Even when you call them on the phone and are 100% legit they dont do much for you. " Your only option is to reformat and install a freshly purchased copy" " have a nice day and thanks for choosing microsoft"
And no im not kidding, im heading out to 'repair' the very user that called microsoft crying for help. Its far to easy to just change your # then reformat..
Dont forget that the 'real' book you own cant be 'banned' out of existance by DRM magic. ( or simply 'edited' to fit the 'current model' of the facts )
Once you have the paper in your hands, you can always read it long after the information is considered 'wrong'.
i think they have been slowly DEvolving over the years, becoming more bloated and complex. They are starting to outreach the average joe.
We have had simple and effective GUI's in teh past, like Atari's GEM, and Apple's Newton. Simple and effecitve. but they were tossed aside for much larger and complex systems, requiring more hardware and brain power.
Why not talk to your boss about it, and help him out as a partner? It doesnt have to be 'you against him', you are both in it for the same thing. Treat it as such.
Bunches of scantly clad women running around on the decks of sparsely laid out starships flying around looking for things to do out of boredom is ok in my book.
Welcome to the future, where everyting is pay as you go, where you cant actually own anything, and 'the base price is'.. where they nickle and dime us to death...
But i doubt it would genereate much thrust. Its a lot like the ion engines nasa has.. You toss out charged particles from one end and you get tiny amounts of thrust.
If they run around threatening suppliers like this, they should be shut down for improper business practices, or at the least boycotted by america for being jerks..
Yes, i realize that until they are declared a monopoly that they have a right to choose who they do business with, but it doesnt make it right.
Ya, i know.. you know.. us here all know this. All.005% of the pc market.
Millions of users have no clue. So they will just get used to being locked in to their OWN content.. Paving the roads to a more restrictive world later on.
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They both died to to poor marketing.
Yes, but when it was first made avaialble to the PC back then, it was not the same thing.. Not even close.
Current incarnations of GEM ( openGEM for example ) are much closer i agree.
Even when you call them on the phone and are 100% legit they dont do much for you. " Your only option is to reformat and install a freshly purchased copy" " have a nice day and thanks for choosing microsoft"
And no im not kidding, im heading out to 'repair' the very user that called microsoft crying for help. Its far to easy to just change your # then reformat..
Screw them and WGA.
Ok, im game, in concept. But if you kill off all your developers, who is going to code those resuable components?
Dont forget that the 'real' book you own cant be 'banned' out of existance by DRM magic. ( or simply 'edited' to fit the 'current model' of the facts )
Once you have the paper in your hands, you can always read it long after the information is considered 'wrong'.
You must not be part of the 'retro' movement. We have thoughts like that on a daily basis.
You will need it. They have a tad larger war chest, and win the war of attrition pretty easy. But good luck anyway.
i think they have been slowly DEvolving over the years, becoming more bloated and complex. They are starting to outreach the average joe.
We have had simple and effective GUI's in teh past, like Atari's GEM, and Apple's Newton. Simple and effecitve. but they were tossed aside for much larger and complex systems, requiring more hardware and brain power.
Why not talk to your boss about it, and help him out as a partner? It doesnt have to be 'you against him', you are both in it for the same thing. Treat it as such.
When did this happen? I would love to convert a few people over to linux/bsd/etc but they are tied to AOL so they are pretty much stuck with windows.
Can this be done here in the US somehow?
Whats wrong with a scifi future?
Bunches of scantly clad women running around on the decks of sparsely laid out starships flying around looking for things to do out of boredom is ok in my book.
"Famous for their blatant disregard for intellectual property rights,"
Um, last time i heard what are doing is legal in their country, so tell me again what hey are 'blantly disregarding'?
Or is it ok to judge others based on your concept of right and wrong?
Then they can sick the entire resources of the Federal and state governments, not just the small budget the FCC has.
Ya, 5 years ago no one outside a few tight circles ever heard of it.
XP brought it to the common man. Way to go microsoft!
No, its not hard at all, you just do it at ground level :)
Just page people every couple of hours, If they dont get a page, they know something is wrong and can track you down via your GPS phone.
Might not be perfect, but better then what you are doing now.
( im sure other professional 'life alert' sort of things are out there with 24/7 monitoring, but doubt insurance would pay for it )
Look up 'charles becker', he did things like this in his research 20 years ago. Was regrowing rat legs right and left from what i remember.
And isnt a rat pretty close to a human? Thats what they keep saying anyway.
Welcome to the future, where everyting is pay as you go, where you cant actually own anything, and 'the base price is'.. where they nickle and dime us to death...
But i doubt it would genereate much thrust. Its a lot like the ion engines nasa has.. You toss out charged particles from one end and you get tiny amounts of thrust.
Any more claims then that, id call crackpot..
This man doesnt do anything for the common good, so it must be all about profit, so dont hold your breath for something useful to come out of this.
If they run around threatening suppliers like this, they should be shut down for improper business practices, or at the least boycotted by america for being jerks..
Yes, i realize that until they are declared a monopoly that they have a right to choose who they do business with, but it doesnt make it right.
Anything can be addictive if you have the right ( or would that be wrong? ) personality.
As long as they dont start calling this a crisis or something its plausible
Ya, i know.. you know.. us here all know this. All .005% of the pc market.
Millions of users have no clue. So they will just get used to being locked in to their OWN content.. Paving the roads to a more restrictive world later on.
Ummmm yes you can go into your local bestbuy and get one.
Not walmart, but most 'appliance' stores ( and all high end audio stores ) still carry one or two models.
Vindicated once again!
.. but it was MUCH more rugged then vinyl records.
Now, pass me that turntable.
Its too bad the old laser disks died out, they had a analog version