New Operating system at Sony

JOKE

> > >At last, error messages that calm the spirit.

> > > Tokyo, Japan
> > > 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 and DOS 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 haiku messages are just as informative as
> > > Microsoft's and they
> > > make you pause just long enough that you're able
> > > to fight the impulse to put a fist through the screen."

> > > The chairman went on to give examples of the
> > >error messages:

> > > A file that big?
> > > It might be very useful
> > > But now it is gone.

> > > You seek a Web site.
> > > It cannot be located.
> > > Countless more exist.

> > > Chaos reigns within.
> > > Stop, reflect, and reboot.
> > > Order shall return.

> > > ABORTED effort:
> > > Close all that you have worked on.
> > > You ask way too much.

> > > Yesterday it worked.
> > > Today it is not working.
> > > Windows are like that.

> > > First snow, then silence.
> > > This thousand dollar screen dies
> > > So beautifully.

> > > With searching comes loss.
> > > The presence of absence.
> > > "June_Sales.doc" not found.

> > > The Tao that is seen
> > > Is not the true Tao
> > > Until you bring fresh toner.

> > > Windows NT crashed.
> > > 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
> > > To a simple stone.

> > > Three things are certain:
> > > Death, taxes, and lost data.
> > > Guess which has occurred.
> > > You step in the stream
> > > But the water has moved on
> > > Page not found.

> > > Out of memory.
> > > We wish to hold the whole sky,
> > > But we never will.

> > > Having been erased,
> > > The document you are seeking
> > > Must now be retyped.

> > > Serious error.
> > > All shortcuts have disappeared.
> > > Screen. Mind. Both are blank.