Pathetic...

[Pooh Bear]

Larry Brasfield wrote:

"Pooh Bear" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote in
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Fred Bartoli wrote:

Just seen that: http://www.ntk.net/media/dancemonkeyboy.mpg

A nice guy for a nice company.

And we now all know where the profit goes: a truckload of amphetamins each
morning at breakfast.

WTF !!!!

God Almighty ! I liked the bit where he had to get his breath back. With some
luck he might have had a heart attack instead !

Actually, he got his breath back in short order.

Hmmm, well when I still regularly played tennis, I didn't even so much as lose my
breath in the first place mostly, except when playing exceptionally vigourously.
And certainly not from a little bit of jumping about.

Actually I should find a new partner, I've been missing regular exercise for some
time now.

Heart rate
would be a better indicator of fitness. The requirement for
oxygen after exertion is based on physics, not physic.

If you say so. And sure - I have no doubt about heart rate but we didn't have the
opportunity to see that did we ? I'm going by what was on the clip.

I'm sorry but seeing overweight, older bald men behaving like jackasses does
nothing for me - except in this case to lower further still my opinion of M$.

If you had seen Balmer on a basketball court with a bunch
of younger guys, you would not be able to take that stance.

All I can say is that the younger guys must be pretty unfit too then !

Another point missed in that isolated video: At the annual
Microsoft company meeting, the tradition had already been
established that Balmer would go a little crazy. For example,
at an earlier show, I had the pleasure of watching him do a
spiel about competitors and how revenue was to them like
oxygen is to creatures, going on to how, in a competitive
world, certain necessities exist, and ending up in a hilarious,
roaring, red-faced rant, with overtones of a strangulation,
about how "We have to cut off their oxygen!".

Ok, ok. So it's his 'thing' to that that. I don't *get it* but fair enough. Smacks
of trying to look like a youngster though.

As for your M$ opinion, I have noticed a few things.
People who distort the company's name can hardly
decide whether it is possible to hold it in worse regard.
And they latch onto anything, without regard for its
relevance, to support their professed low regard.

The usage of M$ is widespread as a sign of the fact that they hold an effective
economic stranglehold on IT. I don't like it, not their predatory method of
eliminating competition. I also don't like Word ( especially - hiss, spit ) and the
regular updates to Office that change the default file save to a new format,
regularly incompatible with previous versions. I avoid those products at every
opportunity. These products are a simple base method to milk money out of
companies mainly, but how many ppl have Word totally uneccessarily installed on
their PC just to type the occasional letter ?

Graham