From the cyberdesk of: rweisend@tuba.aix.calpoly.edu (Bob)
quoted 3 lines kent@cadsi.com (Kent Williams) writes:> >kent@cadsi.com (Kent Williams) writes:
> Doesn't anyone proofread the liners before they print out thousands of
> copies of the mistakes?
Of course not. That would mean that somebody is actually doing their job.
Not to mention the probability of the person with that job having obtained a
college degree at some point in their lives.....makes you think about exactly
how much BS is in a BS. (OK, I'm a GeneX slacker, in case you missed that
little bitter resentment of the "establishment". Don't get me started
about Social (in)Security....)
I've actually gotten return envelopes from McGraw-Hill, a very large
*PUBLISHING* concern, to enclose the payment for books I've ordered. And in
the section on the flap you're supposed to tear off and fill in if you have
any address changes, there are *count 'em*, 7 boxes for your *5-digit* zip
code and since there are only seven, it can't be designed for your
*9-digit* ZIP+4 code either. I would have thought a company whose very
existence is based upon publishing, proofreading, and editing would
have someone able to count the number of digits in a postal ZIP code. Oh,
and the rest of the text clearly indicated the envelope was for US
distribution only, so foreign concerns need not feel we're being US-centric
here. I'm sure they had their own envelopes with 14 boxes....
(Hey, Larry, how many letters in the Rwandan postal code?
Uhhh, I don't think they *have* a postal code anymore. Use six.
R-W-A-N-D-A. Yeah, six is fine.....)
But I digress, hehe....
ObIDM: What happened to the Ambient Dub series? Is #3 the last one?
I apologize in advance if "Ambient Dub" doesn't fit in *your*
definition of "IDM".
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Peterson's 1st rule of programming:
If you can't have it the way you want it, want it some other way.
-mikep@allegro.amf.com
What a truism in the light of our little flap over "true" IDM, eh?
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