Adam Smith on "the invisible hand":
But there are many misconceptions about the invisible hand, starting
with the belief that Smith himself was a absolute believer in it. In
fact, he was not. Smith actually viewed merchants with great suspicion:
/"People of the same trade seldom meet together,
>
>The reality in the business world is a machine's useful life is way longer
>than what operating
>system manufacturers are supporting from a security patch perspective. The
>built in obsolescence is
>not hardware, it is the OS, and it is not that the OS is not working and
>providing hardware
On 2/6/07, Rick Schummer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Agreed Michael, but as users we all have choice over accepting and not
> accepting updates to the OS.
> Same with upgrades. I just want the choice to be extended longer than what we
> get today with respect
> to patches to existing operating s
Several times over the years I've wagged this dog, trying to point out
that what we need is the equivalent or better of IBM's methodology for
maintaining the OS, which is called SMP. It's a database application
that generates and installs the operating system on a new machine, and
then manages not
>>Sounds to me like it all comes down to managed computing---how much
>>influence/control do you want
the OS maker to have on your daily computing life? Some want M$ to handle all
of it; others don't
want anyone else's hands in the mix but their own. There are different kinds
of users, obvious
Rick Schummer wrote:
>>> If we kept the PC exactly as it was sold to you then maybe they would be
>>> able to offer a longer
>>>
> warranty, but we don't so they can't.<<
>
> I am not referring to a warranty Adam. The operating system manufacturers do
> not support the other
> software you
>>If we kept the PC exactly as it was sold to you then maybe they would be able
>>to offer a longer
warranty, but we don't so they can't.<<
I am not referring to a warranty Adam. The operating system manufacturers do
not support the other
software you load on your machine today. All they support
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You don't expect manufacturers to support your Ford when you have changed
the ignit
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Subject: [NF] OS Recalls, was: The Ultimate Vista Upgrade
>>And since MS isn't going to be selling or supporting their legacy OSes any
>>more, how are they
going to do that?<<
I warned you not to get me started on this.
We discussed this very issue after
>>And since MS isn't going to be selling or supporting their legacy OSes any
>>more, how are they
going to do that?<<
I warned you not to get me started on this.
We discussed this very issue after the DAFUG meeting a couple of months ago. I
am not a fan of
legislating every darn thing in our l
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