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- captinherb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+45"Let's face it. We're not changing the world. We're building a product that helps people buy more crap -- and watch porn."
and God bless you for it sir. - AmishRefugee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24the fact that someone so intertwined in the corporate world can be so upfront and honest inspires me greatly. Good bless him indeed
- gmprunner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Steve Ballmers is off his rocker.
- Darkyuubi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12"One of the things I've learned on the Google is to pull up maps. It's very interesting to see:
LMAO...God Bless America - ts8lemonade, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Best quote ever. The man is just being honost. I will always buy Seagate drives from now on, and fill them with porn :D
- ravitek, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Riiiiiiiiiiiidge Racerrrr!!!!
/digg down as you see appropriately - jhemperly, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10What about attacking the weak point for massive damage? Real time weapon switching? They should have the 2006 Sony foot-in-mouth awards. It'd probably make a longer list.
- TheReport, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8"The next generation begins when we say it does."
What an arrogant prick - Lugersan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Yeah, I expected "RIIIIIIDGE RACER" to be on there.
That or "five hundred and ninety nine US dollars!". That was definitely a foot at least in the mouth. - orbit1979, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material."
-- Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska).
How fitting that a member of congress is in charge of a committee that could directly effect the Internet and the ways in which we use it, and yet clearly demonstrates that he knows jack-***** about it or how it works. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6haha @ Sony "The next generation begins when we say it does." Statements like these are probably why the PS3 is failing right now. When sony decided to try to control what you do with products, after you purchase them, that was the turning point for me. *cough rootkit*
" - ricree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@HonoredMule
While the series of tubes comment could potentially be a bad analogy made by someone talking to people ignorant about the internet, there were other comments in that speech that really screamed out ignorance. Particularly this one:
"I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?
Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially."
Seriously, I just got an internet? what the heck. - Spire3660, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"For consumers to think to themselves 'I will work more hours to buy one'. We want people to feel that they want it, irrespective of anything else." - Ken Kutaragi.
- Kypt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I think this is about stuff said this year.
- xGORDOx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The Bush-Google quote really shouldn't be first, unless you truly are a partisan.
How many other 60 year old Americans use Google and Google Earth, come on. The guy is 60 and I'm sure internet technology isn't at the top of the list of "things to do."
The Stevens quote is much more troublesome, he was the chairman after all, it was his job to know this stuff. - Frankie4Fingers, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6These aren't that special. I bet Bush could beat all of these from some of the stupid things he says.
- olliholliday, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4it's about stuff that was said this year, not stuff that was made up.
- ardenr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3#16 on the diggaholic list - You've seen every one of these already.
- JustinPM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think Wired needs to sacrifice a fact checker. You can use Google maps to look at satellite imagery too, it's not just Google Earth's domain.
- TheReport, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Am I the only one who thought this article was titled 'Tech's 2006 Ass-in-Mouth Awards'?
- ricree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There are some good ones there, but I don't think anyone is really eating their words on a company wide level as much as Sony is.
- phlux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow, no Mark Cuban on that list??
Why limit the list to a "top" - why not point out all the stupid things that were said in general by tech "leaders" - then we can always go back and show how stupid they were... - mitrebox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"The next generation begins when we say it does."
should have just said "This will be the mother of all battles" - kayla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@ricree, he got an Internet and was likely "punching buttons" (Larry King) as well. I say we have an answer.
- ewy99, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Was going to make a comment about how the rocker might be thrown by Ballmer. Thought better of it. And I will now remain silent.
- TheReport, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You want to see a stupid Mark Cuban quote
http://www.blogmaverick.com/ - emoj0388, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"I didn't have good intelligence."
- trollenlord, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My suggestion is here:
"I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE. This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do. Please, just tell people to use KDE." Also, "Gnome seems to be developed by interface nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'." -- Linus Torvalds
Great minds think great. But when they BRAINFART it's something absolutely stellar :-D - KamikazeeDriver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"The next generation begins when we say it does."
HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH Isn't it pride that goes before the fall? It's funny that the "next generation" console is being sold by some owners to buy Wii's - coldfusion1970, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ TheReport
Having just read a couple of posts on his blog, i have to recommend his post on sports marketing.
http://www.blogmaverick.com/2006/12/25/the-lesson-of-happy-gilmore-and-pro-sports-marketing/
Hes got it exacty right in terms of what the fans want to see. I love to watch football matches like Aresenal v Manchester United as i know there is a real dislike between the two teams. - Saq0, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Am I the only one who doesn't think this is a retarded analogy? If the a switch that your traffic is going through is maxed out bandwith wise, then yes your packets are going to get dropped or routed through a less optimal (slower) path, no? If this is ignorant... I'm a software guy not a network guy... :P
- HonoredMule, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3It's funny how no one ever seems to consider that he might be actually more knowledgeable about network technology and protocols, but was trying to explain something to a band of politicians who know jack-***** about it. Maybe I wouldn't say that if I heard more from him, but I don't care enough to actually check it out. I'm just thankful that in Canada, our politicians, whether the ones listening or the ones talking, aren't QUITE that technologically pathetic/useless. There are enough bulls in every other china shop.
- hoshizakistar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah... What I meant to say was:
'Good thing he wasn't right about that one or else we WOULDN'T have programs Firefox to compulsively check digg on or Diablo II'
Didn't catch that before my edit time ran out... A comment that should probably be dugg down nonetheless. - linkwray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Number One should be...
"We’ve never been stay the course, George!" by G.W.B.
Granted, it's not technolgy-related, but some might consider it more important than anything Gates, Ballmer, and the rest said in 2006. - coldfusion1970, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1There are some really good Steve Jobs quote on the same Wired site.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/1,70512-0.html
The man is a visionary. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5in the bill gates "stupid quotes" retrospective, they neglected to mention his famous "640KB ought to be enough for anybody."
- boaman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2That WIRED writer is a jerk. Using a phrase like "The Google" is just how some people talk. For example: I turned on the TV. Plenty of legit reasons to bash bush and the republicans, but these phrasings are not big goofs. The writer is just slamming republicans.
- Saq0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Start a site man :)
- x00x, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1LOL LOL President Bush has become much smarter by learning stuff on THE google. That's too funny.
- echecuceggr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes
Actually, this is a pretty good description of exactly what the internet is. It concisely describes the
issues with overloading the capacity of the infrastructure. I would suggest that maybe WIRED should
review their prejudices and not assume that just because the guy is a politician, and 85 years old, that he's
automatically clueless. - hoshizakistar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Good thing he wasn't right about that one or else we would have firefox to browse digg on... or Diablo II.
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