I can't help but miss that delicious unassuming 90s design language.
Microsoft Coffee
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Re: Microsoft Coffee
#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
True that. The reason for this is simple. Stock price. Investors would wine around, price could move. It is all about money today: serious business.
I think it's deeper - and more insidious - than that. People with no sense of humor, or even awareness of their lack of sense of humor, have clawed their way into positions of real power. They used to just run the parent-teacher council and try to get TV shows cancelled, but now they've moved on to control nearly every aspect of our lives. And their power is growing.
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Re: Microsoft Coffee
#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
They didn't interpret it correctly, and there's no rule stating a comma is necessary that's universal in every style-guide.
They interpreted incorrectly per English grammar. We don’t know whether they interpreted correctly or incorrectly per the utterer’s intention, as the utterer has not clarified their intention. This isn’t a question of style, but one of grammar.
Precisely.
Re: Microsoft Coffee
#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
True that. The reason for this is simple. Stock price. Investors would wine around, price could move. It is all about money today: serious business.
I think it's deeper - and more insidious - than that. People with no sense of humor, or even awareness of their lack of sense of humor, have clawed their way into positions of real power. They used to just run the parent-teacher council and try to get TV shows cancelled, but now they've moved on to control nearly every aspect of our lives. And their power is growing.
Maybe these people do have a sense of humour but your jokes just aren’t as funny as you think they are?
Re: Microsoft Coffee
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If they faked that footage and even went as far faking the messed up VHS tracking, I will be very very impressed.
The VHS tracking is what makes me suspicious (and of course the date, the lack of any mention of it at all) If you've waited for 25 years to announce something, you're going to get video captured correctly. > There’s the KOMO News footage, which some of us still have on a dusty VHS tape Does anyone from Seatle recognise the two KOMO reporters? If the footage is a deep fake over real footage from that time, I'm very v…
> If you've waited for 25 years to announce something, you're going to get video captured correctly.
I mean this assumes said perfect video exists. I don't think most people would go to extreme lengths to preserve a video tape of a prank they performed 25 years ago.
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Prison? That seems over the top.
This would be a massive SEC violation at minimum. A prison sentence would not be surprising at all. The only reason they likely didn’t get it in 1995 even is that MS PR (the one this person derides as PR flacks) apparently successfully convinced the world that this wasn’t done by MS insiders.
No, it wouldn't be a "massive SEC violation" and yes, a prison sentence would be _very_ surprising. The SEC can't send someone to prison. They're a civil enforcement agency.
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#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just called KOMO. They confirmed they covered it, the footage is real, and it happened. In fact, the archives tech I talked to remembered it.
But can you believe them on April 1st?
Dude, it's (at least) April 2nd all around the globe right now...
Re: Microsoft Coffee
#229This is why computers used to have that cup holder that would slide out and give you a place to put it. When you weren't using it you could even put a music CD in it and it would play music right through your computer speakers!
I actually had a cup holder for a drive bay that was intended as one, it even had a cigarette lighter!
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