For the first and only time in all the millenia we humans have been around, we have instant communication at any place on the planet, have the ability to transport ourselves from one end to the other in a matter of hours, have the ability to transmit incalculable information to any point on the planet...the list is endless.
Umm, this might seem pedantic, but if the list is endless, why did you just 'list' the same thing three times?
Uh, and what exactly is 'incalculable information'?
I suspect that any of the other companies that strung machines together out of TTL gates (COTS technology) would have filled the DEC niche. There were other players in the minicomputer market (the phrase for the market of that time was 'IBM and the Seven Dwarfs' although I can't remember who the other six companies were offhand.) Yes, if it wasn't for Bell Labs, and this in *spite* of DEC.... which I feel is a significant qualifier.
It's too expensive to do your 1. and 2. steps, and every day the mass of information grows and it becomes increasingly more expensive. I'll just rest secure in the knowledge that nothing I've done draws enough attention to me to make it worth the trouble of conducting such a search.
Anonymnity is an illusion, this is true, but it's not difficult to disappear into a crowd in the quasi-anonymous state of the 'net as things stand now.
It's a 'tough nut' that the people 'in charge' are working hard to crack, of course. The Internet won't forever remain the open consensus-based amorphous mass that it is presently.
My 'local' mailbox is a large rural one on the highway. It's big enough that even medium-sized parcels from eBay sellers fit without difficulty. My 'neighbors' mailboxes are long away down the road.
One of my neighbors is somewhat of a carny. He operates hotdog stands at auctions and flea markets. I don't think he cares what I 'show' and occasionally when I don't want to go all the way inside the house, what I 'show' out behind the pickup truck would be considered pruient by some.
It's nice living here in flyover country. Not many busybodies unless you head into town...
I'll have to assume that your name is D J Murdoch. And yes, in some cases it apparently *ahem* is fairly easy to work out your real name from your slashdot handle.
Nobody who 'really cared' could do it right now from mine. Or from the 12-15 previous 'handles' I've had here since 1998.
You'd better toe the line, though, Mister 'Real Name On Slashdot.'
True, but how unreasonable is it to reject somebody because they not only broke 'statutes on the books' but were retarded enough and/or 'fuck the system' enough to then post documented evidence of it on a public web space?
Everybody farts from time to time. Do you want to sit in a meeting full of people who are proud of their farts?
For things like sales, you want an employee that's somewhat like the people you're selling to. You don't want a frat-party-going, heavy-drinking, womanizer doing corprate sales.
Funny concidence. In my experience you just described the 'sales types' to a T. Where *would* we stick those cretin types if not in the sales department where they can interface with their fellow cretins in other companies?
stupid people take random mixes of drugs because of the bewildering but 'cool' effects it has.
smart people take specific drugs for specific purposes.
'back in the day' people took hallucinogens very deliberately and in discrete doses and carefully exprienced the phenomenon. setting and context was very important to keep it from turning into a 'bad trip.'
these days one hears about people just mixing a cocktail of dope and booze and 'going for the ride.' I know that when *I* was in school alcohol was considered completely uncool, a 'death trip' because all it accomplished was killing brain cells.
I believe as more net savvy individuals rise in the ranks of various employers, this "trend"(for lack of a better word) will disappear,
Actually, it's a few 'net savvy' individuals in the HR department who caused this 'trend' to appear in the first place.
The info is out there (if you place it there). They will find it.
Part of being 'the new net savvy' might include not blatting out all details of your life on web pages as if anybody cared (the wrong person might 'care' sometime in the future).
Most of the experience DEC had in the formative years of computing was in SPITE of what the DEC hierarchy had in mind.
Sure, DEC produced COTS computing hardware that was of reasonably good quality and cheap so everbody bought it. They were hardly innovative in any fashion, though. Which is probably a good thing for us all.
KDE ran pretty nice on a machine from the era being discussed. I ran it back in the mid nineties on 486 systems. Don't try to run a current version of KDE on even a Pentium I system with any satisfaction.
What you say has some merit, but a truly creative photographer knows how to work well within the restraints of the equipment on hand. There are settings where it just isn't appropriate or practical to lug around expensive bulky camera equipment.
The equipment does not make the photographer. And a good technician is not necessarily a good artist.
Indeed. I remember when the snotty 'new wave' bitches started showing up at the punk clubs with the expensive 'walkmans' on their belts back in the late 70's. The whole iPod thing is just a repeat.
The 'severe beating' doesn't have to come from someone who thinks the 'hipster' is an idiot. Someone ambling on in their own world with headsets is a perfect target for a mugger.
The only way I want the government involved is to make certain that none of the near-deaf tools are getting any medical benefits for their hearing damage ten years down the road.
People have been tattooing and piercing and head-binding and foot-binding and growing their nails to extraordinary lengths etc. for hundreds or even thousands of years.
Indeed, and body mutilation is something that many people thought we'd outgrow as our culture matured.
Well, actually, we have. Most of us.
I really love that scene in 'Payback' where Mel Gibson rips the 'cheesecutter' ring out of the smack dealers.
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For the first and only time in all the millenia we humans have been around, we have instant communication at any place on the planet, have the ability to transport ourselves from one end to the other in a matter of hours, have the ability to transmit incalculable information to any point on the planet...the list is endless.
Umm, this might seem pedantic, but if the list is endless, why did you just 'list' the same thing three times?
Uh, and what exactly is 'incalculable information'?
I suspect that any of the other companies that strung machines together out of TTL gates (COTS technology) would have filled the DEC niche. There were other players in the minicomputer market (the phrase for the market of that time was 'IBM and the Seven Dwarfs' although I can't remember who the other six companies were offhand.) Yes, if it wasn't for Bell Labs, and this in *spite* of DEC.... which I feel is a significant qualifier.
It's too expensive to do your 1. and 2. steps, and every day the mass of information grows and it becomes increasingly more expensive. I'll just rest secure in the knowledge that nothing I've done draws enough attention to me to make it worth the trouble of conducting such a search.
Anonymnity is an illusion, this is true, but it's not difficult to disappear into a crowd in the quasi-anonymous state of the 'net as things stand now.
It's a 'tough nut' that the people 'in charge' are working hard to crack, of course. The Internet won't forever remain the open consensus-based amorphous mass that it is presently.
Local neighborhood mailbox?
My 'local' mailbox is a large rural one on the highway. It's big enough that even medium-sized parcels from eBay sellers fit without difficulty. My 'neighbors' mailboxes are long away down the road.
One of my neighbors is somewhat of a carny. He operates hotdog stands at auctions and flea markets. I don't think he cares what I 'show' and occasionally when I don't want to go all the way inside the house, what I 'show' out behind the pickup truck would be considered pruient by some.
It's nice living here in flyover country. Not many busybodies unless you head into town...
I'll have to assume that your name is D J Murdoch. And yes, in some cases it apparently *ahem* is fairly easy to work out your real name from your slashdot handle.
Nobody who 'really cared' could do it right now from mine. Or from the 12-15 previous 'handles' I've had here since 1998.
You'd better toe the line, though, Mister 'Real Name On Slashdot.'
What are 'Outlook contacts'? Is Outlook in pkgsrc? I've been pretty happy with Sypheed for a few years now.
True, but how unreasonable is it to reject somebody because they not only broke 'statutes on the books' but were retarded enough and/or 'fuck the system' enough to then post documented evidence of it on a public web space?
Everybody farts from time to time. Do you want to sit in a meeting full of people who are proud of their farts?
For things like sales, you want an employee that's somewhat like the people you're selling to. You don't want a frat-party-going, heavy-drinking, womanizer doing corprate sales.
Funny concidence. In my experience you just described the 'sales types' to a T. Where *would* we stick those cretin types if not in the sales department where they can interface with their fellow cretins in other companies?
That brings out an interesting point:
stupid people take random mixes of drugs because of the bewildering but 'cool' effects it has.
smart people take specific drugs for specific purposes.
'back in the day' people took hallucinogens very deliberately and in discrete doses and carefully exprienced the phenomenon. setting and context was very important to keep it from turning into a 'bad trip.'
these days one hears about people just mixing a cocktail of dope and booze and 'going for the ride.' I know that when *I* was in school alcohol was considered completely uncool, a 'death trip' because all it accomplished was killing brain cells.
But 'party down' dooods.
I believe as more net savvy individuals rise in the ranks of various employers, this "trend"(for lack of a better word) will disappear,
Actually, it's a few 'net savvy' individuals in the HR department who caused this 'trend' to appear in the first place.
The info is out there (if you place it there). They will find it.
Part of being 'the new net savvy' might include not blatting out all details of your life on web pages as if anybody cared (the wrong person might 'care' sometime in the future).
Yes, I know. And it was developed on a DEC computer in spite of DEC Management's vigorous efforts to discourage it. By non-DEC programmers.
Most of the experience DEC had in the formative years of computing was in SPITE of what the DEC hierarchy had in mind.
Sure, DEC produced COTS computing hardware that was of reasonably good quality and cheap so everbody bought it. They were hardly innovative in any fashion, though. Which is probably a good thing for us all.
Look closer. He's the 74th tard to call himself 'sydbarret'
That whole description doesn't reflect well on whomever let the IBM 'nose into the tent.' It sounds like a sucker who signed on all the dotted lines.
As such, it doesn't sound like a problem that IBM created.
all of HP's servers are based upon pre-merger Compaq hardware.
Perhaps that is true when you make the charitable move of classifying a PeeCee running Winders as a 'server.'
What, though, if it turns out that ejecting her from the hierarchy was an essential part of HP's recent growth?
even on crap hardware.
My SparcStation IPX and my Mac SE/30 get a hurt look when you refer to old hardware as 'crap hardware.'
KDE ran pretty nice on a machine from the era being discussed. I ran it back in the mid nineties on 486 systems. Don't try to run a current version of KDE on even a Pentium I system with any satisfaction.
I'm pretty agnostic these days about what I run NetBSD on. The iMac would probably be more expensive, though.
You've flipped logic on it's head.
Government organizations are (nominally) accountable, because we live in a country with an elected government.
Private organizations are essentially unaccountable, because they're not ruled by elected officials.
This is basic stuff. However, you are moderately intelligent but (I have noticed) very noisy in these parts. Carry on.
What you say has some merit, but a truly creative photographer knows how to work well within the restraints of the equipment on hand. There are settings where it just isn't appropriate or practical to lug around expensive bulky camera equipment.
The equipment does not make the photographer. And a good technician is not necessarily a good artist.
Indeed. I remember when the snotty 'new wave' bitches started showing up at the punk clubs with the expensive 'walkmans' on their belts back in the late 70's. The whole iPod thing is just a repeat.
The 'severe beating' doesn't have to come from someone who thinks the 'hipster' is an idiot. Someone ambling on in their own world with headsets is a perfect target for a mugger.
The only way I want the government involved is to make certain that none of the near-deaf tools are getting any medical benefits for their hearing damage ten years down the road.
You often saw signs saying "No coloreds allowed" in restaurant windows.
If by 'you' you mean the people of a few backwards regions of a few countries.
People have been tattooing and piercing and head-binding and foot-binding and growing their nails to extraordinary lengths etc. for hundreds or even thousands of years.
Indeed, and body mutilation is something that many people thought we'd outgrow as our culture matured.
Well, actually, we have. Most of us.
I really love that scene in 'Payback' where Mel Gibson rips the 'cheesecutter' ring out of the smack dealers.