“The assault on reason isn’t just a political phenomenon. Microsoft has long been developing its own cast of apologists who have eked out full time careers in the field of sputtering out ignorant, unfounded claims with such insistence and volume that the undecided simply have no alternative but to line up and applaud their seemingly convincing rhetoric. Among them is George Ou, who unsurprisingly blogs for CNET’s ZDNet branded website,” Daniel Eran writes for RoughlyDrafted.
“Take Microsoft’s need for constant, high pitched spin to detract from its grave mistakes and regular failures and combine it with ZDNet’s unapologetically desperate brand of sensational headline writing, and you have fertile ground for arrogant morons ready and willing to say anything and everything. High up on the moron pile is George Ou, a blogger billed as a ‘Technical Director of ZDNet,'” Eran writes.
Eran writes, “It’s not just technical issues that Ou fails to grasp. After readers questioned his use of the word ‘couple’ to refer to a half dozen, Ou answered, ‘Learn English: A few would mean 1-3. A couple would mean 4-9.'”
Eran writes, “Ou’s reputation as a shoddy writer of fact-refuting, intellectually embarrassing misinformation earns both him and ZDNet the dishonor of a Zoon award nomination for spectacularly bad work in promoting the regression of human achievement.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “RadDoc” for the heads up.]
George Ou has one rare, remarkable, and routinely-employed talent: he can make Rob Enderle look like a tech genius.
And someone would read Ou’s blog because…
… ot the need to cure a bad case of constipation, perhaps?
… of a need to find examples of invalid reasoning for a class?
… of terminal boredom?
Aha! All of the above.
“. . . he can make Rob Enderle look like a tech genius.”
Unpossible! But they would make a nice couple.
<<After readers questioned his use of the word ‘couple’ to refer to a half dozen, Ou answered, ‘Learn English: A few would mean 1-3. A couple would mean 4-9.'”>>
This is the funniest explanation I’ve ever read. On the other hand, maybe English isn’t his first language. Or second. Or third.
In the words of the immortal Bugs Bunny: “What a maroon!”
“. . . he can make Rob Enderle look like a tech genius.”
“Unpossible! But they would make a nice couple.”
Only if they could find 2-7 more people…
Here’s another one:
Microsoft Hires Lobbyist for Visa Issues
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070824/microsoft_lobbying.html?.v=1
They just can’t write good software so they have to do everything but to stay relevant.
so, one shill is outing another shill?
shill police, Dan isn’t a shill. He may be a fan and his writing is about Apple but he also presents FACTS about history about everything he writes. He obviously doesn’t like MS, but he doesn’t just spout off random bullshit about them to spread lies/rumors.
So, hush, you’re mistaken here.
oooooo…. that means it will take a half dozen more wives before I can be part of a happy couple!
Naaa.. there are times one is too much. That’s when I need a couple stiff drinks.
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He’s right.
A few would mean 1-3. A couple would mean 4-9.
Several means 2.
What’s the problem?
How many is a dozen?
How many is a dozen?
Thats easy.
A “bunch”.
George who?
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four”
That’s multifaceted, think about it.
MagicWord student, still am, always will be.
You mean he’s not correct all the time? I thought he represents Real World IT information? Or does that “IT” means “Idiot Talking”? LOL
I think I’ll have a couple of beers tonight.
“One Dozen”: one to two.
As in, “Microsoft’s latest MS Word update contained about two dozen vulnerabilities.”
– from the ‘Ou Standard Dictionary’
With regard to the word couple, Mr. Ou is so wrong that one cannot help wondering the competence of an editor in allowing such a functional illiterate to write anything for publication.
Don’t think that’s the real C1 above folks. If it is, very odd post for her.
As I have stated a few times on this site, his name is George
ZeroU.
How would your wife take it if you told her:
“Hey honey, you and I are a couple (along with 2 to 7 of your hottest acquaintances)!”
You may not know George but he had a difficult childhood, you see the other kids at school used to laugh at what he said (or rather whenever he opened his mouth) and they called him “oh you” in a derisory tone. Give the poor man a break you so-called hippy all-you-need-is-luv types, he’s only trying to make his way in the world in a honest way. And give the man his due, he’s just trying to emulate the world’s greatest innovator and most successful businessman, our own beloved Bill Gates.
George Ou is Zune Tang.
Get it now?
http://fakebob.blogspot.com/2007/08/dos-puts-vista-font-rendering-to-shame.html
Yeah, I read that article. What an idiot.
Zune Award…. I LOVE it!
Me in LA…
No, no, no. Zune Tang is funny… if you get irony and sarcasm. CLEARLY, you don’t!
Whereas George Ou is a moronic Microsoft shill.