You'd think that suddenly having most people get access to so much information would have made people more likely to believe truth, but then you look at Donald Trump and realize it's not going to happen.
I'm sure I've said this before, but I learned FORTRAN using Hollerith cards. My senior year, we got Dartmouth Basic. Interactive interpreter on terminals. By the time I got out of the AF (three-ish years later), there were mini-computers. Ten years after that, I got my MS using an Apple II and a PC clone (an "Eagle", which leads to a cautionary tale: the day that company IPOed, the founder — suddenly worth $50M or so — bought a sports car and promptly drove off Highway 9 (I think) and killed himself).
Ten years after that we had the Web, and it's been downhill ever since.
It was tragic, really. He exploded on stage. He just was like a flash of green light… And that was it. Nothing was left. It's true. There was a little green globule on his drum seat.
That really is great. I mean, the marine "car" phone would be one thing, but the PDP-11 needed to provide miniscule smarts would be a small trailer, and then there would be the generator you'd need to tow to power the fucker.
The one thing about Western Electric phones, though, was you could hammer nails with them in a pinch.
No one hurt?
C'mon Buckeyes.
well, Michigan lost, so there is that…
Quite sweet that. The beloved, and lame, Illini are undefeated – one and oh.
I watched my high school barely survive on national TV today!
That happens far too often. People really need to do a better job of inspecting their gas grills
We prefer to [ use LOX ] to start our barbie.
/ do not try this at home
This video means that people have been doing crazy things and posting it to the internet for 20 years? Yay, civilization!
Reminds me of that place in Kentucky off the highway called "Red State BBQ"
You'd think that suddenly having most people get access to so much information would have made people more likely to believe truth, but then you look at Donald Trump and realize it's not going to happen.
I'm sure I've said this before, but I learned FORTRAN using Hollerith cards. My senior year, we got Dartmouth Basic. Interactive interpreter on terminals. By the time I got out of the AF (three-ish years later), there were mini-computers. Ten years after that, I got my MS using an Apple II and a PC clone (an "Eagle", which leads to a cautionary tale: the day that company IPOed, the founder — suddenly worth $50M or so — bought a sports car and promptly drove off Highway 9 (I think) and killed himself).
Ten years after that we had the Web, and it's been downhill ever since.
It was tragic, really. He exploded on stage. He just was like a flash of green light… And that was it. Nothing was left. It's true. There was a little green globule on his drum seat.
But think of all the cat videos and porn…
That really is great. I mean, the marine "car" phone would be one thing, but the PDP-11 needed to provide miniscule smarts would be a small trailer, and then there would be the generator you'd need to tow to power the fucker.
The one thing about Western Electric phones, though, was you could hammer nails with them in a pinch.