Greetings.
1) A gigantic celebrity lobster is dead.
2) Bill Gates received an honorary knighthood today. It is hard to imagine how someone who has brought so much suffering to the World in the form of bloated, buggy software and unfair competition could be made an honorary knight. Perhaps insane governments are pandemic.
3) SaveEnterprise.com reports on who donated $3,000,000 to save Star Trek: Enterprise: people in the aerospace industry. The justification is actually interesting.
Aaron
3 comments:
I take serious issue with #2. If Bill Gates had not made everything he made and spread it to as many ppl as he did, we would be MUCH worse off than we are now. That's like saying that the people who invented certain antibiotics brought so much suffering to the world becuase those drugs come with side effects of severe stomach pain.
And as my father says, sometimes a person shouldn't complain unless he has a good suggestion for a solution (i.e., present us with your own operating system).
ISKA
I apologize if that sounded too mean. I just read it over.
It's alright, I get too mean sometimes, too.
Microsoft does not invent anything. They purchase and copy other people’s ideas. The infamous MS-DOS was originally QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System), which was literally hacked together over a weekend. Windows is a blatant ripoff of the Macintosh OS. All the applications Microsoft is infamous for, such as Office and Explorer, are things others have done before, only better.
Alternatives to Microsoft Windows: Mac OS X and Linux. The former I can speak from experience that it is extremely hard to crash. Both are also much more secure than Windows; Mac OS X has no viruses, literally. (Windows machines are liable to be compromised mere minutes after being connected to the Internet.) Linux is free and open source.
Alternative to Microsoft Office: OpenOffice, which is free and open source.
Alternatives to Microsoft Explorer: Safari (included with Mac OS X) and Firefox.
These ought to do for a start.
Aaron
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