I wish I could've been there...
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when Xerox PARC was demonstrating its windowing GUI to Steve Jobs. when the Windows 95 team finally said "this it the build we're shipping" Do you have any monumental moments in computing history that you wish you could have seen in person? --Mike-- "I'm working really, really fast at the moment, so a 3 minute outage becomes, due to time dilation, a 5 minute outage." -- Chris Maunder, relativistic system administrator Ericahist | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber
Michael Dunn wrote: Do you have any monumental moments in computing history that you wish you could have seen in person? A chat with Lady Ada Lovelace, maybe? ;)
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peterchen wrote: I'd marry you If you can walk on your hands and grow a beard, let's talk....;P
"The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb;
but the Lamb will not get much sleep..."
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When the first transistor was demonstrated working. Yeah, I'm an engineer :)
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
On a purely selfish note, I would have liked to have been around when automated boat loaders were commonplace in wafer fab facilities. They introduced them at my old workplace just as I was defecting to software development. Loading manually, and timing the load was a PIA. More than once I saw people taking a sneaky look around and whamming the boats in at a speed that was *not* recommended. Of course, I would never have done that. Debbie
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when Xerox PARC was demonstrating its windowing GUI to Steve Jobs. when the Windows 95 team finally said "this it the build we're shipping" Do you have any monumental moments in computing history that you wish you could have seen in person? --Mike-- "I'm working really, really fast at the moment, so a 3 minute outage becomes, due to time dilation, a 5 minute outage." -- Chris Maunder, relativistic system administrator Ericahist | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber
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weird requirements! The walking-on-hands-thing... um, I wonder if I shoudl even try...
"Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS
sighist | Agile Programming | doxygenpeterchen wrote: um, I wonder if I shoudl even try... Definitly don't think about it. Wipe all memory of this from your mind. Regardz Colin J Davies
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To be there when the Lotus Notes team said its ready to go, so I could have shot them all, and burned the building down. ;)
"Je pense, donc je mange." - Rene Descartes 1689 - Just before his mother put his tea on the table. Shameless Plug - Distributed Database Transactions in .NET using COM+
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To be there when the Lotus Notes team said its ready to go, so I could have shot them all, and burned the building down. ;)
"Je pense, donc je mange." - Rene Descartes 1689 - Just before his mother put his tea on the table. Shameless Plug - Distributed Database Transactions in .NET using COM+
Giles wrote: To be there when the Lotus Notes team said its ready to go, so I could have shot them all, and burned the building down. I would gladly provide you a nuke :) ORACLE One Real A$#h%le Called Lary Ellison
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when Xerox PARC was demonstrating its windowing GUI to Steve Jobs. when the Windows 95 team finally said "this it the build we're shipping" Do you have any monumental moments in computing history that you wish you could have seen in person? --Mike-- "I'm working really, really fast at the moment, so a 3 minute outage becomes, due to time dilation, a 5 minute outage." -- Chris Maunder, relativistic system administrator Ericahist | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber
The moment God created salesman. Thats the moment I would like to witness, and then be able to unload a couple .44 rounds into that first born salesman. *twitch*
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRoger Wright wrote: Personally, I'm seeking a red-headed, double-breasted mattress thrasher
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Giles wrote: To be there when the Lotus Notes team said its ready to go, so I could have shot them all, and burned the building down. I would gladly provide you a nuke :) ORACLE One Real A$#h%le Called Lary Ellison
Daniel Turini wrote: I would gladly provide you a nuke So what if we are a little late, lets just do it now. :-D
"Je pense, donc je mange." - Rene Descartes 1689 - Just before his mother put his tea on the table. Shameless Plug - Distributed Database Transactions in .NET using COM+
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The moment God created salesman. Thats the moment I would like to witness, and then be able to unload a couple .44 rounds into that first born salesman. *twitch*
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRoger Wright wrote: Personally, I'm seeking a red-headed, double-breasted mattress thrasher
Paul Watson wrote: and then be able to unload a couple .44 rounds into that first born salesman. Why not kill the source? :evil-grin: -- Now we live in a world of uncertainty Fear is the key - to what you want to be You don't get a say, the majority gets it's way You're outnumbered by the bastards till the day you die...
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The moment God created salesman. Thats the moment I would like to witness, and then be able to unload a couple .44 rounds into that first born salesman. *twitch*
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRoger Wright wrote: Personally, I'm seeking a red-headed, double-breasted mattress thrasher
But then, we'd have missed Dustin Hoffman's fabulous performance in "Death of a Salesman". did you get my e-mail, regarning the CPP update? We need a name for that thing, you know?
"Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS
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Daniel Turini wrote: I would gladly provide you a nuke So what if we are a little late, lets just do it now. :-D
"Je pense, donc je mange." - Rene Descartes 1689 - Just before his mother put his tea on the table. Shameless Plug - Distributed Database Transactions in .NET using COM+
Amen to that - bring on the hatchets and flame throwers and let's kick some Lotes ass! Down with Lotes!!!! Lotes == Lotus Notes ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)!
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when Xerox PARC was demonstrating its windowing GUI to Steve Jobs. when the Windows 95 team finally said "this it the build we're shipping" Do you have any monumental moments in computing history that you wish you could have seen in person? --Mike-- "I'm working really, really fast at the moment, so a 3 minute outage becomes, due to time dilation, a 5 minute outage." -- Chris Maunder, relativistic system administrator Ericahist | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber
When Jobs decided to make apple a closed system. Then I would laugh at him.:laugh:
..........Zack.......... Developer Extraordinaire && Full Time Geek
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." - George Carlin "I will stand on my side of the fence, reguardless of the circumstances or the consequence." - Monoxide GCS\P\SS d- s-:- a-- C++$ U--- P--- L- E- W++ N o K-? w+++ O++ !M-- V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5+ X+ R++ tv++ b++ DI++ D+++ G+>G++++ e* h- r++ y+
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On a purely selfish note, I would have liked to have been around when automated boat loaders were commonplace in wafer fab facilities. They introduced them at my old workplace just as I was defecting to software development. Loading manually, and timing the load was a PIA. More than once I saw people taking a sneaky look around and whamming the boats in at a speed that was *not* recommended. Of course, I would never have done that. Debbie
Debs wrote: Of course, I would never have done that. :rolleyes: Of course... ;P
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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Amen to that - bring on the hatchets and flame throwers and let's kick some Lotes ass! Down with Lotes!!!! Lotes == Lotus Notes ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)!
Why do I have this image of Lotes being developed in a Transylvanian castle, the system booted up on a dark and stormy night.... The tigress is here :-D
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:laugh::laugh::laugh: So sad cameras weren't invented yet, I would have loved to see pictures of such a scene :-D
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"Zog lose again!Aaarrghh!" "Bad blue screen" BashBashBash! "Zog go hunt. Less stressful." Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
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"Zog lose again!Aaarrghh!" "Bad blue screen" BashBashBash! "Zog go hunt. Less stressful." Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
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When Jobs decided to make apple a closed system. Then I would laugh at him.:laugh:
..........Zack.......... Developer Extraordinaire && Full Time Geek
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." - George Carlin "I will stand on my side of the fence, reguardless of the circumstances or the consequence." - Monoxide GCS\P\SS d- s-:- a-- C++$ U--- P--- L- E- W++ N o K-? w+++ O++ !M-- V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5+ X+ R++ tv++ b++ DI++ D+++ G+>G++++ e* h- r++ y+
That would be a good laugh! Matt Newman
Sonork: 100:11179 "Two things have come out of Berkley, Unix and Acid, we do not belive this to be a coincidence"
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when Xerox PARC was demonstrating its windowing GUI to Steve Jobs. when the Windows 95 team finally said "this it the build we're shipping" Do you have any monumental moments in computing history that you wish you could have seen in person? --Mike-- "I'm working really, really fast at the moment, so a 3 minute outage becomes, due to time dilation, a 5 minute outage." -- Chris Maunder, relativistic system administrator Ericahist | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber
To have been at the side of Lady Augusta Ada Lovelace when she "wrote" the first program of the modern age to calculate Bernoulli numbers. PS: My first post in CodeProject... Yippee! :-O -- mars@littlelifeforms.ch --