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In article <4pqh2h$fkp@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>,
Christopher D Dukes <cddukes@unity.ncsu.edu> wrote:
>In article <4pqcnm$evk@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>,
>Ravi K. Swamy <rkswamy@unity.ncsu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>>(Excuse me... I caught the tail end of "Triumph of the Nerds"
>>>last night.  It should have been called "Triumph of the Egotistical
>>>Assholes That Terrorized Enough Competent People into Creating a Fortune
>>>Off of Several Second and Third Rate Products for the Aforementioned
>>>Assholes."
>>
>>Who else was on there?  Some luser told me 'that apple guy.'  At
>>least Jobs went on to make some decent although really expensive
>>stuff after he left.
>Well I used to think Bill Gates had an in your face Ego...

Gates is such a weenie.  His interviews are ten times worse
than listening to our Treasury Secretary or Senator Tomato
wriggle out of questions.  I don't think I have *ever* seen
him give a straight answer.  I don't know if they actually
told him what I said but the next line after my quote was
"Gates claims to not understand such talk."  Either the
dipshit has the comprehension of my belly button lint or
he's a great politician which is quite obvious...

>Jobs is worst.  BTW  Jobs owns one of the big computer animation
>companies.

Pixar which he didn't create only bought.  They made "Toy Story" FWIW.

>Then there was the asshole from Oracle touting the Network Computer.

They interviewed Ellison?  He is a big wanker too.  Last time
I saw him he needed a good shave too.

>I utterly love the Network Computer concept for how it's going to just
>SHIT all over the folks hawking it.

I think the game console people have a far better chance of pulling
off the silly idea than the likes of Oracle, Sun, etc.  Then
again people don't seem to mind buying inferior crap.  Just
look at Microsoft's success.

>They had the former employees of Xerox yakking about the Alto (Or 
>Altos or whatever).

Xerox is like the epitome of bonehead management decisions.  

>Plus a quick view of The Woz teaching computers to 10 and 11 year olds.

*smirk*

>Steve Jobs was right on about one thing...  Microsoft does 3rd rate
>software.

Is that because there is no such term as "4th rate" or what?

>  Unfortunately he neglected to mention that Apple has an
>annoying habit of allowing 1st rate software create the "50 pounds of
>shit in a 10 pound bag" problem.  Come to think of it Jobs did
>a repeat performance with the NeXT.

Yeah, you take Mach, BSD, and Display PostScript, and throw it
on an underpowered monochrome Motorola box.  Then in order to
be "different" you put an optical disk in it but in order to
be "cheap" you let people swap to this Taco forsaken device.
Then you be an asshole to fellow asshole RMS about Objective C
changes in gcc.  Then you overprice the whole development kit
to levels only Wall St. can afford and pander to them and them
alone.  It's still cool though.

Ravi
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