Comment This? Again? (Score 1) 223
I read this exact story in '98. Y2K. All those mainframes with COBOL code and nobody to write it because CompSCI majors didn't learn it anymore.
We always seem to muddle through.
I read this exact story in '98. Y2K. All those mainframes with COBOL code and nobody to write it because CompSCI majors didn't learn it anymore.
We always seem to muddle through.
I didn't. My first computer was a 8-bit machine.
My first computer didn't even have 8-bits. It had 2, but you couldn't use both at the same time. You had to go up 7 floors to get the other bit and then swap them out.
I had a crush on Data and all, but at 14 I was definitely not interested in a 45-year-old actor in the same way these ladies were.
"Ladies." Right.
I'm as much of a Mac fanboy as the next guy, but I do want to point out that the "on-site" service isn't as amazing as it sounds.
I have a Mac Pro and recently discovered that the on-site service is provided at the discretion of the local store/repair center and not Apple. If you call with a problem and want on-site service for it, they'll give you a list of local stores that you can then call and try and convince them to come out on a Saturday (it doesn't work, btw). I imagine if you bought all your systems from a place they'd be more interested, but just as a random guy with AppleCare -- the earliest I could arrange was some 36 hours later at an Apple Store (that Mac Pro was fun to lug on the subway, too).
It's a great computer and all of that, but if you have business critical needs, you need something way more than AppleCare.
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
