Posted by Matthew on Tuesday January 6, 2004 @01:18PM
from the 1984-was-twenty-years-too-early dept.
Matthew writes: Microsoft has launched a new website to provide the facts regarding its competition. In this site, Microsoft takes on IBM, Sun, Linux, and the U.S. Government to show how its products deliver lower costs than all competitors.
A study of the total cost to deliver health and human services, basic governance, and environmental protection show that Windows Server 2003 outperforms the U.S. Government by an average of 11% to 22%, potentially saving U.S. Tax payers (licensees of managed government services) nearly 500 Billion dollars per year.
Windows is most cost effective when you compare the environmental impact of feeding and housing 20 million public servants versus the resource consolidation that allows them to be obviated. Add to that the elimination of the Justice Department and its associated costs, and you’ve got savings you can take to Microsoft’s new online banking service.
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Posted by Matthew on Tuesday January 6, 2004 @10:39AM
from the stupid-is-as-stupid-does dept.
matthew writes: [From SlashNOT, Jan 14th, 2005] Visibly upset, and drinking heavily, Yahoo today expressed serious regret over dumping Google a year ago.
“We were Yahoo and Google, man. Everyone knew us, loved us–wanted to be Us. Then I had to go mess it up. Why do I always do that, man? We really had a good thing going—the best portal plus the best search—it was like we owned the web.”
“I guess I wanted different things—you know, some variety. So I started going after paid links. When google found out I was doing paid links, it was like something died between us. But why shouldn’t I? This isn’t 1995—it’s not all free browsing and happiness.”
“And yeah, there were major control issues. I wanted a partner that would be more submissive to my demands.”
“So I broke it off with Google. Things went down hill fast. As it turns out, people seem to want relevant links rather than paid inserts when they search for something. All of our friends sided with Google in the breakup. I’ve lost so much money that I’m sharing bandwith with AOL, and I’ve alienated pretty much everyone else.”
“I’ve tried to call Google a bunch of times, but I guess Google is doing just fine without me. I just wish I had a chance to apologize. I still do Google searches all the time.”
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Posted by Matthew on Friday January 2, 2004 @10:02AM
from the survival-of-the-fittest dept.
Matthew writes: Australian scientists have mapped out the Glactic Habitable Zone within which complex life may exist. The stars within this zone are four to eight billion years old, making 75% of them older than our own five billion year old sun. Dr. Charles Lineweaver of the University of New South Wales puts this into perspective:
“75% of the potential alien invaders have a one billion year evolutionary head start on us, and half of them have a two billion year head start. To put that in perspective, it only took us 500 million years to evolve from worms into humans. This clearly means that any potential alien threats are far more highly evolved than we are, perhaps having acid for blood and the ability to gestate within the gastrointestinal tracts of other species. Also, they would have developed vastly higher technology than humans, which makes it unlikely that they would spare us for use as slaves.”
“The other major take-home fact is that their sun is going to burn out much sooner than ours, making them greedy for interstellar conquest so to move their doomed race to a new homeworld.”
“We’re currently broadcasting a beacon signal of interstellar goodwill, in hopes that we might soon hear from our noble brothers in space. I’m sure that once they get to know us, they will respect us in much the way we respect less evoloved species.”
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Posted by Matthew on Thursday January 1, 2004 @01:42AM
from the mmm...-parody dept.
Matthew writes: This year, the rating system kept our best work on the home page, as rated by our beloved SlashNOT Army of Geeks. So instead of posting my absolute favorites, which includes about half of the Top Stories listing, I’m posting “The 10 Next To Best Stories”. Here they are, humbly submitted for your approval.
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