Beautiful words
problem describing
skeptical I remain.
At 10:57 PM 19/01/00 Z, Jon Biddell wrote:
>This news item might be of interest;
>
>Tokyo, Japan, May 20 - Sony has announced its own computer operating
>system
>now available on its hot new portable PC called the Vaio.
>
>Instead of producing the cryptic error messages characteristic of
>Microsoft's
>Windows and DOS systems, Sony's chairman Asai Tawara said, "We intend
>to
>capture the high ground by putting a human, Japanese face on what has
>been-until
>now-an operating system that reflects Western cultural hegemony. For
>example,
>we have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages
>with
>our own Japanese haiku poetry." The haiku messages are just as
>informative
>as Microsoft's and they make you pause just long enough that you're
>able to
>fight the impulse to put a fist through the screen.
>
>The chairman cited these examples;
>
>A file that big?
>It might be very useful.
>But now it is gone.
>
>You seek a Web site.
>It cannot be located.
>Countless more exist.
>
>Chaos reigns within.
>Stop, reflect, and reboot.
>Order shall return.
>
>ABORTED effort:
>Close all that you have worked on.
>You ask way too much.
>
>Yesterday it worked
>Today it is not working
>Windows is like that.
>
>First snow, then silence.
>This thousand dollar screen dies
>So beautifully.
>
>With searching comes loss.
>The presence of absence.
>June Sales.doc" not found.
>
>The Tao that is seen
>Is not the true Tao
>Until you bring fresh toner.
>
>Windows NT crashed.
>The Blue Screen of Death.
>No one hears your screams.
>
>Stay the patient course.
>Of little worth is your ire.
>The network is down.
>
>A crash reduces
>Your expensive computer
>To a simple stone.
>
>Three things are certain:
>Death, taxes, and lost data.
>Guess which has occurred.
>
>You step in the stream
>But the water has moved on.
>Page not found.
>
>Out of memory.
>We wish to hold the whole sky,
>But we never will.
>
>Having been erased,
>The document you are seeking
>Must now be retyped.
>
>Serious error.
>All shortcuts have disappeared.
>Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
>
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