I read the article... it seems that the paperclip is staying, but is being
turned off by default. So all the fuss, and the marketing campaign, revolve
around MS's decision to change the default value of the show/hide parameter.
A boolean defaults to false instead of true. Now that's progress.
Emlyn James O'Regan - Managing Director
Wizards of AU
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Harvey Newstrom" <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 12:34 AM
Subject: RE: Ding Dong, Clippy's Dead...
> Michael Lorrey wrote,
> > Subject: Ding Dong, Clippy's Dead...
> >
>
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5081012,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnew
> s01>
>
> You never really miss someone until they're gone. Maybe we all should
have
> been a little nicer to Clippy. He didn't mean to be evil, conniving and
> obnoxious. <sniff> Poor little guy...
>
> --
> Harvey Newstrom <http://HarveyNewstrom.com> <http://Newstaff.com>
>
>
>
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