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Thought Recognition
Hap Nesbitt writes "Microsoft has a nine year old boy named Rupert working 13 hour days to develop their next breakthrough OS interface --
thought recognition
" Apparently Microsoft
already has some competition (thanks to pluteus_larva for this one).
BTW: read the small print.
Posted by F.A.N.G.:
They had a 13 year-old named Corky working 9 hour days to design the last UI.
Check the department.
I bet if it wasn't a computer company but a biomedical or something company, the kid would be banned from working by child labor activists. It just shows how little people care about some computer company, while the role of inducible nitric oxide synthase in neoplastic apoptosis is on 60 minutes every weekend.
Why are you _STILL_ posting april fools jokes?
And isn't it about time that you post retractions for the previous april fools articles?
Joseph Elwell.
They're hiring CHILDREN to do their work for them? Have these monsters no shame? If nothing else, this should show the world the obscenity that Microsoft really is.
On the bright side, this is going to ba a huge blow to their antitrust case, since I believe they're violating at least 40 different child-labor laws. With any luck this one will get them not just broken up but completely dissolved.
Very cute Kaz.. Almost wana steal it for my sig :-)
I think that if the world did come down to thought recognition we would all lose our fine motor skills and develop larger minds, therefor evolving into large headed alien type people with large eyes, and little, weak arms.. WHOA! Thats what happened to aliens!!!
Heh,
Stan "Myconid" Brinkerhoff
SB.
This old, and an April fools joke (last I checked April fools was a day not a month).
Even Sengen knows it's a joke, see the "april-one-nineteen-ninety-nine dept" line...
Come on guys, it was funny for about an hour, but even 04/01 has to end sometime.
Then again, maybe I'm just getting old and crotchety...
What, you thought MS actually does software research?
I know they won't recognize my thoughts,
(maybe one: "Damn, windows sucks", that's a very common thought)
but I would hate to bluescren my brain.
I can imagine talking to someone, and he will say "Illegal operation, I must be shut down".
And what about slowness?
That would be rather funny, to see people to see thinking "as fast as windows".
"hello" - "h.. e... llo..."
About language recognition,
ever heard the phrase "there is one computer language, the microsoft language"?
Be afraid, be very afraid.
And yes.
I'm terrified of Microsoft.
that one day i will have to use their products,
that they will steal the internet.
I want to be free, and Microsoft's goal is to take freedom from people.
(GUIDs, no choice in products, bill brother IS watching you!)
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I'm going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
Think.
Microsoft has the money, and the will to pull such a thing.
Check the milk cartons...
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I'm going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
Got a copy, sans fancy images http://socrates.mps.ohio- state.edu/~ccunning/seattle.html
Remember this was the April 1 edition, and it contains some pretty bogus sounding names. Not to mention the tone was very tongue in cheek. I read it yesterday and I thought it was pretty funny.
This is the kind of stuff that makes it so hard for the average person to take internet news sites seriously. April fools jokes SHOULD NOT be started by news sites. And if they are, the sites need to make it damn clear on April 2 that they were not real.
I wouldn't be surpassed if Sengan had just skimmed the article, gotten the impression that it was a real deal article, and slapped it up here, all without realizing that he was getting taken for a ride. Having run a news site on my companies infonet for a couple of years now, I would bet the farm that this is exactly what happened.
News sites, even if they are for Nerds, should only post things that are true. When fluff like this gets posted it makes it harder to take the rest of the news (which is probably real) seriously. Faking news for an April Fools joke and not posting a retraction the next day is a disservice to the entire online news community. After all, We already have one Onion.
Lotek---
I don't like MS because of its software and commercial practices. This article is not related to poor software or monopolistic practices. The article is absolutely not true. I'm very dissapointed that is got posted on /. It's simply not apropriate to post articles that don't have any proove underneath words, on any day other than April 1. It absolutely can't comply with "etiquet rules", it's just not ethical and very low class post.
I can't believe I fell for that one.
Then again, I suppose I deserve it; this year I told another messageboard I frequent that my girlfriend (who also frequents it) and I were actually the same person; several people fell for that one too. We aren't, by the way.
However, this does strike me as something Microsoft would do, given the chance...