[Info-vax] Current VMS engineering quality, was: Re: What's VMS up to these days?

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 3/7/2012 7:15 AM, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article<zcadnY76nsMkQ8vSnZ2dnUVZ_vOdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert"<rgilbert88 at comcast.net>  writes:
>> On 3/6/2012 10:00 PM, Michael Kraemer wrote:
>>> John Wallace schrieb:
>>>
>>>> Have you ever done business with National Instruments? No I haven't
>>>> either, but everything I hear about them says they sell a range of
>>>> quality product at a premium price with a service to match, much like
>>>> DEC in the good old days, and that their employees are happy to work
>>>> there. How do they do it? Well I suspect at least part of the magic is
>>>> that their customers are scientists and engineers not trend-following
>>>> and/or bean-counting IT people.
>>>
>>> NI stuff is (almost) all Weendoze,
>>> and most scientists and engineers have the same sheep mentality
>>> as everybody else.
>>>
>>
>> Windows works!  It started as something close to rotting manure.
>
> And now it IS rotting manure!
>
>
>
>> That was years ago.  Today, it works.  It has worked for the last eight
>> or nine years.  I don't know of any serious competition!
>
> You need to get out more Richard! :)
>
> Mac OS X, Linux and Android?  I recently obtained a 17.3" HP Envy.  It's
> a very nice laptop with all the earmarkings of an Apple ripoff -- replete
> with a glowing HP logo vis a vis the glowing Apple on the MacBooks.  But,
> it still has braindamaged BIOS, came with M$ Virus Collector 7, and it's
> stained with M$ logos.  I did manage to get Ubuntu working on it after a
> number of days.  Why?  This thing was, for all intents and purposes, made
> to be as WEENDOZE biased and anything else hostile as possible.  Hardware
> is quite nice; albeit, the trackpad is way sensitive, and too much effort
> is needed to click on it to drag and scroll.  I was finally able to get
> its bluetooth adapter working with Ubuntu and now use an old Macally BT
> mouse instead.  This Envy touts great audio but let's get real!  It's a
> laptop and trying to get real room-filling quality audio is not possible
> in the small speaker footprint.  Many here seem to dump on Apple and its
> products for being too expensive but it seems HP is trying to imitate the
> competition (Apple) more than innovate.  Innovation is Apple's territory
> forte! ;)  And M$ is tanning in the Apple's shadow too.  Remember VISTA?
> Visual Interface Similar To Apple's?
>
> There a M$ store to soon open in the Freehold Raceway.  I can't wait to
> see how much they copy from the Apple Store.  Still, what can it offer?
> I'd be worried that I'd be infected with a virus by just walking inside.
>
>
>
>> You may sneer and mutter about "click and drool".  I'm happy to finally
>> have a desktop system with software that works and that I can afford.  I
>> have a word processor and a spread sheet.  I could have a database if I
>> needed one.  I even have "Turbo Tax" which has made preparing my income
>> tax return bearable.
>>
>> Well, as close to bearable as it can be!
>
> A flat tax would make it bearable?  Abolish the unfair tax codes and the
> infernal revenue service!

How would you make the tax codes "fair"?????????????????????????????????

As long as we have government, somebody has to pay for it!

Do you want to try doing without government?  Every man for himself and 
devil take the hindmost?