Apple must pay people remarkably well to generate a resignation on principle.
I, on the other hand, can't afford principle and my landlord does not accept good intentions as rent.
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"Exactly how one gets third-party apps into these pop-ups isn't entirely clear. We asked Microsoft what steps a third party would need to take to get on the guest list (perhaps a simple association?) but the company has yet to respond."
Well, in a nutshell, you don't without paying MS a lot of $$$. That's the traditional way. Misquoting RDJ's Iron man...
"That's how Microsoft did it! That's how America does it! And its worked out pretty well so far for the shareholders."
"It's clumsy, slow, and with an ugly syntax."
It's all of that with inconsistent switches from command to command and version to version.
It also allows MS to stop developing GUI. Why right click and select an option when you can type a 400+ character PS command that can bork your domain instantly.
Someone has to pay for the Twitter purchase and it ain't gonna be Elon. Cough up the unadvertised $25 a month or complain on Twitter. Until he takes that over fully, of course, then fuggetaboutit.
Pub O'Clock
>By your definition a dickhead is someone who succeeded in:
>1. Creating a very innovative payment processor.
PayPal (Confinity at the time) was formed in 1998 by Ken Howery, Luke Nosek, Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Yu Pan, and Russel Simmons. Paypal eventually fired Musk in 2000 (I believe it was.)
>2. Creating the most successful rocket launching organisation (sic) since the 1960s / 70s
Founders Fund footed the bill on SpaceX for the most part.
>3. Creating the most successful electric car company.
Tesla Motors was founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in San Carlos, California.
>4. Creating the most successful satellite based ISP.
Hard to say it's the most successful when it has not even entered the commercial market yet.
>5. Saving a social media network from authoritarian censorship.
By authoritarian censorship I presume you mean the truth. The Saudi's are buying into Twitter, along side your hero, who are literal authoritarian censors.
>6. Amassing a net worth of more than a quarter of a TRILLION dollars through aforementioned efforts.
Yes, as he does not risk his own cash, relying on outside investors to fund his projects.
>You should consider taking a third opinion on your critical thinking and reasoning skills…
And you need to stop taking single sources of info as gospel. Musk is lucky and knows how to spin the press with wild imaginative concepts. If his fourth SpaceX launch had failed, he'd be minor mention in history today. Some of his companies work because he hires good people. Where is the promised Tesla autonomous driving commercial truck that was promised for 2020, then 2021, then 2022, now it's 2023? Why is the LA - San Francisco Hyperloop still only a prototype with nothing to show for it? The Vegas Loop is a concrete tunnel with chauffeured Tesla's where it was supposed to be 3-4 times the speed and totally autonomous.
"your critical thinking and reasoning skills" indeed.
Not "anti-western" at all. The NSA / CIA / USA has a long standing track record of fiddling with personal privacy and the internal politics of foreign nations (enemies and allies alike) to promote their own agendas.
Saddam Hussein was put in power by the CIA.
The Shah of Iran was as well.
Guatemala 1954
Congo 1960
Dominican Republic 1961
South Vietnam 1963
Brazil 1964
Chile 1973
Then Snowden came along and showed they were screwing over their own citizens rights and freedoms then lying about it to their own Congress.
So forgive me if I don't invite the US onto the private side of my firewall for the foreseeable future.
"We asked the Windows-maker what "active users" meant in this context, but Microsoft has yet to respond."
Those would be the truly lazy who know how to turn it off, but just can't be arsed. Microsoft's core customer base and mine when all the crap clogs up their PC and they have to pay me to fix it.
Slamming the phone down is reflexive, but if you don't TELL them not to call again, they can, and will.
If you tell them not to call again and they do, then you have recourse in several jurisdictions.
Work phone only here. If it isn't my boss or colleagues it goes to voicemail which says "Do not call this number for marketing or robo calls..."
Find the IBM Board of Directors and senior execs in contempt of court and lock them up. The board, CEO, CIO, Head of HR, lead legal counsel, the lot.
Then be amazed at how many documents arrive within hours.
Do it once. Just once, and for the next ten years you will have no warrant issues with corporations.
"I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy."
Should read: I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be my platform for marketing spin around the globe, and I believe is necessary to silence my critics after consistently failing to deliver on multiple occasions.