Posts by Doug Glass 1445 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Feb 2008
Re: "With Ubuntu 10.04, Canonical delivered a good-looking Linux distro that just works." Uh huh, yeah right. Not with a couple of USB Wi-Fi adapters I have.
And apparently it doesn't work with a considerable number:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessCardsSupported.
Oh what the frakk, I got XP all over the place and one Win7 and they do everything for me. Well, doesn't keep me warm at night like wifey does, but jeeeze, can't have everything in the basement I guess.
It's likely more about unfair business practices which may or may not be a monoploy. All you generally have to prove is that you've been intentionally harmed in such a way that you have no recourse, i.e. predatory.unfair business practices.
Typewriter makers were essentially put out of business by the advent of word processors. But there was nothing unfair or predatory, just newer technology that made typewriters obsolete. That's a common theme in business. Assembly line robots put hundreds of thousands of people out of work. But we still have robots.
So it's really a misnomer to keep using "monmopoly" in every case where it seems something just isn't right with a business's practives. AC is right, there's no monopolistic practices here on Apple's part. Unfair? Predatory? Maybe so, but no monopoly.
Where I live the temps hit 30c in early April, spend weeks on end at 35c+, and by late August there are peaks that pass 37.77777 (100F) more often than I can count; 30c is a cool wave. And we love it for boating, hiking, swimming and such. This is news only to people who haven't experiemced the finer climates.
Want cooler? We travel.
They ALL emit a foul smell after just a few rides in the hot sun. Given the amount of heat offloaded by the human head, and the accompanying sweat, they all smell like a locker room in very short order. Even in colder climates this is true. Ever wonder why bikers date only bikers? Because the sweaty smell keeps the non bikers away.
The sprays work for a while, but once the non removable materal gets soaked you can't get rid of the stench.
As far as injury prevention, only in slow speed crashes folks, Read the statistics.
Given the stock is shown as being $41.29 the week of July 11, 2005 and now $13.24 the week of June 1, 2010 I'd say Mike needs to do rather a lot more thinking, but maybe not aloud. HP closed at $46.05 and Acer at $79.50 on June 4, 2010. Yeah I'd say Mike has pretty well mucked things up for the company pretty well.
In the stock market it's usually best to buy low and sell high. If Mike is considering buying back all outstanding shares he obviously has the idea of paying the very least he can per share. Frankly I'll be glad to get rid of mine, it's turning out to be a dead end investment and I'm sick and tired of his poor performance.
Maybe if the product was better "going private" wouldn't have to be on the table so to speak. The company from which I retired in 2008 had 20,000 desktops world wide and most of those were Dells. But an 83% failure rate for HDDs helped the shift to HP. Just one more nail in the coffin for another computer geek who grew to big for his britches and never understood the business world.
... saving time you'll die having accomplished nothing. Wise men, and women, SPEND 100% of their time but do so in ways the benefit themselves and hopefully others.
Saving is good only when it puts money in the bank and makes you more money over time. Time is not to be saved; it's to be spent wisely.
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