Did they automate the logon? I wouldn't want something on my system that just drops to desktop. ESPECIALLY if I have to go travelling and can't have the laptop in my possession at all times.
If you're talking a site license that's 58% than another HELL YES. What they lose on a per-seat basis, they make up for in bulk.
Not to mention other considerations. Nobody said these contracts were STRICTLY for OS licenses. That was just YOUR assumption, and an indicator that you haven't thought this through, let alone without anti-"Micro$chlock" bias.
Return when you're a little better armed informationally.
They're talking about contracts. Signed and sealed deals between MS and the EU. That gives zero competitive advantage to ANYONE, because the deal already went through, and the next time you have to compete with Microsoft on a completely different project.
After massive amounts of pain with consumer/prosumer-grade (many of the D-Link) routers in the past two years, I finally dropped real money for a real broadband router earlier this year. So far, I've had months and months of trouble-free service.
Now I start hearing crap like this. Makes me even MORE thankful I bit the bullet.
Also "you can turn it off!" apologists? WHY IT IS ON BY DEFAULT? Moreover, tell that to some luddite who barely understands how to boot his computer.
As one of a group who received a C&D from a game company over a CLEARLY labelled April Fool's Day joke about a decade back, on a hobby site where we REALLY weren't monitoring who our traffic was (thinking "Us and all of our NO readers"). Turns out the site had become a news dissemination portal for various game retailers, and when they viewed the joke page, they panicked before actually reading the WHOLE page and called the game company up to freak out at.
Even LOS wireless technologies have their problems. How do you keep the LOS during inclement weather and one end or another is getting the effects of wind shear?
Fuck you and fuck your fucking ear, you sanctimonious, suppurating rectum.
Don't hold back. Tell me how you REALLY feel.
If you don't like what you're seeing, hearing or reading, then fucking stop seeing, hearing or reading
No. If you want to blather on with your infantile "we's all gonna die" rhetoric, do so someplace else. Like maybe a church. That's the normal place to go for taking things based on faith.
I am not on this earth to enhance your happiness by kowtowing to your shit vision of truth.
So I'm supposed to simply accept your crackpot beliefs as valid? Simply because you believe them, with no supporting facts. And mountains of data telling us that this is safe.
Howsabout...NO?
You pig shits are so cock sure of your own superiority all you can think of is silencing the other guy.
I have data to back me up. You have nothing more than technophobic rambling that we're going to destroy ourselves with low mass particle collisions. I'd LIKE for you to shut up. But I won't make you. I WILL, however, insist that you stop whining about it in my ear.
If I want to hear it, I'll simply loop a sound file of "We're all gonna die!".
If I think the earth will be destroyed by a giant goddamned potato from outer space, that's my right and you have absolutely no son of a bitch right to say me nay.
Wow, the grammar there was just...wow. Makes me really want to give credence to your views on other subjects.
Actually I have EVERY right to "say you nay" Thor. Just as you have a right to blather about things you don't understand in the slightest.
If you disagree, you're welcome to humbly apply to kiss my ass.
Holy shit! We really ARE all gonna die! DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Pardon my snark. We've had particle particle accelerators for HOW long now? This is simply a bigger and better one.
Did we all die from those?
Did we all die when trains got faster than 50Mph?
Did we all die when we were finally able to surpass the sound barrier?
Did we all die in an ignited atmosphere when the Trinity test went off?
This stupid fucking technophobic bullshit is REALLY wearing on my nerves.
If you don't like it, move to Mars already and set up a hunter-gatherer utopia there. Just stop yammering in my fucking ear about how we're going to all kill ourselves fiddling with low mass particle collisions.
Seriously. With beta software, they don't have to devote near the level of technical support staff that they would a "full" shipping product. Also, they're more protected in case data is lost/damaged/leaked (who runs their business off "beta" software?)
Also, they tap into the tinker mentality most people have with betas. So they get a lot more usage and feedback from people than they would with a "shipping" product where people would simply bitch about bugs.
So.
Saves money. Covers their asses legally in case it's messed up. Tends to get better feedback.
Sorry. LOTS of rage at EBay. After buying selling responsibly for a number of years, and getting fucked by other sellers and buyers and getting no assistance from EBay (they got their shekel, they don't care), I refuse to give them ANY more money. EVER. I closed out my PayPal account. I closed out my EBay account.
The final straw was getting sold a laptop that was actually stolen property, and the merchant refusing to even ATTEMPT to make it right. I spent several months badgering EBay to make it right, but the SOB is STILL a power seller on EBay today.
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Yeah...That's right...Who's your daddy? Keep sucking bitch! Or no Mac-y goodness for you!
This pretty much sums up about every Mac-freak (not every Mac user) I've ever come across.
Did they automate the logon? I wouldn't want something on my system that just drops to desktop. ESPECIALLY if I have to go travelling and can't have the laptop in my possession at all times.
If you're talking a site license that's 58% than another HELL YES.
What they lose on a per-seat basis, they make up for in bulk.
Not to mention other considerations. Nobody said these contracts were STRICTLY for OS licenses. That was just YOUR assumption, and an indicator that you haven't thought this through, let alone without anti-"Micro$chlock" bias.
Return when you're a little better armed informationally.
They're talking about contracts. Signed and sealed deals between MS and the EU. That gives zero competitive advantage to ANYONE, because the deal already went through, and the next time you have to compete with Microsoft on a completely different project.
Never said I had two internet connections.
However, I do use the second WAN port for testing on occasion.
And no, I'm not rich (I wish).
A second WAN interface.
Gigabit backplane.
A VPN solution that gives you more than a single-megabit connection speed.
You may not.
I do.
After massive amounts of pain with consumer/prosumer-grade (many of the D-Link) routers in the past two years, I finally dropped real money for a real broadband router earlier this year. So far, I've had months and months of trouble-free service.
Now I start hearing crap like this. Makes me even MORE thankful I bit the bullet.
Also "you can turn it off!" apologists? WHY IT IS ON BY DEFAULT? Moreover, tell that to some luddite who barely understands how to boot his computer.
Woo hoo!
I'll just go have a T1 dropped now. I'll be cheaper in the long run.
Are you really surprised?
I mean REALLY really.
Apple is like the Chicago Cubs.
Cubs:
This year's the year!
This year's the year!
*CHOKE*
Next year's the year!
Next year's the year!
Apple:
This is the greatest!
This is the greatest!
*CHANGE*
This new thing's the greatest!
This new thing's the greatest!
Because Ye Olde Culte of Jobs has demanded that you drink the Kool-Aid and pronounce it good!
So THAT'S why you're wearing a bra on your head?
Oh, and the mutant bikers want to have a "chat" with you.
As one of a group who received a C&D from a game company over a CLEARLY labelled April Fool's Day joke about a decade back, on a hobby site where we REALLY weren't monitoring who our traffic was (thinking "Us and all of our NO readers"). Turns out the site had become a news dissemination portal for various game retailers, and when they viewed the joke page, they panicked before actually reading the WHOLE page and called the game company up to freak out at.
Since I don't own, and won't buy a console, I won't be playing their games.
Even LOS wireless technologies have their problems. How do you keep the LOS during inclement weather and one end or another is getting the effects of wind shear?
getting any of Sony's rootkits...
I mean...I mean playing any of Sony's roo^H^H^H^Massively Multiplayer Online games.
Not that I'd consider any of their crap anyhow.
I'm not sure I'd be giving insurance breaks to someone who excels in a game about carjacking and that gives bonus points for spectacular wrecks.
=)
Didn't we ALREADY give the telecom industry a whole assload of cash to improve broadband in this country?
And exactly WHERE did that money go?
What?
What?
I can't hear you over that gi-normous flushing sound!
Fuck you and fuck your fucking ear, you sanctimonious, suppurating rectum.
Don't hold back. Tell me how you REALLY feel.
If you don't like what you're seeing, hearing or reading, then fucking stop seeing, hearing or reading
No. If you want to blather on with your infantile "we's all gonna die" rhetoric, do so someplace else. Like maybe a church. That's the normal place to go for taking things based on faith.
I am not on this earth to enhance your happiness by kowtowing to your shit vision of truth.
So I'm supposed to simply accept your crackpot beliefs as valid? Simply because you believe them, with no supporting facts. And mountains of data telling us that this is safe.
Howsabout...NO?
You pig shits are so cock sure of your own superiority all you can think of is silencing the other guy.
I have data to back me up. You have nothing more than technophobic rambling that we're going to destroy ourselves with low mass particle collisions. I'd LIKE for you to shut up. But I won't make you. I WILL, however, insist that you stop whining about it in my ear.
If I want to hear it, I'll simply loop a sound file of "We're all gonna die!".
If I think the earth will be destroyed by a giant goddamned potato from outer space, that's my right and you have absolutely no son of a bitch right to say me nay.
Wow, the grammar there was just...wow. Makes me really want to give credence to your views on other subjects.
Actually I have EVERY right to "say you nay" Thor. Just as you have a right to blather about things you don't understand in the slightest.
If you disagree, you're welcome to humbly apply to kiss my ass.
You first.
Man. Can you feel the "lud"?
Performing the same experiments over and over again, and expecting different results.
Holy shit! We really ARE all gonna die!
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Pardon my snark. We've had particle particle accelerators for HOW long now? This is simply a bigger and better one.
Did we all die from those?
Did we all die when trains got faster than 50Mph?
Did we all die when we were finally able to surpass the sound barrier?
Did we all die in an ignited atmosphere when the Trinity test went off?
This stupid fucking technophobic bullshit is REALLY wearing on my nerves.
If you don't like it, move to Mars already and set up a hunter-gatherer utopia there. Just stop yammering in my fucking ear about how we're going to all kill ourselves fiddling with low mass particle collisions.
In Soviet Russia, white space patents YOU!
No. I don't think it's a "Good Thing". It's not. the "eternal public beta" sets a shitty standard for releasing software to the public.
Seriously. With beta software, they don't have to devote near the level of technical support staff that they would a "full" shipping product. Also, they're more protected in case data is lost/damaged/leaked (who runs their business off "beta" software?)
Also, they tap into the tinker mentality most people have with betas. So they get a lot more usage and feedback from people than they would with a "shipping" product where people would simply bitch about bugs.
So.
Saves money.
Covers their asses legally in case it's messed up.
Tends to get better feedback.
Sorry. LOTS of rage at EBay. After buying selling responsibly for a number of years, and getting fucked by other sellers and buyers and getting no assistance from EBay (they got their shekel, they don't care), I refuse to give them ANY more money. EVER. I closed out my PayPal account. I closed out my EBay account.
The final straw was getting sold a laptop that was actually stolen property, and the merchant refusing to even ATTEMPT to make it right. I spent several months badgering EBay to make it right, but the SOB is STILL a power seller on EBay today.