I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering 5
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee
With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,
And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, 10
And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.
Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch.
And when we were children, staying at the archduke's,
My cousin's, he took me out on a sled,
And I was frightened. He said, Marie, 15
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.
In the mountains, there you feel free.
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
etc. etc.
Since MS gives them away for free the other players go out of business. This kills diversity: consumers who usually drive the market are shut out of the process and then MS moves on to dominate another market.
By this logic, I'm being run out of a business I have a right to run because nobody will bundle my media player, which I have yet to write & so it doesn't work. But MS shouldn't be able to exclude me!
How is Windows bundling a media player different than Linux bundling 2 or 3? Linux "gives away" tons of apps. To me, if MS bundles a media player. So? So does everyone else. I say if Linux can give away a media player with a distro, so can MS. Its up to people to choose to pick something other than Windows. Frankly, I'm sick of hearing arguments about how MS illegally took over the browser market by *including* IE with the OS. Of course it should be a part of the OS. Linux gives you 2 or 3! why is this different?
MS might have done a lot of shady deals in their lifetime, but putting a program that plays CDs isn't one of them.
I think this is kind of the point of the post. Find a way, or a person to write the program. Sell the solution for $1000 to 10 idiots, or sell it for $100 to 100 Electricity Nazi's (even better!). Either way, you are no longer unemployed.
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I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering 5 Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers. Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade, And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, 10 And drank coffee, and talked for an hour. Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch. And when we were children, staying at the archduke's, My cousin's, he took me out on a sled, And I was frightened. He said, Marie, 15 Marie, hold on tight. And down we went. In the mountains, there you feel free. I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. etc. etc.
Since MS gives them away for free the other players go out of business. This kills diversity: consumers who usually drive the market are shut out of the process and then MS moves on to dominate another market.
By this logic, I'm being run out of a business I have a right to run because nobody will bundle my media player, which I have yet to write & so it doesn't work. But MS shouldn't be able to exclude me!
How is Windows bundling a media player different than Linux bundling 2 or 3? Linux "gives away" tons of apps. To me, if MS bundles a media player. So? So does everyone else. I say if Linux can give away a media player with a distro, so can MS. Its up to people to choose to pick something other than Windows. Frankly, I'm sick of hearing arguments about how MS illegally took over the browser market by *including* IE with the OS. Of course it should be a part of the OS. Linux gives you 2 or 3! why is this different?
MS might have done a lot of shady deals in their lifetime, but putting a program that plays CDs isn't one of them.
I don't get it.
lamest simpson's knockoff ever.
Since I already have several clients signed and more work then I can handle
shouldn't you be coding?
I think this is kind of the point of the post. Find a way, or a person to write the program. Sell the solution for $1000 to 10 idiots, or sell it for $100 to 100 Electricity Nazi's (even better!). Either way, you are no longer unemployed.