Comments on: I’m Microsoft; And I Don’t Have a Clue http://www.theangrydrunk.com/2008/09/19/im-microsoft-and-i-dont-have-a-clue/ Delivering Enlightenment to the Masses, One Blunt Force Trauma at a Time. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: diskgrinder http://www.theangrydrunk.com/2008/09/19/im-microsoft-and-i-dont-have-a-clue/comment-page-1/#comment-991 diskgrinder Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:52:16 +0000 http://www.theangrydrunk.com/?p=358#comment-991 <p>@<a href="#comment-987">GaryPatterson</a>: What Deepak really said was "I'm a human being, just here man (takes another hit, giggles a bit), I'm not a human, like, doing anything. Or, like, thinking, fuck that. I'm just being, man."</p> @GaryPatterson: What Deepak really said was “I’m a human being, just here man (takes another hit, giggles a bit), I’m not a human, like, doing anything. Or, like, thinking, fuck that. I’m just being, man.”

]]> By: diskgrinder http://www.theangrydrunk.com/2008/09/19/im-microsoft-and-i-dont-have-a-clue/comment-page-1/#comment-3922 diskgrinder Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:52:00 +0000 http://www.theangrydrunk.com/?p=358#comment-3922 <p>@<a href="#comment-987" rel="nofollow">GaryPatterson</a>: What Deepak really said was "I'm a human being, just here man (takes another hit, giggles a bit), I'm not a human, like, doing anything. Or, like, thinking, fuck that. I'm just being, man."</p> @GaryPatterson: What Deepak really said was “I’m a human being, just here man (takes another hit, giggles a bit), I’m not a human, like, doing anything. Or, like, thinking, fuck that. I’m just being, man.”

]]> By: diskgrinder http://www.theangrydrunk.com/2008/09/19/im-microsoft-and-i-dont-have-a-clue/comment-page-1/#comment-990 diskgrinder Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:46:57 +0000 http://www.theangrydrunk.com/?p=358#comment-990 <p>@<a href="#comment-942">Gatesbasher</a>: For microsoft to be capable of doubethink (that's your Orwellian allusion, right?) they'd have to think in the first place. Clearly they are guilty of zerothink. DoublePlusCrap, as always (as an aside, it's a shame Orwell missed out on intercapping).</p> @Gatesbasher: For microsoft to be capable of doubethink (that’s your Orwellian allusion, right?) they’d have to think in the first place. Clearly they are guilty of zerothink. DoublePlusCrap, as always (as an aside, it’s a shame Orwell missed out on intercapping).

]]> By: diskgrinder http://www.theangrydrunk.com/2008/09/19/im-microsoft-and-i-dont-have-a-clue/comment-page-1/#comment-3921 diskgrinder Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:46:00 +0000 http://www.theangrydrunk.com/?p=358#comment-3921 <p>@<a href="#comment-942" rel="nofollow">Gatesbasher</a>: For microsoft to be capable of doubethink (that's your Orwellian allusion, right?) they'd have to think in the first place. Clearly they are guilty of zerothink. DoublePlusCrap, as always (as an aside, it's a shame Orwell missed out on intercapping).</p> @Gatesbasher: For microsoft to be capable of doubethink (that’s your Orwellian allusion, right?) they’d have to think in the first place. Clearly they are guilty of zerothink. DoublePlusCrap, as always (as an aside, it’s a shame Orwell missed out on intercapping).

]]> By: diskgrinder http://www.theangrydrunk.com/2008/09/19/im-microsoft-and-i-dont-have-a-clue/comment-page-1/#comment-989 diskgrinder Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:42:51 +0000 http://www.theangrydrunk.com/?p=358#comment-989 <p>@<a href="#comment-940">Rip Ragged</a>: "Lunch first, then ethics". Top! I will use that in the next board meeting. Of course I will make out I thought of it, and sue anyone who claims prior art - me first, you're lunch.</p> @Rip Ragged: “Lunch first, then ethics”. Top! I will use that in the next board meeting. Of course I will make out I thought of it, and sue anyone who claims prior art — me first, you’re lunch.

]]> By: diskgrinder http://www.theangrydrunk.com/2008/09/19/im-microsoft-and-i-dont-have-a-clue/comment-page-1/#comment-3920 diskgrinder Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:42:00 +0000 http://www.theangrydrunk.com/?p=358#comment-3920 <p>@<a href="#comment-940" rel="nofollow">Rip Ragged</a>: "Lunch first, then ethics". Top! I will use that in the next board meeting. Of course I will make out I thought of it, and sue anyone who claims prior art - me first, you're lunch.</p> @Rip Ragged: “Lunch first, then ethics”. Top! I will use that in the next board meeting. Of course I will make out I thought of it, and sue anyone who claims prior art — me first, you’re lunch.

]]> By: GaryPatterson http://www.theangrydrunk.com/2008/09/19/im-microsoft-and-i-dont-have-a-clue/comment-page-1/#comment-987 GaryPatterson Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:22:36 +0000 http://www.theangrydrunk.com/?p=358#comment-987 <p>I love the new Microsoft ad. It's the best thing they could do to help Apple sales. I'm not sure Apple needed help, but it's lovely that Microsoft are so obliging.</p> <p>My thinking goes: Everyone uses a PC. So using something else is special. A Mac is something else, ergo using a Mac is special.</p> <p>I bet Apple execs were dancing in the office when they first saw the ad. Maybe Apple will re-run the "Think Different" ads as a counterpoint. Microsoft sets the pins up, and Apple knocks them down.</p> <p>And to end on Deepak Chopra trotting out a line almost straight from the Simpsons... Genius!</p> <p>Deepak Chopra: "I am a PC and I am a human being. Not a human doing. Not a human thinking. A human being."</p> <p>Brad Goodman: "Brad Goodman: And soon you’re not a human being, you’re a human doing. Then what comes next?" Bart: "A human going!"</p> <p>Best ad from Microsoft ever. Shame it doesn't say anything whatsoever about Microsoft.</p> I love the new Microsoft ad. It’s the best thing they could do to help Apple sales. I’m not sure Apple needed help, but it’s lovely that Microsoft are so obliging.

My thinking goes: Everyone uses a PC. So using something else is special. A Mac is something else, ergo using a Mac is special.

I bet Apple execs were dancing in the office when they first saw the ad. Maybe Apple will re-run the “Think Different” ads as a counterpoint. Microsoft sets the pins up, and Apple knocks them down.

And to end on Deepak Chopra trotting out a line almost straight from the Simpsons… Genius!

Deepak Chopra: “I am a PC and I am a human being. Not a human doing. Not a human thinking. A human being.”

Brad Goodman: “Brad Goodman: And soon you’re not a human being, you’re a human doing. Then what comes next?“ Bart: “A human going!”

Best ad from Microsoft ever. Shame it doesn’t say anything whatsoever about Microsoft.

]]> By: GaryPatterson http://www.theangrydrunk.com/2008/09/19/im-microsoft-and-i-dont-have-a-clue/comment-page-1/#comment-3919 GaryPatterson Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:22:00 +0000 http://www.theangrydrunk.com/?p=358#comment-3919 <p>I love the new Microsoft ad. It's the best thing they could do to help Apple sales. I'm not sure Apple needed help, but it's lovely that Microsoft are so obliging.</p> <p>My thinking goes: Everyone uses a PC. So using something else is special. A Mac is something else, ergo using a Mac is special.</p> <p>I bet Apple execs were dancing in the office when they first saw the ad. Maybe Apple will re-run the "Think Different" ads as a counterpoint. Microsoft sets the pins up, and Apple knocks them down.</p> <p>And to end on Deepak Chopra trotting out a line almost straight from the Simpsons... Genius!</p> <p>Deepak Chopra: "I am a PC and I am a human being. Not a human doing. Not a human thinking. A human being."</p> <p>Brad Goodman: "Brad Goodman: And soon you’re not a human being, you’re a human doing. Then what comes next?" Bart: "A human going!"</p> <p>Best ad from Microsoft ever. Shame it doesn't say anything whatsoever about Microsoft.</p> I love the new Microsoft ad. It’s the best thing they could do to help Apple sales. I’m not sure Apple needed help, but it’s lovely that Microsoft are so obliging.

My thinking goes: Everyone uses a PC. So using something else is special. A Mac is something else, ergo using a Mac is special.

I bet Apple execs were dancing in the office when they first saw the ad. Maybe Apple will re-run the “Think Different” ads as a counterpoint. Microsoft sets the pins up, and Apple knocks them down.

And to end on Deepak Chopra trotting out a line almost straight from the Simpsons… Genius!

Deepak Chopra: “I am a PC and I am a human being. Not a human doing. Not a human thinking. A human being.”

Brad Goodman: “Brad Goodman: And soon you’re not a human being, you’re a human doing. Then what comes next?“ Bart: “A human going!”

Best ad from Microsoft ever. Shame it doesn’t say anything whatsoever about Microsoft.

]]> By: Moeskido http://www.theangrydrunk.com/2008/09/19/im-microsoft-and-i-dont-have-a-clue/comment-page-1/#comment-943 Moeskido Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:52:55 +0000 http://www.theangrydrunk.com/?p=358#comment-943 <p>This is what happens when a company becomes too large to manage efficiently. Every business decision becomes compromised by mindless groupthink or inter-division competition. Every procedure becomes standardized. And the Legal Department grows, covering ass for all of the bad group decision-making.</p> This is what happens when a company becomes too large to manage efficiently. Every business decision becomes compromised by mindless groupthink or inter-division competition. Every procedure becomes standardized. And the Legal Department grows, covering ass for all of the bad group decision-making.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.theangrydrunk.com/2008/09/19/im-microsoft-and-i-dont-have-a-clue/comment-page-1/#comment-3918 Anonymous Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:52:00 +0000 http://www.theangrydrunk.com/?p=358#comment-3918 <p>This is what happens when a company becomes too large to manage efficiently. Every business decision becomes compromised by mindless groupthink or inter-division competition. Every procedure becomes standardized. And the Legal Department grows, covering ass for all of the bad group decision-making.</p> This is what happens when a company becomes too large to manage efficiently. Every business decision becomes compromised by mindless groupthink or inter-division competition. Every procedure becomes standardized. And the Legal Department grows, covering ass for all of the bad group decision-making.

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