"So this is it huh folks? Couple thousand years. The fuckin' pyramids for Christs sake, the Panama canal, the Great Wall of China, even a lava lamp, to me, are all greater than sliced bread. You've got a knife, you've got a loaf of bread... slice the fuckin' thing... and get on with your life."
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"
-- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a `C,' the idea must be feasible."
-- A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
-- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
"A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make."
-- Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
-- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
-- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this."
-- Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" notepads.
"So we went to Atari and said, `Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, `No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, `Hey, we don't need you. You haven't gotten thru college
yet.'"
-- Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.
"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
-- 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.
"You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life. You just have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable condition of weight training."
-- Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the "unsolvable" problem by inventing Nautilus.
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy."
-- Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
-- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction".
-- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
-- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
redhat might donate their code back to the community but they do use microsoft like MARKETING AND PRICING tactics, redhat linux professional edition box $179.99, suse linux professional edition box $79.99
A couple years ago I ran an emulation website and used the following system to get floppy and ROM images to post them on the site and burn them to CDs that I would hand out. The system included the following:
1 - midtower case and atx p/s with no sides 1 - minitower case and atx p/s with no sides, duct taped to the top of the midtower and modified to fit 6 CD drives and 1 5.25" floppy 1 - unknown socket 7 motherboard 1 - Pentium MMX 233 CPU 40mb PC66 SDRAM 1 - S3 Virge VX 4mb PCI graphics card 1 - Ensoniq sound card 2 - Promise UltraDMA IDE controllers 1 - Seagate Bigfoot 4gb IDE hard drive (data) 1 - Maxtor 2gb IDE hard drive (windows boot) 1 - Maxtor 1.2gb IDE hard drive (linux boot) 2 - 48x CD-ROMs 4 - 2x/2x/24x CDRWs 1 - 3.5" Floppy drive 1 - 5.25" Floppy drive A lot of modified IDE and floppy drive cable...
powered on as follows: 1. power on minitower (6 CD drives and a 5.25" floppy) 2. power on midtower (motherboard, 3 hard drives, 3.5" floppy) 3. choose o/s (Windows 98 SE or Redhat Linux 5.2) Used this system this way for about 3 years before I took it apart, assembled the midtower correctly and sold it. On the abused hardware note I did smash a keyboard to pieces over the monitor after it quit working while i was in the middle of work on the website... i also put a chip in the monitor glass by throwing a handful of dice at it...
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"So this is it huh folks? Couple thousand years. The fuckin' pyramids for Christs sake, the Panama canal, the Great Wall of China, even a lava lamp, to me, are all greater than sliced bread. You've got a knife, you've got a loaf of bread ... slice the fuckin' thing ... and get on with your life."
George Carlin
BSD? Dead? Isn't MacOS X based on BSD, making BSD the second (or possibly third) most used OS?
how about a few more . . .
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"
-- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a `C,' the idea must be feasible."
-- A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
-- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
"A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make."
-- Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
-- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
-- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this."
-- Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" notepads.
"So we went to Atari and said, `Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, `No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, `Hey, we don't need you. You haven't gotten thru college
yet.'"
-- Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.
"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
-- 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.
"You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life. You just have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable condition of weight training."
-- Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the "unsolvable" problem by inventing Nautilus.
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy."
-- Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
-- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction".
-- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
-- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
>>The only thirty year old cargo plane ever to be reconfigured as a combat gun platform
How about the AC-130?
While we're at it let's not forget the C-130...
redhat might donate their code back to the community but they do use microsoft like MARKETING AND PRICING tactics, redhat linux professional edition box $179.99, suse linux professional edition box $79.99
forgot to mention the ROM readers for NES SNES and Atari ROM chips...
A couple years ago I ran an emulation website and used the following system to get floppy and ROM images to post them on the site and burn them to CDs that I would hand out. The system included the following:
1 - midtower case and atx p/s with no sides
1 - minitower case and atx p/s with no sides, duct taped to the top of the midtower and modified to fit 6 CD drives and 1 5.25" floppy
1 - unknown socket 7 motherboard
1 - Pentium MMX 233 CPU
40mb PC66 SDRAM
1 - S3 Virge VX 4mb PCI graphics card
1 - Ensoniq sound card
2 - Promise UltraDMA IDE controllers
1 - Seagate Bigfoot 4gb IDE hard drive (data)
1 - Maxtor 2gb IDE hard drive (windows boot)
1 - Maxtor 1.2gb IDE hard drive (linux boot)
2 - 48x CD-ROMs
4 - 2x/2x/24x CDRWs
1 - 3.5" Floppy drive
1 - 5.25" Floppy drive
A lot of modified IDE and floppy drive cable...
powered on as follows: 1. power on minitower (6 CD drives and a 5.25" floppy) 2. power on midtower (motherboard, 3 hard drives, 3.5" floppy) 3. choose o/s (Windows 98 SE or Redhat Linux 5.2) Used this system this way for about 3 years before I took it apart, assembled the midtower correctly and sold it. On the abused hardware note I did smash a keyboard to pieces over the monitor after it quit working while i was in the middle of work on the website... i also put a chip in the monitor glass by throwing a handful of dice at it...