It's used to justify the purchase of the lowest price hardware. Hardware so slow that opening outlook with more than a few messages is a daunting task, even in XP. The machines are so underpowered that they will have no choice but to buy completely new machines when it finally comes time to upgrade (when XP support runs out). Even if XP does everything most people need it to do, they've found a way to make it do those things as slowly as possible while saving them some money in the short-term. These machines were bought using the Windows XP minimum requirements as a reference. That's what's wrong with XP. As an operating system, we could all still use it, but IT has weaponized it in a war for short-term, upper manager pleasing savings.

"discussion seminar"? Is that what kids call it these days? Back in my day we just called it "war".

Your cheap scanners still give you the manufacturer codes (or rather, can read them), they just don't automatically turn them into something useful like they can with standard codes so you have to rely on either a mechanics manual or a quick google search to find the meaning of the code. If he's asking for help on Slashdot then I'm sure he can manage that. If he's specifically looking for fancy sensor readouts though, he might be better off buying a prepackaged solution anyway, sadly.

I definitely must agree. What I find bizarre though is that Linus has pulled out so far ahead of Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. While I appreciate Linus' efforts a great lot (I am using Linux after all), can anyone guess what programming language the majority of the Linux kernel is written in?

I think raising my arm up in front of the screen and presenting it with the middle finger would be an appropriate gesture communicating both were I think it should stick that error and what I think about what it has to say in one simple gesture.

I don't think they make sarcasm tags big enough for your post.

Oh please, everybody knows hexedit is where it's at.

...a strategically placed bowl of alphabet soup or SpagettiO's could also be used as a terrorist communication tool but I don't go around holding press conferences about it.