Talking business

Shayne White · Post by **Shayne White** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 7:28 am

The joke wasn't funny in this global age of instant reading. Over here on the west coast of the U. States, it was March 31st. I wasn't expecting to be hit with April fools' jokes.

I really do hope Frank is working on PCI-E cards with TigerSharcs for the Mac, though! (Let him take notice....)

Shayne

katano · Post by **katano** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 7:40 am

huub, great fooling

but please could you think about the weak heart of some scope fanatics on wintel in future!

Post by **hubird** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 8:01 am

I'll remember

you're right Shayne, ... this global age of instant reading. Over here on the west coast of the U. States, it was March 31st..
but I had no choice

the coincidence of the Messe ending (without real CW news) and the current date was to good to let go

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:36 am

garyb wrote:nope 4/1/07. get it right.....

I konw yuo ues tihs ssytem oevr tehre, btu wehre is teh lgoic in taht?

Post by **irrelevance** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:01 pm

King of Snake wrote:jesus people, anyone ever heard of april fools day?

Ahhhh Hubert, you got me!!

Post by **hubird** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:18 pm

my pleasure

Post by **garyb** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:23 pm

Post by **hubird** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:31 pm

re-reading the thread it's even more hard to make some of us believe it is not true than the opposite

Shayne White · Post by **Shayne White** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:59 pm

I'm wondering now -- is the fact that Huibird said it's an April Fools' joke in itself an April Fools' joke? Maybe we've all been taken in that it's NOT happening!

We'll have to wait for tomorrow for the REAL truth....

Shayne

Post by **hubird** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 1:18 pm

Post by **hubird** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 1:58 pm

consciousness wasn't far away tho:

Let's wait till frank makes new announcements soon, like he told me to do in a few days, 147 will be a memorable number he said with a grin, but I don't have a clue what that's supposed to mean

-----> grin

ScofieldKid · Post by **ScofieldKid** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 3:53 pm

Wow, that's about the least humorous "joke" I've ever seen. I guess humor is subjective, but I don't see anything really clever or funny about the content of this hoax.

Post by **hubird** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 4:02 pm

now that's funny!

ScofieldKid · Post by **ScofieldKid** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 4:28 pm

Well, I understand that you were *trying* to be funny. So no problem there.

But it's just poor taste. You do an announcement, during Musikmesse, representing for a specific business professional. Just poor taste. But again, like humor, that's subjective.

But the really *funny* part is how un-creative your spoof was. You posted about a completely plausible product. Usually when people do April fool's jokes, they make them hyperbole, i.e. wild enough, that you might guess they are April Fool's jokes.

I was quite aware that it was April 1. But looking at the text, I thought there was no way that someone would do something this lame during MusikMesse. Just lame.

Post by **hubird** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 4:45 pm

ScofieldKid wrote:You posted about a completely plausible product. Usually when people do April fool's jokes, they make them hyperbole, i.e. wild enough, that you might guess they are April Fool's jokes.

I really agree with you about making jokes 'hyperbole' to get them 'justified' or funny.

If you don't see that this was actually the case, then we know on what we disagree

My initial post was totally improbable, in every aspect

From F. Hund letting me make such an important announcement, up to the idea of cards next month already, as well as to the Mac support-first and the immediate abandoning of XP...what do you want more

Hyperboling a joke makes it more funny, definitely true, as those who trap into it fall harder

Timing is even more important.
Thought this was covered by the high expectations and the lack of actual announcements, combined with the very possibility to meet F.H. personaly.
(I wasn't there btw).

Don't wanne look like trying to 'proof' my joke was so funny, I was just asking myself, what thread did you read?

ScofieldKid · Post by **ScofieldKid** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 4:51 pm

Agreed.

It's just a drag, in the background of this. A *lot* of people were hoping that there was going to be a 2nd announcement at MusikMesse this year, and precisely that it would be the road-map for a next-gen PCIe card. So it's just sad. No 2nd announcement.

The Bowen Solaris is an earth-shaker though, so it was a good MusikMesse in any event.

Post by **hubird** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 4:58 pm

I see.
You're too much disappointed to be able or wanting to see the fun of it.

In other threads we already came to the conclusion that it would take at least another year before inDSP will come out with something really new.
Personally I didn't expect so much -if anything- from them now.
The playcards are just husseled, the future has just started, and John -indeed- is the real winner of this stop

cheers

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 5:10 pm

Putting up a bit of back up for Hubird on this one adding to some of the impossible things in this thread. It didn't fool me. 1) There is no way, that Frank would not announce this himself. It is a big announcement. 2) There is no way at all(!) that there would be a card ready for sale in a month, and it wasn't officially announced at Messe.

kylie · Post by **kylie** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:04 am

hubird,

thank god I'm a peaceful person

otherwise I might have considered gunning down every single caravan carrying a yellow registration plate from now on...

I didn't even think about checking the date, so one could say this is my own fault, though..

-greetings, markus-