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  1. TV Show Talk
    Back in the 70s we went to see Taxi Driver with a friend and his wife who was an Art History major. After the show I made a comment about what a great movie it was and how good it felt to see De Niro clean up the cat house. The friend's wife commented that the real moral of the movie was that...
  2. TV Show Talk
    The Ltjg Engineering Officer fixed everything himself while the ChEng was recovering. Another nit :grin: - the writers confused naval officers with merchant marines where the engineering officers actually work on the main plant machinery.
  3. TV Show Talk
    And it was on station there for 4 months without refueling or replenishing. Amazing. And it was able to make a full power run to Gitmo at the end of that time. :grin:
  4. TV Show Talk
    I'm sure they still have a design team for custom products but I'd guess that they're using foundaries for wafer processing like most other companies. Maybe they are still using an old facility for legacy products. Back in the early 70s when 10um line width and gate lengths and single level...
  5. TV Show Talk
    I worked for a company named Synertek in that era. Our standard product line was the 6502 microprocessor family and various ROMs. Our 2 main customers were Apple and Atari and we were the fastest growing semiconductor company in the valley for 2 years. Then came 1984, Apple switched from the...
  6. TV Show Talk
    It's interesting that the show misses badly on some details involving technology but nail obscure stuff like this.
  7. TV Show Talk
    There's a sequel for the show in the early planning stages. Cameron ends up marrying a guy named Lerner, changes her name to Lois, and begins a career in government with the IRS.
  8. TV Show Talk
    I also agree. Thinking back to the opening scene when he ran over the armadillo there have been several similar strange things shown. Maybe they're trying to imitate the Coen Brothers. I'm going to try to watch tonight's episode with a less critical eye on the details but it's hard to do...
  9. TV Show Talk
    I will. I agree that technical savants are stereotyped as lacking in communications skills and in a lot of cases it's true. I also think that they can communicate verbally a lot better than she did when she said that "GOTO executes the next line but GOSUB needs a RETURN". Her scribblings all...
  10. TV Show Talk
    In addition to the other negative comments the tech jargon was pure jibberish. Even the answer to the question about the difference between GOTO and GOSUB was bad.
  11. TV Show Talk
    Second episode was OK but a littlte too melodramatic for me. My main complaint about technical accuracy was the BIOS which was also the main topic of the show. Gordon has a copy of the IBM BIOS which he supposedly reverse engineered from the PC they bought. In reality he should have written a...
  12. TV Show Talk
    My first thought was also Compaq, Stuart.
  13. TV Show Talk
    I worked at Intel in the late 70s and early 80s when the 68000 vs 286 war was on. The 68000 was a superior architecture and the instruction set was very DEC like which made it a natural for users. It should have taken over but for the superior management at Intel. Andy Grove, the CEO at the...
  14. TV Show Talk
    I spent 37 years in the semiconductor business and was pretty impressed with the writing of the show. I think they took a little director's license with the reverse engineering scenes but they got the concept of reverse and forward engineering the software dead on. I worked for a company that...
  15. Hopper System Support Forum
    I got this on 2 Hoppers on Aug 6 and don't see any changes from S400. The announcement screen even looked like the S400 announcement. Joeys stayed at S298.
  16. General DISH™ Discussion
    A new insight into an old thread: Yesterday's WSJ had an article about this. It seems that Charlie formed a dummy corp, SP Special Opportunities LLC and purchased more than $1B of LightSquared bank debt, lots of it at 50 to 60 cents on the dollar. If the Dish purchase goes thru $1.7B would be...
  17. IPTV Hardware
    I didn't know what the thing did but I had a credit in my Amazon account so I ordered one yesterday. They were out of stock but promised me one when they were back in stock. I just heard that Google has canceled the 3 months free Netfilx. It'll be interesting to see if I get it.
  18. TV Show Talk
    Me too. I love The Killing but hated that they stretched the first series to 2 years.
  19. TV Show Talk
    Juarez is third world? I've been to Olangapo City, RP. It's a good show so far. Different characters and plot. I hope it stays fresh.
  20. Hopper System Support Forum
    Like Saberfly says this problem has existed since the H/J introduction. My Hoppers seem to hold local channels better but the Joeys still drop them. I got tired of reporting this to DIRT, Dish CSR, and Dish chat. Hopefully they'll fix it some day.
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