Show us the Code

Well, it's about time!

Show Us the Code.

Don't hold your breath though. The Microsoft sponsored SCO FUD lawsuit never got to showing people the code. Fat chance that they will respond. After all, as long as the FUD threat seems to work, Ballmer and his ilk will continue to spread the lies.

Another Four in a Row

UK had another lackluster performance yesterday. They have now lost four in a row to Vanderbilt. I can't believe I am writing the same thing a year after a post I made last year when we got swept by Vandy. Kentucky has not beaten a SINGLE ranked team this year. We are 0-6 against ranked teams.

Tubby Smith is a mediocre coach. What's worse he has taken an elite basketball program and slowly and systematically run it into the ground where we are now the laughing stock of College Basketball. He is arrogant and will never accept it is his fault. Even after the latest loss, he was out blaming the players.

"It was our veterans making the mistakes," said Smith.
"When Randolph doesn't get the ball, he tends to stop working," Smith said.
"It's the same thing every game," said Smith.
"We've won in the past," said Smith at the end of his post-game news conference, "so it's a matter of personnel."

Tubby along with his supporters don't "Get it". This is Kentucky Basketball we are talking about. 10 loss seasons and just "making" the NCAA are NOT good enough. You want to be a mediocre coach of a mediocre team, be my guest. LEAVE! A great analysis of the difference between where we were and where we are can be found here.

Finally the mainstream press is catching up to what we so called "Tubby Bashers" have been screaming about for years.

When passionate fans such as yours truly don't even care anymore when KY loses, the program is truly in dire straits. Someone in the UK administration needs to show some guts and FIRE Tubby Smith. He is too deluded to leave on his own. The SEC and NCAA tourneys are lost causes anyways. Fire him NOW. It's not like he is going to be out on the street on food stamps.

Send a message that the only thing that will be tolerated at UK is excellence. Anything else falls short of the mark.

The Lies Continue

In my previous post I called Bill Gates a Liar. Well apparently he's going out the way to prove me right. In a recent interview with Newsweek Gates makes the following astounding comment:

Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.

I suppose he is trying to twist the pathetic "Month of Apple Bugs" and equate it to a total exploit every day. The MOAB only had one vulnerability that could even remotely be called a "total exploit".

This guy has truly gone off the deep end. In addition, in Gates' bizzaro world now it was Apple who copied Vista features into OSX. OSX just got it to market faster since Microsoft was busy "securing" their OS.

You can go through and look at who showed any of these things first, if you care about the facts. If you just want to say, "Steve Jobs invented the world, and then the rest of us came along," that's fine. If you’re interested, [Vista development chief] Jim Allchin will be glad to educate you feature by feature what the truth is. I mean, it’s fascinating, maybe we shouldn't have showed so publicly the stuff we were doing, because we knew how long the new security base was going to take us to get done.

Sheesh. How do tech writers let Microsoft get away with statements like that? It is just shameful. I guess those "Mac Ads" must be really getting to Gates.

Vista Parental Controls

Bill Gates is a LIAR. There, I said it. In today's society of "market speak" and other such euphemisms, people are almost expected to "bend the truth" - there you go - another term for what is simply a lie.

Gates in his recent appearances extolling the virtues of Windows Vista wants to harp on the Parental Control features of VISTA. Nothing wrong with that. But he keeps repeating that Vista is the FIRST operating system with parental controls.

Here are some examples:

Interview with Todd Bishop - Seattle Pi.

Q: Reviewers and Apple have pointed out the similarities between Windows Vista and Mac OS X, and questioned Microsoft's level of innovation based on that. How do you respond to that?

Gates: Well, there's a lot of innovation that's unique to this operating system, whether it's being the first on parental controls, or, you know, we are way better on security than any other system out there.

Q: You really believe that?

Gates: Oh, absolutely.

I'll leave the security comment for now. That's a whole different topic unto itself.

NBC Today Show Interview with Meredith Vieria on Jan 29, 2007...

An operating system has never had parental control features before...

CNN - Miles O'Brian - Jan 30, 2007.

O'Brien: Frankly, a lot of what I see here, um, seems to mimic a little bit [Apple's Mac] OS X. Were you going after a specific look there, the Mac look, or?

Gates: No, no, no. Actually, uh, the, we're ahead [slight pause] on a lot, uh, there's whole areas where we've innovated like Media Center and tablet, uh, that, uh, no one else is doing and the parental control, that's the first time that's been done.

One time is an error. To keep repeating this is a LIE. Why? Because Mac OSX has had parental controls in the Operating System for over 2 years now. I am sure some Microsoft shill will come up with the argument as to why Vista Parental Controls are better. That's NOT the point. If you are not the first to implement something then repeatedly saying so is a LIE.

It is interesting to note that Gates didn't try to claim this when he was talking to bloggers at CES. After all, a bunch of them had Mac laptops and could have simply gone to System Preferences - Accounts - Parental Controls to prove him wrong. This is simply the same story of the BIG LIE repeated loud enough and often enough, and it will be taken as gospel by the Tech Media. And when people like yours truly bring this up, it will be dismissed as Sour grapes by Apple Zealots.

Classic Microsoft.