little effort since it 
> has HUGE resources, they have the programing languages, the programes and 
> the time and money it would require, so I don't understand why MS can do 
> it?

Because they think their programmers will make the company more successful 
by working on other stuff?  It's not like they have 1000 programmers sitting 
around twiddling their thumbs with nothing to do.


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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: Micrsoft trying to buy Yahoo!
Date: 14 Feb 2008 09:20:05
Message: <47b44e15$1@news.povray.org>

> I'm not sure how related this is...
> 
> Three or four people were fired from the Yahoo! Widgets team today.
> 
> http://twitter.com/rickyromero/statuses/704725872

Wow, looks like they fired those people, but got the original Yahoo 
Widgets engineer back! :|


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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: Micrsoft trying to buy Yahoo!
Date: 14 Feb 2008 12:43:26
Message: <47b47dbe$1@news.povray.org>
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:55:06 -0400, Saul Luizaga wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:27:57 -0500, Warp wrote:
>> 
>>> Saul Luizaga <sau### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
>>>> Windows 2000, for me, is
>>>> a master peace of OS, an example of low memory and extreme efficiency
>>>   Was that some kind of subtle sarcasm?
>> 
>> He meant "masterpiece" - as in he liked it.
>> 
>> Jim
> lol, yeah sorry, my english is not very good, masterpiece, yes. I have
> pushed it to see how stable it is, an is ROCK SOLID. I have loaded about
> 45 apps while I was listening music in winamp 2.89, connected to
> internet and surfing/downloading on ADM K6 II-500 Mhz with 256 MB RAM.
> Unless you do a illigal stuff like deleting/closing system stuff in the
> registry/memory or files/folders, wont give you any kind of error.
> 
>   The deal is simple: you don't mess with it, it wont mess with you.

Yeah, I think of all the versions of Windows I've used, I preferred 2K 
over the others.  In fact, the VMware machine that I have with Windows in 
it has 2000, and it was originally built about 7 years ago.

Jim


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From: Saul Luizaga
Subject: Re: Micrsoft trying to buy Yahoo!
Date: 14 Feb 2008 21:29:44
Message: <47b4f918@news.povray.org>
scott wrote:
>> I mean, I'm sure MS can do a clone of Firefox with little effort since 
>> it has HUGE resources, they have the programing languages, the 
>> programes and the time and money it would require, so I don't 
>> understand why MS can do it?
> 
> Because they think their programmers will make the company more 
> successful by working on other stuff?  It's not like they have 1000 
> programmers sitting around twiddling their thumbs with nothing to do.
> 
> 
For all the MS software out there, they have at least 1000 programmers 
on pay roll, besides MS have recruited some of the best ones with their 
programming Olympics or something like that.

Well, as someone says: you can manage to fuk up even the simplest thing 
to do. Or something like that. There is effort and sacrifice in every 
single thing crafted by men, so maybe I was too harsh on MS, maybe 
they're solving problems so complicated that the common-sense-level ones 
goes by their side without being noticed. But is very annoying anyway 
and they replicate IN EVERY WINDOWS VERSION, including Vista: you look 
for something that you think sgould be there and guess what MS manages 
to put it in a place you'd never think of, not in the same features but 
is the same behavior in all versions. The word INTUITIVE must not be 
very popular in MS...


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From: Saul Luizaga
Subject: Re: Micrsoft trying to buy Yahoo!
Date: 14 Feb 2008 21:39:00
Message: <47b4fb44$1@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson wrote:
> Yeah, I think of all the versions of Windows I've used, I preferred 2K 
> over the others.  In fact, the VMware machine that I have with Windows in 
> it has 2000, and it was originally built about 7 years ago.
> 
> Jim

And there is Win2000 Lite, I've found out about it a few days ago, damn, 
if I'd only had know about it earlier... how? www.nlite.com


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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: Micrsoft trying to buy Yahoo!
Date: 15 Feb 2008 00:29:12
Message: <47b52328$1@news.povray.org>
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:41:02 -0400, Saul Luizaga wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Yeah, I think of all the versions of Windows I've used, I preferred 2K
>> over the others.  In fact, the VMware machine that I have with Windows
>> in it has 2000, and it was originally built about 7 years ago.
>> 
>> Jim
> 
> And there is Win2000 Lite, I've found out about it a few days ago, damn,
> if I'd only had know about it earlier... how? www.nlite.com

Huh, I never heard of that one.

But that site seems to link to one of those domain-squatter "search" 
pages.

Jim


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