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Did Amazon Induce Vista's Premature Birth?
theodp writes "A recent Amazon SEC filing sheds light on the puzzling departure of Microsoft Sr. VP Brian Valentine in Sept. 2006. Valentine is the Gen. George Patton-like figure charged with pushing Vista developers, who dumped the still not-ready-for-prime-time OS into RC1 status as he bolted for a new gig at Amazon. Having repeatedly assured everyone that Valentine was staying with the company post-Vista, Microsoft backpedaled and explained that Valentine decided to leave since the company had shipped a near-final version of Vista. Not so. Although analysts fell for the PR line, it seems Valentine had actually signed an Employment Agreement way back in June calling for him to be on board at Amazon on Sept. 11 if he wanted to pick up a $1.7M signing bonus, $150K base salary, another $500K bonus, and 400K shares of Amazon stock (now worth almost $30M). Who says you have to shell out $999.95 for MS-Project to come up with accurate planned completion dates?"
> Whoa....wait. What are you saying? That a person should only be making enough money to basically...
>get by...and if you make much more than that...it is a bad thing?????
Yes, that is exactly what they mean. And by implication they consider themselves such superior beings that THEY should be given the power to make the decision as to exactly how much you should make and to remove the excess to dispose of by their superior, more enlightened you see, wisdom to those who don't have 'enough'.. again defined by their superior wisdom. In other words, a 'shepherd' type Democrat.
Democrats only come in two basic types you see:
Sheep, who know (believe) themselves to be helpless, unable to feed or to cloth themselves in an uncaring world run by wicked greedy Republicans... except for their mighty protectors. They take care of their every need and all they ask in return is them taking a few minutes every year or two to go vote for the Democrat.
Shepherds are the elite (self selected of course) higher beings, deriving their self esteem (and valuing said self esteem above all else) from their certainty that they are the select, elect and chosen leaders, without whose enlightened leadership the poor masses of misfits would resort to cannibalism or simply sit and starve in their own feces.
Of course in any country where the shepherds actually achieve power the result is starvation, poverty and mass graves.
Democrat delenda est
no what is unbelievable is that the average uptime of a windows box is 11days And yet for some reason you have been running yours on pure magic for years? Doesn't matter what hardware you have if the OS is still buggy. You can say what you want but its pretty obvious you are full of it
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No what is pretty obvious is that you don't know dick about computers and don't have the ability to keep XP running.
Thats not Microsoft's fault.
Gone!