When did I bash your little rich kids school? I only bashed S&B and said that we need leadership that does not belong to their ranks. I simply do not want anyone leading our nation when they answer to a secret society. They should be answering to OUR society and none other.
Try again some time when you have a clue.
Ohhhhh, I see. In your world every word has only one definition. Do you always insult people when you have difficulty understanding a writing? That must be left over from when your mommy and daddy made sure you were treated differently than the other kids because you were 'special' and were better than other kids, right?
So anyway, to make up for your lack of reading comprehension, I have included the definition of the word you failed to read correctly:
Main Entry: fraternity Pronunciation: fr&-'t&r-n&-tE Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural -ties 1 : a group of people associated or formally organized for a common purpose, interest, or pleasure: as a : a fraternal order b : GUILD c : a men's student organization formed chiefly for social purposes having secret rites and a name consisting of Greek letters d : a student organization for scholastic, professional, or extracurricular activities 2 : the quality or state of being brothers : BROTHERLINESS 3 : persons of the same class, profession, character, or tastes
How about that? Not only is there more than one definition of fraternity; there is one (1a) that matches what I intended for the audience to read.
[senior at yale. not in S&B. thx]
Congradulations. Perhaps your daddy needs to ask for his money back on your english classes? I know you are not in S&B. You would not have responded to my post, had that been the case.
If you are a US citizen, you had best root for the Feds. Whatever it costs them will come directly out of your pocket. That is why our economy is refered to as a system.
Darl is off his rocker if he thinks open source software helps our enemies. It helps humanity as a whole. His remarks sound like he's trying to appeal to our current neo-con regiem's inability to comprehend issues that affect anyone except fellow members of Skull & Bones fraternity.
I really wanted to like ReplayTV, TiVo won my heart over.
Yeah, that is what happens when you are a sucker for brand names. The number of people who have made fun of my Ultimate TV unit because of it's name and M$ affiliation freak out when they see the nice GUI, no banners, and extended options their brand-spankin-new tivo does have -- but I have on my 2.5 year old UTV.
Hehe. Your post brings back memories of watching a computer noobie roommate I had try to build his first game system. He used about a 1/4 tube of the stuff before I came out and yelled at him.
Typically, I will scoop a wee little bit on the fat end of a tootpick and work it into a very fine film on the CPU core. I've been building PCs since the mid-80's, so I've had plenty of time to learn that slapping things together will occasionally result in disaster.
It's simply the particular chip I have. If I swap my CPU out with any other XP chip, they run much cooler than this one. It's been a chuckle reading other people's responses where they auto-magically assume I'm some retard who doesn't know anything, when I've been dealing with hardware since before most of them were born.:-)
The next system is going to be water chilled, so I don't care much about next gen Intels and AMDs overheating. My inital post was just to bring up another reason why folks are shy about AMD.
A lot of people avoid AMD because of the heat, too. I will probably not buy another AMD after the XP2100 I got last year. With a lian-li case, arctic silver compound, an SLK800 heatsink and 7 80mm fans it still runs at 58C. Overclock it just a teenie bit and it will jump to 70C within minutes under load.
It's very loud, not all that fast and consumes more power than most datacenter servers. I saved a whopping hundred bucks by not buying a 2.4Ghz P4 at the time.
Ok, sure, it's the best thing in the world. That's why the software industry has been working hard to port everything over, since obviously, it's the next big thing. heh yeah.
Well, changing their license in a manner that causes Linux vendors to stop distributing X is one good way of keeping Linux out of the desktop market. Wouldn't ya think? I see the potential for a lot of people flocking to different forks.
You will never hear that Microsoft decided to leave it's GUI out of the upcoming release of Windows.
To expand more helpfully on the previous poster's comment...
To expaned even futher, X11 will be what makes certain Linux will never be able to compete with Windows for the Desktop user.
Think about it for a few minutes before modding me as a flame or troll. Mind you, it seems that/. has become more about moderation than discussion for many. Sad, really.
...have you explained the importance of your cell phone to your boss or HR person? Have you asked for an exception, as yours is pretty clearly an exceptional case?
I'd bet $50 he hasn't done anything about it besides bitch about it behind management's back and run to/. for advice.
Here's my advice to him: Learn social skills. If I were his boss and found he went to/. for advice on how to deal with this issue, as opposed to discussing the issue, well, I would probably have doubts about his future at the company. This is based on the fact that someone who is unable to make such a simple case for themself is likely to be unable to make decisions that impact the business at some point in the future.
Also, I would advise future advice submitters to give some insight into their issue. This guy doesn't even bother to tell us why cell phones were being banned in the first place. This makes it sound like he didn't even bother to find out why before running to/. for answers.
What would be exceptionally funny is if the guy posted this while sitting at his desk at work and it got intercepted by IDS. Imagine the suprise when he came in to work the next morning with the boss and Infosec guy standing there holding a printout of his whining. The last place I worked at would log any web posts coming from the internal network. Just a thought..:)
On second thought, better advice would be to suggest he get a job a Burger King since they cater more to employees of a lower aptitude.
Perhaps you should read my post again. Nowhere do I say that RSS isn't cool or useful. I'm simply pointing out the statements made in the article are outside the realms of reality and come up with make-believe problems it can resolve.
The possibilities are always endless. Reality happens to be only one of those.
"I could wake up in the morning and find the latest recordings from my favorite band loaded into my portable MP3 player, and just pick it up and go."
I don't understand where they are coming from here. If I am going to pay to download music, which consists of relatively small files, I am not going to run a BT to help out an online music store.
When they start mentioning uses so far off the base of reality, the whole article starts to smell of BS. Especially since the slowest part of the MP3 experience tends to be copying music from the PC to the player.
Typically, I load new tracks on my ipod before leaving in the morning. I'll tag the stuff, then transfer it before I hop into the shower. As far as downloading goes, I can download a whole CD of music in ~10 minutes. The only way the article's method would be worth doing would be if you invested in huge libraries of online music purchases daily.
On that note: Please quit looking to solve problems that don't exist.
Ok, you are right about the inability to do anything advanced with the player. It would be cool to have a smooth fast-forward and slow-mo, but I don't miss them. If I want to do anything funky, I'll fire up Vegas and mess around.
My feelings on the matter of restricting MS remain as they are. Think of your poor, old grandmother wanting to see a video and having to spend 3 hours on the phone with technical support while they hand-hold her way through installing a player they could have just included with the OS...
Now that you've got me thinking about that, it's not going to cost Microsoft. The vendor will usually includes 30-120 days of free support with a new computer.. They are likely to already be on a tight budget and out-sourcing Tech Support to India. The call-center charges a variable rate dependant on call quantities.. What happens when many more calls start coming in? It costs the vendor more, which results in a higher price for PC's. Fail the money being exported for labor so cheap that we can't compete unless we didn't mind using foodstamps to suppliment our incomes.
So in theory; by removing Media Player, you are slowly rendering the US dollar and British pound impotent in the global market.
Alternatively, the vendor could install a licensed player and charge more for the computer. This is cool, maybe for a year, then that player is obselete and it's time to get the new 4.0 because the old player isn't supported anymore. Now what are Grandma's options? She can:
1) Give up and just not watch videos of her grandkids on the computer.
2) Do what the player says when it's license expires or it becomes obselete, and pay $39.00 for the new version 4.0.
3) Call technical support and have to pay Microsoft, billed by the minute to her credit card, for a 3 hour phone call while they walk her through installing Windows Media Player.
Option 3 happens a lot.. Back when I did support, I would always get calls where they "just got off the phone with Microsoft support" and the system would be a wreck after spending hours being walked through some voodoo madness. Of course, they typically broke something in Dial-Up Networking or IE in the process of "fixing" the other issues. So I'd often have to spend a bunch of time fixing that shit, too. Nowadays, I imagine this same trickle-down support happens between call centers over there, too. Especially since they seem a bit more scripted than even the most retarded of american call centers, even including AOL's little back-woods call centers that once dotted the north american landscape..
Small car repair shops are more and more becoming locked out of the repair business because most late model cars can only be fixed by accessing their computers with codes that are secret."
These are lies. You can get all the required codes from the vehicle's repair manual (~$120). You can also use Google for this same purpose. The OBD interface is standard, so you don't need a new one for every model car.
I've been watching mechanics sweat this stuff since the early 80's. Meanwhile, most of their problems arise from not updating their diagnostic equipment because it costs money.
Aside from the other reasons, I think with technology getting more and more complicated in newer vehicles, it might be a good thing to see the 'general' mechanic become a thing of yesterday. I would rather have someone licensed and very experienced and specialized in working on just my make of car. That way, they know all the quirks and bugs related to specific models. A general mechanic will just know the basics of every car, but little specialization in an area that affects his value to me.
Keep in mind, when I say general mechanic, I am speaking of a guy who's got his certifications and is good at what he does. Before you folks get frothy towards me, remind yourself that the big general mechanic shops include Pep Boys and other parts stores that have mechanics in a shop on the side. They do not specialize in a particular car or specific service.
My understanding with the Crusoe was that it had some funky software layer that allowed for it to run different OS's than just what is supported by the standard i386 chipset. Where are these advantages? I thought that, and the low power consumption were supposed to be the key buying points, but since the initial press releases, I've heard nothing about all that cool stuff.
Was it vaporware? Silly hype? More broken promises?
It's rather sad to see them having to team up with bargain brand quality vendors like Sharp. I've not owned any of their products since the 70's due to everything I've had by Sharp fell apart or broke shortly after the warranty expires.
I'm sure the average windows user wouldn't want to have to play around with selecting/installing video playback software when all they want to do is playback a clip they've downloaded.
Yup. And the #1 reason why most people use Windows Media Player? (drum roll....) It's the best media player for the Windows platform.
Just look at Apple's player on Windows. You can't even change to a true fullscreen aspect, can't resize it half the time, and it nags you to register. Then there's Real, which is slow to load and really spammy.
Like I've said before, if people are going to get up in arms about IE and Windows Media Player, they should really get upset about notepad.exe, calc.exe, and the many other components Windows users would have otherwise had to download some shareware for.
While I disagree with Microsoft's practices, what they include with their OS should not be a legal issue. It's unfair for the courts to step in and force a company to change their product to try and force more options on the customer. This goes about as smooth as any other government interventions, like privatizing natural gas service. Sure, now I have the option of who I want to buy gas from, but now it costs me about 2x as much than before. Just as, in the future, I will probably have to pay for a media player because of this sort of legislation.
So what if they have a choke hold on OS market? Monopolies eventually topple on their own. Microsoft has become a mammoth one, so it's only a matter of time before it makes a critical mistake and loses it's footing. It might be 15 years from now, but it'll happen eventually and without the help of government oppression.
Get ready to see what you and your family's social skills are made of.
If you all enjoy being around each other and are not the typical types who burn bridges or act like hicks, then everything should work out fine.
Personally, my family and I would never be able to work together due to different beliefs and views on just about everything. Combine that with being stubborn and you have a powder keg waiting to go off.
You can just burn your iTunes purchases to DVD or CD from the iTunes GUI. Check their website for instructions, if you need 'em. I keep my iTunes library separate from my general media, since I don't want copy protected AAC files getting mixed in with my other crap.
I can tell a difference in 192k and 128k. Can't tell anything between 192k and 320k unless there's a lot of ambient sounds, trumpets and other instruments in the mid to high end being played at once. Mind you, in a silent room I hear a lot of high pitched distortion because I played the guitar too loud when I was a kid.
And for various reasons, we as a society don't really respect mechanics, as a profession. I wonder if some day those who fix computers will be held in a similar regard.
I was an on-site repair guy for a couple of local computer companies until about 9 years ago. Even then, most of the customers were untrusting and paranoid when dealing with such a service.
It wasn't unusual for someone to raise hell and demand a free copy of Windows 3.11 when the copy of DR DOS I hooked them up with a couple of years prior ceased to work in a new enviroment.
I figured it was a lot like customers not understanding my father, a former auto mechanic of 20+ years, when he would tell them the fuel pump died and it was their carburator they had replaced last time they were in the shop.
The thing I liked least about doing house calls, and the reason I stopped doing them, was the overly irate people taking their frustrations out on the guy who's trying to help them get their systems up at the least cost and greatest speed. Eventually, it seemed like 1/3 of all the clients I dealt with were angry, abusive people that other businesses had already refused to work with.
I was simply responding to the article. Considering they call for a 15" screen, going with a 14.1"+cpu+mobo+hdd+ps+network is about 1/4 the price of a new 15" screen alone.
I'm just doing the math, not calling the shots. You'll need to take the teenie screen issue up with the guy who published the article and the vendors who sell digital picture frames.;-)
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Thanks for playing with the Ivy Bashing.
When did I bash your little rich kids school? I only bashed S&B and said that we need leadership that does not belong to their ranks. I simply do not want anyone leading our nation when they answer to a secret society. They should be answering to OUR society and none other.
Try again some time when you have a clue.
Ohhhhh, I see. In your world every word has only one definition. Do you always insult people when you have difficulty understanding a writing? That must be left over from when your mommy and daddy made sure you were treated differently than the other kids because you were 'special' and were better than other kids, right?
So anyway, to make up for your lack of reading comprehension, I have included the definition of the word you failed to read correctly:
Main Entry: fraternity
Pronunciation: fr&-'t&r-n&-tE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -ties
1 : a group of people associated or formally organized for a common purpose, interest, or pleasure: as a : a fraternal order b : GUILD c : a men's student organization formed chiefly for social purposes having secret rites and a name consisting of Greek letters d : a student organization for scholastic, professional, or extracurricular activities
2 : the quality or state of being brothers : BROTHERLINESS
3 : persons of the same class, profession, character, or tastes
How about that? Not only is there more than one definition of fraternity; there is one (1a) that matches what I intended for the audience to read.
[senior at yale. not in S&B. thx]
Congradulations. Perhaps your daddy needs to ask for his money back on your english classes? I know you are not in S&B. You would not have responded to my post, had that been the case.
If you are a US citizen, you had best root for the Feds. Whatever it costs them will come directly out of your pocket. That is why our economy is refered to as a system.
Darl is off his rocker if he thinks open source software helps our enemies. It helps humanity as a whole. His remarks sound like he's trying to appeal to our current neo-con regiem's inability to comprehend issues that affect anyone except fellow members of Skull & Bones fraternity.
If I had billions like AOL.
I think they have around 22 million customers. Probably 12 million who know they still have an account they pay for.
I used to work for the competition.
I really wanted to like ReplayTV, TiVo won my heart over.
Yeah, that is what happens when you are a sucker for brand names. The number of people who have made fun of my Ultimate TV unit because of it's name and M$ affiliation freak out when they see the nice GUI, no banners, and extended options their brand-spankin-new tivo does have -- but I have on my 2.5 year old UTV.
Yeah, but the fears are understandable. Nobody wants to get a horrible illness from radiation exposure.
Hehe. Your post brings back memories of watching a computer noobie roommate I had try to build his first game system. He used about a 1/4 tube of the stuff before I came out and yelled at him.
:-)
Typically, I will scoop a wee little bit on the fat end of a tootpick and work it into a very fine film on the CPU core. I've been building PCs since the mid-80's, so I've had plenty of time to learn that slapping things together will occasionally result in disaster.
It's simply the particular chip I have. If I swap my CPU out with any other XP chip, they run much cooler than this one. It's been a chuckle reading other people's responses where they auto-magically assume I'm some retard who doesn't know anything, when I've been dealing with hardware since before most of them were born.
The next system is going to be water chilled, so I don't care much about next gen Intels and AMDs overheating. My inital post was just to bring up another reason why folks are shy about AMD.
Sure it is, you are just using the redundant channels for performance.
some people are also scared of amd being cheap.
A lot of people avoid AMD because of the heat, too. I will probably not buy another AMD after the XP2100 I got last year. With a lian-li case, arctic silver compound, an SLK800 heatsink and 7 80mm fans it still runs at 58C. Overclock it just a teenie bit and it will jump to 70C within minutes under load.
It's very loud, not all that fast and consumes more power than most datacenter servers. I saved a whopping hundred bucks by not buying a 2.4Ghz P4 at the time.
Uh, I did and I was referring to xfree.
Ok, sure, it's the best thing in the world. That's why the software industry has been working hard to port everything over, since obviously, it's the next big thing. heh yeah.
Oh, so you think the licensing fiasco with xfree is a good thing for getting Linux greater acceptance in the desktop market?
Look at the big picture.
Well, changing their license in a manner that causes Linux vendors to stop distributing X is one good way of keeping Linux out of the desktop market. Wouldn't ya think? I see the potential for a lot of people flocking to different forks.
You will never hear that Microsoft decided to leave it's GUI out of the upcoming release of Windows.
To expand more helpfully on the previous poster's comment...
/. has become more about moderation than discussion for many. Sad, really.
To expaned even futher, X11 will be what makes certain Linux will never be able to compete with Windows for the Desktop user.
Think about it for a few minutes before modding me as a flame or troll. Mind you, it seems that
...have you explained the importance of your cell phone to your boss or HR person? Have you asked for an exception, as yours is pretty clearly an exceptional case?
/. for advice.
/. for advice on how to deal with this issue, as opposed to discussing the issue, well, I would probably have doubts about his future at the company. This is based on the fact that someone who is unable to make such a simple case for themself is likely to be unable to make decisions that impact the business at some point in the future.
/. for answers.
:)
I'd bet $50 he hasn't done anything about it besides bitch about it behind management's back and run to
Here's my advice to him: Learn social skills. If I were his boss and found he went to
Also, I would advise future advice submitters to give some insight into their issue. This guy doesn't even bother to tell us why cell phones were being banned in the first place. This makes it sound like he didn't even bother to find out why before running to
What would be exceptionally funny is if the guy posted this while sitting at his desk at work and it got intercepted by IDS. Imagine the suprise when he came in to work the next morning with the boss and Infosec guy standing there holding a printout of his whining. The last place I worked at would log any web posts coming from the internal network. Just a thought..
On second thought, better advice would be to suggest he get a job a Burger King since they cater more to employees of a lower aptitude.
I can forget about getting a signal.
Considering pagers use similar technology to cell phones, I would guess the same places wouldn't allow for a pager to get signal, too.
Perhaps you should read my post again. Nowhere do I say that RSS isn't cool or useful. I'm simply pointing out the statements made in the article are outside the realms of reality and come up with make-believe problems it can resolve.
The possibilities are always endless. Reality happens to be only one of those.
"I could wake up in the morning and find the latest recordings from my favorite band loaded into my portable MP3 player, and just pick it up and go."
I don't understand where they are coming from here. If I am going to pay to download music, which consists of relatively small files, I am not going to run a BT to help out an online music store.
When they start mentioning uses so far off the base of reality, the whole article starts to smell of BS. Especially since the slowest part of the MP3 experience tends to be copying music from the PC to the player.
Typically, I load new tracks on my ipod before leaving in the morning. I'll tag the stuff, then transfer it before I hop into the shower. As far as downloading goes, I can download a whole CD of music in ~10 minutes. The only way the article's method would be worth doing would be if you invested in huge libraries of online music purchases daily.
On that note: Please quit looking to solve problems that don't exist.
Ok, you are right about the inability to do anything advanced with the player. It would be cool to have a smooth fast-forward and slow-mo, but I don't miss them. If I want to do anything funky, I'll fire up Vegas and mess around.
My feelings on the matter of restricting MS remain as they are. Think of your poor, old grandmother wanting to see a video and having to spend 3 hours on the phone with technical support while they hand-hold her way through installing a player they could have just included with the OS...
Now that you've got me thinking about that, it's not going to cost Microsoft. The vendor will usually includes 30-120 days of free support with a new computer.. They are likely to already be on a tight budget and out-sourcing Tech Support to India. The call-center charges a variable rate dependant on call quantities.. What happens when many more calls start coming in? It costs the vendor more, which results in a higher price for PC's. Fail the money being exported for labor so cheap that we can't compete unless we didn't mind using foodstamps to suppliment our incomes.
So in theory; by removing Media Player, you are slowly rendering the US dollar and British pound impotent in the global market.
Alternatively, the vendor could install a licensed player and charge more for the computer. This is cool, maybe for a year, then that player is obselete and it's time to get the new 4.0 because the old player isn't supported anymore. Now what are Grandma's options? She can:
1) Give up and just not watch videos of her grandkids on the computer.
2) Do what the player says when it's license expires or it becomes obselete, and pay $39.00 for the new version 4.0.
3) Call technical support and have to pay Microsoft, billed by the minute to her credit card, for a 3 hour phone call while they walk her through installing Windows Media Player.
Option 3 happens a lot.. Back when I did support, I would always get calls where they "just got off the phone with Microsoft support" and the system would be a wreck after spending hours being walked through some voodoo madness. Of course, they typically broke something in Dial-Up Networking or IE in the process of "fixing" the other issues. So I'd often have to spend a bunch of time fixing that shit, too. Nowadays, I imagine this same trickle-down support happens between call centers over there, too. Especially since they seem a bit more scripted than even the most retarded of american call centers, even including AOL's little back-woods call centers that once dotted the north american landscape..
Thanks for clarifying. It has been a few years since I've followed anything relating to the industry and just speaking from arcane knowledge. :)
Small car repair shops are more and more becoming locked out of the repair business because most late model cars can only be fixed by accessing their computers with codes that are secret."
These are lies. You can get all the required codes from the vehicle's repair manual (~$120). You can also use Google for this same purpose. The OBD interface is standard, so you don't need a new one for every model car.
I've been watching mechanics sweat this stuff since the early 80's. Meanwhile, most of their problems arise from not updating their diagnostic equipment because it costs money.
Aside from the other reasons, I think with technology getting more and more complicated in newer vehicles, it might be a good thing to see the 'general' mechanic become a thing of yesterday. I would rather have someone licensed and very experienced and specialized in working on just my make of car. That way, they know all the quirks and bugs related to specific models. A general mechanic will just know the basics of every car, but little specialization in an area that affects his value to me.
Keep in mind, when I say general mechanic, I am speaking of a guy who's got his certifications and is good at what he does. Before you folks get frothy towards me, remind yourself that the big general mechanic shops include Pep Boys and other parts stores that have mechanics in a shop on the side. They do not specialize in a particular car or specific service.
My understanding with the Crusoe was that it had some funky software layer that allowed for it to run different OS's than just what is supported by the standard i386 chipset. Where are these advantages? I thought that, and the low power consumption were supposed to be the key buying points, but since the initial press releases, I've heard nothing about all that cool stuff.
Was it vaporware? Silly hype? More broken promises?
It's rather sad to see them having to team up with bargain brand quality vendors like Sharp. I've not owned any of their products since the 70's due to everything I've had by Sharp fell apart or broke shortly after the warranty expires.
I'm sure the average windows user wouldn't want to have to play around with selecting/installing video playback software when all they want to do is playback a clip they've downloaded.
Yup. And the #1 reason why most people use Windows Media Player? (drum roll....) It's the best media player for the Windows platform.
Just look at Apple's player on Windows. You can't even change to a true fullscreen aspect, can't resize it half the time, and it nags you to register. Then there's Real, which is slow to load and really spammy.
Like I've said before, if people are going to get up in arms about IE and Windows Media Player, they should really get upset about notepad.exe, calc.exe, and the many other components Windows users would have otherwise had to download some shareware for.
While I disagree with Microsoft's practices, what they include with their OS should not be a legal issue. It's unfair for the courts to step in and force a company to change their product to try and force more options on the customer. This goes about as smooth as any other government interventions, like privatizing natural gas service. Sure, now I have the option of who I want to buy gas from, but now it costs me about 2x as much than before. Just as, in the future, I will probably have to pay for a media player because of this sort of legislation.
So what if they have a choke hold on OS market? Monopolies eventually topple on their own. Microsoft has become a mammoth one, so it's only a matter of time before it makes a critical mistake and loses it's footing. It might be 15 years from now, but it'll happen eventually and without the help of government oppression.
Get ready to see what you and your family's social skills are made of.
If you all enjoy being around each other and are not the typical types who burn bridges or act like hicks, then everything should work out fine.
Personally, my family and I would never be able to work together due to different beliefs and views on just about everything. Combine that with being stubborn and you have a powder keg waiting to go off.
You can just burn your iTunes purchases to DVD or CD from the iTunes GUI. Check their website for instructions, if you need 'em. I keep my iTunes library separate from my general media, since I don't want copy protected AAC files getting mixed in with my other crap.
I can tell a difference in 192k and 128k. Can't tell anything between 192k and 320k unless there's a lot of ambient sounds, trumpets and other instruments in the mid to high end being played at once. Mind you, in a silent room I hear a lot of high pitched distortion because I played the guitar too loud when I was a kid.
And for various reasons, we as a society don't really respect mechanics, as a profession. I wonder if some day those who fix computers will be held in a similar regard.
I was an on-site repair guy for a couple of local computer companies until about 9 years ago. Even then, most of the customers were untrusting and paranoid when dealing with such a service.
It wasn't unusual for someone to raise hell and demand a free copy of Windows 3.11 when the copy of DR DOS I hooked them up with a couple of years prior ceased to work in a new enviroment.
I figured it was a lot like customers not understanding my father, a former auto mechanic of 20+ years, when he would tell them the fuel pump died and it was their carburator they had replaced last time they were in the shop.
The thing I liked least about doing house calls, and the reason I stopped doing them, was the overly irate people taking their frustrations out on the guy who's trying to help them get their systems up at the least cost and greatest speed. Eventually, it seemed like 1/3 of all the clients I dealt with were angry, abusive people that other businesses had already refused to work with.
I was simply responding to the article. Considering they call for a 15" screen, going with a 14.1"+cpu+mobo+hdd+ps+network is about 1/4 the price of a new 15" screen alone.
;-)
I'm just doing the math, not calling the shots. You'll need to take the teenie screen issue up with the guy who published the article and the vendors who sell digital picture frames.