http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: Do you really need a computer? en Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:43:04 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/do-you-really-need-a-computer#post-45237 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:26:39 +0000 whs 45237@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>This is an excellent story with a lot of truth. Those PC's are addictive. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/do-you-really-need-a-computer#post-44904 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:17:28 +0000 techgranny 44904@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I'm still trying to balance the great life I had before the computer and the great life I've had after the computer. I like tomatoe selling and e-mail:) </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/do-you-really-need-a-computer#post-44831 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:39:00 +0000 jack7h3r1pp3r 44831@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>but me on the other hand would be broke if i didn't have a pc :) </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/do-you-really-need-a-computer#post-44815 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:58:16 +0000 raphoenix 44815@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>PUPPYDOG,</p> <p>A very good tale with a deeper meaning if one ponders upon it.</p> <p>Moral number (4) is most certainly true.</p> <p>Kindest Regards,<br /> Rick P. &#9829; :) </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/do-you-really-need-a-computer#post-44763 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:20:39 +0000 ScottW 44763@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Ha! Why do I feel like this should have ended with "SEND THIS E-MAIL TO EVERYONE THAT YOU KNOW!!!!!!! If you don't, then all your friends and family will break their backs mopping floors for life and die penniless!!!!"</p> <p>Or how about this, for a subject line: "Get Rich Qick $elling Tomtoes!!" </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/do-you-really-need-a-computer#post-44738 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:46:00 +0000 Aleeve 44738@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Wow </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/do-you-really-need-a-computer#post-44727 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:54:03 +0000 PUPPYDOG 44727@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Had this via email a few months ago, just thought i would share it with you all.</p> <p>Do You Really Need a Computer?</p> <p>An unemployed man goes to apply for a job with<br /> Microsoft as a janitor. </p> <p>The manager there arranges for him to take an aptitude test<br /> (Section:Floors,sweeping and cleaning). </p> <p>After the test, the manager says, "You will be employed at minimum wage,<br /> $5.15 an hour. Let me have your e-mail address, so that I can send you a<br /> form to complete and tell you where to report for work on your first day. </p> <p>Taken aback, the man protests that he has neither a computer nor an e-mail address.</p> <p>To this the MS manager replies, "Well, then, that means that you<br /> virtually don't exist and can therefore hardly expect to be<br /> employed.Stunned, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn and having only<br /> $10 in his wallet, he decides to buy a 25 lb flat of tomatoes at the<br /> supermarket. Within less than 2 hours, he sells all the tomatoes<br /> individually at 100% profit. Repeating the process several times more that<br /> day, he ends up with almost $100 before going to sleep that night. </p> <p>And thus it dawns on him that he could quite easily make a living selling<br /> tomatoes. Getting up early every day and going to bed late, he multiplies<br /> his profits quickly. After a short time he acquires a cart to transport<br /> several dozen boxes of tomatoes, only to have to trade it in again so that<br /> he can buy a pick-up truck to support his expanding business. </p> <p>By the end of the second year, he is the owner of a fleet of pick-up trucks<br /> and manages a staff of a hundred former unemployed people, all selling<br /> tomatoes. </p> <p>Planning for the future of his wife and children, he decides to buy some<br /> life insurance. Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picks an<br /> insurance plan to fit his new circumstances. At the end of the telephone<br /> conversation, the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order to<br /> send the final documents electronically. </p> <p>When the man replies that he has no e-mail, the adviser is stunned,<br /> "What, you don't have e-mail? How on earth have you managed to amass such<br /> wealth without the Internet, e-mail and e-commerce? Just imagine where you<br /> would be now, if you had been connected to the Internet from<br /> the very start!" </p> <p>After a moment of thought, the tomato millionaire replied, "Why, of<br /> course! I would be a floor cleaner at Microsoft!" </p> <p>Moral of this story: </p> <p>1. The Internet, e-mail and e-commerce do not need to rule your life.<br /> 2. If you don't have e-mail, but work hard, you can still become a<br /> millionaire.<br /> 3. Seeing that you got this story via e-mail, you're probably closer to<br /> becoming a janitor than you are to becoming a millionaire.<br /> 4. If you do have a computer and e-mail, you have already been taken to<br /> the cleaners by Microsoft. </p>