Get rid of the "bad" people in Congress who are grabbing pork for themselves and their districts... but keep our "good" Congress Critters who are looking out for the best interests of our district.
How may would that leave, approximately? I'm guessing single digits in Congress, and about three in the Senate.
As the saying goes: a statesman is a dead politician, and the nation needs more statesmen.
I want to see him synergize the potentials of win-win scenarios to maximize ROI on buzzword ideation... just like a real CIO. Obligatory Dilbert, and excuse me while I vomit for a little while.
I had a Nokia E70. I hated it at the start, and my hatred for it grew even more over time.
It stank, even in the depths of a Finnish winter. The battery lasted about two or three days from a full charge, provided you did not use the phone; if it was used for half an hour of calls per day, then you got barely a day between charges. The user interface was an utter mess, where it was a challenge to find the setting to control any particular aspect of the phone. It had a web access which was utterly worthless. Even with a fairly fast connection, the miserable screen resolution meant nothing was readably visible without ridiculous amounts of scrolling.
The keyboard sucked rocks - the keys were raised above the phone surface, and the two function keys (call and answer) were raised even more. This meant that the keyboard unlock combination was almost guaranteed to be hit while the phone was in your pocket, leading to stupid failed calls to impossible numbers, and further depletion of its battery. The fold-out keyboard was nice, but finally gave me the reason to upgrade to a newer phone by having three of the keys progressively dying permanently. And don't get me started on the pathetic "joystick" which worked in an unpredictable way, if you were lucky.
I'm not the only one who hated the E70. In our company, that sentiment was more or less universal. The several hundred we got were returned for replacement at a fierce rate. I endured mine longer than most - more than a year. Previous and subsequent phones have lasted longer, due to them having a lower index of obnoxiousness.
My replacement company phone is a Nokia E72, which is incomparably better than the E70, but still fairly pathetic. It's nowhere near as good as last year's Android phones such as the HTC Desire Z or a Samsung Galaxy. Quite a few people opted to replace the E70 with their own Android devices, where the company just supplied the SIM card.
Customers bitched about the Qwikster split, and now they're getting what they deserve. And Netflix is showing that they just can't handle PR at all. They should have ended DVD-by-mail altogether and let Qwikster come in to fill the void without making an explicit connection between the two companies.
Um... Customers bitched about the Qwikster split and the price increase which went with it. If the total price for streaming+DVD had stayed about the same, then there would have been much less disgruntlement.
My mom's Compaq with two floppies and the orange plasma screen definitely did not count as a laptop.
Agreed. But my Zenith Z-81 definitely did. It was a TFT monochrome LCD clamshell that could run on its internal batteries, and had two 720K floppy drives. The Z-83 was quite similar but had a 10MB hard disk in place of one floppy drive (on the right in this image), which significantly reduced battery life. My Z-81 replaced one of those enormous Compaq "portables" (dual 320K floppies) with a CRT.
[drooling old geezer mode]
If you're not careful, I'll reminisce about computing in the 1970s: punched cards and the IBM-360; paper tape and the PDP-8; booting by toggling the front panel switches for several minutes...
[/drooling old geezer mode]
Fine, fine, and I built PCs from components I bought off folding tables at the computer swap, too. But I don't think I ever owned a laptop that didn't come with Windows.
I owned several, including a couple that only had floppy drives.
Damn kids. Probably never even saw the wonderful 12-bit PDP-8...
System76 makes laptops ONLY with US keyboards. This is not quite a show-stopper, but it's a major put-off. It's more-or-less impossible to get a substitute laptop keyboard, and keyboard stickers don't last long.
The rest of the spec is good, but the keyboard issue is a large minus factor.
The downside of "economies of scale". You're right, I'm sure. Sometimes, in order to make lots of stuff cheaply, you have to give up the ability to make small amounts of stuff cheaply.
It's not so simple. It seems that many US manufacturers are not investing to keep up-to-date with process developments, and thus risk becoming uneconomical on any scale, except where transport costs or locality/residency are critical. The manufacturing process in question is essentially unheard-of in the US. The standard response was "WTF is that?" when we asked US suppliers if they used the process, and we always had to describe how that process worked, as they were unfailingly unfamiliar with its commonly-used names and acronyms. It's been around for perhaps a decade in Germany and appears to be commonly available in Finland.
Scale is a limited help in this instance. On order quantities of 10000+, some suppliers in the US would be barely cheaper per unit than what we're paying per unit for small quantities to the supplier in Finland. Others would actually be more expensive unless their price could be improved through haggling. On order quantities of 100, the cheapest US price increases by almost two orders of magnitude (most of the US price is the equipment customization). We have not inquired whether the Finnish price would improve if we ordered larger quantities, since large quantities are of no interest to us.
FWIW, the difference in price between the cheaper US suppliers and the Finnish supplier is actually negligibly small at current exchange rates, but we would have preferred a US supplier for reasons of geographical convenience, legal convenience, and currency exchange risk. This preference would overcome a significant price premium, but not a premium of an order of magnitude or two.
Actually, the availability of certain manufacturing processes and related skills is often localized. There are several kinds of modern manufacturing process which appear to be unavailable or uncommon in the US.
One of the products I designed has certain parts (passive, but necessarily complex in shape) which are made in Finland, simply because no US or Canadian supplier could be found who could make them in moderate quantities. The only US bids received stated that they assumed we had made an error in the RFQ, and actually required quantities in the tens of thousands. These suppliers relied on a manufacturing process which required that scale and would result in prohibitively expensive unit costs for a production run of mere hundreds. The supplier in Finland uses an entirely different industrial process, and can produce single digit quantities if necessary, at quite acceptable unit prices.
Agree on the Synology recommendation. These are very nice boxes which are quite Linux-friendly, with even their initial setup running on Linux (unlike certain NAS units which use Linux internally but seem to go out of their way to make things awkward for Linux clients).
I have a DS207 which performs admirably as web server, file server, backup server, and media server (it replaced a DS101 some years ago). It will soon be accompanied by a DS211 which will be used as our main home server (files, backup, media) and be prevented from any internet access by the router. The existing DS207 will be relegated to web server, for which the router allows internet access over a limited number of ports, and will likely get new mail duties to consolidate our numerous email accounts. The DS207 backs itself up to USB a few times per week, and we cycle the USB disks between on-duty and off-site archive every week. The DS211 will probably get a similar backup scheme.
Nicole Bilderback meets the known criteria. Asian ethnicity with American/European name, lives in Texas, age 38, various minor parts in TV & movies. If it's her, then her publicity agent probably put her up to it in a last gasp attempt to avoid remaining just another bit part player...
So... Seagate ate Maxtor (and now they've gone to crap too). WD is KO for the next "six to eight months" (wtf? really?). Who are we supposed to use now? Hitachi? (I'm serious--I've only purchased WD drives since I had two Maxtors crap out on me).
Luckily, I received two new WD 3TB drives just a couple of weeks ago. Most of our drives are WD, and I have resolved yet again never to buy Seagate. I've had good experience with Samsung as well as with WD.
The only drives which died on me at home in the last 20 years years were (i) a brand new 20GB Maxtor drive died on its first power-up about 12-14 years ago and was replaced under warranty, the replacement outlasting my use for it, (ii) a several-year-old Seagate 340GB died about 3 years ago while moving house despite not suffering any mechanical shocks, and (iii) a barely 1½-year-old Seagate 2TB which I just removed. The Seagate 2TB was in a pampered location but died suddenly, and its SMART data was covered in lurid red when it was restarted. It claimed to have overheated (the drives above and below it had not), to have too many reported uncorrectable errors, to have reallocated too many sectors, and to have too many uncorrectable sectors. It's past its pathetic warranty period, so I suppose I'll have to replace it (with Samsung if I can't get WD easily).
Other disks were retired over the years due to inadequate capacity, or given away with the PC containing them, but were in perfect working order the last time I had them.
He needs to buy an unlocked Android phone which will likely do what he wants, rather than taking the tangled web of incapability that is packaged into one supplied by the phone company.
My daughter's stock HTC Desire Z has no restrictions on using WiFi access points, or using her unlimited data plan for tethering. We pay a whole 5 euro per month for that plan, and it really has no usage limits. Of course, we also pay 4 cents per call, so her monthly bill is usually between 10 and 15 euro.
My point is that since the actual decision is between irrelevant ads and relevant ads, I'll take the relevant ones.
Fine. For me, relevant ads = no ads.
When I'm browsing, it's mostly a goal-oriented activity. If there were a "relevant ads only" button, I'd click it, and be essentially ad-free.
Hence the AdBlock, NoScript, Ghostery, and related add-ons in my several browsers, and the fact that my router denies all access to a long list of Facebook domains (neatly circumventing the "like" button issues). The number of sites that can track me is quite limited, and the number that might be able to infer something about me from aggregated data is also somewhat limited. I have multiple public IP addresses at home (8, since you ask), and use different browsers for different activities, such as banking and shopping. Some data-integrators could figure something out about me, but I'm not among the low-hanging fruit for data-mining.
Since brick-and-mortar businesses don't need your explicit authorization to track you when you are on their premises, why should a website be any different?
I think you answered your own question. When you are visiting their web site, they obviously can track your activities and are entitled to an expectation that they can track you. The issue is being tracked when you visit other web sites, especially when logged out of Facebook. The analogy would be if Walmart tracks your activity when you visit Sav-On-Drugs, Barnes & Noble, Red Lobster, Exxon, etc., even though you don't use any Walmart loyalty cards or suchlike in your purchases.
Ghostery says that TFA site is infested with Facebook Social Plugins (which Ghostery blocked).
Ghostery and NoScript are strongly recommended for avoiding this sort of crap. Disabling third-party cookies is another method. If you're not a user of Facebook, then yet another technique is to add a bunch of Facebook's sites to the blocked list in your router, or redirect them to 127.0.0.1 in your hosts file. The sad thing is, we should not have to do these things; tracking without explicit authorization per site should not occur.
I'm cheering for the plaintiffs here, and hoping Facebook gets (i) stopped from doing this stuff in the future, and (ii) enough of a punishment that it makes a material difference to their financial results. Having Zuckerberg as the star of Ow, my balls hurt for several episodes could be an optional extra.
The author writes "By the end of the 15th century, between 40 million and 80 million people are thought to have been living in the Americas." Given that Columbus sailed in 1492, does anyone seriously believe tens of millions of Europeans moved to the Americas in the next 8 years?
The 40-80 million population refers to the natives, not the settlers.
This will be a confusing revelation to some victims of the US educational system, who may think even the natives arrived with Columbus...
Now eventually it reaches a stable phase. Trees absorb Y amount of CO2, produce leaves, leaves fall and rot, release Y amount of CO2. Trees die, but get replaced so the forest neither grows nor shrinks. I guess that's what you mean. But the carbon that went originally into making the trees is still locked up in the forest. Burning it will most definitely release carbon into the environment that wasn't free before.
Thus producing the OPPOSITE effect to that posited by the story.
The story speculates that forest cover increased due to depopulation of North America by diseases and weapons brought by European settlers. The resulting increase in biomass was allegedly responsible for a reduction in CO2 leading to global cooling.
The whole conjecture sounds like BS with a politically correct slant. In Europe there was an ongoing deforestation which had commenced a century or so before Columbus, and a considerable deforestation of the Americas started a century or so later. Due to the time scales of forest growth and the probable extent of any net change in forest cover, the effect on climate would have been rather limited (probably negligible).
It raises the question whether it's reasonable to request from them information such as your "likes". It sounds to me like asking a company to hand you over a log with your phone calls and email exchanges; I don't think they have that obligation.
If the company has kept a record of such events and linked them explicitly to your name, then it should count as personal data.
Over the decades I have not needed support from a PC vendor other than the occasional driver on a website
This is true, and relates to the question of dependability and reliability. I don't own any HP computers, but do have a HP 7410 network all-in-one device. It works excellently over the network, but I require that the HPLIP software which supports it be maintained and perhaps updated occasionally. Luckily, this is a set of Linux drivers and utilities which present much the same functionality as their bloated Windows siblings, but are much more compact and don't call home. I'd like the vendor to continue supporting them rather than rely on a cost-minimizing third party to do so. My confidence that HP will continue to support their own devices has been seriously undermined by their bizarre decision to spin off the PC business. Similar "logic" could lead to the printer division being spun off and crippled. A capricious vendor is an unreliable vendor, and I won't buy from that vendor in the future.
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Get rid of the "bad" people in Congress who are grabbing pork for themselves and their districts ... but keep our "good" Congress Critters who are looking out for the best interests of our district.
How may would that leave, approximately? I'm guessing single digits in Congress, and about three in the Senate.
As the saying goes: a statesman is a dead politician, and the nation needs more statesmen.
I want to see him synergize the potentials of win-win scenarios to maximize ROI on buzzword ideation... just like a real CIO. Obligatory Dilbert, and excuse me while I vomit for a little while.
I had a Nokia E70. I hated it at the start, and my hatred for it grew even more over time.
It stank, even in the depths of a Finnish winter. The battery lasted about two or three days from a full charge, provided you did not use the phone; if it was used for half an hour of calls per day, then you got barely a day between charges. The user interface was an utter mess, where it was a challenge to find the setting to control any particular aspect of the phone. It had a web access which was utterly worthless. Even with a fairly fast connection, the miserable screen resolution meant nothing was readably visible without ridiculous amounts of scrolling.
The keyboard sucked rocks - the keys were raised above the phone surface, and the two function keys (call and answer) were raised even more. This meant that the keyboard unlock combination was almost guaranteed to be hit while the phone was in your pocket, leading to stupid failed calls to impossible numbers, and further depletion of its battery. The fold-out keyboard was nice, but finally gave me the reason to upgrade to a newer phone by having three of the keys progressively dying permanently. And don't get me started on the pathetic "joystick" which worked in an unpredictable way, if you were lucky.
I'm not the only one who hated the E70. In our company, that sentiment was more or less universal. The several hundred we got were returned for replacement at a fierce rate. I endured mine longer than most - more than a year. Previous and subsequent phones have lasted longer, due to them having a lower index of obnoxiousness.
My replacement company phone is a Nokia E72, which is incomparably better than the E70, but still fairly pathetic. It's nowhere near as good as last year's Android phones such as the HTC Desire Z or a Samsung Galaxy. Quite a few people opted to replace the E70 with their own Android devices, where the company just supplied the SIM card.
Customers bitched about the Qwikster split, and now they're getting what they deserve. And Netflix is showing that they just can't handle PR at all. They should have ended DVD-by-mail altogether and let Qwikster come in to fill the void without making an explicit connection between the two companies.
Um... Customers bitched about the Qwikster split and the price increase which went with it. If the total price for streaming+DVD had stayed about the same, then there would have been much less disgruntlement.
In america you save your own face.
In japan you save someone else's.
If you're smart, you'll save your Boss's face.
That holds in the US, Japan, EU, Russia and probably anywhere else.
My mom's Compaq with two floppies and the orange plasma screen definitely did not count as a laptop.
Agreed. But my Zenith Z-81 definitely did. It was a TFT monochrome LCD clamshell that could run on its internal batteries, and had two 720K floppy drives. The Z-83 was quite similar but had a 10MB hard disk in place of one floppy drive (on the right in this image), which significantly reduced battery life. My Z-81 replaced one of those enormous Compaq "portables" (dual 320K floppies) with a CRT.
[drooling old geezer mode]
If you're not careful, I'll reminisce about computing in the 1970s: punched cards and the IBM-360; paper tape and the PDP-8; booting by toggling the front panel switches for several minutes...
[/drooling old geezer mode]
Fine, fine, and I built PCs from components I bought off folding tables at the computer swap, too. But I don't think I ever owned a laptop that didn't come with Windows.
I owned several, including a couple that only had floppy drives.
Damn kids. Probably never even saw the wonderful 12-bit PDP-8...
System76 makes laptops ONLY with US keyboards. This is not quite a show-stopper, but it's a major put-off. It's more-or-less impossible to get a substitute laptop keyboard, and keyboard stickers don't last long.
The rest of the spec is good, but the keyboard issue is a large minus factor.
Your link got shopped. Here is a fixed one.
Nice math problem. I think the answer is c / sqrt(1 - (sin(latitude) / sin(53 degrees))^2) where c is the risk at the equator. What do I win?
Part of a satellite...
The downside of "economies of scale". You're right, I'm sure. Sometimes, in order to make lots of stuff cheaply, you have to give up the ability to make small amounts of stuff cheaply.
It's not so simple. It seems that many US manufacturers are not investing to keep up-to-date with process developments, and thus risk becoming uneconomical on any scale, except where transport costs or locality/residency are critical. The manufacturing process in question is essentially unheard-of in the US. The standard response was "WTF is that?" when we asked US suppliers if they used the process, and we always had to describe how that process worked, as they were unfailingly unfamiliar with its commonly-used names and acronyms. It's been around for perhaps a decade in Germany and appears to be commonly available in Finland.
Scale is a limited help in this instance. On order quantities of 10000+, some suppliers in the US would be barely cheaper per unit than what we're paying per unit for small quantities to the supplier in Finland. Others would actually be more expensive unless their price could be improved through haggling. On order quantities of 100, the cheapest US price increases by almost two orders of magnitude (most of the US price is the equipment customization). We have not inquired whether the Finnish price would improve if we ordered larger quantities, since large quantities are of no interest to us.
FWIW, the difference in price between the cheaper US suppliers and the Finnish supplier is actually negligibly small at current exchange rates, but we would have preferred a US supplier for reasons of geographical convenience, legal convenience, and currency exchange risk. This preference would overcome a significant price premium, but not a premium of an order of magnitude or two.
Actually, the availability of certain manufacturing processes and related skills is often localized. There are several kinds of modern manufacturing process which appear to be unavailable or uncommon in the US.
One of the products I designed has certain parts (passive, but necessarily complex in shape) which are made in Finland, simply because no US or Canadian supplier could be found who could make them in moderate quantities. The only US bids received stated that they assumed we had made an error in the RFQ, and actually required quantities in the tens of thousands. These suppliers relied on a manufacturing process which required that scale and would result in prohibitively expensive unit costs for a production run of mere hundreds. The supplier in Finland uses an entirely different industrial process, and can produce single digit quantities if necessary, at quite acceptable unit prices.
Agree on the Synology recommendation. These are very nice boxes which are quite Linux-friendly, with even their initial setup running on Linux (unlike certain NAS units which use Linux internally but seem to go out of their way to make things awkward for Linux clients).
I have a DS207 which performs admirably as web server, file server, backup server, and media server (it replaced a DS101 some years ago). It will soon be accompanied by a DS211 which will be used as our main home server (files, backup, media) and be prevented from any internet access by the router. The existing DS207 will be relegated to web server, for which the router allows internet access over a limited number of ports, and will likely get new mail duties to consolidate our numerous email accounts. The DS207 backs itself up to USB a few times per week, and we cycle the USB disks between on-duty and off-site archive every week. The DS211 will probably get a similar backup scheme.
Nicole Bilderback meets the known criteria. Asian ethnicity with American/European name, lives in Texas, age 38, various minor parts in TV & movies. If it's her, then her publicity agent probably put her up to it in a last gasp attempt to avoid remaining just another bit part player...
So... Seagate ate Maxtor (and now they've gone to crap too). WD is KO for the next "six to eight months" (wtf? really?). Who are we supposed to use now? Hitachi? (I'm serious--I've only purchased WD drives since I had two Maxtors crap out on me).
Luckily, I received two new WD 3TB drives just a couple of weeks ago. Most of our drives are WD, and I have resolved yet again never to buy Seagate. I've had good experience with Samsung as well as with WD.
The only drives which died on me at home in the last 20 years years were (i) a brand new 20GB Maxtor drive died on its first power-up about 12-14 years ago and was replaced under warranty, the replacement outlasting my use for it, (ii) a several-year-old Seagate 340GB died about 3 years ago while moving house despite not suffering any mechanical shocks, and (iii) a barely 1½-year-old Seagate 2TB which I just removed. The Seagate 2TB was in a pampered location but died suddenly, and its SMART data was covered in lurid red when it was restarted. It claimed to have overheated (the drives above and below it had not), to have too many reported uncorrectable errors, to have reallocated too many sectors, and to have too many uncorrectable sectors. It's past its pathetic warranty period, so I suppose I'll have to replace it (with Samsung if I can't get WD easily).
Other disks were retired over the years due to inadequate capacity, or given away with the PC containing them, but were in perfect working order the last time I had them.
He needs to buy an unlocked Android phone which will likely do what he wants, rather than taking the tangled web of incapability that is packaged into one supplied by the phone company.
My daughter's stock HTC Desire Z has no restrictions on using WiFi access points, or using her unlimited data plan for tethering. We pay a whole 5 euro per month for that plan, and it really has no usage limits. Of course, we also pay 4 cents per call, so her monthly bill is usually between 10 and 15 euro.
My point is that since the actual decision is between irrelevant ads and relevant ads, I'll take the relevant ones.
Fine. For me, relevant ads = no ads.
When I'm browsing, it's mostly a goal-oriented activity. If there were a "relevant ads only" button, I'd click it, and be essentially ad-free.
Hence the AdBlock, NoScript, Ghostery, and related add-ons in my several browsers, and the fact that my router denies all access to a long list of Facebook domains (neatly circumventing the "like" button issues). The number of sites that can track me is quite limited, and the number that might be able to infer something about me from aggregated data is also somewhat limited. I have multiple public IP addresses at home (8, since you ask), and use different browsers for different activities, such as banking and shopping. Some data-integrators could figure something out about me, but I'm not among the low-hanging fruit for data-mining.
Since brick-and-mortar businesses don't need your explicit authorization to track you when you are on their premises, why should a website be any different?
I think you answered your own question. When you are visiting their web site, they obviously can track your activities and are entitled to an expectation that they can track you. The issue is being tracked when you visit other web sites, especially when logged out of Facebook. The analogy would be if Walmart tracks your activity when you visit Sav-On-Drugs, Barnes & Noble, Red Lobster, Exxon, etc., even though you don't use any Walmart loyalty cards or suchlike in your purchases.
Ghostery says that TFA site is infested with Facebook Social Plugins (which Ghostery blocked).
Ghostery and NoScript are strongly recommended for avoiding this sort of crap. Disabling third-party cookies is another method. If you're not a user of Facebook, then yet another technique is to add a bunch of Facebook's sites to the blocked list in your router, or redirect them to 127.0.0.1 in your hosts file. The sad thing is, we should not have to do these things; tracking without explicit authorization per site should not occur.
I'm cheering for the plaintiffs here, and hoping Facebook gets (i) stopped from doing this stuff in the future, and (ii) enough of a punishment that it makes a material difference to their financial results. Having Zuckerberg as the star of Ow, my balls hurt for several episodes could be an optional extra.
The author writes "By the end of the 15th century, between 40 million and 80 million people are thought to have been living in the Americas." Given that Columbus sailed in 1492, does anyone seriously believe tens of millions of Europeans moved to the Americas in the next 8 years?
The 40-80 million population refers to the natives, not the settlers.
This will be a confusing revelation to some victims of the US educational system, who may think even the natives arrived with Columbus...
Now eventually it reaches a stable phase. Trees absorb Y amount of CO2, produce leaves, leaves fall and rot, release Y amount of CO2. Trees die, but get replaced so the forest neither grows nor shrinks. I guess that's what you mean. But the carbon that went originally into making the trees is still locked up in the forest. Burning it will most definitely release carbon into the environment that wasn't free before.
Thus producing the OPPOSITE effect to that posited by the story.
The story speculates that forest cover increased due to depopulation of North America by diseases and weapons brought by European settlers. The resulting increase in biomass was allegedly responsible for a reduction in CO2 leading to global cooling.
The whole conjecture sounds like BS with a politically correct slant. In Europe there was an ongoing deforestation which had commenced a century or so before Columbus, and a considerable deforestation of the Americas started a century or so later. Due to the time scales of forest growth and the probable extent of any net change in forest cover, the effect on climate would have been rather limited (probably negligible).
... get a service you need, ...
If you think you "need" Facebook, the odds are that you need faceslap instead (and maybe a lot of it).
It raises the question whether it's reasonable to request from them information such as your "likes". It sounds to me like asking a company to hand you over a log with your phone calls and email exchanges; I don't think they have that obligation.
If the company has kept a record of such events and linked them explicitly to your name, then it should count as personal data.
Over the decades I have not needed support from a PC vendor other than the occasional driver on a website
This is true, and relates to the question of dependability and reliability. I don't own any HP computers, but do have a HP 7410 network all-in-one device. It works excellently over the network, but I require that the HPLIP software which supports it be maintained and perhaps updated occasionally. Luckily, this is a set of Linux drivers and utilities which present much the same functionality as their bloated Windows siblings, but are much more compact and don't call home. I'd like the vendor to continue supporting them rather than rely on a cost-minimizing third party to do so. My confidence that HP will continue to support their own devices has been seriously undermined by their bizarre decision to spin off the PC business. Similar "logic" could lead to the printer division being spun off and crippled. A capricious vendor is an unreliable vendor, and I won't buy from that vendor in the future.
My agnosticism is thus proved! The real Jesus Christ is an Anonymous Coward.
No, I am Anonymous Coward. Oh, wait...