Why would you buy a prefab machine with windows knowing that you didn't want it in the first place? If I buy a car and don't like the rims, I don't ask the manufacturer or dealer for a refund. Don't buy from that vendor. No one put a gun to your head. This is stupid.
As the article mentions, Windows' licensing agreement explicitly entitles you to a refund from the manufacturer.
The article mentions the manufacturer will avoid giving a price, citing "an agreement with Microsoft." However, it goes on to explain that if the manufacturer cannot specify a price, the Judge will likely use the retail price (i.e. $199 USD).
Which is good, because if Dell (or whoever) starts losing money by only shipping Windows on their machines, they will want to offer Windows-less notebooks.
Though there are times in the book where I found myself scratching my head, or wondering how he could have missed a favorite quote (Where, oh where, are the dogs who shoot bees from their mouths?)
I get the impression there are quite a few quotes in there. I don't know. I don't really want to buy a book that has a lot of Simpsons quotes, unless they relate to the topic at hand. I'd be glad he didn't include my favourite quote -- if I wanted that, I could watch the episode. I don't really like people retelling Simpsons/Family Guy/Chapelle Show quotes ad nauseum.
I don't use hotspots, really, but anyone know how the advertising works? Is it like the old free-dialup schemes where you would always have an ad on screen? You would have to install a program to get access. If so, this probably wouldn't be compatible with Mac or Linux?
Can't find this in TFA, all I can get is:
"HarborLink will basically offer some advertising to the end user to offset the cost that would normally have been passed on to the user. This allows the service to be offered at no cost.
This is Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft. We're testing a new email system. If you forward this message, you'll get $100 for every person that opens it.
I appreciate your help in testing this new system.
Didn't Bill Gates vow to rid the world of spam entirely within 2 years at some stage? I am sure I read that somewhere. Can anyone find a link to such a quote?
Sure, there will be spammers who think they can evade folks like Kornblum, Spitzer, and Abbott. But for every one of them, there will be others who--when they see what happened to Scott Richter as a result of Gates' resolve--hopefully will realize that spamming and phishing are bad career choices.
So the 'script kiddie spammers' drop out and the smart spammers take over, making even more money. It's supply and demand, and apparently there is demand for SPAM from this small-penised, high-mortgage, porn-searching world.
"We're prepared for launch," launch director Omar Baez said Friday during a televised news conference from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. "The next two weeks are crucial. There's a lot of work that's got to be done, but we're getting there."
Something I've always wondered about is whether very professional organizations (e.g. NASA) operate in the same way as software developers. Because when someone involved in Software says to the press, "We're prepared for launch," it usually means something a little different.
I would hope this wouldn't be the case with NASA or scientists with similarily important jobs, but does this happen? I mean, they have bosses to answer to and deadlines to meet. Just curious.
Glasgow based artist Sandy Smith has some slightly different suggestions for what to do with those outdated PCs and Apple Macs -- build your home out of them!
I'll have to ask my mom if I can build a house in her basement.
At some future date a liquid-fueled rocket will dock with the telescope and fire, hurling Hubble into the ocean. However, "Our best estimate is we probably will be able to continue to do science as we're doing it...
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Reminds of the kid who stands up in class in front of everybody and complains that the kids are calling him "dick face" or something.
It ain't helpin' yer case, kid, so siddown.
I believe Apple has fairly liberal policies for buying a latop without Windows. I hear they're more difficult about OS X refunds, though.
Terrasoft offers Apple hardware with Linux pre-installed. (It still has OS X on it, though.)
Why would you buy a prefab machine with windows knowing that you didn't want it in the first place? If I buy a car and don't like the rims, I don't ask the manufacturer or dealer for a refund. Don't buy from that vendor. No one put a gun to your head. This is stupid.
As the article mentions, Windows' licensing agreement explicitly entitles you to a refund from the manufacturer.
The article mentions the manufacturer will avoid giving a price, citing "an agreement with Microsoft." However, it goes on to explain that if the manufacturer cannot specify a price, the Judge will likely use the retail price (i.e. $199 USD).
Which is good, because if Dell (or whoever) starts losing money by only shipping Windows on their machines, they will want to offer Windows-less notebooks.
Mod the parent up. I think you've managed to summarize the appeal of The Simpsons (and also Futurama) right there.
Mod this parent up, too. I think you've managed to summarize the appeal of the grandparent post (and others like it) right there.
Though there are times in the book where I found myself scratching my head, or wondering how he could have missed a favorite quote (Where, oh where, are the dogs who shoot bees from their mouths?)
I get the impression there are quite a few quotes in there. I don't know. I don't really want to buy a book that has a lot of Simpsons quotes, unless they relate to the topic at hand. I'd be glad he didn't include my favourite quote -- if I wanted that, I could watch the episode. I don't really like people retelling Simpsons/Family Guy/Chapelle Show quotes ad nauseum.
According to my research, the following thing suck:
- Spring Break
- Cruises
- Ski Resorts
- Cheap Flights
- Discount Travel
- Financial Planning
- Tax Preparation
- Tax Returns
- Stocks
- Mortgages
Surprisingly, this is one of the view few sites I've seen on the Internet that misses "hot 'n' horny coeds" that "want to ride heavy cock."
I'll be impressed when Google can differentiate two trees swinging in the wind and two porn stars swinging.
I'll be very happy when I'm old and blind enough that I can't differentiate. VERY happy.
You could all see the real me, you'ed all be to scared though! ugly am I!
:-)
Aw, now honey... you know that just isn't true. You're not ugly, you're just a little... original.
Love,
Mommy
Seriously, no matter how horny you are, you wouldn't simply jump on bed with anybody, would you?
You're a girl, aren't you?
I don't use hotspots, really, but anyone know how the advertising works? Is it like the old free-dialup schemes where you would always have an ad on screen? You would have to install a program to get access. If so, this probably wouldn't be compatible with Mac or Linux?
Can't find this in TFA, all I can get is:
"HarborLink will basically offer some advertising to the end user to offset the cost that would normally have been passed on to the user. This allows the service to be offered at no cost.
You are on screen 3 of 1,490,548,734 of the Great Gatsby.
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To: billg@microsoft.com
From: billg@microsoft.com
Hi,
This is Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft. We're testing a new email system. If you forward this message, you'll get $100 for every person that opens it.
I appreciate your help in testing this new system.
Lovingly,
Bill Gates
CEO Microsoft
You may be talking about this:
He's still got time, then.
Sure, there will be spammers who think they can evade folks like Kornblum, Spitzer, and Abbott. But for every one of them, there will be others who--when they see what happened to Scott Richter as a result of Gates' resolve--hopefully will realize that spamming and phishing are bad career choices.
So the 'script kiddie spammers' drop out and the smart spammers take over, making even more money. It's supply and demand, and apparently there is demand for SPAM from this small-penised, high-mortgage, porn-searching world.
Happy. It's open, and could be a sign that MS is actually "getting it".
I wonder if anyone said that when they introduced IE.
I don't know whether to be happy or afraid.
"We're prepared for launch," launch director Omar Baez said Friday during a televised news conference from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. "The next two weeks are crucial. There's a lot of work that's got to be done, but we're getting there."
Something I've always wondered about is whether very professional organizations (e.g. NASA) operate in the same way as software developers. Because when someone involved in Software says to the press, "We're prepared for launch," it usually means something a little different.
I would hope this wouldn't be the case with NASA or scientists with similarily important jobs, but does this happen? I mean, they have bosses to answer to and deadlines to meet. Just curious.
It's okay. Those things in the picture are called "girls". What you're feeling is natural.
Pfft. Dude, I think I know what girls look like. I do see my mother every once in a while so she can cut my hair.
I don't know if it's supposed to be pretty or scary.
Pictures like these remind me of how eery a society we live in. It's actually kind of depressing or even scary.
(In an I'm-in-front-of-my-computer-at-4:45AM kind of way)
Glasgow based artist Sandy Smith has some slightly different suggestions for what to do with those outdated PCs and Apple Macs -- build your home out of them!
I'll have to ask my mom if I can build a house in her basement.
Aw, she says I have to bathe first.
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Shouldn't that be ZomBe OS?
No, you're thinking of Windows.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
No mention of mc chris?
At some future date a liquid-fueled rocket will dock with the telescope and fire, hurling Hubble into the ocean. However, "Our best estimate is we probably will be able to continue to do science as we're doing it ...
Whoa! Extreme!"