Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:10:17 07/22/00
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On July 22, 2000 at 05:39:28, Amir Ban wrote: >On July 21, 2000 at 17:34:11, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On July 21, 2000 at 16:38:45, blass uri wrote: >> >>>On July 21, 2000 at 15:29:26, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>><snipped> >>>>I could promise to let you use my quad xeon in a chess tournament, just as I >>>>have done for Vincent several times. And someone higher-up here at UAB could >>>>say "no" and "no" it would be. Beyond my control. >>> >>>If it is something that is not dependent only on you then you should not >>>promise. >>> >>>You can say that you will let Ed to use your quad xeon only if somebody higher >>>will not say no. >> >>Easy to say using 20-20 hindsight. If I say someone can use my machine, I >>don't have any worry that I will get overruled. And I have loaned it several >>times in the past. If I worked for a company like IBM, after having worked >>here for many years, I still might say "yes" and then be surprised when I am >>overruled. It happens. Remember that DT was developed and built by graduate >>CS students at CMU. They were in a grad student environment, in an academic >>environment where openness is everything. They then found themselves in a >>totally different world at IBM... a public corporation with profit motives. >> >> > >Phew, what an argument and excuse for deceit. Let's take it further (sorry for >getting carried away): > >Aren't we lucky that Hsu and Campbell worked for IBM, a company that was merely >cynical and insincere and not much beyond that ? > >Imagine if Hsu and Campbell would have signed for a really evil institution, >like the East German sports ministry. No alternative but to do as they want, and >just following orders. > >Amir Welcome to the "real world". :)
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