OH NO! MS is selling windows for cheap to vendors who bundle it with their PCs! That makes them cheaper for customers to buy and so they only buy windows PCs!!
If a vendor is going to sell a PC bundled WITH an operating system, then the customer should actually GET that operating system. Liscence, CD, instruction manual, and all. Especially when the bundled OS has a severe tendency to require reloading. Anything less is dishonest.
My lab recently bought a G5 -- it came with a copy of Mac OS X Panther. But the three Dells we bought a year ago didn't come with CDs of Office XP, even though XP Pro was loaded on the systems.
Microsoft bears some of the blame for this idiocy, but the vendors who sell computers like this are also responsible for going along with it.
Not only is it a tired cliche, but it's a misquoted one as well.
The actual quote is "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
It's also irritating that when this is quoted in literature, no one ever puts a citation for this (other than 'Lord Acton 1887'). I've emailed the Acton Institute (found here) to determine it's source.
Quotes become cliches when deprived of their context.
Actually, Lord Acton wrote "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." It's quite commonly misquoted, the misquote is even in some books of quotations.
Just for the personal edification of/.ers everywhere:-)
I'm no physicist, but wouldn't generating a permenant static electrc charge in the fiber require massive amounts of energy to keep pulling electrons away from a metallic fiber? If it were even possible, wouldn't the fibers shock a person whenever they touched the fibers?
Wouldn't wearing a suit made of these fibers turn someone into a walking lightning rod? It sounds like a Darwin award just waiting to happen.
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OH NO! MS is selling windows for cheap to vendors who bundle it with their PCs! That makes them cheaper for customers to buy and so they only buy windows PCs!!
If a vendor is going to sell a PC bundled WITH an operating system, then the customer should actually GET that operating system. Liscence, CD, instruction manual, and all. Especially when the bundled OS has a severe tendency to require reloading. Anything less is dishonest.
My lab recently bought a G5 -- it came with a copy of Mac OS X Panther. But the three Dells we bought a year ago didn't come with CDs of Office XP, even though XP Pro was loaded on the systems.
Microsoft bears some of the blame for this idiocy, but the vendors who sell computers like this are also responsible for going along with it.
Not only is it a tired cliche, but it's a misquoted one as well.
The actual quote is "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
It's also irritating that when this is quoted in literature, no one ever puts a citation for this (other than 'Lord Acton 1887'). I've emailed the Acton Institute (found here) to determine it's source.
Quotes become cliches when deprived of their context.
Better than cargo pants, buy an eVest.
"so you actively use quantum physics whenever you breathe"
(From all those who don't get quantum physics...)
Help me, I'm suffocating!
two matinee tickets - $13
one large popcorn - $5.00
two extra large cokes - $7.00
My husband sneaking a hip flask of rum into the theater for the coke - Priceless.
Then Guinness is proof that the Irish are His chosen people....
Actually, Lord Acton wrote "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." It's quite commonly misquoted, the misquote is even in some books of quotations.
/.ers everywhere :-)
Just for the personal edification of
I'm no physicist, but wouldn't generating a permenant static electrc charge in the fiber require massive amounts of energy to keep pulling electrons away from a metallic fiber? If it were even possible, wouldn't the fibers shock a person whenever they touched the fibers?
Wouldn't wearing a suit made of these fibers turn someone into a walking lightning rod? It sounds like a Darwin award just waiting to happen.