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Quote."The dominant civilization on Earth is convinced that it is the owner of the planet and of nature as a whole, acting in an irresponsible and predatory way, under a perspective incredibly short-sighted of what is its own existence, as a collectivity and as individuals. The human beings are destroying their environment systematically, extinguishing other species - some of them endowed with superior spiritual life - and even oppressing and subduing their own fellow creatures, for the mere satisfaction of desires of powerful and ignorant minorities. Seen by extraterrestrials, the picture presented by the planet Earth can be quite differentiated, according to those space visitors' capacity of perception. However, what could those extraterrestrials be? What could be their nature and constitution? And what would motivate them in searching for a contact with us? The scientists of the Earth have programs of inter-stellar listening to detect eventual messages of other sentient beings of the cosmos. Nonetheless, we should ask: how can such scientists consider what an extraterrestrial being could be, if the terrestrials themselves have been showing so ignorant of what they really are?" Holy crap, that's a lot of Windows Live products!I recently was sent an e-mail by a colleague pointing out the amount of Windows Live products.. Man, there are so many. You can go take a look yourself over at http://feedback.live.com, where they have listed all products. Also, I wasn't aware that there was a pretty elaborate settings page for Live.com over there. It's pretty cool! My favorite is still Windows Live Messenger, of course ;-)
Related to Windows Live, there are a ton of subdomains on live.com that talk about Windows Live. It's like every developer on their team made their own website for it. Some examples are http://wire.live.com, http://experience.live.com and http://ideas.live.com. My colleague also pointed out that Leah is on the front page for all these websites, and to make things even more "interesting" (quote): "Last month I purchased a Windows Live Messenger phone by Uniden at Best Buy in Bellevue. On the box packaging image of the phone screenshot showing contacts synchronized from Windows Live Messenger, the top name listed in the contacts list is Leah.". No liquids on planes? Stupid.One word: Lame. Or maybe that in itself isn't lame -- The way security at airports is dealing with it is. Let's imagine the following for a second: some terrorist is going to use liquid explosives to blow up some airplane. Coming to the airport, he is being stopped from carrying on the liquids on the plane. So far so good. But, if you have seen the footage on TV, you can also see that security just dumps all liquids in huge trash cans in the middle of the airport. What prevents that terrorist from blowing up everyone that is close to those trash cans?
This makes me think that the current situation is much, much less threatening than it really is. If they were really suspecting terrorists from trying to carry on these explosives right now, why expose all these people at the airport to potential explosives? Why not threat all liquids as possible explosives and dispose of them safely? In other words, what they are doing right now is just that, lame. Creative ZenToday I got the Creative Zen Microphoto MP3 player... Well I guess that's a lie.. It's not just a MP3 player - It has a FM receiver as well, along with viewing/storing photo's and recording audio with a built-in microphone. I love it. The storage capacity? A whopping 8GB of music(!), with an average battery life of 15 hours (recharable battery through USB).
It was pretty cheap too compared to alternatives ($199). iPods, or MP3 players from another brand with less storage capacity were more expensive, and I loved the look of the player. It has a very cool colour screen, sweet interface and it's very compact.
I wonder if it is moddable in any way. Lunching.. Meetings.. Whatever!The cool thing about working at Microsoft and knowing some people here before you start is that you can meet up with them and have lunch, and discuss Messenger. So, that's exactly what I did last tuesday. We, I, Scott, Ken, and some new guys I hadn't seen before, discussed the present & future of Messenger (especially regarding developers, they are very interested in hearing what you have to say about Messenger API's, etc!) and my own internship project. Today I had a demo run of a presentation I need to do tomorrow morning. It went pretty well, and the guys who attended gave me some useful feedback on what to do, what not do, etc. I must admit, it's a lot different to do a presentation for people who work here than it is for, say, school. After that I had another meeting to show off some of my stuff to other teams -- For as far as I could tell, they loved it. "So, you wanna work for Microsoft?", "Sure, if I get a full-time offer", "Wanna join us?".. Of course we were only joking, but it still gives you a nice confidence boost :-) |
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