Syndicate: WAS: Forwarded mail... Now: Sony haiku enabled Vaio sys

[Zvonimir Bakotin <zone@basis.Desk.nl>]

Ah, there is great attempt to replace an hegemony with another, but still 
we'll run windoze, but more poetic, by use haiku crash msg...dear members
of vrml.art and friends it's right time to go around and ask for your brand 
new personal vaio notebooks and personal stations, coz we are poetic souls
by definition.. however, one bomb fits all, one image (just) 10k words, and
one haiku - covers crash just fine..."we are kultur, ziegfrid, gilgamesh"- 
-Delta T, therefore we are invited to hold and carry haiku enabled vaios
around, so dont hasitate, call your local Sony dealer/representative today
tell 'em who you are and pick one, now! BTW haikus are poor (beta version?)
or just poorly translated, in our favorite WASP OS (by Umberto Eco)... 
however Unix has still nice haiku (kabbalah), and very strong media approach
- good news is no news... sweetheart Mac is almost human ("christianity is 
stupid" - Negative Land), Tao is eternal even if path is thru windoze (per
aspera ad astra)...but Eco was shortminded (typical newcomer in OS related 
issues), what about orthodoxs (nonupgrable operating system), fundamentalists
(micro kernel architecture only), zen nihilists (does it mean total absence 
of an OS in favour of nine personally owned instructions to CPU - pretty 
assmbler like), hinduisam (thousands of tasks, devas(gods) and daemons in
perfect sync), woodoo (saints and demons runs together in protected mode) etc. 
So, help me God, gimme a loaded Colt gun, send me in Colorado school mission,
just to make me sure that all kids there having proper haiku on windows...

enjoy reading of Sony's PR's

z

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 11:40:20 +0200
From: Ana Peraica <ana.peraica@st.tel.hr>
To: Zvonimir Bakotin <zone@basis.Desk.nl>

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 Windows 95,
3.1, and DOS operating systems, Sony 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.

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

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  The Web site you seek
  cannot be located but
  endless others exist

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  Chaos reigns within.
  Reflect, repent, and reboot.
  Order shall return.

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

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

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  With searching comes loss
  and the presence of absence:
  My Novel not found.

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  The Tao that is seen
  Is not the true Tao, until
  You bring fresh toner.

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  Windows NT crashed.
  I am the Blue Screen of Death.
  No one hears your screams.

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  Stay the patient course
  Of little worth is your ire
  The network is down

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  A crash reduces
  your expensive computer
  to a simple stone.

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

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  Three things are certain:
  Death, taxes, and lost data.
  Guess which has occurred.

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  You step in the stream,
  but the water has moved on.
  This page is not here.

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

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  Having been erased,
  The document you're seeking
  Must now be retyped.

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

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  Silly human user
  So wide-eyed and dumb
  What did you expect



 
      
              
           


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