"Upscale" wrote in message
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"HeyBub" wrote in message
If you buy your car from a Chevrolet dealership, it WILL come with a
Delco alternator. Don't want a Delco alternator? Then don't buy your car
from a Chevy dealership!

Which leads me to wonder why Jack Stein with all his professed experience
and expertise with computer operating systems would be going to Best Buy
for his computers instead of building them himself? Obviously the reason
is the same as before. He's either too cheap, too lazy, or just not smart
enough to do otherwise. And, if he's not going to Best Buy, then why is he
whining about them? I'd hazard a guess that it's lack of a life.

As much as Jack whines and whimpers about Microsoft, the truth is that
Microsoft's marketing machine (despite what anyone thinks of them) has
played a major role in getting people active in this computer age. It
doesn't matter much how or what prompts someone to become computer
literate, just that upon doing so, they eventually realize there *are*
other choices available when it comes to computers and operating systems.
That's Microsoft's real contribution in my opinion.


And as soon as people realize there are other choices they do one of three
things:

1. Accept what they are using from Microsoft and move on.
2. Switch to something else, such as Mac, and move on.
3. Endlessly bitch about how Microsoft has ****ed up their life but continue
to use Microsoft products.

It's like your Dad only bought Nash and you got to high school and
discovered Studebaker ....

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"I'm the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo ..."