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> 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 95, 3.1,
> and DOS operating 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 chairman went on to give examples of Sony's new error messages:
>
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >
> > A file that big?
> > It might be very useful.
> > But now it is gone.
> >
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >
> > The Web site you seek
> > cannot be located but
> > countless more exist
> >
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >
> > Chaos reigns within.
> > Reflect, repent, 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 is like that.
> >
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >
> > First snow, then silence.
> > This thousand dollar screen dies
> > so beautifully.
> >
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >
> > With searching comes loss
> > and the presence of absence:
> " My Novel" not found.
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >
> > The Tao that is seen
> > Is not the true Tao, until
> > You bring fresh toner.
> >
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >
> > Windows NT crashed.
> > I am the Blue Screen of Death.
> > No one hears your screams. (This is among my favorites)
> >
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >
> > 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.
> > This page is not here.
> >
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >
> > Out of memory.
> > We wish to hold the whole sky,
> > But we never will.
> >
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >
> > Having been erased,
> > The document you're seeking
> > Must now be retyped.
> >
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >
> > Serious error.
> > All shortcuts have disappeared.
> > Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
>