posted 08-04-2001 07:48            

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I think that was the most incredibly uncool thing I've seen in the last five years... and, er, letting that little video clip escape out into the general public is certainly gonna have to be considered to cancel all those descriptions of Microsoft as "a brilliant marketing company."

:: twitches uncontrollably ::

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posted 08-04-2001 10:40         

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"I LOVE THIS COMPANY! HARRRRRRG!!!!! WORSHIP ME AS A GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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posted 08-04-2001 11:11            

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I would like to call that unusual...but..uhh....I worked at Best Buy for six months, and the management had to actually act like THAT to get the damn salespeople to WORK. Ph34r does amazing things.

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posted 08-04-2001 11:55            

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I can't get it dammit! Has the page been removed?

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posted 08-04-2001 12:33            

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Hey I can't get it to play with Windows Media Player...funny how that happens.

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posted 08-04-2001 13:21            

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I got that too, but it opened with Quicktime 5 okay.

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posted 08-04-2001 16:06            

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Ok, it worked that time... scary...

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posted 08-05-2001 09:46            

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i'm getting some weird things with that video as well. it seems that i can download it into my cache from ie all i want and view it, but as soon as i try to save it to disk and play it, it wont play until i reboot.

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posted 08-05-2001 12:05           

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I reckon it must have been part of some Planet of the Apes promotional tie-in. :)
Also, I think it may have been originally made public by a uk site called NTK, credit where credit's due.

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posted 08-05-2001 12:50            

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i'm not sure when ntk posted their video, but it also appears to be broken the way the mpeg on here was. that's why weis and i converted it to a divx and changed the post. if you cant get the ballmer video to play right, go download the divx version and enjoy it all day long

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posted 08-05-2001 21:22            

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Just got the new version. Won't play with WMP or QT5. ??

fen

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posted 08-05-2001 21:37            

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Sure you have the DivX codec, fen? It's not one that WMP will download automatically, you have to search the net for it.

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posted 08-05-2001 22:17            

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Which version of media player? It plays fine in version 6.

Version seven is evil by the way.

=Chris

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posted 08-05-2001 23:50            

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6.4.09. I guess I'll search.

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posted 08-06-2001 00:07            

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Awright, got it. Jesus, that was fucked. Why not have Bill Bennet on a stage in front of college kids yelling, "Whoooo!!!! Drugs are BAD!!! Lemme hear ya! Tell that pusher to go to heck! YEEEEEAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"

fen

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posted 08-06-2001 03:38         

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What's REALLY scary is that MS employees were
actually cheering. I wonder....does MS pay well? In any event, TOO much caffine.

-Marcel

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posted 08-06-2001 06:04            

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....and if you invest in Microsoft, you won't end up living in a VAN down by the RIVER!

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posted 08-06-2001 07:36         

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Originally posted by marcel:
What's REALLY scary is that MS employees were
actually cheering. I wonder....does MS pay well? In any event, TOO much caffine.

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I know a few people who have worked there, in coding positions. Some are ok, but in some departments the stress is so massive you can't even begin to contemplate the horribleness of the work environment. One of my buds I know online couldn't take it anymore and left. According to him, it wasn't his contemporaries as much as his superiors that pushed him over the edge.

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posted 08-06-2001 09:27            

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I've been showing this video clip to everybody, and I do mean EVERYBODY at work today.

Btw, I added a link in the front page post to the DivX 3.11 codec for anybody who needs it.

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posted 08-06-2001 13:35            

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at first i thought it might be cool just to start out at microsoft after college and make some dollars. Then just quit like everyone else. But after that shit.... HA! They can lick a nutsack, that was the most ridiculous thing i have ever seen. The best part is how bad he huffed and puffed after everyone quieted down.. With all that money you think he'd have a personal trainer. and uhhh... "I Love This Company!" thats all he could think of.... man what a sorry thing to say.

P3T3R

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posted 08-06-2001 20:04            

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Better add that to dancing 'tards QUICK!

DO IT

WHY AER j00 STILL HERE DO IT NOW

GO

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posted 08-06-2001 23:03            

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no no... the *best* part is when he hurts his foot on one jump. you can see it when he goes from the right part of the stage to the left the second or third time. he hops up, lands badly, and twists his ankle. he *screams* in pain, throws one hand up in the air, and then *limps* for the next couple of hops to the podium.

i would have paid money to see him fall off the stage

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posted 08-14-2001 11:18           

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rarrr I'm a monstar

-clme

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posted 08-17-2001 15:02            

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Another clip of our favorite sweaty freakshow.

Lifted from FuckedCompany.

That guy needs to chill the fuck out before he has a heart attack.

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