Remember IBM?

[divito]

IBM, after leaving behind most of the consumer offerings, mainly reside in the R&D space of cognitive, cloud, and IoT computing.

[IBM_THINKPAD_R51]

3 hours ago, manikyath said:

they've been doing this:

https://www.top500.org/system/177556

Woah!

[manikyath]

28 minutes ago, yathis said:

I am an ethical buyer, prefer not to buy from companies that supported and helped genocide.

like which companies? and how much of that is people not understanding the world versus actual truth?

[yathis]

15 minutes ago, manikyath said:

like which companies?

I linked it, lots did during the world war(s).

[manikyath]

17 hours ago, yathis said:

IBM. IBM custom-build machines for the Nazis that they could use to track everything... from oil supplies to train schedules into death camps to Jewish bank accounts to individual Holocaust victims themselves.

that's what IBM did at the time, they made "buisiness machines", AKA machines that made the office workflow easier, the fact they sold them in germany doesnt mean they support the holocaust. they just did what their company does.

17 hours ago, yathis said:

Henry Ford is a pretty legendary anti-Semite

something something the views of one person dont reflect the views of a company? i mean, linking this to today's ford is about as realistic as saying all of today's germans are nazi's.

[yathis]

Whatever bruh

 

They knowingly sold out, and the companies knew who they were selling to.

Heck everyone knew what Hitler was doing even in the very beginning.

[LAwLz]

IBM is still massive.

Number of employees:

IBM - 386,558

Microsoft - 120,849

Google - 47,756

 

Right now, they mostly do cloud computing, consulting and IT infrastructure (as far as I am aware). They sold their x86 server and client business to Lenovo, but they still have their POWER servers.

They also do quite a bit of software stuff, IoT, storage and a lot of other stuff.

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, yathis said:

Whatever bruh

 

They knowingly sold out

here, this suits you:

 

my point stands:

23 minutes ago, manikyath said:

how much of that is people not understanding the world versus actual truth?

 

[The Sloth]

4 minutes ago, manikyath said:

here, this suits you:

 

my point stands:

 

 

 

 

 

 

i know you are trying to use logic on him but sometimes some things on the internet is not worth arguing over. let him live his life, we all cringe over what we did when were 14/15.

[manikyath]

Just now, nerdslayer1 said:

i know you are trying to convince him but sometimes some things on the internet is not worth arguing over. let him live his life, we all cringe over what we did when were 14/15. 

probably true

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

What I find that's disappointing with the whole Lenovo acquisition of the ThinkPad line is that it seems as if it's now targeted for hipsters that spend their entire time at a coffee shop. I blame this on the surge of success Apple has had with their MacBook Pros in the past decade. From phasing out the bulging battery pack that acts as a grip when balancing the computer on one arm, to straying away from the tried and true keyboard design for a MacBook inspired one.

[LogicalDrm]

16 hours ago, yathis said:

I am an ethical buyer, prefer not to buy from companies that supported and helped genocide.

I hope that also applies to companies which destroy environment, don't recycle, have poor working conditions and/or use child workers. Like Apple.

[manikyath]

11 hours ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

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i have to say that old thinkpads, along with these concrete slabs from HP:

they have a certain "professional flair" about them, that is oddly lacking in pretty much anything on the market today. it's like the "utilitarian" that used to mean strongly built, many connectivity options, and lots of power under the hood, has changed to meaning "tick enough to have ports" without actually meaning it *has* said ports...

 

my sister's old laptop had microphone, headphone, and line in ports, that doubled as a composite video out directly with cinch connectors. that's the kind of crap we're missing out on today.

[IBM_THINKPAD_R51]

12 minutes ago, manikyath said:

i have to say that old thinkpads, along with these concrete slabs from HP:

they have a certain "professional flair" about them, that is oddly lacking in pretty much anything on the market today. it's like the "utilitarian" that used to mean strongly built, many connectivity options, and lots of power under the hood, has changed to meaning "tick enough to have ports" without actually meaning it *has* said ports...

 

my sister's old laptop had microphone, headphone, and line in ports, that doubled as a composite video out directly with cinch connectors. that's the kind of crap we're missing out on today.

I liked the "Compaq" portion of HP the best. For example the Proliant series of servers (That was form Compaq). 

[RedJohn]

On 3/10/2017 at 6:48 PM, IBM_THINKPAD_R51 said:

I'm just wondering. What has IBM been doing besides WATSON. I cant get a stright/clear answer. Anyone one of those IBMers here also?

 

EDIT: I use the LENOVO Thinkpad P70 in its highest configuration

 

I still have a ibm thinkvision square monitor that i use on my testbench.

[Prysin]

On 11/03/2017 at 3:48 AM, IBM_THINKPAD_R51 said:

I'm just wondering. What has IBM been doing besides WATSON. I cant get a stright/clear answer. Anyone one of those IBMers here also?

 

EDIT: I use the LENOVO Thinkpad P70 in its highest configuration

 

IBM? Blazing the trail on quantum computing, supercomputer clusters, new memory standards (Gen-Z), new manufacturing nodes...

[Drak3]

Yeah I 'member, you 'member?