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101 Dumbest Moments In Business
hhutkin writes "It's that time again. Business 2.0 posted their 101 Dumbest Moments in Business. Of course, they lambast Enron, but they also slam Ginger, a laptop computer made for the steering wheel of your car, Steve Ballmer dancing, and some other really dumb stuff from the past year."
> because I haven't the foggiest idea who Andrea Thompson is.
Actress (NYPD Blue, Babylon 5, etc) turned TV journalist. Took a lot of flak for that move; I suspect she was referring to that controversy, it got a lot of press.
When taken ass end out of context that is indeed stupid.
When followed up by the appropriate "we want to be the middle man that provides good hardware AND good software" part of the speech is sounds damn convincing.
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then at least post the link to the printer-friendly version
Writers imply. Readers infer.
Maybe not, but here is the google cached printable version.
The byline is dated April 2002, so it's the right article.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
...but it appears to be slashdotted...
Once again: google is our friend!
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Well, I know that doesn't look nice, but otherwise it's hard to post due to characters per line restrictions...
"I won't mod you down - I feel the need to call you a twit explicitly, rather than by implication."
It takes a genius to fuck up this bad :)
Probably shouldn't have made the top 100 list, though, considering it had no negative impact on nintendo's sales.
Not only is the article slashdotted but it is cut into 10 pieces and finding it in the google cache is a real pain.
Just click on the "printer-friendly" link. It all comes up on one page then.
SofaMan -- Occasionally Battling Evil With His Mighty Powers Of Indolence.
Not just mainframes.
They sold a lot of terminals that were connected to Mini-computers, some of which ran a Time Sharing system known as Unix.
One mistake that has been made, which seems to have slipped past most people's notice is this:
I live in Edinburgh, and would make some fine company a wonderful SysAdmin - yet nobody has given me a job.
Not only would I be great as a Linux/Unix/Windows sysadmin, I'm good with people, cats, and small children and on top of that I'm a competent programmer too!
Come on Edinburghers, give me a job .. please!