You cannot falsely attribute a quote to another person or organization.
Bullshit, you have no idea what you're talking about. You can indeed falsely attribute a quote to another person or organization as parody or satire and the Supreme Court has ruled on it in the affirmative. It's done all the time and the courts aren't filled with lawsuits against Saturday Night Live and The Onion, are they?
What part of "The Windows Upgrade to Subscription tool, found in the latest Windows Insider builds, helps to manage certain volume licensing upgrades from Windows 10 Pro Anniversary Update to Windows 10 Enterprise. This binary file is not associated with the free consumer upgrade offering nor is it applicable to consumer Windows editions." Did you miss?
The part where they're apparently going to start charging users for the "free" upgrade. Yeah, that part.
Let's watch and see if Microsoft doesn't start charging people for Windows 10. I bet they do. It's always been their Holy Grail Wet Dream of business models to have their customers paying by the month. FFS, look at Outlook 360 and the all the other monthly subscription services they've minted in the last few years. They want everyone on a subscription package and you'd have to be a fool not to see it.
How many people would willingly upgrade if they were told that now they'd have to pay a fee every month to use it from now on? Damn few, that's how many.
I'm not even commenting on whether the subscription model is right or wrong- I'm just saying that's what they want, and the tactics they've been using to strong-arm people into "upgrading" to Win 10 have been underhanded and deceptive in the extreme. I take issue with that, and so should any thinking person.
It was a "free upgrade" to a paid service. Such a deal!
"You know that thing you have that you use all the time? Well, we've got an even shittier one that you'll have to pay for, but we'll let you upgrade to it for free!"
And the guidelines are "1) don't do anything that takes away our precious money or actually competes with us, and 2) oh yeah, we're forcing you to buy all of our expensive prop junk, too."
So they can't compete with cheaper tablets and are backing out of that market?
If they've saturated that market (or someone else has) then yes, it makes sense to set their sights on a potentially more lucrative market that isn't all played out yet.
Maybe they thinking that instead of selling 1000 Android tablets for say, $300, maybe they'll sell 500 Windows tablets for $900. Dell has often gone after the corporate market, so that might be where they're going to focus their efforts. I don't know, I'm just speculating but from a marketing perspective it does make a certain amount of sense. That is, why try to sell to a market that's already saturated, why not move to a higher-end client base and sell there instead?
So instead of selling something that they can't sell as many of as they used to because the market might be getting saturated, they are switching to selling something that where the market isn't that saturated because there isn't as high a demand for it in the first place?
Yeah, that makes sense.
It actually does make sense from a long-term marketing perspective. Maybe they'll be able to drum up more business or stimulate that market with advertising or corporate targeting, maybe they'll be able to convince people to switch from Android to the Windows 2-in-1 devices, or maybe they're just trying to find a fresh market to drop anchor in.
In any case it makes little sense for them to keep trying to sell in a declining or saturated market and so the alternative does make some sense, albeit in a somewhat counter-intuitive way.
Of course the more interesting question is whether enough there's enough there to sustain a successful prosecution under the Anti-Trust act and what happens if the Feds win?
Good question....these usual course of events is that these things get tied up in endless litigation until no one cares anymore and everyone involved is sick of dealing with it...and then it gets settled for a pittance. Not always, but often.
You know what's great about old people? You wait a little while and they'll be dead people. All their bigotries, all their ignorance, all of their backwards, self-important ideals will be bug-food like the rest of them.
You seem a little tightly-wound. Are you okay? I mean that in all seriousness- your response just seems way out of band for a silly comment like mine. It seems like the response an unhappy, stressed out person would make, not someone who would be able to chuckle at something that most people find funny. So really, are you bent out of shape about something today, or are you always this touchy?
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Sleep tight, old fuck.
Thanks. I will unless you wet the bed again, Junior. lol
I like nougat. I don't know that I'd eat it entirely on its own, but Three Musketeers is one of my favorite candy bars,
Stop right there, you demented bastard. The "Three Musketeers" bar isn't known as "the candy bar that isn't a candy bar" for no reason. It's not called "The Bullshit Bar" just because it trips lovingly off the tongue.
Every time I ate a Three Musketeers bar I felt like I was being ripped off. No nuts inside, no cookie inside, no chocolate inside, no nothin' inside. It's like chocolate-covered Styrofoam without the delicious Styrofoam part.
It's as if they said, "How cheaply can we make something covered in chocolate and still call it a 'candy bar'? I know- let's just fill it with fucking nougat! ha ha ha!"
When I become Planetary Dictator, the makers of the "Three Musketeers" bar will be executed on national TV as a warning to other confectioners around the globe. Some might say that's a bit harsh, but I say "no half measures ever won a war". Heinous crimes like the "Three Musketeers" bar call for swift and brutal punishment, lest the infection spread.
Although I admit that when they're frozen they're not half bad.
Do not want VRML or whatever this new 3d crap is. Do not want auto-video.
Come now, Citizen, do not deny that Teh Great Google knows what's best for you.
You will consume media as they wish it to be done, and you shall enjoy it. Do not be disharmonious with their Advertising, lest ye be cast into the Pit Of Internet Explorer, where ye will writhe in the Flames of HTML 1.0 forever and ever!
"...Apple, Amazon and Google Are Trying To 'Lock Out' Competition"
Oh my gawd, say it isn't so.
Seriously, no shit, of COURSE they're trying to lock out competition. In the "Quest For More Dollars" game they'd send death squads around to the other company's Boards Of Directors if they thought they could get away with it. It's all about the benjamins, and killing off the competition (or stifling them) by whatever means necessary is Job One.
This is "news" in the same way that "water is wet" or "criminals commit crimes" is "news".
No, phone is an Android-based device (Samsung Rugby Pro) and I like it a lot, but that doesn't prevent me from shooting at any juicy target that traverses my field of fire.
Nougat- Now with 50% more baked in tracking and monitoring!
Nougats new features include:
- toilet detection algorithms and might need to see an ad for toilet paper - wallet thickness detection, just in case you might have more money to spend - in-store-tracking to provide you with more relevant advertising for whatever, just in case - vehicle detection routines to provide you with more relevant automotive advertising - restaurant detection algorithms to provide you with more relevant food advertising - I'm-on-a-date detection routines to provide you with more relevant condom advertising (probably never used) - at-home-on-couch detection routines to provide you with more relevant television advertising - baby-crying sound detection routines to provide you with more relevant infant product advertising - enhanced voice parsing to detect what products you might be talking about for better product advertising - oh yeah and some minor changes to shit about security or whatever, just trust us
No, you have to watch them. It comes with little robot arms that grasp your eyelids and keep them open, then it sprays you with CS spray if you don't keep your attention on the screen.
Thank you for answering my question, Mr Bezos.
Actually, I was wondering if, as some have mentioned about other ads, you'd have to answer some question about the content to prove you actually watched it. I should have made that clearer in my question.
"The flaws, the team says, allow hackers to completely compromise people's machines by simply sending them malicious self-replicating code through unopened emails or un-clicked links."
Okay, now that's funny. I bet the NSA/FBI/CIA is having a fucking field day with this little flaw. Unless you can prevent everyone from sending you an email (!!) you can be compromised. And that is pretty much the whole fucking point of email: to receive an email.
"The unpackers work by parsing code contained in files before they're allowed to be downloaded or executed. Because Symantec runs the unpackers directly in the operating system kernel, errors can allow attackers to gain complete control over the vulnerable machine."
Gee whiz, it sounds like Billy-Bob Programmer had too many tokes at lunch and forgot about the system kernel security thingy or whatever. Ooopsie.
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You cannot falsely attribute a quote to another person or organization.
Bullshit, you have no idea what you're talking about. You can indeed falsely attribute a quote to another person or organization as parody or satire and the Supreme Court has ruled on it in the affirmative. It's done all the time and the courts aren't filled with lawsuits against Saturday Night Live and The Onion, are they?
What part of
"The Windows Upgrade to Subscription tool, found in the latest Windows Insider builds, helps to manage certain volume licensing upgrades from Windows 10 Pro Anniversary Update to Windows 10 Enterprise. This binary file is not associated with the free consumer upgrade offering nor is it applicable to consumer Windows editions."
Did you miss?
The part where they're apparently going to start charging users for the "free" upgrade. Yeah, that part.
Let's watch and see if Microsoft doesn't start charging people for Windows 10. I bet they do. It's always been their Holy Grail Wet Dream of business models to have their customers paying by the month. FFS, look at Outlook 360 and the all the other monthly subscription services they've minted in the last few years. They want everyone on a subscription package and you'd have to be a fool not to see it.
How many people would willingly upgrade if they were told that now they'd have to pay a fee every month to use it from now on? Damn few, that's how many.
I'm not even commenting on whether the subscription model is right or wrong- I'm just saying that's what they want, and the tactics they've been using to strong-arm people into "upgrading" to Win 10 have been underhanded and deceptive in the extreme. I take issue with that, and so should any thinking person.
It was a "free upgrade" to a paid service. Such a deal!
"You know that thing you have that you use all the time? Well, we've got an even shittier one that you'll have to pay for, but we'll let you upgrade to it for free!"
Hello FreeBSD
And hello, Linux Mint.
I could be wrong, but I just don't think most people want to pay and pay and pay for Windows forever.
And the guidelines are "1) don't do anything that takes away our precious money or actually competes with us, and 2) oh yeah, we're forcing you to buy all of our expensive prop junk, too."
So they can't compete with cheaper tablets and are backing out of that market?
If they've saturated that market (or someone else has) then yes, it makes sense to set their sights on a potentially more lucrative market that isn't all played out yet.
Maybe they thinking that instead of selling 1000 Android tablets for say, $300, maybe they'll sell 500 Windows tablets for $900. Dell has often gone after the corporate market, so that might be where they're going to focus their efforts. I don't know, I'm just speculating but from a marketing perspective it does make a certain amount of sense. That is, why try to sell to a market that's already saturated, why not move to a higher-end client base and sell there instead?
So instead of selling something that they can't sell as many of as they used to because the market might be getting saturated, they are switching to selling something that where the market isn't that saturated because there isn't as high a demand for it in the first place?
Yeah, that makes sense.
It actually does make sense from a long-term marketing perspective. Maybe they'll be able to drum up more business or stimulate that market with advertising or corporate targeting, maybe they'll be able to convince people to switch from Android to the Windows 2-in-1 devices, or maybe they're just trying to find a fresh market to drop anchor in.
In any case it makes little sense for them to keep trying to sell in a declining or saturated market and so the alternative does make some sense, albeit in a somewhat counter-intuitive way.
Of course the more interesting question is whether enough there's enough there to sustain a successful prosecution under the Anti-Trust act and what happens if the Feds win?
Good question....these usual course of events is that these things get tied up in endless litigation until no one cares anymore and everyone involved is sick of dealing with it...and then it gets settled for a pittance. Not always, but often.
...the American company adds that Android market is "oversaturated" and is experiencing "declining demand from consumers."
Translation:
"Too many people are already using an Android tablet and we can't sell as many as we used to."
You know what's great about old people? You wait a little while and they'll be dead people. All their bigotries, all their ignorance, all of their backwards, self-important ideals will be bug-food like the rest of them.
You seem a little tightly-wound. Are you okay? I mean that in all seriousness- your response just seems way out of band for a silly comment like mine. It seems like the response an unhappy, stressed out person would make, not someone who would be able to chuckle at something that most people find funny. So really, are you bent out of shape about something today, or are you always this touchy?
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Sleep tight, old fuck.
Thanks. I will unless you wet the bed again, Junior. lol
I like nougat. I don't know that I'd eat it entirely on its own, but Three Musketeers is one of my favorite candy bars,
Stop right there, you demented bastard. The "Three Musketeers" bar isn't known as "the candy bar that isn't a candy bar" for no reason. It's not called "The Bullshit Bar" just because it trips lovingly off the tongue.
Every time I ate a Three Musketeers bar I felt like I was being ripped off. No nuts inside, no cookie inside, no chocolate inside, no nothin' inside. It's like chocolate-covered Styrofoam without the delicious Styrofoam part.
It's as if they said, "How cheaply can we make something covered in chocolate and still call it a 'candy bar'? I know- let's just fill it with fucking nougat! ha ha ha!"
When I become Planetary Dictator, the makers of the "Three Musketeers" bar will be executed on national TV as a warning to other confectioners around the globe. Some might say that's a bit harsh, but I say "no half measures ever won a war". Heinous crimes like the "Three Musketeers" bar call for swift and brutal punishment, lest the infection spread.
Although I admit that when they're frozen they're not half bad.
Do not want VRML or whatever this new 3d crap is. Do not want auto-video.
Come now, Citizen, do not deny that Teh Great Google knows what's best for you.
You will consume media as they wish it to be done, and you shall enjoy it. Do not be disharmonious with their Advertising, lest ye be cast into the Pit Of Internet Explorer, where ye will writhe in the Flames of HTML 1.0 forever and ever!
Teh Great Google has spoken!
Wait, on second thought I'll just call the sysop and have him tell me what's on the screen.
We demand a sound-based web!
I want my web experience to be rendered in Morse Code.
I'm fine with it as long as there's a way to turn it off. Or am I being to optimistic or naive?
Pulling up the ladder behind you is a STAPLE of the current tech company leadership.
I think you meant, "Pulling up the ladder behind you is a STAPLE of every company and government in the history of the universe."
"...Apple, Amazon and Google Are Trying To 'Lock Out' Competition"
Oh my gawd, say it isn't so.
Seriously, no shit, of COURSE they're trying to lock out competition. In the "Quest For More Dollars" game they'd send death squads around to the other company's Boards Of Directors if they thought they could get away with it. It's all about the benjamins, and killing off the competition (or stifling them) by whatever means necessary is Job One.
This is "news" in the same way that "water is wet" or "criminals commit crimes" is "news".
Is that you?
No, phone is an Android-based device (Samsung Rugby Pro) and I like it a lot, but that doesn't prevent me from shooting at any juicy target that traverses my field of fire.
Nougat- Now with 50% more baked in tracking and monitoring!
Nougats new features include:
- toilet detection algorithms and might need to see an ad for toilet paper
- wallet thickness detection, just in case you might have more money to spend
- in-store-tracking to provide you with more relevant advertising for whatever, just in case
- vehicle detection routines to provide you with more relevant automotive advertising
- restaurant detection algorithms to provide you with more relevant food advertising
- I'm-on-a-date detection routines to provide you with more relevant condom advertising (probably never used)
- at-home-on-couch detection routines to provide you with more relevant television advertising
- baby-crying sound detection routines to provide you with more relevant infant product advertising
- enhanced voice parsing to detect what products you might be talking about for better product advertising
- oh yeah and some minor changes to shit about security or whatever, just trust us
You've obviously spent more time in prison than I have.
I don't see how that's possible, frankly.
No, you have to watch them. It comes with little robot arms that grasp your eyelids and keep them open, then it sprays you with CS spray if you don't keep your attention on the screen.
Thank you for answering my question, Mr Bezos.
Actually, I was wondering if, as some have mentioned about other ads, you'd have to answer some question about the content to prove you actually watched it. I should have made that clearer in my question.
Do I actually have to watch them or can I just let them run and pretend I'm paying attention?
Or can I root the friggin' thing and do away with the ads altogether? Inquiring minds want to know...
Or, those fucking wankers at Microsoft could just take $300 off the Shitface and admit that the woozy piece of crap is way overpriced.
At $1,499 to $3,199 it's significantly more than a whiz-bang laptop or a nicely outfitted Android tablet with some add-on goodies.
And the best part is that you don't have to prance around the office like a hipster with brain damage to use it, either.
Lol, the first story contains the line, "...before jumping in and meeting a grizzly end."
I think they meant "grisly", unless it was one of those bear-alligators.
"The flaws, the team says, allow hackers to completely compromise people's machines by simply sending them malicious self-replicating code through unopened emails or un-clicked links."
Okay, now that's funny. I bet the NSA/FBI/CIA is having a fucking field day with this little flaw. Unless you can prevent everyone from sending you an email (!!) you can be compromised. And that is pretty much the whole fucking point of email: to receive an email.
"The unpackers work by parsing code contained in files before they're allowed to be downloaded or executed. Because Symantec runs the unpackers directly in the operating system kernel, errors can allow attackers to gain complete control over the vulnerable machine."
Gee whiz, it sounds like Billy-Bob Programmer had too many tokes at lunch and forgot about the system kernel security thingy or whatever. Ooopsie.