I own a Sony PRS-505...
Yah, but this is from the company that installed the rootkit on your computer.
BTW, what's the statute of limitations on bonehead behavior? So far I'm boycotting these companies:
DT
Uninstalled and off my radar by then. Fool me, once, etc.
People probably still buy Belkin products after their routers redirected http requests to their advertisements and they paid for faked reviews, too.
DT
I stopped using NoScript after they did shenanigans with Adblock Plus subscription settings. If they're going to do that sort of behind-the-scenes tomfoolery, what else are they up to?
DT
No Genitalia = end of man
Not such a bad idea when you think about it. The earth could use a break from all this "stewardship."
DT
Excepting that this is Microsoft, there's really nothing new to see here. A contract is a contract, no matter whether if it's with a 500 pound gorilla or with Guido from downtown (though the similarity is striking).
I had a relative that owned a wholesale food delivery service. Business was good, though the profit margin was small. During a small downturn in the economy back in the early 70s he had a couple restaurants declare bankruptcy on him. Unfortunately they were a couple of his biggest customers, and left him with pretty big bills. Well, guess what? He still had to pay his supplier, and that small fact finally drove him under (which would have happened anyway with the advent of Sysco, but that's a story for another day).
I guess the reasons we're complaining are that:
Granted, I like to get in on a little Microsoft-bashing myself, but I think that here they have them by rights. A little compassion would be nice, but perhaps they can appeal to the Gates Foundation for some of that.
Dt
[Here's hoping]
(okay, here it comes...)
You must be new here.
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I just cancelled a 10-year Hotmail account and left to Gmail a few days ago because Microsoft thought that it would be cute to splice their own(poorly-implemented, I might add) version of MySpace into my goddamn e-mail account.
It's not like Hotmail is the only one. Yahoo!'s mail did it, too, with their "Connections," but perhaps it's easier to ignore on Yahoo!.
DT
Yes, it does have a slot. I can pursue that avenue if the IR sync doesn't work. Thanks!
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I've got my Clie SJ-22 that I've had for years (my Palm IIIx screen digitizer went out), and I still use it religiously, but now I've found out, horror of horrors, that it no longer syncs to my computer (Sony hardware issue, since I've tried my SO's cradle for nought; she's tried my cradle and it works for her). I can try an IR sync to see if that works. Either way, since the hardware is going, I need to find a place to put all those calendar items that I've been carrying around forever.
Aside from waiting for the Palm Pre, which I haven't heard if there's any way to migrate PalmOS info to, does anybody else have ideas for how and where to put all the Palm info? Extra credit: can't sync with Palm, but rather has to take the computer files. I don't want to buy anything from eBay either.
DT
I'm no business analyst, but obviously Linux (the netbook market in particular) is severely cutting into the profits of computer giants like Microsoft, Apple, Intel, and IBM. If you needed a sign for the year of Linux, this is it!
Well, I've got a circa-1998 333MHz Pentium II processor with 128 MB of memory running my file server at the house. If it wasn't for Linux, I'd have replaced it a loooong time ago with some of that new fancy-shmancy Intel stuff. Now it sits there for months between reboots and hardly draws any power. And when that goes, I've got an 800MHz beastie waiting in the wings to take over.
Nope, Linux hasn't hurt Intel at all.
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What, Americans make up only 5% of the world population? (10% by body mass)
Yes, but if we don't like something, it suffers because we are the consumers of the world's resources. If it's not good enough for me to buy with my borrowed money off of my maxed-out credit cards, then it's not good enough for anyone else.
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I originally looked at 9/80 and thought to myself, I can see requiring 80 hours a week, but what does the 9 mean?
At one employer, salaried people were expected to put in at least 9 hours per day. One (salaried) guy that did exactly 80 got canned when the boss put out a memo saying that extended weekday hours and a Saturday were required until further notice. When he didn't show up the first Saturday, the boss called it insubordination and thereby got around having to give him unemployment insurance.
Nope, I'm no longer there, and tell everyone about that employer at the drop of a hat.
DT
If all else fails, lower your standards.
