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“There’s going to be tens of millions of these things sold all over the world,” Rupert Murdoch said.

“I’m old, I like the tactile experience of the newspaper,” the exec admitted. “(But) if you have less newspapers and more of these, that’s okay. It doesn’t destroy the traditional newspaper, it just comes in a different form.”

Rupert Murdoch’s comments about the revolutionary iPad are quite accurate. It truly is an amazing device. But, it’s not going to save his WSJ or any of the old newspaper companies from their inevitable death. They are digging their own graves with their pricing and outrageously high subscription ($17.29/mo) charges with hopes that the masses (who are very used to free quality news) will pay.

Good luck and good night Mr. Murdoch,

RIP

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A boat docked in a tiny Greek village. An American tourist complimented the Greek fisherman on the quality of his fish & asked how long it took him to catch them.

‘Not very long’ answered the Greek.

‘But then, why didn’t you stay out longer & catch more?’ asked the American.

The Greek explained that his small catch was sufficient to meet his needs & those of his family.

The American asked ‘But what do you do with the rest of your time?’

‘I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, & take a siesta with my wife. In the evenings I go into the village to see my friends, dance a little, play the bouzouki, & sing a few songs. I have a full life.’

The American interrupted ‘I have a MBA from Harvard & I can help you. You should start by fishing longer every day. You can then sell the extra fish you catch. With the revenue, you can buy a bigger boat. With the extra money the larger boat will bring, you can buy a second one & a third one & so on until you have an entire fleet of trawlers. Instead of selling your fish to a middleman, you can negotiate directly with the processing plants & maybe even open your own plant. You can then leave this little village & move to Athens, Los Angeles, or even New York City! From there you can direct your huge enterprise.’

‘How long would that take?’ asked the Greek.

‘Twenty, perhaps twenty-five years’ replied the American.

‘And after that?’

‘Afterwards? That’s when it gets really interesting,’ answered the American, laughing ‘when your business gets really big, you can start selling stocks & make millions!’

‘Millions? Really? And after that?’

‘After that you’ll be able to retire, live in a tiny village near the coast, sleep late, play with your grandchildren, catch a few fish, take a siesta with your wife, & spend your evenings singing, dancing, & playing the bouzouki with your friends.’

There ends this lesson in philosophy.

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Incidentally, Microsoft® Bob’s internal code name was “Utopia”—an ambitious name to be sure, but at least one that had some snap and pizzazz. When we learned that the marketing folks had decided to name the product Bob, we all shook our heads in disbelief.

But there’s more to Bob’s legacy than you might know. It turns out Bob was actually more useful dead than alive.
When you intend to distribute your software on a CD, one thing you have to worry about is making sure your product actually fits on a single CD. Fortunately, it so happened that even after taking into account the disk space required for translations, support tools, and the other stuff that has to go onto the Windows XP CD, there was still about 30 megabytes of storage capacity remaining. The people who worry about these sorts of things figured, well, we already paid for all that storage capacity on the CD so we might as well use it, right?

Microsoft Bob’s internal code name was “Utopia”—an ambitious name to be sure, but at least one that had some snap and pizzazz. (Click the image for a larger view)
The result was a rather feeble attempt to slow down the people who like to make illegal copies of Windows. Somebody decided to fill that extra capacity on the CD with dummy data and to have the Windows Setup program verify that the dummy data was still there. This, the logic went, would force people downloading a copy of the CD image to download an additional thirty or so megabytes of data. Remember, this was back in the day when “broadband” hadn’t yet become a household word and mainstream users were using dial-up connections. Having to transfer an additional thirty megabytes of data over a 56Kb modem was a bit of an obstacle to slow users down—not that it would slow them down much by today’s standards.

The person who was asked to implement this check needed a source for the dummy data. Now, he could have just called the CryptGenRandom function to generate 30 megabytes of cryptographically random bytes, but where’s the fun in that? Instead, he dug through the archives and found a copy of Microsoft Bob. He took all the floppy disk images and combined them into one big file. The contents of the Microsoft Bob floppy disk images are not particularly random, so he decided to scramble up the data by encrypting it. When it came time to enter the encryption key, he just smashed his hand haphazardly across the keyboard and out came an encrypted copy of Microsoft Bob. That’s what went into the unused space as ballast data on the Windows XP CD.

In the end, Windows XP became the most effective Microsoft Bob deployment tool ever developed. And if you go way back into your closet, dig out your copy of Windows XP, and can somehow channel the right spirits to mash your hands on the keyboard in exactly the right way, then out of your encryption program will come a copy of Microsoft Bob.

Read the Full Article by Raymond Chen

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