Back, many years ago. When I was a kid. I remember our t.v. would go on the fritz and my dad would put in the car and to the repair shop. When he would get there, the thing would work fine. So he would bring it back home and comment about taking it for a ride when it wouldn't work. He would say "Take it for a ride and it will work fine". Well, he didn't take the vaccume cleaner for a ride when it quit. He tried to repair it in the middle of the living room floor and dropped a screw down into the machine. He couldn't get to the screw because the case was permanently rivited together. He turned it upside down trying to shake the screw out, for what reason I couldn't tell you. All of a sudden, he was frustrated with messing with the POS. Set it down on the floor, ripped the chord out of it with his bare hands, opened the door and threw it out into the front yard. After he cooled down, we had a good laugh about the whole thing saying, Well, that one didn't get to take a ride, it flew.
So the same goes with technology. I have a three year warrenty on this computer, but with designed obsolesence, I will have to replace this POS in a couple of years. Who knows if it will fly or ride? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />