Did OS/2 fail because MS did not back it?
If not, please explain to me in one or two simple sentences (for my benefit) why OS/2 failed.
Sigh,
I still maintain that OS/2, a superior operating system, failed because of the administration by the company of smarties who developed it. IBM sold its hardware preloaded with Windows.
“ignoring all other facts”
What other facts?
Please e’plain Lucy!
No comment.
What, did another billy goat walk over your bridge, AcidKiddo?
Do you really think that is my intent?
Newbie, shnewbie!
Any date I give could be bested.
Post or lurk.
I said, “Smart (inventive) people are lousy administrators.”
I put the thread in the BBQ PIT because I knew that mentioning Cecil Adams name (as a lousy administrator) would elicit fundy SDMB messages. (Yes, SDMB members are as fundy to the name Cecil Adams as fundies are to the name {insert deity.})
Never considered myself a troller. Always laughed at the number of posts responding to trolls in …adams and …legends (and even here in SDMB.) But you are right. I’ve had a good laugh. Question a peoples’ god and they (even the moderators) come out of the woodwork.
But I still maintain my basic premise:
Why are smarties like Cecil and I such lousy administrators?
Based on the available evidence, and using AcidKid as a sample, I think it’s safe to conclude that incomprehensible space aliens are also boorish assholes.
Great. The rest of the universe is from Indianapolis.
Firstly, don’t misunderestimate my language.
Secondly, I have not figured out your babbling.
Thirdly, typos are unimportant.
Fourthly, Huh? Is “billy goat” a woodchipper?
Once again I bow to the superior knowledge
and unexhausting logic…
of those who vent their weekdays on the weekend.
Bet you spent all day in your cubicle thinking this one up.
Come on, this is the BBQ PIT.
Moderators have done better than that!
Sorry, “assholes” is a Service Trademark of SPOOFE.
Try this:
Your argument is so dumb that I will not even mention it.
Or:
TAG! You’re it.
Hey rejoice, you’ll make a great administator.
Have to give credit where credit is due,
despite any other posts,
Very good.
The points in your OP were already dismissed with logic. Don’t mistake people insulting you for trying to argue with you.
As for your point about OS/2, regardless of why it failed, you haven’t really supplied any evidence that it was smarties who administered badly. Accepting for the sake of argument that OS/2 was technically superior to Win95, and accepting as well that it only failed because IBM didn’t support it, it still does not follow that smarties administered badly. The smarties would be the programmers, who created a great product. The bad administrators would be other people at IBM, who didn’t support it. Thus, there is no apparent correlation, positive or negative, between intelligence and administrative ability.
Your points about Cecil have been thoroughly disproved, unless you think that somehow the failure to create the world’s fastest database server solely to run this message board, without spending any significant amount of money, is an administrative failure. And you continually show that the inclusion of yourself as a smartie is absurd.
Rewriting your question, to avoid asserting nonsense, “Why are smarties such as Cecil and myself such bad administrators, despite the lack of any evidence of Cecil being a bad administrator, or me being a smartie?”
Answer: Smarties are not necessarily bad administrators, witness Robert Oppenheimer, who administrated the scientists of the Manhattan Project, and was a brilliant physicist. However, someone who is recognized as smart due to proficiency in something other that administration (many of the other scientists there, who were more brilliant in their fields than Oppy) will not be as good as an administrator as someone recognized as a good administrator, but not incredibly brilliant otherwise (Gen. Leslie Groves, the officer who oversaw the entire Manhattan Project, and prior to that got the Pentagon built ahead of schedule and under budget).
In sort, there was once a question as to why the conductor of an orchestra got paid the most, and the answer given was that it’s because he’s the one that gets 150 egomaniacs to play as one. Or to put it simply, if writing good software or being good at calculus qualifies someone as a smartie, so should being able to administer well.
Learn how to put all your responses in one post, will ya?
I wish. That would be the coolest thing since sliced Spam. However, I must comment that you’re single-handedly redefining both the words “stupid” AND “incomprehensible”. Congratulations.
Here’s some floss. You can go sit in the corner and stare at it for seven hours. It’ll keep you entertained.
Not that I agree with your opening statement but
even your “ka-zings” were literate.
Will have to re-read about Oppenheimer.
All I remember with (somewhat) certainty is that
inside Gen.Groves’ safe was found a note saying,
“Guess who.”