“Every year the Inquirer announces nominations for awards but with a little difference. Often the nominations are there because products or strategies have made just that, little difference. This time round we’ve invited nominations from our team of worldwide hacks and those who could be bothered have come up with a list of contenders for the Gongs of Little Difference.”
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.
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.
“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?
I was just joking. Don’t take everything so damn serious, please.
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?
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).
klipper
BitMover: The Stallman Award for encouraging the development of several Free Software, distributed revision control projects.
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Buggiest Product of the Year: Visual Studio 2005
Vaporware lifetime achievement award: Microsoft Vista
Most Sadistic Videogame of the Year: The Punisher
Shouldn’t the Vaporware Lifetime Achievement Award go to Duke Nukem Forever?
so I will just say Linspire sucks!
someone come up with something for them….please
Thom Holwerda, your’e such an amateur… :/
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.
Yes! Stop reading the comments… great idea! I think I’ll do just that. This site is so lame… LOL
“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.
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.
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Sun Microsystems. The Spaghetti award. For throwing anything/everything at the wall to see if something will stick.
Priceless!