Gary_Yngve Posted July 6, 2005 Posted July 6, 2005 I just got an email that really irked me. The SIGGRAPH Exhibition was boasting that they have the largest number of companies showing up since 9/11/01. What the heck does 9/11 have to do with the computer industry? NOTHING. How about claiming "the most companies since the DOW dropped below 10000?" That sounds a little more relevant for me. Maybe I should start going around saying, "This is the best the team has played since 9/11." "This is the least bugs Windows has had since 9/11." "Baby, you're the best lay I've had since 9/11." Quote
KaskadskyjKozak Posted July 6, 2005 Posted July 6, 2005 What the heck does 9/11 have to do with the computer industry? I heard Bin Laden submitted a paper on a new heuristic for the Travelling Salesman Problem. Quote
JoshK Posted July 7, 2005 Posted July 7, 2005 What the heck does 9/11 have to do with the computer industry? I heard Bin Laden submitted a paper on a new heuristic for the Travelling Salesman Problem. LOL Quote
Ireneo_Funes Posted July 7, 2005 Posted July 7, 2005 Is this a conference or a trade show that you're talking about? If it is, I'm pretty sure attendance at those types of things dropped off pretty substantially after 9/11, so it wouldn't be totally irrelevant to make the comparison. That's not to say that you don't hear a lot of spurious stuff attributed to 9/11 or the pre/post-9/11 "world." In my business (magazine publishing), I heard ad sales people using 9/11 as an excuse for not meeting their sales goals for more than 2 years afterwards. At first it sounded reasonable, then it sounded lame, and finally it started sounding a little blasphemous. Quote
knotzen Posted July 7, 2005 Posted July 7, 2005 I heard Bin Laden submitted a paper on a new heuristic for the Travelling Salesman Problem. Now, I heard it was a new heuristic for the Travelling Terrorist Problem. Hm, wonder which it was... Quote
KaskadskyjKozak Posted July 7, 2005 Posted July 7, 2005 I heard Bin Laden submitted a paper on a new heuristic for the Travelling Salesman Problem. Now, I heard it was a new heuristic for the Travelling Terrorist Problem. Hm, wonder which it was... Ah, yes, that's right, a mobile computing problem... Quote
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