Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

You Get What You Pay For

Frakking Google Blogger is running about as slowly tonight for posting and editing as though I was using a 1200 baud modem. I ought to go find a CGA or monochrome monitor.
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2 comments:

Mule Breath said...

Orange text on a green screen suddenly popped into my memory. The Internet was something called "arpanet," and that "modem" was a phone cradle. If the speed was anywhere near 1,200 baud I'd be very surprised.

5/18/2011 10:45 PM
BadTux said...

The phone cradles were 300 baud modems, Mule, that used acoustic coupling rather than the choke-and-capacitor coupling used in modern moderms. The way we dealt with that slow speed (which was mandated by Ma Bell, which refused to allow direct connection of gear to "their" network, even the phones were hard-wired, there were no RJ-11 plugs) was that there were "smart" terminals that allowed you to edit a screen full of data then transmit the whole screen at once, then operate on the next screen of data, so you didn't have to wait for 300 baud responses to e.g. hitting cursor keys. The one I'm most familiar with was the Delta Data 4000, which I used hooked up to a Honeywell mainframe back in, err, olden days, okay? IBM had their 3270 terminal, which operated on the same basic principle, but I avoided IBM mainframes somehow. So anyhow... 300 baud was *slow*, even with smart terminals. Now I have a 5 gigabit per second cable modem. That's faster than the data transfer between CPU's and main memory back then, eeep! Some things such compared to the "good ole' days", but technology ain't one of'em...

- Badtux the Reminiscing Geek

5/19/2011 1:41 AM

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