On Monday 15 July 2002 11:26 am, Alastair Scott wrote: > On Sunday 14 July 2002 2:08 am, magnet wrote: > > If you are ever in West Thurrock, Essex somewhere near the PCWorld > > store [M$World] please take the time to pop in to chat with their > > upgrade assistant and confirm that "no... you cant play Linux on an > > X-Box or PS2, altho you can get a high-score on "uptime". Trust me, > > she will ask if the game "Uptime" can run on an X-box or PS2! *sigh* > > > > All I went in for was to ask if a particular gfx card had linux > > support (I had nothing better to do), and yes, you guessed, no-one in > > the whole store could answer. ;-) > > One for the non-British list members :P > > Out of interest (as some slashdot and kuro5hin items are difficult to > understand otherwise) ... which US computer stores are equivalent to PC > World? > > At PCW employees only know, at maximum, about what's physically there on > the shelves, extended warranties are pushed, you pay the full > manufacturer's price unless someone's feeling generous, attempts at > haggling are met with the Stare of Death and (as noted) PCW is a > Microsoft fiefdom. The only good thing is that they usually have an > excellent stock of Belkin cables, including obscure ones. > > Alastair
Alastair: Large bodies of water don't seem to make any difference -- most of them here are idiots, too. Say "Linux" and they get the panicked look of a deer standing in the middle of the road, or else they edge towards a phone so that they can dial 911 to report an evil terrorist hacker on the premises. I did get lucky once at a local store when I was buying the guts of this system -- the clerk was doing graduate work at NCSU in Computer Science, and was a long-time Debian guy. He gave me some good advice, and even sent me a couple of followup e-mails. Sadly, he has soon afterwards completed his degree and moved on to much bigger and better things, so it's back to the blank stare/panic response. As for the original post: Could we cut out this emphasis on uptime? It's a sensitive subject for us older guys. -- cmg
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