I remember having a problem getting an 8" floppy drive in work properly with CP/M and called Digital Research for support. Gary answered the phone himself and we proceeded to work out the solution in under a half hour. It was a rather trivial timing error. During the conversation I found out he was in his kitchen cooking lunch. Gary would go out of his way to make sure his customers were happy.
I was given a book about programming in BASIC and an account on a PDP 11/45 and left on my own. That was about 40 years ago and I've made a good living coding ever since.
This one of the most ridiculous, knee-jerk reactions to new
technology I have ever heard of.
He must have never heard of "zip guns," that any punk on the
street can build from less than a dollar's worth of parts
without needing a $3000+ 3D printer, knowledge of 3D modeling,
and the principals of gun smithy.
I suppose he will want background checks and registration for
buying PVC plumbing parts and potatoes least someone fashion a
potato gun.
At the time of the American Revolution, authors, publishers, and
printers were regularly imprisoned for seditious speech. The
framers of our constitution apparently felt so strongly about
freedom of expression and the press that it became the subject of
the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
If every "disruptive" technology were so highly regulated we
would not have cameras, phonographs, radio, television, audio
recording, photocopiers, VCRs, personal computers, let alone the
Internet itself.
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I remember having a problem getting an 8" floppy drive in work properly with CP/M and called Digital Research for support. Gary answered the phone himself and we proceeded to work out the solution in under a half hour. It was a rather trivial timing error. During the conversation I found out he was in his kitchen cooking lunch. Gary would go out of his way to make sure his customers were happy.
Not one CEO of any company worked for had any clue to how our software projects worked (or didn't). Results, not excuses are what was expected.
Good old "Patriot Act."
Haven't we heard: "the software will only use and collect aggregate data" before?
The same scare circulated several years ago about automobile remote keyless entry systems. http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/lockcode.asp
I was given a book about programming in BASIC and an account on a PDP 11/45 and left on my own. That was about 40 years ago and I've made a good living coding ever since.
XboxOne.com just points to a parking page. I don't think MS will have any trouble winning this one.
Back in the early '80s we had a beer tap in the break room. It stayed locked until 5:00 PM, after that, all the beer you could drink.
This one of the most ridiculous, knee-jerk reactions to new technology I have ever heard of. He must have never heard of "zip guns," that any punk on the street can build from less than a dollar's worth of parts without needing a $3000+ 3D printer, knowledge of 3D modeling, and the principals of gun smithy. I suppose he will want background checks and registration for buying PVC plumbing parts and potatoes least someone fashion a potato gun. At the time of the American Revolution, authors, publishers, and printers were regularly imprisoned for seditious speech. The framers of our constitution apparently felt so strongly about freedom of expression and the press that it became the subject of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. If every "disruptive" technology were so highly regulated we would not have cameras, phonographs, radio, television, audio recording, photocopiers, VCRs, personal computers, let alone the Internet itself.