Hey -- I'm no crypto, OS or FS guru, how does this compare/differ from Apple's FileFault which provides on the fly encrypt/decrypt of user files? Being an Apple user, I have yet to use the FileVault utility, but it does look enticing, just that encrypting files on my workstation doesn't seem worth the *anticipated* performance hit.
Perhaps this might be yet another *BSD project that Apple could benefit from ala Konqueror. Or not.
Uhh... actally that would make the legal system far worse.
If everything set precedent, then what would be the point of settlement? Finger pointing disputes such as this would become multi-million dollar slugfests and those that could not afford it would be to timid to risk anything that may upset a more powerfull foe.
A sealed out of court settlement means that the corps involved can walk away, deal made in a short timely manner. IMO, settlement is the most expedient and amicable approach to a dispute left in the legal system.
Norse, greek... the poster is obviously American, so other cultures are obviously all Greek to him. Geez man, you'd think during this time of year where we all celebrate the ancient Egyptian Yuletide, you'd be spreading some holiday cheer! tsk. tsk.
Every day IU have to read about how bad my phone is. I don't know what the problem is, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it. It's a phone that plays MP3's and has half a gig of memory... to use anyway I like. I can synch my address book and iCal via bluetooth and iSynch... It takes decent photos and does video capture as well... with audio. I don't have a lot of time to listen in headphones since I am self employed and growing a business, so the 100 song limit is fine. In fact, I only put 60 songs on it so I have just under 200 megs left over for file storage.
I never expected this to be an iPod in a phone. I expected it to be a phone with a JME Version of iTunes.
But every day I go online, it seems I am told I am a fool for buying one. Every day I am told that this phone is sooooo bad.
So can someone please tell me why I am supposed to no like this phone? Because I sure as hell don't know why.
But I do apologize for having bought one. I'm sure you all know far better than I every detail about the ROKR E1.
Hey, Golden Palace Casino... I don't think there's any orbital gambling laws in place. Why don't you all just be good folks and build us all a Floating Space Casino.
Who gives a rat about NASA science projects when all we really need is booze and floating space strippers? I bet Space Vegas would finally make us an intergalactic empire!
/. needs to add a new MS Specific Icon for any and all MS Specific posts that include the word "mouthpiece" in the post body or are by known MS shills such as Didio and co.
If you're not quite getting the hang of OS X, You might want to devote a few minutes learning the keyboard shortcuts.
Open System Preferences, select Key Board and Mouse, click on the Key Board Shortcuts tab. Things like the built in dictionary (ctrl+Apple+D) are quite handy.
Another thing to consider is that OS X is very Drag and Drop oriented... try dragging and dropping items from finder to an app, or from an app to another app, or from an app to the finder. You might be surprised.
Digging around on Google got me a link to the Resonant Transfer Plasma Propulsion Project which is an investigation of the Black Light Plasma Thruster and is a formal 3rd party investigation of Mills claims by Rowan U for NASA.
The site included a PDF which is a full report to NASA detailing their success in building a prototype and the test launch of a Black Light Plasma Thruster: get PDF here
The link provides photos of the engine being both built and test fired and full disclosure on their findings.
While much further work is required, it seems that enough success was achieved by the 3rd party to warrant further study. The author even goes so far as to state:
"Scientists at BlackLight Power, Inc. have explained the above phenomena based on a hypothesis that, under certain conditions, hydrogen atoms can undergo transitions to energy levels corresponding to fractional principal quantum numbers. However, since the theoretical explanation of the BlackLight Process has entailed a reworking of quantum mechanics, the theory has not been readily accepted in the scientific community. Regardless of the theoretical explanation, the experimental data suggests that these plasma systems have unique characteristics that warrant further exploration for propulsion applications. "
Appearantly, they've seen through experimentation the behavior Mills has been claiming.
"it really seems funny to me how all Intels bashers (aka. Mac fans) suddenly became Intel enthusiasts"
While that may be true for some, I for one think the Intel move is shaping up to be a huge mistake. While I was at first willing to accept that transition, the more I see in regards to Intels recent failures, the more I don't like the shape of things to come in Apples future.
It's quite unfortunate that Apple chose not to go with the Cell and that IBM couldn't be bothered to deliver a laptop capable G5 in a reasonable timeframe.
Personally, I look forward to seeing the benchmarks between G5's and x86 Macs. As I expect a rather sad and painfully ironic day. Where we see year old hardware outperforming the new gear when it comes to Apples core market... photo and video professionals.
What I have to ask is, why Intel? At only 3% marketshare, I think AMD would have been quite capable of meeting their supply requirements.
If anything good comes from the Intel changeover in the immediate future, it will be the resurrection of the PowerBook, which has been left out in the cold to die thanks to IBM and their empty promises.
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I'm sorry, but a 73k per year programmer is not exactly a sparkling gem amongst rubes. The people I pay 73k per year are shall we say... competent production level programmers, who left to their own devices will write utterly pedestrian and might I say, rather bug-riddled code with no sense of architecure or design other than that already provided by others via a framework.
My heavy hitters, and the ones I rely upon to help compose, shape and craft and add to the product as a whole and who have innovative ideas get at least 110K per year.
And I don't think my approach is all that unique. Get in a core team of 2-3 Senior people to design, architect, mentor and lead and a rag-tag horde of underlings to do the grunt work.
So if these "average" programmers on H1-B are paid 20K less per year on average... Is it really a statement on skill, or the fact that there are extra costs associated with an H1-B? Take into account the cost to the company of the H1-B status itself as well as importing and housing the worker. And that's before you get into wage expectations, where a 73K per year job might be perfectly acceptable to most Americans, a person from India would look at 56k per year as a pile of riches. Would they haggle over any offer made to come work in the US which offered riches compared to what they got in India? Hell, I bet you could get people to come over for 30k per year if you wanted.
So no, it's not about skill. It's about offsetting additional costs and India being an employers market for employees who have far less expectations (and greater niavity) than their American counterparts.
The first sentence of the article: The Seattle Monorail Project board has just approved a Nov. 8 ballot measure to shorten the proposed line, and run it from the Alaska Junction in West Seattle to West Dravus Street in Interbay.
Another day another story posted with a summary that can only be described as completely wrong.
Reading the summary did make me laugh though, when I left Seattle for a real city (SF) back in 2001, the Monorail project had already been started up and construction had commenced. So if they pull out now, they could very well end up having a several hundred million dollar infrastructure sitting there to rot -- and rotting quite promenently as they situated it through very busy streets.
But it might be possible that by shortening the scope of work, the contractors would pull out. And then the Monorail project could very well be as good as dead.
Personally, while I thought the monorail project was cool, I never really understood why the hell they needed it. They already have a top-notch bus system and the idea of extending the 1962 Worlds Fair Monorail into a city wide service seems rather superflous.
Personally, I agree with the filers of the suit. While I see no problem with making available public domain works, I do see where Publishers and authors have a very legitimate case and wish them the best in this effort.
Per the link to the Claimants PR: "Google has agreements with four academic libraries -- those of Stanford, Harvard, Oxford and the University of Michigan -- and with the New York Public Library to create digital copies of substantial parts of their collections and to make those collections available for searching online. Google has not sought the approval of the authors of these works for this program."
That's pretty much like going over to your friend Freds house and asking him if you can copy his CD collection to post online.You and I know better, and you can be damn sure that Google knows better.
This brings into question Googles "Don't be evil" mantra. Since I have to assume that Google knows that their actions are legally questionable at best, how can they justify blatant infringement without using appropriate channels as "good". This smacks of the fabled MS style tactic of just doing whatever the damn hell you want and expecting money to shut people up after the fact.
That's complete BS. The average user does give a damn. The problem is that the average user is scared as hell to update their Windows OS because when they have in the past it broke things and caused all sorts of problems.
There's an old saying: "Once bitten, twice shy". You do the "right" thing only to get bitten in the ass because of it, you learn quickly not to do that again.
The average user isn't a geek and while so many geeks can't understand this fact and rant how most people are clueless. This works both ways. How would you like it if every trip to the auto-mechanic you were chided for having certain tires, not using a particular brand/weight of motor oil, not being timely enough in getting a tune up, why didn't you change your own oil, your tire pressures too low? Or if you went to a lawyer, you were spoken down to and treated like a schmuck because of your ignorance of legalese?
So when these people run Windows auto-update in their attempt to "be good" and then need to call in some geek to fix it, only to get an ear-full of crap about IE this and Outlook that and VB-de blah de blah, you think they really want to suffer that indignity again?
It's a two fold problem really -- Running MS Auto-update is like playing Russian Roulette and if you lose, you've got to fork over cash for a lecture from some holier than thou sociopathic computer geek that's lost all perspective of life outside/.
So for many, the best option is to ignore the patches to avoid the headaches they've learned by experience to associate with negative experiences.
And it's people like you that help reinforce that associative perception. Good job.
For months I've been eagerly anticipating the Apple iTunes phone. iFigured (like many I'm sure) Apple would have heavy design influence over the phones look and feel.
iThought wrong. I see the iPhone on the Apple site and iFeel totally iUnderwhelmed.
Quite literally my first iThought was, "that's it?"
Just another phone from Motorola except that it happens to have a mini iTunes interface.
The Nano on the otherhand... now that thing is seriously nice. I already have a 60Gb iPod, but I think I might just get a Nano as well. I mean, it has the built in reality distortion field and everything!
Too bad Apple could be bothered with letting Motorola in on any of their Patented "Jobsian Mechanism for the Distortion of Reality" IP.
Cuz that phone is utterly pedestrian, way to go Motorola -- get handed a great opportunity to carve up some market niche and you go and deliver a phone that looks like the one 1999's been calling asking about.
But who knows, I might head on over to Cingular and check it out. Since I might be more impressed once it's actually in my grubby lil iHands.
I have mod points, but there's no -1 asshole option.
So back in your face fuckwad... Why don't you pull your ass out of your world of warcraft fantasy world, turn off the computer, walk outside and TALK TO PEOPLE.. you might just find that very few people care that much about computers, software and gadgets and of those few that do, maybe 3% have any real understanding of "what it's all abut".
And just how much time do you think a single mother of 5 has to devote to figuring out all the nifty shit a computer can do when she has work, bill, and five pesky kids to watch over and feed? Hell, I bet she uses her computer to do her taxes, pay bills and chat with family when she has time to use it at all.
So to you and others like you, wake the fuck up and get out more because you're a borderline sociopath who's clearly lost touch with the real world.
This has everything to do with empirical evidence of MS actions in regards to "cooperating" with other organizations and efforts.
Funny how any techie could rattle off at least a few well known and high profile cases of MS shafting it's "development partners". And yet you sit here and rattle off some crap about religious zealots and "not being so sure".
Well... that about sums it up don't it. Obviously you're too much an idiot to bother trying to explain anything to , or too much an asshole to bother with. but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt either way. - lest I be too quick to judge.
So here's a bone: Name 1 competing software manufacturer that MS has dealt with on a cooperative basis that MS hasn't stolen from, lied to, killed out right or simply aquired.
Reporters trying to reach Ron Gremban for comment have had no success. Immediate family members report that Ron Gremban was last seen shortly after his comments and his family is concerned with his sudden dissapearance.
Just like the "perms" my wife Betty-Lou get's down at the dang booteek or whateer that durned place is called. Yeap -- they call it a "permunant", but it just a stinkin bunch of moppy curls that done go way after a few weeks. And I always tell that woman she's throwin her $5 away, but she won't do no listenen!
But about this "perma" snow or whartever -- can you believe that?? Leave it to them Russkies to not even know how to make snow. Why them commies ain't never done nuthin right. Ain't nothin like good ol' USA snow, though I don't ever really see any here in Tennessee, American snow is the best. And I bet is stays frosty much longer than that phony snow from any commie or french country.
However, when I purchased, I did not plan on the usage cycle I encountered. Just happened to come about on it's own.
On the whole I've been quite satisfied with the purchase as the printer suits my needs quite well.
And my "hyper-extensive warranty" does get me a brand new one, as it's a replacement warranty that grants me a brand new equal or comparable model on the spot -- no waiting for "repair" or getting a refurbished model shipped. Brand new... in the box... straight off the shelf.
And as for hardware expectations, I put my bank into my high end workstation hardware... the printer/fax/copier is merely a non-critical extension of my system.
A couple years back I bought an HP all in one deal for about $300.00 and paid an additional $50.00 for the extended warranty through CompUSA.
Well, after about a year and a half, it starts messing up. So I have it run down to the store and they give me a brand new one for free and sold me Yet Another Extended Warranty for $50.00.
So for an inital deposit of $350.00 and $50.00 installments every year or so, you get a free laser printer replacement.
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Hey -- I'm no crypto, OS or FS guru, how does this compare/differ from Apple's FileFault which provides on the fly encrypt/decrypt of user files? Being an Apple user, I have yet to use the FileVault utility, but it does look enticing, just that encrypting files on my workstation doesn't seem worth the *anticipated* performance hit.
Perhaps this might be yet another *BSD project that Apple could benefit from ala Konqueror. Or not.
Uhh... actally that would make the legal system far worse.
If everything set precedent, then what would be the point of settlement?
Finger pointing disputes such as this would become multi-million dollar slugfests
and those that could not afford it would be to timid to risk anything that may upset a more powerfull foe.
A sealed out of court settlement means that the corps involved can walk away, deal made in a short timely manner. IMO, settlement is the most expedient and amicable approach to a dispute left in the legal system.
Why fuck with it?
Norse, greek... the poster is obviously American, so other cultures are obviously all Greek to him.
Geez man, you'd think during this time of year where we all celebrate the ancient Egyptian Yuletide, you'd be spreading some holiday cheer!
tsk. tsk.
Every day IU have to read about how bad my phone is.
I don't know what the problem is, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it.
It's a phone that plays MP3's and has half a gig of memory... to use anyway I like.
I can synch my address book and iCal via bluetooth and iSynch...
It takes decent photos and does video capture as well... with audio.
I don't have a lot of time to listen in headphones since I am self employed and
growing a business, so the 100 song limit is fine. In fact, I only put 60 songs on it so I have just under 200 megs left over for file storage.
I never expected this to be an iPod in a phone.
I expected it to be a phone with a JME Version of iTunes.
But every day I go online, it seems I am told I am a fool for buying one.
Every day I am told that this phone is sooooo bad.
So can someone please tell me why I am supposed to no like this phone?
Because I sure as hell don't know why.
But I do apologize for having bought one.
I'm sure you all know far better than I every detail about the ROKR E1.
Hey, Golden Palace Casino...
I don't think there's any orbital gambling laws in place.
Why don't you all just be good folks and build us all a Floating Space Casino.
Who gives a rat about NASA science projects when all we really need is booze and floating space strippers? I bet Space Vegas would finally make us an intergalactic empire!
/. needs to add a new MS Specific Icon for any and all MS Specific posts that include the word "mouthpiece" in the post body or are by known MS shills such as Didio and co.
After all... Bill the Borg gets lonely sometimes.
So... you must have bought it for the games.
If you're not quite getting the hang of OS X, You might want to devote a few minutes learning the keyboard shortcuts.
Open System Preferences, select Key Board and Mouse, click on the Key Board Shortcuts tab.
Things like the built in dictionary (ctrl+Apple+D) are quite handy.
Another thing to consider is that OS X is very Drag and Drop oriented...
try dragging and dropping items from finder to an app, or from an app to another app, or from an app to the finder. You might be surprised.
Digging around on Google got me a link to the Resonant Transfer Plasma Propulsion Project which is an investigation of the Black Light Plasma Thruster and is a formal 3rd party investigation of Mills claims by Rowan U for NASA.
The site included a PDF which is a full report to NASA detailing their success in building a prototype and the test launch of a Black Light Plasma Thruster:
get PDF here
The link provides photos of the engine being both built and test fired and full disclosure on their findings.
While much further work is required, it seems that enough success was achieved by the 3rd party to warrant further study. The author even goes so far as to state:
"Scientists at BlackLight Power, Inc. have explained the above phenomena based on a hypothesis that, under certain conditions, hydrogen atoms can undergo transitions to energy levels corresponding to fractional principal quantum numbers. However, since the theoretical explanation of the BlackLight Process has entailed a reworking of quantum mechanics, the theory has not been readily accepted in the scientific community. Regardless of the theoretical explanation, the experimental data suggests that these plasma systems have unique characteristics that warrant further exploration for propulsion applications. "
Appearantly, they've seen through experimentation the behavior Mills has been claiming.
Quite an interesting turn of events.
"When the CFO leaves, it's usually because they think they're in a sinking ship."
Yeah, Oracles obviously in the direst of direly dire straights....
I mean really rough times...
Yes, the shio is sinking!
I suspect Netcraft will confirm Oracles death any moment now.
"it really seems funny to me how all Intels bashers (aka. Mac fans) suddenly became Intel enthusiasts"
While that may be true for some, I for one think the Intel move is shaping up to be a huge mistake. While I was at first willing to accept that transition, the more I see in regards to Intels recent failures, the more I don't like the shape of things to come in Apples future.
It's quite unfortunate that Apple chose not to go with the Cell and that IBM couldn't be bothered to deliver a laptop capable G5 in a reasonable timeframe.
Personally, I look forward to seeing the benchmarks between G5's and x86 Macs.
As I expect a rather sad and painfully ironic day. Where we see year old hardware outperforming the new gear when it comes to Apples core market... photo and video professionals.
What I have to ask is, why Intel?
At only 3% marketshare, I think AMD would have been quite capable of meeting their supply requirements.
If anything good comes from the Intel changeover in the immediate future, it will be the resurrection of the PowerBook, which has been left out in the cold to die thanks to IBM and their empty promises.
I'm sorry, but a 73k per year programmer is not exactly a sparkling gem amongst rubes.
The people I pay 73k per year are shall we say... competent production level programmers, who left to their own devices will write utterly pedestrian and might I say, rather bug-riddled code with no sense of architecure or design other than that already provided by others via a framework.
My heavy hitters, and the ones I rely upon to help compose, shape and craft and add to the product as a whole and who have innovative ideas get at least 110K per year.
And I don't think my approach is all that unique.
Get in a core team of 2-3 Senior people to design, architect, mentor and lead and a rag-tag horde of underlings to do the grunt work.
So if these "average" programmers on H1-B are paid 20K less per year on average...
Is it really a statement on skill, or the fact that there are extra costs associated with an H1-B? Take into account the cost to the company of the H1-B status itself as well as importing and housing the worker. And that's before you get into wage expectations, where a 73K per year job might be perfectly acceptable to most Americans, a person from India would look at 56k per year as a pile of riches. Would they haggle over any offer made to come work in the US which offered riches compared to what they got in India? Hell, I bet you could get people to come over for 30k per year if you wanted.
So no, it's not about skill.
It's about offsetting additional costs and India being an employers market for employees who have far less expectations (and greater niavity) than their American counterparts.
So... BBC is going to do an "Adult" show called "Touchwood" with some bi-sexual Captain, his K9 and Company... ....
And this is somehow NOT one of the signs of the Apocalypse.
Very well then.
The first sentence of the article:
The Seattle Monorail Project board has just approved a Nov. 8 ballot measure to shorten the proposed line, and run it from the Alaska Junction in West Seattle to West Dravus Street in Interbay.
Another day another story posted with a summary that can only be described as completely wrong.
Reading the summary did make me laugh though, when I left Seattle for a real city (SF) back in 2001, the Monorail project had already been started up and construction had commenced. So if they pull out now, they could very well end up having a several hundred million dollar infrastructure sitting there to rot -- and rotting quite promenently as they situated it through very busy streets.
But it might be possible that by shortening the scope of work, the contractors would pull out. And then the Monorail project could very well be as good as dead.
Personally, while I thought the monorail project was cool, I never really understood why the hell they needed it. They already have a top-notch bus system and the idea of extending the 1962 Worlds Fair Monorail into a city wide service seems rather superflous.
Personally, I agree with the filers of the suit.
While I see no problem with making available public domain works, I do see where Publishers and authors have a very legitimate case and wish them the best in this effort.
Per the link to the Claimants PR:
"Google has agreements with four academic libraries -- those of Stanford, Harvard, Oxford and the University of Michigan -- and with the New York Public Library to create digital copies of substantial parts of their collections and to make those collections available for searching online. Google has not sought the approval of the authors of these works for this program."
That's pretty much like going over to your friend Freds house and asking him if you can copy his CD collection to post online.You and I know better, and you can be damn sure that Google knows better.
This brings into question Googles "Don't be evil" mantra.
Since I have to assume that Google knows that their actions are legally questionable at best, how can they justify blatant infringement without using appropriate channels as "good".
This smacks of the fabled MS style tactic of just doing whatever the damn hell you want and expecting money to shut people up after the fact.
Is this a sign of things to come from Google?
I'm gonna get like 10 for every room 'cause I know you're watching and trying to keep me from talking about the Alie^H^H ...mmmmpppph
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As any Tourist at DisneyWorld could tell you $33.06 per second "seems" about average these days.
That's complete BS. The average user does give a damn.
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The problem is that the average user is scared as hell to update their Windows OS because when they have in the past it broke things and caused all sorts of problems.
There's an old saying: "Once bitten, twice shy".
You do the "right" thing only to get bitten in the ass because of it, you learn quickly not to do that again.
The average user isn't a geek and while so many geeks can't understand this fact and rant how most people are clueless.
This works both ways. How would you like it if every trip to the auto-mechanic you were chided for having certain tires, not using a particular brand/weight of motor oil, not being timely enough in getting a tune up, why didn't you change your own oil, your tire pressures too low? Or if you went to a lawyer, you were spoken down to and treated like a schmuck because of your ignorance of legalese?
So when these people run Windows auto-update in their attempt to "be good" and then need to call in some geek to fix it, only to get an ear-full of crap about IE this and Outlook that and VB-de blah de blah, you think they really want to suffer that indignity again?
It's a two fold problem really -- Running MS Auto-update is like playing Russian Roulette and if you lose, you've got to fork over cash for a lecture from some holier than thou sociopathic computer geek that's lost all perspective of life outside
So for many, the best option is to ignore the patches to avoid the headaches they've learned by experience to associate with negative experiences.
And it's people like you that help reinforce that associative perception. Good job.
For months I've been eagerly anticipating the Apple iTunes phone. iFigured (like many I'm sure) Apple would have heavy design influence over the phones look and feel.
... now that thing is seriously nice.
iThought wrong.
I see the iPhone on the Apple site and iFeel totally iUnderwhelmed.
Quite literally my first iThought was, "that's it?"
Just another phone from Motorola except that it happens to have a mini iTunes interface.
The Nano on the otherhand
I already have a 60Gb iPod, but I think I might just get a Nano as well. I mean, it has the built in reality distortion field and everything!
Too bad Apple could be bothered with letting Motorola in on any of their Patented "Jobsian Mechanism for the Distortion of Reality" IP.
Cuz that phone is utterly pedestrian, way to go Motorola -- get handed a great opportunity to carve up some market niche and you go and deliver a phone that looks like the one 1999's been calling asking about.
But who knows, I might head on over to Cingular and check it out. Since I might be more impressed once it's actually in my grubby lil iHands.
I have mod points, but there's no -1 asshole option.
So back in your face fuckwad...
Why don't you pull your ass out of your world of warcraft fantasy world, turn off the computer, walk outside and TALK TO PEOPLE.. you might just find that very few people care that much about computers, software and gadgets and of those few that do, maybe 3% have any real understanding of "what it's all abut".
And just how much time do you think a single mother of 5 has to devote to figuring out all the nifty shit a computer can do when she has work, bill, and five pesky kids to watch over and feed? Hell, I bet she uses her computer to do her taxes, pay bills and chat with family when she has time to use it at all.
So to you and others like you, wake the fuck up and get out more because you're a borderline sociopath who's clearly lost touch with the real world.
This has nothing to do with religion.
This has everything to do with empirical evidence of MS actions in regards to "cooperating" with other organizations and efforts.
Funny how any techie could rattle off at least a few well known and high profile cases of MS shafting it's "development partners". And yet you sit here and rattle off some crap about religious zealots and "not being so sure".
Well... that about sums it up don't it.
Obviously you're too much an idiot to bother trying to explain anything to , or too much an asshole to bother with.
but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt either way.
- lest I be too quick to judge.
So here's a bone:
Name 1 competing software manufacturer that MS has dealt with on a cooperative basis that MS hasn't stolen from, lied to, killed out right or simply aquired.
Usually they just come up from behind and stick it in the ass without even the common decency of a reach around.
But the friendlier post-monopoly suite MS politely "proposes" you drop 'em and bend over for some "embracing and extending".
how sweet.
But seriously, OSDL would have to be freaken nuts to even consider this offer to be in their interest for even a second.
Reporters trying to reach Ron Gremban for comment have had no success. Immediate family members report that Ron Gremban was last seen shortly after his comments and his family is concerned with his sudden dissapearance.
Just like the "perms" my wife Betty-Lou get's down at the dang booteek or whateer that durned place is called. Yeap -- they call it a "permunant", but it just a stinkin bunch of moppy curls that done go way after a few weeks. And I always tell that woman she's throwin her $5 away, but she won't do no listenen!
But about this "perma" snow or whartever -- can you believe that?? Leave it to them Russkies to not even know how to make snow. Why them commies ain't never done nuthin right. Ain't nothin like good ol' USA snow, though I don't ever really see any here in Tennessee, American snow is the best. And I bet is stays frosty much longer than that phony snow from any commie or french country.
Interesting assessment.
However, when I purchased, I did not plan on the usage cycle I encountered. Just happened to come about on it's own.
On the whole I've been quite satisfied with the purchase as the printer suits my needs quite well.
And my "hyper-extensive warranty" does get me a brand new one, as it's a replacement warranty that grants me a brand new equal or comparable model on the spot -- no waiting for "repair" or getting a refurbished model shipped.
Brand new... in the box... straight off the shelf.
And as for hardware expectations, I put my bank into my high end workstation hardware... the printer/fax/copier is merely a non-critical extension of my system.
A couple years back I bought an HP all in one deal for about $300.00 and paid an additional $50.00 for the extended warranty through CompUSA.
Well, after about a year and a half, it starts messing up.
So I have it run down to the store and they give me a brand new one for free and sold me Yet Another Extended Warranty for $50.00.
So for an inital deposit of $350.00 and $50.00 installments every year or so, you get a free laser printer replacement.
Not bad if you ask me.