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I just saw in another thread that you have a toddler. Joli Bear has recently developed a nasty habit, six months ahead of schedule - My way or the highway.
I will try duct tape.
I just saw in another thread that you have a toddler. Joli Bear has recently developed a nasty habit, six months ahead of schedule - My way or the highway.
I will try duct tape.
Katia is almost 18 moths old and she makes my world go round. I'm pigheaded too, but nothing could have prepared me for the strength of conviction she frequently displays.
Thanks for the duct tape tip. Now that beating them is about to be made illegal here (that's what attracted me to this thread's title), I'm doing research into alternative "best practices" in parenting.
This is why some innovative company, possibly MS, should create a way to use all the pcs on your private lan for CPU power. Say you have 5 machines in your house, 2 have users sitting at them. Those 2 pcs should benefit from the CPU cycles of all 5. I think this would easily be possible for a large company to develop. Basically, all the CPU power of all machines should be available to any single machine or spread evenly if all are in use.
Intel and AMD would get pissed off because their sales would drop regardless of how great their latest and greatest is. People just wouldn't have a need for any further CPU bandwidth. Not for a really, really long time.
Hi all
When I was a young kid and got taken to Church on Sundays I remember a very well known hymn - the English translation is approximately as follows
.....Empires rise and sink like billows -- vanish and are seen no more.......
This is also true of corporations.
MS is fine now - but in 100 years or whatever (maybe even in 20) other developments will certainly arrive which will totally "obsolete" todays products.
Who knows what tomorrows "Garage tinkerers" will come up with -- "Texting" was initially added to mobile phones as a way of using up some spare bandwidth - nobody at the time foresaw that "texting" would make nearly as much money as the main "phone" type of application.
And the Hymn was correct with empires -- Ancient Greek, Roman, Nazi, British Empire - all now history -- some did give things back to the world others not.
Cheers
jimbo
[QUOTE=Antman
Whatever happened to PARC's ubiquitous computing?[/QUOTE]
It died a slow death in a xerox lab......
Bushnell tried to move it up a notch but could'nt figure out what he had started at ATari, TOS led to DOS and then the ride began.
On stardate 4729.4 the M-5 Multitronic will be born.
A Vulcan Science officer will tell his captain that he has no desire to serve under a computer.
[quote=Adrian;301135]Name dropping.Antman
Whatever happened to PARC's ubiquitous computing?[/quote said:
I was driving a '76 El Dorado drop top that once belonged to Matt Zuckerman, also of Atari. An 18-wheeler drove over and through the car. At the time, the car belonged to John Snead, president of BSN.
Matt gave the car to John Snead in lieu of $4,000 in a total payment of $25,000 for an agency agreement to sell AT&T SDN. Snead insured the car for $14,000. The insurance company settled for $9,800.
I still have a mangled hubcap from that car.
About Snead - I was on the sales management team at BSN. I wrote INTEGRITY in block letters and hung it on the wall. One day, Snead comes in, sees the sign and says, "Inntuhgritty? What's that?"
Snead hired me because I am a Marine. I doubled my annual income that year. Doubled it again the next year.
Why me. . .