The important thing when Mr. Stuffed-Shirt calls for 'back-up' is to make sure you hook the fat fucker in with you into the mess that ensues. We have a free press in this country to ensure that's possible.
The guy doesn't want to deal with you because you're still only out $210. And you might tell your friends how much money you spent for an essentially useful bike. Dude wants your $600 and wants your friend's $600 too.
We can get you a lab coat to wear. There can be a half-door for people to come to to submit jobs and get back printouts. Congrats, IT fuck, you're back in charge. When does my fucking job get done?
No. Nice try, though. Now go put paper in the LJet in finance. Chop chop now.
People often forget that in the past there were people like Howard Hughes. He poured huge amounts of money into things like his giant wooden plane project (google 'spruce goose'). He was sort of an older Elon Musk.
On your new Apple phone, you'll have a little pile of fragments of sapphire to sweep up.
What makes you think the case design on these things will be as bad as Apple's case design on the Newton? (one of Apple's last ventures into customer-openable moble-device case devices)
The things will hold up to ordinary use and droppage, or they won't make it onto the market.
Many./er's aren't old enough to remember when computers were monolithic pieces of silicon like phones are today, a single assembly with everything soldered in and not replaceable.
WTF? What alternative reality do you come from? Are you talking about low-end chunk-of-plastic computers like the C-64? (which, incidentally, had the full schematic diagram printed in the back of the owner's manual)
Because every IBM-PC sold back when they were sold by big monolithic IBM had plug in ISA cards. The video, drive controller, serial communication controllers were all plugin modules with what rapidly became an industry standard plugin footprint.
It sounds like you might be hearkening back to some middle period when Compaq and Dell were selling 'compatibles.' I remember Panasonic, Radio Shack, and AT&T computers that sported 8086/8 processors, that couldn't run stock MS-DOS and so had their own customized variants rebranded from Microsoft. But that wasn't what we were building. We bought 'PC Clone' hardware where the motherboard had a common footprint and dropped into whatever commodity case you chose. Just like today.
Or maybe you really are talking about 'the olden times' when you had to pay a very high-cost Customer Engineer to come out with an oscilloscope and a wirewrap gun if your PDP-8 went on the blink.
Back in the day, there was probably a point when Apple sold more Macs than Compaq sold the equivalent over-priced high-end PCs, too.
That wasn't the computer that The Rest Of Us were using, though.
It's fascinating how Apple has managed to position themselves as facing a 'chief enemy' competitor in the cellphone market that is the equivalent of enemy 'IBM' back in the days of the early Mac. Apple needs a competitor that can be shape by their marketing gurus into a Emmanuel Goldstein-like being, so they can conduct little five minute hates.
That's when they're not pretending they produce the Mercedes of the cellphone market. In reality they make the Buick in a market of Chevys.
Pepsi versus Coke? It's a shame that Apple is reduced to a marketing hype operation, hawking overpriced sugarwater in the end. What would Scully say to Jobs now?
So enthusiasts can build liquid-cooled cellphones that are overclocked? With windowed cases and cabling with LED racer lights running up and down them? What are the graphic card options?
I have a large mechanical wall clock made by Simplex. Simplex was a division of IBM back when IBM made wall clocks and time clocks for business. Because they are a Business Machine company. I wish it was older and branded IBM, and not branded by the split-off company. As it stands it's kind of like the 1960's version of a Lenovo.
What would be interesting would be to bring the spirit of these old systems into the modern age rather than just replicate them wholesale. Boot into a system which allows you immediate programming
Wow. Who would have guessed that the whole point in the Raspberry Pi is things like that?
I bought the Sandman comic books ("graphic novels"???) as they came out. Didn't start until about issue 17 tho, so I read the first series in digest form.
I worry about what the sausage mill that is Hollywood will do with the stories.
The important part many people seem to miss is that McAfee himself stated right up front that he stopped doing most of that stuff back in 1983. The world has changed a lot since 1983.
Musk might go down in history as the guy who cashed out of PayPal and spent the rest of his life dabbling with hobbies. This decade's Paul Allen. Or he might end up being seen as an updated version of Tucker. It's too early to tell.
Somebody needs to come up with a more effective term to describe TV-oriented appliances. Because the televisions that most people use in their homes don't have tops anymore. The top is more of an edge than a 'top' on modern televisions.
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You're right. It's a conspiracy. The Man pays me to promote my petro-burning ways.
Electric Vehicles have become a fucking religion here on Slashdot. It's so disappointing.
The important thing when Mr. Stuffed-Shirt calls for 'back-up' is to make sure you hook the fat fucker in with you into the mess that ensues. We have a free press in this country to ensure that's possible.
The guy doesn't want to deal with you because you're still only out $210. And you might tell your friends how much money you spent for an essentially useful bike. Dude wants your $600 and wants your friend's $600 too.
We can get you a lab coat to wear. There can be a half-door for people to come to to submit jobs and get back printouts. Congrats, IT fuck, you're back in charge. When does my fucking job get done?
No. Nice try, though. Now go put paper in the LJet in finance. Chop chop now.
People often forget that in the past there were people like Howard Hughes. He poured huge amounts of money into things like his giant wooden plane project (google 'spruce goose'). He was sort of an older Elon Musk.
Can someone expand on this point more for me? It's thus far not been discussed. Is synthetic sapphire production environmentally nasty?
On your new Apple phone, you'll have a little pile of fragments of sapphire to sweep up.
What makes you think the case design on these things will be as bad as Apple's case design on the Newton? (one of Apple's last ventures into customer-openable moble-device case devices)
The things will hold up to ordinary use and droppage, or they won't make it onto the market.
Many ./er's aren't old enough to remember when computers were monolithic pieces of silicon like phones are today, a single assembly with everything soldered in and not replaceable.
WTF? What alternative reality do you come from? Are you talking about low-end chunk-of-plastic computers like the C-64? (which, incidentally, had the full schematic diagram printed in the back of the owner's manual)
Because every IBM-PC sold back when they were sold by big monolithic IBM had plug in ISA cards. The video, drive controller, serial communication controllers were all plugin modules with what rapidly became an industry standard plugin footprint.
It sounds like you might be hearkening back to some middle period when Compaq and Dell were selling 'compatibles.' I remember Panasonic, Radio Shack, and AT&T computers that sported 8086/8 processors, that couldn't run stock MS-DOS and so had their own customized variants rebranded from Microsoft. But that wasn't what we were building. We bought 'PC Clone' hardware where the motherboard had a common footprint and dropped into whatever commodity case you chose. Just like today.
Or maybe you really are talking about 'the olden times' when you had to pay a very high-cost Customer Engineer to come out with an oscilloscope and a wirewrap gun if your PDP-8 went on the blink.
Back in the day, there was probably a point when Apple sold more Macs than Compaq sold the equivalent over-priced high-end PCs, too.
That wasn't the computer that The Rest Of Us were using, though.
It's fascinating how Apple has managed to position themselves as facing a 'chief enemy' competitor in the cellphone market that is the equivalent of enemy 'IBM' back in the days of the early Mac. Apple needs a competitor that can be shape by their marketing gurus into a Emmanuel Goldstein-like being, so they can conduct little five minute hates.
That's when they're not pretending they produce the Mercedes of the cellphone market. In reality they make the Buick in a market of Chevys.
Pepsi versus Coke? It's a shame that Apple is reduced to a marketing hype operation, hawking overpriced sugarwater in the end. What would Scully say to Jobs now?
So enthusiasts can build liquid-cooled cellphones that are overclocked? With windowed cases and cabling with LED racer lights running up and down them? What are the graphic card options?
There are many UFOs. All a UFO is is a flying object that hasn't been identified.
Runs a sandwich shop? Rastamon don't have no am-bee-shun.
Also, if the electric utility has nuclear power plants, his car is steam powered.
Only if it's powered by ground up eagles and other birds is it green.
There's a turkey baster and two lesbians somewhere in the middle, too, eh?
We don't have enough electricity, nor the infrastructure to distribute it, if EVs were to suddenly become the norm in vehicles.
The power grid to do that for everybody just doesn't exist.
I have a large mechanical wall clock made by Simplex. Simplex was a division of IBM back when IBM made wall clocks and time clocks for business. Because they are a Business Machine company. I wish it was older and branded IBM, and not branded by the split-off company. As it stands it's kind of like the 1960's version of a Lenovo.
What would be interesting would be to bring the spirit of these old systems into the modern age rather than just replicate them wholesale. Boot into a system which allows you immediate programming
Wow. Who would have guessed that the whole point in the Raspberry Pi is things like that?
I bought the Sandman comic books ("graphic novels"???) as they came out. Didn't start until about issue 17 tho, so I read the first series in digest form.
I worry about what the sausage mill that is Hollywood will do with the stories.
So the special membership card has five punchouts on it?
Comic books? Too long! Three panel comic strips!
I'd hesitate to call John McAfee a libertarian. Libertarians tend to be more dorky, and take themselves seriously.
You seem kind of huffy though, and use the term 'libertarian' similar to the way a Rush Limbaugh listener uses the term 'liberal.' You're a lot alike.
The important part many people seem to miss is that McAfee himself stated right up front that he stopped doing most of that stuff back in 1983. The world has changed a lot since 1983.
Musk might go down in history as the guy who cashed out of PayPal and spent the rest of his life dabbling with hobbies. This decade's Paul Allen. Or he might end up being seen as an updated version of Tucker. It's too early to tell.
They say the way to get into journalism school is to get rejected by the English department. Flunking Calculus helps, too.
Somebody needs to come up with a more effective term to describe TV-oriented appliances. Because the televisions that most people use in their homes don't have tops anymore. The top is more of an edge than a 'top' on modern televisions.