Well, this isn't that big of a deal in terms of money. Seven percent (averaged) on top of our O'Reilly books is what we already pay at our local B&N or Borders. It would be an aggravation in terms of bookkeeping and certainly a major blow to keeping the internet free and out of the hands of the government. But it would be easy to fight. How easy? Simple. Just stop buying things over the internet. Go back to purchasing locally. True, you'd be paying sales taxes to your state that way, but you already are now, and you would be then, too. That isn't the point. The point is the INTERNET sales tax, right? So, we stop buying from Amazon.com, LLBean.com, ToysRus.com and all those other retailers. Cuts into their profits. We let them know WHY we aren't buying from them. THEY get mad and take it out on their congressmen and senators at the state and federal level in the form of denied campaign funding and votes. You'll see an immediate backpedaling, because, my friends, in America in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, I've noticed that business gets what it wants. We could call this the Internet Tea Party. P.S. I didn't check the other posts to see if this has been proposed elsewhere. Probably has.
If it hadn't been done in "A Close Shave" I would say that this is the perfect plotline for the fourth Wallace and Grommit episode. So, has anyone named the cybercat Preston? Does it rustle people's goldfish to make tiny chain-mail suits for G.I.Joe as well as making cat food? What kind of fleas does it have? No, don't answer that one!
Sorry, I wouldn't bet on Win2K crashing -- it's not a fair bet. It's not even a bet. It's like beating up a drunk! If it performs like the last release of Windows NT, then we'll all get a howl out of it. Only 65,000 bugs? I would have expected more. Here's why: True story -- a UNIX programmer told me this -- his programming company (FilePRO running on SCO) was replaced as vendors of an industrial network for a plastics manufacturer by Windows NT. It was such a big deal that Microsoft sent down their own engineers to install Windows NT. Two weeks later, they still hadn't been able to get the network to operate correctly, and the UNIX guys were called back in to reinstall their network just so the company could make payroll. The plastics company fired Microsoft and kept UNIX. With a track record like that, it's no wonder that we'uns in the trenches are making with the guffaws over Win2K. It doesn't take Slashdot to tell us what we found out the hard way!
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Well, this isn't that big of a deal in terms of money. Seven percent (averaged) on top of our O'Reilly books is what we already pay at our local B&N or Borders. It would be an aggravation in terms of bookkeeping and certainly a major blow to keeping the internet free and out of the hands of the government. But it would be easy to fight. How easy? Simple. Just stop buying things over the internet. Go back to purchasing locally. True, you'd be paying sales taxes to your state that way, but you already are now, and you would be then, too. That isn't the point. The point is the INTERNET sales tax, right? So, we stop buying from Amazon.com, LLBean.com, ToysRus.com and all those other retailers. Cuts into their profits. We let them know WHY we aren't buying from them. THEY get mad and take it out on their congressmen and senators at the state and federal level in the form of denied campaign funding and votes. You'll see an immediate backpedaling, because, my friends, in America in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, I've noticed that business gets what it wants. We could call this the Internet Tea Party. P.S. I didn't check the other posts to see if this has been proposed elsewhere. Probably has.
If it hadn't been done in "A Close Shave" I would say that this is the perfect plotline for the fourth Wallace and Grommit episode. So, has anyone named the cybercat Preston? Does it rustle people's goldfish to make tiny chain-mail suits for G.I.Joe as well as making cat food? What kind of fleas does it have? No, don't answer that one!
Sorry, I wouldn't bet on Win2K crashing -- it's not a fair bet. It's not even a bet. It's like beating up a drunk! If it performs like the last release of Windows NT, then we'll all get a howl out of it. Only 65,000 bugs? I would have expected more. Here's why: True story -- a UNIX programmer told me this -- his programming company (FilePRO running on SCO) was replaced as vendors of an industrial network for a plastics manufacturer by Windows NT. It was such a big deal that Microsoft sent down their own engineers to install Windows NT. Two weeks later, they still hadn't been able to get the network to operate correctly, and the UNIX guys were called back in to reinstall their network just so the company could make payroll. The plastics company fired Microsoft and kept UNIX. With a track record like that, it's no wonder that we'uns in the trenches are making with the guffaws over Win2K. It doesn't take Slashdot to tell us what we found out the hard way!