a little humor connie
What good is having someone who can walk on water
if you don't follow in his footsteps?
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Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 22:10:23 -0500
From: Mark Moshe Kaye <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: JOTD Oct 19
Thanks to Grillo for this one !!
Enjoy !!
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This piece was found on Usenet, author unknown. At the rate Netscape
and Microsoft are slugging it out, this might not be far from truth
someday! QuickTime Video at 11pm... -- Editor
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP, Sept. 2, 2002) - Senate Majority Leader Ray
Noorda (P-Utah) today demanded that the Department of Justice order
Microsoft and Netscape to cease development of new Internet
browsers, saying the ever-escalating battle for Internet dominance
had sapped the American economy of its vitality.
In an impassioned speech before the Perotista-controlled Senate,
Noorda-- once a key figure in the information technology
industry--claimed American workers and shoppers are so consumed with
downloading new browser versions, Netscape plug-ins and Microsoft
ActiveX Controls that they no longer have time to produce anything
of value or to consume products. "We have been transformed from a
nation of thinkers and doers to a nation of downloaders worried about
whether we are keeping up with the technological Jones'es,'' Noorda
said.
Noorda's comments came only a day after Netscape released Version
407 of its Navigator browser, which includes the ability to listen to
AM radio from any laptop. Version 407 had just completed its 37-hour
beta trial, while versions 408-441 are in development. (Microsoft,
which has been criticized of late for slipping behind Netscape in the
browser race, vowed to deliver Version 405 of its Internet Explorer
"before the next major religious holiday,'' though company spokesman
Jim Manzi declined to specify which religion the company was
referring to.) Mark Gibbs, author of IDG Books' bestselling Deleting
Old Browsers for Dummies, said the continuing instability in the
Internet market has virtually halted development of new applications.
"How can you build to a platform that only lasts 51 days?'' asked
Gibbs. "The only apps being developed now are crossword puzzles and
3-D, rotatable crossword applets.''
According to research firm International Data Corp., the average PC
user now has 62 browsers installed. That has significantly limited
the usefulness of the desktop machine because each "browser/operating
system/object bucket/API repository" consumes a minimum of 1G bytes
of storage and requires 256M bytes of RAM to operate (somewhat less
if the touchscreen option is disabled). Intel Corp. recommends the
use of at least a 757-MHz Decadium processor to support current
browsers.
"There is no capacity left to run any other application," said IDC
Chief Executive Officer Bob Frankenberg. "Our PCs, in essence, are
simply containers for browsers."
In the late 1990's, it was hoped that the browser model of accessing
information would actually allow for the development of simpler,
less- expensive desktop devices that would rely on applications and
data housed on Internet servers. But the dream of the so-called
Internet device died with the release of Internet Explorer Version
231, which cracked the 800M-byte storage requirement and supported
some 250,000 ActiveX Controls.
"It's a shame, really," said former Oracle CEO Lawrence Ellison, who
was a vocal proponent of the Internet device idea at the time. "We
could have been freed from the Web of Microsoft control, no pun
intended. But Bill outmaneuvered us again," added "Big Larry"
Ellison, who now runs the Used Cars 'R' Us operation on the Auto Mile
in Redwood City, Calif.
In response to Noorda's call for federal intervention, the Justice
Department issued an electronic press release available on its Web
site (www.bookem.com). "We firmly believe the free market is the
best arbiter of whether development should continue on Web browsers
and servers." (This statement best viewed with Internet Explorer
Version 396.)
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