Frustrated tears of tortured gamers crying out for entertainment that doesn't suck.
And games that work. Ironic that the same folks forcing an agendized political view into their game are the same folks who included the infamous computer wrecking malware known as Starforce with Area 51.
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When you add it all up, it really does seem to paint a picture of this woman being a fake.
Only if you subtract 3000+ articles all written in the same manner, tone, point of view, and personality. You also have to subtract an extremely consistent moderation behavior regarding at least several hundred thousand posts, years of personal email correspondence, and the fact that she has always openly proclaimed her desire for anonymity and protects that anonymity with smart computing habits.
I'll bet she wouldn't be anonymous for very long if she used Microsoft products.
You still can call up your representative and call him/her an asshole. You can still post on slashdot how much you hate things. You can grab either a digital camera, or a camcorder and make home movies. You can write the great american novel and print it out on your laserjet.
And you're suggesting moving the entire accounting system into a new software package just so you can keep it in Linux?
No, maybe he's suggesting changing vendors from one that screws existing, long time customers to one that doesn't. What's to prevent this vendor from changing again, forcing another expensive "upgrade" on their clients in the future? If the vendor can't sustain their current level of support, maybe they are in financial trouble themselves. What options would the customers have if the vendor goes out of business?
The fact is, they do have to move their entire accounting system just to run windows. And they have to pay for the pain as well!
They should ditch this vendor as quickly as possible, even if they do have to switch to windows.
You're probably right. A $500 Million Microsoft datacenter in San Antonio, Texas probably also means Microsoft's OOXML for Texas documents. Ballmer aims his furniture better than Chaney aims his shotgun.:)
Knowing enough Microsoft employees given my locality to Redmond I have learned that they both use Microsoft products and speak out strongly against what they feel are bad decisions due to extreme pride both in thier own work and others work at the company.
Baloney. They work for a den of thieves and are such themselves. They should hang there heads in shame at the shoddy, insecure, unreliable shit their "company of pride" turns out. Anyone who works for Microsoft deserves no respect, because they work for a company that lies, cheats, steals, and threatens in their routine operations.
And if they claim they need a paycheck, tell them to whore their daughters. There's more dignity in that than working for microsoft.
...the sad reality is that there are not any alternatives for many applications.
No, the sad reality is that most of the Microsoft users in the workplace don't understand the tasks they are supposed to perform well enough to use other applications. For example, not having Photoshop in linux does not mean there are no alternatives, it just means that those who claim there are no alternatives don't understand exactly how or what they are trying to do. They are slaves to the software.
This might be an acceptable situation for some businesses if they did not have to pay for the Microsoft-certified "professionals" to come fix their installations when the OS gets fried by malware, viruses, adware, spyware, and/or patches and "updates". Not to mention the costs of trying to relicense software if a piece of hardware goes out.
The real cop-out is saying that there are no alternatives.
Yeah, mine locked up a couple of times (fortunately never during an exam!) before I realized that it was a result of carrying the calculator in a backpack full of heavy textbooks. The soft case allowed the books to press on the keys for long periods of time, draining the batteries or causing the calculator to freeze up.
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It took a lot more RAM to cache your updated phrase than the original one.
I'll bet she wouldn't be anonymous for very long if she used Microsoft products.
The fact is, they do have to move their entire accounting system just to run windows. And they have to pay for the pain as well!
They should ditch this vendor as quickly as possible, even if they do have to switch to windows.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
And if they claim they need a paycheck, tell them to whore their daughters. There's more dignity in that than working for microsoft.
stealing is another.
This might be an acceptable situation for some businesses if they did not have to pay for the Microsoft-certified "professionals" to come fix their installations when the OS gets fried by malware, viruses, adware, spyware, and/or patches and "updates". Not to mention the costs of trying to relicense software if a piece of hardware goes out.
The real cop-out is saying that there are no alternatives.
Yes. It is clear now. George W. Bush killed the dinosaurs.