Not only is Wal-Mart bigger than Microsoft, they are about a trillion times bigger than SCO!
Between Sun and Wal-Mart, I'd say they have plenty of expertise in how to sell UNIX derivatives to deal with any ankle-biting SCO lawyers that might crawl by.
I would not put starting wars to preserve a monopoly beyond certain companies with a virtual monopoly in the PC OS arena.
You're the one who said it, not me. Using 9 '?' characters isn't terribly good obfuscation, either, given the ample context provided in your post.
Let the history books record that it was Anonymous Coward who started the long chain of unlikely events that will end the world as we know it.
Gee, thanks a lot. Next time you leave your parent's basement to get a Big Mac and a large vanilla milkshake, you'd better watch your back, 'cause if I see you I'll smash the Big Mac under your smelly hat and pour your milkshake down the back of your pants!
Didn't Sun also get a big JDS contract with China, recently? This, along with HP and IBM boosing Linux is really great news. Hopefully, we can put off World War III long enough to finally enjoy ubiquitous desktop Linux.
I seem to think that good-quality uninteruptible power supplies have some electronic wizardry in them to correct for input voltage. I.e., a UPS would output 110 or 220 volts regardless whether the input voltage is off. Can anyone corroberate this?
Performance is truly irrelevant. For anyone with better than a 200MHz Pentium, all that really matters is having enough RAM, a fast hard drive, and an accelerated X Windows video driver. GUI performance has been perfectly acceptible for years. Some individual applications surely could use optimization, but that isn't really relevant to a general review of GNOME.
Also, the only applications where raw performance is really an issue tend to be OpenGL-based or do lots of non-GUI data-crunching. These applications couldn't care less what the desktop environment is.
if you stop to enjoy the fruits of your labour then shame on you and you deserve all the beatings that the mugger will give you, after all
It is very possible to be wealthy and enjoy it but not blatently look like it. Once the kids, nieces, and nephews have their college funds set up, the garage has two reliable but not luxury cars, the house is well landscaped, etc. etc., then remaining excess easily goes towards a comfortable retirement, investment in other businesses, and/or charity. Using that money for a Rolex diamond-studded watch or Lexus AT-AT behemoth is just not necessary.
Anyone who exposes themselves as a target deserve what they get. Wearing jewelry or expensive watches or expensive shoes or driving expensive cars in many areas is just a big problem waiting to happen. People who don't believe this are naive. There are a lot of desperate people out there, and it is always best they victimize someone else.
This isn't important. What's important is that somehow, he/she in connection with that computer is resulting in a seemingly constantly breaking computer. Computers just don't break like that, unless there is a genuine environmental or human cause, and constantly sending the computer back to the dealer is just plain stupid. People that do this with cars end up parting with thousands of dollars or days of their time for effectively zero gain. It is never in the dealer's best interest to really fix anything correctly, and it sounds like Apple has it worked out in their business model that they don't need to really fix things all that well, either. There is always a threshold to be reached, where relying on the dealer any further is just a waste of time. Even when something is under warranty, there comes a point where doing it yourself or finding a competent third party is sometimes necessary.
So, this guy is a sucker for buying AppleCare in the first place, and he is a sucker for constantly relying on the same people for a problem resolution that will probably never come. He needs to limit his losses and figure out a new plan of action that doesn't involve Apple's service department.
three replacement power supplies, one battery, two motherboards, a top case, and a screen replaced under warranty, and it now has another hardware problem.
Just like people who always have their car in the garage, the first word that comes to my mind is "Sucker." Computers--and cars--just don't break down like that, and people that end up in these situations are people who must actually *believe* what an auto/computer mechanic says. "Oh, I think your environmental defibrulater canister needs replacing, you know how these things go...that'll be $400. Thanks."
People are prepared for their tax liability, yes? No, they spent all their money and then some? Then they have a few lessons to learn about life and living within their means. Also, if the IRS really comes down hard on those who lack foresight and are unprepared, they are usually nice enough to do payment plans.
(I'm sure it's about as valuable as an extended warranty at Circuit City, but the $27 seemed reasonable)
It is worth exactly as much as an extended warranty at Circuit City, i.e., $-27 to you. Extended warranties are of value only to those people who are so bad at planning their lives that they need to spend more to insure themselves against all the small problems in life. Extended warranties prey upon the poor and the stupid, just like the Lottery and Presidential Canidates.
I've heard that many "tax professionals" are overrated because it is hard to keep up with the tax code from year to year. Mistakes are probably par for the course. Companies like H&R Block or Jackson Hewitt or whomever often have required continuing education each summer for their employees, so some random Joe or Jane working for one of these companies might actually be better prepared than a genuine CPA.
Seriously, if you could manage to get it through Congress.
Tax reform will never pass, becuase the Federal Income Tax is a hallucinagenic addictive drug for Congress. They get to take 1/3 or more of my income and then use it to pay someone else's rent in L.A. or make sure a big-name Senator doesn't have to pay for the flood insurance on his beach house. If not that, then I'm sure there is a nice road to nowhere that needs to be built or a few more pork projects that could get funded.
I believe that Sun's SunPCi x86 co-processor cards also use FreeDOS by default on their virtual drive files.
My pipe dream is to have a Sun workstation with an x86 card and a mythical PowerPC card... several versions of Solaris, several versions of Linux, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Mac OS X all in one box! Those dual-boot fanboys would drop to their knees and beg for mercy from such a beast!
When aquisitions are written into a contract or pre-set by an annual budget, this means they probably left out long-term maintenance, upgrades, and funds to pay anyone do to maintenance and upgrades. Welcome to basically every bureaucracy large and small on the whole planet.
For example, wasn't it the good ol' Department of Homeland Security that scored an 'F' for network security this last year? Wasn't the Department of the Interior that was ordered off-line for gross negligence? Large and small, they all fall.
Funny, it's not bankrupting MY government. And nobody I know has had to sell their house to pay for their chemo either.
If your e-mail address says you're Canadian, I have heard stories that the Canadian healthcare system is driving some doctors out of practice and that many people still have to resort to the private-sector for many services that the government doesn't deem worthy of coverage. In short, no one is perfect, but if the USA is going to make big changes to health care, they had better do it in a way that is truly sustainable and not just some political vote-getter. I really believe that the Universal Healthcare platform of the USA presidential debates is purely for votes with little or no real foresight.
Basically, if we could get rid of the incompetent middlemen and businessfolk who've inserted themselves in the way of actually providing healthcare, we'd have enough money to insure everyone in the country who's currently left out or underinsured.
The federal government is the king of middlemen. I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of government employees could be replaced by automation but can't due to tenure or unionization.
Our current health care system is dying because it is controlled by corporate minds who prefer making profits over providing services.
It is more likely that imbalanced regulations created the insane market we are witnessing today. Doctors and nurses are not inherently evil by any measure, but they are forced into an environment of sky high liability lawsuits, huge pressure from hospital and insurance company management, and dozens of hypochondriac mothers who abuse their healhcare coverage to its fullest extent.
The so called problem of overpopulation is that we can't feed everybody.
Sorry, but the real problem of overpopulation is that other people suck. There is nothing like living in an area, where you can turn off the TV, step outside, and hear nothing but the wind and the birds. In the Great Kingdom of Suburbia, I can step outside and be guaranteed to hear several neglected yapping dogs confined to fenced backyards and at least one car with 1000 watts of trash in the back seat and truck. Add to that neighbors who mow their lawns only once a month and street networks that achive gridlock when a water main breaks, and the suburbs are sheer heaven, right?
The only benefit to living near a city hospital is the quickness of care delivered when that stress-induced stroke or heart attack strikes.
That and the Danimals Commercial where they introduced a new character of a Crocodile with sun glasses, which we never have seen from since.
This reminds me of the extreme purple ketchup that was in stores a couple years ago. It, too, seems to have gone the way of the dodo.
Bleh, this also reminds me of that children's yogurt my nephews eat that looks like radioactive waste (glowing green, it must have more artifical colors in one cup than I eat in two months).
Also, if Bush was as Christian as everyone of the right thought he was he would do something about the treatment of Christians in China, yet he doesn't.
He is a modern feel-good selective-bible-reading loud-bible-thumping christian. In other words, he is barely christian at all; rather, he is a part of a large quasi-religious subculture that is very common in the Southern USA.
Iraq isn't a swampy jungle with mountains and people jumping out of the trees and the ground all around you. Also, in Iraq, the Iraqi people are largely divided in favor of getting rid of Saddam, which is nothing like the Vietnamese sentiment towards "Uncle Ho." The relative lack of casualties is not at all suprising. However, you should be very grateful to the state department and CIA that a half dozen surrounding countries haven't jumped on our asses over there creating an all out regional hell.
Is this anything like a certain other organization stating that everyone "ought to have" universal health care, without saying how, or who's going to pay for it, etc?
Universal health care is a joke. It has to be. Just last week, the big news was that our existing medicare and social security programs are hanging on by a thread. They don't even know how to fund our existing programs when the baby boomers retire. Universal healthcare will be right beside our mars missions and universal broadband as things that are bankrupting the federal government.
Furthermore even with its massive size there is room for only 1 (one) additional internal drive and no additional front loading bays.
When you out go outside of the PC realm and into that of workstations, the cases tend to be focused for maintainability and cooling than size. In Sun workstations, for example, the hard drives are always mounted into a frame with space around each drive for airflow. There are fans directly in front/behind of the PCI slot area for hot cards, and fans directly in front/behind of the CPU modules. Many of the parts of the workstations are very modular, being held into place with captive screws or other fasteners and easily swapped out. When designed well, it is inevitable that a workstation is not only big but often quite heavy.
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Not only is Wal-Mart bigger than Microsoft, they are about a trillion times bigger than SCO!
Between Sun and Wal-Mart, I'd say they have plenty of expertise in how to sell UNIX derivatives to deal with any ankle-biting SCO lawyers that might crawl by.
I would not put starting wars to preserve a monopoly beyond certain companies with a virtual monopoly in the PC OS arena.
You're the one who said it, not me. Using 9 '?' characters isn't terribly good obfuscation, either, given the ample context provided in your post.
Let the history books record that it was Anonymous Coward who started the long chain of unlikely events that will end the world as we know it.
Gee, thanks a lot. Next time you leave your parent's basement to get a Big Mac and a large vanilla milkshake, you'd better watch your back, 'cause if I see you I'll smash the Big Mac under your smelly hat and pour your milkshake down the back of your pants!
Didn't Sun also get a big JDS contract with China, recently? This, along with HP and IBM boosing Linux is really great news. Hopefully, we can put off World War III long enough to finally enjoy ubiquitous desktop Linux.
I seem to think that good-quality uninteruptible power supplies have some electronic wizardry in them to correct for input voltage. I.e., a UPS would output 110 or 220 volts regardless whether the input voltage is off. Can anyone corroberate this?
Performance?
Performance is truly irrelevant. For anyone with better than a 200MHz Pentium, all that really matters is having enough RAM, a fast hard drive, and an accelerated X Windows video driver. GUI performance has been perfectly acceptible for years. Some individual applications surely could use optimization, but that isn't really relevant to a general review of GNOME.
Also, the only applications where raw performance is really an issue tend to be OpenGL-based or do lots of non-GUI data-crunching. These applications couldn't care less what the desktop environment is.
if you stop to enjoy the fruits of your labour then shame on you and you deserve all the beatings that the mugger will give you, after all
It is very possible to be wealthy and enjoy it but not blatently look like it. Once the kids, nieces, and nephews have their college funds set up, the garage has two reliable but not luxury cars, the house is well landscaped, etc. etc., then remaining excess easily goes towards a comfortable retirement, investment in other businesses, and/or charity. Using that money for a Rolex diamond-studded watch or Lexus AT-AT behemoth is just not necessary.
Anyone who exposes themselves as a target deserve what they get. Wearing jewelry or expensive watches or expensive shoes or driving expensive cars in many areas is just a big problem waiting to happen. People who don't believe this are naive. There are a lot of desperate people out there, and it is always best they victimize someone else.
He's not paying for it.
This isn't important. What's important is that somehow, he/she in connection with that computer is resulting in a seemingly constantly breaking computer. Computers just don't break like that, unless there is a genuine environmental or human cause, and constantly sending the computer back to the dealer is just plain stupid. People that do this with cars end up parting with thousands of dollars or days of their time for effectively zero gain. It is never in the dealer's best interest to really fix anything correctly, and it sounds like Apple has it worked out in their business model that they don't need to really fix things all that well, either. There is always a threshold to be reached, where relying on the dealer any further is just a waste of time. Even when something is under warranty, there comes a point where doing it yourself or finding a competent third party is sometimes necessary.
So, this guy is a sucker for buying AppleCare in the first place, and he is a sucker for constantly relying on the same people for a problem resolution that will probably never come. He needs to limit his losses and figure out a new plan of action that doesn't involve Apple's service department.
three replacement power supplies, one battery, two motherboards, a top case, and a screen replaced under warranty, and it now has another hardware problem.
Just like people who always have their car in the garage, the first word that comes to my mind is "Sucker." Computers--and cars--just don't break down like that, and people that end up in these situations are people who must actually *believe* what an auto/computer mechanic says. "Oh, I think your environmental defibrulater canister needs replacing, you know how these things go...that'll be $400. Thanks."
IRS audit. Not a small problem in life.
People are prepared for their tax liability, yes? No, they spent all their money and then some? Then they have a few lessons to learn about life and living within their means. Also, if the IRS really comes down hard on those who lack foresight and are unprepared, they are usually nice enough to do payment plans.
(I'm sure it's about as valuable as an extended warranty at Circuit City, but the $27 seemed reasonable)
It is worth exactly as much as an extended warranty at Circuit City, i.e., $-27 to you. Extended warranties are of value only to those people who are so bad at planning their lives that they need to spend more to insure themselves against all the small problems in life.
Extended warranties prey upon the poor and the stupid, just like the Lottery and Presidential Canidates.
I've heard that many "tax professionals" are overrated because it is hard to keep up with the tax code from year to year. Mistakes are probably par for the course. Companies like H&R Block or Jackson Hewitt or whomever often have required continuing education each summer for their employees, so some random Joe or Jane working for one of these companies might actually be better prepared than a genuine CPA.
Seriously, if you could manage to get it through Congress.
Tax reform will never pass, becuase the Federal Income Tax is a hallucinagenic addictive drug for Congress. They get to take 1/3 or more of my income and then use it to pay someone else's rent in L.A. or make sure a big-name Senator doesn't have to pay for the flood insurance on his beach house. If not that, then I'm sure there is a nice road to nowhere that needs to be built or a few more pork projects that could get funded.
I believe that Sun's SunPCi x86 co-processor cards also use FreeDOS by default on their virtual drive files.
My pipe dream is to have a Sun workstation with an x86 card and a mythical PowerPC card... several versions of Solaris, several versions of Linux, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Mac OS X all in one box! Those dual-boot fanboys would drop to their knees and beg for mercy from such a beast!
When aquisitions are written into a contract or pre-set by an annual budget, this means they probably left out long-term maintenance, upgrades, and funds to pay anyone do to maintenance and upgrades. Welcome to basically every bureaucracy large and small on the whole planet.
For example, wasn't it the good ol' Department of Homeland Security that scored an 'F' for network security this last year? Wasn't the Department of the Interior that was ordered off-line for gross negligence? Large and small, they all fall.
Have a nice day.
Funny, it's not bankrupting MY government. And nobody I know has had to sell their house to pay for their chemo either.
If your e-mail address says you're Canadian, I have heard stories that the Canadian healthcare system is driving some doctors out of practice and that many people still have to resort to the private-sector for many services that the government doesn't deem worthy of coverage. In short, no one is perfect, but if the USA is going to make big changes to health care, they had better do it in a way that is truly sustainable and not just some political vote-getter. I really believe that the Universal Healthcare platform of the USA presidential debates is purely for votes with little or no real foresight.
Basically, if we could get rid of the incompetent middlemen and businessfolk who've inserted themselves in the way of actually providing healthcare, we'd have enough money to insure everyone in the country who's currently left out or underinsured.
The federal government is the king of middlemen. I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of government employees could be replaced by automation but can't due to tenure or unionization.
Our current health care system is dying because it is controlled by corporate minds who prefer making profits over providing services.
It is more likely that imbalanced regulations created the insane market we are witnessing today. Doctors and nurses are not inherently evil by any measure, but they are forced into an environment of sky high liability lawsuits, huge pressure from hospital and insurance company management, and dozens of hypochondriac mothers who abuse their healhcare coverage to its fullest extent.
The so called problem of overpopulation is that we can't feed everybody.
Sorry, but the real problem of overpopulation is that other people suck. There is nothing like living in an area, where you can turn off the TV, step outside, and hear nothing but the wind and the birds. In the Great Kingdom of Suburbia, I can step outside and be guaranteed to hear several neglected yapping dogs confined to fenced backyards and at least one car with 1000 watts of trash in the back seat and truck. Add to that neighbors who mow their lawns only once a month and street networks that achive gridlock when a water main breaks, and the suburbs are sheer heaven, right?
The only benefit to living near a city hospital is the quickness of care delivered when that stress-induced stroke or heart attack strikes.
That and the Danimals Commercial where they introduced a new character of a Crocodile with sun glasses, which we never have seen from since.
This reminds me of the extreme purple ketchup that was in stores a couple years ago. It, too, seems to have gone the way of the dodo.
Bleh, this also reminds me of that children's yogurt my nephews eat that looks like radioactive waste (glowing green, it must have more artifical colors in one cup than I eat in two months).
Also, if Bush was as Christian as everyone of the right thought he was he would do something about the treatment of Christians in China, yet he doesn't.
He is a modern feel-good selective-bible-reading loud-bible-thumping christian. In other words, he is barely christian at all; rather, he is a part of a large quasi-religious subculture that is very common in the Southern USA.
Vietnam....56,000 dead americans....
Iraq....550 dead americans....
Iraq isn't a swampy jungle with mountains and people jumping out of the trees and the ground all around you. Also, in Iraq, the Iraqi people are largely divided in favor of getting rid of Saddam, which is nothing like the Vietnamese sentiment towards "Uncle Ho." The relative lack of casualties is not at all suprising. However, you should be very grateful to the state department and CIA that a half dozen surrounding countries haven't jumped on our asses over there creating an all out regional hell.
Is this anything like a certain other organization stating that everyone "ought to have" universal health care, without saying how, or who's going to pay for it, etc?
Universal health care is a joke. It has to be. Just last week, the big news was that our existing medicare and social security programs are hanging on by a thread. They don't even know how to fund our existing programs when the baby boomers retire. Universal healthcare will be right beside our mars missions and universal broadband as things that are bankrupting the federal government.
I can't wait to installed the scramjet roof panel on my Civic!!!!!
Furthermore even with its massive size there is room for only 1 (one) additional internal drive and no additional front loading bays.
When you out go outside of the PC realm and into that of workstations, the cases tend to be focused for maintainability and cooling than size. In Sun workstations, for example, the hard drives are always mounted into a frame with space around each drive for airflow. There are fans directly in front/behind of the PCI slot area for hot cards, and fans directly in front/behind of the CPU modules. Many of the parts of the workstations are very modular, being held into place with captive screws or other fasteners and easily swapped out. When designed well, it is inevitable that a workstation is not only big but often quite heavy.