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Alternate Title: The World does a 'Microsoft', only Microsoft does better...
First Read This:
" "Dear MS Outlook," Owen Schultz wrote, "I am so sorry about our breakup several years ago. I have been thinking about you a lot since then. Will you please consider taking me back? Just one more chance? I'm sorry about all the horrible things I said about you and your operating system. You were the best I ever had! MobileMe and I are finished!"
Directly stolen, I mean "adapted" from:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/tech-bottom-line/archives/2008/08/microsoftas_new.html?source=NLC-DAILY&cgd=2008-08-14
and then read the entire article. But remember yours truly as well. For those of you who have known me, I have always touted the fact that Apple is totally unprepared (deliberately so, just like MS, only with much, much more arrogance) for any kind of large customer base.
Yes, yes, they sold so many of this and so many of that. But isn't the world full of idiots accepting dictators, tormentors, mind-changing, hope-touting weaklings and people with 23% or less approval?
What would you expect such an inept world to do?
Of course, buy more and more of the useless.
In any case, the very few of you who know me and equally despise me might have heard me gloating for years about how ineffective Apple is at being able to sell their products to anyone who wants to put them to good use.
Voila!
Apple makes its case as a "better than MS" company (Yeah, Right! - after MS bailed you out) and finally sold copies of an mp3 player and a rather obvious phone design by the millions.
Don't forget the fact that they were neither the first at designing mp3 players nor were they original in even designing them..er, they stole from Creative's patents, desperately fought them and then settled.
Now, their phone swallows email, their website swallows discussion threads ( http://www.techcult.com/iphone-ifail/ ) and their killer swallows apps (Oh, no, that one's not going away...!)
God, what else will this hungry beast swallow?
He he he. Idiots. So now, Silicon Valley is floundering:
1. Gmail has had outages. I experienced these.
2. Yahoo! has had outages. I experienced these.
3. The frikking computing cloud, whatever that mess is, had outages. Amazon, please books. That is all you can barely manage, even now, I dare-say, properly...
4. Netflix has gone to hell, finally...
Who is laughing all the way to the bank?
The creator of the World's largest non-profit and his company.
No one said, MS is perfect, or is going to grow up enough to try and be half-way there, but it is amusing to imagine all the MS haters now wondering in gloom - "What Next".
Meanwhile in a dark alley in the streets of San Francisco, Yang, Jobs and Schmidt plot their next plan to fool the world.
And oh, if Apple cheats and fakes board meetings, "It's all good".
Hate Microsoft? Love Apple?
Be ready for buckets more of ridicule to come your way. The funniest thing is you paid a higher price to be laughed at!
Also Noted: Ever wonder why Apple calls it "MobileMe"? Its all about them, of course, and how they duped you suckers into buying one! Ha ha ha.
And your angry retort "Sent from my iPhone" will take forever to reach me...so don't bother. Uh! Can you hear me now?
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
Friday, August 08, 2008
Isn't the iPhone so cool...yeah right!
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Oh, how the stupid have fallen!
I have no sympathy for people who dog a store for 36 hours to buy an expensive brick from a crazy control freak company/guy. There have been dozens of stories about how DemiGod Jobs prepares for months to fool, I mean market idiots with too much money on their hands.
I have also heard, through a personal friend and ex-apartment mate as to the kind of craziness that reigns project management at Apple.
So, today morning's story has not been all too surprising.
Now, Apple wants to control what its customers own and how they use it. Perfect! You get to be baby-sat (considering, if you spend $500 without knowing what you are buying, you lack any sense of maturity) for $500 + $$$ (AT&T) + $$$ (buying apps that can be unstably disabled any moment now....oops! somewhere in the world, someone's App just got yanked)!
I can imagine Steve Jobs as an incarnation of Uncle Scrooge on top of piles of gold coins, going he he he, clicking away, disabling everyone's apps while ruminating about a new SOB story to tell at commencement new year (Thank You Stanford, the world seemed like such a peaceful place before we heard 'poor' Jobs' life story).
If you are mad at me - consider this, my parents walked to school without slippers, and from where they started, they have achieved quite a bit (well countered and surpassed by the downside of producing me!) and they don't go bitch around about how bad life used to be.
If Stanford really wants bleeding stories for its commencements, it should select homeless people to tell the story. That way, at least we can pay attention to real problems.
In a way, to badly misquote Douglas Adams (who, unfortunately was an Apple fan, making our spiritual post-Earth relationship quite difficult. Adams, I hope you appreciate my view when you read this. For you uninformed, Facebook loving Earthlings, he has passed on, at least from this medium of existence):
Apple is "Mostly Harmless"!
Why?
Well, Microsoft is all pervading.
Apple only f***s up the rich, who, in a way, since I am not rich, deserve what they got (yanked out of their phones) !!!!!
Long live stupidity! It makes the rest of us feel so great....!
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Oh, how the stupid have fallen!
I have no sympathy for people who dog a store for 36 hours to buy an expensive brick from a crazy control freak company/guy. There have been dozens of stories about how DemiGod Jobs prepares for months to fool, I mean market idiots with too much money on their hands.
I have also heard, through a personal friend and ex-apartment mate as to the kind of craziness that reigns project management at Apple.
So, today morning's story has not been all too surprising.
Now, Apple wants to control what its customers own and how they use it. Perfect! You get to be baby-sat (considering, if you spend $500 without knowing what you are buying, you lack any sense of maturity) for $500 + $$$ (AT&T) + $$$ (buying apps that can be unstably disabled any moment now....oops! somewhere in the world, someone's App just got yanked)!
I can imagine Steve Jobs as an incarnation of Uncle Scrooge on top of piles of gold coins, going he he he, clicking away, disabling everyone's apps while ruminating about a new SOB story to tell at commencement new year (Thank You Stanford, the world seemed like such a peaceful place before we heard 'poor' Jobs' life story).
If you are mad at me - consider this, my parents walked to school without slippers, and from where they started, they have achieved quite a bit (well countered and surpassed by the downside of producing me!) and they don't go bitch around about how bad life used to be.
If Stanford really wants bleeding stories for its commencements, it should select homeless people to tell the story. That way, at least we can pay attention to real problems.
In a way, to badly misquote Douglas Adams (who, unfortunately was an Apple fan, making our spiritual post-Earth relationship quite difficult. Adams, I hope you appreciate my view when you read this. For you uninformed, Facebook loving Earthlings, he has passed on, at least from this medium of existence):
Apple is "Mostly Harmless"!
Why?
Well, Microsoft is all pervading.
Apple only f***s up the rich, who, in a way, since I am not rich, deserve what they got (yanked out of their phones) !!!!!
Long live stupidity! It makes the rest of us feel so great....!
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Monday, August 04, 2008
Navilyst: The newest new old thing...
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Alternate Titles:
1. Clueless in Seattle (don't ask me why, I don't know :p )
2. Tutorials in branding, marketing and reading between lines
3. 10 things you cannot learn from THIS press release
4. Press Release for Dummies (the readers)
Alright, so August has me being a tad bit more cynical than usual (and you thought that it was impossible...). Now, I have nothing against the good people at Navilyst, but when Google Alerts started rolling in the press release through multiple websites, I clicked (or took the bait) hoping to see something new, some new competitor in some branch of medical devices and so on.
"A press release is a very useful tool..." - how many times did you read that in your "Tips for Small Business Success" or "Textbook for really expensive yet completely pointless MBA (expands to Much Bigger...) and so on.?
Yet, the press release is a useful tool, when generated appropriately. The key point to note, would be that the press release should also be of eventual use to the journalist, blogger and Google Alert fanatic, not just Navilyst and marketwatch.com .
Once I landed on the press release things got boring pretty fast:
Yes yes, it would have been terrible for the company to be called "Boston Scientific's old Fluid Management Unit sold to try and save company from a stock market debacle, Inc." (for one thing it would have been too long and too truthism-y), but one would hope for something beyond that:
"By 2011 the company should look very different than we do today--and that's exciting," - sorry Ron Sparks, being different from what you are in 2008 is below any bottomline expectation for 2011!
This is a sad case of people giving themselves stickers for just existing...or just a very weakly thought out statement for a press release.
After this, we come to our real world meanings of the several paragraphs in the press-release:
"We maintain the singular focus of a small, eager organization striving to improve patient care while collaborating with clinicians in the global marketplace"
equals "We are smaller than we used to be, in case you are completely incapable of surmising that yourself."
"Navilyst Medical combines the best attributes of an established medical device company--market-leading technology, superior clinical data, experienced leadership and proven worldwide sales and distribution capabilities"
equals, "We assume you dont know what it means to be an established medical device company because you might be out there presuming that you think one of these is not necessary"
Oh come on, yes we agree, you are projecting yourself as a full entity rather than a broken limb (no sales, marketing, etc). Well, no investor is going to be interested in broken limb companies anyway...
"We maintain the singular focus of a small, eager organization striving to improve patient care while collaborating with clinicians in the global marketplace"
equals space filler,padding, icing, pepper dumped on pizza to 'spice' it up or as the elderly sage said, "Hmmm..."
"Navilyst Medical manufactures and markets a portfolio of fluid management and vascular access products used during some of the most frequent hospital procedures including angiography and angioplasty. Navilyst Medical's Fluid Management business, including the proprietary NAMIC(R) line of products enjoys a leading global market share. Navilyst Medical's vascular access products include devices designed to provide access to the blood stream for patients requiring intravenous antibiotics, nutrition, chemotherapy, blood sampling and hemodialysis. The company's PASV(R) Technology, with strong clinical data, is uniquely designed to automatically close after infusion, disconnection or aspiration, and remain closed during normal pressure fluctuations, reducing the risk of complications including catheter-related bloodstream infections. "
does not equal Press Release. May equal "About Navilyst" in press release or website.
A very good example of what you could put in your $1,500 case study on "10 things to NOT publish in a press release with only 10 things" that you can sell to future company executives.
Barely existing or surviving is not an achievement. We cannot hand each other stickers for this.
Yes, I repeat myself here (about the stickers, of course). Hey, if press releases can do this, why can't a blog do it? And this blog doesn't digest and spit out full article tests (without miserably trying to 'entertain' you first!)
Once upon a time you thought a press release talked about something significant, so that you could spend your time reading 20 - 25 press releases and glean some information that you could use. Nowadays, what with all the "Optimize your SEO" guides out there, the "press release" has become a sad victim of the "Restating the blindingly obvious and/or mundane, Inc." movement...
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Alternate Titles:
1. Clueless in Seattle (don't ask me why, I don't know :p )
2. Tutorials in branding, marketing and reading between lines
3. 10 things you cannot learn from THIS press release
4. Press Release for Dummies (the readers)
Alright, so August has me being a tad bit more cynical than usual (and you thought that it was impossible...). Now, I have nothing against the good people at Navilyst, but when Google Alerts started rolling in the press release through multiple websites, I clicked (or took the bait) hoping to see something new, some new competitor in some branch of medical devices and so on.
"A press release is a very useful tool..." - how many times did you read that in your "Tips for Small Business Success" or "Textbook for really expensive yet completely pointless MBA (expands to Much Bigger...) and so on.?
Yet, the press release is a useful tool, when generated appropriately. The key point to note, would be that the press release should also be of eventual use to the journalist, blogger and Google Alert fanatic, not just Navilyst and marketwatch.com .
Once I landed on the press release things got boring pretty fast:
Yes yes, it would have been terrible for the company to be called "Boston Scientific's old Fluid Management Unit sold to try and save company from a stock market debacle, Inc." (for one thing it would have been too long and too truthism-y), but one would hope for something beyond that:
"By 2011 the company should look very different than we do today--and that's exciting," - sorry Ron Sparks, being different from what you are in 2008 is below any bottomline expectation for 2011!
This is a sad case of people giving themselves stickers for just existing...or just a very weakly thought out statement for a press release.
After this, we come to our real world meanings of the several paragraphs in the press-release:
"We maintain the singular focus of a small, eager organization striving to improve patient care while collaborating with clinicians in the global marketplace"
equals "We are smaller than we used to be, in case you are completely incapable of surmising that yourself."
"Navilyst Medical combines the best attributes of an established medical device company--market-leading technology, superior clinical data, experienced leadership and proven worldwide sales and distribution capabilities"
equals, "We assume you dont know what it means to be an established medical device company because you might be out there presuming that you think one of these is not necessary"
Oh come on, yes we agree, you are projecting yourself as a full entity rather than a broken limb (no sales, marketing, etc). Well, no investor is going to be interested in broken limb companies anyway...
"We maintain the singular focus of a small, eager organization striving to improve patient care while collaborating with clinicians in the global marketplace"
equals space filler,padding, icing, pepper dumped on pizza to 'spice' it up or as the elderly sage said, "Hmmm..."
"Navilyst Medical manufactures and markets a portfolio of fluid management and vascular access products used during some of the most frequent hospital procedures including angiography and angioplasty. Navilyst Medical's Fluid Management business, including the proprietary NAMIC(R) line of products enjoys a leading global market share. Navilyst Medical's vascular access products include devices designed to provide access to the blood stream for patients requiring intravenous antibiotics, nutrition, chemotherapy, blood sampling and hemodialysis. The company's PASV(R) Technology, with strong clinical data, is uniquely designed to automatically close after infusion, disconnection or aspiration, and remain closed during normal pressure fluctuations, reducing the risk of complications including catheter-related bloodstream infections. "
does not equal Press Release. May equal "About Navilyst" in press release or website.
A very good example of what you could put in your $1,500 case study on "10 things to NOT publish in a press release with only 10 things" that you can sell to future company executives.
Barely existing or surviving is not an achievement. We cannot hand each other stickers for this.
Yes, I repeat myself here (about the stickers, of course). Hey, if press releases can do this, why can't a blog do it? And this blog doesn't digest and spit out full article tests (without miserably trying to 'entertain' you first!)
Once upon a time you thought a press release talked about something significant, so that you could spend your time reading 20 - 25 press releases and glean some information that you could use. Nowadays, what with all the "Optimize your SEO" guides out there, the "press release" has become a sad victim of the "Restating the blindingly obvious and/or mundane, Inc." movement...
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Friday, August 01, 2008
Yahoo! : Please don't answer my rhetoric questions... lol :)
Alright, you know I lifted that from MI3.
So, no one at Yahoo! checks their questions for spam or abuse or (pleas for) help, either?
Hmm...what a lovely waste of time.
And what the heck is up with the 7?
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In Today's Mildly Funny to Insanely Boring Issue...
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This is how bored I am!
Moral of the Story: When writing articles (for pay) on Friday, please have a cup of coffee handy. Coffee, not beer!
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Just how useless is Yahoo! ?
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If you thought I am the only one frustrated, look at all the questions on the bottom of the page.
Here is how you release an upgrade to a product that is being used..
1. Create dummy email addys and test them.
2. Release Design and Documentation to QA
3. Fix problems and other things that emerge
4. FRIKKING TELL YOUR CUSTOMERS THAT YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING!
5. LISTEN TO CUSTOMERS
6. SELL OUT AFTER 8 QUARTERS OF LOSSES AND TOTAL INABILITY TO DO ANYTHING A 5 YEAR OLD CAN DO.
And, they won't let you ask a direct question to their Help site. Talk about service!!! (Definitely, the lack thereof)
Then, I thought I should shame this useless sham of a company publicly in their own forum.
Mind you, their annual GM is today/tomorrow.
Why is that significant?
Because this useless company prevented Microsoft from buying it based on Holier-Than-Thou Yang decided that Silicon Valley was tres cool and MS was so passe.
Yeah, right!
Really, really tired of this nonsense. Will someone fire him and his board of ineptness already?
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Kamala Harris: The new village i*iot?
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Okay, hate Childs as much as you want. And yes, also worry about the fact that he broke federal laws. No one is disagreeing with any of all this.
I also agree that he did not plan his "endgame" well and looks quite the idiot.
But his whole complaint was that the city was unable to protect itself, or act mature. He lamented that his superiors were ill-equipped to understand the sensitivity of network security. Thus he refused to give them the password.
Was he right?
Yes he was!
Let's take a look. Why wasn't this handled better? What is San Francisco winning out of this?
Setting an example?
An example for what?
Childs himself never put the network in jeopardy.
However, the moment you hand over the passwords to the DA's office, look what they did?
They printed them on a list and sent it into public records!
To prove that Childs might have been able to login as a legitimate user and wreak havoc.
Irony, thy name is "District Attorney, City of San Francisco".
I mean, come on. Childs is going to go to prison - for being more intelligent than the collective Government of the City of San Francisco which prints out passwords for the world to see and harbors felons paying for them with city taxes.
God. If I had known what the bottom level of IQ to work for the City of San Francisco was going to be, I would have applied there....
I am almost certain, I would make a better District Attorney, or Network Security Supervisor.
Ugh!
Talk about people (read the sex neutrality carefully!) giving away passwords for a toffee bar:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/16/password_security/
Also remember, this is the same city which claimed a guy managed to stab himself as a fun way to commit suicide. Later, he also managed to wipe out the knife so that people could use the knife for other purposes after he was gone, without feeling icky! :
http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/politics/2008/01/hugues_de_la_plazas_autopsy_un.html
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Okay, hate Childs as much as you want. And yes, also worry about the fact that he broke federal laws. No one is disagreeing with any of all this.
I also agree that he did not plan his "endgame" well and looks quite the idiot.
But his whole complaint was that the city was unable to protect itself, or act mature. He lamented that his superiors were ill-equipped to understand the sensitivity of network security. Thus he refused to give them the password.
Was he right?
Yes he was!
Let's take a look. Why wasn't this handled better? What is San Francisco winning out of this?
Setting an example?
An example for what?
Childs himself never put the network in jeopardy.
However, the moment you hand over the passwords to the DA's office, look what they did?
They printed them on a list and sent it into public records!
To prove that Childs might have been able to login as a legitimate user and wreak havoc.
Irony, thy name is "District Attorney, City of San Francisco".
I mean, come on. Childs is going to go to prison - for being more intelligent than the collective Government of the City of San Francisco which prints out passwords for the world to see and harbors felons paying for them with city taxes.
God. If I had known what the bottom level of IQ to work for the City of San Francisco was going to be, I would have applied there....
I am almost certain, I would make a better District Attorney, or Network Security Supervisor.
Ugh!
Talk about people (read the sex neutrality carefully!) giving away passwords for a toffee bar:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/16/password_security/
Also remember, this is the same city which claimed a guy managed to stab himself as a fun way to commit suicide. Later, he also managed to wipe out the knife so that people could use the knife for other purposes after he was gone, without feeling icky! :
http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/politics/2008/01/hugues_de_la_plazas_autopsy_un.html
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Saturday, July 26, 2008
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha... made my day!
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So, you know, its Saturday morning. I am sitting in front of my laptop with my uptight-a** Starbucks "Latte" going..s*** man, this morning's boring.
You know, its Obama this and Obama that everywhere, and he is really not doing anything actually interesting....
And then this article pops up - for your own good, click on the link and read it.
Ha ha ha, I think this guy will need a therapist for many years to come. He needs to start sending christmas (no obnoxious Firefox spell-check thingy, I refuse to capitalize the C in christmas) cards to the Oakland police for NOT charging him with solicitation.
He he, otherwise he would have to pay more, and more and more for what he wanted to pay for....
The only person I am sorry for, in this whole story is the poor child!
Anyway, hope your Saturday brightens too, and you put that money into a 401(k) rather than elsewhere....
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So, you know, its Saturday morning. I am sitting in front of my laptop with my uptight-a** Starbucks "Latte" going..s*** man, this morning's boring.
You know, its Obama this and Obama that everywhere, and he is really not doing anything actually interesting....
And then this article pops up - for your own good, click on the link and read it.
Ha ha ha, I think this guy will need a therapist for many years to come. He needs to start sending christmas (no obnoxious Firefox spell-check thingy, I refuse to capitalize the C in christmas) cards to the Oakland police for NOT charging him with solicitation.
He he, otherwise he would have to pay more, and more and more for what he wanted to pay for....
The only person I am sorry for, in this whole story is the poor child!
Anyway, hope your Saturday brightens too, and you put that money into a 401(k) rather than elsewhere....
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
What is Paul Harapin smoking? I want some of it...
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Okay, who can predict the future? Not even the world's richest (or second, or third or fourth or wherever he is now) man.
He once said, One MB of RAM is all computers would ever need.
Of course, Bill Gates went on to become the world's richest (or second or third..you get the idea) man.
Where is Paul Harapin going to go?
With this kind of talk...probably not far.
Alright, alright, we get it, you are getting paid some kind of a salary by VMWare so you have to run around hockeying us with tales of how only your company and an unsupported, non-commercial, hithero highly unsuccessful, Operating System with no future...I mean "Open Source Linux" are the only ones left.
So, imagine, it's the end of time. The world has burned down, and only VMWare and Ubuntu are walking around holding hand in hand....
hmm. the landfill fire in Palo Alto, did get to me!
Silliness seems to pervade VMWare.
Silicon Valley is a nag on its own backside. After way too much fanfare for the IPO in 2007, VMWare, the next "Windows Killer" (not the "secret" OS that 13 year olds with ADD are building in Google) got nowhere. So, they have dropped a CEO and are now continuing to struggle.
Has it hurt their pride (or inane-ity)?
No!
First off, the death of Windows is like the Loch Ness monster, Area 51, "Campaign of Hope", "Change in Washington" (not change for a Dollar, mind you) and so on.
Alright, let's assume by some twist of fate, all these "nextgen" virtual devices come to exist. How is it possible to replace them within the next 10 years?
Just from that simple logic alone, we can assess that VMWare has more trouble ahead if continues to employ the likes of Paul Heparin, Harparin, what?
Why do engineers not like marketing guys so much?
We engineers have no imagination (or mushroom gardens...)!
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Okay, who can predict the future? Not even the world's richest (or second, or third or fourth or wherever he is now) man.
He once said, One MB of RAM is all computers would ever need.
Of course, Bill Gates went on to become the world's richest (or second or third..you get the idea) man.
Where is Paul Harapin going to go?
With this kind of talk...probably not far.
Alright, alright, we get it, you are getting paid some kind of a salary by VMWare so you have to run around hockeying us with tales of how only your company and an unsupported, non-commercial, hithero highly unsuccessful, Operating System with no future...I mean "Open Source Linux" are the only ones left.
So, imagine, it's the end of time. The world has burned down, and only VMWare and Ubuntu are walking around holding hand in hand....
hmm. the landfill fire in Palo Alto, did get to me!
Silliness seems to pervade VMWare.
Silicon Valley is a nag on its own backside. After way too much fanfare for the IPO in 2007, VMWare, the next "Windows Killer" (not the "secret" OS that 13 year olds with ADD are building in Google) got nowhere. So, they have dropped a CEO and are now continuing to struggle.
Has it hurt their pride (or inane-ity)?
No!
First off, the death of Windows is like the Loch Ness monster, Area 51, "Campaign of Hope", "Change in Washington" (not change for a Dollar, mind you) and so on.
Alright, let's assume by some twist of fate, all these "nextgen" virtual devices come to exist. How is it possible to replace them within the next 10 years?
Just from that simple logic alone, we can assess that VMWare has more trouble ahead if continues to employ the likes of Paul Heparin, Harparin, what?
Why do engineers not like marketing guys so much?
We engineers have no imagination (or mushroom gardens...)!
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
To stave off a Microsoft buy, Yahoo! embraces idiocy...!
Alternative Titles Include:
The Yahoo! Math
Yang Can't Count!
(Click on Image to enlarge, and then you better come back and read the rest!)
This is what it has come down to. Yang walked down the corridors of Yahoo! triumphantly after sending an email to his employees,
"Dear All,
Do anything, just please, anything so that I don't have to leave the company.
Pleae, pretty please.
After typing this email, I am going to Washington to talk to Mommy about big, bad, bad Microsoft..boo hoo.
If you don't do this, and Microsoft will steal your lunch money...every day.
Oh, and I am attaching an FAQ (Farts and Quirks) on our latest efforts to prevent Microsoft from stealing my lunch money (read billions in stock - which, actually they cannot steal).
Y!ours,
Y!ang"
And look what the loyal Yahoo! Mail folks gave us.
The images speak for themselves.
Y!ours truly!
Claimer: Views presented in this article probably or definitely allude to people real, unreal, imaginary, virtual and otherwise. Any harm or libel cast on people dead, alive or transient is either intentional or otherwise. The views expressed in this blog are solely those of the author, however he refuses to take responsibility for said views and believes the use of "airquotes" to be a birthright. Claims not included in this claim are also claimed.
The Yahoo! Math
Yang Can't Count!
(Click on Image to enlarge, and then you better come back and read the rest!)
This is what it has come down to. Yang walked down the corridors of Yahoo! triumphantly after sending an email to his employees,
"Dear All,
Do anything, just please, anything so that I don't have to leave the company.
Pleae, pretty please.
After typing this email, I am going to Washington to talk to Mommy about big, bad, bad Microsoft..boo hoo.
If you don't do this, and Microsoft will steal your lunch money...every day.
Oh, and I am attaching an FAQ (Farts and Quirks) on our latest efforts to prevent Microsoft from stealing my lunch money (read billions in stock - which, actually they cannot steal).
Y!ours,
Y!ang"
And look what the loyal Yahoo! Mail folks gave us.
The images speak for themselves.
Y!ours truly!
Claimer: Views presented in this article probably or definitely allude to people real, unreal, imaginary, virtual and otherwise. Any harm or libel cast on people dead, alive or transient is either intentional or otherwise. The views expressed in this blog are solely those of the author, however he refuses to take responsibility for said views and believes the use of "airquotes" to be a birthright. Claims not included in this claim are also claimed.
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