At 02:03 PM 1/10/03 +0100, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
LAS VEGAS, Nevada (Reuters) -- Trying to move its software from desktops to people's hands and pockets, Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled plans for a portable media player and a radio-linked wristwatch.
All I want to know is what good a watch will be when it crashes and has to be reset ten times a day, usually when it's busiest, like right before it sounds the alarm for you to get up, make a meeting, or get to the airport to catch your flight . . .
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/01/09/microsoft.watch.reut/index.html
So, what will come after the Microsoft Wristwatch? Microsoft buys the United Kingdom and replaces Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) with Microsoft Mean Time (MMT)? <GRIN>
You're telling us you've never heard of the "Swatch Beat"? (I'll even give you the URL: <http:///>www.swatch.<http:///>com)
Or how about a whole new calendar? The very first day of the new calendar will be what used to be called October 28, 1955 (Bill Gates' date of birth). The days of the week will be renamed to the various M$ OS versions (today is "NT4-day", tomorrow is "XP-day"), and the start of a new month will be determined by the release date of a new XBox game. <GRIN>
Nope, there's already a Discordian Calendar.
And when you phone your boss to tell him you are ill and won't be able to go to work, you are "taking a Linux day". :-)
...'cuz you feel like you've been standing outside on the Antarctic ice cap for six months of darkness with an egg on your feet, and your breath smells (faintly now) of raw fish . . .
Jeroen "Nothing surprises me anymore" van Baardwijk
RU Sure
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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