IP: time for a smile -- the new Sony system

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> > 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 95, 3.1, and DOS
> > operating 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 chairman went on to
> > give examples of Sony's new error messages:
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > A file that big?
> > It might be very useful.
> > But now it is gone.
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > The Web site you seek
> > cannot be located but
> > endless others exist
> >
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >
> > Chaos reigns within.
> > Reflect, repent, and reboot.
> > Order shall return.
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > ABORTED effort:
> > Close all that you have.
> > You ask way too much.
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > First snow, then silence.
> > This thousand dollar screen dies
> > so beautifully.
> >  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > With searching comes loss
> > and the presence of absence:
> > "My Novel" not found.
> >  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > The Tao that is seen
> > Is not the true Tao, until
> > You bring fresh toner.
> >  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > Windows NT crashed.
> > I am 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
> > a simple stone.
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > Yesterday it worked
> > Today it is not working
> > Windows is like that.
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - -  - - - - - - -
> > Three things are certain:
> > Death, taxes, and lost data.
> > Guess which has occurred.
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > You step in the stream,
> > but the water has moved on.
> > This page is not here.
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > Out of memory.
> > We wish to hold the whole sky,
> > But we never will.
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > Having been erased,
> > The document you're seeking
> > Must now be retyped.
> >  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > Serious error.
> > All shortcuts have disappeared.
> > Screen.  Mind.  Both are blank.
>
>
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David Farber         
The Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Systems
University of Pennsylvania 
Home Page: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~farber