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| Remember the 1950's game of 'chicken'? Similar to the ancient game of jousting on horseback, the game of chicken required nerves of steel and a complete ignorance of the laws of physics. Two drivers would race their cars at each other at scary speed for an impending head on collision. The first to turn away from that compacted fate was the 'chicken'. That great idea was later discarded for the more reasonable method of racing around a treacherous turn... often dubbed "Dead Man's Curve". This method proved the drivers ability to control the turn which typically killed other chicken drivers in the chicken race. The problem: There comes a point in the game where a turn is pointless and in fact simply compounds the injury. |
| Anyone who's played the game of chicken knows the terror in it is a predictable problem of mass, momentum and Newton's laws on trajectory of mass in motion. A last moment 'chicken out' turn usually ended in disaster far worse than the head on collision. No matter how fast the reflexes, no matter how agile the car, a turn executed at high speed usually ended in the chicken car rolling over, partially ejecting the driver (no self-respecting chicken-driver would use a seatbelt even if they were available) who was then mashed into chicken meat pate' by the car. |
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May 24, 2007
Robert Scoble
Microsoft postpones PDC
Mary Jo Foley (she’s been covering Microsoft for a long time) has the news: Microsoft has postponed the PDC that it had planned for later this year.
The PDC stands for “Professional Developer’s Conference.” It happens only when Microsoft knows it’ll have a major new platform to announce. Usually a new version of Windows or a new Internet strategy.
So, this means a couple of things: no new Windows and no major new Internet strategy this year.
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Here's an interesting observation from the previously annointed "unoffical blogger for Microsoft" Robert Scoble: "Now that Google, Amazon, Apple, are shipping platforms that are more and more interesting to Microsoft’s developer community Microsoft has to play a different game. One where they can’t keep showing off stuff that never ships. The stakes are going up in the Internet game and Microsoft doesn’t seem to have a good answer to what’s coming next."
 | Richard Wade (aka Silent Dick aka Pooky Pie) has demonstrated he has the patience to keep the brick on the gas and the wheel tied to the door handle. Steve Ballmer (aka MuckMuck the Magnificent aka Loud Mouth Leroy) has demonstrated he doesn't know the difference between a radio knob and a brake. We can only hope there's an adult somewhere in the crowd. |
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And another fascinating observation from Robert (Bob Bob Bobbin') Scoble:
"The last few PDCs haven’t exactly been huge successes, though. Hailstorm was announced at one and later was killed. Longhorn was announced at another and later was delayed and many things that were shown off were later killed too."
So, what's the potential casualty here this years cancelled PDC would have ruined? Microsoft's reputation? What's the codename for that? "BakedSkunk"? "CrispyCookedChicken"? "WrinkledWinky"? Project "RoomTempTapioca"? Anyone have any good ideas for a codename for this current Microsoft project? Maybe something simple like Project "Avoidance"?
