Zachyceno v usenet news ...

From: Jan Kasprzak <kas@FORESTA.CZ>
Subject: Zachyceno v usenet news ...
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 15:42:36 +0200

Next Article (by Subject): Re: Zachyceno v usenet news ... Karel Hajek
Previous Article (by Subject): Re: your mail Marek Andricik
Next in Thread: Re: Zachyceno v usenet news ... Karel Hajek
Articles sorted by: [Date] [Subject]

        Omlouvam se za off-topic, ale nemohl jsem se ubranit ...
 
        Firma Microsoft a jeji produkt Windows 95 pravdepodobne
hodlaji zpusobit revoluci v kosmologii. Jeden muj spolupracovnik
objevil v comp.infosystems.gis nasledujici prispevek:
 
: Tony Gill (akg@lhlg.nt.gov.au) wrote:
: : Just received the latest marketting blurb from Microsoft about Windows 95.
: : The following quote comes from the first page:
:
: :         "A world, some 40 thousand kilometres in
: :         circumference, circles its sun in a perfect
: :         sweep that takes 24 hours, precisely."
:
: About 20 years ago I meant an elderly person in Canada (who never had the
: opportunity for an education) that insisted the world was flat.  About the
: same time while overseas I met a group of people without the benefit of
: any education that also believed the world was flat. In each case the
: value of education did not seem to bother their financial needs which was
: better then mine.  Perhaps MicroSoft is in the same "world" as these
: people.  If so, perhaps the world is flat!
:
[...]
: Well, if the earth was the centre of the universe, much like Microsoft
: believe they are, then the sun would circle the earth every 24 hours.
: Unfortunately, the realities are that the earth circles the sun at a much
: slower pace of 365 and a bit days. But then again why should reality spoil
: a good story!
: Of course they have already started working on their next OS which
: should fix the above problem. I can imagine how screwed up the desktop
: calendar must get.
: I hear it is codenamed 'Copernicus'  ;-)
:
 
        S pozdravem
 
-Yenya
 
--
Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak, E-mail kas@foresta.cz, WWW http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/
[[[[   System Administrator at Foresta SG, a.s. (tel: +42-5-45213696)   ]]]]
[[[[      Linux Czech WWW Page:  http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/linux/      ]]]]
``I _like_ using goto's every once in a while:  it can often mess up the gcc
optimizer just enough to get better code out of it.''       --Linus Torvalds

Go to listserv.cesnet.cz LWGate Home Page.