is like a female CEO posing for a selfie as Carlie Fiorina.

Not when it's a character from Voyager.

Until Microsoft decided to go after GO and cut off their airsupply with Pen for Windows.

They don't need to figure out how to get into space, because they know we will take them along.

trying to correct bad impressions that my mother gets from this guy.

I mentioned it to my internist and he told me most doctors he knows consider him a quack.

Amazing how some people will sell their soul for money and television appearances.

Cause that is about the only person who was praising Microsoft Open Tech when it started.

Microsoft has a long way to convince me that they are committed to OSS. So far their acclaimed commitments seem to be mostly fluff with very little real substance in them..

Google was supposed to "Do No Evil".

I wouldn't mind if the agent doing the pat down was Kate Upton.

We need a free market in internet provision, not some government regulations.

To institute a free market, we need to unbundle the local loop.

She won an Oscar?????

Her name is Julie Ann Horvath, and she was at github not git.

She went to a company called &yet and then left a while after apparently to strike out on her own. AFAIKS she doesn't have any clie nts though.

Make of that what you will.

At one place I worked every new file would contain a constant variable with the value "RCS_filename_rev_no".

filename and rev_no were generated by RCS on a checkout.
That way whenever we looked at old executables we could generate them from source by looking in the executable and getting the right version of everything.

Microsoft's tools for multiple desktops have always been pretty crappy. Howewer there were 3 party tools going back to NT4.

In fact, Borland even included something called Dashboard in Delphi 1 which worked with Win3.1 IIRC.

I an tolerate the jokes made out of fiction plots, but a from a crappy movie based on science that came from a tabloid--No.