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Is "Marketingspeak" Killing Technology?
An anonymous reader writes "In this essay titled, inevitably, "SUNset?" an analogy is drawn between the car industry in Detroit, which failed in the 70s because the execs looked out their windows and saw nothing but American cars and so missed completely the threat from Japanese companies, and Sun Microsystems. "Sun is going to fail in this decade if it does nothing but send out surveys to customers asking them to validate marketing phrases of Sun's creation," says the author. He adds: "If you are someone who never gets tired of hearing 'proven,' 'best-of-breed,' 'cost-effective,' or 'taking the surprise out of business solutions,' then contact Sun and demand as much of their current marketing material as they can muster." But it isn't just Sun, surely. This is a failing of technology marketeers in general. Hmm, doubtless we can all come up with our own examples far equally awful as these from Sun. Who can come up with worse?"
Only on /. could some one making an enlightened historical commont about a norsen chief who became the Duke of Normandy in 860 AD be modded "funny."
fucking idiots
Is there anything better than clicking through Microsoft ads on Slashdot?
you forgot the obvious: RTFA
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America: fast becoming a militant fascist theocracy
Theocracy: A government ruled by or subject to religious authority.
This statement is simply not true. Just because we have a Christian president doesn't mean that we have a theocracy. Even if the next 10 presidents were all Christians, the United states would still probably never become one. In the U.S. one has freedom of religion. The religion that is given the hardest time is Christianity (although at times there have been exceptions, ie muslims after 9/11). The U.S.'s whole history has been in support of freedom of religon. In addition, we are in America, we get to vote for who we want in office. If you want to see a theocracy, go to Iran where the government is of one religon and is run that way with the addition of religious persecution for people who do not believe as the government does. So before you say the U.S. is becoming a theocracy, get your facts straight.
the militant and fascist part of your comment is just as misinformed as the theocracy part.
Nuttles
Saved by Grace
The point isn't that the current president is a Christian. Every president we've had (as far as I know) has been a Christian. The point is that government policy should not be made in the interest of pushing or assisting a particular reason. This is not the letter of the Constitution (it simply guarantees that there will no official state religion), but is the spirit of it in many people's opinion. And recently, the government had done a decent job of it. But now, that is rapidly not the case. As a few examples, tax dollars are now being taken away from (asecular) public schools and given to parochial ("charter") schools, and the US governemnt tends to support the Isrealis rather than Palestinians because the Christian bible somewhat recognizes Isreal as belonging to the Jews (ok, that's been the case since for a while).
The fact that we get to vote is irrelevant. A tyranny of the majority where a large portion of the country who are all of the same religion used their numbers to elect a leader who would create a government with their religion as the official one (hypothetically) would not be acceptable, even though the people of that religion were able to get their leader accepted in an election. You need to protect the rights of everyone, even minority groups.
I'd rather be lucky than good.
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