Yes, if your problem is trying to figure out a way to make money. Anti-virus writers, anti-spyware writers, etc certainly are making money off of M$ customers. Let's all jump on that cash cow.
The only real fix is to have multiple scanners. Fingerprint, voiceprint, eye, face, smart ID card, etc. That will limit the number of people trying to sneak in the front door. Wait a minute, people sneak in the back door by the millions! (Mexico, Canada, smuggling boats) Damn. Crap. The gov is spending billions of dollars to screen the fools who come in the front door, annoying all the people legitimately using the front door, when thousands of terrorists have probably come in the back door. Wait a minute, terrorists get born in the USA all the time! Big back door! Ted blew up the federal building. Kozinski sent mail bombs. Someone blew up the thing in Atlanta. Someone was mailing anthrax or whatever. And they still have not caught some of them. Damn. Crap.
Zero KNOWN defects most probably means inadequate testing, poor quality control, or management that kills the messenger, so no one reports problems. NT 4 shipped with 65K defects? The only thing Microsoft never makes a mistake on is Billy Gates' take home paycheck.
No, it is you who are confused. I hid from anyone who could possibly be anywhere as mean and screwed up as my parents. I could not hide from the school system. So the only teachers I had were those in the front of the classroom. I also spent a great deal of time hiding from the students. So no teachers to speak of, at all. Except those administering daily beatings.
I quite clearly stated "almost everything..." If you had actually learned to read, you might have noticed that. I only learned to read a little from others. I learned the rest of reading from dictionaries and books. Self-taught. My parents were thoroughly screwed up, so I did not get much from them. Much like many kids, I hid from them, and many others have had little or bad parenting as well. I also had many bad teachers. If I had had to depend on them to interest me in learning, I would have learned nothing. As it is, books were my escape. Apparently, reading/. and attacking others is your escape.
Most professors and teachers are liberal arts teachers. The liberal arts are people who draw, write, act, sing, play, and pretend to do, not actually do anything. Hence the overgeneralization: those who can't do, teach. And by the way, many teachers are bad teachers. Almost everything I ever learned I learned on my own.
Actually, maybe it could make your tin foil hat more effective.
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I think the real issue is you think there are MEN on/. Real men get dates, get married, have kids, maybe even have a life. There are a few of us MEN, who read/. in spare moments at work, for a good laugh.
No, he will not. The only people who know he is a screw-up for M$ are on slashdot and similar forums, and most of us do not count. Has any big journal caught this? Time? Newsweek? Forbes? Fortune? Etc nah. They do not have to know stuff, only know what the great unwashed masses that read them want to hear. They have to dumb down so much, so often, that they are dumbed down themselves.
I am pretty sure that viruses (virii for the latin challenged) have a license that says, in essence: You must run this virus on all your machines. It is a copyup license. Please copy the virus up the download stream. In Russia virus infects you! No, wait, that is not quite right...
Microsoft wrote OS/2 up til version 0.9, which came out at about the same time as Windows 0.9. I did actually beta test both, as I worked for a video card mfg then. Then MS bailed, preferring to focus on windows. So there may not actually be much MS code to throw away. The win32 compatibility stuff.
Give the razor (OS) away for free and make money on the blades (hardware, services). Oh, I get it. a play on words. Blades. Blade servers. IBM makes blade servers. heh heh.
It is pretty easy to make a statement like "On the PC side you can hit pricewatch and by the complete set of parts for a dell for considerably less than dell sells their PC for." That does not mean it is true. Plus, there is the quality problem. Dell parts are manufactured to much more rigorous standards than most of the crap you can pick up off pricewatch. Saying Dells are cheap or don't last is easy. That does not make it true. Dell is # 1 in ALL the quality / reliability / customer satisfaction surveys / studies posted in ALL the mags, etc, and has been for a long time. Single bummer incidents happen to many people, no matter what brand of hardware they buy. The question is, what percentage of items bought have issues? Dell wins in that category, according to ALL the surveys. If innovation is measured by Patents, Dell has plenty of them. Bragging about how many patents you have does not sell printers, or anything else. Carly, pay attention here. Wasn't HP in the PC business a while back? I am sure that they had plenty of patents there as well. And wasn't the PC someone elses invention? Quality is an area of innovation as well. Dell does quality better than any of the others. Customer satisfaction can be an area of innovation, too. Dell does that better than any of the others, as well. The really big corporate and government customers do not just buy once. They go back to the best overall buy, and buy again and again. If what they buy the first time is junk, they will not come back. No matter what the price. Because purchase price is not a very big piece of their cost of putting hardware into place. Maintainance is. But they do come back to Dell. Hmmm. Dell would not be successfull if they did not come back. There is an awfully large design force at Dell Texas who do innovation, design, development, and all the other stuff you clowns say Dell is merely copying from others. I happen to be one of them. All big companies do some copying, some innovating, some designing, some developing. HP has been busily laying off many of their designers, and other employees. Hmmm. Not Dell. IBM, Sun, Gateway, etc are doing the layoff thing as well. HP, IBM, and all other big pc companies have their manufacturing outsourced to makers in China / Taiwan / Asia. Bitching at Dell because they do it is just bull. If you want a good job, and qualify, Dell is hiring right here in the good old USA. Those other guys? I would not want to be asking them for a job. And I know that for certain.
If it was intelligent, it sure as hell wouldn't be stupid enough to let us catch sight of it. Do you know what xenophobia is? Too many people get way too excited over a color, religion, politics, etc. difference, much less finding someone or something smarter / better than themselves.
What ever happened to the good old pie in the face? Doesn't anyone think Darl deserves one? Now that is a picture I would like to see posted. Can we start a pie fund? please?
Come on. We all know microsoft was a virgin birth. Bow down and pray to the geek god gates! Take not the name of microsoft in vain! Worship no other gods before microsoft!
Actually, I think humans are just as dumb as ever. It is just that the internet allows us to met ever so many more dummies, that it feels dumber out there. Not that TV was a great enhancer of our cnnections to smarts, either.
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Yes, if your problem is trying to figure out a way to make money.
Anti-virus writers, anti-spyware writers, etc certainly are making money off of M$ customers.
Let's all jump on that cash cow.
The only real fix is to have multiple scanners.
Fingerprint, voiceprint, eye, face, smart ID card, etc.
That will limit the number of people trying to sneak in the front door.
Wait a minute, people sneak in the back door by the millions! (Mexico, Canada, smuggling boats)
Damn. Crap.
The gov is spending billions of dollars to screen the fools who come in the front door, annoying all the people legitimately using the front door, when thousands of terrorists have probably come in the back door.
Wait a minute, terrorists get born in the USA all the time! Big back door! Ted blew up the federal building.
Kozinski sent mail bombs.
Someone blew up the thing in Atlanta.
Someone was mailing anthrax or whatever.
And they still have not caught some of them.
Damn. Crap.
Hey - maybe the shoe bomber was England's best and brightest!
Zero KNOWN defects most probably means inadequate testing, poor quality control, or management that kills the messenger, so no one reports problems.
NT 4 shipped with 65K defects?
The only thing Microsoft never makes a mistake on is Billy Gates' take home paycheck.
No, it is you who are confused.
I hid from anyone who could possibly be anywhere as mean and screwed up as my parents.
I could not hide from the school system.
So the only teachers I had were those in the front of the classroom.
I also spent a great deal of time hiding from the students.
So no teachers to speak of, at all.
Except those administering daily beatings.
Isn't the posting of a privacy policy and refusing to follow it Interstate fraud?
I quite clearly stated "almost everything..." /. and attacking others is your escape.
If you had actually learned to read, you might have noticed that.
I only learned to read a little from others.
I learned the rest of reading from dictionaries and books.
Self-taught.
My parents were thoroughly screwed up, so I did not get much from them.
Much like many kids, I hid from them, and many others have had little or bad parenting as well.
I also had many bad teachers.
If I had had to depend on them to interest me in learning, I would have learned nothing.
As it is, books were my escape.
Apparently, reading
Most professors and teachers are liberal arts teachers.
The liberal arts are people who draw, write, act, sing, play, and pretend to do, not actually do anything.
Hence the overgeneralization: those who can't do, teach.
And by the way, many teachers are bad teachers.
Almost everything I ever learned I learned on my own.
Actually, maybe it could make your tin foil hat more effective.
I think the real issue is you think there are MEN on /. /. in spare moments at work, for a good laugh.
Real men get dates, get married, have kids, maybe even have a life.
There are a few of us MEN, who read
No, he will not.
The only people who know he is a screw-up for M$ are on slashdot and similar forums, and most of us do not count.
Has any big journal caught this? Time? Newsweek? Forbes? Fortune? Etc
nah. They do not have to know stuff, only know what the great unwashed masses that read them want to hear.
They have to dumb down so much, so often, that they are dumbed down themselves.
Wait. I thought you said fix Windows.
You can do the impossible!! Gasp! Wow!
Even Bill cannot do that!
I am pretty sure that viruses (virii for the latin challenged) have a license that says, in essence:
You must run this virus on all your machines.
It is a copyup license.
Please copy the virus up the download stream.
In Russia virus infects you!
No, wait, that is not quite right...
There is a big inflation rate.
They just keep creating more laws making more things a crime, while loosing more battles against more crimes.
Are you sure Daily is often enough?
Microsoft wrote OS/2 up til version 0.9, which came out at about the same time as Windows 0.9.
I did actually beta test both, as I worked for a video card mfg then.
Then MS bailed, preferring to focus on windows.
So there may not actually be much MS code to throw away.
The win32 compatibility stuff.
Give the razor (OS) away for free and make money on the blades (hardware, services).
Oh, I get it. a play on words. Blades. Blade servers. IBM makes blade servers.
heh heh.
So what would it take for IBM to make OS/2 open source?
I waaaant it.
It is pretty easy to make a statement like
"On the PC side you can hit pricewatch and by the complete set of parts for a dell for considerably less than dell sells their PC for."
That does not mean it is true.
Plus, there is the quality problem. Dell parts are manufactured to much more rigorous standards than most of the crap you can pick up off pricewatch.
Saying Dells are cheap or don't last is easy.
That does not make it true.
Dell is # 1 in ALL the quality / reliability / customer satisfaction surveys / studies posted in ALL the mags, etc, and has been for a long time.
Single bummer incidents happen to many people, no matter what brand of hardware they buy.
The question is, what percentage of items bought have issues?
Dell wins in that category, according to ALL the surveys.
If innovation is measured by Patents, Dell has plenty of them.
Bragging about how many patents you have does not sell printers, or anything else.
Carly, pay attention here.
Wasn't HP in the PC business a while back?
I am sure that they had plenty of patents there as well.
And wasn't the PC someone elses invention?
Quality is an area of innovation as well.
Dell does quality better than any of the others.
Customer satisfaction can be an area of innovation, too.
Dell does that better than any of the others, as well.
The really big corporate and government customers do not just buy once.
They go back to the best overall buy, and buy again and again.
If what they buy the first time is junk, they will not come back. No matter what the price.
Because purchase price is not a very big piece of their cost of putting hardware into place.
Maintainance is.
But they do come back to Dell.
Hmmm.
Dell would not be successfull if they did not come back.
There is an awfully large design force at Dell Texas who do innovation, design, development, and all the other stuff you clowns say Dell is merely copying from others.
I happen to be one of them.
All big companies do some copying, some innovating, some designing, some developing.
HP has been busily laying off many of their designers, and other employees.
Hmmm.
Not Dell.
IBM, Sun, Gateway, etc are doing the layoff thing as well.
HP, IBM, and all other big pc companies have their manufacturing outsourced to makers in China / Taiwan / Asia.
Bitching at Dell because they do it is just bull.
If you want a good job, and qualify, Dell is hiring right here in the good old USA.
Those other guys?
I would not want to be asking them for a job.
And I know that for certain.
If it was intelligent, it sure as hell wouldn't be stupid enough to let us catch sight of it.
Do you know what xenophobia is?
Too many people get way too excited over a color, religion, politics, etc. difference, much less finding someone or something smarter / better than themselves.
What ever happened to the good old pie in the face? Doesn't anyone think Darl deserves one?
Now that is a picture I would like to see posted.
Can we start a pie fund? please?
Come on.
We all know microsoft was a virgin birth.
Bow down and pray to the geek god gates!
Take not the name of microsoft in vain!
Worship no other gods before microsoft!
eggzacly. uh, i mean, ...
If you want a real optimistic view of the future, read the Nightland by William Hope Hodgson
Actually, I think humans are just as dumb as ever.
It is just that the internet allows us to met ever so many more dummies, that it feels dumber out there. Not that TV was a great enhancer of our cnnections to smarts, either.