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Slashback: Reconciliation, Passportation, Inflation
Reconciliation among comics and gnomes. CaptainCarrot writes: "In today's Penny Arcade newspost, Tycho continues the discussion on Scott McCloud's piece on micropayments. He has moderated his tone considerably from his original rant on the subject, and offered his apologies for, as he puts it, having misjudged McCloud. During their phone conversations, the two apparently came to some meeting of the minds. Here's yesterdays Slashback on the topic, and the two prior relevant discussions."
On a similar note, in response to the recent story on Gnome losing its 2.0 package maintainer, an Anonymous Coward wrote:"Here's the first chapter in the rest of the story. In short, the guy who quit, returned."
Perhaps they'll be offering student visas. Mike Schiraldi writes: "MSDN users aren't the only ones who have to use Passport. When i bought a Dell computer this January, it came with a "free" (i.e. included in the price of the machine) year of MSN. I went to set up POP, and found out that MSN no longer supports POP for new subscribers. We have to use a secret Passport protocol that only the new Outlook Express can speak. I fought with customer service, and spoke with many levels of tech support, and believe me, they're not budging."
Is this because a Real Doll would be too heavy? Hanford writes: "Looks like this checklist for a simulated Mars mission includes a few comforts from Earth. Check out the last two items. Remember this is from nasa.gov :)"
And since you won't be on camera nearly as much as the astronauts in the various earth-orbiting devices are, this might be more practical than aloft. Remember those vinyl patches, too.
... and the real story is this:
We have 3 kinds of MSN:
1. Just plain old MSN
2. DellNet by MSN
3. Compaq.net by MSN
Every user of any of them starts off with a POP3 email account, MSN version 5.4 and lower uses POP3, MSN version 6.0 and higher (MSN Explorer, which DellNet users get installed on the system) will convert the POP3 account to web based (hotmail basically) if the user logs into his account through the software.
ALL web based email accounts CAN BE ROLLED BACK TO POP3 but ONLY over the phone by technical support, however, we are *not allowed* to do it for anyone who has never used 5.4 or an earlier version of the software.
This is how you get your account rolled back:
Call up tech support, tell them you were using 5.0 of the software and were using pop3 email but installed the MSN Explorer and didn't like it. Say you want to go back to pop3 and you saw, (these are the magic words right here) on support services, that if you called they can roll it back, if they ask you if you have DellNet by MSN say *no* and they will roll it back to pop3.
Which would be even more of a real disincentive if that expulsion involved an airlock, halfway to Mars. (Though expulsion above the Artic circle is no joke, either.)
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"Ain't no right way to do a wrong thing."
When I saw the department thingy under the headline, I immediately thought "Flash file extension" and not "single white female." Is this as bad as I imagine it to be?
Should have read (might as well go all the way):
Funny, you think that on a real mission they'd want to conserve oxygen, not waste it on those dolls... (Robert Schimmel joke: "Inflatable love doll - she never has a headache! Yeah, but you do after blowing her up...) I wonder if they have NASA-approved sex toys...?
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If you don't like the service that Microsoft is offering--that is, if you want POP3 access and they won't give it to you--then don't use their service.
Sheesh, it's not like Microsoft already has a monopoly on email.
So you got a year's free access, and you feel you have to use it? If your computer came with a year's supply of dog food, would you eat it just because you don't have a dog?
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All but God can prove this sentence true.
Big shock. Why should anyone care if Microsoft requires you to use their products when you use their ISP? Where are the articles about AOL requiring you to use their client software to get mail?
Look, there is plenty to get irritated about with Microsoft. They are very predatory with their licensing and the way they bully their partners. Wouldn't it make more sense to attack the things that are almost universally decried rather than attacking everything MS does and look "anti-microsoft"?
People shouldn't hate microsoft because of who they are but rather hate the specific things they do are wrong. It's counterproductive to seek out issues that will detract from the primary point that Microsoft uses licensing, bundling, and bullying to keep its suppliers in line and crush the competitors.
Again, this is no different than what AOL does.