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2/24/03 9:17:15 AM
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Under "White Box" Why such success for the "no names"?. Note the period after the question mark. Under "The Internet" Without an effective well designed and well promoted Web site, There should be a comma after 'effective'. More as I read the rest of it. BTW, depressingly good work. The only poroblem I see is the length. Which is why it's depressing: The problem is so large you can't describe it in any shorter format. More: Under "Web Services": ... promoted by three of the major proponents of Web Services, IBM, Bea Systems, and Sun Microsystems. Should have a colon instead of comma before "IBM". Under "Wireless Networking": You use wireless were it is impractical Should be "where". Also under "Wireless": and with broadband all less than 1.5-MB per Should be "at". Under "Mobile Devices": because it's similarity to a full function PC, means they can expect Lose the comma after "PC". Also under "Mobile": this will be a very dynamic field, allowing innovative companies Lose the comma after "field". (BTW I'm anal about extraneous commas, having once had a tendency to using too many.) now defunct Napster, not only bog down your network The comma. ;) Under "Microsoft 'Road Ahead'": familiar with all Microsoft's tricks, In markets Comma should be a period. And especially outside the U.S.. Note double closing period. Under "Longhorn": License 6 does force customers to upgrade on Microsoft's schedule, whether they want to or not, but a majority of the market has not adopted License 6, despite Microsoft's threats. Lose first and third commas. Where you write: I find it probable Longhorn will largely end the use of reliable, low cost servers (Linux, NetWare) for Windows users. You might want a footnote to explain that you're talking about SAMBA, and what that means. as did it's "universal filesystem" predecessor Drop the apostrophe. Under "Microsoft Office": Microsoft Office, not Windows is Microsoft's true cash cow, and it is Office, much more than Windows, that ties customers to Microsoft's expensive licensing plans. Need more commas, I'd write: Microsoft Office, not Windows, is Microsoft's true cash cow; and it is Office, much more than Windows, that ties customers to Microsoft's expensive licensing plans. Where you say that Office 2003 will only run on WXP and W2K w/ SP3 you might want to point out that the significant bit in W2K is not a technical issue but a licensing one. IOW that the only reason for ensuring it won't run on W2K without SP3 is that they don't want it to. (Thane has said as much, though I don't know where you could find public references/confirmation. Under "Paladium": and at lower prices than their original planned. Should be "they". Under "Licensing": Microsoft says to . Extra space before the period. (Damn, how'd I even see that?)
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Under "White Box" Why such success for the "no names"?. Note the period after the question mark. Under "The Internet" Without an effective well designed and well promoted Web site, There should be a comma after 'effective'. More as I read the rest of it. BTW, depressingly good work. The only poroblem I see is the length. Which is why it's depressing: The problem is so large you can't describe it in any shorter format. More: Under "Web Services": ... promoted by three of the major proponents of Web Services, IBM, Bea Systems, and Sun Microsystems. Should have a colon instead of comma before "IBM". Under "Wireless Networking": You use wireless were it is impractical Should be "where". Also under "Wireless": and with broadband all less than 1.5-MB per Should be "at". Under "Mobile Devices": because it's similarity to a full function PC, means they can expect Lose the comma after "PC". Also under "Mobile": this will be a very dynamic field, allowing innovative companies Lose the comma after "field". (BTW I'm anal about extraneous commas, having once had a tendency to using too many.) now defunct Napster, not only bog down your network The comma. ;) Under "Microsoft 'Road Ahead'": familiar with all Microsoft's tricks, In markets Comma should be a period. And especially outside the U.S.. Note double closing period. Under "Longhorn": License 6 does force customers to upgrade on Microsoft's schedule, whether they want to or not, but a majority of the market has not adopted License 6, despite Microsoft's threats. Lose first and third commas. Where you write: I find it probable Longhorn will largely end the use of reliable, low cost servers (Linux, NetWare) for Windows users. You might want a footnote to explain that you're talking about SAMBA, and what that means. as did it's "universal filesystem" predecessor Drop the apostrophe. Under "Microsoft Office": Microsoft Office, not Windows is Microsoft's true cash cow, and it is Office, much more than Windows, that ties customers to Microsoft's expensive licensing plans. Need more commas, I'd write: Microsoft Office, not Windows, is Microsoft's true cash cow; and it is Office, much more than Windows, that ties customers to Microsoft's expensive licensing plans. Where you say that Office 2003 will only run on WXP and W2K w/ SP3 you might want to point out that the significant bit in W2K is not a technical issue but a licensing one. IOW that the only reason for ensuring it won't run on W2K without SP3 is that they don't want it to. (Thane has said as much, though I don't know where you could find public references/confirmation. Under "Paladium": and at lower prices than their original planned. Should be "they".
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Post #83,855
2/24/03 6:48:20 PM
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Yeah - should be Pope Johns Pizza
Apologies to Father Guido Sarducci.
I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customer got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What's in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.
--Alan Perlis
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