In the case of software piracy, Gates said Microsoft is having "good dialogues" with Asian governments, one area being their loss of tax revenue "when people don't pay for software".
that's perhaps the most idiotic argument i've heard all week.
c'mon, everyone knows how good asians are at math. they'll never fall for that.
MS has been at this stealth marketing technique for awhile now: stage a conversation among themselves and let the world "listen in".
the intent is to make it seem as if the observer is simply witnessing natural events. it's not. i'm pretty sure most of this public intra-softie communication is well scripted.
Unfortunately, they are also Part 15 users of the spectrum there, and are secondary users of those frequencies - they must not interfere and must accept any interference they experience.
ok, i'm a little stoopid - can you (or someone) explain what this means? 'must accept any interference'?
It helps to remind us that what we experience in our minds as "reality" is anything but real, and that we really don't have direct access to "reality" as it truly exists.
this was the most profound revelation i had during my limited experience with hallucinogens. it made me aware of how limited our perceptions are - both sensory and logical.
that said, i don't think i'll ever touch the stuff again (it's been 13 years for me). while it's important to know about the fallibility of your senses, it's also kind of demoralizing to be reminded of it:-)
Uhh... that assumes they have spouses to deny them. If not, distribute their pictures to every singles bar and sweaty-palm dating site, with a "DO NOT TOUCH THIS PERSON." warning.
that will never work. those bar-sluts always like a bad-boy.
Why does annointing himself with oil make him a "jesus-psycho"? This is normal practice for many Pentecostal Christians. They were common in my home town so this practice doesn't strike me as unusual. If you've never encountered Pentecostals before, it might seem weird. But from my perspective it's no more unusual than Catholics not eating meat on Fridays or Amish growing beards.
Which is similar to a rabid pitbull identifying a chihuahua as its number one threat.
ok, your argument seems to be that the company that you believe is untouchable is incapable of making even the most basic market observations. maybe you should change your ID to "internally inconsistent mariah".
Well, they could always completely ignore OSS and all the childlike whining morons that come with it.
that would be *perfect*, actually. douchebag.
It's not like it's going to hurt them.
i guess we'll never know, since microsoft has identified free/open source/linux as its number one threat, and they are most certainly not ignoring them. but who cares what those fools think, when the visionary "black mariah" has already spoken!
Microsoft finally takes a step in the right direction, and you still critisize. Give them them the credit they deserve, it may not be much, but it is better than them raping the world.
it might help to imagine microsoft as a vicious, prostitute-raping pimp. he controls his girls, who make him rich, and every now and then buys them a ratty coat or takes them to a diner at 2am, but he still has control of them, talks crazy and makes erratic decisions, slaps them around, and of course, rapes them whenever he pleases.
but then one day a prostitute gets fed up and pulls out a gun on him. and, just as you might expect, the pimp starts talking the talk:
"come on now, baby. you know i love you. i love you like no other man ever has or ever can or ever will. you know i would never, ever hurt you, baby. look, i wanna show you something i got just for you today, baby. this necklace is gonna look beautiful on you. it's genuine cubic zirconia. you're a princess - you're *my* princess, baby."
and all the while the pimp is smiling, and edging closer to the prostitute.
she's all confused now, and crying, and she starts losing her aim. finally the pimp gets up next to her and grabs the gun out of her hand. he yells "NOW YOU'RE GONNA PAY, BITCH!" and beats the crap out of her.
it shouldn't be too hard to figure out what's represented by the pimp, the prostitute, her gun, and the necklace.
-Aeron chairs. Spoil my ass please. These things are more comfortable to sit in than it is laying down. I bought the one I used when I quit one of my previous jobs
this one is a biggie. the aeron is the most comfortable chair ever. i don't have an aeron at work, but i have one at home - and i miss it dearly when in the office (and there i have a $1000 Leap chair that simply can't compare to the aeron).
Of course Linux isn't free, and nobody who's not a total moron knows that.
i'm not being pedantic when i say: linux IS free. you can download it for, um, free.
what you mean is that "the overall cost of running linux is not free", or "contracted support for linux is not free", or "convenient automated OS and application updates for certain distributions are not free".
i think it's important, especially when dealing with linux-curious windows people, to ensure that this is understood:
anyone can download a copy of linux, install it on as many machines as they like, and get automatic software updates, COMPLETELY FOR FREE.
use that as the starting point of the discussion and it will draw a sharp line in the sand between windows and linux from the get-go, without all this nebulous TCO smoke and mirrors that MS engages in. then it becomes an up-hill battle for MS to prove their worth, instead of granting them that linux and windows start arguing from an equal position wrt TCO.
First they ignore you,
Then they laugh at you,
Then they fight you,
Then you win.
i've always liked this quote, but also, the defeatist cynic in me always wonders about all the cases in which the last line is: "Then they pulverize you into a fine dust and wash you away with a garden hose".
personally i'm rooting for the "Then you win" ending, but it seems there is an impulse toward selective history that wants to forget the other cases.
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that's perhaps the most idiotic argument i've heard all week.
c'mon, everyone knows how good asians are at math. they'll never fall for that.
i think i just came in my pants!
wait a minute! are you saying there's a relatively painless way to get IE-specific javascript to work in mozilla variants?
the intent is to make it seem as if the observer is simply witnessing natural events. it's not. i'm pretty sure most of this public intra-softie communication is well scripted.
damn! i was hoping to blame microsoft.
ok, i'm a little stoopid - can you (or someone) explain what this means? 'must accept any interference'?
this was the most profound revelation i had during my limited experience with hallucinogens. it made me aware of how limited our perceptions are - both sensory and logical.
that said, i don't think i'll ever touch the stuff again (it's been 13 years for me). while it's important to know about the fallibility of your senses, it's also kind of demoralizing to be reminded of it :-)
that will never work. those bar-sluts always like a bad-boy.
that's not an uncommon syndrome - you *will* come back to linux, trust me :-)
to be fair, i think they're all psycho :-)
NOW it makes sense. i thought he annointed himself with oil before his swearing-in for *religious* reasons...
(no, seriously, this jesus-psycho actually annointed himself with oil.)
well, let's just say that you're wrong.
ok, your argument seems to be that the company that you believe is untouchable is incapable of making even the most basic market observations. maybe you should change your ID to "internally inconsistent mariah".
that would be *perfect*, actually. douchebag.
It's not like it's going to hurt them.
i guess we'll never know, since microsoft has identified free/open source/linux as its number one threat, and they are most certainly not ignoring them. but who cares what those fools think, when the visionary "black mariah" has already spoken!
it might help to imagine microsoft as a vicious, prostitute-raping pimp. he controls his girls, who make him rich, and every now and then buys them a ratty coat or takes them to a diner at 2am, but he still has control of them, talks crazy and makes erratic decisions, slaps them around, and of course, rapes them whenever he pleases.
but then one day a prostitute gets fed up and pulls out a gun on him. and, just as you might expect, the pimp starts talking the talk:
"come on now, baby. you know i love you. i love you like no other man ever has or ever can or ever will. you know i would never, ever hurt you, baby. look, i wanna show you something i got just for you today, baby. this necklace is gonna look beautiful on you. it's genuine cubic zirconia. you're a princess - you're *my* princess, baby."
and all the while the pimp is smiling, and edging closer to the prostitute.
she's all confused now, and crying, and she starts losing her aim. finally the pimp gets up next to her and grabs the gun out of her hand. he yells "NOW YOU'RE GONNA PAY, BITCH!" and beats the crap out of her.
it shouldn't be too hard to figure out what's represented by the pimp, the prostitute, her gun, and the necklace.
yeah, they do it for all the gay fraternity sex. oh wait, that's redundant.
oh wait again - that's interior decorator. never mind.
possibly the funniest post i've read on /. this month...
this one is a biggie. the aeron is the most comfortable chair ever. i don't have an aeron at work, but i have one at home - and i miss it dearly when in the office (and there i have a $1000 Leap chair that simply can't compare to the aeron).
it's so common there exists a short-hand for it?
man, that's really perverse, isn't it? that someone says they have no problems as long as they do periodic "refreshes"? it's sick.
what the hell is a 'Microsoft Refresh'? english, please!
yeah, and that place is called 'HELL'!
i'm not being pedantic when i say: linux IS free. you can download it for, um, free.
what you mean is that "the overall cost of running linux is not free", or "contracted support for linux is not free", or "convenient automated OS and application updates for certain distributions are not free".
i think it's important, especially when dealing with linux-curious windows people, to ensure that this is understood:
use that as the starting point of the discussion and it will draw a sharp line in the sand between windows and linux from the get-go, without all this nebulous TCO smoke and mirrors that MS engages in. then it becomes an up-hill battle for MS to prove their worth, instead of granting them that linux and windows start arguing from an equal position wrt TCO.Then they laugh at you,
Then they fight you,
Then you win.
i've always liked this quote, but also, the defeatist cynic in me always wonders about all the cases in which the last line is: "Then they pulverize you into a fine dust and wash you away with a garden hose".
personally i'm rooting for the "Then you win" ending, but it seems there is an impulse toward selective history that wants to forget the other cases.
if MS doesn't have a monopoly, maybe they can explain how in hell they have $40B in the bank and profit margins of 85%+.
i'm not an economist, but i do know that *that ain't supposed to happen* in a competitive market.
(now, where did i put my pandantry filter...?)
it might shave off a couple of their Douchebag Points.