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Microsoft Laptop Recipient Auctioning Laptop
Salvance writes "While most bloggers who received the controversial Vista powered Acer from Microsoft are keeping them, Laughing Squid has decided to auction off his free laptop from Microsoft and donate all proceeds to the The Electronic Frontier Foundation. (EFF) He saw this as a great opportunity to support a worthy cause, and some other bloggers are following suit. What's funny is that Microsoft is now backpedaling and telling bloggers to send back the laptops. Do they even have a legal right to do so?"
Only three things are certain; death, taxes, and apocryphal quotations - Ben Franklin.
Just a day ago we were all jealous and against anyone who'd dare to keep a laptop from Microsoft, and already we have to defend them? *BOOM* Good God, I can't figure out how I should blame Microsoft now. Please help me out, folks.
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
The real news here is how snobbish, foppish and whiny that blogger is. Is this what the blogosphere is like?? Is it really ruled by Mac-obsessed almost-hipsters with unwise facial hair and diagonal black-and-white photos of themselves? Do they really whinge on about how they're too clever to use Vista and how their webcasting startup will change the face of the Internet (sidebar on the right)?
Is this it, after 10 years of evolution?? Nathan Barley writ small, throwing a hissy fit because the wording of the letter on a review item was vague? THAT is a blogger important enough to merit unsolicited review junk??
Yeesh.
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
>I hate MS as much as anyone, but there's no need to make stuff up.
You must be new here.
If you piss of MSFT, you get a Ferrari Laptop.
If you piss Steve off really well, you get the chair.
Let us hope so, otherwise he read that joke at least a million times.
Thus raising the bar for most incomprehensible and absurd "car = software" analogy.
I thought that the open-source community was suposed to be better.. There are no fan-boy-fanatics, (RMS aside)
I have mod points and I am not afraid to use them.
I pissed off Ferrari once, and they sent me a Microsoft sports car. I had a feeling they were trying to kill me when I was doing 200 KM/H on a German highway and my front windshield windows turned blue.
Well, mostly not. Except for Firefox zealots. And people who refuse to consider anything but Linux. Oh, and don't forget distro wars. Should I be using KDE or Gnome? Vi or Emacs?
Interesting? Come on mods, this one is funny.
How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?
someone realizes they are loaded with elite double secret spyware to allow M$ to keep tabs on bloggers.
And it never gets old. I, for one, welcome our joke-repeating..
Ah, forget it. In Soviet Russia, something or other.
Vi, obviously. Emacs is the tool of the devil.
THE DEVIL, I TELL YOU!
"I've spent my whole life figuring out crazy ways to do things. It'll work." -- Montgomery Scott, "Relics"
Hold that thought for a minute while I go sell my Apple stock.
"I've spent my whole life figuring out crazy ways to do things. It'll work." -- Montgomery Scott, "Relics"
It's time for Vi and Emacs users to sign a truce.
Only when these two camps come together can we truly begin to ridicule and disparage the users of Joe and Nano
I suddenly want to make a bumper sticker that says "My other car is an analogy"
Sometimes, life itself is sarcasm...
surely
In Soviet Russia, other or something
Travelling forward in time at a rate of 1 second per second.
In Soviet Russia, joke gives up on you?
*tap* *tap* Is this thing on?
"You will soon be more aware of your growing awareness." - My first recursive fortune cookie!
I ctrl-K all over your comment.
"Piter, too, is dead."
On Soviet Slashdot, the unbelievably old joke ends you.
My little site.
These are not the zealots you are looking for.
I think you underestimate just how much I just dont care.