I can deal with that, it's fair and doesn't really stomp on anyone's feet. So what if users eat up all the available bandwidth? Just make it fair who eats up more than others.
I think it would be best for everyone if IBM put millions of dollars for Blackwater to be their 'independent delegate' in discussing the situation with Microsoft.
Sometimes the only way to get a very level playing field is with a very big, heavy, unaccountable object.
I didn't actually hear this anywhere, I'm just trying to find some comfortable way to justify the complete and total annihilation of our good friends at Redmond. You know, besides the obvious reasons.
The worst part is you end up paying for Office 2007 when you're only going to use one application that doesn't do a very good job of what it's meant for anyways.
I don't think Thunderbird does Exchange 2007 yet. You know them zany Microsoft folks and their new protocols all the time! I wonder why they make such dramatic changes all the time, I really wonder, I just can't figure it out... hmmm...
I didn't consider anything, I was just being a smart ass. I can feel any which way I want about the whole thing, but I'm not a frequent flyer. I can see how this tramples on human rights and everything, but strangely complaining about this would in my case would be like men telling a woman whether she has the right to have an abortion.
Just the other day I got a survey from Nielsen with 2 dollars with it, and I was more than happy to fill it out and turn it in but now suddenly I'm not so interested in filling in any check boxes.
Sometimes the easiest way to give something away "for free" after no one will take it is to put a price on it. It's a little disturbing to see how often this is necessary at yard sales. People ignore the 'free' sign on the little end table that has nothing wrong with it, but the second I put a "25c" sticker on it someone comes along and goes "Is that really only 25 cents!?"
People can always find some way to start a lawsuit. Just look at... oh, yeah, they challenged the legality to Linux and got completely trashed... never mind.
I don't know, I just rabble on about nothing. It sounds important when I'm going on with it but after I really look at it there's not much point to it.
I can always say it's not fair, but we all know about life being fair.
It's not just these things that get me though, it's stuff like diet pills, things that use weasel words, there's relatively few laws governing advertising compared to the incredible impact it can have on people while other, less dangerous things are often heavily bogged down with laws, like selling a car, opening a bank account... maybe I'm just talking out my ass because I can't think of any other good examples.
That's just me, though, I'll bitch but I won't ask anyone to agree with me.
But whatever, Microsoft has such an incredible, unimaginable responsibility to the world considering all the critical things that rely on Windows. They really need to reconsider fucking around like this, trying to scoop up audiences, getting into fake quarrels with a competition that hardly effects them.
1: excessive or blind patriotism 2: undue partiality or attachment to a group or place to which one belongs or has belonged 3: an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex ; also : behavior expressive of such an attitude
They're even the same damn processors now, you can run Windows on Macs and you can run OSX on, uh, not-Macs.
The most disgusting thing is the chauvinism from BOTH sides, the other operating systems don't exist, and if you're running a PC it must be running Microsoft Something. If you're running a Mac it must be running OS X.
False advertising is illegal, why isn't massively disseminating misinformation?
How can Windows be available for anything but windows?
Just wait a minute! You'll get it! Or you'll be trying so hard to see what might be funny about it that I'll have time to make a clean getaway with your windows. You can keep the Windows, though.
Very presumptuous of you, you assume I'm a boy, you assume I don't leave the house, you assume the people I talk to haven't heard of the EFF, you assume the people I talk to either do not know what open source is or the knowledge is prerequisite to knowing the EFF exists and what they do, and worst of all, you assumed I don't already have a tan!
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I can deal with that, it's fair and doesn't really stomp on anyone's feet. So what if users eat up all the available bandwidth? Just make it fair who eats up more than others.
I think it would be best for everyone if IBM put millions of dollars for Blackwater to be their 'independent delegate' in discussing the situation with Microsoft.
Sometimes the only way to get a very level playing field is with a very big, heavy, unaccountable object.
I didn't actually hear this anywhere, I'm just trying to find some comfortable way to justify the complete and total annihilation of our good friends at Redmond. You know, besides the obvious reasons.
The worst part is you end up paying for Office 2007 when you're only going to use one application that doesn't do a very good job of what it's meant for anyways.
I don't think Thunderbird does Exchange 2007 yet. You know them zany Microsoft folks and their new protocols all the time! I wonder why they make such dramatic changes all the time, I really wonder, I just can't figure it out... hmmm...
Hey, you should register, you keep talking like that and you'll have karma out the ass!
I didn't consider anything, I was just being a smart ass. I can feel any which way I want about the whole thing, but I'm not a frequent flyer. I can see how this tramples on human rights and everything, but strangely complaining about this would in my case would be like men telling a woman whether she has the right to have an abortion.
It's okay since only a few people will get hurt in the process.
Just the other day I got a survey from Nielsen with 2 dollars with it, and I was more than happy to fill it out and turn it in but now suddenly I'm not so interested in filling in any check boxes.
What if I think being politically motivated at all is a mental illness?
They're not useless, they're just not reliable. They're important enough to warrant a larger study and find the real answer.
Huh, I wonder what political viewpoints may correlate to me finding this news strangely satisfying.
I got someone I want to go "RAWR!" to and see how high they jump...
Sometimes the easiest way to give something away "for free" after no one will take it is to put a price on it. It's a little disturbing to see how often this is necessary at yard sales. People ignore the 'free' sign on the little end table that has nothing wrong with it, but the second I put a "25c" sticker on it someone comes along and goes "Is that really only 25 cents!?"
I love OSX, I just hate seeing something so hard to customize out-of-the-box being promoted as "Thinking Differently".
"In a world without walls of fences, who would need Windows and Gates?"
I think the point of the commercials was... were to... uhh...
I hope you're following form factor, proprietary USB connectors are a pain in the ass.
I forgot what I said too, but then, everyone's a little PC.
People can always find some way to start a lawsuit. Just look at... oh, yeah, they challenged the legality to Linux and got completely trashed... never mind.
I don't know, I just rabble on about nothing. It sounds important when I'm going on with it but after I really look at it there's not much point to it.
I can always say it's not fair, but we all know about life being fair.
It's not just these things that get me though, it's stuff like diet pills, things that use weasel words, there's relatively few laws governing advertising compared to the incredible impact it can have on people while other, less dangerous things are often heavily bogged down with laws, like selling a car, opening a bank account... maybe I'm just talking out my ass because I can't think of any other good examples.
That's just me, though, I'll bitch but I won't ask anyone to agree with me.
But whatever, Microsoft has such an incredible, unimaginable responsibility to the world considering all the critical things that rely on Windows. They really need to reconsider fucking around like this, trying to scoop up audiences, getting into fake quarrels with a competition that hardly effects them.
1: excessive or blind patriotism
2: undue partiality or attachment to a group or place to which one belongs or has belonged
3: an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex ; also : behavior expressive of such an attitude
Macs are PCs.
They're even the same damn processors now, you can run Windows on Macs and you can run OSX on, uh, not-Macs.
The most disgusting thing is the chauvinism from BOTH sides, the other operating systems don't exist, and if you're running a PC it must be running Microsoft Something. If you're running a Mac it must be running OS X.
False advertising is illegal, why isn't massively disseminating misinformation?
Your IQ is 150 now, but what was it when you were in 7th grade?
How can Windows be available for anything but windows?
Just wait a minute! You'll get it! Or you'll be trying so hard to see what might be funny about it that I'll have time to make a clean getaway with your windows. You can keep the Windows, though.
Very presumptuous of you, you assume I'm a boy, you assume I don't leave the house, you assume the people I talk to haven't heard of the EFF, you assume the people I talk to either do not know what open source is or the knowledge is prerequisite to knowing the EFF exists and what they do, and worst of all, you assumed I don't already have a tan!
This is Slashdot, or less specifically, the Internet. Brains are penises. That means I can compare too!
Ow... I think I just offended myself...