Re: [OT] Microsoft Bashing

2012-12-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/27/2012 08:16 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Technically you are right, you can buy books anywhere, but you can't read them in some cases, which was my point. In my experience with a Nook Tablet, all you have to do is make sure the format is right and, as you said, "data is data." -- users m

Re: [OT] Microsoft Bashing

2012-12-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/24/2012 09:38 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Yes, NOOK is limited to B&N approved apps and stuff, and is not a standard Android tablet unless you jailbreak it and install Cyanogenmod Android or similar. Then you can have the NOOK and Kindle readers and buy books as you like. Ri

Re: [OT] Microsoft Bashing

2012-12-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/24/2012 09:38 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Yes, NOOK is limited to B&N approved apps and stuff, and is not a standard Android tablet unless you jailbreak it and install Cyanogenmod Android or similar. Then you can have the NOOK and Kindle readers and buy books as you like. Right now, I'm usin

Re: [OT] Microsoft Bashing

2012-12-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/16/2012 10:20 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: At least Android apps usually have a free (with ads) and paid (no ad) version to choose. I have a Nook Tablet. None of the apps that I've installed have ads, and AFAIK, B&N doesn't allow that. Yes, NOOK is limited to B&N approved

Re: [OT] Microsoft Bashing

2012-11-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/16/2012 10:20 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: At least Android apps usually have a free (with ads) and paid (no ad) version to choose. I have a Nook Tablet. None of the apps that I've installed have ads, and AFAIK, B&N doesn't allow that. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: [OT] Microsoft Bashing

2012-11-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Arthur Dent wrote: Hello all, I was sitting in a dentist's waiting room and I came across this article from the August 2012 (really!) edition of Vanity Fair. http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2012/08/microsoft-lost-mojo-steve-ballmer I know we all love to hate Microsoft, but after reading thi

Re: [OT] Microsoft Bashing

2012-11-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tom Horsley wrote: And now they've ejected the guy responsible for foisting Windows 8 on the world. I predict the abrupt departure of Snopsky (sp?) will hurt Microsoft more than the departure of Petraeus will hurt the Obama administration. I've been doing software development for decades and a

Re: [OT] Microsoft Bashing

2012-11-15 Thread NOSpaze
On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 12:12 +, Arthur Dent wrote: > I was sitting in a dentist's waiting room ... > Good ammunition for all you Microsoft bashers... Dentist & reading MS ?? U likes pain! ;) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: ht

Re: [OT] Microsoft Bashing

2012-11-13 Thread vendor
The best article I've ever read on the change at Microsoft was a memoir by Joel Spolsky (the "Joel on Software" blog) written in 2006. He wrote about having to pitch a project to Bill Gates, and how important it was that Gates had a technical background. See: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/i

Re: [OT] Microsoft Bashing

2012-11-13 Thread Tom Horsley
And now they've ejected the guy responsible for foisting Windows 8 on the world. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelin

[OT] Microsoft Bashing

2012-11-13 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, I was sitting in a dentist's waiting room and I came across this article from the August 2012 (really!) edition of Vanity Fair. http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2012/08/microsoft-lost-mojo-steve-ballmer I know we all love to hate Microsoft, but after reading this I *almost* felt sor