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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-09-09 10:12 PM Original message |
End of an era. These will probably be the last two Nobel Laureates from Bell Labs. |
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The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-09-09 10:18 PM Response to Original message |
1. It was funded by the profits of the Bell System. |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-09-09 10:21 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. And unquestionably, the Bell System profited as well. |
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The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-09-09 10:27 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. THere was actually a time where the profits went back into the company |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-09-09 10:35 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. True dat. I wish I had some remedy for the bland and blank consumerism of our culture, but... |
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jeffbr (377 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-09-09 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
3. The MBA-driven atmosphere also produced frauds like Jan Hendrik Schön |
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CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-09-09 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
4. This is such sad news. |
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cliffordu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-09-09 10:27 PM Response to Original message |
6. The real life GENIUSES at Bell Labs are why you have an internet today - |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 12:41 AM Response to Original message |
8. Hey I met Shockley. And when a 6 pt + earthquake rattled Intel |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 02:44 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. I've heard he was a real ass in person. Of course he was a real ass in public as well. |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 01:05 AM Response to Original message |
9. Acatel-Lucent's announcements was one of the biggest obscenities of that whole year |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 02:10 AM Response to Original message |
10. When I was growing up a scientist lived next door- worked for Bell Labs |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 02:45 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. That must have been very cool. |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 03:37 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Yes ..... it was like visiting a real 'mad' scientists den |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 06:33 AM Response to Original message |
14. The demise of Bell Labs is sad, but you've got most of the economics & business history wrong |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 01:10 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. I couldn't care less about the "business" end as I have made my contempt for MBA |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 02:48 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. You say: |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 03:02 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. 'I couldn't care less about the "business" end ' |
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n2doc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 10:07 AM Response to Original message |
15. +100 |
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gtar100 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 07:41 AM Response to Original message |
19. minor spelling correction - the company is "Alcatel", now Alcatel-Lucent |
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