I have a large mechanical wall clock made by Simplex. Simplex was a division of IBM back when IBM made wall clocks and time clocks for business. Because they are a Business Machine company. I wish it was older and branded IBM, and not branded by the split-off company. As it stands it's kind of like the 1960's version of a Lenovo.

What would be interesting would be to bring the spirit of these old systems into the modern age rather than just replicate them wholesale. Boot into a system which allows you immediate programming

Wow. Who would have guessed that the whole point in the Raspberry Pi is things like that?

I bought the Sandman comic books ("graphic novels"???) as they came out. Didn't start until about issue 17 tho, so I read the first series in digest form.

I worry about what the sausage mill that is Hollywood will do with the stories.

So the special membership card has five punchouts on it?

Comic books? Too long! Three panel comic strips!

I'd hesitate to call John McAfee a libertarian. Libertarians tend to be more dorky, and take themselves seriously.

You seem kind of huffy though, and use the term 'libertarian' similar to the way a Rush Limbaugh listener uses the term 'liberal.' You're a lot alike.

The important part many people seem to miss is that McAfee himself stated right up front that he stopped doing most of that stuff back in 1983. The world has changed a lot since 1983.

Musk might go down in history as the guy who cashed out of PayPal and spent the rest of his life dabbling with hobbies. This decade's Paul Allen. Or he might end up being seen as an updated version of Tucker. It's too early to tell.

They say the way to get into journalism school is to get rejected by the English department. Flunking Calculus helps, too.

Somebody needs to come up with a more effective term to describe TV-oriented appliances. Because the televisions that most people use in their homes don't have tops anymore. The top is more of an edge than a 'top' on modern televisions.

Is there any angle a tard like you can take to blame Bush for this? That's your homework assignment.

I have a training video for how to edit your ~/.fvwm/.fvwmrc file available for those who don't want to get caught on the Gnome/KDE Hat update treadmill.

Which Microsoft compiler is fully compliant with the current ANSI C or C++ standard?

Continually buying new updates of closed source binaries is 'running it like a business'??

One would think that, like filing cabinets, desks, etc., functions like email and document storage would converge into something very durable and unchanging. Instead we've accepted the notion that software vendors should throw it all away with each version update and start over, rather than patch and maintain software so that it converges into something better with each update.

But, this is a site chock full of people who make their business selling the same stuff over and over (IT types) so it's not surprising to see the 'throw it away and buy something new' sentiment very supported here.

The NetBSD ports collection, pkgsrc, has been ported to Slackware.