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field piece, not the champagne cocktail).  But I would prefer a 155, just
because they are Microsoft.

Bryan




On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Ed Kellock <ekellock at gmail.com> wrote:

> Re: Microsoft, from a software development point of view...  I wonder if a
> "mac running native windows7" is truly a valid test.  Merely playing
> devil's
> advocate, no intention to support Windows or malign Mac.
>
> Re: the lender thing... absolutely all due empathy etc but... still... you
> can't always believe evertything you're told.  If it didn't feel right...
> to
> the extent that the question was asked... "do people really spend 80% of
> their monthly income on a house payment?" Is there not some responsibility
> on the part of the party who went ahead on the advise of someone who stood
> to benefit from the advancement of the transaction???
>
> I'm just saying...
>
> Ed
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: v8-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:v8-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf
> Of
> Dave Saad
> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2010 4:27 PM
> To: Audi V8Q Mailing list
> Subject: Re: [V8] C4
>
>
> OK Mike and Bryan - you guys are cracking me up -
>
> On the microsoft thing, I will buy the first shell. I just spent the
> weekend
> writing three identical functionality programs demonstrating "threads" in
> windows, MacOS X, and Linux, using Java, C, and C++ (on windows). Windows
> was by far the slowest performing. This was all done on my mac running
> native windows7, OSX, and Linux FDC13 - so the hardware remains the same
> for
> all tests. That is hardly my reason for detesting the Redmond Empire
> though.
> That goes back about 20 years. (test results - processing about 60
> megabytes
> of data in about 20 files resulted in times of about 5 seconds for Mac and
> Linux (c and java) and about 10 seconds on windows7)
>
> On the lender thing, I was most definitely coerced, pushed, tempted, and
> lied to by a lender to buy more house than I could afford.  I specifically
> asked the lender - "do people really spend 80% of their monthly income on a
> house payment?" to which she very sincerely said yes.  There are plenty of
> gullible and just plain stupid people out there who would easily fall for
> this scam.  It is not the governments fault that people are greedy - but it
> is their job to pick up the pieces and try to make it all better.  I don't
> have a solution, but not regulating the industry has thus far not worked
> out
> so well.  Maybe a little over regulation is in order for a while.
>
> Dave
> (oh - and I drive an Audi with no C4)
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