From deluded@media.mit.edu Tue Aug 2 09:44:18 1994 Received: from argus.cso.uiuc.edu by ux4.cso.uiuc.edu with SMTP id AA03585 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Tue, 2 Aug 1994 09:44:17 -0500 Received: by argus.cso.uiuc.edu id AA24602 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for roth@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu); Tue, 2 Aug 1994 09:44:14 -0500 Received: from media.mit.edu (media-lab.media.mit.edu) by argus.cso.uiuc.edu with SMTP id AA16149 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Tue, 2 Aug 1994 09:44:12 -0500 Received: by media.mit.edu (5.57/DA1.0.4.amt) id AA03020; Tue, 2 Aug 94 10:44:12 -0400 X-Ph: V4.3@argus.cso.uiuc.edu From: Ronald Schmelzer Message-Id: <9408021444.AA03020@media.mit.edu> Subject: ms joke (fwd) To: U59965@uicvm.bitnet (Martinoff; Richard), roth@uiuc.edu (Mark; Roth), navaho@nwu.edu (Squooshy; Nyerpa) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 94 10:44:12 EDT Status: RO Forwarded message: >From daemon Mon Aug 1 23:29:54 1994 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 23:29:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Nicolas Saint-Arnaud Subject: ms joke To: big-phun@media.mit.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII There was this pilot flying a small single engined charter plane, with a couple of really important execs on board. He's coming into Seattle airport only there is thick fog, less thatn 10m visibility and his instruments are out. So he circles around looking for landmarks. After an hour or so, he's pretty low on fuel and the passengers are getting very nervous. At last in a small opening in the fog he sees a tall building with one guy working alone on the fifth floor. The pilot banks the plane around and winds down the window and shouts to the guy "Hi, where am I?" to which the solitary office worker replies "You're in a plane " The pilot winds up the window, executes a 275 degree turn and proceeds to execute a perfect blind landing on the runway of the airport 5 miles away. Just as the plane stops, so does the engine as the fuel has run out. The passengers are amazed and one asks how he did it. "Simple" replies the pilot, "I asked the guy in that building a simple question. The answer he gave me was 100 percent correct but absolutely useless, therefore that must be Microsoft's support office and from there the airport is just a five miles away" -- "Announcing a product that didn't exist, developing it on the model of the best version available elsewhere, demonstrating an edition that didn't fully work, and finally releasing the product in rather buggy form after a lengthy delay: The history of BASIC was one that would repeat itself at Microsoft again and again. " - "Gates",S. Manes & P. Andrews Ronald Schmelzer, GCS/AT d? -p+ c++(+++) l++ u++ e+/* m* s n--- -f+/* g+ w+++ t++(+++) r y** [l+++ wanna be]