Early adopters of DVRs used them a lot â" not surprisingly, since they paid so much for them.
Post hoc ergo prompter hoc much?
Most folks think that Microsoft Office's Clippy, Microsoft Bob, and Windows XP's Search Assistant dog were perverse jokes. [need citation]
I've never heard this opinion before, to be honest. They obviously share a pedigree (no pun intended), but no company puts that much research, development, and sales investment into something they don't expect to give returns.
And that story was debunked in the comments, and toms hardware even apologized for the bad conclusion IIRC.
YDNRC.
What Tom's really did post was: "We followed up with the article Flash SSD Update: More Results, More Answers, which proves our conclusion correct, despite the procedural mistake."
The updated story is at http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-hard-drive,1968.html
I retract my last two entries...for now.
I like Gnome again.
I don't know anything about how KDE is doing. I just don't use it.
Okay. I don't think I am meant to have a solid experience with Windows Environments. I just got finished reading this article. Scary stuff. Not only is KDE a bungle, it appears that the latest version of Gnome is out to get me as well.
The Tao is like a glob pattern: used but never used up. It is like the extern void: filled with infinite possibilities.