...anyone that buys name brand pc's is quite looney imo
Are you kidding? Have you ever been in charge of any other PC besides your own? I might consider buying a whitebox for my own use, but try supporting 100 white boxes without a service contract. Namebrands maybe will not offer top of the line systems or easily upgradeable systems, but when excrement hits the cooling device with their boxes, I am guaranteed to have a technician at my door in less than 24 hours.
I got too much already to jugle to even consider having to worry about uncompatible BIOSes, loose connectors, wierd system freezes. Buying a namebrand will guarantee that your system has been tested, and that if anything comes up with your hardware, their service department will be handling the SNAFU.
Call them up, threat to sue for privacy invasion and hacking of your data. Demand that they forward the "quarantined virus" to you or your attorney (maybe even make up a fake address just to scare them such as case3231 AT lawonline DOT com)
we are seen by them as being a bully and a threat to their country
And you are not? How would you react if somebody called your family, friends, neighbours and countrymen, "the axis of evil"? May I remind you the amount of bombs, missiles, explosives and other "american friendliness" you have dropped on these people?
From what I have read, the Nigerian mafia is running this kind of scam since the early 80s, and believe it or not, there are people who do fall for it. The fact that they are using now modern tools (email and computers) to carry out their activities is just consecuential. The problem is so big, that the US treasury department has created a task force to deal with this kind of criminals.
There is an excelent site which reports the millions of variations of the first contact letters, fun stories on how to play these guys, and stories on how to make them dance like a chicken. Worth the reading if you have time for it (but then again, you are reading this, aren't you?).
Well, it seems the brainwashed here is somebody else. Maybe you should consider decaf and voting democrat next year. Even better, Drew, quit reading alt.alien.abductions, alt.elvis.sightings, and alt.conspiracy.theory.
There is one thing that worries me about these results. All of IBM's entries for the category under 100 GB where running Windoze and SQL Server. Now this is sort of strange for a company with their own OS (OS/2) and their own Database (DB/2). Unless they were trying to pass the message that they just do not rely enough on their own systems. IBM must have felt ridiculous when they where beaten by an OS they have commited too and by their own product! Maybe next benchmark we will see more diversity in this range.
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Are you kidding? Have you ever been in charge of any other PC besides your own? I might consider buying a whitebox for my own use, but try supporting 100 white boxes without a service contract. Namebrands maybe will not offer top of the line systems or easily upgradeable systems, but when excrement hits the cooling device with their boxes, I am guaranteed to have a technician at my door in less than 24 hours.
I got too much already to jugle to even consider having to worry about uncompatible BIOSes, loose connectors, wierd system freezes. Buying a namebrand will guarantee that your system has been tested, and that if anything comes up with your hardware, their service department will be handling the SNAFU.
Call them up, threat to sue for privacy invasion and hacking of your data. Demand that they forward the "quarantined virus" to you or your attorney (maybe even make up a fake address just to scare them such as case3231 AT lawonline DOT com)
And you are not? How would you react if somebody called your family, friends, neighbours and countrymen, "the axis of evil"? May I remind you the amount of bombs, missiles, explosives and other "american friendliness" you have dropped on these people?
There is an excelent site which reports the millions of variations of the first contact letters, fun stories on how to play these guys, and stories on how to make them dance like a chicken. Worth the reading if you have time for it (but then again, you are reading this, aren't you?).
22 years old... he is no longer a kid.
I would definetly agree with the judge here. He is experiencing a serious lack of judgement.
Well, it seems the brainwashed here is somebody else. Maybe you should consider decaf and voting democrat next year. Even better, Drew, quit reading alt.alien.abductions, alt.elvis.sightings, and alt.conspiracy.theory.
There is one thing that worries me about these results. All of IBM's entries for the category under 100 GB where running Windoze and SQL Server. Now this is sort of strange for a company with their own OS (OS/2) and their own Database (DB/2). Unless they were trying to pass the message that they just do not rely enough on their own systems. IBM must have felt ridiculous when they where beaten by an OS they have commited too and by their own product! Maybe next benchmark we will see more diversity in this range.