Dell, prisoner of the Beast of Redmond

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Dell steps down as CEO: Dell Inc.
founder and chairman Michael Dell handed
over

Dell steps down as CEO: Dell Inc.
founder and chairman Michael Dell handed
over 07/17/2004 02:53 AM
NDTV Jul 17 2004 7:02AM GMT

"Unreleased images showed U.S. soldiers
severely beating Iraqi prisoner nearly
to death, having sex with a female Iraqi
female prisoner and 'acting
inappropriately with a dead body.' Also
a videotape, apparently shot by U.S.
personnel, showing guards..."

"Unreleased images showed U.S. soldiers
severely beating Iraqi prisoner nearly
to death, having sex with a female Iraqi
female prisoner and 'acting
inappropriately with a dead body.' Also
a videotape, apparently shot by U.S.
personnel, showing guards..." 05/08/2004 02:09 AM

BEAST/BSE 0.6.0

BEAST/BSE 0.6.0 02/12/2004 11:31 PM
Music composition and audio synthesis framework and tool.

The Beast

The Beast 07/19/2004 09:22 AM

A few years ago I got sucked into a web game wrapped around the soon to be released A.I.: Artificial Intelligence movie. I promptly discovered I was much too impatient to play this game as finding all the answers would take months, not minutes. Way too much time to waste for a movie that wasn't all that good. The concept of what they were trying to do was intriguing however.

One of the team members for the project is now providing a bit more insight into how the game was built.

The idea was that the fiction should jump the dike. A book you can close, a movie happens in a theater--but the Game should evade those boundaries. If our imaginary world called you on your real phone, wasn't it at least as real as the telemarketers doing the same thing? Realer, because you would have seen pictures of the imaginary people calling you. You'd know things about their childhood, their hopes and disappointments, their taste in food.

What's most amazing to me is that this was built by Microsoft and they actually managed to keep the whole thing a secret.

Via Kottke

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BEAST/BSE 0.5.0

BEAST/BSE 0.5.0 03/13/2003 06:02 PM
Music composition and audio synthesis framework and tool.

BEAST/BSE 0.6.2

BEAST/BSE 0.6.2 07/07/2004 07:21 PM
A powerful music composition and audio synthesis application.

BEAST/BSE 0.5.6

BEAST/BSE 0.5.6 12/29/2003 10:59 AM
Music composition and audio synthesis framework and tool.

BEAST BLENDER

BEAST BLENDER 06/05/2005 11:30 PM
create a being that has never existed .. BEAST BLENDER .. any better .. beest

beastblender.com
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How Redmond Won Newham

How Redmond Won Newham 08/18/2004 06:44 PM
Microsoft is wheeling and dealing to lock in government customers.

Redmond to the rescue

Redmond to the rescue 04/16/2004 08:57 AM
USA Today Apr 16 2004 12:38PM GMT

iPods in Redmond

iPods in Redmond 02/05/2005 09:16 PM

H ide Your IPod, Here Comes Bill: This is pretty funny.

Microsoft's leafy corporate campus in Redmond, Washington, is beginning to look like the streets of New York, London and just about everywhere else: Wherever you go, white headphones dangle from peoples' ears.

To the growing frustration and annoyance of Microsoft's management, Apple Computer's iPod is wildly popular among Microsoft's workers.

[...] So concerned is management, owning an iPod at Microsoft is beginning to become impolitic, the manager said. Employees are hiding their iPods by swapping the telltale white headphones for a less conspicuous pair.

Redskins, Redmond, & Red Ink

Redskins, Redmond, & Red Ink 09/03/2004 10:01 AM
Sometimes smart money chases bad stocks.

Looking into the belly of the beast

Looking into the belly of the beast 02/01/2005 08:42 PM

We met with a big company today.

I can't tell yah what happened - but it was intense. I mean like Arabs man - 'in tents'. Totally groady to the max.

I'm sure glad I don't work for a big company - I'd go crazy. The person we met with is the sweetest man - and he's riding this Avalanche of momentum - which can't be stopped. There's no way we can f*ck this up!

So time stamp - today was the day we had the meeting.

FrontPage: The Belly Of The Beast

FrontPage: The Belly Of The Beast 09/08/2004 02:10 PM

Funny you should b ring up Vermeer Technologies. While trying to beat a Visual Studio web project into working yesterday, I did a little network sniffing to find out what FrontPage and Visual Studio actually do to make things work. I'd always thought it was WebDAV that made them go, but in fact, VTI created their own protocol before WebDAV came on the scene. Read on to find out more than you ever cared to know about FrontPage Server Extensions (This entry is categorized as Total Geek — you've been warned).

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BEAST/BSE 0.6.5 (Default branch)

BEAST/BSE 0.6.5 (Default branch) 04/13/2005 11:34 AM
Beast is a powerful music composition and modular synthesis application. It offers multiple input methods like multitrack, piano roll, and pattern editing and supports skins. On the technical side, it has a wide range of abilities like sequencing, unlimited undo/redo history, real-time synthesis with multiprocessor support, full duplex 32-bit audio rendering, precise timing down to sample granularity, on demand loading of partial wave files, on the fly decoding of various sample formats, aliasing free oscillators, and full Scheme scripting support.

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Changes:
This release introduces support for GUS Patch files. A new "bsewavetool" tool was added to create BseWave files (a multi-sample file format that can be read by BEAST). A new saturator effect and a new script to automatically assign mixer busses to tracks were added. There also were lots of minor improvements and major bugfixes. Language updates were made to British English, Canadian English, Czech, Dutch, and Spanish. Newly started translations are Bulgarian and Kinyarwanda.

First Episode III Beast And Vehicle?

First Episode III Beast And Vehicle? 07/08/2004 03:45 PM
Our friends of 4-inches.de announce two new toys for Episode III: Beast Pack "Barg" with Obi-Wan Kenobi and Barc Speeder.

CEOs to Convene in Redmond

CEOs to Convene in Redmond 05/18/2004 08:53 AM
Chairman Bill Gates will address 100+ of his closest CEO pals this week at the company's eighth annual CEO Summit.

Redmond Patches XP SP2 Beta

Redmond Patches XP SP2 Beta 04/12/2004 08:45 AM
As it prepares to release Release Candidate 2 of its much-touted Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft is patching the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) beta build, according to BetaNews.

Taming the Beast: Installing PHP-GTK

Taming the Beast: Installing PHP-GTK 08/09/2002 07:53 AM

Redmond Redraws More Roadmaps

Redmond Redraws More Roadmaps 05/26/2004 12:06 PM
Microsoft is redrawing roadmaps beyond its Windows Server one. At TechEd this week, company brass also discussed how the company is looking to increase the frequency (and decrease the magnitude) of its Exchange Server releases. And the SQL Server division is giving thought to a similar move.

sean stewart - the beast

sean stewart - the beast 07/19/2004 04:26 AM
The AI Web game designed to support the Spielberg film was built my Microsoft .. The Beast: The Making of the A.I. game

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Redmond Idea Factory just ran out of Gas

Redmond Idea Factory just ran out of Gas 07/21/2004 12:38 PM

Dana Blankenhorn raps it out....

Microsoft is out of ideas. (I liked this cartoon of Chairman Bill, from Hawaiian cartoonist John Pritchett.)

Microsoft spent the last year exploring lots of big business ideas. I even pitched Always-On to some Microsoft executives. In the end the company decided it had no worthwhile idea, so it's giving its profit back to shareholders.

Microsoft brings in $1 billion worth of free cash every month, and has set a $75 billion pay-out plan, including $30 billion in share buybacks. This is all in an effort to raise its stagnant stock price.

The result will be a higher price, but I guarantee you it will also mean a lower price-earnings ratio. Microsoft has decided to become a widows-and-orphans stock because it can't see any worthwhile way to invest its profits.

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Because if Microsoft, with all the money in the world, can't thnk of anything better to do with its money than give it away, what does that say for the rest of us? What does it say for the technology business climate?

[Moore's Lore]

Sad - but true. It's up to US to prove Dana wrong!

Beware the Beast of Bodmin

Beware the Beast of Bodmin 11/10/2003 10:49 PM
The Beast of Bodmin. 'Photographs and even films had been taken of these beasts, but there has been little physical evidence to support the sightings. That was until recently when a 14-year-old boy discovered a skull with large fangs, in the River Fowey on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. '
'This is the story of how The Natural History Museum tracked down this beast... '
More at the British Big Cats Society.

Key Windows man leaves Redmond

Key Windows man leaves Redmond 02/05/2005 10:05 PM

"Body and Soul/The Beast in US"

"Body and Soul/The Beast in US" 03/17/2005 02:51 AM

Sharp unshackles 65-inch LCD beast

Sharp unshackles 65-inch LCD beast 06/05/2005 11:41 PM
Big TV and a price tag to match

Dollars Finally Rain from Redmond

Dollars Finally Rain from Redmond 07/21/2004 04:10 AM
Business Week Jul 21 2004 7:38AM GMT

Redmond Updates Its Server Roadmap

Redmond Updates Its Server Roadmap 01/27/2004 04:12 PM
As part of its SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services launch, Microsoft Enterprise Server Senior VP Paul Flessner offered one of his regular Microsoft roadmap updates, designed to help customers and partners better plan for what's on tap from the software kingpin.

Redmond launches phishing offensive

Redmond launches phishing offensive 04/01/2005 06:50 AM
ZDNet UK Apr 1 2005 10:25AM GMT

Blogging About Apples is Fun - Unless
You Work in Redmond

Blogging About Apples is Fun - Unless
You Work in Redmond 10/31/2003 06:07 AM
Blogger dismissed from Microsoft .. Microsoft blogger lost their job .. blog-related dismissal .. cost you your job .. MSNBC

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Shackling the email content beast

Shackling the email content beast 08/03/2004 10:34 AM
Integrated solutions to smut, spam and other nasties

More Wining and Dining in Redmond This
Week

More Wining and Dining in Redmond This
Week 03/19/2005 03:04 AM
It looks like it was a busy week on the Microsoft campus. In addition to inviting advertising execs to headquarters, Microsoft also hosted some "Competitive Influentials" for some give-and-take on Microsoft's developer strategies. And across the bridge in Seattle, Microsoft conducted some 64-bit briefings for another set of its key constituents.

Redmond SEM Firm Must Issue Refunds

Redmond SEM Firm Must Issue Refunds 08/12/2004 12:52 PM
"The state attorney general said yesterday Redmond-based Internet Advancement must pay penalties for failing to get its customers top placement on major search engines."

Taming the Litigation Beast: Are You
Ready?

Taming the Litigation Beast: Are You
Ready? 04/20/2004 08:56 PM
Internet.com Apr 21 2004 0:50AM GMT

Redmond Waltzes Into Online Music

Redmond Waltzes Into Online Music 09/01/2004 09:54 AM
Internet News Sep 1 2004 2:12PM GMT

The Beast That Feeds on Boxes:
Bureaucracy

The Beast That Feeds on Boxes:
Bureaucracy 04/09/2005 06:23 PM
In the history of American intelligence failure, one chronic culprit is that "giant power wielded by pygmies," as Balzac put it: bureaucracy.

Taming the beast, Antec Overture Take 3

Taming the beast, Antec Overture Take 3 04/19/2004 11:12 AM

Building the Beast: Talking with Peter
Morville

Building the Beast: Talking with Peter
Morville 09/10/2002 03:41 AM

Microsoft's India campus may beat
Redmond

Microsoft's India campus may beat
Redmond 04/15/2005 12:39 AM
Economictimes Apr 15 2005 3:48AM GMT
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