Business Graphics - Popular with managers who understand neither decimals,
fractions, Roman numerals, nor PI but have more than a passing
acquaintance with pies and bars.
-- From the Government Computer News, November 21, 1988 Issue
fractions, Roman numerals, nor PI but have more than a passing
acquaintance with pies and bars.
-- From the Government Computer News, November 21, 1988 Issue
Related:
- Windows - A method of dividing a computer screen into two or more unusably tiny
portions.
From the Government Computer News, November 21, 1988... - Word Processor - Software that magically transforms its user into a
professional author.
From the Government Computer News, November 21, 1988... - Spreadsheet - A program that gives the user quick and easy access to a wide
variety of highly detailed reports based on highly inaccurate assumptions.
From the Government Computer News, November 21, 1988... - Integrated Software - A single product that deftly performs hundreds of
functions the user never needs and awkwardly performs the half-dozen he
uses constantly.
From the Government Computer News, November 21, 1988... - Database Manager - A program that allows the user to manipulate data in every
conceivable way except the absolutely essential one he or she conceives
of the day after entering 20 Megabytes of raw data.
From the Government Computer News, November 21, 1988... - Programming graphics in X is like finding sqrt(pi) using Roman numerals.
Henry... - CRN: Convert to
Roman... - 0459 Have you ever computed pi to more than a thousand decimal places?
0460 ... the number e? -- from THE HACKER... - Since the generality of persons act from impulse much more than from
principle,
men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to...
