Posted on 08/22/2023 7:42:20 AM PDT by Brookhaven
I load the “10-day Forecast” and Windy.com together.
A potent 1-2 punch for geeks.
“Yes, and at a loss of 50% of what they paid for it 7 years ago. Great business model.”
Yup—promoting executives after they make stupid decisions leads to more stupid decisions.
If you fire them the other execs get the message.
Instead they get a bigger bonus and a promotion.
BTT
DIVERSICATION!
I had no idea IBM still existed. Didn't they go out with Pam Am?
I use their 10 day forecast for local temp, humidity, dew point, wind, etc. I have it zeroed in on a weather station a couple miles from me. Usually fairly accurate. You can customize it for a variety of information. It shows as a graphical output with an hourly spread. Just float your curser over it and it gives you numerical outputs.
Anyone that uses anything "better" I'd like to know.
I remember all of that. We had one of the first Thinkpad, as well as an IBM Selectric.
Weather Channel went downhill for weather after Al Roker destroyed their original format.
Will miss the other non-weather shows.
“Made the space suits in “2001 A Space Odyssey”.”
My father was an engineer tech at IBM for thirty years (retired in 1984). He worked on the Apollo project as did many other “beamers’ in the area. They were very proud their role in NASA, and the community was so vested in IBM that schools closed so that we stay home to watch the launches on our grainy black and white TVs.
Ditto everything you said...
Accuweather is waaay better. Also a cable channel with app.
ESG data?
WTF???
Yes, because that is the division that is worth something.
Having been through this a few times, being the profitable division sometimes means you are sold to support the “real” business.
IBM’s market capitalization - stock value X share outstanding, has grown, not shrunk, as they have kept reinventing themselves. One former CEO said it best about IBM, that among its greatest assets is its people, its talent, and its internal knowledge base, and with those it can change and adapt as needed, and still return a good return to stockholders. I think they have done that.
https://people.umass.edu/~kazemi/Is%20US%20Stock%20Market%20Overvalued.pdf
Well they stopped being “The Weather Channel” years ago so..,,
Were you around in 1980 when IBM had 80% or more of the worldwide computing market and were getting sued by the DOJ for anti-trust violations ??
They are like HP basically two once great companies who are shells of their former self , I’ll give them credit for actually surviving when the majority of their competitors from that era haven’t
It’s like owning the Weather Channel, which has nothing to do with the computer industry and indicates a company who makes investments in things that have no connection to the core business
Wish they’d spin it off so it could be run like it used to be. Do not want any climate bullshite on the map or forecast, but with some smart AI guys it ought to be possible to do some really interesting microclimate things with the network of personal weather stations.
I wasted six years of my life at IBM.
Management was dominated by ex-salesmen who thought anyone who wasn’t a former member of the “One hundred percent club” (who made their sales quota) could not be management material.
IBM absolutely “owned” the computer business and then lost it (and much more) to startups like Dell, Microsoft, and others.
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