Regardless of your fan-boy affiliation, this article is a fun read.
But don't waste your time if the following quote is not your cup of tea.
Much like an Englishman debating an American, Google
is trying to keep the level of discourse high and
sophisticated. Our American Microsoft, on the other
hand, has just sucker-punched the Englishman in the
mouth and yelled "YEAH WHERE'S YOUR VOCABULARY NOW?"
DISCLAIMER: I find this article amusing and witty.
Just remember, when these attitudes were translated to actions (both military and commercial), the Americans won.
Never count out the quick and dirty in the software world. Sometimes a determined half-wit can beat the pants off a high-minded academic even with inferior technology.
Don't you think bragging about WWII is just a tad past its use by date? Geeze, can we have a statute of limitations on that, please? Anyway, Russia was (at least) an equal partner in the defeat of Germany.
America's military record since is terrible. It's difficult to think of a single conflict in the last 50 years where the US hasn't been chased away, tail between its legs, from a politically motivated, trumped up, hubristic misadventure off in some godforsaken hellhole it never had any business meddling with in the first place. Hell, at least the Brits managed a single unambiguous victory, over Argentina.
Oh look, North Korea, probably the worlds' worst country, in the news again. Wonder who we have to thank for that.
The argie thing was an unbelievable conflict. My dad was in the RAF and a small part of the Black Bucks missions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War#Black_Buck_raids). That alone has to be one of the greatest modern military achievments :D
Knowing how we waged a war unsupported the other side of the world always brings a lump to my throat (despite the horrible loss for all concerned)
honestly (and not wanting to get into argument here). Learn your history and have some damned respect for the hundreds of thousands that died on all sides in the early 1900's.
Personally the following quote was the one which made me laugh the most: "The PHP developers have failed, well, because they're PHP developers. Microsoft has failed because they're acting as that unscrupulous dealer who provides PHP to people that probably shouldn't have access to it."
This is without a doubt the most inflammatory, outrageous and entertaining thing I've read on theregister in ages.
thereg are such linkbaiters and ragers :P but the annoying (or good I suppose) thing is that they actually have good points to make inside all of the irony.
I flag this moreso for the conversation it's spawned than the original content by Dzuiba at The Register.
If Dzuiba's opinionated snark could just live on its original site, it might occasionally merit a little attention -- for the scraps of topicality and insight mixed with the bilious style.
But unfortunately just by pointing at it, we get a little of its sewage back on us. It seems that even 'one-way' links leak back a little; the series of tubes runs both ways. So our comment threads become a little more like the greywater and blackwater in TechCrunch and Valleywag threads.
We can mop up after the fact with comment downvotes but the best policy is not to link to the internet's open latrines in the first place.
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Never count out the quick and dirty in the software world. Sometimes a determined half-wit can beat the pants off a high-minded academic even with inferior technology.
Yeah, it's Memorial Day, and I'm punchy. I grew up in VA hospitals. Wanna fight, limeys? :)
I thought Canadians handed your asses to you in that one.
Your history needs a tune up.
America's military record since is terrible. It's difficult to think of a single conflict in the last 50 years where the US hasn't been chased away, tail between its legs, from a politically motivated, trumped up, hubristic misadventure off in some godforsaken hellhole it never had any business meddling with in the first place. Hell, at least the Brits managed a single unambiguous victory, over Argentina.
Oh look, North Korea, probably the worlds' worst country, in the news again. Wonder who we have to thank for that.
Knowing how we waged a war unsupported the other side of the world always brings a lump to my throat (despite the horrible loss for all concerned)
disgusting.
This is without a doubt the most inflammatory, outrageous and entertaining thing I've read on theregister in ages.
If Dzuiba's opinionated snark could just live on its original site, it might occasionally merit a little attention -- for the scraps of topicality and insight mixed with the bilious style.
But unfortunately just by pointing at it, we get a little of its sewage back on us. It seems that even 'one-way' links leak back a little; the series of tubes runs both ways. So our comment threads become a little more like the greywater and blackwater in TechCrunch and Valleywag threads.
We can mop up after the fact with comment downvotes but the best policy is not to link to the internet's open latrines in the first place.