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Most Outrageous Vendor Lie Ever Told?
i8msft writes "CIO published a guide on How To Cut Through Vendor Hype. While light, the article did prompt me to wonder what is the most outrageous lie ever told by a vendor? I mean, in person, face to face, preferably with witnesses (boss, coworkers, someone on your side of the fence). Forget press releases, trade show presentations and the like, where they lie like dogs! Specific examples only, please."
I cannot believe this got a front page story on slashdot.
Is this even an opensource project? Where can I download the sourcecode? I dont see it anywhere.
Slashdot sells out again.
MS once told our company that its operating systems were reliable, stable, and powerful. What a fucken whopper! Hehehehehehe. Anyway we switched to Linux and IT'S ALL GOOD.
The ownage on this server is impressive. You people know how to get owned and get owned good. You guys get owned so well that it has inspired a poem in me. Here it is. I hope you enjoy it. It's called 'ode to ownage'.
So you were owned
Well that's too bad
Your ass was kicked
And I am glad
You were beaten
It made you sad
You went and cried
To mom and dad
cry baby, cry
cry baby, cry
cry baby, cry
cry baby, cry
owned
Message received at submit@bugs.debian.org:
Subject: irssi-scripts: inappropriate racist and other offensive material
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Package: irssi-scripts
Version: 2
Severity: important
The following racist comments have been found in the irssi-scripts package:
There is no excuse for racism in Debian.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Kernel Version: Linux phoenix 2.4.18 #1 Sun Mar 3 20:15:51 UTC 2002 i586 unknown
Java is a Systems Language.
Java Community Program is open.
Java is a Standard.
and my favorite:
Java is Object Oriented.
Windows 95 is bug-free.... Then when Windows 98 came out We have fixed 7000 bugs since Windows 95 (keep going... keep going) :o)
Video Game cheats, hints a
Sig: What Happened To The Censorware Project (censorware.org)
Personally, I think Apple takes the crown for advertising the Mac as being 2x faster than PCs. Though they dont technically lie, the way they present their data is the same thing, and 95% of people do not read the legal text on the bottom of the pretty graphs that says 'Determined with a a suite of photoshop tests'. I have to hand it to apple, they have some of the best PR and advertising people out there; after all, who else could sell hardware thats 6+ months behind PC, present it as spanking new with a $2k+ price tag! For some reason people see Apple as being a good corperation, not like the evil variety such as MS; they pay their PR people good money to keep up the facade. The mac is definately double plus good. No really.
"What can a thoughtful man hope for mankind on Earth, given the experience of the past million years? Nothing." -Bokonon
said bill gates anno 1981
well then, everytime you thing you have at last enough mem/hard drive space for everything you will discover a programme which needs more.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
I walk god like a dog.
You can't legislate goodness. Let each to his own destiny, by will of his freely made choices.