What's to tell? Imagine your PC spread over 2000 sq feet. Imagine a 300 meg diskdrive the size of a washer. We even had the console with the flashing lights. You could even punch binary commands using buttons on the main console (as opposed to the terminal console). The terminal console looked like something from Star Trek with two terminals embedded in a desk.
If you have ever loaded a 1000 card deck into a card reader, you know that times have gotten MUCH better.
I used to be a "tape ape". It was not a very fun job. You spent your days swapping tapes, loading card decks, watching printers, distributing reports and running jobs. You spent the vast majority of your time on your feet. We even jacked up the console so you didn't have to bend over to reach it.
The only good thing was that you could drink on the job on night shifts. The only people who came to see you were the owners who who usually drunk themselves. You hid the beer under the floor where it was cool. The worst part of the job was the continuous exposure to air conditioning. It really wreaked havoc on the sinuses.
This whole electronic thing was supposed to end the "chad" problem which was never a problem in the first place. IOW we were fixing a problem that didn't exist. I bet the same people who wanted to change to electronic will now scream to go back.
We need to accept that a) some people are too stupid to vote and b) the problem for the loser is the election results, not the methods.
I haven't heard that term for years. Not since I was banging away on a Burrough's mainframe. They had great terminals with small keyboards that you could sit in your lap while you worked. If they went on the fritz, you just whacked the crap out of them. The Burrough's OS was written in Algol (which you can still find only in museums and my resume).
Video Display Terminal. Makes me want to write a WFL again.
I worked in a computer room that had sprinkler in it. I guess it was cheaper than Halon. But the Head of Security(tm) would not allow us to turn off the sprinkers. "Fire safety is no 1". So if a trash can caught fire in the warehouse, you could kiss several million dollars worth of Burroughs mainframes goodbye.
The Head of Security(tm) gave fire safety lessons to every employee. So we went behind the plant down the street and learned how to use a....wait for it.......fire extinguisher. Wha-ho! You can lose a limb if you handle that puppy wrong. I can run a mainframe but I have to get special-ed short-bus lessons on the fire extinguisher. "Ya pull the pin, den you squeeze the handle. Do not reverse these or your fella cowoikers could be badly killed". Yeah. Like I'm going to squeeze and if the pin stops me, I'm going to say "Fuck it. You people are going to die".
For quite a while. FreRepublic and DemUnderground have been around for a while. FR since 1997 anyway.
And let's not even harken back to the BBS days. They were much more community-like from messaging to games. If you want to build a community, it takes lots of time. Lots of time.
Now thar ain't nuthin wrong with sayin "catched up". Why juss the other day, I had to git catched up with the pigs when they got out the house. Catched up is a specially good way of speaking and I should know cause I'uns went to college.
If they show up an unknown, I let it roll to the answering machine. If it is someone I know, I just call them back or send an email. Everyone now and again, I will pick up and ask to go on the "Don't Call" list. We are down to one TeleMarketer a week now.
I hate phones. They are the spawn of Satan. If you have something to say, use email. I guess part of it is coming from a corporate culture. In the corporate world, some people don't like email because it leaves evidence of their incompetence.
That's because you'll never get better while competing against a bad product. You'll always be content to simply slightly ahead of that one product.
But really, All Linux products compete against Mic products. That's why we have nice easy installations and lots of bloated worthless eye candy when half the Linux users still use vi and the other half are trying to figure out how to play GTA in a window.
I've always believed that people who ask "Can I use Word in Linux?" are simply trying to find a way to cuss Word in another language.
Times haven't changed that much
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I was thrilled to download Galaxia for my Palm Pilot. The graphics are lame by today's 64M video standards but it is fun to play. In 20 years, your kids will roll their eyes when you tell them about your cool Palm Pilot.
I graduated college in 1981 and the excitement over technology is still the same. However, it was better that we at least left the house to play these games.
Pretty cool ride but I don't see the use unless they can start making CHEAP EFFICIENT solar systems. Of course, I should probably just ask Santa for a pony because I am more likely to get that down my chimney that effective solar power with oil and coal so CLEAN.
Real men make their own kernel with nothing but a ball of string, a hammer and the instruction manual from a Norelco shaver.
But you can't tell young people that today. They are too spoiled. Why I remember hacking a copy of OS 390 onto my TRS-80 Model 1 using a 4 baud modem running Morse Code emulation. I used the RPG compiler to build a damn refrigerator. You try and do that with a sissified Make linker today and you'll be drinking warm milk that's for sure.
If you are over 30, you should have a two page resume. If you can only fill a one pager after 8 years in the real world, you will probably not get a sniff.
I work in Personnel and I hate little bitty ass fonts. It doesn't have to be special ed but I should be able to use it.
Find a unique font that looks cool.
It's the 21st century. Make it unique. Add a picture.
Aw screw it. You will be pasting into a memo field on a website anyway. Who cares what it looks like.
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If it were real, I would think MickeySoft would have tried to shut it down.
Obey your inner Mickey
Heh, heh......I ain't laughing. I still find rubber bands in my moving boxes from the days of punch cards.
You heard it here first.
Actually, I did a senior paper on it......in 1981.
What's to tell? Imagine your PC spread over 2000 sq feet. Imagine a 300 meg diskdrive the size of a washer. We even had the console with the flashing lights. You could even punch binary commands using buttons on the main console (as opposed to the terminal console). The terminal console looked like something from Star Trek with two terminals embedded in a desk.
If you have ever loaded a 1000 card deck into a card reader, you know that times have gotten MUCH better.
You can still buy 9-track tape systems for the desktop. They look like a briefcase. We used them for payroll at a previous job.
I know of companies that vaults of these tapes but no tape machines. What's the point of that?
I used to be a "tape ape". It was not a very fun job. You spent your days swapping tapes, loading card decks, watching printers, distributing reports and running jobs. You spent the vast majority of your time on your feet. We even jacked up the console so you didn't have to bend over to reach it.
The only good thing was that you could drink on the job on night shifts. The only people who came to see you were the owners who who usually drunk themselves. You hid the beer under the floor where it was cool. The worst part of the job was the continuous exposure to air conditioning. It really wreaked havoc on the sinuses.
This whole electronic thing was supposed to end the "chad" problem which was never a problem in the first place. IOW we were fixing a problem that didn't exist. I bet the same people who wanted to change to electronic will now scream to go back.
We need to accept that a) some people are too stupid to vote and b) the problem for the loser is the election results, not the methods.
They have been using a THEL to shoot down Katusha rockets for a while now.
I haven't heard that term for years. Not since I was banging away on a Burrough's mainframe. They had great terminals with small keyboards that you could sit in your lap while you worked. If they went on the fritz, you just whacked the crap out of them. The Burrough's OS was written in Algol (which you can still find only in museums and my resume).
Video Display Terminal. Makes me want to write a WFL again.
The Head of Security(tm) gave fire safety lessons to every employee. So we went behind the plant down the street and learned how to use a
Democrat Underground is Here
For quite a while. FreRepublic and DemUnderground have been around for a while. FR since 1997 anyway.
And let's not even harken back to the BBS days. They were much more community-like from messaging to games. If you want to build a community, it takes lots of time. Lots of time.
Now thar ain't nuthin wrong with sayin "catched up". Why juss the other day, I had to git catched up with the pigs when they got out the house. Catched up is a specially good way of speaking and I should know cause I'uns went to college.
Well, UVA anyway.
if you stop and ask for directions?
To the tune of "Sixteen tons":
You buy three and half pounds
And what do you get
A little bit poorer
And blown to shit
If they show up an unknown, I let it roll to the answering machine. If it is someone I know, I just call them back or send an email. Everyone now and again, I will pick up and ask to go on the "Don't Call" list. We are down to one TeleMarketer a week now.
I hate phones. They are the spawn of Satan. If you have something to say, use email. I guess part of it is coming from a corporate culture. In the corporate world, some people don't like email because it leaves evidence of their incompetence.
But I digress...........
I vote for irony.
Blogs can't go away fast enough for me. I can't wait until Barbara Streisand gets her own blog and charges people $50 a year to correct her speling.
That's because you'll never get better while competing against a bad product. You'll always be content to simply slightly ahead of that one product.
But really, All Linux products compete against Mic products. That's why we have nice easy installations and lots of bloated worthless eye candy when half the Linux users still use vi and the other half are trying to figure out how to play GTA in a window.
I've always believed that people who ask "Can I use Word in Linux?" are simply trying to find a way to cuss Word in another language.
I was thrilled to download Galaxia for my Palm Pilot. The graphics are lame by today's 64M video standards but it is fun to play. In 20 years, your kids will roll their eyes when you tell them about your cool Palm Pilot.
I graduated college in 1981 and the excitement over technology is still the same. However, it was better that we at least left the house to play these games.
Oh yeah. Let's just stomp that sumbich flat.
Pretty cool ride but I don't see the use unless they can start making CHEAP EFFICIENT solar systems. Of course, I should probably just ask Santa for a pony because I am more likely to get that down my chimney that effective solar power with oil and coal so CLEAN.
Real men make their own kernel with nothing but a ball of string, a hammer and the instruction manual from a Norelco shaver.
But you can't tell young people that today. They are too spoiled. Why I remember hacking a copy of OS 390 onto my TRS-80 Model 1 using a 4 baud modem running Morse Code emulation. I used the RPG compiler to build a damn refrigerator. You try and do that with a sissified Make linker today and you'll be drinking warm milk that's for sure.
Nurse, I need a thumper.
Hauling Down And Stomping Websites For Over 5 Years.
Every webmasters nightmare.
If you are over 30, you should have a two page resume. If you can only fill a one pager after 8 years in the real world, you will probably not get a sniff.
I work in Personnel and I hate little bitty ass fonts. It doesn't have to be special ed but I should be able to use it.
Find a unique font that looks cool.
It's the 21st century. Make it unique. Add a picture.
Aw screw it. You will be pasting into a memo field on a website anyway. Who cares what it looks like.
I always figured these were air passages that were closed when the pyramids were sealed.