Why is it inferior? Because it has the Microsoft name attached to it? I would invite you to take the blind search test to see which search engine is really the best for you: http://blindsearch.fejus.com/
I did quite a few searches on there, about 90% were won by Google, the rest were won by Yahoo, not a single search did I find to be better on Bing.
It's just Mac & Linux users can, on occasion, manage to do something without a GUI. I'm not saying all Windows users can't, but that huge slice of market share Windows users brag about all the time includes a lot of really dumb people.
Something just bothers me about the "decision engine" thing. I'd like to think people are smart enough to make their own decisions and not follow whatever their search engine tells them to do, but for some reason I doubt that is the case. I think the major reason people click on more adds when using Bing is that those of us who Google already have some idea of what we are looking for, those of us who use Bing are looking for someone or something to make those choices for us. As for me, even if Bing was the best search engine ever invented, it gives me a bloody headache to look at it.
You mean like EA Hasbro? Wonder what would happen if people decided to stop buying the crap they churn out as they milk the IP of every company they've bought.
You sound like Dell Tech Support there. Tell them the laptop won't even post, they say reinstall windows. Tell them not only does my computer not have windows on it, but if it won't get past post it isn't going to boot form the CD. Tell them exactly what is wrong with it and ask them if it will void my warranty to fix it myself, get transferred three times before I just hang up and fix it. I swear, if they weren't so good about replacing parts when you buy ADP....
Have you never spoken to anyone's customer service? They hardly ever know anything about anything, and if something is as rare as this I doubt it's going to be something on a post-it tacked to their monitors. Amazon CSRs have no clue why people's eBooks won't download after a kindle upgrade, Dell CSRs have no clue about anything, and Microsoft CSRs are only there to tell you it's your fault and you should buy another one. Why is it so shocking that Apple CSRs don't know about the fraction of a percent of iPods that have caught fire?
Tax breaks for the hummer drivers, extra tax for the people in hybrids, and that's not even taking in to account the invasion of privacy that takes us one more step towards 1984. I wonder what they will do to the people who outright refuse to allow one of these devices to be installed in their vehicles. Probably have them installed in all new cars, but I won't drive anything newer than mid '70s anyway, so they have to force me to install it in my vehicles. Though with the CJ-5, Nova & F-350 I'd be getting a great tax break paying by the mile rather than the gallon.
/me wonders if they strip all the identifying data out of the office files.
I can just see the first kid who has a teacher open the corrupted file anyways, find the metadata, and bust the little bugger for turning in something he didn't create.
The "World's End" Facebook App. Can't say it's one of my favorites, but it allows you to send invitations to other players without "friending" them, which is absolutely necessary if you want to keep all but the most shameless of friend-whores occupied for an extended period of time.
Well, MS will only offer this for free until they've killed their competition, then they'll take over that subscription market and get all the money Norton & Symantec were raking in before they decided to smother their competition. Is there any other reason MS does a decent job of something? Once they've killed off their competitors it's back to the joke these types of products once were, after all, why try when you're the only game in town?
Just give us a few years, all the guns will be gone, then nobody would have any trouble occupying the US once the military and police were dealt with. The second amendment is there for a reason, too bad so many of us seeem to think giving up those rights for the illusion of safety is a good idea.
What we should do is pirate the material and paypal the content creator. Let the distributors go bankrupt, they deserve it, after all they are cheating the content creators far more than all the pirates of the world combined. The RIAA, MPAA, ASCAP and all the other groups like them do not deserve anything from anyone. Nothing is created, or added to the existing creation (unless you count DRM and Lawsuits) by them, and they take the lion's share of the profits for doing nothing worthwhile.
Madagascar closed their borders before any other country even tried to hand out masks, so I was left with one little untouched island as the rest of the planet was completely wiped out.
I salute anyone who can destroy that pesky country. I've played several games so far, even tailoring the disease to spread there, and they always close their borders before I can get an infection there.
Europe population = 0
Looks like I made it to lethal too fast, only managed to spread a little before people started closing down the ports. I'm going to try again, work on getting infection rates up before I start mutating it into Ebola on steroids.
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Don't you know anything? Tin Foil only acts as an amplifier. They just want you to think it will protect you so you have a false sense of security.
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It's a simple edit, nothing altogether that difficult about it, and much less time consuming than removing IE from XP.
You're giving people far to much credit there, users of Microsoft services are exactly as stupid as the general population.
Why is it inferior? Because it has the Microsoft name attached to it? I would invite you to take the blind search test to see which search engine is really the best for you: http://blindsearch.fejus.com/
I did quite a few searches on there, about 90% were won by Google, the rest were won by Yahoo, not a single search did I find to be better on Bing.
Yes you can:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030514035516436
It's just Mac & Linux users can, on occasion, manage to do something without a GUI. I'm not saying all Windows users can't, but that huge slice of market share Windows users brag about all the time includes a lot of really dumb people.
Something just bothers me about the "decision engine" thing. I'd like to think people are smart enough to make their own decisions and not follow whatever their search engine tells them to do, but for some reason I doubt that is the case. I think the major reason people click on more adds when using Bing is that those of us who Google already have some idea of what we are looking for, those of us who use Bing are looking for someone or something to make those choices for us. As for me, even if Bing was the best search engine ever invented, it gives me a bloody headache to look at it.
You mean like EA Hasbro? Wonder what would happen if people decided to stop buying the crap they churn out as they milk the IP of every company they've bought.
You sound like Dell Tech Support there. Tell them the laptop won't even post, they say reinstall windows. Tell them not only does my computer not have windows on it, but if it won't get past post it isn't going to boot form the CD. Tell them exactly what is wrong with it and ask them if it will void my warranty to fix it myself, get transferred three times before I just hang up and fix it. I swear, if they weren't so good about replacing parts when you buy ADP....
Have you never spoken to anyone's customer service? They hardly ever know anything about anything, and if something is as rare as this I doubt it's going to be something on a post-it tacked to their monitors. Amazon CSRs have no clue why people's eBooks won't download after a kindle upgrade, Dell CSRs have no clue about anything, and Microsoft CSRs are only there to tell you it's your fault and you should buy another one. Why is it so shocking that Apple CSRs don't know about the fraction of a percent of iPods that have caught fire?
Tax breaks for the hummer drivers, extra tax for the people in hybrids, and that's not even taking in to account the invasion of privacy that takes us one more step towards 1984. I wonder what they will do to the people who outright refuse to allow one of these devices to be installed in their vehicles. Probably have them installed in all new cars, but I won't drive anything newer than mid '70s anyway, so they have to force me to install it in my vehicles. Though with the CJ-5, Nova & F-350 I'd be getting a great tax break paying by the mile rather than the gallon.
People need to read the moderation guidelines before clicking, the parent may be off-topic, but it isn't a troll.
/me wonders if they strip all the identifying data out of the office files. I can just see the first kid who has a teacher open the corrupted file anyways, find the metadata, and bust the little bugger for turning in something he didn't create.
The "World's End" Facebook App. Can't say it's one of my favorites, but it allows you to send invitations to other players without "friending" them, which is absolutely necessary if you want to keep all but the most shameless of friend-whores occupied for an extended period of time.
It's much easier to compete with people who can't break your software with an OS update.
Well, MS will only offer this for free until they've killed their competition, then they'll take over that subscription market and get all the money Norton & Symantec were raking in before they decided to smother their competition. Is there any other reason MS does a decent job of something? Once they've killed off their competitors it's back to the joke these types of products once were, after all, why try when you're the only game in town?
Maybe my view is just colored because I now live in the Seattle area, it didn't seem like that when I lived around Dallas.
Just give us a few years, all the guns will be gone, then nobody would have any trouble occupying the US once the military and police were dealt with. The second amendment is there for a reason, too bad so many of us seeem to think giving up those rights for the illusion of safety is a good idea.
Every time I see this post I wonder if he meant to use "web-sights" or if he simply doesn't know how to spell.
Nope, just the front page. How many people click through past that anyway? Probably less than usually RTFA, so there should be no problem, yes?
Really, slashdot should mirror sites linked to, so many of them can't handle the extra traffic.
What we should do is pirate the material and paypal the content creator. Let the distributors go bankrupt, they deserve it, after all they are cheating the content creators far more than all the pirates of the world combined. The RIAA, MPAA, ASCAP and all the other groups like them do not deserve anything from anyone. Nothing is created, or added to the existing creation (unless you count DRM and Lawsuits) by them, and they take the lion's share of the profits for doing nothing worthwhile.
Personal use may cover cracking your DRM, but it doesn't cover bittorrent where you are sharing as well.
Sounds like somebody needed to get a summer job, or start mowing lawns if they werren't old enough for that.
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Remaining World Population: Just over 19 million
Madagascar closed their borders before any other country even tried to hand out masks, so I was left with one little untouched island as the rest of the planet was completely wiped out.
I salute anyone who can destroy that pesky country. I've played several games so far, even tailoring the disease to spread there, and they always close their borders before I can get an infection there.
Europe population = 0 Looks like I made it to lethal too fast, only managed to spread a little before people started closing down the ports. I'm going to try again, work on getting infection rates up before I start mutating it into Ebola on steroids.