Re: graphics considered harmful (was Re: NYT on Rick Adams and Microsoft)

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Jay Farrell (jayfar@netaxs.com) wrote:
: In article <jeh22.225.00449856@cornell.edu>, jeh22@cornell.edu (Joey Hess)
: wrote:

: > >Brings to mind an ad for Apple extolling the value of multimedia in
: > >school: (paraphrased) You click on the dinosaur, and you get a writeup
: > >on his life and, with another click, you get to hear him roar.
: >
: > >Brilliant.
: >
: > >Who has ever heard a dinosaur roar? In other words, in an encyclodedia
: > >for young children, they are peddling outright fabrications.
: >
: > Who's ever seen a dinosaur?

: SEE ONE??? I used to *own* one! (back before Macs became affordable
: %-)

You're talking about those Sinclair's aren't you...

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Matt Smith
(Who just realized that people who don't have Sinclair filling
stations won't get the joke)

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