Okay, Microsoft has done some dumb things - but this one wins a Darwin!

Darwin Award, that is:

http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-999509.html



Called the "MSN iLoo", naturally.

Now, picture this: It's July 4 at your state's Indepedence Day celebration (ala the Taste of Minnesota). It's 90 degrees out and humid. You go into the loo and sit there for 4 hours pissing away your time on the internet. You'll end up being carted off to the ER due to dehydration, coma, and/or death. :eyes:

Of course, they'll probably have a second module outsite of it so people waiting to use what's inside can keep busy. So you're in the queue diddling on the computer, the person in finally finishes and leaves, and somebody cuts in front of you! Is this more Microsoft Productivity(tm)? :eyes:

If you want REAL innovation, you'd put a bloody air conditioner in the portable toilet for crying out loud!!!!! I ought to patent that straight away...

They dumped the idea a couple days after it hit the press. Rather funny, IMO...

Gates will do anything to get more money.

It's interesting it was launched in the UK. Not in the US. And it deserves to be in the US, the rest of the country's obviously gone to the toilet and doesn't want to get back out of it... :-(

Why would they want to put an internet terminal in a porta-potty? Why don't they(Microsoft)spend their money on more useful things, like making more sound operating systems and software!

what is the point of that? you go in for a piss that takes at most a minute or two, and you surf the internet in that time? WTF?

I'd be afraid of getting a virus :)

:evilgrin:

... I was in a Portland hotel a couple of years ago, one which billed itself as a high-tech business conference center, and when one sat down on the toilet in one's room, there was a telephone a foot away.

Someone's really idiotic notion of multi-tasking, I fear.

..I also just stayed in a hotel with phone in john. I think it's quite common.

That way you won't drop your cell phone in the toilet. :)

Is there any time, any place, Americans won't use the phone?

This one was just too much fun... odd how I missed it in early May...

improve upon the overall gene pool.

I've read jokes about people doing dumb things and as a result they get a "Darwin award"...

Oh well.

If Microsoft went out of business, its "death", it would improve upon the rest of society... does it still count then? Probably not, the buggers are still in business. :-(

Windows has proved to be a shitty OS in recent weeks. What better place for it than an outhouse?? :evilgrin:

MicroSoft released a statement a few months ago.