Electrolytics question

I think my sig made the assumption that people with baby teeth don't smoke yet.

phase instead of neutral? And no it wasn't me. But he's gonna pay for it.

The building I work in is being extended and refurbished (involving rewiring). What would you suggest I do? Apart form insist they stop using Irish electricians?

Did you enjoy the experience?

Actually, yes. They used some pretty good drugs on me. At the time, they could have taken all of my teeth and my tongue too and that would have been just fine with me :)

The first MS product I used was the Z80 card for the Apple II. I wonder who their hardware engineer was. None of the founders who got rich seem to have that kind of hardware knowledge. He must have designed the traffic counter too.

He's saying ATI, the company, sucks and I agree. Their drivers often don't install right, and if you email them the reply sounds like they read only the subject and not the email.

Who knows? It may have been done out of house and done by a consultant, or engineering firm. Most electronics with the microsoft name can be identified as outside designs.

The controller was designed by the founders. It was a very niche market at the time, since most highway departments still used the rubber tube & mechanical counters for each lane. It was still not much more than a hobby level business.

Seems to be adaptive fairy tales - it was only 8 electrolytics in the original post.

Look, dumbfuck, if a hardware maker has issues writing drivers for their hardware that lasts for YEARS, that usually indicates something lacking in the hardware itself.

Humans are different from Campbell family members... at least as it relates to your branch.

I never used the task switcher predecessors. It still seemed a lot like single tasking to me.

I used DesqViewX. It was the first OS that allowed remote processes. I could run an app on another box, and get the screen and keyboard I/O on my local workstation. So I could run things on dormant boxes anytime I wanted a process to complete sooner than it would on my machine.

What would you suggest I do? Apart form insist they stop using Irish electricians?

You're hopeless. Mainly because I should not need to be suggesting anything in such matters.

Have you ever researched their background?

Is Usenet always so packed full of presumptuous dolts?

Now they use other folks' gear and pop their name on it..

Back then, however, everyone's work was all done in house. MS started as a hardware company, and THEN worked into being pretty much strictly software. Hardly anyone shopped out design and development work at that level, and MS went from HW to OSes, and for the longest time, all one could get from MS was an OS or a mouse.

Later, the keyboards, and other products started in, then the xbox. Of course a SOFTWARE company like MS is going to have to have other make their hard products if they want any time-to-market or business efficacy in the product.

In the early years, as a single entity, they dared not take the chance that their designs would get stolen by others.

No. It's packed with callow twirps who like to get into other people's kill files.

Look dumbfuck, no it doesn't. Perhaps they just have inept software people. The people doing the software will not be the same people doing the hardware. Clearly you have no idea how this stuff works.

Bye dumbass.

PLONK!

I had them all removed at once, and was so bruised people kept asking if I got beaten up.

The surgery was fine, thanks to the drugs, but a week of having my jaw so sore I could barely open it was not. I lost 10 pounds that week (it was during my 4000 calorie-a-day youth).

What good is the absolute best hardware in the world if the drivers are bad/buggy? Are you going to write your own drivers?

I suppose that's one way to interpret it. As teenagers Bill Gates and Paul Allen had a little company called Traf-O-Data.

It wasn't contiguous, though, as Paul Allen was 2 years ahead of Gates and went off to Washington State University. He meet up with Gates again when he went to work for Honeywell in Boston and was ostensibly who convinced Gates to leave Harvard and form Micro-Soft.

Bill Gates wrote the BASIC interpreter at Harvard and then, after convincing MITS to sell it with their Altair machines, left Harvard, moved to Albuquerque (where MITS was located) and, along with Paul Allen, formed Micro-Soft, later changed to Microsoft.

More like clearly you do not as no piece of hardware I ever designed got out the door without proper software and firmware, etc. for it. It makes no difference that the team member between the two segments of the design is another person. The point is that it is a team, dumbshit.

You're an idiot.

Filter file edit session announcements... more proof that you're an idiot.