The Wackiest Technology Tales of 2008 97
coondoggie writes "Despite the daily drumbeat of new and improved hardware or software, the tech industry isn't all bits and bytes. Some interesting things happen along the way too. Like floating data centers, space geekonauts, shape shifting robots and weird bedfellows (like Microsoft and Jerry Seinfeld). What we include here is an example of what we thought were the best,
slightly off-center stories of 2008."
How did this get approved for the main page? (Score:5, Insightful)
There isn't anything relevant or newsworthy in the entire piece that was the subject of this post.
The 'article' is merely a slide-show with some of the most poorly written reporting I have ever encountered. News today is usually infotainment and not information anymore and this is a prime example. Even entries to this piece that should be newsworthy are presented so awfully that I could barely muster the willpower to proceed to the last slide.
Networkworld.com ... never visiting this website again.
One word (Score:3, Insightful)
Idle
Re:How did this get approved for the main page? (Score:2, Insightful)
Sunday night + Something vaguely criticizing Microsoft == Slashdot Front Page
So then tangent? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:On slashdot people use the subject line... (Score:3, Insightful)
Er...I was hoping to get modded funny. But now I think maybe your post is funnier.
It's 'their', (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Pah! Imposter! (Score:3, Insightful)
So you are saying he is new here?
Hmmmmnm, their post contained poor grammar / punctuation, repeating an old joke (badly), offtopic & didn't read the article....
They've obviously been around long enough to absorb typical slashdot culture!
Re:On slashdot people use the subject line... (Score:3, Insightful)
I had one guy use 'they're' once. And he kept repeating it until I stopped him and explained the difference.
Old Get Smart routine
"It's the Craw!"
No! Not "Craw' it's 'CRAW'
zzzzzzzz (Score:2, Insightful)
Desperation and bloodlust (Score:3, Insightful)
1. "conscious" is an adjective. Perhaps you mean "conscience".
Ha ha. Right you are! --The funny part is that I had it right in my first draft but switched it around on a sleepy whim because I mixed it up with the idea of Pinocchio's cricket, which just sounded weird.
2. I do not see a logical connection between "acts I and II" and "act III". My understanding is that Windows Vista is widely perceived as garbage, and simply therefore, people bent on Windows will be optimistic about its successor.
Public opinion is a fickle thing, and in Microsoft's case, it was out for blood. Humans are Dog Pack creatures, and when somebody so despised goes down, their demise can be met with a bloodthirsty sort of glee from the public unless something is done to trigger a different kind of emotional response. With the recent public warming toward Linux on all those millions of cheap new netbooks, and the hostility the world was feeling for being strong-armed into buying Vista, I can understand the motivation behind Microsoft to invest heavily in a public relations fix. Spending that kind of money all in one shot smelled to me of desperation.
-FL