<![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From? - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From? - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> A server hums in the dead of night..
father's HD collection of Faith in Bed wrapped tight
in encryption so that Mommy can't see
the way she wraps her mammaries with glee.

hahaha priceless!
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]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> Talk about great marketing.... This is too funny! I can't believe this actually exists lol
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]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> @OMG! Ponies!: Genius. You ever been to Berkeley CA?

solOptimus

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> And if Daddy wishes to avoid sleeping in the sofa, that gift can come only from de Veers.

Seriously, this is really silly. So far the "what do people do on offices" and "why they say bad words" is the only thing true.

whiskey

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> Holy Crap! I have to buy this! As a joke my wife just bought a book for the baby we're expecting, titled "This little piggy went to Prada" (We're having a girl). This would be great next to that! That is, IF I'll still be able to afford a new server when my daughter learns from my wifes book.

Wickyd

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> I'm sorry but, someone needs to be shot for this.

MiserJ

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> @Guard: This book is not just meant for adults. It's bigger than that. It no less than the "Uncle Tom's Cabin" of the technological age, a coming of age parable in which the Server is a metaphor for the domestication, enslavement, and ultimate emancipation of technology. When "Server" becomes the N word of the 21st century, Tom O'Conner its Harriet Wilson, and you wake up one morning to find that you are the one living in a box and delivering funsies to your silicon overlords, I doubt you'd be so quick to dismiss their nascent plight with your nervous laughter. Respect, bro, for the coming age, and the new generation of children's books that come with it.

frigg

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> The book is meant for adults and is meant as a humorous advertisement for Windows Home Servers. I think a lot of people are mistaking this as a serious kids book (from some comments on here, and Digg).

Guard

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> "Why is there a server in the house?"

Isn't this what people were saying about Romney's undocumented illegal alien domestic assistants?

scarbrtj

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> @teqsun.com: No, it's a real attempt by Microsoft to indoctrinate our youth into "The Microsoft Way."

Gev

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> that site must be getting slammed....slooooooooooooow.

mthrndr

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> Here's the first half: [www.stayathomeserver.com]

Adam Rock

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> @ddrager: you beat me by 10 minutes.

Adam Rock

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> This is a real book: [www.amazon.com]

From an Amazon review: "...this book is part of a very clever $10 million ad campaign for the Windows Home Server made by HP. The book, by a fictitious psychologist, can be read in its entirely at stayathomeserver com"

Funny but scary.

Adam Rock

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> Even amazon is in on it!

[Amazon's product page]

It's a clever marketing campaign, you must admit!

ddrager

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> @georgi55: "Route my ethernet, bitch!!"

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> lol you guys have no sense of humor at all

Oz

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> PLEASE tell me this is a joke. It was good up untill the point of friends making fun of you because of the server... come on!

teqsun.com

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> @evilbit:
you win the comments.

lmao

werk

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> Oh look, I found a draft version of the book from before it went to press. I guess they had to change it to keep from annoying certain parties...

EvilBit

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> @CURVES

I am all for male and female equality, but comments like yours are what bug me.
What should have MS done? Make Mom the installer? Then it would be sexist again, wouldn't it? Create two version? Say "Mom/Dad wants to make Dad/Mom happy" (please circle your situation)? Geez!

georgi55

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> workingonyourinvoice... yeah, but I thought I was just a pervert.

allegedlyyours

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> Here is their TV commercial for the same prouduct:
adsoftheworld.com/media/tv/microsoft_home_server_family

adsoftheworld

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> What's wrong with this picture?

"Daddy wants to give Mommy a special gift."
...
"He does it all by himself."

ideaman2020

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> Here is their TV commercial for the same product:
[adsoftheworld.com]

adsoftheworld

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> @OMG!!! Ponies!!!:
Damn! beat me to my copy of Everybody poops. And the lesser know, "Everybody poops but you".


Out2gtcha

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> Anybody else notice something a little... ...odd about the 14th picture?

workingonyourinvoice

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> A server hums in the dead of night..
father's HD collection of Faith in Bed wrapped tight
in encryption so that Mommy can't see
the way she wraps her mammaries with glee.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> But here's the real punchline:

[hardware.slashdot.org]

maier_m

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> I'm wondering if it's really necessary, but I think it has to be made clear once again that this is not a book intended to be read by or at children. It's an advertisement campaign targeted at people who think about buying a Windows Home Server, folks. Nobody at Microsoft wants parents to buy this for their kids. Funny that many people here don't get it that MS just makes a hilarious ad campaign.

hanswurst0815

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> Can't believe this got leaked! - it's an internal document for Ballmer so that he can understand how to sell MS products now Bill is gone.

MINI Driver

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> @frigg: Loved this law!

Palestina

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> @cid404: And what happens when the Macintosh comes down with Kernel Panic? Or when it gets colicy and throws up beach balls all the time? Or when it gets a point upgrade and breaks some of its programs?

Who's going to take care of Baby Macintosh then?

OMG! Ponies!

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> See Daddy install the Stay-At-Home-Server.
See Daddy get frustrated.
See Daddy Get Angry.
See Daddy screaming at the offshore tech support person on the phone.
See Daddy smash the server with a hammer.
See Mommy buy a new Macintosh.
See Steve Jobs smile.
And they all lived happily ever after.

cid404

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> You know that when you see "mommy and daddy" behind the computer screen, they are looking at porn. YOU KNOW THEY ARE!!!

pliSkiNAKE

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> Ha-Ha. She's a loooooser. Servers are for the office not the home!

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> @frigg: And let's not forget Gizmodo's Law:

"The speed and force of the Ban Hammer is directly in proportion to the level of obnoxiousness, nitpickiness, and inanity of the grammar correction."

OMG! Ponies!

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> @Curves: Oh, so you want to do ALL the work! Why didn't you just say so? That being said, why is MS assuming so much about parenting? I dunno, maybe social stigma? After all we're not Europe.

bbfreak

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> @WriterWriter: Are you familiar with the anti-grammar-Nazi internet dictum commonly referred to as "Frigg's Law"? (Any similarity between my own name and the so-called "Frigg's Law" is purely coincidental):
.
"Frigg's Law:
 Anyone who corrects someone else's grammar on the internet has a greater than 90% chance of 1) being wrong, 2) including grammatical mistakes of their own in the text of the purported correction, or 3) being a dick. The more the grammar-corrector pursues their correction in a thread, the closer that percentage approaches 100%."

frigg

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> This thing reads like it was written by the AI voice from portal.

lpranal

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> I was going to comment about the other comments but all I really want to know is where can I get this book. I read to my children every night and this just seems like a great way to screw them up more.

Hyruu

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> @Curves: Maybe it's because Windows installs are little more than babysitting. I think it's very forward thinking - let Daddy do the babysitting for a change. It's high time he watches the server. Sure, he'd rather be wasting time with his friends on the 360, but parenting is about teamwork and Daddy needs to contribute more.

Maybe Daddy should change the install disc every so often. Or take time off from work to take care of the server when it comes down with a virus. There's no reason that all the defragging and clean installs and partitioning should be done by Mommy.

But, if it's really that important to you, fine - you can hold your own damned door and do your own Windows install. If you need Daddy, he'll be on the couch, being his regular "useless-as-tits-on-a-bull" self.

PS - Maybe you should read "Linux Has Two Admins" instead.

OMG! Ponies!

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> @WriterWriter: dick

cmsjustin

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> What's odd is I actually learned a lot. I'm pretty technical, and work with servers all day, yet I didn't realize that you can use remote access to view your pictures and movies. Maybe it's too early.

cmsjustin

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> Why is they assume Dad does the server install? I am a Mom and I do all the hardware/software installs, upgrades and maintenance at my house. Its so 1950's for MS to assume all parenting is done by couples, and for that matter, that parenting couples are made up of only a male and female.

Curves

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> Disturbing. Who cares if the kids understand a server in the house? They stay chained up in the backyard anyways. What us guys really need is a book that justifies buying a server to our WIVES. Just stick Fabio on the cover and they'll read it.

wolfsingleton

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> It's a joke, but you can't really blame people for not expecting that from Microsoft. Still, it will probably show up somewhere in a year or so's time as fact. after all that am how the internets works.

mswake

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> That was hilarious!!

thehackerdude

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> @WriterWriter: Boil that dust speck!

Maybe if this were some kind of high-fallutin' literary blog spelling would mean more, but this is the internet.

Mentioning spelling here is like standing on a corner yelling at the way people tie their shoes.

The shoes are on? You get the point of whatever they're saying?

Super!

strider_mt2k

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> @ QUENTINR

Umm some of us women would get much more excited over a server than a trip to a spa. Surely you are not suggesting that all women are alike. I happen to be a computer geek from the beginning and a gamer to boot (though mostly pc gaming). :p Ok, I do admit to being a sucker for roses tho. ;)

jewels1958

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> @WriterWriter: My fellow geeks unite, kill the grammar Nazi!

bbfreak

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> That's some disturbing stuff. Any child who is forced to read that will grow up really messed up.

Jesse in Japan

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> That book is evil, pure evil I tell ya! We have to burn it!

DaSmith

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> '...it bugs me, and as your all brilliant geeks...'

Never use a comma before 'and' simple rules are the easiest to forget. Also another one that most people forget is 'never pick at someone else's grammar in a thread, you will crash and burn.'

ThePod

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> Daddy got the Server pre-loaded with Vista Home Server so *he* wouldn't have to keep saying "Yes" and "Ok" to all of Mommy's "requests".

M: "Recycle the trash!"
WHS: "Ok."
M: "Oh honey, this Server is the best gift ever!"
WHS: "Windows needs your permission to continue"
M: "Honey?!"





etherknot

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> @WriterWriter:
...or it could have been "lives" as in he still resides in his parent's basement and "got [himself] fired" as in he brought it on himself.

"Ok. this is off topic but it bugs me"
A capital "T" might have been appropriate for a grammar Nazi such as yourself.

nya-chama

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> It is a real book and it is a real viral campaign and we're now all part of it. Of course it's meta-advertising.

lianna_g

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> Ok. this is off topic but it bugs me, and as you're all brilliant geeks, I'll get it off my chest. The first comment:
"Bill did say the first thing he thinks about when he wakes up are the children."

This is grammatical suicide... The first THING(one thing. Singular)he thinks about... IS...." You're talking about the thing, not the children.

And this: "...i bet this the (what?) author was bullied when he was little, grew up, live in his mom's basement and got fired from his office work...."
Capitalise "I". Please.
...lived (past tense).
...got fired... No, WAS fired. Got equals received.

Spelling errors all over the place.... Is poor grammar the hallmark of geeks? Say it's not so!

WriterWriter

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> "Offices are why people get grumpy and say bad words."

I hear that... haha

Trowble (XBL/PSN)

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> @Seiven: With that opinion I hope you never get kids! lol... (joke)

seriously... that book is very disterbing... even thou its for sure just a joke..

D_Zarster

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> And their kids might even make fun of you!
But that's okay. You know why?

Because when you're grownup and driving your BMW to work at your job as a VP of IT Systems, they'll already be at work emptying your trash cans into that big, smelly truck they ride around on doing their job!

allenjnl

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> Wow daddy is just SO smart. He installed a COMPUTER by him self! Wow! It's not like a 12 year old couldn't have done the same thing!

Ulquiorra Schiffer

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> It may not be a real book but it is a real Viral Campaign and you are part of it

MONSTERGOC

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> Oh this isn't real?
Oh no!

strider_mt2k

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> cute. for those who don't seem to realize, this is a complete joke... check out the 3rd pic in the gallery.

manguero

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> OMG BEST BABY BOOK EVER...I am so getting this for my first kid

Seiven

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> amazing read. i really want my daddy to buy me a windows home server. is it compatible with macs?

vanstuke

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> I'm still wavering between amused and disturbed.

Mandatory_Field

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> So at Macworld will there be the X-Serve Comic Book? That would be kind of exciting to see. "All of a sudden, the Xserve shoots it hard drives at the evil Bill-o-tron!"

jmurph05

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> Jesus H. Christ

elint6

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> But then one day daddy shared a song he shouldn't have...

Mommy, why are there federal investigators in the house?
Where are they taking our server?

Where are they taking daddy??

strider_mt2k

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> i bet this the author was bullied when he was little, grew up, live in his mom's basement and got fired from his office work and wrote this book. this book is just wrong all over

UltimateIdiot

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> [www.stayathomeserver.com] << it's there too :)

Cullen D

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> "Mommy and Daddy can share they're BDSM bisexual pic - omg forgot to turn the sharing off on this - with Grampa!!! I bet he and your school friends will love it!"

Palestina

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> Yeah this is brilliant. Think Different indeed!

dna

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> lol, this could be the best marketing I've ever seen come out of MS

werk

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> "You know why your daddy needs a home server? To store that PORN he loves to watch when he's back from that boring office fulfilled with servers with more PORN."

Palestina

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> I'll put this by my Dapper Drake copy of Everybody Poops.

OMG! Ponies!

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> this is pretty funny. It baically says that your parents don't love you if you don't have a server.
I think godwhacker & quentinr already covered the rest of my comment.

mferrari

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> "Mommy" is his eighty-seventh book? Is it jus me or does this sound a little bit wrong?

Simpsons-Movie-ruled

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> @jbhitter24:
that line alone makes this book worth buying. it's like an easter egg, in print format!

willyolio

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> Lol - Mommy - why does timmy have a server and I don't? Doesn't daddy love you? Mommmy?!?

Ellomdian

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> Why would "Daddy" buy "Mommy" a stupid server to show his affection? Roses or a trip to the spa would be better and the "Daddy" would get something in return...in the bedroom.

quentinr

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> *smells like

jbhitter24

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> your uncle that sells like bark.

jbhitter24

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> "a special gift" eh?

well, i did buy the girlfriend a laptop, and then she gave me "a special gift"

godwhacker

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> Next they should write about the grinch who stole macworld while the apple hoos carved their macpro-beef

tempest811

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> the fact that this actually exists is almost disturbing.

However, it did give many lulz.

bobide

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?]]> Bill did say the first thing he thinks about when he wakes up are the children.

nocar

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