Good job on getting out of the wrong side of the bed this morning. I was under the impression that they had stopped selling and/or supporting it and that manufacturers such as Dell simply pre-install it using downgrade rights. Genius indeed.
I don't particularly like Microsoft, in fact they are still my least favourite company in the world. But do you expect Adobe to keep bringing out patches for 8 year old versions of Photoshop? Would you expect a car manufacturer to offer a 10 year warranty on all of their cars? Anyone who is heavily reliant on old versions of Windows probably only has themselves to blame. If they are relying on popular 3rd party software then chances are that it has a newer version out for Windows. If they are using in house software that can only run on XP then they should have it updated.
Microsoft are perfectly within their rights to "force" obsolescence onto users by concentrating on more recent versions of their software. They would also be perfectly within their rights to stop making Windows altogether and start manufacturing refrigerators. Yes, they use very scummy business and marketing tactics, but as far as stopping support for XP, it is one of the more reasonable of their scummy tactics. They even produced a backwards compatibility plugin to let Office 2003 work with 2007, I was quite shocked at that.
Not really, otherwise if I got a beautiful woman to stroke my ears like this, I.. OOOOOOOOH MY GOD, right there, yeah that's it.. mmmmm, work that q-tip.. now get up close and whisper to me baby! What? Yeah well for 500 an hour I should be able to spray as much earjizzwax as I want on your face..
You also have to fight against gravity, and possible collisions from those "significantly more" directions. While computers and properly regulated tracking devices should be able to handle all this pretty well, that's no fun for those who are imagining piloting their "flying car" themselves..
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They can't really make any claims about anything unless they have a good control group. It's like saying that my brain is growing better because I like peanut butter. Or perhaps because I enjoy walking. Or because I like to crack my knuckles. There are millions of variables. They could at the very least try to isolate one of them before claiming any causation.
you can't access MS Exchange from most WinMo phones
Windows Mobile devices have supported DirectPUSH since version 5 (my HTC TyTN had it 3 or 4 years ago). I doubt "most" Windows Mobile devices are running on an earlier version of the OS. All of our devices have worked fine with DirectPUSH over the years.
Perhaps your Exchange server has not been set up correctly: it will need to be at least Exchange 2003, have Outlook Web Access enabled, and have an SSL certificate from a trusted CA (or as we do, simply install an appropriate certificate on each phone so that it can trust the server).
I started taking pills in my final year of university. My emotional mood improved, but I also lost part of my drive or sense of what was "important" in life, and didn't bother doing my final year project (spent most of my time online talking to people, playing games, and ended up with my first ever gf). I haven't really had any cause to regret that decision because I already had a job lined up and had started in it part time before I finished that year, but I sometimes wonder if it would have been different if I hadn't been on the pills. I'm hoping in the future that my years of work experience will count for more than the lack of "honours" on my degree (and became aware in the first couple of years at Uni that degrees were no longer a guarantee of getting a job like they used to be, plus I wasn't learning much new stuff, so it all felt like a waste of time overall).
What is the meaning of relationships? Is everything self gratification?
IMO that comes down to "personal things", because your views on them vastly affect how you will interact with others. In my current opinion there is no overarching "meaning" to anything, but that doesn't mean things can't have personal meaning. Anything going on in the world is bound to appear absurd to someone. It's funny how seriously most of us take our jobs, how nice our homes look etc. Well it's funny to us, but probably not to those who can't get a job or are working under the poverty line, etc. But so much of our social order just has no "meaning" other than the fact that it has become normal. I get that you were just being rhetorical, but I couldn't exist, sorry. This is the reason that I end up getting depressed, I take even hypothetical situations, play them out, and get sad at how fscked up everything is. Or sometimes the situations are real, and there is no escape.
The thing with that kind of attitude is that you will always find more problems. I should know:p
Though you are right that the times in my life when I've actually felt like writing poetry have been when I've been depressed. Lyrics about how everything is going well for you usually aren't very interesting. Please take note, gangsta rapper types.
True, but America is the most visible country using it. Our government in the UK isn't much better of course, but they're just following the US's lead at the moment. Maybe invading is the only decent way to improve the quality of life in these places (in a roundabout way), but I still get very cynical over it all. Invading - and inevitably destroying innocent peoples' lives in the process - doesn't help too much on the terrorist front either IMO. You will end up giving some people - who would have otherwise had a neutral opinion - a reason to hate you when you kill their friends and family, perpetuating the cycle.
I thought it was because the American government/media keeps demonising country after country and then average joe hick starts talking about how evil it is? As soon as they were mostly done blowing the crap out of Iraq, people started talking about Iran. Seems the United States need some kind of common enemy to keep them united (or distracted?).
Flame away, I don't care, exactly the same thing happened with Iraq after Afghanistan (and still no evidence at all of WMDs).:p
After a quick check to see what you are talking about, I recommend this: try holding your mouse over the plus/minus thingy until the tooltip pops up. Not the best design though, I'm not sure entirely what the voting does - possibly something to do with the firehose system.
The PC and PPC bit has been solved by other people. VirtualBox and VMWare both permit OSX to run on PC's. Obviously, XBox and OSX aren't the same, but at least one hurdle has been cleared.
You really are quite out of touch. OSX has been running on x86 hardware for a several years now. Yes it probably still can run on PPC too since they compile for both platforms, but vbox and vmware will be running the x86 code. They are not emulators, they are virtual machines. They run software that was designed for the same processor as the host machine. So in fact none of the hurdles have been cleared..
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Good job on getting out of the wrong side of the bed this morning. I was under the impression that they had stopped selling and/or supporting it and that manufacturers such as Dell simply pre-install it using downgrade rights. Genius indeed.
I don't particularly like Microsoft, in fact they are still my least favourite company in the world. But do you expect Adobe to keep bringing out patches for 8 year old versions of Photoshop? Would you expect a car manufacturer to offer a 10 year warranty on all of their cars? Anyone who is heavily reliant on old versions of Windows probably only has themselves to blame. If they are relying on popular 3rd party software then chances are that it has a newer version out for Windows. If they are using in house software that can only run on XP then they should have it updated.
Microsoft are perfectly within their rights to "force" obsolescence onto users by concentrating on more recent versions of their software. They would also be perfectly within their rights to stop making Windows altogether and start manufacturing refrigerators. Yes, they use very scummy business and marketing tactics, but as far as stopping support for XP, it is one of the more reasonable of their scummy tactics. They even produced a backwards compatibility plugin to let Office 2003 work with 2007, I was quite shocked at that.
Disturbing and ironic that so many teachers themselves refuse to learn.. no wonder education is stagnating.
Actually, it was with "girlfriends". You were always able to have sex with prossies in the GTA III series.
Not really, otherwise if I got a beautiful woman to stroke my ears like this, I .. OOOOOOOOH MY GOD, right there, yeah that's it.. mmmmm, work that q-tip.. now get up close and whisper to me baby! What? Yeah well for 500 an hour I should be able to spray as much earjizzwax as I want on your face..
You also have to fight against gravity, and possible collisions from those "significantly more" directions. While computers and properly regulated tracking devices should be able to handle all this pretty well, that's no fun for those who are imagining piloting their "flying car" themselves..
They can't really make any claims about anything unless they have a good control group. It's like saying that my brain is growing better because I like peanut butter. Or perhaps because I enjoy walking. Or because I like to crack my knuckles. There are millions of variables. They could at the very least try to isolate one of them before claiming any causation.
I don't think logic comes into it - they just wanted an excuse to hit out at something.
Take that however you will.
Considering the first is pretty wise, I'm not sure how to take it. Not doing them at all is always an option.
PS Is it weird that I still enjoy doing them when they're over 64?
There's a 1 in 1 chance that it was a Pratchett reference, him being my favourite author.
you can't access MS Exchange from most WinMo phones
Windows Mobile devices have supported DirectPUSH since version 5 (my HTC TyTN had it 3 or 4 years ago). I doubt "most" Windows Mobile devices are running on an earlier version of the OS. All of our devices have worked fine with DirectPUSH over the years.
Perhaps your Exchange server has not been set up correctly: it will need to be at least Exchange 2003, have Outlook Web Access enabled, and have an SSL certificate from a trusted CA (or as we do, simply install an appropriate certificate on each phone so that it can trust the server).
Well, one in a million chances do crop up nine times out of ten.
I started taking pills in my final year of university. My emotional mood improved, but I also lost part of my drive or sense of what was "important" in life, and didn't bother doing my final year project (spent most of my time online talking to people, playing games, and ended up with my first ever gf). I haven't really had any cause to regret that decision because I already had a job lined up and had started in it part time before I finished that year, but I sometimes wonder if it would have been different if I hadn't been on the pills. I'm hoping in the future that my years of work experience will count for more than the lack of "honours" on my degree (and became aware in the first couple of years at Uni that degrees were no longer a guarantee of getting a job like they used to be, plus I wasn't learning much new stuff, so it all felt like a waste of time overall).
What is the meaning of relationships? Is everything self gratification?
IMO that comes down to "personal things", because your views on them vastly affect how you will interact with others. In my current opinion there is no overarching "meaning" to anything, but that doesn't mean things can't have personal meaning. Anything going on in the world is bound to appear absurd to someone. It's funny how seriously most of us take our jobs, how nice our homes look etc. Well it's funny to us, but probably not to those who can't get a job or are working under the poverty line, etc. But so much of our social order just has no "meaning" other than the fact that it has become normal. I get that you were just being rhetorical, but I couldn't exist, sorry. This is the reason that I end up getting depressed, I take even hypothetical situations, play them out, and get sad at how fscked up everything is. Or sometimes the situations are real, and there is no escape.
The thing with that kind of attitude is that you will always find more problems. I should know :p
Though you are right that the times in my life when I've actually felt like writing poetry have been when I've been depressed. Lyrics about how everything is going well for you usually aren't very interesting. Please take note, gangsta rapper types.
Probably didn't help that the new kid's neighbour had recently punched the bully in the balls.
True, but America is the most visible country using it. Our government in the UK isn't much better of course, but they're just following the US's lead at the moment. Maybe invading is the only decent way to improve the quality of life in these places (in a roundabout way), but I still get very cynical over it all. Invading - and inevitably destroying innocent peoples' lives in the process - doesn't help too much on the terrorist front either IMO. You will end up giving some people - who would have otherwise had a neutral opinion - a reason to hate you when you kill their friends and family, perpetuating the cycle.
I thought it was because the American government/media keeps demonising country after country and then average joe hick starts talking about how evil it is? As soon as they were mostly done blowing the crap out of Iraq, people started talking about Iran. Seems the United States need some kind of common enemy to keep them united (or distracted?).
Flame away, I don't care, exactly the same thing happened with Iraq after Afghanistan (and still no evidence at all of WMDs). :p
Die,A.B3ttik?
Oops, I somehow clicked post anonymously.. if you're going to reply, reply to this post please!
You deserve a medal for reading his massive post in its entirety.
After a quick check to see what you are talking about, I recommend this: try holding your mouse over the plus/minus thingy until the tooltip pops up. Not the best design though, I'm not sure entirely what the voting does - possibly something to do with the firehose system.
Don't think "illegal". Think "legally different".
The PC and PPC bit has been solved by other people. VirtualBox and VMWare both permit OSX to run on PC's. Obviously, XBox and OSX aren't the same, but at least one hurdle has been cleared.
You really are quite out of touch. OSX has been running on x86 hardware for a several years now. Yes it probably still can run on PPC too since they compile for both platforms, but vbox and vmware will be running the x86 code. They are not emulators, they are virtual machines. They run software that was designed for the same processor as the host machine. So in fact none of the hurdles have been cleared..
I should really stop altering sentences after I've written them, it often leaves redundant phrases..