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The 2005 IT Year In Quotes
PCM2 writes "InfoWorld is carrying a news story that sums up the year in quotes from IT executives. Lots of fun stuff to be had here, including former WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers: 'I know what I don't know, and to this day I don't know technology and I don't know accounting and finance.' Also: 'We have so many rivals it's frightening. The week after next I will meet Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and I will [shake hands and]look down and see if I still have a hand.' - Sony's Stringer"
"In our flash business, we had an awful quarter. ... It makes me puke to lose US$39 million." -- Hector Ruiz, chairman, president and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices Inc., clearly not a happy man. is my fav.
It is rare to get such honesty these days.
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Intentional Web Initiative
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Let's embrace an Intentional Web.
Here's one from me, I came-up with this pretty much on the fly, but I guess it was in response to someone's question in a conversation: Vacation is the distance between jobs.
Zhrodague.net - I do projects and stuff too.
*sound of chair hitting the wall*
"What the FUCK was that?"
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
"I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google." -- Steve Jobs
Um, wasn't that Steve Ballmer? I mean, there's a bit of a difference.
He's right! 640 songs ought to be enough for anyone!
John
OK, mod this down... Eric Raymond is the biggest f*cking prick I've ever met. Microsoft's worst nightmare? I doubt Bill Gates is sitting at home having nightmares about the arrogant gasbag that is ESR. I met him a couple times so far. Each time he was condescending and rude. Against my better judgment I asked him to autograph a program guide. The fucker actually sneered at me and huffed. Contrast this to maddog hall or Wozniak or Linus (all of whom were absolutely pleasant and smiling). Shoot, even Richard Stallman who I'd thought would be an ass from all the stories I've heard was a nice guy, though really weird (and driven, and someone I'm glad fights for what he believes). But ESR, put a cork in him please.
Mr. THOMAS HESSE (President, Sony BMG Global Digital Business): Most people, I think, don't even know what a Rootkit is, so why should they care about it?
Oh You POS
Steve Jobs is known to have a temper I was starting to wonder if Google introduced a gPod or something. :)
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Let's embrace an Intentional Web.
"What were you going to do with the rest of your afternoon, offer jobs to Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds? Or were you going to stick to something easier, like talking Pope Benedict into presiding at a Satanist orgy?"
-- Eric Raymond, one of the prime movers in the open-source movement, who also describes himself as "Microsoft's worst nightmare" after he received an e-mail pitch from Microsoft asking if he was interested in a job. (Sept. 9.)
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Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems. Well, here I am.
'The week after next we will meet Sony's Stringer and we will [shake hands and] look down and see if he surreptitiously sticks something up our asses.' - Bill Gates and Steve Jobs
Gates was following Linus' logic when he named his company Microsoft.
I'll be here all week, folks.
A developer once said: "I have no idea what the probelm is, but whatever it was is now fixed."
Which kinda reminds of the line from the remake of The Thing: "I don't know what that was, but it's weird and it's pissed off."
"I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life." - Steve Ballmer at Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo, 10/20/05
I guess he means that he's dishonestly thown a chair.
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
Swainson's not kidding, there. Especially when a company does something really boneheaded, people don't forget, and they don't even forgive. (I think maybe people feel like forgiveness is for other humans, not for corporations.)
I was on the phone with a recruiter earlier today, and mention of Claria (formerly Gator) came up. He said that it was really difficult to place people there. There were the occasional ones who just didn't recognize the name, but at least half his potential hires went "Claria? They're the people who used to be Gator! I'm not working there! Don't even send them my résumé."
Note that these are people who are out of work, too. Some missteps are just so bad, you can never recover from them. Associating yourself with sleazy and excruciatingly annoying marketing methods is one of them. (Only time will tell if putting rootkits on your customers' computers is another.)
Kai MacTane: Web developer for hire in San Francisco
not really
So, to become a CEO of a major communications company, you need not know technology, accounting, or finance. Did the board of directors just need a really good shortstop for the annual softball game against the engineers?
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?" - Thomas Hesse, President of Sony BMG's global digital business division.
This is the quote of my year in my book.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/20/95
It's Slashdot man, try to calm down a touch. I've had comments so insightful they could see the future modded troll and comments I wrote when pissed off at people modded +5 insightful. It depends who has mod points on the given day(after all if we're all getting them some days idiots must get them too).
Look on the bright side at least you didn't have a topic go from +5 insightful to -1 insightful (damn over rated), like I have several times. I'm starting to wonder if I have made a few enemies modding me down when I get a high rated comment.
Just remember idiots go for the easy mods and if they don't have anyone to lead them (notice it's always +5 -1 or just the default 1/2 when things are modded), they'll mod up the first thing they think is even remotely correct/funny (waste of mod points alert)/they agree with.
Welcome to Slashdot, where the ???? always stands for get minions/followers
I like muppets.
A female monarch older than most of the countries on the planet complaining about the remotes made by the first company to deploy rootkits in commercial products - that pretty much sums up the current state of humanity.
This one is from Bill's India Visit, which he concluded yesterday:
Do you see any threat to Microsoft from companies like Yahoo! and Google which have entered the software market?
The software space always has new companies coming into the domain and for the first time people seem to underestimate Microsoft. It is healthy competition and it is good to be underestimated once in a while.
Full Interview Here
I may also be true.
Queen Elizabeth the II is 79 years old. There are, what, 203 countries in the world, roughly, depending on how you count? Considering the revolutions in Africa, and the disolving of Soviet Russia, and the aftermath of World War II (which brought many colonized states into revolution and eventually nationhood) it's not hard to imagine that 102 countries have emerged in the last 80 years, depending on how one counts the age of a country.
"The 2005 IT Year"
Look on the bright side at least you didn't have a topic go from +5 insightful to -1 insightful (damn over rated), like I have several times. I'm starting to wonder if I have made a few enemies modding me down when I get a high rated comment.
Hey guys are you asleep or something?!? He's at like +5!!
I thought we went over this last meeting, when you see a post by Turn-X Alphonse you mod it down! Now, considering there's eight of you on shift WITH mod points I should not be seeing a +5 here!
Bloody n00bs, don't even know how to run a simple conspiracy...
I stole this Sig
I ran a perl script over the CIA world factbook, looking for Independence > 1926 and got:
total: 273, younger than queen: 132 = 48.3%
So yeah, you're probably pretty close (depending on how one counts countries, and ages etc)
Back to +3 now. It's fine.. :P
I like muppets.