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schestowitz | Re: SciFitness | Oct 26 00:56 |
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schestowitz | > Hey! I enjoy the articles and the exercise instructions with diagrams. | Oct 26 00:56 |
schestowitz | > Many, many people like me have bad backs. I saw one estimate that said 80% | Oct 26 00:56 |
schestowitz | > of men have back problems at least once in their life. I think articles on | Oct 26 00:56 |
schestowitz | > back strengthening exercises would be very well received. | Oct 26 00:56 |
schestowitz | > | Oct 26 00:56 |
schestowitz | > Perhaps a video demo later? | Oct 26 00:56 |
schestowitz | > | Oct 26 00:56 |
schestowitz | > The Austrian Press article is all in German except your name which I | Oct 26 00:56 |
schestowitz | > spotted: | Oct 26 00:56 |
schestowitz | > | Oct 26 00:56 |
schestowitz | > Yahoo Translator: Here's a report of Roy Schestowitz is over the 100 mails, | Oct 26 00:56 |
schestowitz | > which already got these from Florian Mueller. | Oct 26 00:56 |
schestowitz | LOL | Oct 26 00:56 |
schestowitz | Florian is losing his influence along with other lobbyists such as ACT. | Oct 26 00:56 |
qu1j0t3 | 'Fred Cisin wrote: | Oct 26 01:51 |
qu1j0t3 | > > There is a normal tendency to pick fan-boys for Beta testing. | Oct 26 01:51 |
qu1j0t3 | > > Microsoft is not unique in that. I am not really surprised that I was | Oct 26 01:52 |
qu1j0t3 | > > dropped from their beta test program after I submitted a well | Oct 26 01:52 |
qu1j0t3 | > > documented and thorough bug report ABOUT THEIR BETA PROGRAM. | Oct 26 01:52 |
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qu1j0t3 | https://twitter.com/#!/hsakawa/status/129039334224564224 | Oct 26 05:14 |
schestowitz | bot failed? | Oct 26 09:11 |
schestowitz | oh, it's not in | Oct 26 09:12 |
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schestowitz | [05:14] <qu1j0t3> https://twitter.com/#!/hsakawa/status/129039334224564224 | Oct 26 09:16 |
TechrightsSocial | @hsakawa: 私もそう思う。 › “I don’t think anything will change at Microsoft as long as Ballmer is running it.” › › [Jobs... http://t.co/o8voQu9O | Oct 26 09:16 |
TechrightsSocial | Missing content type. Ignoring. | Oct 26 09:16 |
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schestowitz | > Hi, Roy, | Oct 26 11:33 |
schestowitz | > | Oct 26 11:33 |
schestowitz | > Even the re-made version of the Billgatus of Borg icon on Slashdot is | Oct 26 11:33 |
schestowitz | > gone, replaced by M$ corporate logo. | Oct 26 11:33 |
schestowitz | Yes, they need to look "professional" to attract advertisers. :-) | Oct 26 11:33 |
schestowitz | From the subject line I reckoned this message was about tennis. :-) | Oct 26 11:33 |
schestowitz | Re: Borg | Oct 26 11:34 |
schestowitz | > So I wonder how much of a squeeze M$ is able to put on advertisers | Oct 26 11:52 |
schestowitz | > directly or indirectly (a la Manufacturing Consent) to toe the M$ | Oct 26 11:52 |
schestowitz | > party line. | Oct 26 11:52 |
schestowitz | Yes, /. is not alone in this. IDG is running a new anti-Ubuntu marathon at the moment (Julie Bort, their Microsoft rep, does this). I try to just ignore it because they previously got Tony to do this trolling for hits. | Oct 26 11:52 |
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qu1j0t3 | schestowitz: the borg icon was still in use at slashdot as recently as a week or two ago | Oct 26 14:49 |
qu1j0t3 | schestowitz: i'm not sure the writer is totally correct | Oct 26 14:49 |
schestowitz | hmm... | Oct 26 14:50 |
schestowitz | thanks | Oct 26 14:50 |
MinceR | it means /. staff are clearly incompetent | Oct 26 14:50 |
MinceR | they managed to get rid the last element of pretending to not be a slave to m$ | Oct 26 14:50 |
schestowitz | oh, cool... in the presse [sic] again http://www.telekom-presse.at/Microsoft_unterstuetzt_Apples_Klage_gegen_HTC_.id.17406.htm | Oct 26 14:50 |
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schestowitz | MinceR: malda is out | Oct 26 14:51 |
schestowitz | no editorial control from him | Oct 26 14:51 |
MinceR | not that it did much, did it? | Oct 26 14:51 |
schestowitz | > FWIW: | Oct 26 15:10 |
schestowitz | > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1851654 | Oct 26 15:10 |
schestowitz | > | Oct 26 15:10 |
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schestowitz | > OEM support of Ubuntu is in part a community issue if for no other | Oct 26 15:10 |
schestowitz | > reason than the community asks how to get Dells with Ubuntu | Oct 26 15:10 |
schestowitz | > pre-installed. | Oct 26 15:10 |
schestowitz | Raised to jono... | Oct 26 15:13 |
schestowitz | > FWIW: | Oct 26 15:52 |
schestowitz | > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1851654 | Oct 26 15:52 |
schestowitz | > | Oct 26 15:52 |
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schestowitz | > OEM support of Ubuntu is in part a community issue if for no other | Oct 26 15:53 |
schestowitz | > reason than the community asks how to get Dells with Ubuntu | Oct 26 15:53 |
schestowitz | I'm gonna try to get a former Microsoft employee interviews... | Oct 26 15:53 |
schestowitz | "Hi Jeff, Our site has been covering an issue you have been doing a great deal of valuable research on (as did we, e.g. http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_-_Tax ). I was wondering if you would be willing to do an interview with us regarding these issues (not just about Microsoft but state-wide)." | Oct 26 15:53 |
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schestowitz | > Though I can't find the posts, it seems that every week there is at | Oct 26 16:11 |
schestowitz | > least one query about buying hardware. | Oct 26 16:11 |
schestowitz | Jono's silence speaks loud enough | Oct 26 16:11 |
qu1j0t3 | .b 29 | Oct 26 16:11 |
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schestowitz | I got the OK from the former MS employee :-) | Oct 26 18:58 |
schestowitz | > Roy, I'm glad to help - though my tax expertise is limited to | Oct 26 18:58 |
schestowitz | > Microsoft's Nevada tax dodge and Washington state. | Oct 26 18:58 |
schestowitz | Thanks. I can prepare some questions that concentrate on this subject. I'll send you these shortly. I'll also link to your site and if you have a photo you want used, please let me know :-) | Oct 26 18:58 |
schestowitz | Here goes the MS lobbyist: | Oct 26 19:04 |
schestowitz | http://identi.ca/notice/84811710 | Oct 26 19:04 |
TechrightsSocial | @Florian Mueller (fosspatents)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Oct-11 17:57:23 UTC - Identi.ca: @schestowitz Your friend Keith from the OIN unambiguously promoted software patents in a recent Business Insider interview. | Oct 26 19:04 |
schestowitz | http://identi.ca/notice/84811738 | Oct 26 19:04 |
TechrightsSocial | @Florian Mueller (fosspatents)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Oct-11 17:59:14 UTC - Identi.ca: @schestowitz Here's the link: http://ur1.ca/5iiui | Oct 26 19:04 |
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schestowitz | http://identi.ca/notice/84811747 | Oct 26 19:04 |
TechrightsSocial | @Florian Mueller (fosspatents)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Oct-11 17:59:41 UTC - Identi.ca: @schestowitz It's a multi-page interview. Scroll down on the page I sent to the question of whether the patent system is broken. He says no. | Oct 26 19:04 |
schestowitz | > It's been a long time since he played tennis. The Borg symbol makes | Oct 26 19:05 |
schestowitz | > since because in the late 1990's M$ was routinely called The Borg in | Oct 26 19:05 |
schestowitz | > daily use. I recall our engineers using the term. | Oct 26 19:05 |
schestowitz | Yes, I know, but when I saw it I thought of Gates vs Borg the tennis player. | Oct 26 19:05 |
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schestowitz | "Thanks for the photos. I have meanwhile prepared the following questions. Feel free to expand with more. :-)" | Oct 26 19:37 |
schestowitz | OK, we got an interviewee | Oct 26 19:37 |
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