On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 andy at theasis.com wrote: > > statistics *never* imply causality, nor guarantee outcomes. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > That's not true ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > that is. I'm not going to argue the point. Look in any statistics book at your convenience. What I said is provably correct, so I have no bones to pick about it.~ > I've had poopy experience with Compaqs, but nigh on 2 years ago. > out of 12 systems delivered, 3 were DOA, one had no CPU in it. > That's where the problem started. I have apparently been the exception that proves the rule. I have a Compaq that works OK, but it's a home desktop sort (Presario?). Even though it works OK, it has no upgrade path, so that bites. Cheers, Phil M -- Lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org