Tech Support: Ma'am you'll have to re-install Windows
xxx Lady: How do I reinstall Windows ?
Tech Support: You need to use the Windows CD
xxx Lady: Oh I don't have it, some friend installed it for me.
Tech Support: No problem, we'll FedEx you a Win CD asap.
I do the same with complicated customers problems. I work in a helpdesk, I would say 98% of the problems we get are easy to solve but for the remaining 2% I look for the answers in the newsgroups and always find an answer. Customers think I'm a genius, but I simply use the newsgroups:)
Haven't you heard? German scientists studied the influence of tits on men and amazingly, men who look at tits each day live longer than their counterparts. So don't come telling me that porn is bad.
More traditional fields, the porn industry have been here since humans exist. Besides, who would seriously quit working in porn and work somewhere else? Oh I imagine myself saying : "Hey I'm making too much money in this porn stuff, I better quit and get another job so I can live poorly."
that I'm a Christian and I also love Porn and Sex. Jesus never censored anything, God never censored anything, but a few people think that it's their duty to do so.
Well, may God forgive those religious zealots:)
Ironic that Yahoo is still selling gun magazines, we should complain. Ironic also that it was defending it's right for free speech by selling Nazi items. Suddenly, to hell with free speech they banned porn because of a few complaints.
Yahoo will bite the dust, actually it's biting the dust right now.
Folks, calm down please. MS is only limiting MP3 recording in the Windows Media Player software. You can get any MP3 recording software like MusicMatch or something else and still record good quality MP3's. Besides, by changing a registry key in WinXP you will be able to record MP3's at higher rate than 56kpbs.
Also Windows Media Player will play all the MP3 music you record, no matter what their quality is.
So, their's nothing to it. I too was mad, but after reading a few articles I realised that WinXP will not block access to MP3's, they're just removing the MP3 recording feature from their Window Media Player. So what? We've got tons of MP3 making software on the net.
xxx tld is not my idea, it's been floating around for a while. The question I have is: why hasn't it been done?
Many adult webmasters have been asking for it, ICANN's excuse is that they'll start testing the other domains first and if all goes well they'll probably added more.??? names
From now on people if you feel like scratching your ass or picking your nose in the middle of the street, wait until you get home. You don't want hundreds of spy cams capturing that.
So you're telling me that MS, a big business company is trying to get money out of other big business companies who often have questionable practices and think that they can get software for free.
I have nothing against that action, why should we be be the only ones who get screwed? At least most of those big companies deserved it.
Why doesn't some insurance company come out with a Catastrophe-Medical Insurance plan? In other words, I'll pay for routine Dr. visits (I never go), but if I break my leg or come down with Cancer, then I'm covered....
They probably would, but it's illegal in Canada to pay for healthcare. It's as crazy as it sounds.
well hey here in Canada, lots of parents get about 2-3 years in prison for killing their own little kids. Their's just too many cases like that.
Kids usually get 20 years in prison, more recently a 12 year old kid got a life sentence for killing his siter or his neighbour. I don't remember the details.
I believe it's a more profound problem. Even rich kids aren't that stupid to think that their will be no consequences to their act.
The fact is, upper class kids probably have almost everything they want, from toys, to computers, etc. On the other hand, they often lack their parents affection and have no idea what the true values of life are. They feel that something is lacking but they have no idea what it is, this leads them to do some crazy stuff.
Sounds like my story when I was about 11 years old. The fact is I wasn't violent until those bullies came. I had no choice but to defend myself, hell I even thought I would enjoy beating the hell out of them but I didn't enjoy it that much especially when they started crying. That's when I got scared of what I did and ran back to school.
I think bullies need help, most of them have serious problems with their parents.
Nothing much has changed. 50-75 years ago, the few media giants had more important subjects to talk about, like WWII, Hiroschima, etc. and few people had access to all that news. Now everyone reads the news and the population grew tremendeously over the past 75 years. Of course, theorically their must to be way more people killing themselves nowadays.
For God's sake why make such a big deal when a few kids die from a school shooting?
The earth is already way too overpopulated as it is.
Besides 25 000 people die from polluted water every day, a lot more die because they don't have much to eat and no one says anything or tries to resolve that pollution problem.
How come when a kid kills people he usually gets sentenced for life in an adult prison? On the other hand if an adult kills a kid, well he usually gets nothing more than a few years in prison.
Talk about double standards.
Dude your question is obviously very easy to answer. MS will not be the only one renting software and it wasn't even MS who first came up with that concept. IT managers will have no other choice.
Hell, even lots of software are being rented as we speak.
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Tech Support: Ma'am you'll have to re-install Windows
xxx Lady: How do I reinstall Windows ?
Tech Support: You need to use the Windows CD
xxx Lady: Oh I don't have it, some friend installed it for me.
Tech Support: No problem, we'll FedEx you a Win CD asap.
See, Tech Support really isn't that hard.
Please, this isn't even a good excuse
You just described MS
I do the same with complicated customers problems. I work in a helpdesk, I would say 98% of the problems we get are easy to solve but for the remaining 2% I look for the answers in the newsgroups and always find an answer. Customers think I'm a genius, but I simply use the newsgroups :)
Yes the look on his face was priceless. I bet he's having the time of his life. Let's just hope he won't run out of fun things to do with his money.
Why Java? I don't think you can do much exciting products for the consumer with it.
Haven't you heard? German scientists studied the influence of tits on men and amazingly, men who look at tits each day live longer than their counterparts. So don't come telling me that porn is bad.
More traditional fields, the porn industry have been here since humans exist. Besides, who would seriously quit working in porn and work somewhere else? Oh I imagine myself saying : "Hey I'm making too much money in this porn stuff, I better quit and get another job so I can live poorly."
For all politicians out there. Don't ask what you can do for your country, ask what you can do for your people.
that I'm a Christian and I also love Porn and Sex. Jesus never censored anything, God never censored anything, but a few people think that it's their duty to do so. :)
Well, may God forgive those religious zealots
Ironic that Yahoo is still selling gun magazines, we should complain. Ironic also that it was defending it's right for free speech by selling Nazi items. Suddenly, to hell with free speech they banned porn because of a few complaints. Yahoo will bite the dust, actually it's biting the dust right now.
Folks, calm down please. MS is only limiting MP3 recording in the Windows Media Player software. You can get any MP3 recording software like MusicMatch or something else and still record good quality MP3's. Besides, by changing a registry key in WinXP you will be able to record MP3's at higher rate than 56kpbs. Also Windows Media Player will play all the MP3 music you record, no matter what their quality is. So, their's nothing to it. I too was mad, but after reading a few articles I realised that WinXP will not block access to MP3's, they're just removing the MP3 recording feature from their Window Media Player. So what? We've got tons of MP3 making software on the net.
xxx tld is not my idea, it's been floating around for a while. The question I have is: why hasn't it been done? .??? names
Many adult webmasters have been asking for it, ICANN's excuse is that they'll start testing the other domains first and if all goes well they'll probably added more
From now on people if you feel like scratching your ass or picking your nose in the middle of the street, wait until you get home. You don't want hundreds of spy cams capturing that.
When I first posted that OS X was crap, I got -1; flaimbait. Now that Linus is saying it to, suddenly it's interesting and newsworthy :)
So you're telling me that MS, a big business company is trying to get money out of other big business companies who often have questionable practices and think that they can get software for free. I have nothing against that action, why should we be be the only ones who get screwed? At least most of those big companies deserved it.
that'll be the day when I'll respect MS. I hope they'll do it.
Why doesn't some insurance company come out with a Catastrophe-Medical Insurance plan? In other words, I'll pay for routine Dr. visits (I never go), but if I break my leg or come down with Cancer, then I'm covered....
They probably would, but it's illegal in Canada to pay for healthcare. It's as crazy as it sounds.
Dude in Canada you can not invoke ignorance in your defense. Being an ignorant in english or french doesn't change anything.
well hey here in Canada, lots of parents get about 2-3 years in prison for killing their own little kids. Their's just too many cases like that.
Kids usually get 20 years in prison, more recently a 12 year old kid got a life sentence for killing his siter or his neighbour. I don't remember the details.
I believe it's a more profound problem. Even rich kids aren't that stupid to think that their will be no consequences to their act.
The fact is, upper class kids probably have almost everything they want, from toys, to computers, etc. On the other hand, they often lack their parents affection and have no idea what the true values of life are. They feel that something is lacking but they have no idea what it is, this leads them to do some crazy stuff.
Sounds like my story when I was about 11 years old. The fact is I wasn't violent until those bullies came. I had no choice but to defend myself, hell I even thought I would enjoy beating the hell out of them but I didn't enjoy it that much especially when they started crying. That's when I got scared of what I did and ran back to school.
I think bullies need help, most of them have serious problems with their parents.
Nothing much has changed. 50-75 years ago, the few media giants had more important subjects to talk about, like WWII, Hiroschima, etc. and few people had access to all that news. Now everyone reads the news and the population grew tremendeously over the past 75 years. Of course, theorically their must to be way more people killing themselves nowadays.
For God's sake why make such a big deal when a few kids die from a school shooting?
The earth is already way too overpopulated as it is.
Besides 25 000 people die from polluted water every day, a lot more die because they don't have much to eat and no one says anything or tries to resolve that pollution problem.
How come when a kid kills people he usually gets sentenced for life in an adult prison? On the other hand if an adult kills a kid, well he usually gets nothing more than a few years in prison.
Talk about double standards.
Dude your question is obviously very easy to answer. MS will not be the only one renting software and it wasn't even MS who first came up with that concept. IT managers will have no other choice.
Hell, even lots of software are being rented as we speak.