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Solar System Folder
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In article <[email protected]>
[email protected] (Terry Jinn) writes:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> [email protected] (Christopher Ott) wrote:
>
>> NASA DISCOVERS SOLAR SYSTEM FOLDER
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>> PASADENA - In a hastily called news conference at the Jet Propulsion
>> Laboratory today, NASA scientists announced the discovery of a System
>> Folder at the center of the Sun. The operating system at the heart of the
>> 5-billion-year-old star appears to be a version of Macintosh System 6.
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>> Astronomers as early as Johannes Kepler in the 16th century speculated
>> that the Solar Operating System was a variant of Microsoft DOS or Windows,
>> because none of the known planets had names exceeding eight characters.
>> This pattern continued with the discovery of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto,
>> but Mac-centric astronomers pointed out that the names of the planets lack
>> three-character extensions. "It's just Jupiter," said Dr. Maxine Beckwith
>> of the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, "not Jupiter.pln".
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>> In recent years, more scientists were led toward believing that the Mac OS
>> lies at the center of the Solar System by the Sun's apparent inability to
>> multitask. Speculation that the Solar System might be version 7.0 or
>> higher, however, was ruled out by the unavailability of Balloon Help.
>>
>> NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin was reluctant to draw conclusions about
>> the operating systems driving other stars, but Beckwith attributed the
>> lack of solid evidence for intelligent life beyond the Earth to the
>> predominant market share of Microsoft Windows.
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> Huh. I would have thought the solar system ran on Solaris. Oh well,
> truth is stranger than fiction. Or is it?!
>
> Terry Jinn
> [email protected]
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Next generation suites, I predict, won't look anything like Office 97.
Instead, they'll consist of a core "engine" or "dashboard" into which you
plug various components. . . . Does this spell doom for Microsoft and its
suite? Not necessarily. . . . [But] This is the last time they'll get away
with bloatware like Office 97.
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