This is great news. Look, Microsoft has a vendor first / user second approach. The more stupid shit like this they do the more the users will catch on that they are simply taken for granted.
Just because you disagree with China's way of doing things doesn't mean everyone else has to. True. But I have the luxury of being right. A curse, at times but it's my burden.
So our policy of exporting western values through capitalism is in fact giving a communist regime the technology to further control their people. "But isolationism doesn't work!" Oh yeah? I bet Kim Jong Ill is still using those birds from the Flinstones (that chisel out pictures of people on a stone tablet) for surveillance.
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Balmer: "Hey, Nicky? Balmer here. Hey that little blurb about "open formats" and "no ceiling" for the OLPC, yeah you need to take that down, Man. Yeah. Yes, THEN I'll give you back you're testicles. I promise...no I'm not crossing my hideously devilish fingers. Okay....thanks, Buddy.:
Essentially, this can win/win Microsoft. If few adopt the project then so what? They will have shit-canned a rival to the Classmate. If it takes off, then a host of new addicts will come back to Microsoft and pay some day. In the end Negroponte's dream is sufficiently squashed. With so much of the world embracing OSS and many of those involved in the project pushing it too the OLPC has become less desirable. Who's laughing? Microsoft and Intel.
"The people who buy the machines are not the children who use them, but government officials in most cases," said Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the nonprofit group. "And those people are much more comfortable with Windows."
Somewhere Balmer strokes his horns and drinks a toast to another soul!
Well Bush pushed space exploration fairly hard. I would expect that a Dem in the White House won't have time for it. They'll be busy spending money "for the children." It will be hard to justify spending money on space exploration when you campaign on platform of a Chicken Little economy if you don't win.
They've dragged their feet on adopting a model to deal with the internet. They can't adapt so they're looking for judgments to prop up their failing business model. They will die eventually. In the meantime, keep uploading their shit!
Really, what media are you watching? Because from where I'm sitting, Faux News and even CNN seem to do a lot of Republican ass kissing and a lot of Democrat bashing.
Got any proof the media is pro-Democrat? Because I think you are just repeating Faux News lies. Faux News...hehe...that's funny..no really. Actually, you know what it's "punny!" Get it? I can do it too! This is fun. No! This is "pun!" I did it again! I'm so clever!
Sling sarcasm at the almighty scientists and the pawns "troll" you. I'll just wrap myself in my trollness and bask in it's warmth! That and the warmth of self-assurance and innate rightness!:P
Ah! Intellectual zealots are so serious and defensive with their cute little lab jackets and pocket protectors and there high-minded retorts like, "Uh-uh! You don't even know!"
It can't be new. See scientists have already decided this is how all water is formed. RTFA! You can't expect to be taken seriously, can you? Even if you had the credentials, we'd just wait until this becomes accepted fact and ridicule you for not conforming.
Oh brother. A semantic argument. Aren't you clever...how you did that...just then....that was witty....right there....that...that little hook on my teeny misstatement. OH you're gooooood.
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This is great news. Look, Microsoft has a vendor first / user second approach. The more stupid shit like this they do the more the users will catch on that they are simply taken for granted.
Are these some of the same jobs helping expand China's "all seeing eye?" (http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/18/1630208P
Hey, as long as we're making money who cares, right? Fuck China in their all-seeing-outsourcing-expanding asses!
So our policy of exporting western values through capitalism is in fact giving a communist regime the technology to further control their people. "But isolationism doesn't work!" Oh yeah? I bet Kim Jong Ill is still using those birds from the Flinstones (that chisel out pictures of people on a stone tablet) for surveillance.
You can't SEE that one is brighter than before? :P
No time to read your SciFi? Check out the Escape Pod podcast. Steve does a great job with presenting short stories from acclaimed authors.
http://escapepod.org/
Balmer: "Hey, Nicky? Balmer here. Hey that little blurb about "open formats" and "no ceiling" for the OLPC, yeah you need to take that down, Man. Yeah. Yes, THEN I'll give you back you're testicles. I promise...no I'm not crossing my hideously devilish fingers. Okay....thanks, Buddy.:
Essentially, this can win/win Microsoft. If few adopt the project then so what? They will have shit-canned a rival to the Classmate. If it takes off, then a host of new addicts will come back to Microsoft and pay some day. In the end Negroponte's dream is sufficiently squashed. With so much of the world embracing OSS and many of those involved in the project pushing it too the OLPC has become less desirable. Who's laughing? Microsoft and Intel.
"The people who buy the machines are not the children who use them, but government officials in most cases," said Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the nonprofit group. "And those people are much more comfortable with Windows."
Somewhere Balmer strokes his horns and drinks a toast to another soul!
Is the friend obligated to please the court?
Flamebait? Oh the leftists are upset...free speech is great when you say something they agree with. Priceless.
Well Bush pushed space exploration fairly hard. I would expect that a Dem in the White House won't have time for it. They'll be busy spending money "for the children." It will be hard to justify spending money on space exploration when you campaign on platform of a Chicken Little economy if you don't win.
If you saw Sweeny Todd, hand over your testicles.
Not today. Today they were pwned by Welte!
Maybe it's time I shitcanned my Skype account.
They've dragged their feet on adopting a model to deal with the internet. They can't adapt so they're looking for judgments to prop up their failing business model. They will die eventually. In the meantime, keep uploading their shit!
There goes lunch!
Asshole.
Oh brother.
And what about the many times they interfere with the rights of many?
They're great when they're doing something you agree with.
If the ACLU is involved...I just feel dirty signing.
Sling sarcasm at the almighty scientists and the pawns "troll" you. I'll just wrap myself in my trollness and bask in it's warmth! That and the warmth of self-assurance and innate rightness! :P
Ah! Intellectual zealots are so serious and defensive with their cute little lab jackets and pocket protectors and there high-minded retorts like, "Uh-uh! You don't even know!"
It can't be new. See scientists have already decided this is how all water is formed. RTFA! You can't expect to be taken seriously, can you? Even if you had the credentials, we'd just wait until this becomes accepted fact and ridicule you for not conforming.
I'm so glad that's settled.
I was thinking the other day, how am I supposed to just go through life without knowing how water is formed in space?
Oh brother. A semantic argument. Aren't you clever...how you did that...just then....that was witty....right there....that...that little hook on my teeny misstatement. OH you're gooooood.
Asshat.