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ant
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siftbotYour video, IBM Selectric Golf Ball in slow motion, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.
iPhone 12 Anti Repair Design...
vilImagine if IBM did this with PCs.
Samsung does not do this AFAIK.
The Most Popular Programming Languages - 1965/2020
Digitalfiend says...How so? I've always found C# docs to be quite a bit better than the equivalent Sun/Oracle's Java docs. Language features like auto-property/fields, Lamda expressions, LINQ, etc have been sorely missed in Java (at least by me) until recently. Admittedly, the C# frameworks are a bit lacking compared to the Java ecosystem though. I will admit that I've had to get back into Java recently for my job and after starting to use IntelliJ, it's actually made Java mor enjoyable.
My programming started with BASIC on an IBM XT back in the 80s and various programming books, mainly just copying the programs as written then trying to modify them. This book in particular was pivotal for me as I loved the old Infocom text adventures of the time:
Write Your Own Adventure Programs For Your Microcomputer:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxv0SsvibDMTYkFJbUswOHFQclE/view
(It looks like these books were released for free by Usborne: https://usborne.com/browse-books/features/computer-and-coding-books/ ... what a nostalgia trip!)
In high-school I learned C and LISP for Autocad programming. I continued to learn about C (plus a little C++) and ASM thanks to John Carmack and DOOM/Quake. Wrote my own computer games (mainly RTS as the Command and Conquer series was big back then) ... nothing great but I thought they were cool.
Dabbled in Java a bit in college but ultimately shifted to C++ and C# after getting a consultancy job and that is what I continued with until recently. Now I'm back into Java and currently trying to catch up on all the front-end Javascript libraries now as well as tinkering with Perl, GO, and Objective-C.
C#? You have my sympathy. That ecosystem TEH SUX!
3-Year-Old Prodigy Plays Against Chess Grandmaster
antHe will beat all the previous chess grandmaters when he grows up, but can the boy beat IBM Watson?
Doom Runs on Everything | MVG
antI played it on my king ant's huge and heavy office IBM P70 portable computer that was a 386 10 Mhz PC. It had a monochrome monitor, internal Hayes 2400 dial-up modem, and no sound card. It was so choppy, but still worth it.
I remember it taking like 3 hours to download. Worth every minute.
Cop Caught On Video Planting Drugs
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Hypersonic Missile Nonproliferation
MordhausAlso, the Japanese planes sacrificed durability for speed, maneuverability, and gun capability. Once US pilots realized this, they exploited the vulnerability because our planes were basically tanks compared to the Japanese ones.
The US had the best rocket program once the Saturn V became available in the 60s.
As of 2018, the Saturn V remains the tallest, heaviest, and most powerful (highest total impulse) rocket ever brought to operational status, and holds records for the heaviest payload launched and largest payload capacity to low Earth orbit (LEO) of 140,000 kg (310,000 lb), which included the third stage and unburned propellant needed to send the Apollo Command/Service Module and Lunar Module to the Moon.[5][6]
The largest production model of the Saturn family of rockets, the Saturn V was designed under the direction of Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, with Boeing, North American Aviation, Douglas Aircraft Company, and IBM as the lead contractors.
To date, the Saturn V remains the only launch vehicle to carry humans beyond low Earth orbit.
Hubris.
WW2 japan had fighters that flew faster, climbed quicker, had bigger guns, and turned quicker (a6m vs f4f). And we had intel reports that told us, but we ignored them because "we have the best stuff and nobody else can compete".
You see the same stuff today with China. China makes all of our microchips, all of our microelectronics, most of which are designed over there anyways (companies here just ask for a widget that does X and Y, and Chinese companies design+make it), yet we act like as if they are some technologically retarded place that only knows how to steal ip.
Russia has been at the forefront of rocketry since ww2. Nobody has systems that compare to their consistency and reliability. Not even the U.S.. The idea that Russia can't make a hyper sonic missile before the U.S., because it's Russia, is a non sequitur.
Also, Russia broke up as a country because guaranteed government jobs for all citizens, where you can't be fired and performance is not important, is going to destroy any economy. No one will produce, shelves will be empty, and money will be no more than paper. Combine that with making private business illegal (preventing people from economically helping themselves), and you have a recipe for economic disaster and social discontent.
This missile exists to swat down carrier groups on the cheap.
We're gonna need some powerful lasers, or our own hyper sonic interceptors, or else proliferation would instantly leave us isolated in the Americas (vis-a-vis power projection via conventional weaponry). Our only option for projecting power would be reduced to nuclear or nothing.
-scheherazade
How IBM quietly pushed out 20,000 older workers
ChaosEnginegood on you IBM... old people are just a drain on resources and they have almost nothing to contribu...
hang on... FORTY!?!?
Forty isn't old! I'm forty! This is some bull shit.
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How IBM quietly pushed out 20,000 older workers
ulysses1904i grew up near Kingston, NY where IBM was the main employer for the mid-Hudson Valley and we all studied hard to get a job there. They closed operations in 1994 and the area will never recover.
How IBM quietly pushed out 20,000 older workers
ant*documentary *history *equality *money *wtf
It's not just IBM. Lots of companies.
Arnold Schwarzenegger Has A Blunt Message For Nazis
JustSayingBASF is a huge german corporation that produced Zyklon B, the gas used in Ausschwitz to kill thousands of people. They're still going strong. It is by far not the only german corporation that benefitted greatly from the Holocaust. Take IBM for example, they delivered card-computing systems to manage concentration camp popula... Oh shit! IBM is american, my bad.
The Bundeswehr, the german military, was run by Nazi Generals in its early years. Just this year there were several scandals concerning Neo Nazis among their ranks.
A lot of people benefited from the atrocities of the third Reich. Don't kidd yourself. Remember, Hitler hired Ferdinand Porsche to develop the Volkswagen. The development of the VW Beetle was started by the Fuehrer.
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BTW....because you seem confused, no one ever was forced under penalty of death to keep slaves, and very few Nazi's families benefited after the fact from having been Nazis....it's not the same thing by far.
The 7th Guest: Official Trailer
antYeah! Original Alone in the Dark 1 was awesome. I remember playing its demo on my IBM PS/2 model 30 286 10 Mhz desktop PC! It was scary.
First, it says "six guests were invited..." then later it's like, "when all the 7 guests have gathered..." Is that an error or am I missing something?
I do remember this game, but I don't remember playing it. Alone in the Dark was more my thing. And Star Control II.
History of Microsoft Paint 1985 - 2017 [LGR Retrospective]
antI remember discovering it in Windows 3.0 on my king ant's work's IBM P70 portable computer. It had orange monochrome colors. Haha. I thought it was neat since after using Apple 2's Dazzle Draw!
Glad to hear they're not completely getting rid of it. MS Paint was my childhood!
Juicero - The 400 Dollar Ripoff Startup
ChaosEngineExactly what does he want anti-trust enforcement on?
He makes a great case for historical anti-trust cases (AT&T, IBM, Microsoft, etc) but he doesn't really specify who he wants to enforce anti-trust against or what it is that they're doing?
Matt Stoller had a good piece on the destruction of Silicon Valley, with this horseshit as a prime example. Without antitrust enforcement, this is what you end up with: playtoys for the oligarchs.