At 09:12 14/03/2007, you wrote:
But for me the most interesting thing for me is for the first time a
general purchaser will be able to buy a laptop without putting money
in Microsoft's pocket at all. Up until now, even when you broke
free of Microsoft, you are forced to be a "taxpayer". If Dell
genuinely make this a radiobutton on the main purchasing page AND
deduct the specified amount of "tax" money when you select it, that
will be a wonderful breakthrough.
Don't want or intend to start another language war here, but I always
use the word "tribute" in association with the extra cost associated
with purchasing a computer:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribute
The Wikipedia definitions seem pretty appropriate to me in this context.
The Vista decal from this new laptop looks good stuck next to the
handle on my toilet, but I would actually leave a tux decal on my laptop.
-Andy
I think that's disrespectful to the toilet, which serves a useful
purpose. Better to apply it to one of those "safety camera"
supplementary tax collection vans that now infest our roadsides.
Dave
