Whatever reasons G & A had, my point was that proximity to a well-kinown university was not a prerequisite for a tech company's success -- smart, talented people are often willing to move across whole oceans, never mind to one of the fly-over states like Indiana.
As for DEC and DG, the sticks maybe, but Yahoo maps sez that beautiful downtown Maynard is all of 23.2 miles from I'm-sure-equally-beautiful downtown Boston -- a 45 minute drive, close enough that I'm sure many DEC employees lived in Boston.
I looked in EPodunk.com and found that in Maynard, the median value of a home seems to be $188,000, while in Bloomington you're looking at $119,000, a difference that would buy my admittedly-kind-of-ratty rowhouse in Baltimore (our median value is apparently $69,000, by the way.)
But again, my point was that the arrogance of blingToad's post wasn't justifiable -- tech companies have prospered away from high-profile universities.
Well, if by "big city" you mean a tad smaller than my hometown of Baltimore, MD, sure, Seattle is the Paris of the northwest.
I've got no beef with Seattle. I just didn't like the tone of the earlier post, that without a top-notch university next door no tech firm was going to bother with Bloomington. This was the argument that put DEC and Data General in the high-rent district of Massachusetts, which didn't work out so well.
As I remember, Microsoft went to Washington precisely because they liked the feel of the place, and it seems to have worked out well, in spite of the lack of a first-class research school. Somehow talent seems to have found them.
I remember my brother-in-law talking about the paint on his new Porsche. It had an under-layer, he explained, that oxidized when exposed to air, protecting the metal in some fashion.
"That's the Germans for you," he said. "Everything they make turns into something else in case there's a war..."
I think that's the Mercedes logo you're thinking about, but it's not the peace sign either -- the vertical bar needs to go all the way to the bottom of the circle for "peace."
The BMW logo, by the way, is a spinning propellor, a reference to their long history of airplane engine manufacture.
Lincoln did not have to write the Emancipation Proclamation to free slaves in the Union - there was no slavery there.
Let me introduce you to my home state, Maryland, Union and slave. Down the road from us, you'll find the District of Columbia, also Union, and also slave. Delaware was a slave state, as were Kentucky and Missouri, although in fairness the last two were only barely in the Union, with anti-governments and the like.
I'm not claiming that Abe liked slavery, but clearly he had to tread carefully in its abolition.
(Either that or he wanted to appear in the dictionary as the illustration for "ironic".)
In Dutch, as I recall from the not-so-scholarly source of the Happy Hooker, the initial "X" of her name was a bit different -- she described the pronounciation as something like "Eggs-have-yara".
I once exchanged emails with Klaus Knopper, inquiring as to the pronounciation of "Knoppix" -- was it like "knife" or was the "k" to be pronounced? Turns out the question had never occurred to him. He speaks English well (or at least writes it,) but the silent "k" doesn't exist in German and he had assumed that it would be obvious.
Since the Xine site is "xinehq,de", I'm going to guess that English conventions are not primary.
As long as people know what you are talking about, you are free to pronounce it the way you like, but the official pronounciation is [ksi:n], like the name "Maxine" with the "Ma" removed.
I'm going to guess that this makes more sense to a German speaker than to American clods like me
(both of which had DOS modes which I wasn't using at the time).
It's been a good long while, but I think maybe you were. As I recall, in the NT family the "DOS box" calls up "CMD.EXE", which is a 32-bit CLI, but in W9x you're calling "COMMAND.COM" in all it's 16-bit glory.
It always amazes me how many radio stations, given a nicely unique set of call letters like our local WIYY instead go with "98rock.com" and such. (Actually, now that I look, WIYY is at 98online.com, because some other "98 Rock" has 98rock.com. They've registered wiyy.com, but they don't seem to use it.)
How 'bout the famous Gwen Stefani? Is she also barred from the name because it's famous?
Yeah, these are only the rules of a game, and Gwen Stefani, or Marilyn Hanson, can simply take her business elsewhere, but it seems to me that these rules are applied somewhat capriciously. It doesn't sound like there's a list of forbidden names, and if there were it wouldn't help because a name can be barred because it resembles a forbidden name. A name that might be famous to you might be completely obscure to me ("Well, duh! 'Overly Critical Guy' is obviously a reference to Guy Coverly Ritical, the 1935 All-England Cribbage Champion"), or the game people might even be wrong ("What are you talking about? Everybody knows Humphrey Grant! He played Sam Spade in Casablanca, for God's sake! He was bigger than Clark Google! ")
And then, on top of everything else, they apply these rules, not when the player asks for the name but at some later date, leaving open the possibility that another admin will allow the name to someone else after you've established a reputation...well, nothing like a series of racist rants signed "Overly Critical Guy", right? I'm sure you wouldn't mind.
Just out of curiousity, what if Taco's friend was, in fact, Marilyn Hanson? It's not like it's a terribly unlikely name -- there's at least one woman of that name in White Hall, NY, according to WhitePages.com, another in Spokane, a third in Omaha, a fourth in Grants Pass, OR, another in Biggs, CA...are they all just Manson / Hanson fans?
There's also a Marilyn Manson living in Marlborough, MA. When I was a kid, my grandmother lived across the street from a quiet woman (worked as a seamstress, as I recall) named Linda Lovelace. I don't know that she ever even saw a porn movie.
There's an additional irony awaiting any of the various Ms Hanson or Mansons mentioned above -- these are likely the names they acquired at birth or through marriage, while Marilyn Manson the musician simply uses this as a stage name, and could later drop it (perhaps replacing it with a glyph.)
Of course, I'm one of those incredibly dull people who use their own names.
While it's true that my visions sucks, I believe I did say that the the Mythterns weren't "like this". I might have meant "crudely obvious, almost bovine".
Kari is absolutely cute as a button, and could certainly hold her own -- but of course, I always liked MaryAnn and Bailey.
Yeah, well, I used to say that Jamie and Adam are engineers playing at science, but in fact they are mechanics playing at science. Their positive results are usually reasonable (it happened here so it might have happened before,) but their negative results are completely meaningless.
I was simply responding to LawnBoy's assertion that "CAD was born on the Mac". I certainly wasn't suggesting that CAD wasn't available on the Mac from the earliest days (I have no idea), just that it was available and in use before the Mac.
Look, I'll give you DTP and maybe even the slide puzzle, but CAD was born well before the Mac. In fact, I'll lay a buck that the Mac was designed using CAD.
(While you're at it, can I recommend John Walker's site, Fourmilab? His history of AutoDesk:
includes the following: "If only because of the support burden, we can't target every computer system in the world during the first few months. The current idea is to pursue the CPM (8080 and Z80) market immediately with all we've got. This means installing the Sierra Z80 board in lots of existing computers.
We need to do more evaluation of the IBM and Apple situation with respect to both technical and marketing questions. We ought to be getting hardware for non-Z80 systems within 4-6 weeks. ", which I think makes it pretty clear that they were showing a CAD program back when Apples accepted CP/M cards,
and neat trivia like, "We're also looking closely at JPLDIS, a very useful data base system written in Univac Fortran. The program is in the public domain, so we have the right to convert it to microcomputers and sell it. In fact, it apparently is being sold now under the name of Dbase II, but there's nothing to stop us from getting into the act.
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Either way: "Of, relating to, affecting, or influenced by the human mind or psyche; mental."
All those trees sucking the oxygen from the air, eh? :)
As for DEC and DG, the sticks maybe, but Yahoo maps sez that beautiful downtown Maynard is all of 23.2 miles from I'm-sure-equally-beautiful downtown Boston -- a 45 minute drive, close enough that I'm sure many DEC employees lived in Boston.
I looked in EPodunk.com and found that in Maynard, the median value of a home seems to be $188,000, while in Bloomington you're looking at $119,000, a difference that would buy my admittedly-kind-of-ratty rowhouse in Baltimore (our median value is apparently $69,000, by the way.)
But again, my point was that the arrogance of blingToad's post wasn't justifiable -- tech companies have prospered away from high-profile universities.
I've got no beef with Seattle. I just didn't like the tone of the earlier post, that without a top-notch university next door no tech firm was going to bother with Bloomington. This was the argument that put DEC and Data General in the high-rent district of Massachusetts, which didn't work out so well.
As I remember, Microsoft went to Washington precisely because they liked the feel of the place, and it seems to have worked out well, in spite of the lack of a first-class research school. Somehow talent seems to have found them.
"That's the Germans for you," he said. "Everything they make turns into something else in case there's a war..."
But yes, your point is well taken. Thank God I sold my Microsoft stock before they moved to sleepy little Redmond.
If I swipe your lawnmower and sell it to your neighbor, does he get to keep it because he paid for it?
The BMW logo, by the way, is a spinning propellor, a reference to their long history of airplane engine manufacture.
I'm not claiming that Abe liked slavery, but clearly he had to tread carefully in its abolition.
(Either that or he wanted to appear in the dictionary as the illustration for "ironic".)
"Man/woman?" The term is transgendered-American, you insensitive clod!
In Dutch, as I recall from the not-so-scholarly source of the Happy Hooker, the initial "X" of her name was a bit different -- she described the pronounciation as something like "Eggs-have-yara".
I once exchanged emails with Klaus Knopper, inquiring as to the pronounciation of "Knoppix" -- was it like "knife" or was the "k" to be pronounced? Turns out the question had never occurred to him. He speaks English well (or at least writes it,) but the silent "k" doesn't exist in German and he had assumed that it would be obvious.
Since the Xine site is "xinehq,de", I'm going to guess that English conventions are not primary.
See, that's when I lost all respect for IBM's marketing people. Why couldn't they have hired Sammy Hagar to sing "I can't drive 95" as the OS2 theme?
It always amazes me how many radio stations, given a nicely unique set of call letters like our local WIYY instead go with "98rock.com" and such. (Actually, now that I look, WIYY is at 98online.com, because some other "98 Rock" has 98rock.com. They've registered wiyy.com, but they don't seem to use it.)
Yeah, these are only the rules of a game, and Gwen Stefani, or Marilyn Hanson, can simply take her business elsewhere, but it seems to me that these rules are applied somewhat capriciously. It doesn't sound like there's a list of forbidden names, and if there were it wouldn't help because a name can be barred because it resembles a forbidden name. A name that might be famous to you might be completely obscure to me ("Well, duh! 'Overly Critical Guy' is obviously a reference to Guy Coverly Ritical, the 1935 All-England Cribbage Champion"), or the game people might even be wrong ("What are you talking about? Everybody knows Humphrey Grant! He played Sam Spade in Casablanca, for God's sake! He was bigger than Clark Google! ")
And then, on top of everything else, they apply these rules, not when the player asks for the name but at some later date, leaving open the possibility that another admin will allow the name to someone else after you've established a reputation...well, nothing like a series of racist rants signed "Overly Critical Guy", right? I'm sure you wouldn't mind.
There's also a Marilyn Manson living in Marlborough, MA. When I was a kid, my grandmother lived across the street from a quiet woman (worked as a seamstress, as I recall) named Linda Lovelace. I don't know that she ever even saw a porn movie.
There's an additional irony awaiting any of the various Ms Hanson or Mansons mentioned above -- these are likely the names they acquired at birth or through marriage, while Marilyn Manson the musician simply uses this as a stage name, and could later drop it (perhaps replacing it with a glyph.)
Of course, I'm one of those incredibly dull people who use their own names.
Kari is absolutely cute as a button, and could certainly hold her own -- but of course, I always liked MaryAnn and Bailey.
Goddamnit! That last link was supposed to lead to Professor Myang Li! Well, click on the orange bikini & you'll see my point.
MythBusters is a bit smarter than Brainiac, but the girls, while undeniably pretty, aren't, well, like this.
In my day we "high-fived Beelzebub".
I was simply responding to LawnBoy's assertion that "CAD was born on the Mac". I certainly wasn't suggesting that CAD wasn't available on the Mac from the earliest days (I have no idea), just that it was available and in use before the Mac.
Only reason I ask is that I remember the Z-100 as having a very nice keyboard, dished like a Selectric and with a good feel to it.
Look, I'll give you DTP and maybe even the slide puzzle, but CAD was born well before the Mac. In fact, I'll lay a buck that the Mac was designed using CAD.
(While you're at it, can I recommend John Walker's site, Fourmilab? His history of AutoDesk:
We need to do more evaluation of the IBM and Apple situation with respect to both technical and marketing questions. We ought to be getting hardware for non-Z80 systems within 4-6 weeks.
", which I think makes it pretty clear that they were showing a CAD program back when Apples accepted CP/M cards,
Who knew that DBase sprang from a PD program?)
I was beginning to think I was the only one who flashed on Lister picking up the goldfish and smacking it against the table to try and get it running.