30 May
2008
30 May
'08
4:34 p.m.
Rich Alderson wrote:
Jim Battle <frustum at pacbell.net> wrote on Wed
Apr 30 10:42:01 CDT 2008:
Rich, I think you are doing good stuff, and Paul Allen is doing
interesting things with his money. No offense was intended.
As an engineer it is always tempting to make fun of the marketing
blandness that creates things like: "Vulcan creates and advances a
variety of world-class endeavors and high impact initiatives that change
and improve the way we live, learn, do business, and experience the world."
Engineers in collusion with patent attorneys produce their own version
of this. In an attempt to create super broad claims, the resulting
overreaching blandness ends up not really describing something specific.
Hopefully, the thought process that has effected a compact yet
meaningful stream of multi-purpose ASCII symbols on your information
display device has conveyed with greater clarity the original
semi-whimsical statement which was formerly intended.
Sellam Ismail wrote:
> Well, here it is, an invitation to apply to your dream job :)
>
> Server Engineer (Vintage Systems)
Who are these people, and what are they doing?
Their website explains
it all succinctly:
Well, in point of fact, there is a website that explains what we are
doing in a great deal of detail. Maybe it's not as much fun to know
that.
http://www.pdpplanet.org/