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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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First, there was Hewlett-Packard, a company that existed from 1939 to 2015. After that, it was split into HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
HP inc. sells computers and stuff like that, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise sells servers, storage, networking and AI stuff.
Yeah, but stuff like this is pretty normal, isn't it? companies change form all the time, doesn't mean they have to change what they do. Hewlett-Packard started out by making scientific equipment, so you might say they had already changes into something unrecognisable when they sold their science equipment branch.
Totally agree. Companies that manage to survive more than a few decades need to adapt. Usually, this means trying a variety of things to see what works.
Eventually, the company may choose to split a certain department into a separate company. When that happens, it usually gets a very distinct name. HP just decided to go with a very confusing way to name those two companies that are supposed to be completely separate.
Yeah, the most prominent examples:
Motorola spun off its cell phone division (despite being the company that invented the cell phone and the clamshell cell phone) and sold it to Google, who sold it to Lenovo. So Motorola phones, under the Motorola Mobility name, don't have anything to do with the radio and electronic equipment company that is currently known as Motorola Solutions.
Volvo spun off its car division and sold it to Ford, who sold it to Geely, and kept the truck business. So Volvo trucks are made by a different company under different ownership from Volvo cars.
Are you talking about Hinge-Problem?
...you're thinking about HP sauce aren't you?
Just like Rolls Royce (jet engines) and Rolls Royce Motor (automotive) haven't had anything to do with each other since the 70s.
HP used to be called something else. Started with an A. They made the spinoff company for reasons I can't recall. It didn't work out too well. So IIRC they renamed it to HP, while Hewlett-Packard went on to do corporate/government stuff.
HP is the one that makes all the laptops, PCs, and printers you know and love to hate. Though, I heard their laptops were good. Still went with Asus for my previous laptop and last Windows laptop. Happy MacBook Air user now, as I always should have been. Windows laptops never made any sense to me, but they were familiar so I bought a few of them over the years until I learned better. (Should have at least put Linux on them. Oh well, you live and learn.) But the Asus outspec'd the HP in many ways, it was just uglier (plum shell with gold hinges, ugh... vs silver and chrome... now I got a "Midnight" (dark blue in some light, black in others) MBA).
You may be thinking of Agilent, a spinoff company for oscilliscopes and such. More info
Yeah, that's the name I was thinking of. Didn't know it wasn't the same.