In Moe's Humble Opinion
by Moe Comeau, MLMUG's Chief Curmudgeon
Illustrated By Matt Mucha
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Continuing our cartoonists' birthday theme-string, this month we honour the daddy-rabbit of all cartoonists, Walter Elias Disney, born December 5, 1901. The tough part was picking which of his many cartoon creations to immortalize by morphage into Moegoe History.
Pinocchio seemed like a natural and the obvious
Pinocchio pose would be his long lyin' lier's nose. So long, in fact, that to see its surprise ending, you have to
go to the comics page of this newsletter! (Don't forget to come back!)
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Google Research on Lying Liars and Their Lavish Legacy
I cringe every time some pundit brags about having Googled some esoteric query and getting a bajillion and a half hits, implying it's one way-popular subject and the Internet teems with juicy factoids all over it. Yeah, right. At least half a bajillion are dupes, and another quarter hit on the word "the."
Still, if a filial query results in substantially more hits than a sister query, is there not sibling rivalry? Take the word "lie," f'rinstance, and adjectivate it with the names of some of our favourite computer companies, or for that matter, operating systems. Then analyze the hit list.
So, what does that tell us about the relative popularity of lies coming out of Redmond versus Cupertino? Twice as many? Or, that the Mac is only one third as bespoiled as it parent? Yes, children; these are some great truths as spoken by the great Google machine. Windows lies abound at almost 14 million, while Mac OS lies barely top a mere one million. Mac OSX lies top plain old Mac OS lies by 100,000. Exactly. And it matters if you call it Mac OSX rather than Mac OS X (with a space) by 120,000 hits. Or is it that the stand alone "X" just returns that many more results because it's another parameter in the search string? Yes! That's it! Or not. Of course, the word "lies" has multiple meanings. Their respective companies use that word to brag. Apple says, "Beneath the surface of Mac OS X lies an industrial-strength UNIX foundation..."Microsoft says, "Behind Windows Vista Lies a Robust Programming Model Called WinFX..." Go figure. — Moe Comeau |