OT: I Remember When - Page 3

ZeroAdunn · #21 September 23rd, 2002, 07:35 AM

Nibble was the shi....

Anyways, I loved all that stuff back in the day... I didn't think many people remembered that.

Ahhh, how I remember delving into my fist programming project ever, battleship, with help from nibble. Of course I had to change it so you couldn't win.... It was only fair...

tbontob · #22 September 23rd, 2002, 10:26 AM

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Originally posted by ZeroAdunn:
Nibble was the shi....

Anyways, I loved all that stuff back in the day... I didn't think many people remembered that.

Ahhh, how I remember delving into my fist programming project ever, battleship, with help from nibble. Of course I had to change it so you couldn't win.... It was only fair...

Yeh, those were the days when we did our own programming. Not like today, where almost everything comes canned & off the shelf.

Mylon · #23 September 23rd, 2002, 03:33 PM

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Originally posted by Stone Mill:
Atrocities,

I remember when I was out of work for a brief time. I enjoyed the (brief) leisure but jumped right back in. Now, sometimes I reflect on the percentage of time I spend in my life working for some huge corporation vs. the laughable time I have off... 2 weeks (ack!) I guess the only time you get to reap the rewards of your hard work is when you move to Florida and wheel around with the geriatrics. To me, that is a crime. I wonder how many of those geriatrics actually don't wish that they took a little more time for themselves, friends, and family.

And it's a joke now because companies don't take care of you any more. There used to be an expectation that you got on board with a good company and they would take care of you after many years of service. Now, that's a pipe dream. You will be downsized without a second thought or flat out screwed like employees of Enron who lost their entire pensions due to corruption.

Last but not least, there is no penalty for gross mismanagement, either corporate or public administration. The US has a crappy stance and track record for dealing with white collar crime. At best, these idiots get fired, but there is no help for all the people who are irrepairably financially damaged, such as shareholders or taxpayers. I agree with you Atrocoties, there should be heads on stakes for this.

Companies think about the bottom line. They can pay Mr. Middle Aged Experienced $40,000 to do his job because he's been here for 10 year, or they can "cycle" him out and hire Joe Schmoe for only $30,000. Keeping old employees means less money for the CEO, of course.

Atrocities · #24 September 23rd, 2002, 06:18 PM

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Companies think about the bottom line. They can pay Mr. Middle Aged Experienced $40,000 to do his job because he's been here for 10 year, or they can "cycle" him out and hire Joe Schmoe for only $30,000. Keeping old employees means less money for the CEO, of course.

[RANT]
The company I used to work for called it "scaling" and disposed of most of the senior employees through false terminations, forced retirements, and down right ****ty tactics to make them loose hope and just quit.

Then they were replaced by fresh out of school teenage blond girls who giggled more than they talked, and were very happy to be doing highly dangerous work for minimum wage. [/RANT]

I remember when you could get a large Pizza with everything for $12.99.

geoschmo · #25 September 23rd, 2002, 06:50 PM

[quote]Originally posted by Atrocities:

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I remember when you could get a large Pizza with everything for $12.99.

Heh you still can, but you have to buy 2 and get the second one for half off or some other crappy marketing ploy. Of course you end up throwing the second one away. If you wanted two pizzas you would have bought two to begin with for crying out loud. And you have to ignore the fact that neither pizza is as good as the single 12.99 pizza you used to buy. Part of the price of living in a disposable soceity I guess.

Geoschmo

tbontob · #26 September 23rd, 2002, 08:53 PM

All part of the come-on gimmicks. We encourage it with our dollars, otherwise they wouldn't do it

tesco samoa · #27 September 23rd, 2002, 09:09 PM

Happy to let you know that in Ontario you can still get 1 pizza for that price... But everything would be about 30 toppings

I like the 6.99 walk in special... 3 topings large pizza and away we go...

Gandaph 300 was a modem...

Rack mounted modem LOL Used to use them with the pdp-1....

rdouglass · #28 September 23rd, 2002, 10:08 PM

I remeber when cars used to have 400 ci engines, get about 6 miles to the gallon, and you could still smell 'em the next day....

I remeber when people and companies used to dump raw sewage and chemicals into streams and rivers....

I remember when AT&T used to control ALL the telecom services.

See, IMO not everything is for the worse. And yes, I'm one of the relative old timers here too. My first computer experience was not even on a monitor - everything was a printout on a ROLL of paper - not even perfs...

Some things ARE better.....

ZeroAdunn · #29 September 23rd, 2002, 11:31 PM

Nobody ever said things were all for the worse. The problem is that for everything that improves, something goes wrong... It is a trade off.

Actually, for the longest time I was able to order 4 medium pizzas for 15 dollars. Good pizzas too... but then they took our coupon away

DavidG · #30 September 24th, 2002, 12:00 AM

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Originally posted by Atrocities:

I remember when you could get a large Pizza with everything for $12.99.

I remember when you would buy a small or medium pizza because it was all you were going to eat at it was actaully cheaper. Now I try and I get the old "well sir with our special a large is cheaper"