Farewell, Lucent

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desiEngineer 12/5/2012 | 3:33:06 AM

re: Farewell, Lucent "Figured out the Booster Club angle this year, eh? It's politics in team sports just like in business."

This is basketball, not football, and California, not Texas/Indiana :-)

-desi

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DarkWriting 12/5/2012 | 3:33:06 AM

re: Farewell, Lucent ***BTW, he made the team this year.***

Figured out the Booster Club angle this year, eh? It's politics in team sports just like in business.

DW

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Stevery 12/5/2012 | 3:33:05 AM

re: Farewell, Lucent whoops, should have written:

Try firefox + the adblock + filterset.G extensions. You'll never look back.

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Stevery 12/5/2012 | 3:33:05 AM

re: Farewell, Lucent materialgirl: It is one thing to post an ad that may be interesting at the side of the page, but quite another to waste my time with that annoying start-up ad. That behavior can cost you readership.

There are ads on LR? Huh?

Try firefox + the adblock extension. You'll never look back.

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alchemy 12/5/2012 | 3:33:05 AM

re: Farewell, Lucent materialgirl writes:
It is one thing to post an ad that may be interesting at the side of the page, but quite another to waste my time with that annoying start-up ad. That behavior can cost you readership.

No. That behavior will cost you readership.

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kww 12/5/2012 | 3:33:02 AM

re: Farewell, Lucent Just a little historical footnote: with this acquisition, Alcatel also gets the remnants of Automatic Electric (founded by Almon Strowger, the Kansas City mortician that invented the step-by-step switch and customer-dialed telephony), which AT&T bought from GTE in 1989. The only remnant is a development lab at I-17 and Utopia Road in Phoenix.

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DarkWriting 12/5/2012 | 3:32:54 AM

re: Farewell, Lucent ***This is basketball, not football, and California, not Texas/Indiana :-)***

I went through this in CA (golf and baseball, 30 years ago) and my nephew went through it in CO (baseball, 10 years ago). It's a fact of life everwhere particularly since schools don't pay for athletics anymore.

DW

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seabis 12/5/2012 | 3:32:51 AM

re: Farewell, Lucent Sorry, i havent visited this board for a few days.

I meant the portfolio is certainly known to people inside the company. I presume also to its customers.

i misused the word "public", i guess since this board seems quite ignorant about it.

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st0 12/5/2012 | 3:32:48 AM

re: Farewell, Lucent "There may never be another institution like Bell Laboratories, but its legacy will live on. I owe the beginning of my career to Bell Labs. It was the best school I ever attended. Long live its memory."
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Agree with all the assessment. Bell labs down fall is part of FCC's fault and part of the rise of the MBA class (presue of the short term profit at all cost). It is like the levee build by many with hard work, only take few rat-holes to cause the watershed... Good luck ALU. Wish I will live long enough to see another "Bell lab" in US (day dream? may be... againest all the tide). The efficeincy and excellent work in research was breath taking up to early and mid 80s. Long live the glory days of Bell. (hold my LU stock until the bitter end... may be the ALU as the memory of the old days... call me an old fool).
-st

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materialgirl 12/5/2012 | 3:32:47 AM

re: Farewell, Lucent Dear Stevery:
Thank you for the ad-blocking info.

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