bagh. Who needs any of these fancy schmancy office suites?
Back in my day, we didn't have integrated office applications. If we wanted to plot some data, we wrote a fortran algorithm that created a graph. If we wanted to type a paper, we used LaTeX. Our integrated office suite was VI along with all of the associated compilers.
Nowadays, all these wishy-washy office types think that they need a bloated graphical office suite. I think they need to get off there innovative lazy butts and learn VI. Then they will be productive!
In my day we didn't need any emulators to run software from different platforms. If we wanted to port software to VAX we rewrote the assembly and we liked it. Nowadays, all you young wishywashees need some fancy schmancy emulator to run programs that were never meant for your system! Emulators are a tool of the Devil!!
In my day, we didn't network our computers from house to house. If we wanted to share MP3's with a friend, we transfered them to punch cards and walked the boxes down the street. We shared a direct connection via a 400 baud modem and we liked it.
All of this fancy schmancy 'microwave los networking' is for lazy soft young'ns who can't get up and haul a box of punch cards down the street.
In my day we didn't have fancy schmancy advisory boards when new hardware came out. Engineers just designed it. It came out and you used it and you liked it. Nowadays, all of this sensitivity and advisory is just an excuse for Silicon Valley/Redmond slackers to avoid doing any real work.
Everyone needs to realize that they have no need for a fancy schmancy graphical website. Give me some text that I can view on Lynx on my line printer and we're all set.
Back in my day, websites were all text. GOPHER was high tech. Nobody ever sued nobody over some fancy useless website!
Bagh, back in my day we didn't need fancy schmancy snooper programs.
There was only enough email to keep an FBI staff of 3 busy reading through messages. We just put the FBI on our cc: and it worked on the honor's system. Sometimes the FBI would reply back if they liked what they read.
Nowadays, all you young hoodlums can't do anything honest, and we need all kinds of expensive fancy equipement to keep tabs on who's doing whats.
Who needs an OpenGL graphical user invironement. For that matter, who needs any graphical user environment. I've been using line printers for 40 years now and the only bad things about line printers is wasting so much paper in arguments about GUIs.
Nothing beats the sound of the print head against a long tractor feed roll of paper.
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Back in my day, we didn't have integrated office applications. If we wanted to plot some data, we wrote a fortran algorithm that created a graph. If we wanted to type a paper, we used LaTeX. Our integrated office suite was VI along with all of the associated compilers.
Nowadays, all these wishy-washy office types think that they need a bloated graphical office suite. I think they need to get off there innovative lazy butts and learn VI. Then they will be productive!
In my day we didn't need any emulators to run software from different platforms. If we wanted to port software to VAX we rewrote the assembly and we liked it. Nowadays, all you young wishywashees need some fancy schmancy emulator to run programs that were never meant for your system! Emulators are a tool of the Devil!!
In my day, we didn't network our computers from house to house. If we wanted to share MP3's with a friend, we transfered them to punch cards and walked the boxes down the street. We shared a direct connection via a 400 baud modem and we liked it.
All of this fancy schmancy 'microwave los networking' is for lazy soft young'ns who can't get up and haul a box of punch cards down the street.
In my day we didn't have fancy schmancy advisory boards when new hardware came out. Engineers just designed it. It came out and you used it and you liked it. Nowadays, all of this sensitivity and advisory is just an excuse for Silicon Valley/Redmond slackers to avoid doing any real work.
Everyone needs to realize that they have no need for a fancy schmancy graphical website. Give me some text that I can view on Lynx on my line printer and we're all set.
Back in my day, websites were all text. GOPHER was high tech. Nobody ever sued nobody over some fancy useless website!
There was only enough email to keep an FBI staff of 3 busy reading through messages. We just put the FBI on our cc: and it worked on the honor's system. Sometimes the FBI would reply back if they liked what they read.
Nowadays, all you young hoodlums can't do anything honest, and we need all kinds of expensive fancy equipement to keep tabs on who's doing whats.
BAGH!
Who needs an OpenGL graphical user invironement. For that matter, who needs any graphical user environment. I've been using line printers for 40 years now and the only bad things about line printers is wasting so much paper in arguments about GUIs.
Nothing beats the sound of the print head against a long tractor feed roll of paper.