Good humor truck. Helm's bakery truck with the long drawers loaded with doughnuts, brownies and cookies that would drive up one's street. It was a So. California thing.
The guy blew a whistle with a lever-actuated thing like a parking brake.
They were *always* nice people.
Oh... they're seemingly gone.
Here we go. Excuse the formatting.
Good Morse Code (I can still send it and receive it).
15.575 with an interruption.
Scratchy records
Inna godda da vida www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIVe-rZBcm4
Dial Up MODEM handshake
Click, click, click of (then) illegally added telephones on the line.
Anything related to "shortwave radio".
RSA (Radio South Africa) on the SW
Theramins (except for replays of "Good Vibrations")
A.M. Radio
Tunes played on vacuum column tape drives (Dymec 3030).
The sound of old 2-cycle lawnmowers.
Captain and Tenille (oh, skip it).
The spring-induced "echo" of an automobile "reverb" system".
"Heathkit".
Honesty
I volunteer at schools and have 4 close relatives that are teachers. NONE of the schools have competent administration of the computers, the networks or the OS installations. It's all "well, these are the rules and we can't do anything about it" crap. My son's computer class (MDUHSD) has NO monitors that aren't VGA. He brought a RaspPi in to it and we had to mod the config.txt file and bring an adapter in to it so they could display the video on the archaic stuff.
However, they have a LASER cutter without purpose that someone bought.
Corruption at its best.
At least Zuck once wrote software and had some ability. Meg is a former toy company and soap company CEO that was placed in a CEO of a technical company. She has zero capability to run such a company. She, like other former HP "leaders" is currently in the "loot" process, to be followed by the "scoot" process.
The only reason she's in the position is that Ray Lane (who appointed her to HP's Board) didn't want the CEO job. She was essentially his proxy. Now that Lane is gone, I don't know who's going to pull her strings to get her to act.
Correct. Wistron makes some of their cheap crap. Other ODM spinoffs of Chinese companies make the rest of the laptop/desktop stuff. HP doesn't design or produce any of their PC products but the same is true with Dell.
HP also manufactures no computers except a small portion of their enterprise servers in the U.S. Most of the stuff is migrating to Singapore and Mexico. Most of the content for their large servers is manufactured in Malaysia. (I refrained about making a comment about quality here).
I hope they take the founder's names off of the computer company. The last four CEOs have been an insult to Hewlett and Packard, its employees and its customers.
Hewlett-Packard (now called "HP" out of shame) used to be the epitome of creativity, innovation, treating employees with respect and an "Extra Measure of Quality". Now it's nothing but a continuing estate sale of what once was a great company.
The Board of Directors is to blame. The manifestation of its incompetence have been a succession of terrible CEOs (Fiorina, Hurd, Apotheker and now Whitman) who individually and collectively are incapable of understanding what is required to innovate products.
The inkwell is also going dry (HP's primary source of profit was selling ink and it financed the remainder of the company).
So what's left? HP Lab's funds have been cut for decades. Ink is drying up. Their PCs are designed and build by the cheapest Chinese bidder and the enterprise hardware business R&D capability has mostly walked out away out of frustration.
Such a sad decay of a very, very good technology company.
Lutz isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. I watched him make the same comment several years ago in an Elon Musk documentary that I watched on Neflix. He also referred to the techies in "silicone (sic) valley". It appears he's using the same line now. Apparently this is a comment he repeats.
I'd be willing to pay for a high quality PC or tablet that wasn't made in China by the lowest bidder. I'm frankly sick and tired of poor quality Chinese crap! I once suggested to the CEO of my company (named after two people) to do the same (ignored of course).. To make it in the Yoo Ess but it'd damned better be good quality. I'd pay the premium. Sort of like the "Harley Davidson" of computers with out the T-shirts. I am so tired of supporting CEOs that bet bonuses based on short term quarterly report results at the expense of the long term health of the company. I'd also like too support a company that is truly innovative vs. one that can't even design a product and instead, outsources the crappy design and manufacture. Give me a premium product and I'll pay a premium price. I realize not everyone wants this but dammit! Give us a choice!
H.P. once had a CEO with a degree in medieval history and a quick blessing of a MBA. Carly Fiorina used her first degree extensively in finding new ways to punish employees. She was also rather good at dividing and conquering a corporate culture.
I'm not sure her efforts were appreciated though.
Microsoft is a dying old fart company, much like Hewlett-Packard. What they can't earn with innovation is being replaced with attempted acquisitions. Unfortunately, all that they acquire is typically destroyed with no revenue to the bottom line. Acquire, lay off the people, destroy, forget.
Management by "bean counters" vs. the ability to invent.
Sad but the state of large cranky corporations of the day.
I use my Marantz 2285B daily. I have a Logitec Bluetooth receiver on it's front end and listen to internet radio with it from a signal supplied by a tablet. I also use it on some JBLs connected to my Samsung LCD TV.
That's a mixin' of eras.
I love that thing (the Marantz).
I was forced to use one of these when reloading WinXP on to a laptop. There wasn't a SATA driver for the SATA HDD in the laptop and I had to load it so XP could talk to the friggin' HDD in the laptop.
Tory, Grant and Kari have gotten progressively over-animated recently. That detracts from any serious attempt at science on the show. Grant is as others have mentioned, the only engineer on the series but he's given in to the mousse and schlock. Too bad.
It'll be interesting to see how this progresses. I'm wondering whether or not they're running out of material.
I agree that science and engineering are good fields and tend to pay well. However it goes beyond coursework. It's a way of life and a way of thinking. Purely academic engineers and scientists suck. They can't actually do anything. We hired some of those in my company. One of the "golden boy" AA hires was afraid to touch a PC board that he was responsible for. He couldn't even identify a capacitor on it.
That being said, my suggestions would be: Material scientist, environmental scientist (lots of environ. regs. popping up), chemical engineer, failure analysis engineer (we outsource crap to cheepo countries and need to find out why there stuff fails so we can spank them....they're too stupid to do it themselves). The medical field, biochemistry, biomechanics, electrician, plumber, auto repair. Civil Engineering was mentioned.
I would stay away from any field that can be performed remotely (Comp. Sci, etc) because India is only a network away.
I disagree. I worked for one of those "large computer companies". Most of our technical staff had a Bachelor's degree. A few had a Masters. There was zero pay difference between the B.S. degrees and M.S. degrees. It's all based on job performance.
Ph.Ds were actually a disadvantage. Most managers stayed away from them because of the perception that they would be "bored" doing normal engineering jobs.
I went to my Social Security statement and added up my income since I graduated (Electronics Engineering degree (BSEE), 35 yrs. in my career until I retired). I stayed in the technical field (avoided management).
The number: $2,727,247
I went to a community college and obtained my general education, later transferring to a state university.
I'd estimate my total education cost at around $3K maximum (tuition was a whopping $59.65/qtr. when I graduated in '77).
Starting salary was about $1.2k/month. Ending salary was about $10k/month.
YMMV
I disagree about your comment regarding "remote workers". I know of some folks in this position that are essentially giving work second or third priority. Some who won't come in when they're needed because it's "working from home day". Others call in to have workers physically located in the plant to do their hands on work for them.
Meg is correct in requiring remote workers to return to the office. While some are more productive, there are MANY taking scamming the system and doing nearly nothing, receiving full pay for doing so.
I've seen one guy that has never worked in the plant and follows his squeeze around the country "working from home".
Ripe for abuse and many are doing just that.
If we're going to force "diversity" why not have the stats represent the output statistics of U.S. computer science graduates and the likes? Simply forcing a "color count" and a "gender count" makes no sense when a job actually needs to be accomplished.
Otherwise, we get folks hired for window dressing that have no ability to perform the needed tasks.
The term "African American" is a joke. It refers to a geography not a race.
I guess Elon Musk is "African American" because he came from South Africa and immigrated eventually to the U.S.
I wholeheartedly agree. I haven't watched commercial TV in about 30 years or more. When I go to womble nzb matrix and look at what's playing, the titles are so inane that I have no regrets. Pure garbage.
Three of my son's principals stopped being principals and went to "assistant superintendent" jobs at the school board. Higher pay, lower responsibilities.
My sister and two of her kids are teachers. There's plenty of money in the school district but there isn't enough flexibility with state mandated laws/budgets to funnel the money where it is actually needed. Too much of "we can't use the money for that purpose because it has to be used for (fill in the blank). They can't even provide basic supplies like copy paper, pencils and classroom supplies because of inflexibility of the budgets for various reasons.
My son's school is the same. They want the parents to come in on weekends and maintain the school grounds. Shit! They have union groundskeepers and they can't maintain the school.
Then I went to my old elementary school to see weeds growing up in cracks of the pavement. It was NEVER that way when I attended. It was impeccably maintained. Yet, the school has obtained a magnitude of funding increases.
Every time I see the school trying to shake me down for basic supplies and programs, I look at their requests with disdain.
Now, we even get "suggested donation" sheets (Mount Diablo Unified School District) and If I were do donate what they suggest, it'd be nearly $800!
What is this crap? The school district has some of the most-expensive homes in the county yet they can't manage their money!
No thanks. The problem is a management and a government regulatory problem. Not a funding problem.
I've seen a few CEOs whose positions would have resulted in a better outcome if they were initially replaced by blow up dolls. Take Carly Fiornia, Mark Hurd and Leo Apotheker (and add to that, Whitman) for example.
These cretins have been destructive, not constructive employees.
Sometimes, doing nothing is better than "doing destruction".
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Good humor truck. Helm's bakery truck with the long drawers loaded with doughnuts, brownies and cookies that would drive up one's street. It was a So. California thing. The guy blew a whistle with a lever-actuated thing like a parking brake. They were *always* nice people. Oh... they're seemingly gone.
Here we go. Excuse the formatting. Good Morse Code (I can still send it and receive it). 15.575 with an interruption. Scratchy records Inna godda da vida www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIVe-rZBcm4 Dial Up MODEM handshake Click, click, click of (then) illegally added telephones on the line. Anything related to "shortwave radio". RSA (Radio South Africa) on the SW Theramins (except for replays of "Good Vibrations") A.M. Radio Tunes played on vacuum column tape drives (Dymec 3030). The sound of old 2-cycle lawnmowers. Captain and Tenille (oh, skip it). The spring-induced "echo" of an automobile "reverb" system". "Heathkit". Honesty
I volunteer at schools and have 4 close relatives that are teachers. NONE of the schools have competent administration of the computers, the networks or the OS installations. It's all "well, these are the rules and we can't do anything about it" crap. My son's computer class (MDUHSD) has NO monitors that aren't VGA. He brought a RaspPi in to it and we had to mod the config.txt file and bring an adapter in to it so they could display the video on the archaic stuff. However, they have a LASER cutter without purpose that someone bought. Corruption at its best.
I think I saw a banner for the movie on the cliffs in front of Streisand's home.
At least Zuck once wrote software and had some ability. Meg is a former toy company and soap company CEO that was placed in a CEO of a technical company. She has zero capability to run such a company. She, like other former HP "leaders" is currently in the "loot" process, to be followed by the "scoot" process. The only reason she's in the position is that Ray Lane (who appointed her to HP's Board) didn't want the CEO job. She was essentially his proxy. Now that Lane is gone, I don't know who's going to pull her strings to get her to act.
Sounds like the current state of Hewlett Packard.
Correct. Wistron makes some of their cheap crap. Other ODM spinoffs of Chinese companies make the rest of the laptop/desktop stuff. HP doesn't design or produce any of their PC products but the same is true with Dell. HP also manufactures no computers except a small portion of their enterprise servers in the U.S. Most of the stuff is migrating to Singapore and Mexico. Most of the content for their large servers is manufactured in Malaysia. (I refrained about making a comment about quality here).
I hope they take the founder's names off of the computer company. The last four CEOs have been an insult to Hewlett and Packard, its employees and its customers. Hewlett-Packard (now called "HP" out of shame) used to be the epitome of creativity, innovation, treating employees with respect and an "Extra Measure of Quality". Now it's nothing but a continuing estate sale of what once was a great company. The Board of Directors is to blame. The manifestation of its incompetence have been a succession of terrible CEOs (Fiorina, Hurd, Apotheker and now Whitman) who individually and collectively are incapable of understanding what is required to innovate products. The inkwell is also going dry (HP's primary source of profit was selling ink and it financed the remainder of the company). So what's left? HP Lab's funds have been cut for decades. Ink is drying up. Their PCs are designed and build by the cheapest Chinese bidder and the enterprise hardware business R&D capability has mostly walked out away out of frustration. Such a sad decay of a very, very good technology company.
Lutz isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. I watched him make the same comment several years ago in an Elon Musk documentary that I watched on Neflix. He also referred to the techies in "silicone (sic) valley". It appears he's using the same line now. Apparently this is a comment he repeats.
I'd be willing to pay for a high quality PC or tablet that wasn't made in China by the lowest bidder. I'm frankly sick and tired of poor quality Chinese crap! I once suggested to the CEO of my company (named after two people) to do the same (ignored of course).. To make it in the Yoo Ess but it'd damned better be good quality. I'd pay the premium. Sort of like the "Harley Davidson" of computers with out the T-shirts. I am so tired of supporting CEOs that bet bonuses based on short term quarterly report results at the expense of the long term health of the company. I'd also like too support a company that is truly innovative vs. one that can't even design a product and instead, outsources the crappy design and manufacture. Give me a premium product and I'll pay a premium price. I realize not everyone wants this but dammit! Give us a choice!
H.P. once had a CEO with a degree in medieval history and a quick blessing of a MBA. Carly Fiorina used her first degree extensively in finding new ways to punish employees. She was also rather good at dividing and conquering a corporate culture. I'm not sure her efforts were appreciated though.
Microsoft is a dying old fart company, much like Hewlett-Packard. What they can't earn with innovation is being replaced with attempted acquisitions. Unfortunately, all that they acquire is typically destroyed with no revenue to the bottom line. Acquire, lay off the people, destroy, forget. Management by "bean counters" vs. the ability to invent. Sad but the state of large cranky corporations of the day.
I use my Marantz 2285B daily. I have a Logitec Bluetooth receiver on it's front end and listen to internet radio with it from a signal supplied by a tablet. I also use it on some JBLs connected to my Samsung LCD TV. That's a mixin' of eras. I love that thing (the Marantz).
I was forced to use one of these when reloading WinXP on to a laptop. There wasn't a SATA driver for the SATA HDD in the laptop and I had to load it so XP could talk to the friggin' HDD in the laptop.
Tory, Grant and Kari have gotten progressively over-animated recently. That detracts from any serious attempt at science on the show. Grant is as others have mentioned, the only engineer on the series but he's given in to the mousse and schlock. Too bad. It'll be interesting to see how this progresses. I'm wondering whether or not they're running out of material.
I agree that science and engineering are good fields and tend to pay well. However it goes beyond coursework. It's a way of life and a way of thinking. Purely academic engineers and scientists suck. They can't actually do anything. We hired some of those in my company. One of the "golden boy" AA hires was afraid to touch a PC board that he was responsible for. He couldn't even identify a capacitor on it. That being said, my suggestions would be: Material scientist, environmental scientist (lots of environ. regs. popping up), chemical engineer, failure analysis engineer (we outsource crap to cheepo countries and need to find out why there stuff fails so we can spank them... .they're too stupid to do it themselves). The medical field, biochemistry, biomechanics, electrician, plumber, auto repair. Civil Engineering was mentioned.
I would stay away from any field that can be performed remotely (Comp. Sci, etc) because India is only a network away.
I disagree. I worked for one of those "large computer companies". Most of our technical staff had a Bachelor's degree. A few had a Masters. There was zero pay difference between the B.S. degrees and M.S. degrees. It's all based on job performance. Ph.Ds were actually a disadvantage. Most managers stayed away from them because of the perception that they would be "bored" doing normal engineering jobs.
I went to my Social Security statement and added up my income since I graduated (Electronics Engineering degree (BSEE), 35 yrs. in my career until I retired). I stayed in the technical field (avoided management). The number: $2,727,247 I went to a community college and obtained my general education, later transferring to a state university. I'd estimate my total education cost at around $3K maximum (tuition was a whopping $59.65/qtr. when I graduated in '77). Starting salary was about $1.2k/month. Ending salary was about $10k/month. YMMV
I disagree about your comment regarding "remote workers". I know of some folks in this position that are essentially giving work second or third priority. Some who won't come in when they're needed because it's "working from home day". Others call in to have workers physically located in the plant to do their hands on work for them. Meg is correct in requiring remote workers to return to the office. While some are more productive, there are MANY taking scamming the system and doing nearly nothing, receiving full pay for doing so. I've seen one guy that has never worked in the plant and follows his squeeze around the country "working from home". Ripe for abuse and many are doing just that.
Elon Musk is "African-American". Doe he count?
If we're going to force "diversity" why not have the stats represent the output statistics of U.S. computer science graduates and the likes? Simply forcing a "color count" and a "gender count" makes no sense when a job actually needs to be accomplished. Otherwise, we get folks hired for window dressing that have no ability to perform the needed tasks.
The term "African American" is a joke. It refers to a geography not a race. I guess Elon Musk is "African American" because he came from South Africa and immigrated eventually to the U.S.
I wholeheartedly agree. I haven't watched commercial TV in about 30 years or more. When I go to womble nzb matrix and look at what's playing, the titles are so inane that I have no regrets. Pure garbage.
Three of my son's principals stopped being principals and went to "assistant superintendent" jobs at the school board. Higher pay, lower responsibilities. My sister and two of her kids are teachers. There's plenty of money in the school district but there isn't enough flexibility with state mandated laws/budgets to funnel the money where it is actually needed. Too much of "we can't use the money for that purpose because it has to be used for (fill in the blank). They can't even provide basic supplies like copy paper, pencils and classroom supplies because of inflexibility of the budgets for various reasons. My son's school is the same. They want the parents to come in on weekends and maintain the school grounds. Shit! They have union groundskeepers and they can't maintain the school. Then I went to my old elementary school to see weeds growing up in cracks of the pavement. It was NEVER that way when I attended. It was impeccably maintained. Yet, the school has obtained a magnitude of funding increases. Every time I see the school trying to shake me down for basic supplies and programs, I look at their requests with disdain. Now, we even get "suggested donation" sheets (Mount Diablo Unified School District) and If I were do donate what they suggest, it'd be nearly $800! What is this crap? The school district has some of the most-expensive homes in the county yet they can't manage their money! No thanks. The problem is a management and a government regulatory problem. Not a funding problem.
I've seen a few CEOs whose positions would have resulted in a better outcome if they were initially replaced by blow up dolls. Take Carly Fiornia, Mark Hurd and Leo Apotheker (and add to that, Whitman) for example. These cretins have been destructive, not constructive employees. Sometimes, doing nothing is better than "doing destruction".