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Did I read somewhere that the theft of the BIOS is somehow rooted in Microsoft doing something similar to a smaller company (QDOS?), making a few changes and selling it IBM for their PCs? The hardware part...I dunno. Never even saw a Compaq until about 1986, everything else in our middle school computer "lab" was so heavy they didn't bother to bolt it down.

Can't disagree with anything said. Nice to have a fully-contained episode, plus some side scenes that advance the larger story arc.

Technically, I think Jean would be Travis' beard. But since he is clearly subservient, he might also be her cuckold, kept man, boytoy, gofer, whatever. I always though that was the point. The are good at what they used to do--build large network infrastructures. It's all they are used to. They probably read about other computing concepts in college or from magazines. We can all add and subtract, but do you remember any calculus from high school? They're being asked to radically change how they think and approach their professions. Which for a lot of techies, is their life. BTW, one question about internet history. Someone told me recently that the internet was invented at UCLA (their alma mater). I always though the first package-switching network was beta-tested at UCLA and a few other uni's on the West Coast, but it was developed by BBN. And wasn't that also back in the 1970s?

Some fellow watchers are debating whether Joe is actually bisexual, or just hell-bent enough to get his way that he would...ahem...putt from the rough to turn away a venture capitalist that he didn't like. Either way, the character is just going 5 directions a minute. Some of this needs to be addressed soon, or they will fizzle out in a sea of weird memes and obscure tech talk.

John still doesn't know anything about personal computing. Remember when he asked Cameron the difference between a GOTO and a GOSUB/RETURN loop? Heck, I remember that from 8th grade. :-) And IIRC, Cameron's almost-tattoo was Black Flag.

George was a very accomplished man: latex salesman, porno actor Buck Naked, he even told us in The Race that he had finished the recent addition to the Guggenheim Museum. Not to mention marine biologist. :-)

The Shoes episode is on tonight. "Get a good look, Costanza?" BTW, the girl was/is Denise Richards.

There's difference between "owns" and "mortgaged to." "Owns" = has title to/legal ownership of. Much like having the Deed to real estate or to an airplane hull. "Mortgaged to" = pledged a security interest in said property for consideration. And just the same as the bank holding the mortgage to your home, banks and lenders cannot tell you to replace the leaking faucet in the kitchen any more than a bank holding a perfected marine mortgage can tell you where to go fishing. You don't pay = you default on your loan agreement, and the mortgagee can exercise their security interest when and only when that happens. Do you walk around telling people you own your home, or do you tell them Wells Fargo Bank owns it? I don't get the beef with Josh Harris? That he's using DC to get some extra money for the boat? Of course he is. They ALL are.

1. Disco does not own the Corneila Marie. 2. Trident Seafoods does not own the Cornelia Marie. 3. Cornelia Devlin no longer has an ownership interest in the vessel. Here we go: 1. The CM is owned by F/V/ Cornelia Marie, LLC, a Washington corporation https://alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/ram/daily/cratfcvp.csv 2. The members of that corporation are Joshua Harris and Phil Harris Enterpises, Inc., a Washington corporation http://www.sos.wa.gov/corps/search_detail.aspx?ubi=602258633 3. The owners of that corporation are Joshua Harris and Jacob Harris http://www.sos.wa.gov/corps/search_detail.aspx?ubi=601295042 4. Joshua Harris personally owns at least 2 crab rationalization quota permits.

We used to tear off the guide holes in the dot-matrix printer paper and use them for spitballs. :-)

We had to study BASIC in 8th grade (1983) on Commodore 64s. We had a PC at home (think it might have been an Acer) that ran WordPerfect Someone had a HUGE game written in BASIC called B-52, a totally command driven game where you guided a B-52 over Russian and nuked various cities. over 60,000 lines of for/next loops, Gosubs, Data sets, and more Goto commands than a COMDEX. BTW...anyone keeping track of the songs featured during the show? This week I distinctly heard Boz Scaggs and Bad Brains. Last week I definitely heard The Clash, and maybe The Human League (???)

The unfulfilled sexual tension between coworkers has been done before, I'm thinking of The X Files specifically.

Hehe. That's the introduction to the Bugs Bunny Roadrunner Show. IIRC, the lyrics run: Overture, curtains, lights This is it, the night of nights No more rehearsing and nursing apart We know every part by heart. Overture, curtains, lights This is it, the height of heights And oh what heights we'll hit On with the show this is it. Sorry, couldn't resist And remember the pez dispenser in The Pez Dispenser was Tweety? :-)

Yes, it was. All the Who intro songs have been mangled by CBS. By the end of CSINY, "Baba O'Reilly" was edited down to "Out here in the fields/I fight for my meals/I get my back into my livin'." So were the others. Imagine someone not knowing The Who reading what the full lyrics or "Won't Get Fooled Again," or that "Who Are You" was about Pete Townsend waking up drunk after a bender trying to sell the group's recording rights.

I meant watching the show. But of course there will now be an endless stream of pickup lines centered around "hard" drives, CAPS LOCKS, trojans, and Fire-foxy. ;-)