Re: School (for ) Lunch

["Glenn T. Livezey" <glivezey@netserv.unmc.edu>]

  On Wed, 10 Dec 1997 20:36:04 -0500 (EST),  Charles Behney 
  <charlesaugust@theriver.com> wrote:
  
  >------------------------------
  >Topic No. 15
  >Subject: School Lunch: No Java, Lots of Fat (Clients)
  >Imagine Academia as a Limited Liability Company, with standards set by
  >Microsoft. We would have a twenty letter alphabet (saves on RAM),
  
  Since when has MS been concerned with saving RAM? I thought that was
  their part in the computer "Arms race", the answer to everything is BUY
  MORE RAM and FASTER PROCESSORS.
  
  >Encarta as the only library necessary for a Visual Basic education, and
  >a pantheon based on Tom Edison, Alexander Bell, and that great
  >innovator, Bill Gates. His contribution to Basic would rank beside the
  >telephone and the light bulb.
  
  I doubt the  telephone and the lightbulb would get much ink compared to
  BG's "invention" of the internet, the LED, Life the Universe and Everything....
  
  >http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/9062.html
  
  Ah, how can you fault such a benefactor? And a miracle  worker too - afterall
  he's going to practically "give away" all this NEAT STUFF and make 
  3 billion in profits besides.
  
  >Microsoft wants a ten year contract for these "services." No Hollywood
  >agent can sign clients to more than a twenty four month contract.
  >California law protects talent better than undergraduates. Is there a
  >line in the sand here? Where's Jerry Brown on this MS/BS?
  
  Been purchased as official spokesperson no doubt, look for the "e" button...
  
  Thanks to CAB for enlightening the list once more.
  
  
  Glenn T. Livezey, Ph.D.
  Director of Perinatal Research
  Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine
  Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
  University of Nebraska Medical Center
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