The staff at HP a generation earlier, you know... the people who actually made HP what it was, not the people who climbed on in the 70s... would not have carried on like that.
Have you ever thought that maybe Bill and Dave having gone away was the cause of HP crumbling, and not whomever happened to be at the helm during the dissolution.
I love my HP calculators and even the Omnibook 300 which was probably the last really nice piece of hardware the Corvalis Division came out with. But times had changed. My Tektronix 465M scope is a beautiful piece of gear and the 547 mainframe before it a stunning technical achivement. But those days are over. Tech equipment cannot be the works of art that it was back in the cold war era when gear was designed to last a century. General Radio is over. H-P is over.
Don't blame it on people like Carly. She was just the corporate type who happened to take the seat at that point in history. You come off like misogynist assholes to regular people if you try.
Bill and Dave were smarter than that. You'd really disappoint them if they knew you were invoking their name the way you are.
Agilent is better off without the crappy consumer electronics. Laser and Ink Jet printers became commodities. The old H-P was dead no matter who took charge. Hillary could have become the H-P CEO and it wouldn't have gone differently.
Visicalc was available only on the Apple II for about the first year it existed. Businessmen would go into the fledgling new Personal Computer shops and say "Can you sell me a Visicalc."
That was actually the origin of Apple's initial success as a company: the exclusive marketing deal with Visicalc. Anything else about the 'origins of Apple' is a myth. They're really lucky they were able to get past that, because when Visicalc became available on the new IBM PC nobody wanted Apple hardware anymore.
Black tape is considered 'bush league' by any clueful technican/engineer/geek. Anywhere you use it, you should have planned ahead and used heat shrink tubing.
It even says the above (almost a verbatim quote on the 'bush league' part) in the first edition of Horowitz & Hill.
(if you don't know of H&H's book, turn in your geek card. You can get it back after you've bought and read your copy of the book)
You mean that the pilot rendered the co-pilot unconscious, re-set the height on the autopilot, then theatrically knocked on the door to make it sound like he was locked out?
No, actually Waldo snuck in and knocked the co-pilot out. But since there's no video or even a framecapture photo, we can't look for and find Waldo.
But the truth will come out eventually, when people finally give up on finding 'Waldo' in all the future 'Where's Waldo' pictures.
We can all play nice on the edge of the playground, while the bullies fight in the middle. I bought one of the 'Arduino Uno' clone boards on eBay a few years ago. It was really really cheap. It had a sticker on it that could be peeled off and beneath it was a counterfeit Arduino logo/brandmarking.
I have also bought 'real' Arduinos, but for my sort of usage the real point in the first place was buying one of the socketed through-hole versions. A tube of the processors is really cheap and the 'Arduino board' is usable as a development bed for the raw chip.
Maybe they need to come out with the 'Microchannel' version and make it work best with the new 'OS/2' version of their software, since the buss spec is out of their control now.
I'll take a tax-cut and spend Republican if it means more surplus office furniture in the District of Columbia. Really, we need to auction a LOT of surplus office furniture there. Think of the impact on the carbon footprint if there are 70% fewer bureaucrats commuting there every day.
Kennedy was shot by a left-wing nut. Somebody who had renounced his citizenship and gone to live in the Soviet Union, and who didn't like it there and came back to the US.
A nut to almost the degree of a Spartacist or Trotskyite.
MSIE is still preinstalled. It's not considered their competitive browser by Microsoft. It's there more as a utility. Microsoft will 'compete' with third party browsers on a more level playing field with this new browser.
In fact Microsoft has done nearly everything possible now to level the plaing field browser-wise. You have to hate Microsoft in a pathological way to not let up on some of the old bullshit hate-billyware thing. In continuing to sputter and fury the more infected and irrational cranks will identify themselves to us.
The general fury will die down eventually until it's like it already is with BSOD references, which are only made now by angry trolls who haven't touched a Microsoft product in over a decade.
For people who want to build a real hardware silicon PDP-8 computer, there exists an LSI version of it, the Harris/Intersil 6100 processor. It's a standard 40-pin package integrated circuit.
It's a static CMOS processor that can be clocked down to zero hertz if you like (the registers don't need 'refreshing' so it can be clocked as slow as you like) and it's a 12 bit processor and implements the PDP-8 Instruction set.
They haven't been made for years but they exist in NOS (new old stock) quantities and can be purchased at times.
It's certainly more interesting to have a real hardware implementation of a PDP-8 and the 'cheap' way is with a 6100 processor.
The Chinese love Buicks. It's a weird cultural thing. And it has it's roots in the quirky fact that when the Communist Party took power, they commandeered the Emperor's car, which was a Buick, and it became Zhou Enlai's car, which was a big deal.
The whole reason GM didn't kill Buick was because of how strong a brand it was in China. Pity, too, because only prigs drive a Buick in the US, it's a long tradition. The only consolation is that they at least killed Pontiac.
However, when people refuse to pay the license fee and tell the BBS to fuck off, it doesn't work out so well.
Think about how it would be if Microsoft charged a 'license fee' to anybody who had a computer in their home. They can't go that far now, (though some claim they do) but think about what it would be like if law enforcement could be called out if you didn't pay your fee to Microsoft for each CPU in your house.
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The staff at HP a generation earlier, you know... the people who actually made HP what it was, not the people who climbed on in the 70s... would not have carried on like that.
Have you ever thought that maybe Bill and Dave having gone away was the cause of HP crumbling, and not whomever happened to be at the helm during the dissolution.
I love my HP calculators and even the Omnibook 300 which was probably the last really nice piece of hardware the Corvalis Division came out with. But times had changed. My Tektronix 465M scope is a beautiful piece of gear and the 547 mainframe before it a stunning technical achivement. But those days are over. Tech equipment cannot be the works of art that it was back in the cold war era when gear was designed to last a century. General Radio is over. H-P is over.
Don't blame it on people like Carly. She was just the corporate type who happened to take the seat at that point in history. You come off like misogynist assholes to regular people if you try.
Bill and Dave were smarter than that. You'd really disappoint them if they knew you were invoking their name the way you are.
Agilent is better off without the crappy consumer electronics. Laser and Ink Jet printers became commodities. The old H-P was dead no matter who took charge. Hillary could have become the H-P CEO and it wouldn't have gone differently.
Visicalc was available only on the Apple II for about the first year it existed. Businessmen would go into the fledgling new Personal Computer shops and say "Can you sell me a Visicalc."
That was actually the origin of Apple's initial success as a company: the exclusive marketing deal with Visicalc. Anything else about the 'origins of Apple' is a myth. They're really lucky they were able to get past that, because when Visicalc became available on the new IBM PC nobody wanted Apple hardware anymore.
Black tape is considered 'bush league' by any clueful technican/engineer/geek. Anywhere you use it, you should have planned ahead and used heat shrink tubing.
It even says the above (almost a verbatim quote on the 'bush league' part) in the first edition of Horowitz & Hill.
(if you don't know of H&H's book, turn in your geek card. You can get it back after you've bought and read your copy of the book)
No, actually Waldo snuck in and knocked the co-pilot out. But since there's no video or even a framecapture photo, we can't look for and find Waldo.
But the truth will come out eventually, when people finally give up on finding 'Waldo' in all the future 'Where's Waldo' pictures.
We can all play nice on the edge of the playground, while the bullies fight in the middle. I bought one of the 'Arduino Uno' clone boards on eBay a few years ago. It was really really cheap. It had a sticker on it that could be peeled off and beneath it was a counterfeit Arduino logo/brandmarking.
I have also bought 'real' Arduinos, but for my sort of usage the real point in the first place was buying one of the socketed through-hole versions. A tube of the processors is really cheap and the 'Arduino board' is usable as a development bed for the raw chip.
Maybe they need to come out with the 'Microchannel' version and make it work best with the new 'OS/2' version of their software, since the buss spec is out of their control now.
Also, a snowblower doesn't leave an inch of sheer ice on your driveway.
Heck, we can start by banning 1000 microfahrad 500 volt capacitors.
Nobody needs that many joules.
We made flame throwers in scout camp. You just spray the mosquito repellant at the campfire.
Why worry? Call 911 and the police will be along in a half hour or so to tag the bodies.
When does dirt ship on pallets? In little plastic bags?
Dirt is delivered with a dump truck. Though, I suppose if you live in a suburb or urban hellhole this is not true.
I'll take a tax-cut and spend Republican if it means more surplus office furniture in the District of Columbia. Really, we need to auction a LOT of surplus office furniture there. Think of the impact on the carbon footprint if there are 70% fewer bureaucrats commuting there every day.
You're buying into the whole 'left/right spectrum' schism.
It's always more complicated than that, though if you're political enough you buy into one scheme or another.
Somebody shot Kennedy, so he certainly qualifies.
Kennedy was shot by a left-wing nut. Somebody who had renounced his citizenship and gone to live in the Soviet Union, and who didn't like it there and came back to the US.
A nut to almost the degree of a Spartacist or Trotskyite.
Some politicians (i.e. the Clintons) are steamier sacks of shit than the usual, though.
It's going to be a 'fun' 8 years if retread (either retread, actually) manages to get elected.
Global Warming is a man?
(It's more of a Mann, actually.)
MSIE is still preinstalled. It's not considered their competitive browser by Microsoft. It's there more as a utility. Microsoft will 'compete' with third party browsers on a more level playing field with this new browser.
In fact Microsoft has done nearly everything possible now to level the plaing field browser-wise. You have to hate Microsoft in a pathological way to not let up on some of the old bullshit hate-billyware thing. In continuing to sputter and fury the more infected and irrational cranks will identify themselves to us.
The general fury will die down eventually until it's like it already is with BSOD references, which are only made now by angry trolls who haven't touched a Microsoft product in over a decade.
Only to each small business. Larger firms might deploy in that size increment, though.
Hell, why have cars anything other than black, which should suffice for anybody?
Ahem. I drive a stripped-model black Ford Ranger. It's about as equivalent a Ford to the Model T as was made in 2006.
Dusenbergs are expensive now, too. So are Pierce Arrows.
Even though you can get a used Dodge Neon for a lot less.
For people who want to build a real hardware silicon PDP-8 computer, there exists an LSI version of it, the Harris/Intersil 6100 processor. It's a standard 40-pin package integrated circuit.
It's a static CMOS processor that can be clocked down to zero hertz if you like (the registers don't need 'refreshing' so it can be clocked as slow as you like) and it's a 12 bit processor and implements the PDP-8 Instruction set.
They haven't been made for years but they exist in NOS (new old stock) quantities and can be purchased at times.
It's certainly more interesting to have a real hardware implementation of a PDP-8 and the 'cheap' way is with a 6100 processor.
Now we just need to get all the pompous asshats with Beemers fired. There really is a 1:1 correlation.
The Chinese love Buicks. It's a weird cultural thing. And it has it's roots in the quirky fact that when the Communist Party took power, they commandeered the Emperor's car, which was a Buick, and it became Zhou Enlai's car, which was a big deal.
The whole reason GM didn't kill Buick was because of how strong a brand it was in China. Pity, too, because only prigs drive a Buick in the US, it's a long tradition. The only consolation is that they at least killed Pontiac.
However, when people refuse to pay the license fee and tell the BBS to fuck off, it doesn't work out so well.
Think about how it would be if Microsoft charged a 'license fee' to anybody who had a computer in their home. They can't go that far now, (though some claim they do) but think about what it would be like if law enforcement could be called out if you didn't pay your fee to Microsoft for each CPU in your house.