Point of view for stock market by CNBC was ridiculous for some years now, there is nothing new there. Few days before Bear and Sterns felt totally they were promising fake securities over the company. Now everybody knows it was the beginning of the end of area for traditional western life.
I was reminded today by Jon Stewart how responsible and accurate they actually are.
Jon actually forgot one thing, how evil they are. Do you remember last year who was the major media for streaming summer games in Beijing? It was CNBC! And they got us really nasty.
Do you know what is silverlight? I just wonder how much Microsoft actually paid for "research" of such good marketing quote. It's just another Microsoft vendor lock-in, screw market, slave customers and sink competition (Adobe? Linux? everybody else?). Did I mention that it runs on many operating systems? Three already! in Windows XP is featured by free download,in Windows Vista it's probably included by default, I don't know it for sure, I never used that crap. Third one is the new let's make more revenue since everybody just hates Vista and we spend so much money on advertising and research and development also fancy called R&D. So catchy.
Guess what?
Summer games were streamed via silverlight! Oh man, that's a good one,
for morons the silverlight link was just at the top of cnbc.com for easy spotting, anyway if you clicked on the video the plugin just POPed-UP. Gosh! So easy.
To watch video using a Firefox,
please install Microsoft© Silverlight™
* Larger, higher definition video
* Watch 4 events at once
* Dynamic statistics and expert commentary
* And many more great features ...
Click To Install the Free Plugin
Can't wait to watch four events at once!
Wait a minute, it doesn't really work. Obviously my problem is this crappy cheap alternative that nobody really use.
It's Linux.
So Jon, there is always more to it :)
Love your show!
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2 comments:
Very good story. And it is even worse than that.
Silverlight is doomed to poison the Internet and to dominate it, when they will decide to pull the plug on Mac support.
The point is: open standards, open standards, open standards. The only barrier to market abuse!
Cheers
Carlo
Carlo, Yep, but still it makes me laugh of loud on this post several years later. Can't say why Microsoft is always somehow in the top five in Irony....
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