[X4U] Windows for Warships

[Cover, Chris]

I fear to think of how many hours were lost by OS 7 users back in the day.
or even OS 9 users except for me since my OS' since 7.6 were extremely
stable.

  ;-)

> From: Paul Moortgat <paul.moortgat at pandora.be>
> Reply-To: "A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user."
> <x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 20:04:24 +0200
> To: "A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user."
> <x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: Re: [X4U] Windows for Warships
> 
> A report in the newspaper from yesterday stated that each Windows user
> loses 6 hours each month due trough crashes.  The survey was done with
> more than 1.3 million people.  Worldwide they lose 2.4 billion hours.
> See http://www.microcost.com/en for it.
> 
> Paul Moortgat
> 
> On 20-sep-04, at 19:32, Eugene Lee wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 07:22:35AM -0700, Vicki Allwardt wrote:
>> :
>> : Recently someone posted that the airport shut down on the west coast
>> : was due to a Windows program.  When I reported that info to my nephew
>> : whose wife got caught in it, he sent me this article.  Very sobering
>> : information.
>> :
>> : 
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/06/ams_goes_windows_for_warships/
>> 
>> Cool.  I wonder who will get the honor of crashing the Royal Navy?
>> Russian script kiddies?  European script kiddies?  American script
>> kiddies?  Al Quaeda script kiddies?  Army of God script kiddies?
>> 
>> If the Royal Navy were to enter a miliary conflict, have their
>> Windoze system crash, and lose the fight, it's their own fault.
>> Heaven help any nation stupid enough to depend on the Royal Navy
>> and its insecure computer M$ infrastructure for military support.
>> 
>> The wise reader will of course see that BAE Systems is getting a
>> huge payoff to convert the Royal Navy to M$ Windoze.  Humanity's
>> greed will lead to its eventual extinction.
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Eugene Lee
>> http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
> 
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