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From: Wes Groleau on 27 May 2010 18:58
This has nothing to do with John's question, but I found it amusing.

My employer sent me to a "training session" at a Microsoft facility
(quotes because it was really just a sales pitch). Afterward, I asked
one of the Microsoft suits how to get to the main library downtown in
that city. After fiddling for five minutes with whatever they called
their map service back then, he looked around, said, "Don't tell anybody
I used the G-word" and went to maps.google.com

(No, I never promised not to tell)

--
Wes Groleau

In any formula, constants (especially those obtained
from handbooks) are to be treated as variables.
From: dorayme on 27 May 2010 21:14
In article <htmtfk$mvu$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote:

> This has nothing to do with John's question, but I found it amusing.
>
> My employer sent me to a "training session" at a Microsoft facility
> (quotes because it was really just a sales pitch). Afterward, I asked
> one of the Microsoft suits how to get to the main library downtown in
> that city. After fiddling for five minutes with whatever they called
> their map service back then, he looked around, said, "Don't tell anybody
> I used the G-word" and went to maps.google.com
>
> (No, I never promised not to tell)

A helicopter was flying around above Seattle
yesterday when an electrical malfunction disabled
all of the aircraft's electronic navigation and
communications equipment. Due to the clouds and
haze, the pilot could not determine the
helicopter's position and course to steer to the
airport. The pilot saw a tall building, flew
toward it, circled, drew a hand-written sign, and
held it in the helicopter's window. The pilot's
sign read "WHERE AM I?" in large letters. People
in the tall building quickly responded to the
aircraft, drew a large sign, and held it in a
building window. Their sign read "YOU ARE IN A
HELICOPTER." The pilot smiled, waved, looked at
his map, determined the course to steer to SEATAC
airport, and landed safely. After they were on the
ground, the copilot asked the pilot how the "YOU
ARE IN A HELICOPTER" sign helped determine their
position. The pilot responded "I knew that had to
be the MICROSOFT building because, similar to
their help-lines, they gave me a technically
correct but completely useless answer."

--
dorayme
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