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The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business
An anonymous reader writes "Business 2.0's fourth annual review of the most shameful, dishonest, and just plain stupid moments of the past year. Yes, SCO is represented..."
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SCO is in the 81-90 section? Number 83. Seems to be a little low on the list... but then I would've put it at #1.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. - Hunter S. Thompson
For those who don't want to hunt and find the SCO reference on the slow server
83 How to win friends and influence software sales.
"Terrorists do things designed to intimidate people, and we see a lot of that going on all the time--people trying to attack us or people that we're associated with."--SCO Group CEO Darl McBride, complaining about the backlash from hundreds of thousands of Linux users after the former Linux software vendor sued IBM, a major Linux proponent, for allegedly violating its intellectual-property rights.
Darl really did say that! - i know it is hard to believe.
Talk about the kettle calling the pot...
I remember one too.
Coke announcing machines that would raise prices in summer (instead of saying that the machines would reduce prices in winter). Its a marketing classic!
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8 Just to be on the safe side, let's also lose the jack, the fuel pump, and the four-stroke engine.
In Canada, General Motors is forced to come up with a new name for its Buick LaCrosse sedan after discovering that crosse is a slang term for masturbation in Quebec.
Its also a slang term for "a rip-off".
I never heard it used to mean masturbation when used as a noun, its masturnbatory meaning is only applied when used as a verb. So To me that GM car sounds more like a rip-off than a jerk-off. Also note that GM laid off a lot of people in Quebec recently by closing down a plant...
Ah, fond memories of the sign "do not cross the track" at the amusement park with my friends when I was 14... : )
You can't take the sky from me...
Interesting to note re: SCO the dumb moment is the quote. I can agree with that. Using terrorism or war related analogies just doesn't fly. Ask Kellen "I'm a soldier" Winslow Jr.
/.'rs but aren't necessarily dumb. They've been on life-support for awhile and if you were a good CEO you'd probably take a stab at IBM's deep pockets too. Their moves appear to have already extended their life.
But, how many replies to this article will rave about SCO being dumb and that they should be rated higher? Probably too many due to a little myopia. What does SCO care if they piss of linux advocates? It's not like they have to worry about the opinions of most techies. They can't lose market share they didn't have. And what do they care if people are driven away from Linux to truly other systems if they succeed in forcing companies to pony up licensing fees? If they win they make money they wouldn't have. If they lose they die but they've survived longer than if they'd never tried.
Their moves may be detestable to
A corporation's chief mission is to survive. That comes long before societal and ethical concerns.
Lingerie Bowl 2004
Thats an urban legend.
Never happened.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Yup. However, as the cans are dented in transport, weak spots can be created in the aluminum. These weak spots require less force than the concave safety portion of the can to expand, and they will break first. Also, the concave portion can bend out so far that it will come lower than the normal bottom of the can. For this to happen while the can is normally upright, the whole container must be able to maintain a pressure sufficient enough to both expand the concave portion of the can and lift the can up.
Actually, another one would be the Japanese calculator firm Busicom hiring some semiconductor memory company named Intel to make a calculator chipset, getting a general purpose computer on a chip, and then renegotiating for a lower price while allowing Intel to sell it.
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Now, imagine breaking up this structure. Take the top molecule and rotate it by approximately 120 degrees, so that the H atom in the upper left of the image is now positioned between the H atoms bonded to the O second from the top. This is what happens when the ice melts... the molecules get closer together, causing the density to increase slightly upon melting.
If you have access to the Feynman lectures on physics, there is much better explanation with more pictures explaining this phenomenon.
Surprisingly, buttermilk is actually somewhat lower in fat than 1% milk. It got its name from being the liquid that was left over after butter was churned out of it. (The stuff you can buy today is made quite differently, but has similar properties.)