Steve Ballmer - Quick chat with Microsoft's CEO | scobleizer

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leighsword wrote:
yes,absolutely you(Europe/the Western world) did it to yourselves,but we(China/the East world) affect what you did.(search "who invented the paper and printing").the communication is a way to affect the Western world,the Silk Road.

Today,you(Europe/the Western world) affect us(China/the East world) in many fields include you meationed.

You might have understood me saying that Europe did a lot original inventions (although I might have misunderstood etcetcetc Big Smile

). "doing it to yourself" basically means creating your own misfortune (as Europe did).

Anyway, what I meant is that Europeans could have been original inventors but we kept ourselves backward. So what happened is that whatever was invented, the Asians and especially the Chinese were first 9 out of 10. The printing press is a good example. In school we learned a Dutchman invented it, then I found out Gutenberg beat us to it and much later found that the Chinese were first.
Only after the renaissance started to undo the shackles of religion Europe was starting to get somewhere. Europe from about 500 to 1500 AD was not a great place to be for anyone with original thoughts.

DoobieEx

I have a number of questions for Mr. Balmer. 1. What is with TCPA and Palladium? It comes off as a very Orwellian attempt to control access to applications and media. I can somehow see this being intertwined with Microsoft's fingerprinting technology. Let us not forget that Microsoft is integrating Belgian ID cards into Doze...VERY VERY creepy. A hardcore Christian friend of mine says it's very much like the end times prophecy in the bible. 2. Why do you have such a problem with Linux. I can assure you that it does not violate software patents. I am very very sorry that it's competition...we all know MS hates competition. What is extremely disturbing is that you condoned an anti-trust case against the open source community. A case in which the plaintiff tried (and probably still is) to assert that open source products were rigging prices by providing software for free. Do you think it's wrong that these programmers are giving things away? Not everything is trade Mr. Balmer...get the (I need to watch my language) over it. 3. Why is Microsoft trying to patent emoticons? It's not like your company invented the concept you tit. 4. Why did Microsoft try to patent FAT? The above. 5. Why does Microsoft try to patent everything in an attempt to dip their fingers in everyones preverbial "Kool-aide". If anything this seems like fixing the market. 6. Why don't you shove the (I need to watch my language) off you (I need to watch my language) piece of (I need to watch my language)? And one little comment. Copyright infringment is a private matter not a criminal matter...you just like it to be criminal so it costs less to prosecute.

balmer_the_young_and_foolish

I all I gotta say is humble beginnings:

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/sellswindows.php

Smiley

Pimp Daddy

balmer_the_young_and_foolish wrote:
I all I gotta say is humble beginnings:

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/sellswindows.php

An all-time classic! Who can resist the temptations of the Cardfile and Reversi?

s_jetha
'Will it run on my 486?'

Did Steve have something against Nabraska???

Duck
Electronic Medical Duck

Absolutely outstanding interview and down to earth! Being a developer and MS partner,I loved his his references to writing a "good piece of code". He couldn't have said it any better!

Still want to know if he really has an X-Box hidden somewhere in that office. <grin>.

yyy
Developer

Pimp Daddy wrote:

balmer_the_young_and_foolish wrote: I all I gotta say is humble beginnings:

http://www.albinoblaksheep.com/flash/sellswindows.php

An all-time classic! Who can resist the temptations of the Cardfile and Reversi?

That was funny Smiley

Was it real a commercial?

yyy
Developer

Anyway, I saw in another place that it was a real commercial.

Comic Strip Blogger
My banana is powered by Windows Mobile!

Robert, Why didn't you ask him Something like: "if Microsoft is innovative then why there is no native buyout for podcastiny in Windows Media Player although tunes from boggle has it?... or! Why Windows Mobiles bags, feature-wise, 2-3 years behind Symbian?