Gary_Yngve Posted July 6, 2005 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaskadskyjKozak Posted July 6, 2005 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshK Posted July 7, 2005 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ireneo_Funes Posted July 7, 2005 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knotzen Posted July 7, 2005 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaskadskyjKozak Posted July 7, 2005 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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