We need someone like Ballmer to throw a chair- or two - or three++
or even three# at those Detroit dorks who fly in to Washington.
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Let MS buy a car company or two. And turn around all
those crappy jokes- "If MS was a car company, etc..."
Hello.. Bill Gates? BUY GM or Ford! The price is right, right now!
Couldn't be any worse than it is now. And let
Ballmer beat a few of them to death with a chair.
I wouldn't be surprised if that spider crash-landed, acquired a/. id, and then started posting here.
Probably already has... but is so far posting as an AC.
(x) Unavailability of any living relatives to carry the foetus to term.
I have it on good authority that although she is not a "relative",
Paris Hilton has been approached to carry the fetus to term. .
Please: no snide jokes about Caesarian section not being needed.
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Windows is made for idiots. That's why it is so easy to break. And that is why it is used by most of the world. Folks who dont know a grep from a gram.
Imagine the whole world running Linux: "Hey, what's this SUDO crap? And why do I always hafta give my password?" Well she will give that password anyhow. She's been trained to do it. To hell with weenie geek stuff.
But linux is hard. That's why so few people use it. And nominally intelligent people at that. How many Linux weenies you see answering a 419 chain-letter? None. If you want to make the rest of the world run Linux, you will have to relax some of the arcane command-level stuff. And then guess what? It will start crashing/getting infected just like Widows does. You cannot have it both ways.
Power company shipping me an emergency generator??
Sounds good to ME!
I had to go out and damn well BUY ONE! And so did all my neighbours.
Too bad MS isn't the power company. So far both XP and Vista are much more stable than my power utility. That's why I had to buy a damn UPS!... poor analogy. And say- whatever happened to GM? If MS had run them, they would still be in business. You don't see the fed govt bailing out MS! Remember that old joke about "If your Windows was a car...". Don't hear it much these days, do we?
YES! I too am in deep awe, and surely deplore the disrespect from those brothers and sisters of mankind (um, I mean "personkind") that would attempt to belittle some of our fellow kindred spirits!
We must celebrate all of personkind's great achievements! No matter what their race, religion, creed, colour, or sexual orientation!
Truly we must all come together! In the words of a great American seen recently on Youtube: "Why can't we all just get along?"
Well, rethinking this, it's a lot like other acronyms that were unfortunately coined, and make sense only in the historical context- and have since been conveniently corrupted to make them more current. One I can immediately think of is "DVD"-
Wanna start a whole new/. argument on what DVD means? LOL!
There are a couple of other ambiguous acronyms whose arcane abbreviations escape me now. Perhaps just as well....
Migod- just noticed my alliteration above! Am I suffering from some sort of spoonerism?
>>> For whatever reasons the otherwise smart chaps who devised RAID decided to use that word, at no stage was it a characteristic of RAIDsets that they were made of inexpensive disks.
Whatever reason(s)? The reason was obvious: they WERE inexpensive, even if by your estimate, they were "expensive".
They WERE CHEAP! - When compared with the mainframe standard disk-drives of 20 years ago! See my explanation(s) elsewhere in this thread.
The RAID word is "INEXPENSIVE" And with good reason. End of argument.
BTW back in the eighties, Hitachi was mainframe disk-drive (as well as CPU) competitor of IBM.
Their mainframes disk drives were superior, as well as their mainframes themselves. But much as we tried to get them installed, the guys above, who knew NOTHING about computers, would nix the deal, and insist we use only Genuine IBM products. Little did they know. Of course they also drove those high-quality GM cars. None of this cheap Jap shit for them! (more irony here. Insert quotation-marks as you see fit)
A sour grapes addendum to my "THEY ARE INEXPENSIVE" reply to your query:
Hey, why don't you ask Seagate to fly you to Santa Cruz or San Diego, with a side trip to Las Vegas? (Assumimg you are in eastern North America)
This is what IBM did for us about 20+ years ago when we were considering upgrading a dozen or so disk drives...
Of course, I as the tech / systems programmer / "expert" didn't even hear about the cross-continent trip til a year or so later.
"Shhhhh!"
The IBM sales rep invited three guys from my company - the operations manager, the... ahh fukit.. I forget- Personnel Manager? Manager of Payroll? Accounting VP? - to this freebie/ extravaganza. Just to sell us a few disk drives.
No doubt these suits were regaled with stories of how Count-Key-data was far superior to Fixed-Block architecture on the disks and how the cooling fans, excuse me, the AMDs** were superior to the cheap jap competition.
blah blah lah...
OK. I didn't get to go.
Sure- sour grapes, I admit.
But do you wonder why now disks, even EXPENSIVE ones are thought of as "inexpensive"? These days, would you get flown across the continent for three days for the sale of a few so-called "expensive" disks?
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WHAT???
What are you, one of them effete Europaens?
Do not attempt to tell an AMERICAN space agency what they can and cannot do!
What if it turns out they are evil just like us /.ers?
There- fixed that for ya.
I don't appear to have any belly-button!
And some guy that looks like Harrison Ford keeps trying to kill me!
And I'm tired of eating this crappy Chinese food in the rain. Any advice?
fuk it.
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We need someone like Ballmer to throw a chair- or two - or three++ or even three# at those Detroit dorks who fly in to Washington.
.
Let MS buy a car company or two. And turn around all those crappy jokes- "If MS was a car company, etc..."
Hello.. Bill Gates? BUY GM or Ford! The price is right, right now!
Couldn't be any worse than it is now. And let Ballmer beat a few of them to death with a chair.
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I wouldn't be surprised if that spider crash-landed, acquired a /. id, and then started posting here.
Probably already has... but is so far posting as an AC.
On Soviet Space-Station, YOU bite spider!
That'd be "Wrangel". "Arctic" and "Bering Sea".
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There- fixed that for you. Now where's my Woolly Mammothburger? (you can hold the wool)
(x) Unavailability of any living relatives to carry the foetus to term.
I have it on good authority that although she is not a "relative", Paris Hilton has been approached to carry the fetus to term.
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Please: no snide jokes about Caesarian section not being needed.
.
I, for one, welcome our new trollish or off-topic overlords.
?? Ok, then...
In Soviet Russia, trolls mod YOU!
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I just want to go to Europe- To possibly look for the existence of Belgium and its isotopes.
Hey pass some of that loot to me-
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and let me go investigate Europe.
Windows is made for idiots.
That's why it is so easy to break.
And that is why it is used by most of the world.
Folks who dont know a grep from a gram.
Imagine the whole world running Linux:
"Hey, what's this SUDO crap? And why do I always hafta give my password?"
Well she will give that password anyhow. She's been trained to do it. To hell with weenie geek stuff.
But linux is hard. That's why so few people use it. And nominally intelligent people at that. /getting infected just like Widows does.
How many Linux weenies you see answering a 419 chain-letter?
None.
If you want to make the rest of the world run Linux, you will have to relax some of the arcane command-level stuff.
And then guess what? It will start crashing
You cannot have it both ways.
Power company shipping me an emergency generator??
Sounds good to ME!
I had to go out and damn well BUY ONE!
And so did all my neighbours.
Too bad MS isn't the power company. So far both XP and Vista are much more stable than my power utility. That's why I had to buy a damn UPS! ... poor analogy.
And say- whatever happened to GM? If MS had run them, they would still be in business. You don't see the fed govt bailing out MS!
Remember that old joke about "If your Windows was a car...".
Don't hear it much these days, do we?
BAH!
Apparently NASA has yet to bow down to our new Asparagus overlords.
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YES!
I too am in deep awe, and surely deplore the disrespect from those brothers and sisters of mankind (um, I mean "personkind") that would attempt to belittle some of our fellow kindred spirits!
We must celebrate all of personkind's great achievements! No matter what their race, religion, creed, colour, or sexual orientation!
Truly we must all come together!
In the words of a great American seen recently on Youtube: "Why can't we all just get along?"
Helloo! Haven't you figured it out yet? Where have you been?
China and India are PART of the conspiracy.
Well, rethinking this, it's a lot like other acronyms that were unfortunately coined, and make sense only in the historical context- and have since been conveniently corrupted to make them more current. /. argument on what DVD means? LOL! ...
One I can immediately think of is "DVD"-
Wanna start a whole new
There are a couple of other ambiguous acronyms whose arcane abbreviations escape me now. Perhaps just as well.
Migod- just noticed my alliteration above! Am I suffering from some sort of spoonerism?
>>What? I never said that.
Yes you did. And we all heard it.
Didn't we, folks?
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Hey, he's busy staking ME also!
You know, if we can round up a few more testimonials, this could be the start of a great new religion!
BTW, I have it on good report; "he" is a woman!
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What does marriage have to do with blackberries?
There- fixed that for ya..
1. Download the referenced "sounds" url in the article.
2. Invite the DBA into the server or hardware room and play sounds.
3. Profit!
(when the DBA has a heart attack, and you hire a much cheaper one -or outsource job to Bangalore)
OKayy... don't like the above?
Well, then- In Soviet Cruz, hard disk crashes YOU! -
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>>> For whatever reasons the otherwise smart chaps who devised RAID decided to use that word, at no stage was it a characteristic of RAIDsets that they were made of inexpensive disks.
Whatever reason(s)? The reason was obvious: they WERE inexpensive, even if by your estimate, they were "expensive".
They WERE CHEAP! - When compared with the mainframe standard disk-drives of 20 years ago!
See my explanation(s) elsewhere in this thread.
The RAID word is "INEXPENSIVE" And with good reason.
End of argument.
Yes I know that- Just my feeble attempt at irony.
BTW back in the eighties, Hitachi was mainframe disk-drive (as well as CPU) competitor of IBM.
Their mainframes disk drives were superior, as well as their mainframes themselves.
But much as we tried to get them installed, the guys above, who knew NOTHING about computers, would nix the deal, and insist we use only Genuine IBM products.
Little did they know. Of course they also drove those high-quality GM cars. None of this cheap Jap shit for them!
(more irony here. Insert quotation-marks as you see fit)
A sour grapes addendum to my "THEY ARE INEXPENSIVE" reply to your query:
Hey, why don't you ask Seagate to fly you to Santa Cruz or San Diego, with a side trip to Las Vegas?
(Assumimg you are in eastern North America)
This is what IBM did for us about 20+ years ago when we were considering upgrading a dozen or so disk drives... ... ahh fukit.. I forget- Personnel Manager? Manager of Payroll? Accounting VP? - to this freebie/ extravaganza.
Of course, I as the tech / systems programmer / "expert" didn't even hear about the cross-continent trip til a year or so later.
"Shhhhh!"
The IBM sales rep invited three guys from my company - the operations manager, the
Just to sell us a few disk drives.
No doubt these suits were regaled with stories of how Count-Key-data was far superior to Fixed-Block architecture on the disks and how the cooling fans, excuse me, the AMDs** were superior to the cheap jap competition.
blah blah lah...
OK. I didn't get to go.
Sure- sour grapes, I admit.
But do you wonder why now disks, even EXPENSIVE ones are thought of as "inexpensive"?
These days, would you get flown across the continent for three days for the sale of a few so-called "expensive" disks?
** "Air Moving Devices" LOL! /rant
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-- Thanks. I needed that!