While I don't believe any slashdotter would actually fill out the application, I thought it be wise to post that this site is a Scam. Both sites are registered by domainsbyproxy.com that masks the actual domain owner. Plus, as seen at these pages:
http://t11a.com/services/http://t11a.com/partners/
The website has been hacked.
I dissagree with that statement. Google does not do everything right, and Microsoft doesn't do everything wrong. Microsoft has some good products out there, they would have to be otherwise people wouldn't buy them. Also, I will not ever install google desktop search on any of my PC's again as it has brought 3 of them to a hault at various times (memory leaks). I wouldn't mind a Google operating system as it could help inspire other OS's and competition is always a good thing in my opinion, but that doesn't mean as soon as one comes out I would quickly switch to it.
I've gotten so angry about not including recovery disks any more. Here's what happened to me:
I purchased an HP laptop and expected to get recover disks inside the box. It didn't say one way or another on the box so I assumed they were in there. Well, of course they weren't which made me a little upset. Luckily they included a program in which you could create recovery disks that would copy a partition on the hard drive onto a few DVD's for you. Alternatively you could boot directly into recovery mode which would boot that recovery partition. So, great, I went through the process of creating the DVD's just to realize that it failed to properly write to a DVD which turned into a coaster. Once you make recovery disks once, failed or not, you cannot make another set. So, I don't have recovery disks and I have a partition using 30 GB's of a 80 GB hard drive thus effectively giving me only 50 GB of storage when I paid for an 80 GB drive. Now I'm pissed! I called up HP support and told them the whole situation and told them I, nor my company would never buy another HP product again unless they ship me a free set of $35 installation disks. I also spoke to his manager and gave him a piece of my mind in regards to their recovery disk policy. After a few hours on the phone (which wasn't work the $35 disks) I recieved the disks in the mail for free. I didn't do it just to get them free, as my time was worth much more than $35. I did it out of principle and if enough people voice their oppinion, perhaps HP will change their policies.
Here's for hopping for a better future full of free recovery CD's!
Tell that to all the flash developers out there that are "locking in" Adobe into the market. Personally, I'd much rather support Microsoft than Adobe. At least Microsoft gives incentives to developers and education. Seriously, do you think Adobe would ever release a "free" version of flash studio to develop simple applications? Not even close! Microsoft has the express editions of visual studio that allows anybody who has an interest in programming to learn their technologies and languages for absolutely free. Yes, I know there is eclipse for JAVA that is a free IDE, but that's about it.
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While I don't believe any slashdotter would actually fill out the application, I thought it be wise to post that this site is a Scam. Both sites are registered by domainsbyproxy.com that masks the actual domain owner. Plus, as seen at these pages: http://t11a.com/services/ http://t11a.com/partners/ The website has been hacked.
I dissagree with that statement. Google does not do everything right, and Microsoft doesn't do everything wrong. Microsoft has some good products out there, they would have to be otherwise people wouldn't buy them. Also, I will not ever install google desktop search on any of my PC's again as it has brought 3 of them to a hault at various times (memory leaks). I wouldn't mind a Google operating system as it could help inspire other OS's and competition is always a good thing in my opinion, but that doesn't mean as soon as one comes out I would quickly switch to it.
I've gotten so angry about not including recovery disks any more. Here's what happened to me: I purchased an HP laptop and expected to get recover disks inside the box. It didn't say one way or another on the box so I assumed they were in there. Well, of course they weren't which made me a little upset. Luckily they included a program in which you could create recovery disks that would copy a partition on the hard drive onto a few DVD's for you. Alternatively you could boot directly into recovery mode which would boot that recovery partition. So, great, I went through the process of creating the DVD's just to realize that it failed to properly write to a DVD which turned into a coaster. Once you make recovery disks once, failed or not, you cannot make another set. So, I don't have recovery disks and I have a partition using 30 GB's of a 80 GB hard drive thus effectively giving me only 50 GB of storage when I paid for an 80 GB drive. Now I'm pissed! I called up HP support and told them the whole situation and told them I, nor my company would never buy another HP product again unless they ship me a free set of $35 installation disks. I also spoke to his manager and gave him a piece of my mind in regards to their recovery disk policy. After a few hours on the phone (which wasn't work the $35 disks) I recieved the disks in the mail for free. I didn't do it just to get them free, as my time was worth much more than $35. I did it out of principle and if enough people voice their oppinion, perhaps HP will change their policies. Here's for hopping for a better future full of free recovery CD's!
Oh, they are working on this http://www.dash.net/
Tell that to all the flash developers out there that are "locking in" Adobe into the market. Personally, I'd much rather support Microsoft than Adobe. At least Microsoft gives incentives to developers and education. Seriously, do you think Adobe would ever release a "free" version of flash studio to develop simple applications? Not even close! Microsoft has the express editions of visual studio that allows anybody who has an interest in programming to learn their technologies and languages for absolutely free. Yes, I know there is eclipse for JAVA that is a free IDE, but that's about it.