Whilst I am no fan of Rupert (In fact I loathe what he has done to the news media) I must say he has done an amazing job of building News corp to its present size. He started out with only "The News" a paper he started to compete with the Adelaide "Advertiser" which he now owns.(The News has since closed)
He started with very little and built an empire.
It was not however based on journalistic quality.
You fell into the trap of assuming, when you knew nothing about the subject.
You dont build huge companies from virtually nothing without some nouse.
For my sins I was a printer/copier/fax tech for many years before taking up networking.
I have to agree with the postsers complimenting the B&W HP laser jets. Nearly every HP Laserjet I have come across regardless of age, still works great. They are easy to service and very well made. The 4000 series is a personal favourite
However HP colour lasers, not so good. A very complicated mechanism with only average to poor print quality.
When it comes to colour lasers, I have had very good experiences with the small Samsung models. The OKI LED printers are great in the larger models.
Tell that to the guy who was killed in queensland not so long ago, when tased 28 times by the asshole cops. You blatantly obviously have no idea what you are talking about.
show Apple hardware to be superior to other brands like Dell, Lenovo and HP in terms of reliability and customer satisfaction. Those are hard numbers, not personal anecdotes.
And I provided details showing that was not necessarily so.
Seond or third, meh, they still are not first as you claimed.
I am hired because I know what I am doing, not because I will do whatever I am told is a good idea.
This might cost me bonuses, raises, promotions, and may even label me as Ãoeundesirableà by places I don't want to work at anyway, but I don't care.
I will not compromise my own principles and judgement without putting up a fight.
Of course, I won't always win, and I will sometimes be forced to do things I don't agree with. My objections will be made known.
If I am shown to be right and problems later develop, I will shout "I told you so!Ã repeatedly, laugh hysterically, and do a small dance or jig as appropriate to my heritage.
"which has a right to be there whether or not the Arabs want it."
That point is very debatable to say the least.
You obviously dont remember the Stern gang terroricts that used violence to steal the country. MAny of Israels politicians have been well known as terorists.
The people who have the right to be there are basically living in giant Israeli run Concentration camps, where collective punishment and shooting 10X the civilians the arabs do is the norm.
Just so you know, The UN never owned Palestine. It was not theirs to give away as they so foolishly did. If the UN has not folded to the Israeli interests terrorist campaign the world would be a much better place.
* Dave Lister: Sometimes I think it's cruel giving machines a personality. My mate Petersen once brought a pair of shoes with artificial intelligence. Smart Shoes, they were called. It was a neat idea. No matter how blind drunk you were, they would always get you home. Then he got ratted one night in Oslo, and woke up the next morning in Burma. See, the shoes got bored just going from his local to the flat. They wanted to see the world, man, y'know? He had a helluva job getting rid of them. No matter who he sold them to, they'd show up again the next day! He tried to shut them out, but they just kicked the door down, y'know?
* Arnold Rimmer: Is this true?
* Dave Lister: Yeah! Last thing he heard, they'd sort of, erm, robbed a car and drove it into a canal. They couldn't steer, y'see.
* Arnold Rimmer: Really?!
* Dave Lister: Yeah. Petersen was really, really blown away by it. He went to see a priest. The priest told him, he said, it was alright, and all that, and the shoes were happy, and they'd gone to heaven. Y'see, it turns out shoes have soles.
I had an interesting warranty experience with a Samsung 19" analog tuned LCD TV. I spotted it a a local secondhand chain priced at $40 parts only.
As a friend is a Samsung printer dealer and can access parts, I boutgh it and took it to him. After some time he could not manage to get it going.
He checked the date of manufacture and the Tv was still under the 3 year factory warranty. It was then taken toi the official Samsung Tv reparire. They had it for another 2 months and could not fix it, so they gave me a brand new 22" digital (Retails for $650) as a replacement. Wooo-hooo!
Still it was a bit strange, the Tv only had 3 parts, a main board power supply board and screen.
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Or the "chairborne" division.
As they say without the guns the airforce would be just another expensive flying club.
As legendary glider pilot Phillip Wills once wrote;
"Powered flight has only 2 uses, death or dividends!"
We in australia have solved these problems, we have an Federal Govt that takes in all income taxes.
Easy see?
Or is this another one of those paranoid libertarian issues the US has so many of?
You think Stallman is a terrorist? (-:
http://www.satirewire.com/news/march02/screeners.shtml
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I always thought Baldrick's explanantion of WW1 starting was the best.
"Archie Duke shot an Ostrich because he was Hungry"
Whilst I am no fan of Rupert (In fact I loathe what he has done to the news media) I must say he has done an amazing job of building News corp to its present size. He started out with only "The News" a paper he started to compete with the Adelaide "Advertiser" which he now owns.(The News has since closed)
He started with very little and built an empire.
It was not however based on journalistic quality.
You fell into the trap of assuming, when you knew nothing about the subject.
You dont build huge companies from virtually nothing without some nouse.
For my sins I was a printer/copier/fax tech for many years before taking up networking.
I have to agree with the postsers complimenting the B&W HP laser jets. Nearly every HP Laserjet I have come across regardless of age, still works great. They are easy to service and very well made.
The 4000 series is a personal favourite
However HP colour lasers, not so good. A very complicated mechanism with only average to poor print quality.
When it comes to colour lasers, I have had very good experiences with the small Samsung models.
The OKI LED printers are great in the larger
models.
Inkjets are crap.
Tell that to the guy who was killed in queensland not so long ago, when tased 28 times by the asshole cops. You blatantly obviously have no idea what you are talking about.
You wrote;
show Apple hardware to be superior to other brands like Dell, Lenovo and HP in terms of reliability and customer satisfaction. Those are hard numbers, not personal anecdotes.
And I provided details showing that was not necessarily so.
Seond or third, meh, they still are not first as you claimed.
"Easier example: taser guns can be fired at max, 3 times"
Tell that to the guy who died in North Queensland after being tasered 28 times.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/18/2601290.htm.
So, going by your sig, you are lying right now then? Currently you are +3 insightful!
"I suspect most Itunes users have no clue."
Never was a truer word written here on Slashdot.
Another whiney mac fanbot bleating about MS shills because someone doesnt like their precious gayboy companies policies.
Of course all the other gaymacfanboys with mod points join in.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/08/19/asus_tops_reliability_test/
Money can't buy happiness, but it can get a reasonable facscimilie.
The Most recent survey of product reliability I saw put mac's in third place. I see many more faulty macs than I do quality pc machines.
anecdotal evidence is not worth the bits it is written on.
Somehow I work as a mac tech and I see a lot more PC dropping seems to say the least contradictory.
Surely if you fix macs you would see more faulty macs than PC's? Either that or you dont earn much...
I am hired because I know what I am doing, not because I will do whatever I am told is a good idea.
This might cost me bonuses, raises, promotions, and may even label me as Ãoeundesirableà by places I don't want to work at anyway, but I don't care.
I will not compromise my own principles and judgement without putting up a fight.
Of course, I won't always win, and I will sometimes be forced to do things I don't agree with. My objections will be made known.
If I am shown to be right and problems later develop, I will shout "I told you so!Ã repeatedly, laugh hysterically, and do a small dance or jig as appropriate to my heritage.
(-:
"which has a right to be there whether or not the Arabs want it."
That point is very debatable to say the least.
You obviously dont remember the Stern gang terroricts that used violence to steal the country.
MAny of Israels politicians have been well known as terorists.
The people who have the right to be there are basically living in giant Israeli run Concentration camps, where collective punishment and shooting 10X the civilians the arabs do is the norm.
Just so you know, The UN never owned Palestine. It was not theirs to give away as they so foolishly did. If the UN has not folded to the Israeli interests terrorist campaign the world would be a much better place.
Theirs no way that is right, the whole idea leaves me moot, you must have a screw loose,its time to tow the line now.
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Speaking as an Australian, I would like to say:
US does not mean us!
* Dave Lister: Sometimes I think it's cruel giving machines a personality. My mate Petersen once brought a pair of shoes with artificial intelligence. Smart Shoes, they were called. It was a neat idea. No matter how blind drunk you were, they would always get you home. Then he got ratted one night in Oslo, and woke up the next morning in Burma. See, the shoes got bored just going from his local to the flat. They wanted to see the world, man, y'know? He had a helluva job getting rid of them. No matter who he sold them to, they'd show up again the next day! He tried to shut them out, but they just kicked the door down, y'know?
* Arnold Rimmer: Is this true?
* Dave Lister: Yeah! Last thing he heard, they'd sort of, erm, robbed a car and drove it into a canal. They couldn't steer, y'see.
* Arnold Rimmer: Really?!
* Dave Lister: Yeah. Petersen was really, really blown away by it. He went to see a priest. The priest told him, he said, it was alright, and all that, and the shoes were happy, and they'd gone to heaven. Y'see, it turns out shoes have soles.
"Unfortunately no amount of merit is going to save you if your PHB has a chip on his shoulder,"
Ooh I dont know, putting the 3 "P's" on the bosses desktop and then reporting him to mangement should do the trick.
3P's = Porn, piracy and phising.
Thanks to the BOFH.
I had an interesting warranty experience with a Samsung 19" analog tuned LCD TV. I spotted it a a local secondhand chain priced at $40 parts only.
As a friend is a Samsung printer dealer and can access parts, I boutgh it and took it to him. After some time he could not manage to get it going.
He checked the date of manufacture and the Tv was still under the 3 year factory warranty. It was then taken toi the official Samsung Tv reparire. They had it for another 2 months and could not fix it, so they gave me a brand new 22" digital (Retails for $650) as a replacement. Wooo-hooo!
Still it was a bit strange, the Tv only had 3 parts, a main board power supply board and screen.