Posts by ps2os2

Re: Given the choice....

Once the government gets involved into deciding anything there is no real privacy. End of story.

Re: @Gordon 10 -- No surprises there then

I am a Vet and I certainly don't care how I am addressed but it seems the older one gets the more pumping up of ego occurs. I suspect that the VFW (and others) have a lot to do with it.

I generally don't join such organizations because of these few pompous asses. I dislike all authority figures.

The older they get the more they forget about the people who were civilians and indeed paid for most of the wars, either by taxes or by effort they did contribute. Yes the Vets paid with their lives and painful separation from their loved ones.

The politicians can share the blame especially now days with the Republicans wanting to start every war they can dream up of. The irony of the whole mess is that when we have wounded the politicians finally get the real idea of the cost of these so called wars and when the VA screws up they try and blame the VA rather than properly fund them.

Bah Humbug Politicians aren't worth votes they are given.

Re: James is a dick...

There was one company here in the US that thought differently and tried to get its workers to sign on the dotted line. After an up roar the company backed down. They thought otherwise.

Re: Dear former boss of SetSquared....

There was a company here in the States that tried something similar. Once the news got out the employer had to retract the request. I agree with your comment about INDIAN types that would be the only ones that would work for that type of company.

Peter, Excellent?? He is arguably the worse Doctor yet.

Re: Surprised? Nah

"Remember, the Federal bureaucracy incompetently implements idiotic laws passed by Congress whose members have been accused being less intelligent than a flea by Mark Twain."

Err the pot calling the kettle black?

Re: Pity

I think IBM will use this as base for running their mainframes (again). IBM is probably gun shy of letting MS anywhere near their mainframes. Rightly so, in my opinion. OS2 was rock solid and it never crashed (like their mainframes).

Re: Finally hired someone who knows good software

How many BSOD can MS program?

Re: Dear Chicago

I live in Chicago and who are the Hawks (other than a 3rd rate basketball team)?

Re: I'm surprised....

As early as the 1990's trying to get help out of anyone at IBM was impossible. Oh you have a question that is going to cost you $$, but wait we were going to by this computer to bad any questions are now billable. You mean how much is memory? Yes it is costing people to buy IBM equipment to ask questions and on top of this mess, IBM is charging for physical planning. Hey how many CPU's to you want it will cost you for the advice. Bah Humbug. IBM outsourced to 3rd parties and you no longer have any interaction the IBM experts. Simple questions get tuned into billable hours. Bah humbug

Its too late

Their reputation has already sunk.

Re: Why are you even diagnosing this lappy?

Not only would I be getting these two apps off of any new system, I would be more concerned about the firmware (spyware) that does all sort of nasty things.

Re: $30 extra for Signature Windows?

Hey I hear you can get XP for dirt cheap.

Re: Are you my mummy?

The new Doctor is BORING. Time to regenerate and pick a Dr Who for the fans not for some unknown audience test subject matters.

Re: BSOD

Won't the first nor the last until the sheeple move to LINUX.

Re: Anecdote

To keep this short and to the point I have a disability that impairs by short term memory.

The hospital where I have all my testing done has now gone to a system which requires a 10 character password and upper/lower case and several numbers. I simply cannot remember this password. I told them so and it bounced off like teflon. I simply asked to have my record deleted and to mail me all information that they wanted to me to have. I have not heard from them since (other than my ID being deleted). I hope I am not missing any important information.

I suspect their system doesn't handle it well to have the ID deleted.

Re: Lots of last-minuters out there.

One of our machines went belly up last week (XP). We went out and bought a new machine and a license for XP and reformatted the HD and installed XP.

MS is not going to tell us ho to run our business.

F*&^K off MS.

Re: Use cash in the US?

It's the same stuff that we use to pay off the politicians.

Re: Someone really looked at the source code?

There is probably (at least on other platforms there is) a program that turns executables into source code. At least on one platform its called a disassembler. Even though you got the "source" it is terribly difficult (in most cases) to figure out exactly what the damn thing is doing let alone insert code. So in order to insert "hooks" you really have to know exactly what the input and the output(s) of the program to do anything sinister.

Having said the above MS would *HAVE* to give the NSA basic information about any module before any code could be inserted.

MS can also deny everything since they have the get out of jail free card as they have the "letter".

Re: It doesn't make you...

My minions are dressed in thousand island and they are tasty too.

Re: How about.....

Why not 10 percent?

Every year at the stockholders meeting IBM ask for complete autonomy in granting bonus money so why not 10 percent?

Re: seriously though..

Isnt' ACME the same manufacturer for the Bugs Bunny/Road Runner show?