Thursday January 06, 2005 Blue screen of death during Micro$oft CES demos
Bill Gates got the Blue Screen of Death during his demo of Microsoft products at the CES conference currently happening in Las Vegas. (Just noticed this: Also see The Sect of Rama blog post today). See: Don't Trust This Man with your Consumer Electronics I would not trust Micro$oft with any electronic consumer device, especially my cell phone. If they're getting the Blue Screen of Death during an important demo in front of over 100,000+ people, there is something seriously wrong with their engineering. Java technology (especially the memory management part of Java programming) on consumer devices is more important now than ever. Watch out when Micro$oft engineers try applying their Yeah-I'm-Used-To-1GB-of-RAM-So-What? mentality to electronic devices instead of their loaded PCs. They'll be scratching their heads wondering what's going wrong for quite some time to come. They just don't understand what Java and J2ME technology has already addressed, especially in places where it is really easy to get "Out of Memory".
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Posted by Dan Hinojosa on January 06, 2005 at 12:58 PM PST #
Posted by Dan Hinojosa on January 06, 2005 at 01:04 PM PST #
Thanks, Dan! :-)
Hinkmond
Posted by Hinkmond Wong on January 06, 2005 at 01:09 PM PST #
You forget that Sun is owned by Microsoft now
Posted by 192.18.43.10 on January 07, 2005 at 11:25 AM PST #
Doesn't matter who owns whom. Bad engineering is still bad engineering. Those engineers who wrote the demos need to go back and take a class on proper use of memory management in computer programming.
Posted by Hinkmond Wong on January 07, 2005 at 11:29 AM PST #
Posted by Behrang S on January 11, 2005 at 01:34 PM PST #
Don't mind that comment. That person was just trying to say that Sun is owned by Microsoft since Microsoft paid the court settlement case back on April 2, 2003. But, that's a silly interpretation.
Hinkmond
Posted by Hinkmond Wong on January 12, 2005 at 02:05 PM PST #