~ Casimiro de Almeida Barreto spoke thusly on 6/6/99 12:33 PM ~
> When you buy a cigarrete pack it
>is written in big letters that the use of tobaco can cause, amont other
>diseases, cancer. When you see at cigarrete adds you can read the same
>information, when you hear the cigarette adds in the radio, you can read the
>same information, so if you use tobaco, you KNOW that you can get cancer.
>
>The same happens with MS Windows NT: everybody knows that the OS is plagued
>with horrible bugs, that there are several important misconceptions in the
>design of the product, that is is really extremelly fragile to very very
>simple
>attacks and so forth.
Should this be interpreted as a vote for a warning label on the side of
the Windows packaging? Personally, I think it's a great idea!
[mpg]
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Cray's president John Rollwagen phoned Cray's CEO Seymour Cray and told
him that Apple had just purchased a Cray that would be used in designing
the next Macintosh. Seymour thought for a bit, and replied that that
seemed reasonable, since he was using a Macintosh to design the next
Cray!
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