"Helisoft" - or, "how to know it when you're in la-la land...."
A helicopter was flying around above Seattle 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. The pilot saw a tall building, flew toward it, circled, and held up a handwritten sign that said "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 said "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 he had done it.
"I knew it had to be the Microsoft Building, because they gave me a technically correct but completely useless answer."
This joke courtesy of Comedy Central's Joke of the Day.... (although they call it "Helisoft" :P)
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Quote of the day - the automobile, vs the computer
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
- Robert X. Cringely
Note about the "exploding once a year" thing - we probably need to update that with our current knowledge of the current family of Windows operating systems! I'll bet it's more than once a year... ;) Oh, and of course, this only applies to the Microsoft family of operating systems...
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