Comments on: Microsoft Dupes Library of Congress https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/25/microsoft-dupes-library-of-con/ Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:41:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: LRM https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/25/microsoft-dupes-library-of-con/#comment-4365 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:41:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/25/microsoft-dupes-library-of-con/#comment-4365 Twenty-five minutes from log on until you can use the PC? Gah! That’s horrible! My condolences – please continue ranting.However, given what you describe, it appears that your Windows network admins at least in part to blame. Twenty-five minutes to log on really should *not* be the case on a modern Windows network. *Shudder*!

Maybe if I pour some Kool-Ade into the back of the computer they’ll give me a new one.

Hmmm … A well-placed magnet could be just effective, and considerably more elegant…

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/25/microsoft-dupes-library-of-con/#comment-4364 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:00:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/25/microsoft-dupes-library-of-con/#comment-4364 But, is Microsoft really making your life worse *every day*? Absolutely. I normally avoid microsoft computers, but these daya at work, for various reasons, I have to use a microsoft computer on my desktop. It takes about 25 minutes from the time I log on until I can actually use the computer because of the synchronization of Outlook with the network, the virus checking, etc. etc. Then, throughout the day I’m running into all the usual annoyances. It is made especailly worse by the fact that I otherwise use nice well behaved Linux computers, so the contrast is brought home to me on a daily basis.Maybe if I pour some Kool-Ade into the back of the computer they’ll give me a new one.

]]> By: LRM https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/25/microsoft-dupes-library-of-con/#comment-4363 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:11:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/25/microsoft-dupes-library-of-con/#comment-4363 Greg,Fair enough – thanks for clarifying your position. I agree with you in many respects: corporate partnerships with government and academia indeed raise a number of thorny issues, though there are clear benefits as well. (Having grown up in the former USSR, I can easily think of at least one worse alternative.) However, unless government funding for science (both research and education) in the US increases by at least an order of magnitude, I don’t see the situation changing. And even then, large corps have the technical know-how and infrastructure that could greatly aid in research and educational settings, and it would be a waste to let such resources go untapped.But, is Microsoft really making your life worse *every day*? If so, perhaps you need to chill out a bit. Might I offer you some Cool-Aid? 🙂

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/25/microsoft-dupes-library-of-con/#comment-4362 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:31:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/25/microsoft-dupes-library-of-con/#comment-4362 LRM: Excellent question. Are you referring to Google’s boo, project? I did not have a blog back then or you would have hear my opinion and it would have been pretty similar.I like google and I don’t like microsoft, because every day Google makes my life better and they do it in a non-invasive fair way, and every day Microsoft makes my life worse and they do it in an unfair intrusive way.But I trust Google as much as I could throw their corporate headquarters, and a number times they have approached the line and almost crossed it, and they have crossed it a few times.The fundamentals are problematic, and the corporations that participate in the system eventually seem to all go bad. Off hand I can’t think of any exceptions.

]]> By: LRM https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/25/microsoft-dupes-library-of-con/#comment-4361 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:54:47 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/25/microsoft-dupes-library-of-con/#comment-4361 Just out of curiosity, would this also have been a travesty if Google were doing this instead of Microsoft?

]]> By: the real cmf https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/25/microsoft-dupes-library-of-con/#comment-4360 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:18:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/25/microsoft-dupes-library-of-con/#comment-4360 Yup…and did I mention that MS Vista is crappy bloated packed with adware and spyware , AND it is slow moving crap?

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/25/microsoft-dupes-library-of-con/#comment-4359 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:38:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/25/microsoft-dupes-library-of-con/#comment-4359 Anonymous: Because I care about the ethics of the situation. I also don’t want coke or pepsi paying for the blackbaords in my daughter’s school. And so on.CMF: Right, it matters that Vista is a crappy system!

]]> By: the real cmf https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/25/microsoft-dupes-library-of-con/#comment-4358 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:22:06 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/25/microsoft-dupes-library-of-con/#comment-4358 Greg, looks like you hooked a Microsoft concern troll spammer (see comment above). Looks like this advert (above) forgot to mention the horribly slow, horribly bloated ad-ware packed Vista needs A LOT of upkeep and updates–daily!

]]> By: Anonymous https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/25/microsoft-dupes-library-of-con/#comment-4357 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:10:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/25/microsoft-dupes-library-of-con/#comment-4357 This is, of course, a travesty.A travesty of what? Microsoft would like to show off their software and have made a large donation to the library to demonstrate the capabilities. The library would not normally spend the money on this, but cheerfully accepts the donation because it is free. This seems to be a win for everyone involved.The information will all remain completely free and accessible to anyone over the internet. Silverlight also runs on Macs and Linux, so there is no accessibility issue.If Microsoft pays, why do you care whether the computers in the library run Vista?

]]> By: Evan https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/25/microsoft-dupes-library-of-con/#comment-4356 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:19:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/25/microsoft-dupes-library-of-con/#comment-4356 It really bugs me when people misuse the word quantum. But maybe it actually works in this case.

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