I got around not having a valid registration of vista: I select the NI (not installed) Mode. This mode comes with every non registered version of vista, but is not well known. The benefits are that you get unlimited access to the web and your files, your computer runs faster, your software choices are unlimited, and you don't have to put up with annoying adware. Since I've switched to NI mode, I've been more productive and had more time to spend on./ because I spend less time dealing with the vista bugs. One shouldn't have to do this, to have an obedient OS.
The GP says:
I would definitely vouch for that. In my eyes the seller's only business with leaving you feedback is how you payed for the item. Was it timely, was it the correct amount, etc? To which you reply:
I disagree. I mostly a buyer through ebay, although I do have the occasional sale, and the deal isn't done until the buyer says the deal is done.
The seller has the money. But only the buyer knows that the money has been paid and the item arrived and there wasn't any damage in transit and the description was accurate to the buyer's satisfaction and... You didn't offer an argument - the GP is still right.
So let's try this one more time: what else should a seller care about except whether he/she received the money in full and in a timely fashion?
I have many friends that lived in Iran at the time of the Shah. I have seen movies they or their parents made, and I can see girls not having to wear headscarves, and in fact Iran looked very much like any European country, with young people dressing in those awful 70's things, short skirts and jeans etc. The best part was that religious minorities were completely free to live their community lives, and nobody was discriminated because of it. After the islamic revolution, members of minor religious communities like the Zoroastrians, the Bahai's and others (Christians and Jews were left alone, fair is fair) were persecuted - which means, imprisoned and often killed. To this day, the persecution is ongoing, albeit at a lower intensity. Still members of those communities are being thrown out of universities, imprisoned even if they are more high-profile (like restaurant owners or industrialists).
I'd urge you to have a brief glance at the story of Mona to put my words in some perspective. I am talking about real people, people that had to leave their families and friends to survive. The story above is a sad one, about a young girl sentenced to death for not wanting to convert to Islam.
During the Shah, in Iran civic liberties have been very broad, broader than ever before in the history of Persia. The very fact that the parents of my friends were free to express their religious beliefs makes me fond of the Shah. At least to the point of expressing my disagreement with you calling him "asshole".
Jus One Example:
So my question to you is, "Do you think that I want someone in that office (Whichever one it is) who is deliberately attempting to deceive me?"
Even if you don't answer this question, I hope you think about it the next time someone asks you a question.
Ron Paul campaign: The American people should expect clear and direct answers to their questions. Not only have I always strived to clearly state my position on issues, but my voting record backs up my commitment to the free-market, limited government philosophy I espouse on the campaign trail. What the fsck has giving a straight answer have to do with commitment to free market and limited government? Do they (Ron Paul campaign) have such a short attention span, or do they expect that their voters have? I felt like someone spat on me, when I read those answers.
I have seen this sort of BS in all of the answers. Either Ron Paul doesn't care enough to think about these answers himself and lets his minions do the job (but they did it SO poortly!), or his logic device is fried and severely compromised.
Excellent question. And the answer is: because otherwise your users won't know what a great thing they got - they wouldn't notice a damn thing at all. But if it's all nicely wrapped in bells, whistles and shiny ribbons with bright letters reading "Vista SP1", then they will have that warm and fuzzy feeling of having something new, valuable, BETTER.
My motto in life is "I don't care who you are, I care only about what you do." and translated to the inarwebs, "I don't care who you are, I only care what you say.". I try to dissociate the person from their message. It's called being open-minded.
I'm moderating a specialty (antique books of some kind) group on Yahoo Groups. I'd hate it see transformed the way hotmail transformed after Microsoft seized it (turned it into commercial manure, comparatively).
Well, I imagine they'll have about the current "traffic" Yahoo has currently. That's more than a fifth of the internet eyeballs. That's not too bad. However, I do agree with you: if MS does something to Yahoo (and anything they'd do to Yahoo would be bad), they would lose their current position pretty quickly. It's arguable what MS would/should do to increase their marketshare, but hurting Google would seem like their first goal.
Microsoft has what Yahoo alone doesn't: an almost limitless supply of cash. MS can afford to offer deeply discounted prices to advertisers in order to to eat up Google's marketshare. After they "cut off the air supply" (this is a well-known Microsoft expression), they can start making money from Yahoo. It may take several years, but Microsoft is in no hurry, as long as they can continue selling whatever OS they produce.
More examples: Bought the company that made FoxPRO, and turned it into shite. For Active Directory they bought Banyan (maker of Vines). Bought Visio - couldn't even develop their own fscking network diagramming software?!
So, Microsoft is using its massive cash reserves to monopolize one more market? I for one hope they fail. Microsoft just can't seem to make a dime unless they utterly dominate a market. What next, genetic engineering? I heard that's the next big thing, but I'd hate to have MS meddle there, as well. The broken DVD players on the Xbox 360 just make me think they'd do a half-buttocked job at anything.
Seriously though: if MS overtakes the online business, there's no stopping them. They'll make back the $40 billion in no time and then some, and will point their greedy sight at yet another profitable market. Given enough money you can monopolize any market.
I love this post. I laughed so hard when I read the last part. And it's so true! I am half italian and this part of italian mentality is very well known to me. See Napoli these days: succumbing under a pile of trash, people protest and burn the junk, but then pretty soon they go home for dinner and eat a nice plate of pasta ca pummarola n'coppa and all is fine and dandy, and nothing will improve.
Imagine trash on the streets of Finland or Japan. Hard, isn't it?
photobucket has been excellent for me, and I am a huge sceptic of anything online. Very satisfied with the bandwidth, unobtrusive inclusion in threads and webpages (you get the picture without commercials - just the picture). I find flickr to be significantly slower.
I think you can count that as captatio benevolentiae [wikipedia.org] of the author, just as a device to get MS to listen to him or to sound more balanced to some audience. We call that sucking up, over here.
If I was buying votes left and right all across Europe to have my broken non-standard approved (and I don't mean "trying to"), to the point that those bribed to vote Microsoft are now causing the standards body to be disfunctional by not attending other sessions - after all, the bribe was only for voting for OOXML - well, if I did such a blatantly illegal thing for which I might still pay dearly, I should at the very least lay low and STFU! Doesn't Microsoft think IBM could very well retort in kind, but this time with some fscking well-documented and proven cases, and just for the heck of it sue Microsoft for corruption?
I bet IBM has at least a dozen lawyers at any time, idling and just waiting to be given a task just like this. IBM's lawyers have a certain fame (should I say "notoriety"?), too.
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I lived through the Hotmail takeover. I know Hotmail since almost its inception.
Microsoft transformed it into a smoldering pile of ad crap - compared to the original Hotmail.
So, is Yahoo the first and only company that dared to say "No" to Microsoft? I think it is.
Does anyone have insider or otherwise info on how much more rulesets does the 45nm t ech have, compared to the 65nm?
I would send him/her the invoice, for no other reason but because this person still seems to keep in touch.
The seller has the money. But only the buyer knows that the money has been paid and the item arrived and there wasn't any damage in transit and the description was accurate to the buyer's satisfaction and... You didn't offer an argument - the GP is still right.
So let's try this one more time: what else should a seller care about except whether he/she received the money in full and in a timely fashion?
I have many friends that lived in Iran at the time of the Shah. I have seen movies they or their parents made, and I can see girls not having to wear headscarves, and in fact Iran looked very much like any European country, with young people dressing in those awful 70's things, short skirts and jeans etc. The best part was that religious minorities were completely free to live their community lives, and nobody was discriminated because of it. After the islamic revolution, members of minor religious communities like the Zoroastrians, the Bahai's and others (Christians and Jews were left alone, fair is fair) were persecuted - which means, imprisoned and often killed. To this day, the persecution is ongoing, albeit at a lower intensity. Still members of those communities are being thrown out of universities, imprisoned even if they are more high-profile (like restaurant owners or industrialists).
I'd urge you to have a brief glance at the story of Mona to put my words in some perspective. I am talking about real people, people that had to leave their families and friends to survive. The story above is a sad one, about a young girl sentenced to death for not wanting to convert to Islam.
During the Shah, in Iran civic liberties have been very broad, broader than ever before in the history of Persia. The very fact that the parents of my friends were free to express their religious beliefs makes me fond of the Shah. At least to the point of expressing my disagreement with you calling him "asshole".
Even if you don't answer this question, I hope you think about it the next time someone asks you a question.
Ron Paul campaign:
The American people should expect clear and direct answers to their questions. Not only have I always strived to clearly state my position on issues, but my voting record backs up my commitment to the free-market, limited government philosophy I espouse on the campaign trail. What the fsck has giving a straight answer have to do with commitment to free market and limited government? Do they (Ron Paul campaign) have such a short attention span, or do they expect that their voters have? I felt like someone spat on me, when I read those answers.
I have seen this sort of BS in all of the answers. Either Ron Paul doesn't care enough to think about these answers himself and lets his minions do the job (but they did it SO poortly!), or his logic device is fried and severely compromised.
Excellent question. And the answer is: because otherwise your users won't know what a great thing they got - they wouldn't notice a damn thing at all. But if it's all nicely wrapped in bells, whistles and shiny ribbons with bright letters reading "Vista SP1", then they will have that warm and fuzzy feeling of having something new, valuable, BETTER.
My motto in life is "I don't care who you are, I care only about what you do." and translated to the inarwebs, "I don't care who you are, I only care what you say.". I try to dissociate the person from their message. It's called being open-minded.
I didn't say "pool". I said "supply". Like, more than $1 billion/month.
I really did try to make this point ("supply") in the original post.
I'm moderating a specialty (antique books of some kind) group on Yahoo Groups. I'd hate it see transformed the way hotmail transformed after Microsoft seized it (turned it into commercial manure, comparatively).
Well, I imagine they'll have about the current "traffic" Yahoo has currently. That's more than a fifth of the internet eyeballs. That's not too bad. However, I do agree with you: if MS does something to Yahoo (and anything they'd do to Yahoo would be bad), they would lose their current position pretty quickly. It's arguable what MS would/should do to increase their marketshare, but hurting Google would seem like their first goal.
Microsoft has what Yahoo alone doesn't: an almost limitless supply of cash. MS can afford to offer deeply discounted prices to advertisers in order to to eat up Google's marketshare. After they "cut off the air supply" (this is a well-known Microsoft expression), they can start making money from Yahoo. It may take several years, but Microsoft is in no hurry, as long as they can continue selling whatever OS they produce.
India and Russia have a long history of excellent relations, especially in arms trade.
More examples:
Bought the company that made FoxPRO, and turned it into shite.
For Active Directory they bought Banyan (maker of Vines).
Bought Visio - couldn't even develop their own fscking network diagramming software?!
Overrated? Microsoft drones scouring /. I guess.
So, Microsoft is using its massive cash reserves to monopolize one more market? I for one hope they fail. Microsoft just can't seem to make a dime unless they utterly dominate a market. What next, genetic engineering? I heard that's the next big thing, but I'd hate to have MS meddle there, as well. The broken DVD players on the Xbox 360 just make me think they'd do a half-buttocked job at anything.
Seriously though: if MS overtakes the online business, there's no stopping them. They'll make back the $40 billion in no time and then some, and will point their greedy sight at yet another profitable market. Given enough money you can monopolize any market.
If that was true (not saying it isn't or is), wouldn't it be smarter to NOT cut all three cables at once? You know, so as to not attract suspicion?
I love this post. I laughed so hard when I read the last part. And it's so true! I am half italian and this part of italian mentality is very well known to me. See Napoli these days: succumbing under a pile of trash, people protest and burn the junk, but then pretty soon they go home for dinner and eat a nice plate of pasta ca pummarola n'coppa and all is fine and dandy, and nothing will improve.
Imagine trash on the streets of Finland or Japan. Hard, isn't it?
Pirate Bay is rumored to move its operations to Italy.
photobucket has been excellent for me, and I am a huge sceptic of anything online. Very satisfied with the bandwidth, unobtrusive inclusion in threads and webpages (you get the picture without commercials - just the picture). I find flickr to be significantly slower.
If I was buying votes left and right all across Europe to have my broken non-standard approved (and I don't mean "trying to"), to the point that those bribed to vote Microsoft are now causing the standards body to be disfunctional by not attending other sessions - after all, the bribe was only for voting for OOXML - well, if I did such a blatantly illegal thing for which I might still pay dearly, I should at the very least lay low and STFU! Doesn't Microsoft think IBM could very well retort in kind, but this time with some fscking well-documented and proven cases, and just for the heck of it sue Microsoft for corruption?
I bet IBM has at least a dozen lawyers at any time, idling and just waiting to be given a task just like this. IBM's lawyers have a certain fame (should I say "notoriety"?), too.