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

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In article <4F5769D5.5050107 at comcast.net>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>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!

You just answered your own question.



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

No but with a gov't being the devil takes all isn't all that much better,
is it?

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