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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Microsoft Doesn't Learn ,----[ Quote ] | The marketing effort for Windows 7 now | underway clearly illustrates one thing: | Microsoft has not learned from the past. For | some reason, they seem to think that people | actually care about the features of their | operating system. The truth is, people don’t | really care. … Windows 7 is likely to follow | the same fate as Vista. `----...

Need another second opinion, as I read something on a site tangentially related to this newsgroup that seems crazy to me, but thought I'd check. If you post a blog entry complaining about a service problem with a company, and a representative from that company posts a comment, clearly identifying themselves, and asking you to email so they can help with your problem, is that bad? How about if the company uses a third party firm that...

ray pulled this Usenet boner: Quote: On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:22:51 -0800, Tim Smith wrote: One must wonder, if Roy and his minions are so interested in the package makeup of Ubuntu, why they didn't bother to participate in the developer summit. Perhaps because it would be harder to misrepresent what happened if they had actually participated. Crazy stuff from Tim. I think he is nuttier than he thinks Roy is. Seriously. He's become as...

Snit wrote: Quote: I advocate for - and use - Windows, OS X and Linux (mostly Ubuntu). I generally prefer OS X for most of what I do, but in the end, each is just a tool. I also have a brand of mechanical pencils I really like - but I could not imagine getting worked up over someone who does not like them or someone who prefers pens. Sure, I think my pencils work very well... and I can point to usability reasons I prefer them and suggest them...

"Snit" <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> schreef in bericht news:C73695AF.56380%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com... Quote: High Plains Thumper stated in post hergju$q2h$1@news.eternal-september.org on 11/28/09 8:46 AM: spike1 wrote: Snit babble thusly: Sadly you have not been able to counter a word that was on the site. Why not? Because I'm not foolish enough to click on it? Why on earth would I want to visit a...

On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:11:30 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote: Quote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 FSFE: EC caves in to proprietary lobbyists on interoperability http://fsfe.org/news/200....en.html What's interesting is that on Roy's propoganda site, he makes this claim in a piece about this subject, on something he calls "a related notification". "No more comments are needed then. Hiner is an...

AZ Nomad <aznomad.3@PremoveOBthisOX.COM> writes: Quote: On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:34:48 -0600, Rick <none@mail.invalid> wrote: On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:42:30 -0700, Snit wrote: Rick stated in post Wd2dnVNekaeAvo3WnZ2dnUVZ_r9i4p2d@supernews.com on 11/27/09 12:06 PM: On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:41:42 -0500, Magnus Boyle wrote: http://www.whylinuxsucks....llation "Exactly right. This is why Exactly right. This is why I...

On 2009-11-27, the following emerged from the brain of Snit: Quote: TomB stated in post 20091127205641.886@usenet.drumscum.be on 11/27/09 2:45 PM: On 2009-11-27, the following emerged from the brain of Snit: What is described in the article is not just an example of things not working the same, they clearly do not work as well... What is described in the article is total and utter bullshit. Nothing more, nothing less. So counter the claims......

High Plains Thumper stated in post heqbkc$3iq$2@news.eternal-september.org on 11/27/09 10:14 PM: Quote: Snit wrote: I advocate for - and use - Windows, OS X and Linux (mostly Ubuntu). I generally prefer OS X for most of what I do, but in the end, each is just a tool. I also have a brand of mechanical pencils I really like - but I could not imagine getting worked up over someone who does not like them or someone who prefers pens. Sure, I think...

On 2009-11-28, Erik Funkenbusch <erik@despam-funkenbusch.com> wrote: Quote: On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:11:30 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 FSFE: EC caves in to proprietary lobbyists on interoperability http://fsfe.org/news/200....en.html What's interesting is that on Roy's propoganda site, he makes this claim in a piece about this subject, on something he calls "a...