[geeks] can't wait for Vista

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Nov 6, 2006, at 3:00 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

> I wrote:
>
>>> Google is IMHO and experience even worse.
>
> On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 02:15:12PM -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix 
> wrote:
>> No, not really.
>>
>> Bad, yes, but not worse.  It's hard to top Microsoft in that 
>> department.
>
> Yes, they are. They spent $100,000,000 dollars to support BPL 
> (broadband
> over powerlines), a worthless technology that will disrupt medium and
> long range communications around the world. Every country that tried it
> found that it interfered with legal and necessary communications and 
> banned
> it.

If it doesn't work , it won't get deployed long-term.  So what are you 
worried about?
>

>
> They have now registered a PAC political action committee funded by 
> "employee
> donations". Anyone want to guess how voluntary those donations are.
>

I would guess 100% voluntary.  But the part of the cash that comes from 
the company itself will of course be used to pay for what GOOG wants.

> Microsoft may have lousy EULA's and too much DRM, but they are not 
> trying
> to take over the government and disrupt communications.
>

Um, MSFT is still much more horrible of a company.

They are top to (mid-level, if not bottom) dishonest and predatory.

If BPL ever gets widely used in any country, I will eat my own head 
</Dickens> .

You have been complaining about it for years now and they still haven't 
deployed it, in spite of the fact that anyone deploying would be making 
a huge amount of money.  Don't beat a dead horse.

--Patrick