>>7 hours a day. you know what? That's such a load of crap
>>I would say it's quite rare that I'm ever online for more than four hours a day.
Ummm...did anyone else find this amusing? It was as if saying "Hey! I'm not a junkie! I only shoot up a couple of times a day!"
I was sympathetic to his story...until I read that.
As for the NYT report, I have no idea what transpired, and maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle (as it usually is). I DO know several newspaper reporters who after an interview get irrate calls saying:
interviewee: "I didn't say that!"
reporter: "Actually I have it on tape, and my notes...that's exactly what you said word-for-word."
interviewee: "Ok..but... that's not what I meant!"
Conversation, when written out, can end up sounding very different to a reader who is divorced from the event/situation. It happens all the time.
Heard a story from a trade show developer about a big autoshow back in the last 80s. The client wanted a heavy industrial robot (Fanuc style robotic arms) with a video camera to fly around an actual car, go inside, etc. and people around the booth could watch large screen monitors of the action.
The first day, everything works beautifully. That night, the cleaning crew goes in and dusts/cleans the car. Only problem is someone leaves the seat up.
Next morning the crowd gathers and nobody from the booth bothers to check before starting the robotic flyaround. The crowd then gets to watch as the robotic arm smashes through the seat (actually tore it out) and destroys the door.
Not to mention an expensive camera turned to pulp.
Slashdot Mirror
>>7 hours a day. you know what? That's such a load of crap
>>I would say it's quite rare that I'm ever online for more than four hours a day.
Ummm...did anyone else find this amusing? It was as if saying "Hey! I'm not a junkie! I only shoot up a couple of times a day!"
I was sympathetic to his story...until I read that.
As for the NYT report, I have no idea what transpired, and maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle (as it usually is). I DO know several newspaper reporters who after an interview get irrate calls saying:
interviewee: "I didn't say that!"
reporter: "Actually I have it on tape, and my notes...that's exactly what you said word-for-word."
interviewee: "Ok..but... that's not what I meant!"
Conversation, when written out, can end up sounding very different to a reader who is divorced from the event/situation. It happens all the time.
Heard a story from a trade show developer about a big autoshow back in the last 80s. The client wanted a heavy industrial robot (Fanuc style robotic arms) with a video camera to fly around an actual car, go inside, etc. and people around the booth could watch large screen monitors of the action. The first day, everything works beautifully. That night, the cleaning crew goes in and dusts/cleans the car. Only problem is someone leaves the seat up. Next morning the crowd gathers and nobody from the booth bothers to check before starting the robotic flyaround. The crowd then gets to watch as the robotic arm smashes through the seat (actually tore it out) and destroys the door. Not to mention an expensive camera turned to pulp.
Gentlemen, we must not allow an asteroid gap. Otherwise we could lose our way of life and the essence of our precious bodily fluids.