Well, what did you expect ? Can't have Big Brother without the tube in your home... Heck, they're spending more on trying to make us beleive that Biofuels and Hydrogen are the future, burying deep the advances in fuel cell technology that were apparent to all a few years ago, but now no longer in the spot light, you'll see paid bloggers and unenlightened minds argue that battery power is a long way off... I wonder how long Texaco will sit on the Tech that Exxon sold them ? Ref: (see "who killed the electric car, or any Popular machanics of the time...) Cheers
I want to know where and when did the tide change ?? How is the general public supposed to tell who's lying or telling the truth, if the hysteria changes sides so often ? Global warming ? now you're threathened because you don't beleive in it ? I thought we were threathened because we believed and wanted to inform the public, and get them motivated to call down their representatives to action...which would, of course, cost Corporations millions in lost profits....When did Paid Bloggers outpace us ? That's it, they've ruined too many winters for me here in Canada... I'm moving in with the Inuit. At least I'll have a white Christmas there for a change !
Duck yer head and hang low... Attracting attention is almost always bad... I mean even here, at work (Gov)... I happen to opine that Bill Gates was a dick and got two people defending a billionaire on my ass...toadies !
Fighting the power is for rapper videos and idealists... You can't fight billions of dollars worth of power. It just gets us out in the open where they can tag us as "Free Thinkers" and a "Danger to society".(Well the society they want, for themselves....)
I don't think ill of Residents of the USA... I just think your country has gotten so big that even the illusion of democracy is now impossible. And all the revisionist history that's being written, oh man...<rant>
Where the **** do you live brother ? You sure as sin not in Canuck country, we'd lynch the b*stards... I was an RCMP Officer's kid, and I can't brgin to tell you how mad I and most other in the force get when we hear of a soured cop. You have to stand your ground and report any Peace Officers that go against the code of cinduct to their supervisors, if this fails, you have a few more names to send to the oversight board or the CBC. (the CBC usually is the one that get him or her fired.)
" 'Microsoft's financial damage is too insignificant for a criminal investigation.'" Now if I can just find out where I can send a bottle of Vodka so she gets it. She has saved their justice system from possibly months of useless court time. I salute this judge for her jurisprudence. If you want to prosecute this guy I say go after the millions that pirated Win95 back in the day and, huh wait, that's what gave M$ their marketshare isn't it...oh well...
They can but we can't. Our surplus X(whatever was agreed upon) Gas oil and Hydro goes into the Fund, and we buy it back at international prices set by the US. And when the general public is unaware of what is going on, and would rather bash the messenger then researching facts then, the "truth" wins (whatever has been repeated thuroughly that week on the news), while the facts are buried. Remember that the lumber dispute is more about US owned companies between two borders fighting for profit using our governement to do its bidding.Cheers.
Last time I checked the US owned ALL of the big Packing and Slaughter houses on this side of the border. What you might consider Canadiana is no longer. Everything from Timbits to MapleLeaf is American (US) owned, if only through parent companies. I think Harvey's and its Parent company is the only remaining one around that hasn't sold out. It's sad but we've been bought out by the elephant. Realise it and act accordingly. I cringe when they call us USjr but hey, it's true. We even pimped ourselves in Cuba, yes, those canadian companies doing biz in Cuba ain't ours... We don't control our oil, gas or even our hydro anymore thanx to the FTAA, and we can't even set our own prices on anything we produce here...so when some idealist suggests that we break off from our biggest trading partner (which is just trading from itself from two countries)I gasp, and cry, and realise that people still don't want to see the truth of our economy and political system. We will be adhering to US patent, DRM and copyright laws. We ain't got the choice my friends, sorry... Anyway, I guess I can take this troll hit...lol
Our Economy is tied to yours... Our borders are inseparable.....
Your Corporations enact in the US, and it follows through in Canada.. Big Canadian Biz is Big American Biz (just switch flags) Most Canadian Bizs in Cuba are actually American, and so on....
Canada is abdicating ? huh, no my friend... You see, when in bed with the Elephant, the mouse may not choose to move when the Elephant rolls over....it just does to survive...
We are inundated by images nowadays... It doesn't matter how remote something is, and what happened there, we want a full panavision image of it pronto from CNN or with beach babe added from FOX.
No, seriously, with all the bogus information we get from our respective governments it isn't at all surprising that the disenfranchised might suspect everything under the Sun (or Moon). Maybe they (the US) should send a High Yield full spec package to take snaps of previous holidays spent on the moon for the kids back home. They'd probably be the coolest and number one wallpapers for quite a while !! Humm, maybe Microsoft should.....Apple MacOS ? I-MoonLandingWallpaper ? Please don't sue moi !
They want us to test their half bakes crap again...??!! Pass... If they want me to benchtest any more of their half baked code they can send me a cheque to the tune of $135/hr. That's what my clients pay. And *They* aren't large multi nationals that could afford a league of Alpha/Beta testers. Mind you, anytine you use a M$ Product and send in a detailed complaint, they save R&D money anyways....
I couldn't agree more with most of the comments here today (a rarity)
Another foolish attempt at free Advertising.......uh wait...
Anyways, there are enough peeps that avoid *any* obstacles and would rather pay through the nose to avoid having to even install a ATI Vid update, and this is where all this Vista stuff comes in. I shudder at the thought of all my evening clients surprising me with Vista on their PC's next time they call me in for a fix...
The Comic I'm sure is just another easy swing and pitch reminder that they're still working on making it tough on potential (Vista/mp3/avi/mpg/best friend's sister's bra hooks) hackers.
After the third week of release to the public, when the European (or whatever) hacker community releases a completely defanged Vista, we'll see how many peeps with already Pirated XP go for it. Seems no one remembers that the REAL Reason Win95 made big was because it became the most pirated OS of all time, locking in thousands if not millions of peeps in Microsoft's clutches at work, on their second PC's, and on their original PC's right after going to confession. Even a dealer knows the first taste has to be free.
This Cat and Mouse DRM and cripple ware drama is just that...Publicity Drama...**yawn**
"It's a great gaming OS" How do you know this ? From the Betas and RC's ??!! Doesn't it take a extended amount of time and follow through to judge performance ? Vista still has to go through one generation of games before we judge it on anything... OK, games advertised as coming out as DX10 only games will need it, but stop continuing the hype that this still "untested" OS is the cats meow for games...or anything else for that matter....wait a year then we'll see. I hate reviews before the end of the first act.
Play your fiddles while Rome burns... The usual suspects will be burnt at the stake... The problem is we spend too much time dealing with psychopaths bent on profiteering and by the time we get the public on the bandwagon it's too late... Remember that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers warned about disaster way before Katrina...From July 23-27, 2002, Reporters John McQuaid and Mark Schleifstein ran a five-part series called "Washing Away" in the New Orleans Times-Picayuneran with some quite convincing facts...the warnings were all there....didn't change a thing...start buying stocks in Bottled Water !
It was a high priority update that bollucked more than a handful of my home clients... I remove it before I do anything else (search for spywares, update AV and so on...) As far as work is concerned, I work for the Canadian gov, and we're still using WIN2000/IE6 Corp with no near plans to upgrade to either IE7 or Vista. I wouldn't mind XP on the workstations, but Vista/IE7 if definitely not in the cards...I figure sometime soon we'll need it for functionality, but hopefully that will be a long time in coming...There's no way we'll be getting anything to replace IE though, Firefox/Opera would be nice but the red tape would plunge me into a warp breach.
Can't we just rely on those good old folks from squaresoft and the existing (surviving) voice actors ? Who needs face actors anymore when a film like Final Fantasy X showed us that voice acting may be the future ? All in all though.... cool cool cool cool... 43 and still trekkin' !
No no no, NOT the Axis of Evil, just one of the lesser ones...remember ?
Axis of evil Look out Scotland and Australia!
In 'that Speech', Bush calls Iraq, Iran and North Korea the "Axis of Evil" -- N.Y. Times, 1/30/02
ANGERED BY SNUBBING, LIBYA, CHINA SYRIA FORM
"AXIS OF JUST AS EVIL"
Cuba, Sudan, Serbia Form Axis of Somewhat Evil; Other Nations Start Own Clubs. Beijing (SatireWire.com) - Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the "Axis of Evil," Libya, China, and Syria today announced they had formed the "Axis of Just as Evil," which they said would be way eviler than that stupid Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis President Bush warned of in his State of the Union address. Axis of Evil members, however, immediately dismissed the new axis as having, for starters, a really dumb name. "Right. They are Just as Evil... in their dreams!" declared North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il. "Everybody knows we're the best evils... best at being evil... we're the best."
Diplomats from Syria denied they were jealous over being excluded, although they conceded they did ask if they could join the Axis of Evil. "They told us it was full," said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
"An Axis can't have more than three countries," explained Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. "This is not my rule, it's tradition. In World War II you had Germany, Italy, and Japan in the evil Axis. So you can only have three - and a secret handshake. Ours is wicked cool."
THE AXIS PANDEMIC
International reaction to Bush's Axis of Evil declaration was swift, as within minutes, France surrendered.
Elsewhere, peer-conscious nations rushed to gain triumvirate status in what became a game of geopolitical chairs. Cuba, Sudan, and Serbia said they had formed the 'Axis of Somewhat Evil', forcing Somalia to join with Uganda and Myanmar in the 'Axis of Occasionally Evil', while Bulgaria, Indonesia and Russia established the 'Axis of Not So Much Evil Really As Just Generally Disagreeable'.
With the criteria suddenly expanded and all the desirable clubs filling up, Sierra Leone, El Salvador, and Rwanda applied to be called the 'Axis of Countries That Aren't the Worst But Certainly Won't Be Asked to Host the Olympics'; Canada, Mexico, and Australia formed the 'Axis of Nations That Are Actually Quite Nice But Secretly Have Nasty Thoughts About America', while Spain, Scotland, and New Zealand established the 'Axis of Countries That Be Allowed to Ask Sheep to Wear Lipstick'. "That's not a threat, really, just something we like to do, said Scottish Executive First Minister Jack McConnell. While wondering if the other nations of the world weren't perhaps making fun of him, a cautious Bush granted approval for most axes, although he rejected the establishment of the 'Axis of Countries Whose Names End in "Guay", accusing one of its members of filing a false application.
Officials from Paraguay, Uruguay, and Chadguay denied the charges. Israel, meanwhile, insisted it didn't want to join any Axis, but privately, world leaders said that's only because no one asked them.
Brilliant ! But I do think the MPAA shock troops might be readying to invade should the sale go through... Should prove interesting if tourism hits big.... Fire Marshal will have a hell of a time figuring out max capacity on that thing !
I think that's was where I was going with that;-) But he's from Connecticut anyways...lol I downloaded the full 2006trends.pdf... It's like I said, a few isolated incidents, someone's head is gonna roll... It's not as if were actively taking steps here in the 'Axis of Nations That Are Actually Quite Nice But Secretly Have Nasty Thoughts About America'
Had this stupid thing happen top me too... Had a client with Lego Star wars....it wouldn't install. The Publisher's website had a fix, a new windows installer ini file... It didn't work, but the forums had info on other user modified ini's floating around... I went to an open p2p search engine, found the ini file and the download would never start. Two days later I got a cease and desist letter from Rogers saying I was illegaly sharing copyrighted material! The farking file never downloaded, it was an ini file for windows installer, but they were telling my ISP that I was illegaly sharing copyrighted material! Pi**ed me off for two secs then I deleted the e-mail. But I suppose I have a black mark against me know somewhere at Rogers...
Although this sounds like an isolated case, once the coin(s) is(are) back in the US of A, where the heck would you spend it ? Anyone in the US accepted any loonies lately ? So the "they'll be ridd of the coin soon" reasoning is gone. This was probably just a one time tracking test.;-)
Back when I was doing' support for M$, we really hated OFF2000... Buggy as sin.... We got a chance to try the RC's in Canada for OFFXP and fell in love again... It was as solid as OFF97 was with new features and all.... OFF2003 is great as well, but a little more power hungry.. Most of my clients still prefer OFF2002 and will stick with it.... That was then and this is now, and Now is pissed off at this new Office... Tested all of the Betas and sent back my replies....
Going from WP4.2 to 5.1 was an exercise in re education...but was worth it. Going from OFF97/2000/2002/2003 is going to be like playing with legos again...and not finding the right piece I need....this will not help productivity in the least, and I'm not interested in taking another certification exam this year. Pass....
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Well, what did you expect ?
Can't have Big Brother without the tube in your home...
Heck, they're spending more on trying to make us beleive that Biofuels
and Hydrogen are the future, burying deep the advances in fuel cell technology that
were apparent to all a few years ago, but now no longer in the spot light, you'll
see paid bloggers and unenlightened minds argue that battery power is a long way off...
I wonder how long Texaco will sit on the Tech that Exxon sold them ?
Ref: (see "who killed the electric car, or any Popular machanics of the time...)
Cheers
I want to know where and when did the tide change ??
How is the general public supposed to tell who's lying or telling the
truth, if the hysteria changes sides so often ?
Global warming ? now you're threathened because you don't beleive in it ?
I thought we were threathened because we believed and wanted to inform the public, and get
them motivated to call down their representatives to action...which would, of course, cost
Corporations millions in lost profits....When did Paid Bloggers outpace us ?
That's it, they've ruined too many winters for me here in Canada...
I'm moving in with the Inuit. At least I'll have a white Christmas there for a change !
"You, as a cynical adult have forgotten what you were like when you were a child."
I'm sure he does remember, but traded his tonka toys for Law Books and Beleifs in the tooth faery for a Chemist's Degree.
Duck yer head and hang low...
Attracting attention is almost always bad...
I mean even here, at work (Gov)...
I happen to opine that Bill Gates was a dick and got
two people defending a billionaire on my ass...toadies !
Fighting the power is for rapper videos and idealists...
You can't fight billions of dollars worth of power.
It just gets us out in the open where they can tag us as "Free Thinkers"
and a "Danger to society".(Well the society they want, for themselves....)
I don't think ill of Residents of the USA...
I just think your country has gotten so big that even the illusion of democracy is
now impossible.
And all the revisionist history that's being written, oh man...<rant>
Good luck to you.
Where the **** do you live brother ?
You sure as sin not in Canuck country, we'd lynch the b*stards...
I was an RCMP Officer's kid, and I can't brgin to tell you how mad
I and most other in the force get when we hear of a soured cop.
You have to stand your ground and report any Peace Officers that go
against the code of cinduct to their supervisors, if this fails, you have
a few more names to send to the oversight board or the CBC. (the CBC usually
is the one that get him or her fired.)
I for one welcome our new flip flop masters.
For you see, it's getting harder to see if we really are in Kansas anymore...
" 'Microsoft's financial damage is too insignificant for a criminal investigation.'"
Now if I can just find out where I can send a bottle of Vodka so she gets it.
She has saved their justice system from possibly months of useless court time. I salute this judge for her jurisprudence. If you want to prosecute this guy I say go after the millions that pirated Win95 back in the day and, huh wait, that's what gave M$ their marketshare isn't it...oh well...
They can but we can't. Our surplus X(whatever was agreed upon) Gas oil and Hydro goes into the Fund, and we buy it back at international prices set by the US. And when the general public is unaware of what is going on, and would rather bash the messenger then researching facts then, the "truth" wins (whatever has been repeated thuroughly that week on the news), while the facts are buried. Remember that the lumber dispute is more about US owned companies between two borders fighting for profit using our governement to do its bidding.Cheers.
If the best you can do is quote Wikii...jebus man..
CHAIN -- Tim Hortons
Owner -- Wendy's International (NYSE: WEN)
Primary Operating Region -- Canada, eh, NE United States
Number of Locations -- 2755
Ignorance is using one reference.
Stupidity is posting it.
Last time I checked the US owned ALL of the big Packing and Slaughter houses on this side of the border. What you might consider Canadiana is no longer. Everything from Timbits to MapleLeaf is American (US) owned, if only through parent companies. I think Harvey's and its Parent company is the only remaining one around that hasn't sold out. It's sad but we've been bought out by the elephant. Realise it and act accordingly. I cringe when they call us USjr but hey, it's true. We even pimped ourselves in Cuba, yes, those canadian companies doing biz in Cuba ain't ours...
We don't control our oil, gas or even our hydro anymore thanx to the FTAA, and we can't even set our own prices on anything we produce here...so when some idealist suggests that we break off from our biggest trading partner (which is just trading from itself from two countries)I gasp, and cry, and realise that people still don't want to see the truth of our economy and political system.
We will be adhering to US patent, DRM and copyright laws. We ain't got the choice my friends, sorry...
Anyway, I guess I can take this troll hit...lol
OMG there's a law against "Interfearing with a church "?!
and the Scientologists not only qualify, the law was Enforced ??!!
**balls up in corner and shakes in fear**
Our Economy is tied to yours...
Our borders are inseparable.....
Your Corporations enact in the US, and it follows through in Canada..
Big Canadian Biz is Big American Biz (just switch flags)
Most Canadian Bizs in Cuba are actually American, and so on....
Canada is abdicating ? huh, no my friend...
You see, when in bed with the Elephant, the mouse may not choose to move
when the Elephant rolls over....it just does to survive...
We are inundated by images nowadays...
It doesn't matter how remote something is, and what happened there, we want a full panavision image of it pronto from CNN or with beach babe added from FOX.
No, seriously, with all the bogus information we get from our respective governments it isn't at all surprising that the disenfranchised might suspect everything under the Sun (or Moon). Maybe they (the US) should send a High Yield full spec package to take snaps of previous holidays spent on the moon for the kids back home.
They'd probably be the coolest and number one wallpapers for quite a while !!
Humm, maybe Microsoft should.....Apple MacOS ? I-MoonLandingWallpaper ?
Please don't sue moi !
They want us to test their half bakes crap again...??!! Pass...
If they want me to benchtest any more of their half baked code they can send
me a cheque to the tune of $135/hr. That's what my clients pay.
And *They* aren't large multi nationals that could afford a league of Alpha/Beta testers.
Mind you, anytine you use a M$ Product and send in a detailed complaint, they save R&D money anyways....
I couldn't agree more with most of the comments here today (a rarity)
Another foolish attempt at free Advertising.......uh wait...
Anyways, there are enough peeps that avoid *any* obstacles and would rather pay through
the nose to avoid having to even install a ATI Vid update, and this is where all this Vista stuff comes in. I shudder at the thought of all my evening clients surprising me with Vista on their PC's next time they call me in for a fix...
The Comic I'm sure is just another easy swing and pitch reminder that they're still working on making it tough on potential (Vista/mp3/avi/mpg/best friend's sister's bra hooks) hackers.
After the third week of release to the public, when the European (or whatever) hacker community releases a completely defanged Vista, we'll see how many peeps with already Pirated XP go for it. Seems no one remembers that the REAL Reason Win95 made big was because it became the most pirated OS of all time, locking in thousands if not millions of peeps in Microsoft's clutches at work, on their second PC's, and on their original PC's right after going to confession. Even a dealer knows the first taste has to be free.
This Cat and Mouse DRM and cripple ware drama is just that...Publicity Drama...**yawn**
Cheers
--
End of Line.
"It's a great gaming OS"
How do you know this ? From the Betas and RC's ??!!
Doesn't it take a extended amount of time and follow through to judge performance ?
Vista still has to go through one generation of games before we judge it on anything...
OK, games advertised as coming out as DX10 only games will need it, but stop continuing the hype that this still "untested" OS is the cats meow for games...or anything else for that matter....wait a year then we'll see. I hate reviews before the end of the first act.
Play your fiddles while Rome burns...
The usual suspects will be burnt at the stake...
The problem is we spend too much time dealing with psychopaths bent on profiteering
and by the time we get the public on the bandwagon it's too late...
Remember that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers warned about disaster way before
Katrina...From July 23-27, 2002, Reporters John McQuaid and Mark Schleifstein ran a five-part series called "Washing Away" in the New Orleans Times-Picayuneran with some quite convincing facts...the warnings were all there....didn't change a thing...start buying stocks in Bottled Water !
It was a high priority update that bollucked more than a handful of my home clients...
I remove it before I do anything else (search for spywares, update AV and so on...)
As far as work is concerned, I work for the Canadian gov, and we're still using WIN2000/IE6 Corp with no near plans to upgrade to either IE7 or Vista. I wouldn't mind XP on the workstations, but Vista/IE7 if definitely not in the cards...I figure sometime soon we'll need it for functionality, but hopefully that will be a long time in coming...There's no way we'll be getting anything to replace IE though, Firefox/Opera would be nice but the red tape would plunge me into a warp breach.
Can't we just rely on those good old folks from squaresoft and the existing (surviving) voice actors ?
Who needs face actors anymore when a film like Final Fantasy X showed us that voice acting
may be the future ? All in all though.... cool cool cool cool... 43 and still trekkin' !
No no no, NOT the Axis of Evil, just one of the lesser ones...remember ?
Axis of evil
Look out Scotland and Australia!
In 'that Speech', Bush calls Iraq, Iran and North Korea the "Axis of Evil" -- N.Y. Times, 1/30/02
ANGERED BY SNUBBING, LIBYA, CHINA SYRIA FORM
"AXIS OF JUST AS EVIL"
Cuba, Sudan, Serbia Form Axis of Somewhat Evil; Other Nations Start Own Clubs.
Beijing (SatireWire.com) - Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the "Axis of Evil," Libya, China, and Syria today announced they had formed the "Axis of Just as Evil," which they said would be way eviler than that stupid Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis President Bush warned of in his State of the Union address.
Axis of Evil members, however, immediately dismissed the new axis as having, for starters, a really dumb name. "Right. They are Just as Evil... in their dreams!" declared North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il. "Everybody knows we're the best evils... best at being evil... we're the best."
Diplomats from Syria denied they were jealous over being excluded, although they conceded they did ask if they could join the Axis of Evil. "They told us it was full," said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
"An Axis can't have more than three countries," explained Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. "This is not my rule, it's tradition. In World War II you had Germany, Italy, and Japan in the evil Axis. So you can only have three - and a secret handshake. Ours is wicked cool."
THE AXIS PANDEMIC
International reaction to Bush's Axis of Evil declaration was swift, as within minutes, France surrendered.
Elsewhere, peer-conscious nations rushed to gain triumvirate status in what became a game of geopolitical chairs. Cuba, Sudan, and Serbia said they had formed the 'Axis of Somewhat Evil', forcing Somalia to join with Uganda and Myanmar in the 'Axis of Occasionally Evil', while Bulgaria, Indonesia and Russia established the 'Axis of Not So Much Evil Really As Just Generally Disagreeable'.
With the criteria suddenly expanded and all the desirable clubs filling up, Sierra Leone, El Salvador, and Rwanda applied to be called the 'Axis of Countries That Aren't the Worst But Certainly Won't Be Asked to Host the Olympics'; Canada, Mexico, and Australia formed the 'Axis of Nations That Are Actually Quite Nice But Secretly Have Nasty Thoughts About America', while Spain, Scotland, and New Zealand established the 'Axis of Countries That Be Allowed to Ask Sheep to Wear Lipstick'.
"That's not a threat, really, just something we like to do, said Scottish Executive First Minister Jack McConnell.
While wondering if the other nations of the world weren't perhaps making fun of him, a cautious Bush granted approval for most axes, although he rejected the establishment of the 'Axis of Countries Whose Names End in "Guay", accusing one of its members of filing a false application.
Officials from Paraguay, Uruguay, and Chadguay denied the charges.
Israel, meanwhile, insisted it didn't want to join any Axis, but privately, world leaders said that's only because no one asked them.
Brilliant !
But I do think the MPAA shock troops might be readying to invade
should the sale go through...
Should prove interesting if tourism hits big....
Fire Marshal will have a hell of a time figuring out max capacity on that thing !
I think that's was where I was going with that ;-)
l
But he's from Connecticut anyways...lol
I downloaded the full 2006trends.pdf...
It's like I said, a few isolated incidents, someone's head is gonna roll...
It's not as if were actively taking steps here in the 'Axis of Nations That Are Actually Quite Nice But Secretly Have Nasty Thoughts About America'
hxxp://www.madraff.co.uk/pol.html#Axis%20of%20evi
Cheers
Had this stupid thing happen top me too...
Had a client with Lego Star wars....it wouldn't install.
The Publisher's website had a fix, a new windows installer ini file...
It didn't work, but the forums had info on other user modified ini's floating around...
I went to an open p2p search engine, found the ini file and the download would never start.
Two days later I got a cease and desist letter from Rogers saying I was illegaly sharing
copyrighted material! The farking file never downloaded, it was an ini file for windows installer, but they were telling my ISP that I was illegaly sharing
copyrighted material! Pi**ed me off for two secs then I deleted the e-mail. But I suppose I have a black mark against me know somewhere at Rogers...
Although this sounds like an isolated case, once the coin(s) is(are) back ;-)
in the US of A, where the heck would you spend it ?
Anyone in the US accepted any loonies lately ?
So the "they'll be ridd of the coin soon" reasoning is gone.
This was probably just a one time tracking test.
Back when I was doing' support for M$, we really hated OFF2000...
Buggy as sin....
We got a chance to try the RC's in Canada for OFFXP and fell in love again...
It was as solid as OFF97 was with new features and all....
OFF2003 is great as well, but a little more power hungry..
Most of my clients still prefer OFF2002 and will stick with it....
That was then and this is now, and Now is pissed off at this new Office...
Tested all of the Betas and sent back my replies....
Going from WP4.2 to 5.1 was an exercise in re education...but was worth it.
Going from OFF97/2000/2002/2003 is going to be like playing with legos again...and not finding the right piece I need....this will not help productivity in the least, and I'm not interested in taking another certification exam this year.
Pass....