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Microsoft to Continue Office on Mac
LiMikeTnux wrote to mention a CNN article giving details about the five year agreement now in place between Microsoft and Apple to keep Office alive on the Mac platform. From the article: "Though Apple clearly benefits from having the widely-used Office software available to its users, it may seem less obvious what Microsoft stands to gain from continuing its relationship. But according to Greg DeMichillie, a senior analyst with Directions on Microsoft, an independent consulting and analysis firm focusing specifically on Microsoft, the business is still a profitable one for Microsoft. While it's not a huge part of Microsoft's business, given the company's sheer scale, 'Apple's 3 to 4 percent market share doesn't hurt them either,' DeMichillie said. 'Also, to have them be seen going out of their way to hurt a competing operating system is not really helpful from an anti-trust perspective.'"
What I really want to know is — just who is this eldavojohn and where is he getting all these amazingly insightful comments from? If you read his Slashdot User Info page, you'll find many pieces of well-written prose, instead of the usual monkey-typed comments (such as this one). I know this is just speculation, but I smell a good writer here.
Phoenix, Boston, Little Rock, see a pattern?
These past few days, my employer has failed to utilize me sufficiently; therefore, I focused some effort on Slashdot.
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My goal was to gain moderator status in two days. I guess I've failed.
I've constructed a Dr. Suess quote that culminates the results of my findings over the past two days:
The only dogs
Who get to have mods
Are the dogs
Who slobber CowboyNeal's knob.
I appreciate your comments on my writing ability but I warn you that I am but a stupid farmer boy who wandered into the city one fateful day
My work here is dung.
Dunno about getting you mod status quickly but after a little while that recipe will get you mod points at least weekly, usually every day or two. That happened to me essentially by accident, since I don't give a flying fandango how ignorami react to what I post and it turned out that a lot of people like it.
Then if you stray into a forbidden topic, post anything that sounds like it's from the wrong political party, casts to much doubt onto the Holy Creed of Evolutionism, could be construed as racist, gender-biassed et al if you squinched up your eyes just right (I have friends from all cultures, races etc), something which mocks conventional cosmologies, or pick any one of a dozen or so categories that I regularly trespass in, and sooner or later somebody will gather his furry little mates together and declare a jihad against you. Your posts will be moderated into the ground left and right, regardless of their value or topic (it's actually worse if they're good posts, because then they got modded up and down a lot, the nett effect being that you lose more points than if you started at 2 or 3 and simply lost them), and your buffer of 50 karma points will dry up like polystyrene before a blowtorch. Within hours, your account will be blocked from posting, and will remain that way for a random number of weeks. The administrators will refuse to do anything about that, despite your karma having been jammed against the stops since about six months after SlashDot opened their doors (I was up over 280 points when they put the karma cap on). You will be treated worse than a convicted sex offender (in fact, same would probably get modded up for sharing his "interesting" experiences).
It will take about a month after your account is unlocked again to first get mod points, then business as usual.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing