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The Very Worst Uses of Windows
bigplrbear writes "I found an interesting article revealing the many places that Microsoft products reside, and what they're used for, ranging from elevators to ticket scanners."
From the article: "Thanks to VMWare Windows is spreading throughout the datacenter. And, of course, there is only one operating system to use if you are dependent on Microsoft apps like Outlook, Word, and Excel. While I have joined the chorus of security folks who rail against the Microsoft Monoculture I still cannot believe some of the uses for Windows. Some of them are just downright silly, some you may claim are criminally negligent." Note: I'm making no claim of criminal negligence!
The protests are mostly fueled by the media here (the same media that said Americans would retaliate violently against Koreans living in America and use trade sanctions against the country after the Virginia Tech shootings). There is so much disinformation about the agreement that most people think the opposite of what's happening (e.g. the agreement is for cattle under 30 months while the Korean press says that the U.S. is going to ship old, dangerous cattle it doesn't want for itself to Korea).
The safety issues are real, but Korea allows Australian beef and wants to block U.S. beef even though Australia has had five incidents of BSE and the U.S. has had two. My co-worker told me that NZ beef was OK because there was more grass in NZ than in the U.S. O_o I honestly believe it's really all about the beef market in Korea and keeping the prices up.
This is all off-topic. More on point, Korea is the most nationalistic country I've ever been to. I'm surprised they haven't gotten nationalistic WRT operating systems yet.
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Except that the grassland used specifically for grazing in theU.S. is 8.5 times the size of NZ.
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Must be a misunderstanding of mine, then. Don't remember where I read it.
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