From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 107d55,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gid107d55,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: The great Java showcase (re: 2nd historic mistake) Date: 1997/09/16 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 273151244 References: <5u5m5b$7q6$1@news2.digex.net> <5ue2sn$32g$2@miranda.gmrc.gecm.com> <5v0kta$jdb$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> Organization: New York University Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.java.tech,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-09-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Des said <<> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > One thing sticks in my craw: surveys in Australia, going back 100 years, > have shown that what people _want_ in the media (the newspapers 100 years > ago, TV nowadays) is science/medicine/technology, commerce/politics, and > sport, IN THAT ORDER, with quite a wide gap between the >50% who want science > stories and the <50% who want sport. What we *get* is more and more and more > sport. I believe British surveys show much the same order of preference, > with much the same total disregard of user preference in what actually gets > shown.>> Sorry, Robert Dewar did not write that (nothing sticks in his craw, it is not a phrase he would use :-) :-) SO, you need to check attributions here.