I could do you one better. I realized some time between the release of Two Towers and Two Towers: Ex. Edition that the six DVDs fit nicely around the following meal plan:
Breakfast - The Fellowship of the Ring: Part 1 Second Breakfast - The Fellowship of the Ring: Part 2 Elevenses - The Two Towers: Part 1 Luncheon - The Two Towers: Part 2 Afternoon Tea - Return of the King: Part 1 Dinner - Return of the King: Part 2 Supper
-- Slip into coma as cinematographic and culinary bliss envelop your senses.
So there you have it: all eleven and a half hours of Peter Jackson's masterpiece, interspersed with all seven of the traditional hobbit meals. Of course, one should examine http://theonering.net/ for good hobbity meals!
I question your assertion that "whatever a person uses at home is what they talk about at work," or rather, the inferrence that computer preference for the home market dicatates the work/office market decisions. Betraying my status as an Apple fan, I'll simply point out that it tends to go the other way around. If your inferrence were true, offices would all use Macs; the home market was cornered by Apple first, then lost as people chose to use M$ PCs because that was what the cubicles had been filled with. At least that's my recollection.
I don't know that Apple's ever really been w/o their share of Quality Control issues. I work at a store whose infrastructure was entirely comprised of performas several years back. Though this was before my time, I hear nothing but horror stories about the Performas. (ironically, we've since "upgraded" to WYSE 60 terminals from HP. Server runs a HP UNIX variant, I believe. Hmm. Maybe that is an upgrade:-)) But given that we actually see an almost even spread of Macs in the shop, spanning nearly 10 years of models, with just about every model evenly represented, I'd have to wager you got a bad batch. Apple now uses, as others have posted, whichever HD Maxtor or WD can bid the lowest on, and this has its drawbacks. I think it's still a wiser choice than NuBus and SCSI for all though.
*addendum: I do think shaving a little off their margin and going with seagate exclusively, or a comparable vendor, might not be a bad idea, but what do I know?
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I could do you one better. I realized some time between the release of Two Towers and Two Towers: Ex. Edition that the six DVDs fit nicely around the following meal plan:
Breakfast
- The Fellowship of the Ring: Part 1
Second Breakfast
- The Fellowship of the Ring: Part 2
Elevenses
- The Two Towers: Part 1
Luncheon
- The Two Towers: Part 2
Afternoon Tea
- Return of the King: Part 1
Dinner
- Return of the King: Part 2
Supper
-- Slip into coma as cinematographic and culinary bliss envelop your senses.
So there you have it: all eleven and a half hours of Peter Jackson's masterpiece, interspersed with all seven of the traditional hobbit meals. Of course, one should examine http://theonering.net/ for good hobbity meals!
I question your assertion that "whatever a person uses at home is what they talk about at work," or rather, the inferrence that computer preference for the home market dicatates the work/office market decisions. Betraying my status as an Apple fan, I'll simply point out that it tends to go the other way around. If your inferrence were true, offices would all use Macs; the home market was cornered by Apple first, then lost as people chose to use M$ PCs because that was what the cubicles had been filled with. At least that's my recollection.
I don't know that Apple's ever really been w/o their share of Quality Control issues. I work at a store whose infrastructure was entirely comprised of performas several years back. Though this was before my time, I hear nothing but horror stories about the Performas. (ironically, we've since "upgraded" to WYSE 60 terminals from HP. Server runs a HP UNIX variant, I believe. Hmm. Maybe that is an upgrade :-)) But given that we actually see an almost even spread of Macs in the shop, spanning nearly 10 years of models, with just about every model evenly represented, I'd have to wager you got a bad batch. Apple now uses, as others have posted, whichever HD Maxtor or WD can bid the lowest on, and this has its drawbacks. I think it's still a wiser choice than NuBus and SCSI for all though.
*addendum: I do think shaving a little off their margin and going with seagate exclusively, or a comparable vendor, might not be a bad idea, but what do I know?