On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 06:47:36 -0500, Keyser Söze
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On 2/11/16 9:58 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 20:13:39 -0500, Keyser Söze
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On 2/11/16 8:05 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:50:02 -0500 (EST), Keyser Soze
wrote:

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On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:18:34 -0500, Keyser Söze
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On 2/11/16 2:07 PM, wrote:

He is an Apple guy AKA someone who does not what to know how their
devices work or have any real control over them.

I do find it ironic that in the famous ad, Apple was trying to make
fun of "conformists" when the whole product line is based on
conformity to the point that it has become a cult.


Absurdity built on ignorance. My first two smartphones were android OS
phones, and I ran both of them with advances from the ways that existed
back then to bust out of the OS. When I was interested, I took formal
programming language courses in Pascal and Modula-2. My current iPhone
is almost always running the latest "jailbreak."

I have no compelling interest in tinkering with my android tablet. I
mostly use it as a device for reading books and for playing scrabble and
chess.

I don't have a smart phone or a tablet but I do know a lot of people
who were disenchanted with the limitations of their Apple product and
changed over.
The kid who works for my wife was bragging about his IP-6 and she just
said "got it" when he started talking about all of his new features.

Just because I wasn't a "grunt" in the military doesn't mean I am
ignorant of technology. These days, I learn what I have to learn to
please myself. While you two boys were shoveling coal in the bowels of
some obsolete ship somewhere, I was writing the user manuals for
minicomputers being sold to the Peoples Republic of China to aid in
weather forecasting for agricultural programs. Well, at least that was
their ostensible purpose.

Uh huh.

What "mini computer" were you writing manuals for in 1965?
BTW warships have not used coal since Teddy Roosevelt's Great White
Fleet. I wasn't a snipe anyway. My job was above the main deck. So was
Richard's.
I really tried to learn as many jobs on the ship as I could and there
are a lot of things going on there. (Welding, machine shop, small
boats and the whole ordinance department).
That is where the CG has it all over the Navy. They want you to know
more than one job. Think of it is being a non-union shop.


Oh, sorry. I was the manual writer for the software, the
application program. Might have been a Burroughs or Control
Data. I accessed for testing from a terminal in bethesda.


Since there was a US/China trade embargo going on at the time I find
it hard to believe either of them would be selling computers in China.
I was expecting to hear about some obscure European company.


You have the decade wrong. I don't know where you came up with 1965. I
was still in kollidge pursuing my B.A.

I am just using your slur and exploring it. I was on that ship
"shoveling coal" in 65.

By the time you were writing your "coolie see, coolie do" book I was
pretty deep in the computer business, no matter when that was if it
was before 96.
There is a good chance we may have been in Bethesda at the same time.
Who were you working for there? I only know of a few Control Data
customers and I never even heard about a Burroughs customer there.
IBM had a little competition in the peripheral business but we pretty
much had the mainframe business locked up in Montgomery County



Sorry, I don't keep your CV handy.

Your ignorance of the facts never seems to keep you from talking about
lots of things.