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From: Rich Gauszka <gauszka@-nospam-hotmail.com>

Well at least I didn't fall for the iLaunch.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/59345?

AN FRANCISCO—At a highly anticipated media event Tuesday at San Francisco's
Moscone Center, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs introduced a new Apple product he
said would "revolutionize" the process of unveiling new products throughout the
world.

The iLaunch, as the new product is called, was then raised up from below the
stage, prompting the audience of technology journalists, developers, and
self-professed "Apple fanatics" to burst into a five-minute standing ovation.

Described in its patent filing as a "hype-generating mechanism with fully
integrated Mac compatibility," the iLaunch is powered by Intel dual-core
processors optimized to calculate a product's gravitas. Apple claims the
iLaunch can garner the same amount of press attention as a major scientific
discovery, high court ruling, celebrity meltdown, or natural disaster at 200
times the speed of a traditional media-fostered launch.

"If you want to condition the public to liken your product to the telephone and
the internal combustion engine in importance, that's now possible with
iLaunch," Jobs said. "And it's so easy, even an intern can use it."


"For too long, hands-on, maverick CEOs have devoted their valuable time to
strutting around on stage and breathlessly describing the features of their new
products, in the process encouraging cults of personality that could have a
detrimental long-term effect on their companies," Jobs said. "Apple's goal
within the next 12 months is to make me totally obsolete."

This comment earned the Apple CEO another, slightly longer, standing ovation.


Post-launch reaction has been even more ecstatic.

"Before today, I couldn't imagine paying $12,000 for a product-unveiling
product," CNET editor Jasmine France said after the presentation. "Now I can't
imagine living without it."

Shortly after Jobs' address, Microsoft announced that they are working on a
similar product, the Launch-O, due to debut in 2009.


Tim Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:11:17 -0500, mike <mike@barkto.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:13:18 -0500, Rich Gauszka
>> <gauszka@-nospam-hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If true the 'INTERCAL' story is hillarious
>> Too close to April 1 for my tastes.
>>
>> m
>
> You think?  :)
>
> "INTERCAL was inspired by one ambition: to have a compiler language which has
> nothing at all in common with any other major language."
>
> Already we have encountered one way that INTERCAL differs from other
languages
> - it doesn't like being bossed around. You can't just tell it to 'DO, DO,
DO'.
> If you want it to respond nicely you will have to say 'PLEASE' at least 1/5th
> of the time. However INTERCAL will not stand for brown-nosing either, so
don't
> say PLEASE more than 1/3rd of the time. To assist in INTERCAL programming
there
> is an intercal.el Emacs mode included with the distribution that randomly
> expands 'DO ' to 'PLEASE DO ' 1/4th of the time. Apart from good manners,
there
> is no semantic difference between 'DO', 'PLEASE DO' or simply 'PLEASE'.

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