It is my position that if you contribute to the success of Microsoft by
answering questions in this newsgroup and purchasing their software while at
the same time blaming them for everything from the Iraq war to the deaths of
Chinese dissidents, that you are in fact, a hyporcrite.
If you'd like to throw up a smoke screen and attack me personally, feel free
to do so -- I have no intention of being baited by your attempt to sidestep
issues with personal attacks.
WGA is relevant to Vista. An erratic SPP kill switch is. Lack of Support
is. Lack of documentation is.
China's government isn't. Iraq isn't. President Bush isn't. Republicans,
democrats, the election, the war, etc are all not relevent to Vista and yet
you continue to bring them up in every analogy for Microsoft that you can
conveniently manufacture in an attempt to relay to everyone your political
views and agenda.
I will entertain one ludicrous notition of yours for a moment, however.
Documentation. Microsoft has more documentation for their operating systems
than every other operating system in the world, combined. Microsoft has a
long standing track record of documenting their OS's to the smallest of
detail. I tell you this from experience, since I have been writing software
for Windows for 15 years and can guarantee you that I have read more
documentation on the Windows OS than you ever will in your lifetime.
Are MS's docs on Vista complete yet? No. Will they be? Yes -- if history
is any indicator. Will they be done soon enoguh to satisfy you? Probably
not.
Tweaking and fixing for people who come to this group for help is.
Apparently you can't read. I help. I don't see jack you've done here
except to jerk yourself off witha a Psst Chad we know it's you.
If I were trying to disguise posts, I'd be able to.
You know, I'd really like to do a google search for all the times you've
helped people, but when I type your name in, all I get is diatribe about the
Iraq war, Bush, China, and your political views. Just because you've
regurgitated some basic instruction on Vista to a few folks does not
automatically entitle you to expound your ridiculous notions with impunity
here. It's almost as if you think vomiting all over people in a crowded
restaurant is OK as long as you give them a napkin first.
What I find annoying, is that I keep killfiling you, and you keep coming up
with new aliases. Please use a consistent e-mail address and name so that
the people who would like to ignore you can do so peacefully.
Who in a cyber group is not too important. The substance of what they say
and contribute is what conunts. I didn't see you address
Irrelevent to the topic at hand. I'll respond to whom I wish, where I wish,
when I wish. I do not need any prior qualifications on this newsgroup in
order to call a spade a spade.
Piracy happens. Bummer. Software companies will try to mitigate their
losses. Most companies don't like bad publicity so they'll try to limit
their exposure to it by collecting as little information as possible and
still have piracy mitigation be effective. It benefits no one if a software
company collects private information of a customer.
2) The issue of how MSFT comports itself in China which harms thousands of
Chinese physically when the government takes data provided by MSFT and
jails, tortures and kills them
If this is the case, then by your actions you have killed thousands of
people because you have funded Microsoft's efforts. You are a hypocrite.
3) The disingenous way MSFT has lied to the public in the US and elsewhere
about reporting their searches well documented by links by me to their own
anguished employees.
Break out the tinfoil hats, folks ...
Again as a MSFT synchophant it doesn't matter who it is. I know that I
see a high proportion of help for real problems from ME but nothng from
you. As it was pointed out, the syncophants want to call names rather than
deal with the issues. Also the Syncophant MSFT fan boys don't seem to
have much in the way of Vista knowledge or Office knowledge or knowledge
of how to solve the problems that get presented here.
I've already addressed this in the vomit analogy. You think your little
morsels of help give you the right to spew nonsense and spread hate without
consequence. Sorry, I ain't buying it.
Simpson whether it's the ass you sit on, or Chad the point is do you have
something substantive to say on the issues?
No
Do you h ave the ability to fix any issues? NO
So Robert Simpson wants the world to know "Chad we know it's you." At what
age did you reach the ability to say that? 2 or 3?
If you can't attack the position, attack the person. A politician's trick.
At what age did you learn that? Try doing some research first so you know
who you're dealing with next time.
1) I know a lot about MSFT. I know a lot about their OS. I've said
repeatedly but you're too stupid to read it I don't in any stretch "hate
MFST." But we all understand monocrhomatic little minds--they are
pandemic in my country who think criticism of MSFS is tantamount to hating
it.
You are providing financial support to a company you are accusing of every
atrocity known to man. How do you justify your position?
2) Every last point I make is butressed with facts, links and accuracy.
I rarely resort to calling names, but in your case I'll recognize a stupid
post. I am fixing Vista entities and components right and left in RTM on
groups that I bugged and many others bugged during the Beta. They did
nothing to fix them which raises the question what the hell was MSFT
paying these PMS and developers for.
I don't care, Chad. A stupid post is one that involves hiding behind an
alias. All I want to do is killfile you. If you'd do us all a courtesy and
use a consistent e-mail address and name, I'll happily stop responding to
you.
3) Since I can use the Windows OS a lot better than you'll ever be able
to, I'd worry about what OS's you want to install.
I'll just laugh at this and move on. You probably have never even heard of
a WndProc or the difference between COM+ and DCOM, or what a DLL surrogate
is -- and that's just beginner's stuff in my world. If you'd like to talk
about the PE header format, RVA's, COR20 metadata, security descriptors,
hosting VBA in your C++ app, etc -- then we'll chew the fat. In the
meantime, take your teacup of information on the Windows OS and sip it
slowly.
4) You give orders to how many people in your little world? Imperatives
are an oxymoron with Robert Simpson because there is no one on the planet
who takes orders from you and lol not strangers in a news group. I don't
recall a service contract for Robert Simpson and my boxes.
I have no idea where this came from. I think you're rambling again.
5) A search on Robert Simpson in this group and others yields nothing
substantive in the way of a fix or tweak contribution. Why would that be?
Because I'm busy writing software and supporting the products I develop as
well as the team of developers under me -- not to mention (GASP) other
newsgroups.
6) I make no bones about trying to help people use MSFT software and if
that puts money in their pockets, that's not my concern. I don't define
my activites by whether I put money in a large companies pockets.
So you fund the company, you accuse it of supporting atrocities, you cry out
against these atrocities, and then continue to fund the company, and you
have no problem with this? Actions speak much louder than words.
I've said many times the reason I help is that MSFT pisses on their
customers by providing terrible subenterprise support outsourced by
Convergys of Ohio to India. It is not because they are in India, it is
because they are people in India poorly trained. It is because Microsoft
is cheap when it comes to customer care and support, and Convergys is a
terrible company providing terrible service like a proportion of the
legions of oranga badges and blue badges MSFT employs.
Yes, I don't like Convergys either. One of my clients ended up dumping them
due to bad support, and I complained bitterly to the client that they were
killing the product by having Convergys do the support for it in the first
place. This is happens often when accounting decides to dictate the IT
budget.
In 15 years of software development on Windows, I've never once had to call
MS tech support. This is due in large part to their massive wealth of
documentation on their operating systems.
So I'd like to say a big THANK YOU to Microsoft for the millions of pages of
documentation on their operating systems, and am confident that any Vista
documentation deficiencies will be remedied as quickly as is practical.
Robert
and this is my night