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

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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>>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:
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>> 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