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Be careful, there are some on these boards who claim that anyone who says anything nice about Microsoft is a paid astroturfer.
Paranoia takes many forms - and we some most of them here....
All this coming from the shameless shill, who's been pedaling the 90-day free Windows 7 trial for the past two months, via a direct link under his sig:
PSA: 90-day free Windows 7 trial
-only to remove it before posting this hypocritical dreck.
Priceless, simply priceless.
I too have been using 7 since the RC - quite underwhelming overall. Regarding it as a Service Pack to Vista would seem overly generous. Most of my clients who currently run XP have found no
compelling reasons to upgrade this time around. Pretty lame, this late in the game.
He must have hit his limit on for-click Microsoft Live points for October.
Watch for new link on Sunday...
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Just curious, which Mac do you own, or which Mac are you looking to purchase?
AidenShaw said:
Be careful, there are some on these boards who claim that anyone who says anything nice about Microsoft is a paid astroturfer.
Paranoia takes many forms - and we some most of them here
Just curious, which Mac do you own, or which Mac are you looking to purchase?
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The public service announcement link disappeared at midnight Wednesday (UTC) - one week after the release.
Back to the ad hominem drivel....
The mini-tower.
The public service announcement link disappeared at midnight Wednesday (UTC) - one week after the release.
Back to the ad hominem drivel....
The mini-tower.
Oh, so you're just going to continue to be a shill for MS? Gotcha.
Just curious, if you don't like Apple, don't like OS X, what enjoyment to you derive in being here? Genuine question.And I'm not questioning your knowledge or saying you're right or wrong based on your preferences (and thus is not ad hominem); I'm just questioning your point in being here. Feel free, it's a free country. I just wouldn't be hanging out on the Ford forums when I drive a VW and never intend on buying a Ford. Ya know? Unlike other people here, you obviously know what you're talking about.
Oh, so you're just going to continue to be a shill for MS? Gotcha.
And I'm not questioning your knowledge or saying you're right or wrong based on your preferences (and thus is not ad hominem); I'm just questioning your point in being here. Feel free, it's a free country. I just wouldn't be hanging out on the Ford forums when I drive a VW and never intend on buying a Ford. Ya know? Unlike other people here, you obviously know what you're talking about.
Hahaha!
The gravy train has dried up. He's a free agent for the time being - that is, until MS launches their next PSA.
Perhaps he's motivated by the attention - a masochist, no doubt.
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Perhaps. I just find it interesting, because generally people spend time at sites devoted to subjects/companies they like. For me that means Here for Apple, Ubuntu forums for Ubuntu Linux, occasionally Sharky forums for PC hardware, and some guitar manufacturer forums for their respective brands.
I wouldn't personally find it enjoyable to hang out at the Fender forums and constantly criticize the brand. That's not to say a brand is infallible and shouldn't be criticized when applicable, but if that's 95% of your posts, isn't it time to find something more rewarding to do?
I'm pretty sure if I hung out at ubuntuforums.com and championed the benefits of Windows and/or OS X constantly, followed with continually bagging on Ubuntu and the failures of open source, it would certainly raise eyebrows. Since AidenShaw doesn't like Linux either, perhaps he should sign up there too, and let those folks know how far off the path they are :lol:
DMann said:Oh, so you're just going to continue to be a shill for MS? Gotcha.
And I'm not questioning your knowledge or saying you're right or wrong based on your preferences (and thus is not ad hominem); I'm just questioning your point in being here. Feel free, it's a free country. I just wouldn't be hanging out on the Ford forums when I drive a VW and never intend on buying a Ford. Ya know? Unlike other people here, you obviously know what you're talking about.
Hahaha!
The gravy train has dried up. He's a free agent for the time being - that is, until MS launches their next PSA.
Perhaps he's motivated by the attention - a masochist, no doubt.
Perhaps. I just find it interesting, because generally people spend time at sites devoted to subjects/companies they like. For me that means Here for Apple, Ubuntu forums for Ubuntu Linux, occasionally Sharky forums for PC hardware, and some guitar manufacturer forums for their respective brands.
I wouldn't personally find it enjoyable to hang out at the Fender forums and constantly criticize the brand. That's not to say a brand is infallible and shouldn't be criticized when applicable, but if that's 95% of your posts, isn't it time to find something more rewarding to do?
I'm pretty sure if I hung out at ubuntuforums.com and championed the benefits of Windows and/or OS X constantly, followed with continually bagging on Ubuntu and the failures of open source, it would certainly raise eyebrows. Since AidenShaw doesn't like Linux either, perhaps he should sign up there too, and let those folks know how far off the path they are :lol:
Peculiar, isnt it? One might surmise, by his pathetic attempts to quantify his self-worth, that he is sufficiently insecure. What would you make of a person, who, in a public forum,
within the span of the past four months, finds the need to post his monthly income:
Or to disclose that he owns art, and patronizes a gallery:
And finds it necessary to remind everyone that he monetarily subscribes to this forum:
On top of all of this, while maintaining his vast fount and reservoir of double standards, has the sheer and petty insolence to say:
Irony - redefined.
Doood, you should be a Psyc Professor.
I'd be more interested in finding peoples flaws in logic but I don't really care unless its directed at me...
Doood, you should be a Psyc Professor.
I'd be more interested in finding peoples flaws in logic but I don't really care unless its directed at me...
Same here, as his flaws in logic are pervasive - he tends to shoot himself in the foot more often than not.
We have an SQL client called Pervasive, it shoots its self and dies a lot! The RedHat guy is porting it to Postgere for the new Linux server. (MySQL sucks loads)
Of course, despite his vast dossier of anti-Apple info ever at the ready and full-time residence on an Apple users forum, accusations of astroturfing are smugly dismissed as mere "paranoia." After all, Microsoft has never been known to deploy its army of drones to sew the seeds of FUD, right? Right? Errr....
http://boycottnovell.com/2009/06/20/microsoft-astroturf-te-twitter/
Astroturfer or epic case of the Green Monster, either way it's both annoying and pathetic.
"Microsoft stalkers, called them our source, whose account was addressed by a Microsoft
Technical Evangelist. Thats exactly the type of people whom James Plamondon was training
in order to promote Microsoft very aggressively, to this very date."
Former Microsoft Shill Openly Confesses, Alleges Microsoft Still Does This
And the drone tried to dismiss this sh*t as FUD.
In that order, or reverse order - all the same.
Apple... Tax?
To make this very simple. I switched because of the Microsoft tax. After being their field tech support for free for 20 years, I felt having a computer that's functional at the end of the day, that does what I need it to, and does it well... that is worth paying for. Otherwise, I'm getting stolen from by the Microsoft tax (in months and years of repair time/down time on computers). My time is worth too much to be a Windows user.
Microsoft needs to take off the kid gloves and punch back at what you REALLY pay for when you buy a Mac:
It's all about elitism. You PAY for the Apple brand name, like you do for a Sony product like a TV. Call it what it is-- the Apple Tax.
To make this very simple. I switched because of the Microsoft tax. After being their field tech support for free for 20 years, I felt having a computer that's functional at the end of the day, that does what I need it to, and does it well... that is worth paying for. Otherwise, I'm getting stolen from by the Microsoft tax (in months and years of repair time/down time on computers). My time is worth too much to be a Windows user.
So tell us, when did you decide to blow both of yours off?
Regardless of Aiden's, your behaviour seems quite typical to the teenage bully living in their parent's basement and not that of a smart person able to behave in a mature manner.
But what do I know, right...