re: Farewell, Lucentmaterialgirl: 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.
re: Farewell, Lucentmaterialgirl 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.
re: Farewell, LucentJust 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.
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.
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." ----- 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
This is basketball, not football, and California, not Texas/Indiana :-)
-desi