So, what you're saying is that Apple played with an open hand and had dealers warn customers about the fact that they might end up with an obsolete product?
That actually seems very respectable to me. Not like Microsoft still trying to shove old products down user's throats even though new versions are slated for next year...
AOL never had anything to say over here in the real countries (you know, those that have existed more than a paltry 300-odd years)*. Google, however, was something that started raising eyebrows almost from the get-go - even schoolteachers recommend using Google for researching schoolwork (they usually don't mention alternatives or even the existance of these!)
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* Please, this was a joke. Instead of flaming me for a joke you might not like, just ignore me or put me on your 'Foes' list if you really find it offensive. The subject matter was that AOL was never the gate keeper of the internet in Europe.
A few months ago I started feeling stupid that I'd used the same phone for four years - I could've bought a new phone every six months for a quarter and continued with the same price plan at my cellular provider... Think of all those phones I could've sold in the mean time!
Anyway, I work for a telco customer line now, and when people call in and I can see that that their binding period is almost at an end (6 months here in Denmark), I remind them that they might as well buy a new phone, get it opened for 10$ and sell it for 40$ in an online auction...
YOU FORGOT TO CAPITALIZE, ESPECIALLY IN THE MONEY CLARIFICATION WHERE IT IS V. IMPORTANT TO SHOUT... or maybe you just didn't want to deal with the telling filter. Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
To prove or disprove rumors that the PS2 San Andreas contains a sexually graphic minigame, GameSpot decided to test the cheat codes circulating around the Web on a sealed, first-edition copy of San Andreas.
I am not big on the specifics of his case - mainly because I live nowhere near the US and that I was a bloody dateless teenager at the time. I had bigger things to think about.
I still believe, though, given the willful cooperation of the woman, his act of adultery is no business of ours - that he was so stupid and stuck his manhood into someone who couldn't keep her trap shut is his own fault. As soon as the woman objects, however, there is a problem, I agree.
At work (I work for a major European mobile telco), we use moderately sized PCs but all real work is done by other computers - we have a connection to a remote virtual desktop and some functions are accessed through (ugh) Internet Explorer on our intranet. I think the only program, apart from IE run locally is Outlook.
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So, what you're saying is that Apple played with an open hand and had dealers warn customers about the fact that they might end up with an obsolete product?
That actually seems very respectable to me. Not like Microsoft still trying to shove old products down user's throats even though new versions are slated for next year...
They don't read the content of the posts they moderate because the search system sucks?
Did you read the parent posts at all?
(This adds a very ironic twist to the entire debate, a sort of meta-"lack-of-reading"...
On the bright side, it lightens up my workday, which is veeeery dreary atm...
The C64 CSS function id the best evAr.
Don't you know?
Mods don't read before they submit their moderations. Heavens know I never do... O_o
AOL never had anything to say over here in the real countries (you know, those that have existed more than a paltry 300-odd years)*. Google, however, was something that started raising eyebrows almost from the get-go - even schoolteachers recommend using Google for researching schoolwork (they usually don't mention alternatives or even the existance of these!)
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* Please, this was a joke. Instead of flaming me for a joke you might not like, just ignore me or put me on your 'Foes' list if you really find it offensive. The subject matter was that AOL was never the gate keeper of the internet in Europe.
Well, of course you'd have the same Labor Day as America in America Jr.
*swoosh*
That was the joke flying over your head...
In the rest of the world, Labor day is May 1st.
Well, that's very handy, especially since I recall something about Google planning to set up offices on the moon...
That's why it's only allowed on cheeseburgers...
A few months ago I started feeling stupid that I'd used the same phone for four years - I could've bought a new phone every six months for a quarter and continued with the same price plan at my cellular provider... Think of all those phones I could've sold in the mean time!
Anyway, I work for a telco customer line now, and when people call in and I can see that that their binding period is almost at an end (6 months here in Denmark), I remind them that they might as well buy a new phone, get it opened for 10$ and sell it for 40$ in an online auction...
YOU FORGOT TO CAPITALIZE, ESPECIALLY IN THE MONEY CLARIFICATION WHERE IT IS V. IMPORTANT TO SHOUT ... or maybe you just didn't want to deal with the telling filter.
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
That was a great answer - I couldn't have said it better myself...
At least there's *something* to laugh at here at work today... ^_^
Wankers.
Less talkey, more torrentey...
If it's so raunchy, I want to learn.
You infidel! I'M the Pope. I challenge you to a Deathmatch of Doom (tm) to prove which one of us is the proper pope!
I am not big on the specifics of his case - mainly because I live nowhere near the US and that I was a bloody dateless teenager at the time. I had bigger things to think about.
I still believe, though, given the willful cooperation of the woman, his act of adultery is no business of ours - that he was so stupid and stuck his manhood into someone who couldn't keep her trap shut is his own fault.
As soon as the woman objects, however, there is a problem, I agree.
That's what he said. Try reading before posting.
Clinton denied allegations relating to his personal relations to another person. Noone was really hurt by his attempt to cover up his adultery.
The others do not lie about something deeply personal. More precisely, they don't in the used examples.
Bush made speeches about the importance of education while US bombs rained on schools in eastern Europe.
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- it looks horrid! Make the bleeding stop!
At work (I work for a major European mobile telco), we use moderately sized PCs but all real work is done by other computers - we have a connection to a remote virtual desktop and some functions are accessed through (ugh) Internet Explorer on our intranet.
I think the only program, apart from IE run locally is Outlook.
Of course, we only have Dell computers. (ugh)
The formal roots of gnarly?!
Too true...
May it's because of the violent death-cult-thing we have going in the west at the moment.
A buddy of mine used to have nazihomo.org for the exact same reason until he had to start *paying* for the domain...