上个月，盖茨在2003年的一封邮件被公诸于众。盖茨作为一个普通用户，对Windows系统的易用性进行了猛烈抨击，对产品管理部门解决问题不力进行了强烈质疑。但盖茨老兄没法改变现状。3年后，怪物级操作系统Vista发布了。盖茨是有心杀敌，无力回天。


From: Bill Gates
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:05 AM
To: Jim Allchin
Cc: Chris Jones (WINDOWS); Bharat Shah (NT); Joe Peterson; Will Poole; Brian Valentine; Anoop Gupta (RESEARCH)
Subject: Windows Usability Systematic degradation flame

I am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the program management groups don't drive usability issues.

Let me give you my experience from yesterday.

I decided to download (Moviemaker) and buy the Digital Plus pack ... so I went to Microsoft.com. They have a download place so I went there.

The first 5 times I used the site it timed out while trying to bring up the download page. Then after an 8 second delay I got it to come up.

This site is so slow it is unusable.

It wasn't in the top 5 so I expanded the other 45.

These 45 names are totally confusing. These names make stuff like: C:\Documents and Settings\billg\My Documents\My Pictures seem clear.

They are not filtered by the system ... and so many of the things are strange.

I tried scoping to Media stuff. Still no moviemaker. I typed in movie. Nothing. I typed in movie maker. Nothing.

So I gave up and sent mail to Amir saying - where is this Moviemaker download? Does it exist?

So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated.

They told me to go to the main page search button and type movie maker (not moviemaker!).

I tried that. The site was pathetically slow but after 6 seconds of waiting up it came.

I thought for sure now I would see a button to just go do the download.

In fact it is more like a puzzle that you get to solve. It told me to go to Windows Update and do a bunch of incantations.

This struck me as completely odd. Why should I have to go somewhere else and do a scan to download moviemaker?

So I went to Windows update. Windows Update decides I need to download a bunch of controls. (Not) just once but multiple times where I get to see weird dialog boxes.

Doesn't Windows update know some key to talk to Windows?

Then I did the scan. This took quite some time and I was told it was critical for me to download 17megs of stuff.

This is after I was told we were doing delta patches to things but instead just to get 6 things that are labeled in the SCARIEST possible way I had to download 17meg.

So I did the download. That part was fast. Then it wanted to do an install. This took 6 minutes and the machine was so slow I couldn't use it for anything else during this time.

What the heck is going on during those 6 minutes? That is crazy. This is after the download was finished.

Then it told me to reboot my machine. Why should I do that? I reboot every night -- why should I reboot at that time?

So I did the reboot because it INSISTED on it. Of course that meant completely getting rid of all my Outlook state.

So I got back up and running and went to Windows Update again. I forgot why I was in Windows Update at all since all I wanted was to get Moviemaker.

So I went back to Microsoft.com and looked at the instructions. I have to click on a folder called WindowsXP. Why should I do that? Windows Update knows I am on Windows XP.

What does it mean to have to click on that folder? So I get a bunch of confusing stuff but sure enough one of them is Moviemaker.

So I do the download. The download is fast but the Install takes many minutes. Amazing how slow this thing is.

At some point I get told I need to go get Windows Media Series 9 to download.

So I decide I will go do that. This time I get dialogs saying things like "Open" or "Save". No guidance in the instructions which to do. I have no clue which to do.

The download is fast and the install takes 7 minutes for this thing.

So now I think I am going to have Moviemaker. I go to my add/remove programs place to make sure it is there.

It is not there.

What is there? The following garbage is there. Microsoft Autoupdate Exclusive test package, Microsoft Autoupdate Reboot test package, Microsoft Autoupdate testpackage1. Microsoft AUtoupdate testpackage2, Microsoft Autoupdate Test package3.

Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up.

But that is just the start of the crap. Later I have listed things like Windows XP Hotfix see Q329048 for more information. What is Q329048? Why are these series of patches listed here? Some of the patches just things like Q810655 instead of saying see Q329048 for more information.

What an absolute mess.

Moviemaker is just not there at all.

So I give up on Moviemaker and decide to download the Digital Plus Package.

I get told I need to go enter a bunch of information about myself.

I enter it all in and because it decides I have mistyped something I have to try again. Of course it has cleared out most of what I typed.

I try (typing) the right stuff in 5 times and it just keeps clearing things out for me to type them in again.

So after more than an hour of craziness and making my programs list garbage and being scared and seeing that Microsoft.com is a terrible website I haven't run Moviemaker and I haven't got the plus package.

The lack of attention to usability represented by these experiences blows my mind. I thought we had reached a low with Windows Network places or the messages I get when I try to use 802.11. (don't you just love that root certificate message?)

When I really get to use the stuff I am sure I will have more feedback.

韩国女游客被朝鲜边防军打死，中国媒体在做报道的时候，有大量文章，使用了“击毙”这个说辞，不管是主动的“朝鲜士兵击毙韩国女游客”，还是被动的“韩国女游客被朝鲜士兵击毙”。如果某国家领导人死了，这帮媒体有胆子说“党和国家领导人xxx因病医治无效，于xx年xx月xx日xx时在xx医院毙命”吗？

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%E7%93%AE%E5%AE%89&search_type=

大地方，都还凑合，顶多就有人给自己脑袋上浇点汽油；偏远地方，山高皇帝远，地方政府那种和周围环境反差巨大的办公楼，很容易让人联想起皇宫，民粪就不是一吨两吨了。看看这种场面，如果搁在过去，有人组织一下，再搞点灵异事件，基本就是一个新的“金田起义”了。胡core有压力。他也应该明白，这种事情，靠暴力弹压，就是饮鸩止渴。只是很可惜的是，“和谐”这个挺高尚的名词儿，变成D的纪元口号后，就异变得如此可笑了。官方口径。

那个上场比赛像外星人一样的阿尔沙文彻底人间蒸发了。估计俄罗斯会0：2输球。

ps，决赛会很有意思，西班牙对德国，两个截然不同的风格。

黄健翔总是唧唧歪歪俄罗斯体能好，跑不死，真烦。俄罗斯攻击太犀利了！阿尔沙文太牛了！！俄罗斯有冠军相。

其实10年前金州之后，我就不看国足比赛了。即便是米卢被捧成神仙的那些年月，我也丝毫提不起兴趣。为啥？正如阿黄所说的，中国足球不是你的，也不是我的。那是谁的？是政客的。

我觉得，就这届（还有上届）国家队来说，惨败之后搞教练，是最无聊的。其他国都可以搞，就中国不可以。英格兰08欧洲杯不出线，麦克拉伦家的玻璃被弹弓打成筛子，我都能接受。但杜伊把随军女记者搞成宫外孕，或者拿主力位置卖钱，我觉得都正常，没必要对老杜戳戳点点，乃至秋后算账。为啥？因为杜伊这个人是按照某种利益钦点的，杜伊的决策也是按照某种利益授意的。杀岳飞的是秦桧，但主使的是宋高宗。杜伊充其量也就是个秦桧而已。只是依中国传统，向来是不会问责宋高宗。1000年前如此，1000年后仍无大改观。

所以说，中国足球的窘境，说白了就是中国体制的窘境。什么时候足球能够真正回归娱乐，回归商业，回归人民，而不是做政治的二奶，什么时候中国足球才谈得上“冲出亚洲，走向世界”。否则，就等着空荡荡的看台上，只剩下体育局的一帮子官僚们自娱自乐的那一天吧。

http://news.sina.com.cn/pl/2008-05-30/154315651753.shtml

这个朱有祥估计是5000md，5md中比较有才的。但是，言多有失，这个毛贴表明，“黄土垫道，净水泼街”的光荣传统，原来一直没有丢失啊。有个细节，“火车按工作人员的指示，将专列准确地停在了地毯所在的位置。”大家都是按规矩办事。

温总现在也有一个粉丝团，叫“八宝饭”。

http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_47797919010093te.html

http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_46e7ba41010094go.html

文中提到的“以知性和人性著称的明星主持人”，据说是杨澜。