[rescue] Question: VME SBC on EBay

[Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:10:18PM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> Wouldn't it be more appropriate to picture developers floating in a
> nutriant vat with fiber optic to optic nerver hookups, and also nerve
> hooks ups in the wrist and arms (for capture the signals telling your
> finger to press a key.).

Dream:  as above.

When implemented by Microsoft: optic nerve hookups are shipped with
installation CD that has "hidden" DirectX v21.5 movie of Pamela
Anderson's last Baywatch show in any-angle, slow mo, high resolution
virtual 3d.  However, due to clipping errors, she looks like Madonna
in one of those pointy-bra things.

When implemented by Sun: optic nerve hookups are limited to 8 bit
color, but everything works perfectly.  Eventually they offer a 24bit
hookup, which is pathetically slow.  Five generations of hardware
later, they ship a true color implementation that people can be happy
with.  The optic nerve GUI is still based on a hideous Motif-ish look
and feel.

Reality: 

5% of developers continue to crank out 50-75% of the usable,
working code; 

65% are Optic Nerve Basic programmers who are focused on alternately
a) trying to reprogram the movable, high-intensity lighting to
silhouette the cute female developer's dress against the light, b)
playing the flight simulator embedded in MS Excel 2010, c) frantically
trying to remember what a B-tree is and how it works.

etc. etc.

./patrick