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dingus
07/17/09

In reply to Then and Now: The Hewlett-Packard Family
Why the 43C? The 41C was born in '79 and was probably the most influential model in HP's line for the 25 years that followed. They weren't just calculators but full-fledged computers with pluggable ROM, RAM, and I/O modules. You could get an HP-IL module to hook up a printer, tape drive, lab instrumentation via an HPIB bridge.

The CV version was onboard most '80s shuttle flights as a backup in case the main computers failed.
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Castleknight75
07/17/09

In reply to Then and Now: The Hewlett-Packard Family
i despise HP calculators, they just function so weird...
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dingus
07/17/09

@Castleknight75: Well, that's like, your opinion man.

Seriously, if you're ever doing anything more than the basic 4 functions, give an HP a try. RPN is so much more intuitive than infix once you wrap your brain around it.
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NurseDave
07/17/09

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TGIF! Thank God it's Fucking over for the '79 week at Giz!
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VenomIreland
07/17/09

In reply to Then and Now: The Hewlett-Packard Family
I'm not getting the bottom part of the picture, only down to the bottom of the calculators.
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chuuchdizzle
07/17/09

@VenomIreland: click the link that says "click" and you'll see the whole pic.
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VenomIreland
07/17/09

@chuuchdizzle: Still doesn't work.
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Deoki
07/15/09

In reply to When Tech Gods Were Mortal Men
I am very sad for Torvalds not being there, considering how many things work on Linux these days. Very bad job Giz. You made me (and more readers) very bitter.
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FuzzysFriedChicken
07/15/09

In reply to When Tech Gods Were Mortal Men
No mention of Jobs on LSD?
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gemcosta
07/15/09

@FuzzysFriedChicken: Jobs is very sensitive to this. Giz wouldn't want to bite the ballsack they're licking.
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Chris Tomalty
07/15/09

In reply to When Tech Gods Were Mortal Men
What about Torvalds?
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UnderLoK
07/15/09

@LegoAddict: Maybe when Linux makes it to the desktop ;)
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jrghoull
07/15/09

@UnderLoK:

hahah he does have a point though. though linux is still small in the desktop world, it's used to run alot of commercial and business tech and all the companies mentioned above i'm sure use it to some extent.
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UnderLoK
07/15/09

@jrghoull: Hey, I gave props to Michael Widenius (MySQL) below!
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OMG! Ponies!
07/15/09

In reply to When Tech Gods Were Mortal Men
I solved the Pancake Problem by the time I was 10.

x = P + (P x M oz.) + 2B + E *3 + SB where SB > 5.

P equals the number of pancakes in a stack

M equals Maple Syrup

B equals Butter Pats

E equals Eggs (sunnyside up)

SB equals a Side of Bacon

Any stack of Pancakes is to be covered in a number of ounces of warm Maple Syrup equal to the number of Pancakes plus 2 Pats of Butter plus Three Eggs Sunnyside Up, with a Side of Bacon of no less than 6 rashers of Bacon.

Using this formula, you will have a crazy delicious breakfast and be able to have a rad day sledding and throwing snowballs, providing there is adequate snow to shut down the schools and permit reindeer games.
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DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star.
07/15/09

@OMG! Ponies!: That's great, but did you happen to stumble upon the post-sledding optimum hot-chocolate to marshmallow ratio in your adventures? Remember: for every 8 ounces of cocoa, you must have no less then 10 mini-marshmallows. Real ones, too, none of that freeze-dried crap.
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Grendel
07/15/09

@OMG! Ponies!: Blasphemy!! Outrage!!

I will kindly... provide the correction..

Whereby;

X = n[(P + MP) + B + E + Hb] + [(Sb^n+1) +(Sb)]

=> Whereby

n is a function of number of times ordered based on the Munchies Theorem

Hb Equals a Side Hash Browns

And SB, is a Side of Bacon as function of n whereas Sb>2 with respect (and dictated by) the quantum laws of porker preservation while oak smoke flavor is super saturated by coffee sipping.

But you were 10, so I guess you may be gradually forgiven.

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RamonaAepytus
07/15/09

In reply to When Tech Gods Were Mortal Men
I've actually met and talked with Dean Kamen! It was awesome.
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UnderLoK
07/15/09

@RamonaAepytus: It always amazes me how excited that guy is. If his other ventures didn't work out he could always take over for Oxyclean.
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bosskev
07/15/09

In reply to When Tech Gods Were Mortal Men
Poor Larry Ellison. Even as the fourth richest person in the world he's already forgotten.
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UnderLoK
07/15/09

@bosskev: He is a shrimp compared to Michael Widenius... Not in dollars mind you.
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DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star.
07/15/09

@bosskev: who?
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bosskev
07/15/09

@DeusExMach has jumped the snark: Uh...the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation (think databases), one of the world's largest business software companies?
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DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star.
07/15/09

@bosskev: what corporation?
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bosskev
07/15/09

@DeusExMach has jumped the snark: OK, fine, I fell for it.
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DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star.
07/16/09

@bosskev: heh... Homerpalooza... classic.
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KhaiJB
07/09/09

In reply to Student HP Ad Shows Beautiful Alternate Universe Where Printers Are Fast, Predictable, Musical
the university then declared bankruptcy due to the sudden cost of ink carts billed by their IT dept.
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Sticks Calhoun
07/09/09

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PC LOAD LETTER? What the #$^@ does that mean?
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Jake712
07/09/09

@Sticks Calhoun: +1 excellent
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Tirko™
07/09/09

@Sticks Calhoun: Damn, it feels good to be a gangstah.
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WB
06/20/09

In reply to The Birthplace of Silicon Valley Is a Palo Alto Garage
And look how far they've fallen: Selling inkjet printers using the razor & blades business model, and perverting the intent of the DMCA to protect that model. Selling PCs made with the cheapest of components and refusing to repair them under warranty by invoking the "lightning damage" excuse. (They said that to my girlfriend during a drought; it hadn't rained a drop in 6 months. She got the PC back from them and I only had to replace the power supply to fix it.) HP used to stand for something, but not anymore.
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GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy
06/20/09

@WB: They are also both dead. And IIRC, you can have lightning w/o rain.
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mikeness
06/20/09

In reply to The Birthplace of Silicon Valley Is a Palo Alto Garage
Thats weird, Weezer's garage turned them into rockstars, I guess this is what happens when you leave oscillators laying around.
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GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy
06/20/09

@mikeness: So if I had a garage with girls in it, I'd be successful with them?

Now where are those chains.....
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XavieraEspizzo
04/07/09

In reply to HP Pavilion DV2 Laptop Now Available At A Svelte $749
It's a really cool idea to fill the 10" to 13.3" laptop area. I've been personally looking at that size for some time. The current options tend to be vastly expensive. *Drools as he looks at Lenovo X200* The only real problem (more of a nit pick) is that they're apparently using an older AMD processor. Not a big problem but the newer chips consume less power and are more powerful (supposedly). I've always been more of a Intel fan so I don't really watch to much at the latest AMD chips (and too much Left 4 Dead to play). AMD said that they were to upgrade to newer chips. Even with the older, cheaper chips it's still nice to see something new and interesting in the laptop market.
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sd180
04/07/09

@XavieraEspizzo: it's not an older processor. It's actually one of AMD's newest processor; definitely AMD's newest line of processors. the Neo line is suppose to compete with Intel Atom processors- only, they're suppose to multi task a little better. Thus, running vista and not xp.
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regnez
04/07/09

@sd180:

You're right and wrong. Yes, Neo is AMDs newest line of mobile processors. No, it's not going to compete with Atom, at least not yet.

Neo uses (literally) 6-7 times the amount of power - and produces that much more heat - than Atom. Atom was never really intended to be used as a full-fledged notebook processor; Intel's goal was, and still is, to get it (and the x86 instruction set) into smartphones. Then along came netbooks and screwed everything up, particularly Intel's profits - Atom is not exactly a high-margin piece of kit for Intel.

On paper, and most likely in real life, Neo is much faster than Atom. Neo was designed for ultra-thin notebooks, not smartphones, from the start.
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ZLevee
04/07/09

@regnez: The Neo is intended to target a market slightly above the netbook/Atom market. It's going to be compared to the Atom a lot but AMD didn't attempt to design for those power/heat/performance standards. Better performance with a tradeoff on heat and power consumption is fine for systems this size.
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