http://www.osnews.com/story/12932/The_Inq_s_Little_Difference_Awards_2005 Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:02:56 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?70910 http://osnews.com/thread?70910 Not Gonna Happen Award: Intel beating AMD in PC games
Intel: the AMD Thank You award for the current Xeon line-up that could have been designed especially to let Opteron gain new customers
Intel: the Society of Electricity Generation Corporations award for increasing electricity demand

So great and so true. I would like to add some:
Microsoft: The Linux and BSD thank you award for the most ureliable, insecure products, and soon to be a failure Vista.
Internet Explorer: The Firefox thank you award for being such a non made for the internet era.

But seriously those awards were great. Sun, 11 Dec 2005 14:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?70911 http://osnews.com/thread?70911 Apple: the Lawyer Award for sueing rumoursites because Apple itself cannot guard its secrets;

GNOME: the KDE Thank You Award for creating a stripped-down, uber-HIG-complient but critical-features missing desktop environment;

KDE: The GNOME Thank You Award for creating a slap-a-widget-in-every-empty-space desktop environment from UI Hell. Sun, 11 Dec 2005 14:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom_Holwerda) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?70963 http://osnews.com/thread?70963 BitMover: The Stallman Award for encouraging the development of several Free Software, distributed revision control projects. Sun, 11 Dec 2005 16:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?71153 http://osnews.com/thread?71153 it's xmas! it's xmas! it's xmas for trolls too!
yuppieeeee!!11! Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?71163 http://osnews.com/thread?71163 "Apple: the Lawyer Award for sueing rumoursites because Apple itself cannot guard its secrets; "

Apple did not sue any rumor sites. They supoened them.

Thom, I know several people have corrected you on this point in the past. WTF? Mon, 12 Dec 2005 01:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?71177 http://osnews.com/thread?71177 GNOME: the KDE Thank You Award for creating a stripped-down, uber-HIG-complient but critical-features missing desktop environment;

Hmm... what missing critical features? Not that I cannot find things I consider missing, but I don't know if those things are what you consider missing. And how would you like them to be fixed?

Could be, you had some non-mainstream solutions in mind (that could be nice). Mon, 12 Dec 2005 02:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dylansmrjones) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?71202 http://osnews.com/thread?71202 Buggiest Product of the Year: Visual Studio 2005
Vaporware lifetime achievement award: Microsoft Vista
Most Sadistic Videogame of the Year: The Punisher Mon, 12 Dec 2005 05:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?71221 http://osnews.com/thread?71221 klipper Mon, 12 Dec 2005 06:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?71233 http://osnews.com/thread?71233 so I will just say Linspire sucks! someone come up with something for them....please Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?71243 http://osnews.com/thread?71243 I was just joking. Don't take everything so damn serious, please. Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom_Holwerda) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?71256 http://osnews.com/thread?71256 Thom Holwerda, your'e such an amateur... :/ Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?71278 http://osnews.com/thread?71278 You want the real answer? I simply don't give a fcuk whatever it's called. English isn't my native language, so I might use the wrong words when it comes to difficult terms (such as law terms). When you translate subpoena to Dutch, you get a word that means, to order someone to come to court. In Dutch, there is no problem when you then use the Dutch word for "to sue".

Man, I forgot how long some people's toes can be. If you can't handle people taking a legitimate stab at Apple, then please stop reading the comments. Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom_Holwerda) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?71313 http://osnews.com/thread?71313 Linspire: For its relentless but useless efforts in making 2005 the year of the Linux desktop.

CEO of HP Mark Hurd, for showing Carly Fiorina that she is not the only one that can lose PC market share by delivering the same tired product line.

Creative: For the amazing efforts with iPod Killer #4578

SCO's crack legal team. Most Amusing Antics Because You Don't Have A Case To Save Yo Life Award.

Sun Microsystems. The Spaghetti award. For throwing anything/everything at the wall to see if something will stick.

The antivirus community. For spending billions just to have all the same tricks that worked 10 years ago still work just as good or better today.

The game industry. For the amazing level of creativity it must have taken to think up NFL football 5734532332 and Race Car Sim 246346346.

Microsoft: For being a software company with a 13 billion dollar a year budget and still managing to go an entire year without delivering a new product.Edited 2005-12-12 14:55 Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jody) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?71320 http://osnews.com/thread?71320 Shouldn't the Vaporware Lifetime Achievement Award go to Duke Nukem Forever? Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DigitalAxis) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?71321 http://osnews.com/thread?71321 Sun Microsystems. The Spaghetti award. For throwing anything/everything at the wall to see if something will stick.

Priceless! Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom_Holwerda) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?71371 http://osnews.com/thread?71371 Yes! Stop reading the comments... great idea! I think I'll do just that. This site is so lame... LOL Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?71718 http://osnews.com/thread?71718 "When you translate subpoena to Dutch, you get a word that means, to order someone to come to court."

That's not what it means in Dutch. In Dutch, it means the same thing that it means in English... It means to have some one come to court to answer questions.

To Sue is to attack via the law.

In the context you were using it, you made it sound as if Apple was attacking web sites. And though I know you have been corrected several times, it would seem that you prefer to adopt the notion that Apple did something that has a negative context as opposed to they simply asking people questions.

Perhaps you shouldn't be an news editor (news link poster) if you don't understand the language. You've caused many problems as a result of this lack of understanding. Tue, 13 Dec 2005 02:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kellym) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?71721 http://osnews.com/thread?71721 Ok child molestor.

If I continue to say this... and do so in a "joking" manor... I'm sure you'll understand that it all in good fun. Right? Tue, 13 Dec 2005 02:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments