Outperforming Current Intel Stuff
Posted February 17th, 2003 @ 07:39pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Says the Microsoft Slut Robert Scoble:
Well, I've had some sneaks behind the scenes (not official ones, though). Apple has some cool stuff coming this year to be sure -- including some desktop machines that are outperforming current Intel stuff.
Incidentally, I only call him a slut because he never seems capable of saying anything bad about Microsoft. He's called me an OS X slut, but his case doesn't hold much water. I've found many things to criticize lately, even if they are small things. I'll have a longer "slut" post later, probably. His comments aren't working currently.
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Posted 18 Feb 2003 at 4:20am #
Scoblemania
Yikes. After going through my 'Technology' grouping in NetNewsWire, which includes RSS feeds for 34 different weblogs and news sites, every link that I called up as 'probably worth babbling about' was from Robert Scoble.
Posted 18 Feb 2003 at 10:10pm #
Obviously you missed my comments about SmartTags:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decentralization/message/2978
I do take on Microsoft on occassion. The reason I don't more often is that's why Slashdot exists, no?
It's more fun to run against the crowd. I don't know a single person who doesn't work at Microsoft who doesn't stick up for them.
Posted 18 Feb 2003 at 10:28pm #
Obviously I missed a comment you made nearly TWO years ago. Going back to June of 2001, eh? C'mon man. That's pretty lame. And SmartTags was something _everyone_ railed against. Big whoop.
The point is that you're not objective. You don't present the bad with the good.
I was interviewed at Microsoft, I've worked with and have been paid by Microsoft. I like the people I worked with and speak with them regularly. The Mac BU is a good group fo guys. I don't bash MS mercilessly for no real reason. I also don't blindly support Apple, and that's what you're guilty of: blind support of MS with nary a mention of their many illegal, wrong, bad, or stupid moves. You're not objective.
Thassit, man. I was going to post a longer response, but frankly, it ain't worth the time. I don't know that I've been called an Apple apologist anywhere - I ain't - but I've seen that "a" word associated with you more than a few times in the past few days.
I'll still read your blog cuz it's got some stuff I might overlook. I like technology, not just Apple-made stuff. But the fact remains that I think you're a bit of an MS Slut: all sizzle, no steak. All good, no bad. Objectivity ain't a bad thing, man.
Posted 19 Feb 2003 at 7:24am #
"I don't know a single person who doesn't work at Microsoft who doesn't stick up for them."
I live in Seattle, and I know lots of people who don't work for MSFT and don't "stick up for them". Hell, I know several who DO work for MSFT and criticize the shit out of their company.