ah, another good computer scientist is bought off by the big boys...
> ``Microsoft is now picking up that leadership challenge in
> research,'' said Ed Lazowska, chairman of the computer science and
> engineering department at the University of Washington. ``Microsoft is
> taking advantage of its de facto monopoly to build one of the world's
> great research organizations. And I think it's going to affect the
> nation in really important ways.''
i'm glad i didn't go to washington now - they seem to all be in billy
g's pocket as well. any respectable scientist wouldn't give this kind
of lip-service to m$. (of course, if you read the above in a
different, more ominous way, ed is saying something quite
different...)
> If there is a single person who most belies the notion of Microsoft
> employees as being narrow, grim and driven, it is the man mainly
> responsible for setting up the Cambridge lab, Myhrvold. The
> irreverent, red-bearded Myhrvold, 37, has wide-ranging interests
> and tastes, comfortable discussing cosmology or competing
> in the world barbecue contest, as he has done in recent years, winning
> once.
oh yes, the brilliant beautiful multi-talented nathan. ah, now
everything is "O.K." with m$ since they have someone as wonderful and
"irreverent" as nathan around... <puke>
joe