Heh.
Yay!
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tommyrot - Jan 09, 2007 3:37:42 am PST #73 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
tommyrot - Jan 09, 2007 5:17:44 am PST #74 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Here's an ad for a new computer (OK, the ad is a little old - from 1952)
sensational new “fact-power” unleashed by Remington Rand UNIVAC
Yesterday, “impossible”… today, an accomplished fact —
Now, for the first time, a commercial or industrial firm can have — first thing any morning — complete facts and figures, analyzed and summarized, on its previous day’s performance … in production, in sales, in procurement or any other major or minor activity.
The almost unbelievable feats of Remington Rand Univac in computing, sorting, classifying and reporting business data enable management executives to formulate “fact-powered” decisions in the merest fraction of the time previously required. Also, highly pertinent analyses and forecasts that were never even attempted before, are now easy and almost completely automatic. Univac has cleared the way for phenomenal improvements in the coordination of business facilities.
And the same versatile Univac equipment helps management multiply clerical productivity many times over in every phase of record keeping and accounting. Univac is just as effective in a job like payroll preparation or cost distribution as it is in complex statistical and mathematical projects.
Do computers come with "fact power" anymore?
Actually, I think it would have been cool to be among the first users of computers like this....
Jon B. - Jan 09, 2007 5:30:25 am PST #75 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
The almost unbelievable feats of Remington Rand Univac in computing, sorting, classifying and reporting business data enable management executives to formulate \"fact-powered\" decisions
If only the Bush administration had one of those...
amych - Jan 09, 2007 5:32:34 am PST #76 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Do computers come with "fact power" anymore?
Maybe that's what the Steve will be announcing today....
tommyrot - Jan 09, 2007 6:13:44 am PST #77 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Is there gonna be a watch-n-post for the Apple Keynote? I'm not gonna follow it myself, but I was hoping someone would post highlights here as they happened.
amych - Jan 09, 2007 6:18:21 am PST #78 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
It looks like I may have to miss today's keynote (and it's the only w-n-p I ever do anymore!). I know that macrumors is planning to have their usual feed updates going.
DXMachina - Jan 09, 2007 6:18:38 am PST #79 of 25496
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Maybe that's what the Steve will be announcing today....
It's... the iVac
tommyrot - Jan 09, 2007 6:19:52 am PST #80 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
It's... the iVac
With the new ivi text editor....
Tom Scola - Jan 09, 2007 7:43:40 am PST #81 of 25496
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
So far we've got the Apple TV thing that they've talked about before, and a wide screen iPod...
tommyrot - Jan 09, 2007 7:44:09 am PST #82 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Huh. Apple's introducing all kinds of stuff....
iTV, widescreen iPod, phone, "internet communicator"
eta: 'widescreen iPod, phone, "internet communicator"' is one device.
(am waiting for boss to get off phone so I can do work)