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Dunno if they coffee is nice though - I never drink it while I was there. Not a hot drinks person.
As for scary evil companies, ALL huge companies scare me. With the conduct of many large companies, I think consumers should naturally be wary of ginormous corporations. But I don't view all huge companies as evil. If we're just looking at GYM, the evil ranking goes M > G > Y. As a web developer, I can't unrank Microsoft as the top tech evil until IE7 comes out.
But I actually lamented one of Google's evils on my blog just today: http://www.richbrownell.com/page.php?id=174 On my video game site, which is quite large and has tons of content for Google adsense to put appropriate ads, I'm seeing tons of completely off topic ads. Check it out (gamesarefun.com) now and you should see either an add for the movie The Ringer or an ad for Ford Explorer. What those (and other ads) have to do with video games is beyond me.
For instance this one. Coffee and corporate philosophy. It very handily sums up the story of how companies move from young trailblazer (and, yes, I'm old enough to remember when Excel was trailblazing...) to places where people whine about the coffee. Google is on the road.
The brain-dead corporate flak media have, of course, missed the important story in the TimeWarner reaming of Google: what do Sergey and Larry think about AOL having preferential treatment in the Web index? Something MS refused AOL because it was "unethical".
Robert got it.
I care about how much Google is going to push Microsoft off track.
On lighter news, I'm officially on vacation until January 3. I am very happy.
Firstly, and straight off the bat, it doesn't make sense: what does AOL care that Google offers graphical ads? They have no access to any income from Google ads anyway!
The fact of the matter is that AOL have made Google make graphical ads available for the ads that are showing on AOL real estate.
That is all.
Google are basically providing a customised version of Google ads for AOL to run... yes, they may end up providing this customisation for other sites to run but they've already said that they will never run them on google.com.
Quite a molehill I think...
at any rate, that is some serious crapola from elgoog - and this is not the first departure from their flexible mission statement (apparently with heat it becomes quite flexible)...their 'base' offering provides a back door to selling porn, liquor and guns - something which they swore was unacceptable from advertisers...though strange!? they can keep that kind of spam out of gmail but can't seem to keep the valve shut on base.google.com...gosh, somebody might imagine that maybe, just maybe, they want to see what happens when they really do offer everything that people pay for (including liquor and not just wine, guns and not just knives and porn, not just swimsuit calendars)...already ranted about this on my blog a while back (re: base, "google grows up" etc)
have a great holiday. also, you ought put up some kinda like 300 word max thing on these comments...good lord, i thought i was bad until i saw the guy who did the novel up above :)
A well-blended, properly ground coffee that is brewed right can be consumed black. If you can't drink it black, it's crap.
Seriously, life's not full of heros and villians, there's some subtlety out there too, Dennis. And the lack of creativity in some parts of Microsoft isn't really that much bigger of an issue than the taste of the coffee, if you look at it from a perspective a little broader than the keyboard in front of you. Coffee and creativity are light-hearted discussion topics, not life-and-death issues.
Speaking of subtlety -- don't you think it's a bit obnoxious (and a waste of precious bandwidth) to cut and paste an entry from your own blog and post it as a comment on somebody else's blog? There's a concept known as linking that's really handy in such situations.
No news allowed about Breda Pickering, eh? :)
Oh one thing you might take note of, Jeff Bewkes becoming TW head soon, which spells certain doom for MFST. But all with the Ian McAllister hints and rumors of some MFST conspiracy with another Tier 1, blah blah blah. And Vista CTP is make or break, if IT is not convinced and just upgrades with hardware, you are looking at a serious serious hit.
PS - The Windows Live Messenger beta pay for invites and general corruption is beyond crass. Shame.
2. I can't recollect when Google said they will not have graphical ads. I might be wrong though, Please remind me.
:D
From an interoperability standpoint, Microsoft is still far more evil.
However, I know who's been churning out more useful stuff that benefits more platforms, and it's not MS.
Starbucks is to coffee what McDonalds is to hamburgers. I refuse to patronize either.
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I have a version that stores the coffee in the base.
Perfect cure for bad office coffee.
Sometimes it's the deciding factor for me when I'm deciding whether to come into the office or work from home.
And yet all we can talk about is how shit the coffee is"
Discuss.
Conclusion: Microsoft has lost its Mojo, and now its ability to spin silk out of shit. Big style.
Honestly.
Scoble. Your just drivelling.
You're supposed to be the leading light, The RSS-aware influencer, the geek within the machine - the industry analyst who is turning around this impression that MS is staffed from the neck up with dribbling idiots with no clue and less morals.
Get with it, else you'll get a stack ranking of 3.0 and have to HAND OUT the coffee in future. (Woops. was that a Mini-Microsoft reference?)
Honestly. I come here for the "energiser-bunny-on-speed MS is *fantastic*", "my wife is a better blogger than me", "Ohhh! RSS!", "My our current products suck big time, but look at whats coming next! Dont leave!" and "look who I'm having dinner with - ooooOOOoo!" news, and all we get is shitty coffee stories ?
Sigh. You just cant get the staff.
---* Bill
http://www.billbuchan.com
P.S. This has been cut down dramatically from its originally sarcastic tone.
So, kettle, how does it feel to be black? ;-)
http://www.jpstewart.org/cgi-bin/blog/nph-blog....
J.P.
I continue to like your blog stuff. If anything, the volume's a bit much for me to catch up with, but if I want to read about primarily all the technical specifics of different MS stuff, I'll read some MSDN blogs. I like the semi-randomness of your blog.
With that said, I think your dig about Google wasn't quite on the mark. Marissa and others have noted that Google won't get cluttered with banner ads.
With that said, I'm still concerned about the Google/AOL alliance for other reasons (many of which have been elucidated by other commentators and commenters), but I'll remain cautiously optimistic for the time being.
As for coffee... hmm... I didn't have any during my recent visit to the Evil Empire, but I noticed that y'all don't offer any free snacks. Maybe I've gotten spoiled from the consulting I've done for smaller companies, but shouldn't MS at least be offering free sugar and protein stuff to keep their coders fueled and happy? Surely the cost-benefit ratio would be favorable? :D
Free snacks? Oh, that would be cool, but would be guaranteed to help me put on even more weight.
Over in our offices in Copenhagen they have free candies, though. Yummy!