A developer for one of my past organizations, a true rocket scientist, posited it the best: "The network would be great, if it wasn't for all of those users!" Cheers, Ron.
Yeah they own many many brands, except for (arguably) the original Budweiser brand. I hear they've been trying argue they deserve the Budweiser name over the Budweiser Budvar brand since 1907 or so.
Based on my recollection, the Romans found that mixing a certain kind of volcanic ash, which IIRC had aluminum silicates in it, into the cement caused it become what is called hydraulic cement, or cement that hardens in water.
I can't help but wonder if they are strictly telling the truth: i.e. no microphone access, _but_ they are reading something else that gives the same result. This is a pie-in-the-sky idea, but could the built-in accelerometer be read while speech is impinging on the phone? Would that yield intelligible results?
On the contrary. I didn't mention the other three on purpose. Good taste, bad taste, no matter: Return (unedited) outclasses the new three without even trying, and it was my least favorite of the first three.
As fan who was there from the beginning -- I came in from summer break to hear my classmates talking about Dark Vader and the Jet Eyes, and after my brother came down with tonsillitis, I got to go see it in all of its original glory at the theater, sans the "Episode VI". I've been a fan of the story of Luke Skywalker, not the tragedy of Anakin Skywalker. I collected the figurines and watched the Christmas Special. Empire blew me away, and Return left me with an "eh" feeling. Han shot first, and the first image of the Emperor had monkey eyes superimposed on a woman's face. I've read and agree with "The Secret History of Star Wars." My conclusion? Disney and whoever else can't possibly do any more damage to Star Wars than Lucas already has. The first two movies, VI and V of course, were masterpieces in spite of Lucas, not because of it.
I've been watching HP's slide for a while, wondering what they were thinking. I look at their LaserJet III, IV, and V printers and compare them to the trash they sell these days, and I blows my mind. Or how about, their obvious attempts to wipe the memory of 3COM's products away? Over the last 8 months, I've run into an absolute brick wall finding utilities and firmware updates for some legacy 3COM equipment. http://infodeli.3com.com , once my go-to site, is no longer of any use to me. If HP is trying to drive me away from 3COM to HP, the opposite will likely happen. Don't get me wrong -- I like the ProCurve line and like their warranty terms, but if HP is intent on continuing down the path they are on, who can say if the warranty will mean anything in a year?
I noticed this phenomenon about a decade back. Used to be in the 70s and 80s, when you went to Walt Disney World in Florida, it had this solid "golly gee" factor when talking about the future, especially at Epcot or Tomorrowland at the Magic Kingdom. I don't pick up on that so much now; in fact I pick up on a definite retrospective and/or nostalgic feeling when I go there. It's like, now that pretty much any thing is possible technologically, talking about something that's not present but possible is just an exercise in talking about something that will be here when the engineers figure out how to make it profitably. To paraphrase Yogi, "The future ain't what it used to be."
Stable? Yes Ugly? Yes Last release? 2001. Still widely used in the 2000's? Definitely, though declining precipitously. Good or bad, it should have been on the list.
That's where being older can be either a curse or a benefit. If you can age but still retain the ability and desire to learn new things, you have the potential of possessing several assets newer workers don't have: 1) A sense of perspective. This problem may be bad, but you've likely seen worse. 2) More emotional maturity. The ability to deal with non-IT types and not lose your cool is invaluable. 3) Deeper troubleshooting senses. Familiar or not, if the device's optical drive doesn't work, you're not likely going to shout "Defrag!". 4) A grasp of the way computer systems in general work. Bits are bits. Directory systems are directory systems. Permissions are permissions. The implementations change, but if you're around long enough, you will have seen something like it before. 5) You've learned that specializing is great for the short term, but if you want to keep it up, that can be a real bear. A CCIE from 1999 won't still be a CCIE in 2009 unless they've been studying for the last decade. But that 1999 CCIE is likely a very good networking tech.
Old news, old news. The portrait of J. Random Hacker from way back still holds true. http://catb.org/jargon/html/appendixb.html I find, however, that my best understanding of programmers and other computer gurus is by visualizing them as the intersection of several descriptions: Asperger's intersecting J. Random Hacker intersecting the local definitions of "weird", "geeky", and "nerdy". Usually, no one of us fits any one of these definitions exactly, but in that confluence of them, a very real commonality emerges.
And if a passenger in the car is on the phone, then what? If people won't make the right/safe decisions, then technology won't do much to correct that without stepping on aspects of cell phone use that aren't driver-related.
It's about equal for me. Most times, going into Canada from Alaska or Washington, they've asked if I have any produce and why I'm coming to Canada, how long I plan to stay, etc. Coming into the States, they usually ask where the driver is from, what their visit to Canada was for, etc. Last time, the US border guard talked to the driver, found out he was from Texas, and asked "are you from the capital of Texas, Dallas?" The driver blinked and said, "you mean Austin?" The border guard agreed without missing a beat and waved us on. Of course, all of these instances were more than a decade ago, before 9-11.
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Let me know when a robot with a defective positronic brain can carve wood with a butter knife of its own volition.
A developer for one of my past organizations, a true rocket scientist, posited it the best: "The network would be great, if it wasn't for all of those users!" Cheers, Ron.
Yeah they own many many brands, except for (arguably) the original Budweiser brand. I hear they've been trying argue they deserve the Budweiser name over the Budweiser Budvar brand since 1907 or so.
Based on my recollection, the Romans found that mixing a certain kind of volcanic ash, which IIRC had aluminum silicates in it, into the cement caused it become what is called hydraulic cement, or cement that hardens in water.
I can't help but wonder if they are strictly telling the truth: i.e. no microphone access, _but_ they are reading something else that gives the same result. This is a pie-in-the-sky idea, but could the built-in accelerometer be read while speech is impinging on the phone? Would that yield intelligible results?
Daggits are in short supply these days, so they should name it Muffit II.
Puts me in mind of a very informative blog post I read years ago about popular programming falsehoods about time.
https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time
https://infiniteundo.com/post/25509354022/more-falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time
Same here. I was on quite a while before I decided to make a login.
On the contrary. I didn't mention the other three on purpose. Good taste, bad taste, no matter: Return (unedited) outclasses the new three without even trying, and it was my least favorite of the first three.
As fan who was there from the beginning -- I came in from summer break to hear my classmates talking about Dark Vader and the Jet Eyes, and after my brother came down with tonsillitis, I got to go see it in all of its original glory at the theater, sans the "Episode VI". I've been a fan of the story of Luke Skywalker, not the tragedy of Anakin Skywalker. I collected the figurines and watched the Christmas Special. Empire blew me away, and Return left me with an "eh" feeling. Han shot first, and the first image of the Emperor had monkey eyes superimposed on a woman's face. I've read and agree with "The Secret History of Star Wars."
My conclusion? Disney and whoever else can't possibly do any more damage to Star Wars than Lucas already has. The first two movies, VI and V of course, were masterpieces in spite of Lucas, not because of it.
I grok your jive, me hearty.
I've been watching HP's slide for a while, wondering what they were thinking. I look at their LaserJet III, IV, and V printers and compare them to the trash they sell these days, and I blows my mind. Or how about, their obvious attempts to wipe the memory of 3COM's products away? Over the last 8 months, I've run into an absolute brick wall finding utilities and firmware updates for some legacy 3COM equipment. http://infodeli.3com.com , once my go-to site, is no longer of any use to me. If HP is trying to drive me away from 3COM to HP, the opposite will likely happen. Don't get me wrong -- I like the ProCurve line and like their warranty terms, but if HP is intent on continuing down the path they are on, who can say if the warranty will mean anything in a year?
You say that like it's a bad thing.
I noticed this phenomenon about a decade back. Used to be in the 70s and 80s, when you went to Walt Disney World in Florida, it had this solid "golly gee" factor when talking about the future, especially at Epcot or Tomorrowland at the Magic Kingdom. I don't pick up on that so much now; in fact I pick up on a definite retrospective and/or nostalgic feeling when I go there. It's like, now that pretty much any thing is possible technologically, talking about something that's not present but possible is just an exercise in talking about something that will be here when the engineers figure out how to make it profitably.
To paraphrase Yogi, "The future ain't what it used to be."
Stable? Yes
Ugly? Yes
Last release? 2001.
Still widely used in the 2000's? Definitely, though declining precipitously.
Good or bad, it should have been on the list.
Leinster foresaw this only 63 years ago. Go look it up; it's a good and amazingly prescient story.
That's where being older can be either a curse or a benefit. If you can age but still retain the ability and desire to learn new things, you have the potential of possessing several assets newer workers don't have:
1) A sense of perspective. This problem may be bad, but you've likely seen worse.
2) More emotional maturity. The ability to deal with non-IT types and not lose your cool is invaluable.
3) Deeper troubleshooting senses. Familiar or not, if the device's optical drive doesn't work, you're not likely going to shout "Defrag!".
4) A grasp of the way computer systems in general work. Bits are bits. Directory systems are directory systems. Permissions are permissions. The implementations change, but if you're around long enough, you will have seen something like it before.
5) You've learned that specializing is great for the short term, but if you want to keep it up, that can be a real bear. A CCIE from 1999 won't still be a CCIE in 2009 unless they've been studying for the last decade. But that 1999 CCIE is likely a very good networking tech.
Doctor Dan Streetmentioner called, and he wants royalties for your use of his tenses!
Well, of course! It just doesn't sound the same when one says "I wouldn't touch that with a 3-meter pole."
And, I forgot one other intersection: the INT* character type.
Old news, old news. The portrait of J. Random Hacker from way back still holds true.
http://catb.org/jargon/html/appendixb.html
I find, however, that my best understanding of programmers and other computer gurus is by visualizing them as the intersection of several descriptions:
Asperger's intersecting J. Random Hacker intersecting the local definitions of "weird", "geeky", and "nerdy". Usually, no one of us fits any one of these definitions exactly, but in that confluence of them, a very real commonality emerges.
And if a passenger in the car is on the phone, then what? If people won't make the right/safe decisions, then technology won't do much to correct that without stepping on aspects of cell phone use that aren't driver-related.
It's about equal for me. Most times, going into Canada from Alaska or Washington, they've asked if I have any produce and why I'm coming to Canada, how long I plan to stay, etc. Coming into the States, they usually ask where the driver is from, what their visit to Canada was for, etc. Last time, the US border guard talked to the driver, found out he was from Texas, and asked "are you from the capital of Texas, Dallas?" The driver blinked and said, "you mean Austin?" The border guard agreed without missing a beat and waved us on. Of course, all of these instances were more than a decade ago, before 9-11.
Faery Tale would be an interesting book of his to film too.
It was an Ameglian Major Cow, but I don't recall if it had a personal name.