bill_carson Posted February 24, 2003 Share Posted February 24, 2003 Good Morning: This photo appeared (almost full-page width) in the feature section of this morning's Seattle Times. The caption was as shown. Do you think that LEICA arranged the free publicity? Regards, Bill<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albert knapp md Posted February 24, 2003 Share Posted February 24, 2003 If Leica did, then a brilliant move as Steve Balmer is the heart of Microsoft. Ironic that a computer executive is actually fiddling with and dare say I, perhaps even considering "yesterday's" technology....... (:>))))) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil_parker Posted February 24, 2003 Share Posted February 24, 2003 Before you base any buying decisions on this you might want to view the famous <A HREF="http://www.stenstad.net/storage/ballmer_dance.mpg" TARGET="_blank">dancemonkeyboy</A> mpg! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic_. Posted February 24, 2003 Share Posted February 24, 2003 Neil, thanks for the delightful video. Stuff like this is what makes American business #1 in the world! Mr. Ballmer had to have surgery a few years ago because he injured his vocal chords from all his incessant screaming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bert_keuken2 Posted February 24, 2003 Share Posted February 24, 2003 I hope Steve now understands the concept of "less is more". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_kaplan1 Posted February 24, 2003 Share Posted February 24, 2003 Hell, Doc, that ain't no "yesterday's technology" until somebody figures out how to design a better mechanical rangefinder camera! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay_. Posted February 24, 2003 Share Posted February 24, 2003 <<Do you think that LEICA arranged the free publicity?>> Could be...sounds just like Leica's way of marketing--to forget to have someone take the black tape off the nameplates ;>) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_n_f Posted February 24, 2003 Share Posted February 24, 2003 Well, Vic, #1 in volume and obnoxiousness(sic?) anyway. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eliot Posted February 24, 2003 Share Posted February 24, 2003 Hey, how about we change the title of this thread to "Let's bash Steve Balmer for no other reason than that he's a rich white male who is a CEO and owns a lot of Microsoft stock". :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norman_mayersohn Posted February 24, 2003 Share Posted February 24, 2003 Perhaps Mr. Balmer is in the market for a camera company. If you think customer support is spotty now, just wait. And what about electronic shutter glitches with Windows CE calling the shots? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george_b1 Posted February 24, 2003 Share Posted February 24, 2003 Eliot - Nah! Just think - - if he can comprehend a Leica's reliability, he might even comprehand why some of use Macs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majid Posted February 24, 2003 Share Posted February 24, 2003 Before you bash him for owning Microsoft stock, read this <A HREF="http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20001123.html">article</A>. Here is the relevant quote:<P> <BLOCKQUOTE> This rise of Steve Ballmer says as much about Gates as anything. Ballmer's first office at Microsoft was the end of a sofa in Bill's office. He has always been subservient to Bill, and that subservience has been an important aspect of Ballmer's success at Microsoft. When they were students at Harvard, Ballmer and Gates competed for the Putnam national mathematics prize and while neither won, Ballmer scored higher than Gates, a fact that neither man chooses to mention. In his own right, Ballmer once took an individual business risk that pales anything ever accomplished by Gates. In the late 1980s, when Microsoft was approaching the release of Windows 3.0 -- the first version of the software to do more or less what it claimed -- Ballmer borrowed almost $50 million against his Microsoft stock and anything else he owned, and used the money to buy more Microsoft shares. Software tycoons don't do things like this. They sell shares, not buy them. Gates has never bought a single share of Microsoft, but Ballmer did, and the $50 million grew over the following decade to more than $12 billion, earning him the CEO job he has today. That Gates allowed Ballmer to not only succeed him, but to remake Microsoft in Ballmer's image, indicated that Gates was ready to move on to a new level of competition. </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Sounds pretty gutsy to me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gl5 Posted February 24, 2003 Share Posted February 24, 2003 <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134640103_microsoft24.html">Here</a> is the article and a higher quality picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gl5 Posted February 24, 2003 Share Posted February 24, 2003 <img src="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/403074580.jpg"> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gl5 Posted February 24, 2003 Share Posted February 24, 2003 also note the black tape! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markci Posted February 25, 2003 Share Posted February 25, 2003 The guy looks like he's lost a _lot_ of weight. Almost looks unhealthy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majid Posted February 25, 2003 Share Posted February 25, 2003 The article says he lost 50 pounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shambrick007 Posted February 28, 2003 Share Posted February 28, 2003 http://www.ntk.net/media/developers.mpg I wonder if he means Dektol or D-76? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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