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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (61447)	6/4/1999 7:46:00 PM
From: re3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Michael as promised... If Microsoft were Jewish:........... 1. Instead of getting a "General Protection Fault" error, your PC would get "Ferklempt" 2. "Year 2000" issues are replaced by "Year 5760-5761" issues 3. Hanukkah screen savers will have "Flying Dreidels" 4. Your PC shuts down automatically at sundown of Friday evenings 5. After your computer dies, you would dispose of it within 24 yours 6. Your "Start" button would be replaced with a "Lets go! Im not getting any younger! button 7. Abort, Retry, Ignore would be replaced with "Stop it already, You're killing me! You vant I should try it again? I didn't hear that!' 8. When disconnecting external devices from the back of your PC, you would be instructed to "Remove the cable from your PC"s tuchis" 9. Your multimedia player would be renamed to"Nu, so play my music already!" 10. Internet Explorer would now have a spinning "Star of David" in the upper right corner 11. You would hear the tune "Hava nagila" during startup 12. Microsoft Office would include "A little byte of this, and a little byte of that" 13. When running "ScanDisk" you would be prompted with a "You vant I should fix this?" message 14. When your PC is working too hard, you would occasionally hear a loud "Oy"!!! 15. A "monitor cleaning solution" from Manischewitz would advertise that it gets "rid of the schmutz" on your monitor 16. After 20 minutes of no activity, your PC would go "Schloffen" 17. Computer viruses would now be cured with chicken soup ike...

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (61447)	6/4/1999 8:33:00 PM
From: J. P.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Hey MB, Why do you think Merrill Lynch said nice things about Intel today?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (61447)	6/4/1999 11:57:00 PM
From: AHale	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Is an Intel preannouncement now unlikely?