[ale] Heckling billy-g

[Dan Newcombe]

On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, sjd wrote:
> At this point, I yelled, "IT LOOKS LIKE A MAINFRAME"

Yes, but not as reliable or powerful :)   Which is why it is cheaper.

> I dunno if billy-g heard me, but it sure felt good to let him know my
> feelings. 

My fave was when I was at a Microsoft seminar introing Win95 in a techie
way.  I asked the guy if they'd fixed the bug that overwrote the master
boot record when installing 95, thus wiping out other OS's (or at least a
boot loader).  He told me it wasn't a bug.  After about 30 seconds of is
to, is not, I rephrased to "Have they fixed the design flaw"
 
> Question for discussion:  What do you call a week in which you see Bill
> Gates give a Keynote at Comdex, and Linus give a keynote at ALS? 

Evil warming up for good?   At least if Linus said Linux 2.3 would be out
this year, I'd believe it.  I think the first two/three years I went to
COMDEX, Bill said "this" year the new Windows will be out.  I guess now
he's doing the same thing with NT 5.

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Dan Newcombe                                      newcombe at mordor.clayton.edu
"The fool who escaped from paradise will look over his shoulders and cry...So
I'll hold my peace forever when you wear your bridal gown."   -Marillion