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Better Than Methadone (3/2/99)
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Have you entered the darkest stages of "Redmond Justice" withdrawal yet? Because now that court's closed and the lawyers are off sunning themselves for Spring Break, we're really starting to miss our daily dose of antitrust trial drama. (It doesn't help that Buffy's in reruns, now, too; prosecuting Microsoft for antitrust violations, staking vampires-- what's the real difference?) We've developed a mild twitch, but we haven't yet spiralled out of control into the land of cold sweats and uncontrollable shakes. We've been feeding our habit with the slow trickle of "Redmond Justice" commentary that continues to seep its way out over the wires.
Of particular interest to us RJ junkies is an Inter@ctive Week Online article which contains mini-interviews with the top dogs of both sides-- Microsoft veep for Legal and Corporate Affairs William Neukom in one corner, and the government's lead attorney David Boies in the other. What makes the interviews particularly interesting is the way that both guys were asked the exact same questions, which allows for some compare-and-contrast fun which is more entertaining than, say, trying to brush the invisible bugs off of one's skin. In particular, Neukom's wooden responses that they "do not believe the government has begun to show the evidence that is required to support any of the three aspects of their case" are a hoot and a holler, because we bet that finding a legal expert (not on Microsoft's payroll) who believes that Microsoft will win this case would be tougher than finding a Windows machine that runs for fifty days without crashing.
As if that weren't enough, personally, we think Neukom's already-shaky credibility crumbles into dust when he says that this trial is "not particularly entertaining." Blasphemy! Just wait until the "Redmond Justice" producers hear that comment-- we bet Neukom's contract doesn't get renewed for another season unless he consents to some serious pay cuts. The walls have ears, William...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 3/2/99 episode: March 2, 1999: Holy cats-- the wind-up MacMate might be real, unless Apple Recon made a rookie mistake and got taken in by fake email. Meanwhile, AtAT viewers explore possible responses to the Pentium III-only web sites that Intel is fostering, and Microsoft continues to claim that they're going to win their antitrust case, much to the personal amusement of the rest of the world...
Other scenes from that episode: 1374: Wound Up Over Wind-Up (3/2/99) If you ask us, all the speculation about a hand-cranked portable Mac has officially gotten way out of hand. Unless you've been living under a rock for the last few weeks, you know what we're talking about; a couple of years ago, some ingenious fellow concocted a relatively small hand-powered generator that was capable of providing juice for various electrical devices... 1375: Monkeywrenching Intel (3/2/99) Yesterday's episode generated quite a lot of feedback. In response to the "Windows crashes after running for 49.7 days straight" issue, several people wrote in to tell us that 49.7 days is actually 232 milliseconds, which explains the rather odd runtime limit; apparently the "timing bug" is just a set-size buffer overflowing or something like that...
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