125 people in a town of 20,000 is huge. Each of those people needs housing, pays income tax (which NYS is probably the highest in the US), pays sales tax (8%) need office supplies, phone lines, cell phones, gets married, has children, goes out to eat etc. etc. That's roughly $4-6m/year of extra cash flowing into the local economy.
Besides, Yahoo probably wouldn't pay taxes anyway because they're incorporated somewhere else and claim towards the local tax man that they made 0 profit and have a huge loss into having the data center. Besides they also have to pay for people to maintain the air conditioning and building, snow shoveling their parking lots, fixing the heating system in the offices all of which local contractors do.
How would it put up barriers for anyone creating web content? All blind people need is for the webpage to be correctly coded according to the HTML specs and not have the important content in a fancy JavaScript that alters the DOM after the page has loaded (although web readers can usually put up with it). It would break down barriers not only for blind people but also for computers and browser makers as well as the general public, open source operating systems (no more IE-only websites) etc. etc.
As for devices, Apple's Mac OS X is compatible with most screen readers and braille keyboards, even the iPhone has some fancy accessibility built-in, Apple does a really good job at making it accessible from the get-go. Even Windows and most Linux distro's have accessibility built-in although a lot of applications could use some shining up in that area (hot keys being one of them and again, not putting main content in obscure places).
Just reinstall the Windows machines with Linux, run Windows in a Virtual Machine with all outside communications firewalled if necessary, then restore the SCADA system software from backup (you do have a backup right?) or just re-upload a clean version of the systems.
Actually, one of the gas pumps in my area does. It has a popup saying: If you wash your car today or get a raincheck, you get 3c/gallon off. It tells me on the handle, there is a board on top of the pump and outside the gas station, on the windows and recently the payment automaton has also informed me of such.
One of the problems is of course that if a company designs a very well constructed piece of equipment, it's going to be either prohibitively more expensive (compare pricing between Volkswagen/Audi/Mercedes and Chevy/GMC/Buick) or the product will outlive the company as the market gets saturated. I have a compass that was purchased when my mother was in school, when I went to school for architecture I was looking through art shops to get the same brand but an old shopkeeper told me that they went out of business a couple of years ago because nobody bought them anymore. He still had some in the back for $50-75 compared to the $15 plastic ones.
Depending on where you live and how big your waste disposal service is, you most likely can do that and get away with it. All you have to do is make sure you give more than $5,000 to a local politician or $50,000 to a state/country politician and you would be amazed what you can get away with. Most likely you would write it off on your taxes as a necessary investment/expense and you would have the people you poison practically pay for the privilege of getting poisoned by your waste service.
The US military failed to walk over any armed opposition in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and a host of other places. It would be far more difficult to get the cannon fodder of the current military forces to be turned wholesale against their own. There are some ideological or fascist people in our current and past governments that wouldn't (and in the past didn't) think a second to clear certain individuals out but an all-out war against your own people would be hard.
On the other hand, I believe there is a possibility for another civil war where the teabaggers/Fox viewers are pitted against the more rational populace or where one race or even a number of states are turned against the others but the US military would then be split along those lines, not a government vs. the people war as the government would be overthrown (at significant loss though).
Sauerbraten is a gaming engine which is dead simple for game programmers. Giving a non-programmer any type of programming language is very, very difficult even if it's BASIC or Logo. It also wouldn't teach them how to model an animation or how drawing something reflects in a game. Blender is a 3D creation tool which also has some type of rendering engine and which you could create games in but it's geared towards creating content which is what arts student will have to learn and use whether it's Blender, Maya or 3DSMax.
Try a laser printer. You can get those from $50 (B&W) to $150 these days, don't come with empty cartridges and the cartridges last anywhere from 2000-6000 pages (for some this will last ~5 years). The ink doesn't dry out and can be used practically forever. I have HP LaserJet II cartridges that expired in 2004 which still work.
and nobody seems to understand it - you shouldn't teach programs, you should teach techniques and principals to be applied in lab sessions. I don't know what arts students are doing in game development. If anything, the only thing they should be developing is artwork.
You can use anything to teach them how to design something, I would suggest Blender (since it's free and they are ART students) or if they are technically adept enough (which they aren't), you can let them use the Sauerbraten engine and I believe you can get the Unreal engine free as an educational institution. If you have to get really simplistic and only teach them how their art works out in games, use HTML5 or *shudder* Flash, for something bigger you can use the Doom engine (very simple to design for) and let them make some artwork for it.
Microsoft no longer owns Xenix, SCO does (no seriously). SCO Unix is Xenix. I guess they could buy it back but what good will that do them? They got rid of it for a reason.
Comparing: Didn't compare installing Windows (or upgrading Windows) to an Ubuntu install but rather stuck to the "let's try this Ubuntu-install-from-Windows". That won't help if you build your own computer or your computer is not bundled with Windows. Didn't compare pricing Windows (or upgrading Windows) to an Ubuntu install Didn't compare installing codecs in Windows to an Ubuntu install. Installing DVD support and other restricted extra's is not that hard and only due to US regulations. You should've stuck to the manual and typed "DVD support Ubuntu" in Google, the first result will have a link that can do it in one click.
Scoring: Gave less score to Ubuntu for not supporting the investigators "Windows muscle memory". I hate some of the new features in Windows 7 such as stacked windows, it's just a pain in the neck to support any newbie computer user with a question like "we don't know where this document went". Gave less score to Ubuntu for not supporting their WinModems (there's a reason they're called WinModems). Although with a bit of looking you can get most of your devices to work a lot of vendors simply don't see why they should support a smaller market. iPhone is natively supported in Ubuntu 10.04 so I don't know why it didn't work for them - maybe they just went off their muscle memory. Gave less score to Ubuntu because Microsoft doesn't even follow their own specs making it very hard to make a compatible office suite offering. Again, this is not a problem with Linux but with the vendors of Windows software and Microsoft. If you use an open spec like some governments have been wanting to do over the last couple of years, you won't have any problems. Sadly, the current market penetration allows Microsoft to keep doing anti-competitive stuff.
All-in-all an honest review would probably put Ubuntu on-par with Windows. It's really easy to pick on Linux for not being Windows but give a newbie a new computer with either OS from their current Windows 2000/XP with Office 2003 and I doubt they would find Linux all that much harder.
Most of it (like DOCSIS and most DSL tech) can be done with a simple software upgrade and maybe some (long-deferred) minor wiring upgrades in the boonies. If the operator really needs to upgrade all their devices for each of those upgrades, they have really bad acquisition and engineering teams or just some really shoddy decision making on the managerial level (let's go with the 10% cheaper unit that can't upgrade so we'll have a better quarterly report).
Either way, DOCSIS 1.0 (mid-90's tech) still allows for 40-somewhat Mbps down and 10 Mbps upstream - I haven't seen a single provider giving those rates at any level. Same goes for DSL although going over twisted copper puts a damper on the bandwidth, mid-90's ADSL still allows for 8/1Mbps speeds which I have only seen offered in the last 2-3 years for a hefty premium ($100+)
It gets worse actually, with HDCP you cannot use signal splitters or other devices like scalers or converters that are frequently used in professional projection and scientific setups. If you do, you will get snow (not immediately, just sometime down the road when somebody has loaded HDCP protected content) on the whole display (not just the content) making those things useless. If you use a splitter for example, you have to go out of your way and buy another device ($80) to sit on the primary channel to make sure it can't negotiate the HDCP encryption. But HD content will still play even if you don't have an HDCP-compatible setup (as there is no content I know off yet that forcefully locks people out of their Chinese/Wal-Mart TV/Blu-Ray el-cheapo knockoff setup), it's just that if you do have an HDCP-compatible setup (and you paid good money for eg. Dual-DVI KVM, splitter, displays and projectors with high-res 120Hz signals for scientific research), it will malfunction.
Actually, they already do iris scanning for legal immigrants. You get your fingerprints (all 10) and iris scanned whenever you get your permanent residence card. I think the difference is that they're going to start iris scanning and fingerprinting illegal immigrants.
The government does not have their 'own' resources. The government deciding to do a book burning is basically censorship very similar to the church buying up bibles in the Middle Ages to burn them.
There are still companies (like Philips) that make incandescents. There will always be a (maybe decreasing) market for incandescents. I work in an MRI suite where anything with a transformer would cause interference with the signal or anything with too much metal would get sucked into the bore. We use incandescents that due to the magnetic force exerted on the filament burns out every 3 months.
The problem with GE's plant was that it was too expensive to keep producing incandescents while the demand gets lower and the production from lower-wage and lower-lawsuit countries increases. It's too expensive to mass-produce just about anything here in the US, the wages are way too high (the minimum wages are like what $7/hour) and if a worker gets hurt on the job, they don't have a decent socially backed insurance and health care system (which China, Eastern Europe and India do have mostly free health care) to fall back on but have to resort to suing the company for millions of dollars to afford treatment.
In the US if a anybody gets got with a few million dollars in his refrigerator, he just buys a fellow employee to get them to dismiss the case or change the law to make whatever he got it from legal. The once stuck with a few thousands are the idiots that take the blame or that get punished for not doing a good job bribing the right people.
It's no different across the world. The West may do it less blatantly, less in government but on a higher level (in stock market or by giving personal gifts and campaign contributions) and the Middle-East/South may do it more as an untaxed income (where you have to bribe just about anybody to get anything done) but they are no different than China where you have to bribe all levels of government.
Actually, when you 'buy' a piece of land (with or without a house) on Native American ground (eg. in a reservation or similar) as an outsider, they actually do not sell you (or more likely, they didn't sell the previous owner) the ground but granted a license for like 100 or 200 years.
If he said: Come and see, we have no such weapons anymore in our arsenal then he would've gotten invaded right away because the US wanted access to the oil. If he said: Yes, we have massive amounts of weapons then he would've had to use them or look stupid when he was invaded anyway because the US wanted access to the oil. Besides that, the UN would've probably embargoed the heck out of the country because they have stockpiles of weapons the US doesn't approve of.
The only option is to say maybe we have them maybe we don't and have a whole political cat and mouse game with the UN.
User retards: - What retard still uses Outlook? - What retard still opens exe files it receives in e-mail? - What retard still opens links it receives in e-mail?
Admin retards: - What retard still deploys Outlook/Exchange - What retard still allows exe files to pass through e-mail? - What retard still doesn't classify links in e-mails that point to shoddy domains as spam? - What retard mounts a corporate home directory without the noexec flag? - What retard still allows their users to run as root/admin? - What retard allows a client computer to send more than 1 mail per second?
I would've accepted propagation through home computers but not through well-configured corporate systems. And even though it might affect certain corporate computers with certain ancient programs, the reports I hear about it taking down mail systems is totally unacceptable - even Postfix comes out of the box with some decent Anvil rules.
As a business you are still allowed to discriminate. Businesses discriminate all the time since the vendor I use at work doesn't want to sell me stuff for home since I don't have enough volume (I'm not rich enough). In the south of the USA there are still venues that discriminate their customers against race and they are allowed to do so - they just lose a bunch of customers. What they can't do in many states (and I think it's federally arranged as well) is discriminate in hiring and firing people or when providing what we consider necessities (housing, utilities).
Yet. Apple wasn't relevant in the music market, mp3 player market, tablet market, smartphone market and at one time not even relevant (anymore) in the computer market.
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125 people in a town of 20,000 is huge. Each of those people needs housing, pays income tax (which NYS is probably the highest in the US), pays sales tax (8%) need office supplies, phone lines, cell phones, gets married, has children, goes out to eat etc. etc. That's roughly $4-6m/year of extra cash flowing into the local economy.
Besides, Yahoo probably wouldn't pay taxes anyway because they're incorporated somewhere else and claim towards the local tax man that they made 0 profit and have a huge loss into having the data center. Besides they also have to pay for people to maintain the air conditioning and building, snow shoveling their parking lots, fixing the heating system in the offices all of which local contractors do.
How would it put up barriers for anyone creating web content? All blind people need is for the webpage to be correctly coded according to the HTML specs and not have the important content in a fancy JavaScript that alters the DOM after the page has loaded (although web readers can usually put up with it). It would break down barriers not only for blind people but also for computers and browser makers as well as the general public, open source operating systems (no more IE-only websites) etc. etc.
As for devices, Apple's Mac OS X is compatible with most screen readers and braille keyboards, even the iPhone has some fancy accessibility built-in, Apple does a really good job at making it accessible from the get-go. Even Windows and most Linux distro's have accessibility built-in although a lot of applications could use some shining up in that area (hot keys being one of them and again, not putting main content in obscure places).
Just reinstall the Windows machines with Linux, run Windows in a Virtual Machine with all outside communications firewalled if necessary, then restore the SCADA system software from backup (you do have a backup right?) or just re-upload a clean version of the systems.
Actually, one of the gas pumps in my area does. It has a popup saying: If you wash your car today or get a raincheck, you get 3c/gallon off. It tells me on the handle, there is a board on top of the pump and outside the gas station, on the windows and recently the payment automaton has also informed me of such.
One of the problems is of course that if a company designs a very well constructed piece of equipment, it's going to be either prohibitively more expensive (compare pricing between Volkswagen/Audi/Mercedes and Chevy/GMC/Buick) or the product will outlive the company as the market gets saturated. I have a compass that was purchased when my mother was in school, when I went to school for architecture I was looking through art shops to get the same brand but an old shopkeeper told me that they went out of business a couple of years ago because nobody bought them anymore. He still had some in the back for $50-75 compared to the $15 plastic ones.
Depending on where you live and how big your waste disposal service is, you most likely can do that and get away with it. All you have to do is make sure you give more than $5,000 to a local politician or $50,000 to a state/country politician and you would be amazed what you can get away with. Most likely you would write it off on your taxes as a necessary investment/expense and you would have the people you poison practically pay for the privilege of getting poisoned by your waste service.
The US military failed to walk over any armed opposition in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and a host of other places. It would be far more difficult to get the cannon fodder of the current military forces to be turned wholesale against their own. There are some ideological or fascist people in our current and past governments that wouldn't (and in the past didn't) think a second to clear certain individuals out but an all-out war against your own people would be hard.
On the other hand, I believe there is a possibility for another civil war where the teabaggers/Fox viewers are pitted against the more rational populace or where one race or even a number of states are turned against the others but the US military would then be split along those lines, not a government vs. the people war as the government would be overthrown (at significant loss though).
Sauerbraten is a gaming engine which is dead simple for game programmers. Giving a non-programmer any type of programming language is very, very difficult even if it's BASIC or Logo. It also wouldn't teach them how to model an animation or how drawing something reflects in a game. Blender is a 3D creation tool which also has some type of rendering engine and which you could create games in but it's geared towards creating content which is what arts student will have to learn and use whether it's Blender, Maya or 3DSMax.
Try a laser printer. You can get those from $50 (B&W) to $150 these days, don't come with empty cartridges and the cartridges last anywhere from 2000-6000 pages (for some this will last ~5 years). The ink doesn't dry out and can be used practically forever. I have HP LaserJet II cartridges that expired in 2004 which still work.
and nobody seems to understand it - you shouldn't teach programs, you should teach techniques and principals to be applied in lab sessions. I don't know what arts students are doing in game development. If anything, the only thing they should be developing is artwork.
You can use anything to teach them how to design something, I would suggest Blender (since it's free and they are ART students) or if they are technically adept enough (which they aren't), you can let them use the Sauerbraten engine and I believe you can get the Unreal engine free as an educational institution. If you have to get really simplistic and only teach them how their art works out in games, use HTML5 or *shudder* Flash, for something bigger you can use the Doom engine (very simple to design for) and let them make some artwork for it.
Microsoft no longer owns Xenix, SCO does (no seriously). SCO Unix is Xenix. I guess they could buy it back but what good will that do them? They got rid of it for a reason.
Comparing:
Didn't compare installing Windows (or upgrading Windows) to an Ubuntu install but rather stuck to the "let's try this Ubuntu-install-from-Windows". That won't help if you build your own computer or your computer is not bundled with Windows.
Didn't compare pricing Windows (or upgrading Windows) to an Ubuntu install
Didn't compare installing codecs in Windows to an Ubuntu install. Installing DVD support and other restricted extra's is not that hard and only due to US regulations. You should've stuck to the manual and typed "DVD support Ubuntu" in Google, the first result will have a link that can do it in one click.
Scoring:
Gave less score to Ubuntu for not supporting the investigators "Windows muscle memory". I hate some of the new features in Windows 7 such as stacked windows, it's just a pain in the neck to support any newbie computer user with a question like "we don't know where this document went".
Gave less score to Ubuntu for not supporting their WinModems (there's a reason they're called WinModems). Although with a bit of looking you can get most of your devices to work a lot of vendors simply don't see why they should support a smaller market. iPhone is natively supported in Ubuntu 10.04 so I don't know why it didn't work for them - maybe they just went off their muscle memory.
Gave less score to Ubuntu because Microsoft doesn't even follow their own specs making it very hard to make a compatible office suite offering. Again, this is not a problem with Linux but with the vendors of Windows software and Microsoft. If you use an open spec like some governments have been wanting to do over the last couple of years, you won't have any problems. Sadly, the current market penetration allows Microsoft to keep doing anti-competitive stuff.
All-in-all an honest review would probably put Ubuntu on-par with Windows. It's really easy to pick on Linux for not being Windows but give a newbie a new computer with either OS from their current Windows 2000/XP with Office 2003 and I doubt they would find Linux all that much harder.
That's what I was thinking. The University I work for has not just one but 3 clusters with 2 of them having 4,096 CPU cores and 848 CPU cores
Most of it (like DOCSIS and most DSL tech) can be done with a simple software upgrade and maybe some (long-deferred) minor wiring upgrades in the boonies. If the operator really needs to upgrade all their devices for each of those upgrades, they have really bad acquisition and engineering teams or just some really shoddy decision making on the managerial level (let's go with the 10% cheaper unit that can't upgrade so we'll have a better quarterly report).
Either way, DOCSIS 1.0 (mid-90's tech) still allows for 40-somewhat Mbps down and 10 Mbps upstream - I haven't seen a single provider giving those rates at any level. Same goes for DSL although going over twisted copper puts a damper on the bandwidth, mid-90's ADSL still allows for 8/1Mbps speeds which I have only seen offered in the last 2-3 years for a hefty premium ($100+)
It gets worse actually, with HDCP you cannot use signal splitters or other devices like scalers or converters that are frequently used in professional projection and scientific setups. If you do, you will get snow (not immediately, just sometime down the road when somebody has loaded HDCP protected content) on the whole display (not just the content) making those things useless. If you use a splitter for example, you have to go out of your way and buy another device ($80) to sit on the primary channel to make sure it can't negotiate the HDCP encryption. But HD content will still play even if you don't have an HDCP-compatible setup (as there is no content I know off yet that forcefully locks people out of their Chinese/Wal-Mart TV/Blu-Ray el-cheapo knockoff setup), it's just that if you do have an HDCP-compatible setup (and you paid good money for eg. Dual-DVI KVM, splitter, displays and projectors with high-res 120Hz signals for scientific research), it will malfunction.
1. HDCP MASTER KEY (MIRROR THIS TEXT!)
2.
3. This is a forty times forty element matrix of fifty-six bit
4. hexadecimal numbers.
5.
6. To generate a source key, take a forty-bit number that (in
7. binary) consists of twenty ones and twenty zeroes; this is
8. the source KSV. Add together those twenty rows of the matrix
9. that correspond to the ones in the KSV (with the lowest bit
10. in the KSV corresponding to the first row), taking all elements
11. modulo two to the power of fifty-six; this is the source
12. private key.
13.
14. To generate a sink key, do the same, but with the transposed
15. matrix.
16.
17.
18. 6692d179032205 b4116a96425a7f ecc2ef51af1740 959d3b6d07bce4 fa9f2af29814d9
19. 82592e77a204a8 146a6970e3c4a1 f43a81dc36eff7 568b44f60c79f5 bb606d7fe87dd6
20. 1b91b9b73c68f9 f31c6aeef81de6 9a9cc14469a037 a480bc978970a6 997f729d0a1a39
21. b3b9accda43860 f9d45a5bf64a1d 180a1013ba5023 42b73df2d33112 851f2c4d21b05e
22. 2901308bbd685c 9fde452d3328f5 4cc518f97414a8 8fca1f7e2a0a14 dc8bdbb12e2378
23. 672f11cedf36c5 f45a2a00da1c1d 5a3e82c124129a 084a707eadd972 cb45c81b64808d
24. 07ebd2779e3e71 9663e2beeee6e5 25078568d83de8 28027d5c0c4e65 ec3f0fc32c7e63
25. 1d6b501ae0f003 f5a8fcecb28092 854349337aa99e 9c669367e08bf1 d9c23474e09f70
26.
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30. 80e32223b9feab f1fa23f5b0bf0d ab6bf4b5b698ae d960315753d36f 424701e5a944ed
31. 10f61245ebe788 f57a17fc53a314 00e22e88911d9e 76575e18c7956e c1ef4eee022e38
32. f5459f177591d9 08748f861098ef 287d2c63bd809e e6a28a6f5d000c 7ae5964a663c1b
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Actually, they already do iris scanning for legal immigrants. You get your fingerprints (all 10) and iris scanned whenever you get your permanent residence card. I think the difference is that they're going to start iris scanning and fingerprinting illegal immigrants.
The government does not have their 'own' resources. The government deciding to do a book burning is basically censorship very similar to the church buying up bibles in the Middle Ages to burn them.
There are still companies (like Philips) that make incandescents. There will always be a (maybe decreasing) market for incandescents. I work in an MRI suite where anything with a transformer would cause interference with the signal or anything with too much metal would get sucked into the bore. We use incandescents that due to the magnetic force exerted on the filament burns out every 3 months.
The problem with GE's plant was that it was too expensive to keep producing incandescents while the demand gets lower and the production from lower-wage and lower-lawsuit countries increases. It's too expensive to mass-produce just about anything here in the US, the wages are way too high (the minimum wages are like what $7/hour) and if a worker gets hurt on the job, they don't have a decent socially backed insurance and health care system (which China, Eastern Europe and India do have mostly free health care) to fall back on but have to resort to suing the company for millions of dollars to afford treatment.
In the US if a anybody gets got with a few million dollars in his refrigerator, he just buys a fellow employee to get them to dismiss the case or change the law to make whatever he got it from legal. The once stuck with a few thousands are the idiots that take the blame or that get punished for not doing a good job bribing the right people.
It's no different across the world. The West may do it less blatantly, less in government but on a higher level (in stock market or by giving personal gifts and campaign contributions) and the Middle-East/South may do it more as an untaxed income (where you have to bribe just about anybody to get anything done) but they are no different than China where you have to bribe all levels of government.
Actually, when you 'buy' a piece of land (with or without a house) on Native American ground (eg. in a reservation or similar) as an outsider, they actually do not sell you (or more likely, they didn't sell the previous owner) the ground but granted a license for like 100 or 200 years.
Well, Sadam didn't really have a choice did he:
If he said: Come and see, we have no such weapons anymore in our arsenal then he would've gotten invaded right away because the US wanted access to the oil.
If he said: Yes, we have massive amounts of weapons then he would've had to use them or look stupid when he was invaded anyway because the US wanted access to the oil. Besides that, the UN would've probably embargoed the heck out of the country because they have stockpiles of weapons the US doesn't approve of.
The only option is to say maybe we have them maybe we don't and have a whole political cat and mouse game with the UN.
User retards:
- What retard still uses Outlook?
- What retard still opens exe files it receives in e-mail?
- What retard still opens links it receives in e-mail?
Admin retards:
- What retard still deploys Outlook/Exchange
- What retard still allows exe files to pass through e-mail?
- What retard still doesn't classify links in e-mails that point to shoddy domains as spam?
- What retard mounts a corporate home directory without the noexec flag?
- What retard still allows their users to run as root/admin?
- What retard allows a client computer to send more than 1 mail per second?
I would've accepted propagation through home computers but not through well-configured corporate systems. And even though it might affect certain corporate computers with certain ancient programs, the reports I hear about it taking down mail systems is totally unacceptable - even Postfix comes out of the box with some decent Anvil rules.
As a business you are still allowed to discriminate. Businesses discriminate all the time since the vendor I use at work doesn't want to sell me stuff for home since I don't have enough volume (I'm not rich enough). In the south of the USA there are still venues that discriminate their customers against race and they are allowed to do so - they just lose a bunch of customers. What they can't do in many states (and I think it's federally arranged as well) is discriminate in hiring and firing people or when providing what we consider necessities (housing, utilities).
Yet. Apple wasn't relevant in the music market, mp3 player market, tablet market, smartphone market and at one time not even relevant (anymore) in the computer market.