Here if it's after dark and you see someone breaking into your car out in the driveway you are within your legal rights to shoot them. It falls under something called "Criminal Mischief at Night" and while it is not a case where you cannot be charged with shooting the guy it is a defense to prosecution that has used with a great deal of success in this state. God I love living in Texas!
He's probably from the planet where people know how to network W95 computers together. It isn't hard and there's no mysterious secret to the thing. If you consistently have problems making the "tinker-toy" of operating systems network maybe you should look within?
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Of course it means something just like your "Water" version means something. It has value and so it makes things possible that would not be otherwise.
Don't go after the virus writers? The real problem is the buggy and insecure code? You don't think maybe the real problem is the little asshole writing a virus to screw up my mail or web server do you? I simply feel that if you write a virus and put it out there to spread and cause as much trouble as it can then you pretty much need to be shot in the back of the head and dumped into a large, unmarked, grave with the bodies of your fellow turds. Of course I also think that snipers with night vision could put an end to the graphiti problems in major cities too but then that's just me.
This post couldn't be closer to the truth. It's a completely different way of seeing things from their perspective. This is nothing more than an appliance to them and they want it to work. Not for "200+" days but for a few hours at a time and when they are done with it they turn it off and go do something else. I think it's called "a life" but I'm not sure. For them it's not a crusade or a belief. It's like using the toaster. It's like turning the TV on and off. From their perspective why would or should it be anything else?
Ok, so in the world of 800lb Gorillas it's kind of nice to see one on our side regardless of their past history. If you think about it for a moment wouldn't it be simply grand to see IBM come back and take a giant bite out of Microsoft's ass all these years later? It might not happen but it makes for a very satisfying mental picture. That they would be using open source software to do it with just makes it better.
I work in local government and in the two different departments of county government I've been in the difference has been like night and day. The first department was the local county hospital district and their policy was to avoid the discussion, thought, or inference of providing any training to anyone like the the plague.
The CIO there felt that if he provided training to his IT people they would jump ship in a minute for better paying positions elsewhere. In reality the turnover rate was very high as most of my coworkers (an myself) left for departments or private sector jobs that would provide training.
I went then to the engineering department of the same county and here we have a fairly generous budget for training (averaging around $5,000 per emplyoyee per year)by local government standards and in the last three years I've been over here not one employee has left the IT group for greener pastures. I've turned down two jobs paying almost 10k more per year because it's a good place to work and I get to stay current on the software/hardware. What's not to like?
I simply can't believe that this is going to be brought back in any form within another ten years and so, barring Microsoft actually killing someone, I guess they are off the hook for the time being.
In all honesty I really think this is a good thing in disguise. Watching them over the last year or so I get the feeling they are not far from jumping the shark and making that blunder or series of blunders where they end up doing to themselves what the Justice Department intended to do all along. I know that I won't be using anything with an XP in the name. Their ideas about licensing software are giving the shop I work in far more cause to investigate alternatives than anything else they have done.
I always got a kick out of the torx screws with the slot in them. I really loved the big ass slotted screws on the back of the last bunch of Deskpro's we got. The ones where anyone with their fingers could get them off quickly. I grabbed all of them and replaced them with regular old philips screws. They found their way onto my boxes at the house and in my humble opinion this is the best part Compaq ever used in building a PC.
Cheap shot yeah but if it's true you can't dismiss it. Their stuff crawls and it's packed with things people neither need nor want.
I got tired of keeping my computers, my wifes computer, her two sons computers, My brothers computer, my brothers wifes computer, and my Dads computer all in free maintenance (clones, you build one for someone and it's lifetime warranty service if they happen to be family members) and just told my mom to "buy a Compaq or something" and since then I've paid the price. It's simply the crappiest piece of work I've ever seen.
Managed to convince my boss to ditch the Compaq desktops at work but can't get him to part with the servers. Actually don't have too much trouble with their servers. The desktops were almost as bad as the Presario my mom bought though. Good riddance.
I am curious. Has IBM sold more PC's than Apple since day one of each company? I don't know the answer to that question but it would be worth finding out.
If I had to guess I would put my money on IBM and I would say that the existance of IBM compatible clones which grew that market was the factor that more than anything caused it. It would be my take on the question. Really like to know what the numbers are though?
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Here if it's after dark and you see someone breaking into your car out in the driveway you are within your legal rights to shoot them. It falls under something called "Criminal Mischief at Night" and while it is not a case where you cannot be charged with shooting the guy it is a defense to prosecution that has used with a great deal of success in this state. God I love living in Texas!
He's probably from the planet where people know how to network W95 computers together. It isn't hard and there's no mysterious secret to the thing. If you consistently have problems making the "tinker-toy" of operating systems network maybe you should look within?
Of course it means something just like your "Water" version means something. It has value and so it makes things possible that would not be otherwise.
Don't go after the virus writers? The real problem is the buggy and insecure code? You don't think maybe the real problem is the little asshole writing a virus to screw up my mail or web server do you? I simply feel that if you write a virus and put it out there to spread and cause as much trouble as it can then you pretty much need to be shot in the back of the head and dumped into a large, unmarked, grave with the bodies of your fellow turds. Of course I also think that snipers with night vision could put an end to the graphiti problems in major cities too but then that's just me.
This post couldn't be closer to the truth. It's a completely different way of seeing things from their perspective. This is nothing more than an appliance to them and they want it to work. Not for "200+" days but for a few hours at a time and when they are done with it they turn it off and go do something else. I think it's called "a life" but I'm not sure. For them it's not a crusade or a belief. It's like using the toaster. It's like turning the TV on and off. From their perspective why would or should it be anything else?
Clearly Kevin supports this because he is a knock-off product based on another person named.....Evin? KJudgeFurious
Ok, so in the world of 800lb Gorillas it's kind of nice to see one on our side regardless of their past history. If you think about it for a moment wouldn't it be simply grand to see IBM come back and take a giant bite out of Microsoft's ass all these years later? It might not happen but it makes for a very satisfying mental picture. That they would be using open source software to do it with just makes it better.
I work in local government and in the two different departments of county government I've been in the difference has been like night and day. The first department was the local county hospital district and their policy was to avoid the discussion, thought, or inference of providing any training to anyone like the the plague. The CIO there felt that if he provided training to his IT people they would jump ship in a minute for better paying positions elsewhere. In reality the turnover rate was very high as most of my coworkers (an myself) left for departments or private sector jobs that would provide training. I went then to the engineering department of the same county and here we have a fairly generous budget for training (averaging around $5,000 per emplyoyee per year)by local government standards and in the last three years I've been over here not one employee has left the IT group for greener pastures. I've turned down two jobs paying almost 10k more per year because it's a good place to work and I get to stay current on the software/hardware. What's not to like?
I simply can't believe that this is going to be brought back in any form within another ten years and so, barring Microsoft actually killing someone, I guess they are off the hook for the time being. In all honesty I really think this is a good thing in disguise. Watching them over the last year or so I get the feeling they are not far from jumping the shark and making that blunder or series of blunders where they end up doing to themselves what the Justice Department intended to do all along. I know that I won't be using anything with an XP in the name. Their ideas about licensing software are giving the shop I work in far more cause to investigate alternatives than anything else they have done.
I always got a kick out of the torx screws with the slot in them. I really loved the big ass slotted screws on the back of the last bunch of Deskpro's we got. The ones where anyone with their fingers could get them off quickly. I grabbed all of them and replaced them with regular old philips screws. They found their way onto my boxes at the house and in my humble opinion this is the best part Compaq ever used in building a PC.
Cheap shot yeah but if it's true you can't dismiss it. Their stuff crawls and it's packed with things people neither need nor want. I got tired of keeping my computers, my wifes computer, her two sons computers, My brothers computer, my brothers wifes computer, and my Dads computer all in free maintenance (clones, you build one for someone and it's lifetime warranty service if they happen to be family members) and just told my mom to "buy a Compaq or something" and since then I've paid the price. It's simply the crappiest piece of work I've ever seen. Managed to convince my boss to ditch the Compaq desktops at work but can't get him to part with the servers. Actually don't have too much trouble with their servers. The desktops were almost as bad as the Presario my mom bought though. Good riddance.
I am curious. Has IBM sold more PC's than Apple since day one of each company? I don't know the answer to that question but it would be worth finding out. If I had to guess I would put my money on IBM and I would say that the existance of IBM compatible clones which grew that market was the factor that more than anything caused it. It would be my take on the question. Really like to know what the numbers are though?