Re: The ca$h cow could be even fatter than it is...
From: David Candy (david_at_mvps.org)
Date: 08/20/04
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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:12:57 +1000
PS The guy is a geographer, not a programmer. That's why he thinks the timezone map is 800x1000 pixels rather than 357 x 182 (64 974 pxs)
-- ---------------------------------------------------------- 'Not happy John! Defending our democracy', http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/29/1088392635123.html "David Candy" <david@mvps.org> wrote in message news:e%23xnnBnhEHA.244@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... It comes from a speech by some MS executive. It's in all papers (at least in Australia and it appears Great Britain). But then geography probably would make American papers not run the story - they don't know what the word means. London: A tiny shading error in a computer program involved Microsoft in a multi-million dollar business fiasco, the head of the firm's geopolitical strategy unit has disclosed. Tom Edwards told the International Geographical Union congress in Glasgow how erroneously colouring eight out of 800,000 pixels dark rather than light green to represent Kashmir's disputed territory as non-Indian in Windows 95's time zone feature had led to the product being banned in India. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/19/1092889283736.html Also Raymond Chen has spoken about the same time zone map and said the same thing in explaining why we can't select our time zone the 'good' way. http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/archive/2003/08/22/54679.aspx -- ---------------------------------------------------------- 'Not happy John! Defending our democracy', http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/29/1088392635123.html "Jupiter Jones [MVP]" <jones_jupiter@hotnomail.com> wrote in message news:ecUOlwmhEHA.1568@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... > Other than a reference to Windows 95 and Age of Empires there is very > little to date anything in the article. > Since dates would be very relevant as well as specific facts that are > nonexistent in the article, this seems the quality of junk typical of > the Guardian and their shoddy and just plain worthless reporting. > > Then there is the part that seems to suggest Office 97 was a > replacement for Windows 95. > > Which is it? > There are no recent facts or facts are nonexistant. > Or > The Guardian staff is so inept they can not produce the sources for > their stories? > > My guess is a little or lot of the first and fully the second as is > typical for the Guardian staff. > > -- > Jupiter Jones [MVP] > http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/ > > > "hermes" <hermes@messenger.net> wrote in message > news:ODDUgimhEHA.3664@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl... > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1286066,00.html > > > > You would think they would do some research before hand. Of course, > > if they did that, they might actually have a decent operating system > > too. > > > > -- > > hermes > > DRM sux! Treacherous Computing kills our virtual civil liberties! > > http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://xxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > Windows XP crashed. > > I am the Blue Screen of Death. > > No one hears your screams > >
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