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Dell Extends Gateway Amnesty
As a person who's owned no less then four GW machines, two Dells, and now have two VA, one DIYS, and one IBM Thinkpad, I found the SatireWire about the Dell-Gateway Amensty pretty amusing.
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A friend of mine sold Dell motherboards when he was building them in his dorm room at UT. That was his DWIS that he sold to other dorm students that wanted a "clone computer." He never sold much equipment until he advertsed with PC Mag. in the early 80's. Gatway didn't start advertising on PC Mag. until the late 80's after they saw Dell's success. Another company similar to GW came along at the same time called COMPUADD. COMPUADD went under when they started building stores everywhere,just like Gateway2000 is doing now. DELL is still a mail order deal. I think building your own equipment is still a good idea, but if I were buying from someone who built it for me, I would not pick a company who did not learn from history.
Doesn't compare to the criminally negligent homicide charges I was slapped with after thoughtlessly putting a Kingston card into a server.
http://www.eavel.com/
If I had to stop a three machines total, ever . . . *shudder*
If you replace "Dell" with "Democrat/Republican" and "Gateway" with "Republican/Democrat", you get the level of discourse in Washington today.
Potato chips are a by-yourself food.
Funny... I just threw one of those out about 30 minutes ago! Stripped out the parts (1Gig HD, NIC, etc.) and put the case and MB "out to pasture". I rebuild computers for a small school here, and there comes a time when even *I* have to clear out the pile of accumulating STUFF. I'll try to breathe life into a 486/100, but the 33MHz was a little too old even for me.
(Anyone want a fist-full of 1Meg, 30 pin SIMMs?)
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I'm gonna set up a script to scan other news sites and submit their articles to Slashdot. Then maybe at least I'll get karma for it.
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I mean SatireWire of course.
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You're rich, you're happy about it, fuck those poor worthless no talent idiots eh? sigh. I was a poor kid. I started on a c64 that was broken when we got it. The only reason I ever got a PC was because my parents sold the family home that they had spent 16 years paying off so we could move into a rent housing. I struggled, and I wasn't nearly as bad off as some people are. Sure, we went hungry now and then, but some people go hungry all the time. I had reason to learn that funky computer stuff. I'd be damned if I was going to be an unskilled worker with 3 kids.
How we know is more important than what we know.
I have a laptop. I have a work computer and I have a home computer. My brother uses my home computer more than I do. My laptop gathers dust when I'm not on the road. Exactly why do you need that many computers? Surely you know a few deserving people who cant afford a PC. Surely you know someone with kids who slaves to pay the bills. You have the power to get someone (or his kids) started on the track out of poverty.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Still, ocassionally the heart does cry for humor. In a world of ever doubtful stocks, burdened IT workers, and just general scariness of it all ;)... it is nice to just laugh at something every once in a while.
And after all, a little break from the way of things is sometimes what we need to regain our focus.
"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." -- Yogi Berra
I think it is really wonderful that you have come far enough along in your recovery to admit you had 4 Gateways.
I applaud your courage to stand up and share your story with us!
(Michael Dell, in the back of the meeting room, has been brought to tears by this beautiful life affirming moment).
I dunno what happened to that program. I think I may have read an article about the bounty being recinded and gates admitting that it was a bad idea in the first place.... or I could just be remembering a weblog discussion...
john
Resistance is NOT futile!!!
Haiku:
I am not a drone.
Remove the collective if
Imagine all the people...
Ok, this is odd. If this is satire, how come this isn't?
[/sarcasm]
Yeah, what's wrong with him? My only pre-built was my laptop (a CTX; it seemed like a good idea at the time...).
"I'm a scientist! I don't think, I observe!" - Dr. Clayton Forrester
Wake up.
Hold on, someone's at the door...
DT
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Heh, anyone notice that comment at the end of the article about Dell helping IBM with it's exploding Thinkpads? This would sound like further scaremongering, had this exact same thing not been happening to Dell laptops!
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at least i can fucking think"
Minor Threat
Brilliant example of exactly how carefully phrased and worded, innocent sounding lies can completely whip up public craze. You know, ones like "Any company who uses GNU software has to give away everything else they ever write for free!".
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Of course, that's only because the public is so gosh darn easy to manipulate. .
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Exactly.
;)
Funny thing, though: My Information Systems teacher (not that he does any teaching) always gives me this speil about how his most brilliant programmers have always been completely lacking in the English department. As if he's trying to scare me into doing more work.
My response: "The only thing I do better than code is English."
He's lost for words every time
What, me worry?
I understand the funny thing about the article. But, does Gateway had any PR problems which might have inspired this satiric? Because I do remember that IBM had some problems with their TP (I own 2 and I'm looking for my third, thou).
"As a person who's owned no less then four..."
God gawd but when will some of you
figure out that, in the above context, the
word is "than", not "then". Look around on
the Web and you'll see this all over. It's
like those who pronounce especially as "ekspecially".
Written != Spoken!!!
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand". -Milton F.
I hope that Hemos doesn't think that this is really happening?
Exactly!
if you substituted all the terms so that it was MS giving amnesty to users of Linux, the MS freaks would complain that it was too mean spirited. and it would be just a bit chilling, since it would expose the inherent evil in the action a little too forcefully.
Flipping it around so that Linux users would be giving amnesty to MS users would be funnier as a satire.
You realize that with Linux would force MS to innovate. This is an admission that MS has not innovated in the past. a tragic slip of the tongue that reveals the truth
;-)
Check out the Vinny the Vampire comic strip
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
I remember a time (not too long ago) when segfault, satirwire, the onion, and suck all made me laugh until I peed myself.
Did I change or did they?
I make no excuses for the worst of these sites which, I admit, has always sucked in its own charming way.
argh i can't spell. mental resources exahausted due to writing SAT's this morning. wail=wait
...the "Linux is a cancer" comment that Ballmer made yesterday...oh wail, that wasn't satire...
.... Amensty ....
I think an AMEN-STY is a place were pigs pray?
HA HA HA now go back to sleep
That depends on whether Microsoft extends their amnesty program towards Linux....
LedgerSMB: Open source Accounting/ERP
Get drunk and suck cock, just like her mom. (And her dad, too.)
I think she would get loaded first.
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Remember, pot is a Gateway drug, Dell owners perfer crack for some reason.
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