I really hope the STD folks are joking, but on the off chance they're not - if MS is an STD, then so are you. Literally, since you're calling pregnancy an STD.
Good point, except that when we get someone asking for a supervisor on the phone it ends up being, "Who wants to be a supervisor today?"
Chances are you're just getting another rep. In reality, any rep can get almost anything done if they're willing to fight for their customer.
If this were to actually work and be rolled out(said with a GIANT grain of salt), what traveler in an airport with their laptop has that kind of HD space? I'm assuming if you're going to have a connection that fast, it would be to watch HD movies and things of that nature. Laptop HDs aren't cheap, and is there truly a large scale need for something like that?
US government has already
tried it, and the FCC is on our side. For now. But when
South Dakota makes abortion virtually illegal,
do you really trust our government to do what's in our best
interests? They'll do anythign they can to get their paws on it somehow. They (the
illusive "man/men for proper conjugation") are trying to get us
to pay
for email, for fuck's sake! It's up to us and how much BS
we're willing to deal with. Sony's DRM didn't last long, now did
it? The market will even itself out, or that's the going theory...
Maybe not an addiction, but definately bad for sotware development. According to the
APA:
"Bill Gates has been quoted saying that his programmers can program for 72 hours straight," Stickgold says. "And I say-yeah, but their product is Windows."
The article says $25 (Australian?), but I don't know how useful it is. For one, people technically inclined enough to buy and use a digital postcard probably own a digital camera/camera phone. It doesn't say anything about being able to get the images off the postcard once they're captured, so you have to continually replace batteries to view them? It's almost a great idea.
I wonder if it occurred to anyone yet to stream the video. Then, you wouldn't even have to drag yourself out to grandma's grave every year. And, by the way, has anyone noticed there's a baby on the screen in the ad? He did say he wanted to be the Walt Disney of funerals...
Microsoft seems to be getting a bit desperate. Or greedy, probably both. You'd
think IE
Explorer gaining on Firefox would be enough for them (even though Firefox
is clearly better).
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I really hope the STD folks are joking, but on the off chance they're not - if MS is an STD, then so are you. Literally, since you're calling pregnancy an STD.
Good point, except that when we get someone asking for a supervisor on the phone it ends up being, "Who wants to be a supervisor today?"
Chances are you're just getting another rep. In reality, any rep can get almost anything done if they're willing to fight for their customer.
If this were to actually work and be rolled out(said with a GIANT grain of salt), what traveler in an airport with their laptop has that kind of HD space? I'm assuming if you're going to have a connection that fast, it would be to watch HD movies and things of that nature. Laptop HDs aren't cheap, and is there truly a large scale need for something like that?
US government has already tried it, and the FCC is on our side. For now. But when South Dakota makes abortion virtually illegal, do you really trust our government to do what's in our best interests? They'll do anythign they can to get their paws on it somehow. They (the illusive "man/men for proper conjugation") are trying to get us to pay for email, for fuck's sake! It's up to us and how much BS we're willing to deal with. Sony's DRM didn't last long, now did it? The market will even itself out, or that's the going theory...
The article says $25 (Australian?), but I don't know how useful it is. For one, people technically inclined enough to buy and use a digital postcard probably own a digital camera/camera phone. It doesn't say anything about being able to get the images off the postcard once they're captured, so you have to continually replace batteries to view them? It's almost a great idea.
I wonder if it occurred to anyone yet to stream the video. Then, you wouldn't even have to drag yourself out to grandma's grave every year. And, by the way, has anyone noticed there's a baby on the screen in the ad? He did say he wanted to be the Walt Disney of funerals...
Microsoft seems to be getting a bit desperate. Or greedy, probably both. You'd think IE Explorer gaining on Firefox would be enough for them (even though Firefox is clearly better).