Ah - but the sawdust from your woodworking means you're still making things - excellent. Congratulations on a long and (sounds like) productive career.
First system I ever booted was a DEC PDP-8. I have actually loaded code with paper tape. Favorite system of my entire career to date was the VAX 11/780 running VMS. Thank you Dave Cutler.
Now you kids get off my lawn...
Probably the best hardware in a laptop you can buy, and I'm running all kinds of Linux distros in VMs using Parallels. Completly 100% satisfied with this setup.
When GM spun off their component plants into their own public corporation (Delphi), almost all of their production was in the US. Now, after a bankruptcy that completely fucked the salaried staff (as in degreed engineers) out of their pensions, nearly all of Delphi's manufacturing operations are offshore. This is exactly what the two "new" HP entitites will do - stumble briefly, bankruptcy, throw the pensions off to the government (like Delphi did) and move everything - and I mean EVERYTHING offshore.
Good luck with buying gear and getting support from that dysfunctional monster.
It started out as something amazing cool. It has devolved into a blue collar job. Remember those guys who worked on boilers and smelters and all the other equipment in a factory of the 60s and 70s? That's your IT staff now, because IT is frequently the "factory" in so many industries that used to push paper and now push bits.
Shame. At least those guys who worked on smelters and boilers back in the 60s and 70s had a union and didn't have to work overtime if they didn't want to - and if they did, they got paid for it. Forget calling those guys at home at night or on the weekends too.
There, I said it. The valuations of some of these companies is just flat out crazy-insane-stupid, especially compared to some real companies that actually make something.
But I do think Pied Piper is going to make it...
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Because then we would be truly fucked. Unobtanium pisses down on Red Mercury from a very great height.
Lear 8 track in the car, Nakamichi cassette at home. Chick magnet 24x7.
Ah - but the sawdust from your woodworking means you're still making things - excellent. Congratulations on a long and (sounds like) productive career.
First system I ever booted was a DEC PDP-8. I have actually loaded code with paper tape. Favorite system of my entire career to date was the VAX 11/780 running VMS. Thank you Dave Cutler. Now you kids get off my lawn ...
Probably the best hardware in a laptop you can buy, and I'm running all kinds of Linux distros in VMs using Parallels. Completly 100% satisfied with this setup.
When GM spun off their component plants into their own public corporation (Delphi), almost all of their production was in the US. Now, after a bankruptcy that completely fucked the salaried staff (as in degreed engineers) out of their pensions, nearly all of Delphi's manufacturing operations are offshore. This is exactly what the two "new" HP entitites will do - stumble briefly, bankruptcy, throw the pensions off to the government (like Delphi did) and move everything - and I mean EVERYTHING offshore. Good luck with buying gear and getting support from that dysfunctional monster.
It started out as something amazing cool. It has devolved into a blue collar job. Remember those guys who worked on boilers and smelters and all the other equipment in a factory of the 60s and 70s? That's your IT staff now, because IT is frequently the "factory" in so many industries that used to push paper and now push bits. Shame. At least those guys who worked on smelters and boilers back in the 60s and 70s had a union and didn't have to work overtime if they didn't want to - and if they did, they got paid for it. Forget calling those guys at home at night or on the weekends too.
He knows how to deal with this problem - his brother Chuck had the exact same illness. Imagine that - small world indeed!
There, I said it. The valuations of some of these companies is just flat out crazy-insane-stupid, especially compared to some real companies that actually make something. But I do think Pied Piper is going to make it ...