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"Us or Them"
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HM The Queen Mother: You will have to talk to Lord Chamberlain about all this.
HM Queen Elizabeth II: Oh, I have. And to Robert Fellowes, and it seems they both agree with Mr. Blair.
HM The Queen Mother: I see.
HM Queen Elizabeth II: Something's happened. There's been a change, some shift in values. When you no longer understand your people, mummy, maybe it is time to hand it over to the next generation.
HM The Queen Mother: Don't be ridiculous. Remember the vow you took?
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Wednesday, January 24, 1990
Redmond Plans Old-Fashioned Police Beats
By Margarita Overton
-- REDMOND
Whatever happened to Mayberry, that small, fictitious town with the friendly sheriff and deputy who spent more time chatting over pie and coffee at the local drugstore than chasing after criminals - because there weren't many?
The best guess is that Mayberry grew up. Development brought more people and the police force grew. There wasn't time for an afternoon snack and a rambling talk with the drugstore owner.
Harris said he's not convinced the rebirth of the beat cop will solve all the criminal activity in Redmond, but he believes it will help.
``There's got to be a solution rather than just responding to a complaint,'' he said.
Maybe Redmond's not ready for Mayberry. But, Harris, said, ``Without trying, we won't know.''
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The Seattle Times
Tuesday, June 6, 2000
Microsoft trial
By John Hendren
Seattle Times Washington bureau
WASHINGTON - Something about this town seems to be sending Bill Gates a message: Go home.
The last time the Microsoft chairman planned a trip to Capitol Hill, he arrived two days after a federal judge three blocks away dropped the bomb, declaring his company an outlaw. This week, if he's particularly unlucky, he could be here as the judge issues an order widely expected to call for breaking the world's largest software maker in two.
The billionaire executive can hardly blame his advance team. Timing a trip to Washington in between the legal bombshells is a little like dodging raindrops.
Gates is expected to arrive today for the fifth annual chief executive officers forum, hosted by the Business Software Alliance. He arrives one day after the Justice Department and 17 states filed a final scheduled brief in the landmark antitrust lawsuit, rejecting nearly every substantial change Microsoft proposed to the government's breakup plan.
Tomorrow, Microsoft files its comments on that brief, and U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson is free to rule anytime after that.
While the calendar has sometimes proved unkind during Gates' visits here, members of Congress have welcomed him with open arms.
Gates plans to mix business with politics this week. He and top executives such as Intel Chairman Andrew Grove and Adobe Systems Chairman and Chief Executive John Warnock are to meet with the Joint Economic Committee, Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard and Commerce Secretary William Daley.
Separately, Gates plans to meet with the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to discuss minority scholarships to be given by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In between, he's expected to spend a few moments with lawmakers from the state, including Democrat Sen. Patty Murray, Republican Sen. Slade Gorton and Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Bainbridge Island.
If a final ruling on the antitrust case doesn't curtail his trip, Gates is expected to wrap up his visit by dining tomorrow with a group including Reps. Norm Dicks, D-Bremerton, and Jennifer Dunn, R-Bellevue, and Robert L. Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television and the planned new airline, D.C. Air.
Gates held court like a head of state during his last visit in early April, convening crowded gatherings with Republicans and Democrats in Congress in four separate meetings, with few unfriendly questions.
"He was very well-received by both sides of the aisle," Inslee said yesterday from his car in a Microsoft parking lot in Redmond. "He is a very persuasive advocate for Microsoft."
Inevitably, Gates will be asked about the case in Jackson's courtroom. That case has shown few positive signs for Microsoft in recent days. In the legal filing yesterday responding to Microsoft's suggested edits of the breakup plan, government lawyers ceded minor points but gave little ground on major issues.
For instance, the government's revisions accept Microsoft's plan to call the breakup a "divestiture" instead of a "reorganization." But they reject Microsoft's proposal to make the breakup effective for only four years. The government opted instead to keep wording that forbids the two new companies from reuniting for a full 10 years.
The new plan also rejects the company's proposal to take a full year to craft the specifics of the breakup. The government's plan gives the software maker four months. The revised plan accepted an added comma, but rejected Microsoft's proposal to let managers delete their e-mail.
The government's latest legal filing said Microsoft's proposals "consist largely of changes that would create loopholes and permit Microsoft to continue to engage in anticompetitive practices."
Microsoft officials maintain they will appeal the case but agreed to suggest changes in the breakup plan. The minor changes the government offered yesterday in the third version of its breakup plan - dubbed Version 3.0 at Microsoft's Redmond headquarters - failed to correct the "unrealistic time frame" of the breakup, Microsoft spokesman Jim Cullinan said.
"The government's Version 3.0 of its plan only makes cosmetic changes that in no way clarifies the ambiguity and vague provisions of the proposal," he said. "This entire proposal remains unprecedented, excessive and harmful to consumers and the economy."
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The Seattle Times
Tuesday, June 6, 2000
$2 billion incentive for Net strategy
By Dina Bass
Bloomberg News
ORLANDO - Microsoft said it will spend $2 billion to educate developers and speed adoption of its new Internet-based software and services, including an electronic-commerce program unveiled yesterday.
The world's largest software maker is shifting its focus from packaged software for personal computers toward Internet programs that work across various systems, Web sites and computing devices. The company is to explain the strategy, Next Generation Windows Services, on June 22.
Gates unveiled the funding at the conference, which is intended to encourage developers to write programs for use with new Microsoft products. He also introduced software that helps companies execute online transactions and design Web services that work across various systems, part of the Windows DNA
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Springfield! Springfield!
The Event
Us or Them
Aaron, please tell me things are progressing well on your end.
They are.
Our tests confirmed that the body we excavated is still rife with the strain of the virus.
- Good.
- There was a complication.
The men we hired to dissect the lungs from the body, they were accidentally exposed.
Everyone on the ship died within several hours.
This strain works even more quickly than we'd anticipated.
That could be a problem.
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Dr. Elizabeth Weir: Doctor Beckett should be proud he's genetically advanced.
Dr. Rodney McKay: It's not more advanced. It-it is a random characteristic.
Dr. Elizabeth Weir: This really bothers you, this whole gene thing, huh?
Dr. Rodney McKay: Oh, clearly I am overcome with envy.
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Springfield! Springfield!
The Event
One Will Live, One Will Die
We know from what happened on the plane that someone high up in the government is helping Sophia.
But I've got their plates and I know their car was a rental.
And? Since the mid-'90s, every rental car has a tracking device so the companies can monitor their vehicles.
So if I can get into the company's system, I might be able to find the car.
"Might.
" Sorry.
You saw what that virus did to those people on the ship.
How they died.
If Sophia releases the virus, how bad could it be? The original Spanish flue epidemic killed between 50 and 100 million people and that's before international travel was so easy.
And this strain's more virulent? Way more.
If Sophia released it, I don't know what would be left.
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Springfield! Springfield!
The Event
The Beginning of the End
What's her status? Her body temperature is rising, heart rate and blood pressure dropping.
We need to keep her alive and producing the virus.
Increase I.V.fluids and give her a corticosteroid.
Please Please don't do this.
Don't kill all those people.
If we had a choice, we wouldn't, but we don't.
We're just taking back what's rightfully ours.
Your father should've told you.
We were here first.
We've determined the most efficient way to spread the pathogen is by using three parallel distribution channels.
The first team will release the pathogen in the immediate region.
They will contaminate a food-processing facility that ships products to supermarkets in six different states.
Within days, it will spread across the eastern seaboard.
The second team will contaminate currency at the bureau of engraving facility in Virginia in time for the monthly Reserve Bank distribution.
This will effectively spread the disease on a nationwide basis.
The third team will release the virus in the international terminal at Dulles Airport at a time that will maximize the number of global crossings by infected passengers.
Within five days, the vast majority of the human population Will be dead.
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Springfield! Springfield!
The Event
The Beginning of the End
Sophia wants a record of this.
Meet me on the roof.
We have to evacuate the mall.
Someone disabled the fire alarm, and they're about to release a bioweapon through the ventilation system.
Sean, where is she? We owe you a debt of gratitude.
Dr. Lu has been studying the video you filmed on board the bus.
We'll be able to move forward.
In 1918, the Spanish flu pandemic killed 20% of the world's population.
You're gonna help us spread it.
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The Event
The Beginning of the End
We're fortunate.
Her immune system mutated the virus the way we'd hoped.
It replicates at a much slower rate now.
The pathogen will now take several days to kill.
Good.
How long will it take to affect the population at large? Within two weeks, the infection will have killed over 25% of the world's population.
Within five, close to 98%.
We only have to make room for ourour own people.
There has to be a way to control the disease, to limit the number of deaths.
There isn't.
The strength of the pathogen is it's uncontrollable.
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The Event
One Will Live, One Will Die
I wanted to thank you personally for everything you've done.
Has there been any word about the device at the mall? Yes.
They managed to disarm it.
I'm sorry.
I should have stayed.
No.
If you had, we might have lost everything.
Dr. Lu has been studying the video you filmed onboard the bus.
Now that she's able to see every minute of how the virus affects humans as well as having these test subjects to autopsy, we'll be able to move forward.
We owe you a debt of gratitude.
Sophia, Dr. Lu needs you in the lab.
Excuse me.
I think I have a way to slow down the virus.
Go on.
Viruses mutate when they jump from species to species.
Like bird flu becoming H1N1 when it crossed into humans.
If we jump the virus into the right species, it will mutate on its own and we can screen for the variation we need.
What kind of species would that be? The virus doesn't affect us at all, and it kills human beings too quickly.
We need to infect a bridge species whose DNA lies somewhere in-between.
- A hybrid.
- Yes.
And from what I understand, we're in luck.
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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/25/1968 ( premiere US TV series episode "Ironside"::"To Kill a Cop" ) is 814 days
From 6/6/1933 ( Heinrich Rohrer ) To 9/14/2002 ( at Overlake hospital in Bellevue Washington State the announced birth of Phoebe Gates the daughter of Microsoft Bill Gates ) is 25302 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/22/1967 ( The merger of North American Aviation, Inc., and Rockwell-Standard Corp. became effective and was announced ) is 689 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/22/2000 is 12651 days
From 5/1/1960 ( Soviet Union antiaircraft fire destroys the United States Central Intelligence Agency U-2 aircraft and the United States Central Intelligence Agency pilot Gary Powers is imprisoned in the Soviet Union ) To 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 12651 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/22/2000 is 12651 days
From 5/29/1956 ( premiere US film "D-Day the Sixth of June" ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 ) is 12651 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/22/2000 is 12651 days
From 5/29/1956 ( premiere US film "D-Day the Sixth of June" ) To 1/17/1991 ( the Persian Gulf War begins ) is 12651 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/22/2000 is 12651 days
From 1/22/1950 ( premiere US film "The Titan: Story of Michelangelo" ) To 6/22/2000 is 18414 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 ) is 9207 days
From 1/22/1950 ( premiere US film "The Titan: Story of Michelangelo" ) To 6/22/2000 is 18414 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/17/1991 ( the Persian Gulf War begins ) is 9207 days
From 9/30/1975 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy test pilot was the primary test pilot for the first flight of the Hughes and McDonnell Douglas AH-64 Apache attack helicopter and for the United States Army AH-64 Apache test program ) To 6/22/2000 is 9032 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/26/1990 ( the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ) is 9032 days
From 8/17/1960 ( premiere US film "The Time Machine" ) To 4/7/1995 ( premiere US film "Bad Boys" ) is 12651 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/22/2000 is 12651 days
From 8/17/1960 ( the Soviet Union trial of the United States Central Intelligence Agency pilot Gary Powers begins in Moscow Russia Soviet Union ) To 4/7/1995 ( premiere US film "Bad Boys" ) is 12651 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/22/2000 is 12651 days
From 9/4/1976 ( the unpublished true birthdate of Destiny's Child singer Beyonce Knowles ) To 6/22/2000 is 8692 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/20/1989 ( premiere US TV series "Saved by the Bell" ) is 8692 days
From 5/21/1938 ( premiere US film "Injun Trouble" ) To 6/22/2000 is 22678 days
22678 = 11339 + 11339
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) is 11339 days
From 6/6/1949 ( George Orwell "Nineteen Eighty-four" ) To 6/22/2000 is 18644 days
18644 = 9322 + 9322
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/12/1991 ( I was the winning race driver at the Monaco Grand Prix ) is 9322 days
From 7/26/1956 ( premiere US film "Magoo's Puddle Jumper" ) To 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) is 12651 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/22/2000 is 12651 days
From 12/7/1962 ( the Atlas supercomputer launched in Manchester England ) To 7/27/1997 ( premiere US TV series "Stargate SG-1"::series premiere episode "Children of the Gods" ) is 12651 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/22/2000 is 12651 days
From 7/27/1997 ( premiere US TV series "Stargate SG-1"::series premiere episode "Children of the Gods" ) To 6/22/2000 is 1061 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/28/1968 ( premiere US TV series episode "My Three Sons":: "The Great Pregnancy" ) is 1061 days
From 7/27/1997 ( premiere US TV series "Stargate SG-1"::series premiere episode "Children of the Gods" ) To 6/22/2000 is 1061 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/28/1968 ( premiere US TV series episode "Petticoat Junction"::"Birthplace of a Future President" ) is 1061 days
From 11/8/1960 ( John Fitzgerald Kennedy elected President of the United States ) To 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes my biological brother United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan the spacecraft and mission commander and me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut ) is 12651 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/22/2000 is 12651 days
From 12/7/1998 ( my first day working at Microsoft Corporation as the known official Chief Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and the active duty United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel circa 1998 ) To 6/22/2000 is 563 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/19/1967 ( premiere US TV movie "The Time Stopper" ) is 563 days
From 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) To 6/22/2000 is 3102 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/1/1974 ( the United States of America Privacy Act of 1974 introduced in the United States Senate ) is 3102 days
From 6/22/2000 To 9/11/2001 ( the World Trade Center towers destroyed in New York City ) is 446 days
446 = 223 + 223
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'Let The Experience Begin!'
Story Published: Jun 23, 2000 at 10:45 AM PST
Story Updated: Aug 30, 2006 at 10:07 PM PST
By KOMO Staff & News Services
Watch the story SEATTLE - Multibillionaire Paul Allen lifted a Dale Chihuly glass guitar above his head and smashed it to smithereens, opening his $240 million Experience Music Project museum of American popular music.
The normally reclusive Allen spoke for about five minutes -- one of his longest public speeches -- to welcome a crowd of several hundred at the grand opening Friday outside the colorful, free-form walls of the Frank Gehry-designed building.
As artist Chihuly watched and laughed, Allen lifted the glass replica of an electric guitar and hurled it to the podium where it shattered.
"Let the experience begin!" Allen shouted into the microphone as confetti and streamers flew in the background.
"This has been a long process, over eight years," Allen said afterward. "I'm on a natural high right now."
"When people realize what it is -- as it evolves, it's going to be a pretty spectacular thing," said Frank Gehry, the world-renowned architect who designed the curvy, colorful building and was here to attend the private EMP gala Thursday and grand opening Friday.
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The Seattle Times
Tuesday, June 6, 2000
$2 billion incentive for Net strategy
By Dina Bass
Bloomberg News
ORLANDO - Microsoft said it will spend $2 billion to educate developers and speed adoption of its new Internet-based software and services, including an electronic-commerce program unveiled yesterday.
The world's largest software maker is shifting its focus from packaged software for personal computers toward Internet programs that work across various systems, Web sites and computing devices. The company is to explain the strategy, Next Generation Windows Services, on June 22.
"We are moving from the PC as the sole platform to the Internet as the platform," said Chairman Bill Gates at a conference for software developers and information-technology managers in Orlando.
Gates unveiled the funding at the conference, which is intended to encourage developers to write programs for use with new Microsoft products. He also introduced software that helps companies execute online transactions and design Web services that work across various systems, part of the Windows DNA platform for business on the Internet.
Companies can use the new software to create and manage e-commerce tasks that extend beyond their own computer system and into another company's network. The software will be included in Microsoft's BizTalk Server 2000 product, which is scheduled for a preview release in the next few weeks.
Microsoft said its technology simplifies creation of e-commerce programs, meaning companies will be able to rely on business analysts and consultants to program these processes, rather than hiring separate software developers.
Microsoft plans to use the $2 billion to educate developers about its new products and services and to ensure developers' efforts to write programs for them are successful.
Some analysts say developers may be reluctant to write programs for Microsoft's Next Generation Windows Services platform, known as NGWS, amid concern the government's effort to break up the company will derail the strategy.
Money to aid in training and software development could persuade developers to shelve those concerns. It also will help focus developers on writing programs for the platform and related products, said Chris Atkinson, vice president of Windows DNA Web Services.
"There's no doubt that we've lost some mindshare among developers to other technologies that are out there over the last year or two, but this shows that we're back," he said.
Gates had planned to elaborate on the connection between Windows DNA and NGWS but changed his speech after Microsoft postponed an NGWS briefing Thursday. The briefing was postponed to June 22 because Microsoft believed a federal judge was poised to issue his ruling on remedies in the antitrust case.
Microsoft said it will announce software today that speeds Internet traffic and protects corporate networks, its first product in those areas.
The software, called Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000, acts as a "firewall," protecting corporate networks from hackers and unwanted Internet content and e-mails. The new product also acts to cache popular Web pages, storing them closer to computers for quicker loading.
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The Seattle Times
Friday, June 23, 2000
Gates wants Net everywhere, with Microsoft right there too
By Paul Andrews
Special to The Seattle Times
Promising to work with competitors as well as partners to make the Internet as pervasive and easy to use as the telephone, Microsoft yesterday unveiled a sweeping strategy that may change the company as much as it is designed to transform the Internet.
Referring only indirectly to the threat of a court-ordered breakup of the company, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer described a set of software services called "Microsoft .NET" to put personal information in a "cloud" on the Internet, ready for access anytime, anywhere" from a host of devices.
If successfully implemented, the .NET approach would mean cell phones, hand-held organizers, pagers, digital cameras and camcorders, computer "tablets" and even household appliances could push and pull data instantly among themselves and the Internet.
Today, most users' personal information resides on a PC on their desk or in their home, which complicates sharing with friends, associates, employers and services such as health-care providers.
"We will move beyond these islands of technology," Gates said.
The scale of the initiative is suggested in the resources Microsoft is putting behind it. The company is dedicating more than half its $4 billion research-and-development budget this year to .NET, Ballmer said.
Microsoft's stewardship of such an all-encompassing system may give Justice Department regulators and competitors pause. The company's dominance of personal computers has led critics to express fear that Microsoft could some day rule the Internet.
"This is Microsoft, full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes," said Chris LeTocq, an analyst with the Gartner Group. "But if the (Justice Department) doesn't look at this and say it proves their point, I'd be surprised."
Ballmer seemed to bend over backward to address concerns.
"We will run this with the same kind of openness we have run Windows," he told a gathering of about 300 media and analysts at Microsoft's new executive briefing center in Building 33 on the Redmond campus.
.NET "has got to be the best way to help users and (software) developers take advantage of this (Internet) platform," Ballmer said. "But it's certainly not going to be the only way."
The basis for .NET, an Internet standard called XML, or extensible markup language, will ensure that services "work with a variety of devices," not just Windows computers, Ballmer said.
"We will talk to partners and competitors about taking the .NET software and adapting it to other platforms," Ballmer pledged.
The technology would allow someone to post a resume on the Internet, for instance, that could be read by others using all types of devices and viewed in the original formatting. Key words on the resume would be linkable, so a viewer could click on a listed company and go to that company's Web site.
Already on board the effort are a handful of industry players, most surprisingly Marc Andreessen of Loudcloud, an Internet startup. Andreessen, who co-founded archrival Netscape Communications shortly after he left college, once dubbed Microsoft the "beast of Redmond" and compared company tactics with Don Corleone's severed horse head in the movie "The Godfather."
Other endorsements came from Compaq, Sony, Dell, media company CMGI and service provider Commerce One.
"If you'd asked me six months ago whether I'd be on stage partnering with Marc Andreessen, I would've thought that was pretty strange," Ballmer said. Andreessen reportedly declined an invitation to appear at the event.
None of the demonstrations displayed technologies of competitors such as America Online, Palm Computing, Oracle, Sun Microsystems or Linux.
.NET will mean a gradual change in Microsoft's business. Because Internet services don't "come wrapped in a box," as Gates put it, revenue will rely on subscription services, royalties and licenses for a variety of products. Microsoft Office applications will be sold as subscriptions for upgrades and fixes - a new and uncertain approach for the company, analysts pointed out.
"Software as a service is a concept you really have to let your mind wrap around for a while," Ballmer said. Asked if he were worried about the new direction, he said, "It's my job to worry - but I think there's incredible opportunity out there."
Microsoft has been talking about the new initiative, which carried the title Next Generation Windows Services, since January, when Ballmer was named CEO and Gates took the title of chief software architect. Since then, the company has been involved in a cat-and-mouse game with government attorneys over the specific nature of NGWS. The aggressive vision behind it may have spurred the government's historic proposal to Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson to split Microsoft in two.
Microsoft, in fact, delayed yesterday's announcement from June 1 in deference to Jackson's ruling, which as expected ordered a breakup of the company. Jackson gave the company a reprieve of sorts, though, when in forwarding the case to the Supreme Court for potential expediting, he stayed a series of conduct restrictions that would have seriously hampered what was to be called .NET.
Gates said the company forged ahead with its strategy even in the face of behavioral restrictions.
"Nothing here was affected by thinking the courts might influence it or it might influence the courts," Gates said.
Gates called .NET the company's biggest strategic move since Windows 3.0, the May 1990 release that opened the door to Microsoft's dominance of desktop computing.
"There is no Microsoft product that isn't touched by this capability," Gates said of .NET.
An explosion of small-screen devices not dependent on the Windows interface has led critics to forecast that Microsoft's role will diminish in future Internet-based computing.
"Microsoft is losing its grip on the developer community because they are writing now to Internet standards and not Microsoft standards," said Rick Sherlund, a Goldman, Sachs & Co. analyst. "This is an effort by Microsoft to win them back."
Using flashy videotaped demonstrations, company executives showed a future of talking computers that respond readily to human speech and can "authenticate" user identities in sensitive situations.
One video, using a former "Seinfeld" TV series actor, showed how someone who forgot his cell phone could be issued a new phone at the airport simply by giving an attendant a "smart card" containing personal information. The card's data could then configure the phone to receive a variety of Internet services.
Later, when the actor was hurt and needed medical attention, the phone was used to authenticate his identity with his physician and access his medical history, insurance and billing information.
Given daily attacks of viruses and frequent security holes in Internet software, the practicability of such a scenario may be questionable. But Gates said "authentication advances" enabling secure data over the Internet "are coming soon."
"It's doable, it's workable," said Ballmer. "But we have some work ahead of us."
Gates and Ballmer both emphasized the long-term nature of the .NET vision. Ballmer presented a timeline pegging most of the advances in the year 2002-plus column, although Microsoft plans to begin issuing developer tools this summer. The company plans to release a new version of Windows, called Windows .NET, some time next year.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20000623&slug=4028243
Friday, June 23, 2000
NICOLE BRODEUR
Stars do `Wild Thing' at private EMP party
By Nicole Brodeur
Seattle Times staff columnist
Try this on for size: Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, VH1 President John Sykes and MTV President Judy McGrath all trying to be rock stars.
"We look like a wedding band with tuxedos on!" Katzenberg said, viewing the frozen image of himself and bandmates playing "Wild Thing" in Experience Music Project's pre-opening gala. They were grooving in the On Stage interactive "arena" that lets anyone - even studio moguls - be a rock band for a screaming virtual crowd.
"Wait until you see how cool we are!" Katzenberg called to the others. "This is one for your office wall!"
These power players can make them, they can break them, but they could only pretend to be famous musicians.
Outside, it was nothing but names. The stars came from all corners, some as far as Europe, for a first look at Paul Allen's dream museum. Most were "special guests," others paid up to $1,000 per ticket to sip champagne, dip shrimp and gape at people they've only seen on album covers.
At the top of the stairs, Bill Gates stood looking slightly puzzled, while his wife, Melinda, chatted with friends.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050894/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
Release Info
USA 1 June 1958
http://www.tv.com/shows/ironside/to-kill-a-cop-88979/trivia/
tv.com
Ironside Season 1 Episode 19
To Kill a Cop
Aired Thursday 8:30 PM Jan 25, 1968 on NBC
Quotes
Ed: Well, another quiet night in Baghdad on the Bay, right Sergeant?
Booking Sgt.: Well, the city's full of nuts.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1986/rohrer-facts.html
Nobelprize.org
The Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1986
Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer
Heinrich Rohrer
Born: 6 June 1933, Buchs, Switzerland
Died: 16 May 2013, Wollerau, Switzerland
Affiliation at the time of the award: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Rüschlikon, Switzerland
Prize motivation: "for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope"
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-event/you-bury-other-things-too-1379266/trivia/
tv.com
The Event Season 1 Episode 16
You Bury Other Things Too
Aired Monday 9:00 PM Apr 04, 2011 on NBC
Quotes
Sophia: Our planet is dying. Earth, it seems, is our people's only hope. I swore an oath
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20000625&slug=4028603
The Seattle Times
Sunday, June 25, 2000
Microsoft's magic: Will it work with .NET?
By Paul Andrews
Special to The Seattle Times
One way or another, the days of Microsoft as the "Windows Everywhere" company seem numbered.
In issuing a sweeping vision for its "Microsoft .NET" strategy three days ago, Microsoft signaled the passing of a decadelong Windows era that brought the company unsurpassed wealth and prominence, as well as a host of legal hassles.
"Windows isn't going away," Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer told a gathering of 300 media representatives and analysts at Microsoft's Redmond campus. "But to take advantage of this new software trend in technology, we need the .NET platform."
Pounding a fist into his hand, he said, "The bet is on .NET!"
The strategy marks Microsoft's attempt to make the Internet more central to its products and services. If implemented as envisioned, it would allow personal computers, cell phones, hand-held devices, digital cameras and even household appliances to trade data among themselves and the Internet.
Although Las Vegas oddsmakers have not weighed in, there may be a joker or two in .NET's deck. Initial reaction was muted, particularly in contrast with previous Microsoft strategy summits. And a swirl of antitrust uncertainty could plague any new Microsoft initiative.
Whatever the prospects, the de-emphasis on Windows may have come as a surprise to critics, who as late as the day before .NET's unveiling were hammering Microsoft for being too Windows-centric in an increasingly Internet-driven world. It may even have surprised former Microsoft executives who left the company with the conviction that it was too Windows-dependent.
Competitors such as Oracle and Sun Microsystems have forecast the death of Windows at the hands of the Internet and a host of new computing devices that do not need Windows to access the Web.
Imagine their surprise when Microsoft projected yet another metamorphosis of a company that takes pride in transforming itself. Instead of relying mostly on selling licenses and boxed CD-ROMs, the new Microsoft plans to draw revenue from myriad software services running on the Internet.
New ways to profit
Microsoft foresees potential profit in such things as charging royalties for the use of Web applications, and selling subscriptions to regularly scheduled upgrades of Office, the suite of Word, Excel and other applications. Customers ranging from individual users to small businesses and large enterprises will face paying Microsoft in new ways, executives said.
Using an example of an injured person communicating with his physician in an emergency, Ballmer said Microsoft might gain revenue from "authentication" of the patient's identity over the Internet to access his personal records and medical history.
The company conceivably could draw revenue from notifying the patient's insurance company and providing the physician with the proper software to communicate with hospitals, pharmacies and insurance providers.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20000629&slug=4029307
The Seattle Times
Thursday, June 29, 2000
Flashy CEO loves to hate Gates
By Paul Andrews
Special to The Seattle Times
LARRY ELLISON is the Microsoft founder's nemesis and polar opposite, with the kind of bank account necessary for grand gestures.
In an industry full of those who would be Bill Gates, Oracle founder Larry Ellison has long headed the list.
"All the men in this industry feel inadequate because they're not Bill Gates," pundit Esther Dyson told Vanity Fair magazine in 1997. "Most people have kind of resigned themselves to this fact. Larry, obviously, hasn't."
Ellison's combativeness came squarely to light yesterday when Oracle confirmed it had hired a private detective agency to investigate Microsoft and its ties to lobbying groups.
His refusal to lose may eventually pay off. After Microsoft's stock plummeted in April, Ellison was only $2 billion away from eclipsing Gates as the world's richest man. The gap has since widened, with Gates at around $60 billion and Ellison at $49 billion.
Even if he wins the personal-wealth sweepstakes, however, Ellison is unlikely to match the global impact of Gates, who has become a household name. Outside of the computer industry, Ellison's name evokes little recognition.
Handsome, flamboyant, outspoken and egotistical, Ellison, 55, has taunted Gates and Microsoft since the early 1990s, when the Redmond company began making inroads in database software.
The rivalry accelerated in 1995, when Ellison heralded a new desktop computing device called the "network computer," or NC, partly in an attempt to undercut acceptance of the wildly popular Windows 95. Lacking a hard disk and projected to cost about a quarter of a PC, the $500 NC was intended to supplant Microsoft Windows by hooking directly into the Internet. When PC prices dropped dramatically, the NC's appeal diminished and the device never caught on.
Oracle's performance, on the other hand, boomed with acceptance of the Internet. Web sites, particularly ones dealing heavily with data management, quickly made Oracle the Web standard. Microsoft's SQL Server and BackOffice products aim at a similar market but are not considered as powerful as Oracle's offerings.
While Ellison's business acumen may rival Gates', the two could not be more different personally. Ellison, abandoned as a child and raised in Chicago by a great-aunt and great-uncle, is a bon vivant and ladies' man whose liaisons are tracked in Silicon Valley's gossip grapevine.
Ellison also is a licensed pilot who once threatened to strafe Gates' Medina estate in a Russian MiG fighter jet and an experienced yachtsman.
Ellison may rival Gates in one other department: competitiveness. "Our job is to hurt Microsoft"
http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/71211/Clancy_-_Rainbow_Six.html
Tom Clancy
Rainbow Six
CHAPTER 4
"One thing at a time. The invention of DDT killed off huge quantities of disease-bearing insects, and that increased populations all over the world, didn't it? Okay, we are a little more crowded now, but who wants to bring the anopheles mosquito back? Is malaria a reasonable method of population control? Nobody here wants to bring war back, right? We used to use that, too, to control populations. We got over it, didn't we? Hell, controlling populations is no big deal. It's called birth control, and the advanced countries have already learned how to do it, and the backward countries can, too, if they have a good reason for doing so. It might take a generation or so," John Brightling mused, "but is there anyone here who would not want to be twenty-five again-with all the things we've learned along the way, of course. It damned well appeals to me!" he went on with a warm smile. With sky-high salaries and promises of stock options, his company had assembled an incredible team of talent to look at that particular gene. The profits that would accrue from its control could hardly be estimated, and the U.S. patent was good for seventeen years! Human immortality, the new Holy Grail for the medical community-and for the first time it was something for serious investigation, not a topic of pulp science-fiction stories.
"You think you can do it?" another congresswoman this one from San Francisco-asked. Women of all sorts found themselves drawn to this man. Money, power, good looks, and good manners made it inevitable.
John Brightling smiled broadly. "Ask me in five years. We know the gene. We need to learn how to turn it off. There's a whole lot of basic science in there we have to uncover, and along the way we hope to discover a lot of very useful things. It's like setting off with Magellan. We aren't sure what we're going to find, but we know it'll all be interesting." No one pointed out that Magellan hadn't made it home from that particular trip.
"And profitable?" a new senator from Wyoming asked.
"That's how our society works, isn't it? We pay people for doing useful work. Is this area useful enough?"
"If you bring it off, I suppose it is." This senator was himself a physician, a family practitioner who knew the basics but was well over his head on the deep-scientific side. The concept, the objective of Horizon Corporation, was well beyond breathtaking, but he would not bet against them. They'd done too well developing cancer drugs and synthetic antibiotics, and were the leading private company in the Human Genome Project, a global effort to decode the basics of human life. Himself a genius, John Brightling had found it easy to attract others like himself to his company. He had more charisma than a hundred politicians, and unlike the latter, the senator had to admit to himself, he really had something to back up the showmanship. It had once been called "the right stuff'! or pilots. With his movie-star looks, ready smile, superb listening ability, and dazzlingly analytical mind, Dr. John Brightling had the knack. He could make anyone near him! gel interesting-and the bastard could teach, could apply his lessons to everyone nearby. Simple ones for the unschooled and highly sophisticated ones for the specialists in his field, at the top of which he reigned supreme. Oh, lie had a few peers. Pat Reily at Harvard-Mass General. Aaron Bernstein at Johns Hopkins. Jacques Elise at Pasteur. Maybe Paul Ging at U.C. Berkeley. But that was it. What a fine clinician Brightling might have made, the senator-M.D. thought, but, no, he was too good to be wasted on people with the latest version of the flu.
About the only thing in which he'd failed was his marriage. Well, Carol Brightling was also pretty smart, but more political than scientific, and perhaps her ego, capacious as everyone in this city knew it to be, had quailed before the greater intellectual gifts of her husband. Only room in town for one of us, the doctor from Wyoming thought, with an inner smile. That happened often enough in real life, not just on old movies. And Brightling, John, seemed to be doing better in that respect than Brightling, Carol. At the former's elbow was a very pretty redhead drinking in his every word, while the latter had come alone, and would be leaving alone for her apartment in Georgetown. Well, the senator-M.D. thought, that's life.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20000820&slug=4037971
The Seattle Times
Sunday, August 20, 2000
LOCAL OFFERINGS
Local offerings
By Michael Upchurch
A selection of new titles by Washington authors, or of local interest:
"The Plot to Get Bill Gates: An Irreverent Investigation of the World's Richest Man . . . and the People Who Hate Him," by Gary Rivlin (Three Rivers, $14). Paperback edition of California cyber-culture watcher's take on our local mogul.
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=the-event&episode=s01e20
Springfield! Springfield!
The Event
One Will Live, One Will Die
If we jump the virus into the right species, it will mutate on its own and we can screen for the variation we need.
What kind of species would that be? The virus doesn't affect us at all, and it kills human beings too quickly.
We need to infect a bridge species whose DNA lies somewhere in-between.
- A hybrid.
- Yes.
And from what I understand, we're in luck.
From 3/10/1957 ( Osama Bin Laden ) To 9/14/2002 ( at Overlake hospital in Bellevue Washington State the announced birth of Phoebe Gates the daughter of Microsoft Bill Gates the transvestite and Microsoft Bill Gates ) is 16624 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/9/2011 is 16624 days
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-event/one-will-live-one-will-die-1383850/
tv.com
The Event Season 1 Episode 20
One Will Live, One Will Die
Aired Monday 9:00 PM May 09, 2011 on NBC
AIRED: 5/9/11
http://www.biography.com/people/osama-bin-laden-37172#awesm=~oGRWU7hu7ohCN2
bio.
Osama bin Laden Biography
Osama bin Laden was born Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden on March 10, 1957, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 11:22 PM Tuesday, August 21, 2007
http://www.interpol.int/Public/Data/Wanted/Notices/Data/1998/32/1998_20232.asp
Wanted
BIN LADEN, Usama
Date of birth: 10 March 1957
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 21 August 2007 excerpt ends]
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 03:36 AM Pacific Time somewhere near Seattle Washington USA Wednesday 11 June 2014
