I know. I worked for two of them: Internet Direct and MindSpring. The small ISPs are driven into the ground by their idiot owners and then have to sell out to the big ISPs, which just don't give a shit.
Einstein wrote a tiny essay on lighthouses that I can't seem to find on the internet or at the local library. I first saw the essay in an old tattered collection of Albert Einstein essays that I found in a public library years ago.
Also, I am looking for a particular science fiction short story that involves a soviet scientist who loves red cabbage soup (borscht) and invents a personal antigrav belt or suit that unravels the political fabric of the world (Because if you don't like it where you are, you just put on your antigrav belt and fly to Tahiti or wherever.) I haven't been able to find that
story on the Internet, either.
I remember working with the Exec 8 operating
in the 1970's, and occasionally seeing a
NON-SYMBIONT PRINT printout ejected by the
line printer. Apparently a non-symbiont print
file was a print file that had become orphaned
from a job run. I always wondered where they
got the word "symbiont" from. Years later, while
visiting the Smithsonian, I got a chance to
see the original Univac control panel close up,
with all of its rows of gleaming toggle switches.
Sure enough, there was a switch marked "SYMBIONT".
A great site for for more Univac memories is
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/
I used to work for CMGI, and I know Dave
Wetherell personally. He's a bald-headed coot.
This patent idiocy is exactly the kind of crap
I expect from a person like him
Slashdot Mirror
Heard any good ones, lately?
Nemmer's Law:
All Internet Service Providers suck.
I know. I worked for two of them: Internet Direct and MindSpring. The small ISPs are driven into the ground by their idiot owners and then have to sell out to the big ISPs, which just don't give a shit.
What happened to conking her on the head with
a club and dragging her back to the cave?
You would function as Patriots of the United
States of America, of course, and hire
Tom Clancy as a consultant. =)
The scary thing is that DALNet is so fascist,
that this story is almost believable. =/
Einstein wrote a tiny essay on lighthouses that I can't seem to find on the internet or at the local library. I first saw the essay in an old tattered collection of Albert Einstein essays that I found in a public library years ago.
Also, I am looking for a particular science fiction short story that involves a soviet scientist who loves red cabbage soup (borscht) and invents a personal antigrav belt or suit that unravels the political fabric of the world (Because if you don't like it where you are, you just put on your antigrav belt and fly to Tahiti or wherever.) I haven't been able to find that
story on the Internet, either.
I remember working with the Exec 8 operating
in the 1970's, and occasionally seeing a
NON-SYMBIONT PRINT printout ejected by the
line printer. Apparently a non-symbiont print
file was a print file that had become orphaned
from a job run. I always wondered where they
got the word "symbiont" from. Years later, while
visiting the Smithsonian, I got a chance to
see the original Univac control panel close up,
with all of its rows of gleaming toggle switches.
Sure enough, there was a switch marked "SYMBIONT".
A great site for for more Univac memories is
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/
www.perl.com has a nice summary of .net at
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/12/net.html
Screw the games. I want to get a good
look at that limestone mine! =)
I used to work for CMGI, and I know Dave
Wetherell personally. He's a bald-headed coot.
This patent idiocy is exactly the kind of crap
I expect from a person like him
MIT and Caltech have already announced plans
m l
to develop a voting machine:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2000/voting.ht
Personally, I trust MIT and Caltech much more
than I trust Microsoft and Unisys.