While you are falling asleep, imagine a clock showing the time you want to wake up.
I am a very heavy sleeper - to the extent that someone was able to get a locksmith to drill through the security lock on a door with me 10 metres (or 11 yards if you are a NASA scientist) away - but this works for me, and I just need the three chimes of a standard palm pilot alarm to remind me to get up.
Support over chat works better as someone can deal with multiple "calls" at once. Let's face it.. if you are waiting on the phone for someone to reboot, your productivity is zero. It also makes it easier to copy and paste error messages (if you're not using an OS or software which prevents copying and pasting error messages.
The downside is, it can take longer to get to the bottom of a problem. If you have someone who knows what they are talking about then you will be able to sort it out quicker over the phone. Of course, when you have to pass things like URLs or file paths, it is easier to send them over on chat.
In my job, I use both, as they both have advantages... but I would give up the phone before I would give up chat.
(and personally, I find crap english easier to deal with on chat than on the phone)
So you're saying that the best way for MS to fight Open Source in Malaysia would be to make sure there were no free copies of Windows available, and everyone had to pay the equivalent of $100 a shot?
Say Google has at present a 95% market share. It is going to be a lot harder to increase that share than it will be to lose it to anyone who, say, implements phrase searches before Google or who have better search or robot algorythms.
Even if Google continue to improve their basic product, that is to say searching, then logically there will be fewer searches made as people find what they are looking for sooner.
I think you're forgetting that the UK isn't really part of Europe, or at least it won't be if some people have their way.
Having said that, with the multi (a.k.a compose) key you can easily access the pound sign, as well as yen, cents, and all the accents and other funny characters you could ever want (which I would have demonstrated, but for some reason crapdot doesn't display them).
A devalued dollar will really help US exports and therefore the economy, but at the same time it will be the Tax cuts which take the credit. Of course, the Keynesian method of pumping Iraqi oil money into US companies will also help, but again this essentially left wing economic policy will be ignored and the right wing trickle down policy will look like it saved the day.
The icing on the cake, however, is in making USians too afraid to travel abroad, therefore they will be oblivious to the negative effect of the weak dollar.
But he didn't ask you how long ago was 2.5.x, did he? He asked you how long has it been since a specific version, namely 2.5.0.
Instead of giving him some bullshit, which only shows that you know how to count, why not answer his question and say that 2.5.0 came out on the 22nd of November, 2001?
I think the essential element that unites Star Wars, The Matrix, Lord Of The Rings and Harry Potter is that a nobody finds out that in fact they are really important. Luke, Neo, Frodo and Harry. No wonder that these films/books are such wet dreams for geeks.
The best thing to do is to buy it, and then return it and ask for a refund when it doesn't play. As it is copy protected, you can argue that they have to take it back as you couldn't have possibly made a copy of it.
Simply not buying something is not as effective as making the manufacturer/distributor pay for returns. Especially when lost sales will be attributed to piracy.
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While you are falling asleep, imagine a clock showing the time you want to wake up.
I am a very heavy sleeper - to the extent that someone was able to get a locksmith to drill through the security lock on a door with me 10 metres (or 11 yards if you are a NASA scientist) away - but this works for me, and I just need the three chimes of a standard palm pilot alarm to remind me to get up.
Diamonds Are Forever.
Search for "claret"
h00pla is right, you are wrong. HAND.
Support over chat works better as someone can deal with multiple "calls" at once. Let's face it.. if you are waiting on the phone for someone to reboot, your productivity is zero. It also makes it easier to copy and paste error messages (if you're not using an OS or software which prevents copying and pasting error messages.
The downside is, it can take longer to get to the bottom of a problem. If you have someone who knows what they are talking about then you will be able to sort it out quicker over the phone. Of course, when you have to pass things like URLs or file paths, it is easier to send them over on chat.
In my job, I use both, as they both have advantages... but I would give up the phone before I would give up chat.
(and personally, I find crap english easier to deal with on chat than on the phone)
Good one
So you're saying that the best way for MS to fight Open Source in Malaysia would be to make sure there were no free copies of Windows available, and everyone had to pay the equivalent of $100 a shot?
You don't work in marketing, do you?
About two years.
I think you've just proved the origninal point.
Say Google has at present a 95% market share. It is going to be a lot harder to increase that share than it will be to lose it to anyone who, say, implements phrase searches before Google or who have better search or robot algorythms.
Even if Google continue to improve their basic product, that is to say searching, then logically there will be fewer searches made as people find what they are looking for sooner.
It was SunOS 4, you tosser. SunOS 5 is Solaris.
I think you're forgetting that the UK isn't really part of Europe, or at least it won't be if some people have their way.
Having said that, with the multi (a.k.a compose) key you can easily access the pound sign, as well as yen, cents, and all the accents and other funny characters you could ever want (which I would have demonstrated, but for some reason crapdot doesn't display them).
Because we were reading when they previous covered this story.
Ok, so in the last three years this has gone from maybe to they do, but still, could you try to keep down the dupes?
The same thing that became of the people who care about Low Power FM..... Nothing!
Why do you think it is UNAMERICAN getting someone to do a substandard job for less money?
Stroke of genius by Bush &co.
A devalued dollar will really help US exports and therefore the economy, but at the same time it will be the Tax cuts which take the credit. Of course, the Keynesian method of pumping Iraqi oil money into US companies will also help, but again this essentially left wing economic policy will be ignored and the right wing trickle down policy will look like it saved the day.
The icing on the cake, however, is in making USians too afraid to travel abroad, therefore they will be oblivious to the negative effect of the weak dollar.
I agree, although gamers in japan must be particularly stupid or trustworthy..
Well, Americans must be pretty stupid if they think that Hong Kong is in Japan.
There'll soon be some more funding for it.
Of course, maybe the Grauniad is not the best place for an article about inaccuracies.
But he didn't ask you how long ago was 2.5.x, did he? He asked you how long has it been since a specific version, namely 2.5.0.
Instead of giving him some bullshit, which only shows that you know how to count, why not answer his question and say that 2.5.0 came out on the 22nd of November, 2001?
I think the essential element that unites Star Wars, The Matrix, Lord Of The Rings and Harry Potter is that a nobody finds out that in fact they are really important. Luke, Neo, Frodo and Harry. No wonder that these films/books are such wet dreams for geeks.
Actually I didn't, but I do agree with your post.
> Why do Linux users always have to profess their fate to
> Linus & Stallman and in the same breath say something,
> ANYTHING, about Windows?
For the same reason that BSDers always whine about Linux in their posts here.
Here you are complaining that you are being blacklisted, but at the same time you are blacklisting loads of other people.
Instant karma's gonna get you.
Isn't it obvious? He wants to be an individual, just like everyone else with a tattoo or piercing.
The best thing to do is to buy it, and then return it and ask for a refund when it doesn't play. As it is copy protected, you can argue that they have to take it back as you couldn't have possibly made a copy of it.
Simply not buying something is not as effective as making the manufacturer/distributor pay for returns. Especially when lost sales will be attributed to piracy.
That works a treat. Thank you very much!