Editorial

Monday, September 15, 1997 (455)

CoN, according to Slather 1-5,33

Welcome to yet another issue of Capital of Nasty. Changing the zine to a bi-weekly format has allowed us to keep up with the pace of what life has been throwing our way. In the mean time CoN has been reviewed by another e-zine, called e-Slather. They really liked our Golden Testicles, however they also said a lot of stuff that made no sense, unless you like rap music. In any case their bottom line was "thumbs up!" If you want to check it out, you can read the review at http://members.tripod.com/~hardpack/e-capnasty.html

And what is your problem today?

This e-mail arrived shortly after issue II.35 of CoN was sent out:

Date sent: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 06:34:49 PDT

To: Capital of Nasty
From: Bronwyn Mitchell
Subject: you pervert

and what do you think I am a man I'm a woman and I think your a pervert lendro.

your exreader bronzzy

Can someone take a wild guess to what this person is referring? Our readership is invited to comment.

Macintosh from hell

Date sent: Sun, 31 Aug 97 22:13:25 -0700

To: CoN Editorial
From: Robin Miller
Subject: My oh my!

Hi. Thanx for the mention but you made a horrendous glaring error!

You said:

Mac users shouldn't snear at Win users: where do you think your Windows interface came from?

WRONG WRONG WRONG!!!!!

Mac pioneered the 'windows' interface (otherwise known as the graphical and/or WYSIWYG interface) for personal computers in 1984. Windows (and X windows too, incidentally) was a rip off of that innovation, allowing DOS (or Linux) users to approximate the

The answer to the rhetorical question demostrates that you are unsure about the true origins of the GUI. The development at Apple were the pioneers of stealing the GUI. Apple discovered the GUI when Steve Jobs and company were present for a demostration in 1979 of a machine developed in 1973 by Xerox PARC called the Alto.

simplicity and ease of use that the Mac was famous for. Apple even took Microsoft to court in the early 90's for copying its "look and feel", a case that was ended in an out of court settlement.

The out of court settlement was over the trash can. The look and feel case was eventually defeated in the Supreme Court. By the time Windows was developed, there were a number of platforms boasting GUIs, including the Amiga, Atari ST, and the Commodore 64 (GEOS).

From the PBS documentary Triumph of the Nerds:

Windows may at first have been a joke compared to the Mac. But Gates is persistent. Slowly it got better - and the guys at Apple got worried. As each new feature appeared on the Windows gui, the more they thought Microsoft was copying the features on the Mac. So finally they sued Microsoft, accusing them in a long legal battle of stealing the look and feel of Apple's gui.

John Sculley

The look and feel which is how it looks, the experience of using it was not patentable but it was copyrightable but there was no precedent law. This was going to be a precedent setting case.

Bill Gates

But it was a period of five years where, Microsoft er, our whole strategy would have been ruined because Windows was very important to us.

Larry Tesler

They weren't going to change anything and ehm they were going to get us to cave in or take us all the way to the Supreme Court on this thing.

Bill Gates

We assumed that the lawyers, the judges would all come to the right conclusion which eventually they did.

John Sculley

And Apple lost. But in that period of about six years that this case was going on it may have lulled us into a bit of complacency thinking that we were going to be insulated, you know, from the Windows attack.

And Windows still just don't beat the original.

Read above, re: Xerox.

Also, all computers are not prone to breaking down, at least not to the same extent. Windows 95 is a notoriously unstable and unwieldy system, not to mention a disk space/RAM guzzler. Using Apple's new system, Mac OS8, my laptop has been running, with frequent use, for almost a week without a reboot. It's a very stable system.

We can make my Windows '95 machine run for a week without any problems. Does that make it as good as your Laptop? =) Don't get us wrong, we are not dissing Macintosh. We did use them, and we find ourselves more at ease with the problems of Windows =)

Maybe you should post a correction in your next mag... :o)

Great magazine, though.

Thanks ;-)

To SPAM or not to SPAM

And just for everyone's amusement, if you receive spam, you better be nice or else. Sanford Wallace, according to the Project McLuhan On The 'Net, posted this message in which he openly states his fight against anti-spam groups. For those that don't know him, Mr. Wallace is one of the biggest and nastiest spammers in the world.

Warning: reading this message might cause high blood pressure.

Date sent: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 14:29:21 -0700

To: you@yourplace.com
From: donot@noreply.com
Subject: One Giant Step For Web Marketers

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Best Regards,

Sanford Wallace

info@savetrees.com

http://www.savetrees.com

Stamford says: "If you burn down our house, we will build a new castle...then buy our OWN box of matches."

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