Now, Rob, wait a minute... also having over 30 years experience in the
MV world, I have watched the "progression" from LP to tape to CD to
digital (iPod, etc.), the real advances from kilobytes of memory to
gigabytes, from megabytes of disk to terabytes, and from kilohertz of
CPU speed to gigahertz. Audiophiles are discovered what I have always
believed: the richness of sound of the old vinyl LP can't be matched by
today's digital music, and the LP is enjoying a much deserved return to
glory. I'm glad I didn't get rid of my vinyl collection, although, like
me, it is showing its age.
I wish Rocket all the best. I hope they understand what they really
have. Although I work with Jbase now, I have spent many enjoyable years
working with both Universe and Unidata, and they, like all the other MV
environments I've worked with, make our jobs easy and fun. I've tried
other environments over the years, and have always concluded that I
already had the best the computer world had to offer, so why should I
use something else not nearly as powerful? It may have been around for
many years, but it's ability to adapt to and work with the most modern
of technologies keeps it fresh, flexible and strong. I just wish the
rest of the world could see it.
Best Regards,
Charlie Noah
On 10/9/2009 8:24 AM, Smith, Robert wrote:
At some point, we will hopefully evolve beyond the "old = undesirable" mentality that is pervasive
in our society, and once again appreciate the imagery that "old" things can evoke. As a technician
with over thirty years experience, I have thoroughly enjoyed the journey I have witnessed since the days of
the LP Player...to the iPod of today. What we largely lack today is a sense of history relative to what it
has taken for us to progress to this point...and the imagination to achieve even more phenomenal
accomplishments in the future. Where once our thoughts were expansive and limitless, they are now reserved
and pedestrian. If someone with a sense of history and a determination to use "Rocket" as a means
to evoke the imagery of a time when we thought in grander scales...then they were sadly mistaken. The company
should seriously consider changing its name, otherwise they will be the butt of many a jokes.
My two cents
Rob
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Subject: Re: [U2] U2 is now Rocket U2
IBM is very sixties also. Have you ever been to the Apollo space centre?
All the computers were IBM and the IBM logo is splashed all around the
control room. So I think if you're thinking retro then IBM sits there right
along side Sputnik et al.
Jacques G. wrote:
I wonder what is the marketing idea behind the name "Rocket" ? To me it
invokes late 1950 - 1960's Sputnik/Apollo technology to an epoch when cars
designs were made to look like rockets, when there was a hockey player
nicknamed "Maurice The Rocket Richard" and people watched "Flash Gordon"
on a black and white television.
When I hear Rocket I think "retro" like a LP Player, a typewriter, a
PDP-1.
Wouldn't one want a software product to sound more state of the art ?
Sci-fi hasn't used the term "Rocketship" in decades.
Jacques
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