Bear Bibeault wrote:Or, a lawyer to defend you in court, just because, well, he's a lawyer!
Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote:Of course, just because I'm "in computers" doesn't mean I can fix your computer, anyway. I may have no idea why Peachtree Accounting 3.7m won't install on your pirated copy of Windows ME, and I'll just embarrass myself if I try to figure it out. It's more like asking a doctor to ink you a new tat -- they stick needles into bodies all the time, right?
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
pete stein wrote:Um, I am a doctor ..., and yeah, we do do free consultations and procedures a time or two
Pat Farrell wrote:
pete stein wrote:Um, I am a doctor ..., and yeah, we do do free consultations and procedures a time or two
Not to say too much good about doctors, but since I'm too young for Medicare and mostly retired (no big company health care) I always talk to my doctors about fees. When I explain that their fee is coming directly out of my wallet, many of them offer a "cash payment" discount. Very civilized. They don't have to have staff argue with insurance companies, they get paid quickly. I get a break which is very good news.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
Tim Holloway wrote:The main differences are that you don't get hit with the "my neighbor's 10-year old kid could do that in an hour" and the offshoring threat is much lower.
There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors
Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote:Or "you're a race car driver, so can you fix my lawnmower?"
Pat Farrell wrote:
Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote:Or "you're a race car driver, so can you fix my lawnmower?"
You do realize that this may be as absurd as its contrapositive: You fix lawnmowers, so can you drive my race car at Indy?
Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote:I can write software, I have magical insights into why your Packard Bell 386SX is making a funny noise.
Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote:Ummm... Pat? Are you deliberately giving me a hard time?
Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote:A 486SX was a regular 486 with a manufacturing defect in the FPU, so it had no hardware floating-point support.
There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors
fred rosenberger wrote:
Now, I have no facts to back this up - it's only urban lore. But I wouldn't put it past a company to do something like this.
fred rosenberger wrote:Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
fred rosenberger wrote:My understanding was that they intentionally burned them out. ....
There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors
Pat Farrell wrote:I wonder what percent of ranchers know the difference between a garden variety 486 and the special 486SX version. Now that you mention it, I don't think there ever was a 386sx, so my initial diagnosis could be wrong, perhaps its really "it can't be making noise since there never was such a thing.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Jelle Klap wrote:Hahaha!
This is just hilarious: http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html
Ok, maybe a tad harsh, but still...
Pat Farrell wrote:
Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote:I can write software, I have magical insights into why your Packard Bell 386SX is making a funny noise.
But I know what is wrong with your Packard Bell 386SX, its older than a lot of the members here on the Ranch. All of the moving parts are past their expry date. The only solution it to take it out and shoot it.
I have a laptop that is a 486/25, it technically still "runs". But it so old it walks with a walker and does so very slowly. So run is really "shuffles slowly"
Up from that, I think the most elderly in my working collection is a P3-500 or so.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
- arh those were the days!!! Clock the CPU till it melts!!But I did over-clock it from 20Mhz to 33Mhz
Regards Pete
Or "you're a race car driver, so can you fix my lawnmower?"
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