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2005 Foot In Mouth Awards
jollyroger1210 writes "Wired is running a story on the 2005 Foot In Mouth Awards." From the article: "Tech execs say the darndest things. And so do shuffling presidents, and disgraced scientists, and Wikipedia fakers. It's time to relive 2005's biggest spoken gaffes."
"640K ought to be enough for anybody"
1. bill gates denies ever saying this
2. even if he did say it, it was probably true at the time, if i say today '2gb ought to be enough for anyone' , you're not gonna think i'm crazy, you're probably gonna agree with me, this quote doesn't say 640k will ALWAYS be enough
Marge, get me your address book, 4 beers, and my conversation hat.
You know, the "Apple iTunes phone" is made by Motorola, and actually was the subject of that quote. The Nano and the ROKR (like the RAZR, but with iTunes compatibility) were released around the same time, and the quote is basically saying, "Screw the Nano. Get a ROKR and you can have your iTunes songs and a phone all in the same unit." Of course, the ROKR is sucking pretty bad, and the Nano has been insanely popular. Thus, foot in mouth.
"Well, considering the Mororola RAZR phone is one of the hottest-selling out there"
I don't think you have a clue as to what is a hot-selling phone. I work in a phone store (by all means I think we're representative of Queensland, Australia) and we struggled to get our only Motorola V300 RAZR out the door.
Motorola is complete crap and have been for years. They're just not a serious competitor against far better offerings from Nokia and other manufacturers.
The "640K should be enough for everybody" quote was made by an IBM official. The first IBM PC had the CGA or MGA graphics at memory address 0xB0000 or 0xB8000. The EGA card which was introduced with the IBM AT in 1984 had its memory at 0xA0000, limiting system memory to 640K. The quote was made in response to accusations that IBM needlessly limited system memory to 640 K by putting it at 0xA0000 when it could also have used 0xD0000 or higher.
It has nothing to do with Microsoft. MS-DOS would use up to 768 K without problems if you didn't have an EGA or VGA card.
I love the last one, in which the guy conveniently forgets that customers do actually pay for the telecom connections, usually in monthly line fees (well, here in Australia my fees well outweigh my call costs) and call costs.
Sure! Let's pay for the same stuff twice! Because we're stupid!
Motorola is complete crap and have been for years. They're just not a serious competitor against far better offerings from Nokia and other manufacturers.
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Well, according to http://products.consumerguide.com/reviews/browse.
Top Rated Mobile/Cell Phones
* Motorola EV-DO E815 CDMA Mobile Phone Review
* Nokia 3220 GMS Mobile Telephone Review
* LG Verizon Wireless VX7000 CDMA Mobile Phone Review
* Samsung SGH-e315 GSM Mobile Phone Review
* Motorola RAZR V3 GSM Mobile Phone Review
Motorola takes the #1 and #5 spots. That's 2/5 of the top 5 rated mobile phones. No other company takes more than one spot. So... What again?
My page.
In case people haven't realised yet: THE ITUNES PHONE IS MADE BY MOTOROLA AND THE "TWO PHONES" IN THE PARENT POST ARE THE SAME PHONE
Sorry about the CAPS, but it seems incredible that noone seems to have paid heed to the corrections posted.
And to think you're currently being rated as insightful.
"Most people 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 The music giant responds in an NPR interview to complaints that anti-copying technology on some of its CDs creates serious security vulnerabilities in computers
I helped developing a operating system kernel back in my university years and we also had this limit and that's because of the 386 memory management. We had to remap all the memory twice, one half to be accessed by programs and the other half to be accessed by the operating system in a root level (sorry, it was over 10 years ago, I don't really remember the details of why it was really needed). Since the 386 can address up to 4Gb of memory, half of this is 2Gb. Don't blame Bill Gates this time, blame Intel. (By the way, is there anyone there who knows Linux well enough to tell us if it also has this limit or something like that?)
So say we all
But he was talking about the ROKR, not the RAZR.
I agree. "Proper use of english: Episode 12", will clarify everything about the subject.
VStrider.
A well written program is fully relocable and doesn't care about segments/location in the memory. Good architecture makes writing relocable programs easier. Good compilers compile code to be relocable. And in the end the "feature" appeared to be a horrible misfeature resulting in XMS, EMS and all these horrible kludges that haunt us till today.
Did you know XBox was broken thanks to a security hole dating back to 8080/8086 times and poor workarounds to the problems this horrible "feature" introduced?
Anagram("United States of America") == "Dine out, taste a Mac, fries"
They didn't include the "2 standards are better than 1" comment from the Microsoft guy in the Massachusetts case. That was my my favorite.
Thanks you! I live on the Gulf Coast and every time there is a storm that get close, the news agencies send hundreds of reporters to the area. Not only do they get in the way but they wish bad things on us in order to get a good report. If the storm happens to go in a different direction or degrade, you can watch as the reporters get dissappointed because there's not going to be as much destruction. Not only that but their exaggerated stories cause runs on fuel, food and building materials before the storm. I've noticed that the past several storms have not appeared to be as bad as they were reported on the news. Thanks again for bringing up this point. -JM
The interesting thing was not that the FBI "visited a student" but that they COULD visit a student. The provisions of the Patriot Acts allow for this scenario. Citizens who are Pro-Liberty somehow have to get everything right when every act by Homeland Security can be made secret? All we can do is speculate because much of the real news of this day is not covered by the Main Stream Media.
So, a story was debunked and we can all rest our little heads -- nothing to see. I don't even know if this student existed -- how can any of us do anything but speculate?
You may be all gung ho about giving up our Constitution, but I'm not. No, people will not be "disappeared" -- not until all the rights of the citizen are gone. Proof of the abuse of the Patriot Act is not the reason it should be shredded. The Possibility of this Abuse is the reason the Patriot Act should be shredded and any politician who votes for such a power grab again should be looking for other areas of employment.
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Wait - let me go look up "sin" - mortal or otherwise - in the US Constitution...
I'll come back when I find it.