Microsoft flushes out iLoo gag(OT)
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-1001109.html -- Fred A. Miller Systems Administrator Cornell Univ. Press Services fm@cupserv.org, www.cupserv.org
On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 12:56, Fred A. Miller wrote:
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-1001109.html
-- Fred A. Miller Systems Administrator Cornell Univ. Press Services fm@cupserv.org, www.cupserv.org
"I've never known Microsoft to do that (to put out a fake press release)," said Matthew Rosoff, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft. They do it all the time, where do you think all of the FUD comes from. Ken
On Tue, 13 May 2003, Fred A. Miller wrote:
Drat! I was looking forward to the 6-channel surround sound in the loo! :) Christopher Reimer
On 13-May-03 Fred A. Miller wrote:
I have a criticism of this MSN iLoo.
Looking at the picture, I see two red arrows extending inwards
into the enclosure. In my view, they don't extend far enough.
Ted.
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On Tuesday 13 May 2003 09:56, Fred A. Miller wrote:
Oh Bull@#$%. They had every intention of implimenting this. My guess is after the lambasting they took from just about everyone in the press and the fact that is could be cannon foddor of competitors and detractors that someone in the upper echelon decided to pull this and fast. It also show how desperate M$ is and to what lengths they'll go to to grab your money - I mean do I want a record that I accessed my hotmail and passport accounts at a loo at 17:36 on some corner in the Vail of Health district in London on Friday, March 27, 2003? What, did they think I would be inclined to order an extension to my M$ based cell phone while taking a dump? These guys are beyond silly - and frankly they seem more moronic with each marketing scheme they shoot out. April Fools joke my arse! April was long gone when this was announced. Hmmm, this say loads (pun intended) to me about M$' attitude about both peoples privacy and gulibility. I mean they can't even come up with a convincing lie - April Fools in May? Please! Cheers, Curtis.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 13 May 2003 14:41, Curtis Rey wrote:
On Tuesday 13 May 2003 09:56, Fred A. Miller wrote:
Oh Bull@#$%. They had every intention of implimenting this. My guess is after the lambasting they took from just about everyone in the press and the fact that is could be cannon foddor of competitors and detractors that someone in the upper echelon decided to pull this and fast.
It also show how desperate M$ is and to what lengths they'll go to to grab your money - I mean do I want a record that I accessed my hotmail and passport accounts at a loo at 17:36 on some corner in the Vail of Health district in London on Friday, March 27, 2003?
What, did they think I would be inclined to order an extension to my M$ based cell phone while taking a dump?
These guys are beyond silly - and frankly they seem more moronic with each marketing scheme they shoot out.
April Fools joke my arse! April was long gone when this was announced. Hmmm, this say loads (pun intended) to me about M$' attitude about both peoples privacy and gulibility. I mean they can't even come up with a convincing lie - April Fools in May? Please!
Cheers, Curtis.
I have to agree 100%. Their whole MSN UK crew would make a joke like this that would get coverage so fast throughout the world and make M$ in general look like idiots, supposedly just out of the blue did this with *NO* yea or nay from Redmond? C'mon! It's so easy to see that their (M$') idea, turned out to be crap (I can pun too dernit! LOL), and didn't think it'd slap them in the face so hard, so now have to bring in some scapegoat, after all, the M$N crew in UK will still get paid for doing nothing right anyway, why should they care? John - -- A butterfly is: Pretty,soft,harmless...and useless, just like M$N. My Penguin eats butterflies. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+wcpYH5oDXyLKXKQRAnRUAKCCT/UsJky8pvmXf7tm7ffdzpoTXgCeJ2Yw eKHksGUMRe1zAXIuhwyBxc8= =iSMZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
A butterfly is: Pretty,soft,harmless...and useless, just like M$N. My Penguin eats butterflies.
Gecko's eat more butterflies than penguins, and they do it at a distance, apperantly from across the Atlantic and all the way to Redmond. I think one of the reasons that this BS was attempted was because OSS is seriously gaining ground in the greater EU. Now, seeing that Mandrake is has yet to gain any appreciable market ground to cause M$ to be bothered, SuSE is the next likely threat. Consider the fact that many civil departments are eyeing or changing over to Linux and M$ is losing those accounts. How to get more money in the EU market? I know put MSN access points in Loo's! If this took off I could see some fumbling and pressure market strategist at M$ thinking they could convert this to a commodity and charge for it. Hell, in the U.S. I see those late night infomercials about buying into sidewalk access points. They are being presented as the next alternative to a pay phone, with expanded "features" like VOIP, and video phoning (ya, right! all the dealers and pimps would break or spray paint the cameras - I mean every dealer/pimp wants to use a video phone to make their deals and buys - right!?). Anyway, I have a sneaking hunch that it was something along those lines. Wonder what's next? Curtis :)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 14 May 2003 03:18, Curtis Rey wrote:
A butterfly is: Pretty,soft,harmless...and useless, just like M$N. My Penguin eats butterflies.
Gecko's eat more butterflies than penguins, and they do it at a distance, apperantly from across the Atlantic and all the way to Redmond.
LOL! Fixed that up as soon as I saw your post! Good thinkin'!
I think one of the reasons that this BS was attempted was because OSS is seriously gaining ground in the greater EU. Now, seeing that Mandrake is has yet to gain any appreciable market ground to cause M$ to be bothered, SuSE is the next likely threat.
I truly don't think it'll be any one particular distro, but just Linux in general, because there's so many different distros, it'd be too obvious, even to the unimaginative and ignorqant, when M$ is 'bumping' off one distro at a time...the newspapers world-wide would have a field day with it and someone *much* smarter than me would have M$' sorry ass back in court...again. But the Linux/opensource movement couldn't be stopped by the only means M$ knows how...by buying it out...because it's something that *can't* be bought out. I'm sure though that M$ will do all kinds of 'dirty' tricks to try and make it (opensource) look bad though.
Consider the fact that many civil departments are eyeing or changing over to Linux and M$ is losing those accounts. How to get more money in the EU market? I know put MSN access points in Loo's! If this took off I could see some fumbling and pressure market strategist at M$ thinking they could convert this to a commodity and charge for it. Hell, in the U.S. I see those late night infomercials about buying into sidewalk access points. They are being presented as the next alternative to a pay phone, with expanded "features" like VOIP, and video phoning (ya, right! all the dealers and pimps would break or spray paint the cameras - I mean every dealer/pimp wants to use a video phone to make their deals and buys - right!?). Anyway, I have a sneaking hunch that it was something along those lines.
Wonder what's next?
Hopefully more idiocy on their part! LOL! Makes the stockholders real happy to know they've bought into a company that'd do something so stupid as this iLOO thing and then try to blatantly lie about it.
Curtis :)
John - -- A butterfly is: Pretty,soft,harmless...and useless, just like M$N. My Penguin and my Gecko eat butterflies. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+wjWpH5oDXyLKXKQRAp3aAJ9p97xii2NbrAagApBqU5W+AThXtQCgvLt7 DOAJkMI+GCQD2ATqpTFv8So= =qVy4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On 13-May-03 Fred A. Miller wrote:
[Sorry if the following is getting too far off-topic, but this iLoo project has reminded me of a piece I did back in 1998, way before MS got their iLoo idea, so I guess I have Intellectual Property Rights on it. Appended below. Alexei and Boris are a couple of Russians I know (OK, invented) -- technologically challenged, but imaginative and enterprising. The lead-in quote which set it going refers to an apparent technical initiative by Barclays Bank announced mid-September 1998. Apologies to all who may be offended.] =================================================================== Date: 17-Sep-98 =============== On 17-Sep-98 <xxxxx> wrote:
"Barclays Bank is planning to bring home banking, via the microwave, straight to your kitchen. Convergence of technology is being taken to the extreme with a microwave oven from NCR that lets you bank and shop online, watch TV and email your friends, even while you are cooking supper."
Where will it end??
Alexei?? Is Boris. Look OK thank you for sending info on IT in kitchen
sink, some mileage in it but I have better idea.
What I want you should look at is new project, we can beat these guys
if we move fast. You remember we bought out S.H.I.T. Technology? We are
looking for new market now.
New idea is NT, Network Toilet. Communication channels infrastructure
in place since long time, hundreds of years some cases, almost all
households linked, batch process flushing mechanism well developed,
principles of S.H.I.T. communication actually part of human culture
in all history, but need new sophisticated dynamic routing methods
otherwise everybody get everybody else's S.H.I.T., so this your new
job, Alexei, develop packet sniffer.
Also develop delivery agents. At present most S.H.I.T. devices write
only, also need read capability, maybe get ideas from existing backup
technology.
We get this right, we beat Barclays Bank, you bank and shop online, watch
TV, email your friends, even while cooking supper, also sitting on
toilet. This is last human domain without communications network.
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 14 May 2003 7:11 am, Ted Harding wrote:
On 13-May-03 Fred A. Miller wrote:
[Sorry if the following is getting too far off-topic, but this iLoo project has reminded me of a piece I did back in 1998, way before MS got their iLoo idea, so I guess I have Intellectual Property Rights on it. Appended below. Alexei and Boris are a couple of Russians I know (OK, invented) -- technologically challenged, but imaginative and enterprising. The lead-in quote which set it going refers to an apparent technical initiative by Barclays Bank announced mid-September 1998. Apologies to all who may be offended.]
Hmmm... imaginative or not, seems they let a picture of the prototype "leak" out to the internet where it floated around for a while -- though I had seen it before, the latest was March 30th of this year when I received a copy from my Mom (of all people!) Rather than subject the list to the image directly, I've posted it on my "blog": http://osnut.homelinux.net/blog/index.html - -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://osnut.homelinux.net/TomEmerson.asc iD8DBQE+w1xjV/YHUqq2SwsRAnFeAKCB8kiuzqfUh4bJDgaPtm1bDLyingCfeC+c 0YOLUfbDeiDg9sHxuIQzgxo= =4ZLV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Thursday 15 May 2003 02:22, Tom Emerson wrote:
On Wednesday 14 May 2003 7:11 am, Ted Harding wrote:
On 13-May-03 Fred A. Miller wrote:
[Sorry if the following is getting too far off-topic, but this iLoo project has reminded me of a piece I did back in 1998, way before MS got their iLoo idea, so I guess I have Intellectual Property Rights on it. Appended below. Alexei and Boris are a couple of Russians I know (OK, invented) -- technologically challenged, but imaginative and enterprising. The lead-in quote which set it going refers to an apparent technical initiative by Barclays Bank announced mid-September 1998. Apologies to all who may be offended.]
Hmmm... imaginative or not, seems they let a picture of the prototype "leak" out to the internet where it floated around for a while -- though I had seen it before, the latest was March 30th of this year when I received a copy from my Mom (of all people!)
Rather than subject the list to the image directly, I've posted it on my "blog":
http://osnut.homelinux.net/blog/index.html
-- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net
ROFLMAO! Curtis
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Christopher D. Reimer -
Curtis Rey -
Fred A. Miller -
John -
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Ken Schneider -
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Tom Emerson