My guess is he thinks that people will go out and buy one if they're running short so they can get one before they are gone forever. I know shortages on other things have convinced me to buy them. *cough* Sega Dreamcast *cough* I know if there is something I'm considering buying, and I hear that supplies are getting low, I'll rush out to buy it before it is gone.
That's why you have all the stuff you need to patch it on a floppy/CD/flash drive, and don't have it connected to the internet right away. Common sense. Okay, maybe not common sense to most people.
Wow, this is one of the stupidest things I have ever heard. If it is a new computer, then it is NEW. Meaning nothing could have been edited. Think before you open your mouth, next time. Or, in this case, touch your keyboard.
2. A blogger puts up a spoof page on 29 May 2003 announcing a "Nigerian Email Conference." By June 6, this spoof has 105,000 hits. Most of these are due to Slashdot, a geeky forum with lots of noise and juvenile humor, dripping with PageRank, which mentioned the spoof on June 1. But there are also 600 links in Google for "nigerian email conference" by June 6, picked up by the "freshbot" as it made its way down the repetitive link panels on various blogrolls. The geeks at Google love Slashdot, so Slashdot's little chuckle even shows up on Google News.
Hohum. Apparently the public dislikes us.
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My guess is he thinks that people will go out and buy one if they're running short so they can get one before they are gone forever. I know shortages on other things have convinced me to buy them. *cough* Sega Dreamcast *cough* I know if there is something I'm considering buying, and I hear that supplies are getting low, I'll rush out to buy it before it is gone.
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Then it's not a new computer. It's a computer that was newm but has now been opened, modified, and reboxed. :P
That's why you have all the stuff you need to patch it on a floppy/CD/flash drive, and don't have it connected to the internet right away. Common sense. Okay, maybe not common sense to most people.
Wow, this is one of the stupidest things I have ever heard. If it is a new computer, then it is NEW. Meaning nothing could have been edited. Think before you open your mouth, next time. Or, in this case, touch your keyboard.
Bah. Forgot break tags. My comments started at hohum.
I followed a trail of links reading about different things about blogs and Google, until I found this on http://www.google-watch.org/gaming.html.
2. A blogger puts up a spoof page on 29 May 2003 announcing a "Nigerian Email Conference." By June 6, this spoof has 105,000 hits. Most of these are due to Slashdot, a geeky forum with lots of noise and juvenile humor, dripping with PageRank, which mentioned the spoof on June 1. But there are also 600 links in Google for "nigerian email conference" by June 6, picked up by the "freshbot" as it made its way down the repetitive link panels on various blogrolls. The geeks at Google love Slashdot, so Slashdot's little chuckle even shows up on Google News. Hohum. Apparently the public dislikes us.