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Svip
Administrator
DOOP Secretary
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You never got Office for free. You always paid. It was often just part of the purchase price of the computer. So many people thought Windows and Office was free. But it never has been.
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Aki
Professor
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Microsoft are thieves, yes. They have millions of customers and use it to go their way, they claim their products are the only good in the field (Office sucks compared to OpenOffice, NotePad sucks compared to gEdit) and they overprice horribly. They're not the only ones, but still. When Google started making Chrome OS, Windows stopped all cooperation with them, changing the default search engine in IE to their own Bing, that they knew was much worse. And then they claimed that it grew to one of the largest search engines in the world because it was the best, instead of admitting that they had the power to change it if they wanted to. IKEA is the largest restaurant chain in Sweden even though the food sucks, same deal. Ok then, back on topic?
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Aki
Professor
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Ikea is a restaurant? o_O
No, that's the point. In the stores they have a restaurant section (for families tired and hungry after shopping). Growing to have stores almost everywhere, they also have restaurants everywhere, becoming the largest restaurant chain as well.
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Aki
Professor
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Swedish meatballs! Although I'm sure they have some other meals as well... I don't really go there too much xD
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SorynArkayn
Bending Unit
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Microsoft are thieves though. My dad told me earlier that when he bought his first computer (in the 1990s), he got Microsoft office with it for free. Now, when you buy a computer, you get a 60 day trial of Microsoft office, and when that's up, you have to invest £100 (2007 edition) into a package that has 4 programs on it. What a waste of money. And I've heard that when you buy a Mac/Macbook, you get iLife 09 for free.
iLife isn't an Office productivity suite. It's a bunch of photo, audio, and video editing tools, which the majority of people do not use. iWork is standard Mac Office suite, and just like MS Office, it's installed on every new Mac as a trial offer and costs about $100 to activate. So if Microsoft is "evil" for requiring people to pay to convert their trial software to the full versions, than by that "logic", Apple is just as evil. And BTW, Microsoft offers a lot more educational discounts than Apple. You can get Microsoft Office 2007 ULTIMATE for around $50; you just need an e-mail account from a recognized post-secondary school institution. There's also the MSDN Academic Alliance, which offers upgrade versions of MS operating systems (including Win7 Pro), as well as Visual Studio, and a lot of other software for FREE. Finally, don't forget that Microsoft is a business like any other. If other companies want to compete with them, they can try. But don't complain about MS dumping Google as Internet Explorer's default search engine when Google decided to develop Chrome OS to compete with Windows. That's just stupid. That would be like a coffee shop adjacent to a book store ceasing to offer discounts to the store's employees after a Starbucks opened in the book store. A business isn't going to support it's competitor in any way, so why would you criticize Microsoft for this? And it's simple enough to switch Internet Explorer's search engine back to Google (because I don't use Bing either). Now please, back on topic.
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momm
Crustacean
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Hey you kids!
You missed a couple of things! Of course if you weren't borne before Star Trek, I understand. HahHahHah
1-The ReEducation chair(guy in chair with mosquito on his head) from the Star Trek insane asylum episode
2- 240v power plug, unless you from most anywhere but the U.S. (Used to be 220v until some dumb b%^&* decided to add 20v---HaHaHa)
3-Citi-Hall logo, looks suspiciously like Citi-Bank logo from the 20th Century. I must have been napping then, did Citi-Bank take over New New York?
4-Rotary Dails on phones, ya know, the first phone I used had a crank! (I think someone may have mentioned this earlier, but I'm more than a few centuries old, so give me a break!)
Alright, you kids, have a nice Fourth of July. Don't be tying those firecrackers to that cat's tail now.....
Yours Truly, Momm
MuhHaHaHaHaHaHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!! MuhHaHaHaHaHaHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PS: Oh, here's a pop quiz question: What really happened on Aug 6, 1991?
!!!!!!DON"T FORGET TO TURN OFF THE COMPUTER AND THE LIGHTS WHEN YOU"RE DONE!!!!!
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Svip
Administrator
DOOP Secretary
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Oh, here's a pop quiz question: What really happened on Aug 6, 1991?
You mean the announcement of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee?
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Hishighness420
Crustacean
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I loved this episode, especially since I hate Apple so much.
Although the dudes from the 3rd world just creeped me out, but I think they were supposed to.
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Hishighness420
Crustacean
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fryfanSpyOrama: Some people just like to complain no matter what the situation. They could be in the middle of the Mojave Desert dying of thirst and you could give them a bottle of water and they'd complain it's not their favorite brand. Don't let the detractors bother you, it could have been the best episode ever (300 big boys for me) and they'd still complain. Remember what the man said: You can't please everyone so you've got to please yourself.
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AdrenalinDragon
Starship Captain
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Well, you've probably all said it already, but the honest truth is that I really enjoyed this episode until the Susan Boil part. I was about to give it a solid 8/10 and then BAM! That Boil thing appears and totally ruined the whole episode from that point for me. I was like "Uh oh, this isn't good!" and I'm not buying the fact that it's been on Leela the whole time. Please for the love of god don't ever show that Boil thing again! It didn't feel like Futurama with that thing in there in my opinion. Other than that, almost every other joke worked for me, and I liked the zombie ending but thought it was a strange way to end on a semi-cliffhanger, but damn that Susan Boil to hell! (cringes when it appears everytime on rewatch) The goat was fine though, I've seen much worse. I'll give it a 7/10, mainly just because of the jokes and the IPhone/Twitter future parodies.
You know, that might be it. The boil thing was just so collassaly stupid and unfunny that it may have tainted everything else for me.
Yeah, it was going to be the best episode of Season 6 so far, but then Boil thing came and ruined it. Even when Fry and Leela were talking to each other at the end with the zombies, it was picking up again but then that Boil talks and wouldn't shut up, so for me it ruined any emotions for that scene! Here's hoping that the next episode will be very good the whole time!
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momm
Crustacean
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Hey Kids! Did you get your firecracker mess cleaned up yet!!!!
HAhHahHah!!!!
When did those Planet Express employees get enough money to buy a Flatscreen TV? They have always had a CRT with Rabbit Ears. (Mine still have tin foil on them)
Time to lower Momms Package Service prices and undercut them, they are making too much money!!!!
MuhHahHahHah!!!!!!!!! MuhHahHahHah!!!!!!!!!
Yours Truly, Momm
PS SoylentOrange got the best answer, not the correct answer, but the best one!!!!!!!
Now get over here closer to Momm! {{{{{SLAP}}}}}}
!!!!!!!!!NOW GET BACK TO WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Aki
Professor
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I agree the boil wasn't great, but I really can see it being great in another aspect, another episode. We still don't know the synopsis for The Mutants Are Revolting, and one theory is that Leela is forced to live underground with the other mutants, and then lead a civil war with them; the boil could have been the premise of this episode, something that suddenly turned up and when the government heard about it they forced her down with the other mutants. That would have been much better than including it in this story.
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Aki
Professor
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Where was the boil when they went to that nude beach planet in Bender's Big Score?And where was it in the shower scene in Bender's Game? Huh?
She said she destroyed it as soon as it turned up, though.
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