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No, this is dumb. Balmer was never mediocre.
by puredemo 11y ago
No, this is dumb. Balmer was never mediocre.
- CamperBob2 11y agoWhat other term do you use to describe his failure to see modern smartphones coming, even after Apple waved one under his nose? That said, while I've often been critical of Ballmer, I've been reconsidering my attitude towards him now that I've seen the aggressively-invasive direction in which Satya Nadella is taking Windows. Under Ballmer's leadership, Windows 7 never popped up unsolicited ads for Metro on the toolbar, much less ads that I couldn't turn off.
- Spearchucker 11y agoBy that measure Dr. Chris Barnard is mediocre, for supposedly performing ~50 heart transplants on dogs. Similarly Nelson Mandela would qualify for his role in founding and leading a militant wing of the ANC. One fact, error, moment or even period do not a mediocre person make.
- CamperBob2 11y agoWell, this thread got irrelevant in a hurry.
- oldmanjay 11y agoSince your initial complaint was the start of the irrelevancy, this is mighty disingenuous of you
- placeybordeaux 11y agoThis is far off topic now, but... My only context with Nelson Mandela would be his autobiography, but founding the militant wing of the ANC seemed fairly reasonable from that perspective. Just about all forms of peaceful protest were cut off from the ANC and the ANC it's self was criminalized and attacked. Few people criticize the deceleration of independence and the subsequent revolutionary war, but unfortunately sometimes in history violence was the only reasonable option.
- tim333 11y agoI think Microsoft saw smartphones coming for a while. See for example "Windows Mobile 2003 for Smartphone." That said their offerings were not very good but that's another matter.
- MichaelGlass 11y agoThe piece is so obviously satire and not based in reality