raylopez99 <raylopez99@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Account #: XXXX-XXXX > Paid on: 12/13/2007 > > The amounts shown below have been credited to your account. > > MICROSOFT CORP (MSFT) > Amount: $220.00 The fact that MS now pays a divident marks their change from a high growth investment to a 'mature' company with limited growth potential. If the stock price is growing, there is no need to pay dividends to keep the investors happy. Paying dividends cuts into available capital for acquisitions and future product development. I'm not saying this marks the death of MS by any stretch, but I am sure they would rather show higher valuation and no dividend if they could. Oh, and GLACI, Inc. (a Linux specializing corporation of which I own all the stock) paid me considerabley more than that. ;) Thad -- Yeah, I drank the Open Source cool-aid... Unlike the other brand, it had all the ingredients on the label.

Hadron <hadronquark@googlemail.com> did eloquently scribble: > So less of the *we* - yo get no brown nose points from the COLA > gang. You know they think you are a troll and a windiot. So stop kissing > their butts with the *we* line. You will now backup your claim that keir is one of the only truthful linux advocates here by quoting one lie from every single other one. You can leave quotes out from 7 because he's almost as useless as you are. -- ______________________________________________________________________________ | spike1@freenet.co.uk | "Are you pondering what I'm pondering Pinky?" | |Andrew Halliwell BSc(hons)| | | in | "I think so brain, but this time, you control | | Computer Science | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* Richard Rasker fired off this tart reply: > No Vista on my new Linux machine: $150 > No need to buy a top-of-the-line machine $200 > No MS Office on my new Linux machine: $400 > No antivirus on my new Linux machine: $50 > No 5 hours of installation time to get going: $250 > No expensive Vista-incompatible software upgrades $800 > > Total amount saved: $1850 Pleasure at being part of the Free software community: Priceless -- Tux rox!

Linonut <linonut@bollsouth.nut> did eloquently scribble: > * Richard Rasker fired off this tart reply: >> No Vista on my new Linux machine: $150 >> No need to buy a top-of-the-line machine $200 >> No MS Office on my new Linux machine: $400 >> No antivirus on my new Linux machine: $50 >> No 5 hours of installation time to get going: $250 >> No expensive Vista-incompatible software upgrades $800 >> >> Total amount saved: $1850 > Pleasure at being part of the > Free software community: Priceless Suppose someone had to do it. :) -- ______________________________________________________________________________ | spike1@freenet.co.uk | "I'm alive!!! I can touch! I can taste! | |Andrew Halliwell BSc(hons)| I can SMELL!!! KRYTEN!!! Unpack Rachel and | | in | get out the puncture repair kit!" | | Computer Science | Arnold Judas Rimmer- Red Dwarf | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Richard Rasker wrote: > > No Vista on my new Linux machine: $150 Vista 32-Bit Ultimate OEM is $169US Vista 64-Bit Ultimate OEM is $180US > No need to buy a top-of-the-line machine $200 Asus M3A AM2+/AM2 $95 AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ $62 Corsair XMS2 2GB (PC2 6400) $62US Sapphire 100205L Radeon HD 2400XT 256MB $72 For a total of $291, which is less than I paid for the Asus L1N64-SLI WS motherboard. > No MS Office on my new Linux machine: $400 Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 Retail is $125US Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 Retail is $400US > No anti virus on my new Linux machine: $50 AntiVir and AVG are both free. NOD32 ver3 is $30/year. > No 5 hours of installation time to get going: $250 One hour for installation and updates. Another 45 mins for additional software and customizing settings. Restoring an image is 20 mins. > No expensive Vista-incompatible software upgrades $800 Name the software and versions _you_ own which needed to be upgraded to run on Vista.

DFS <nospam@dfs_.com> did eloquently scribble: > Reprehensible, money-obsessed goon. Oh, that's rich. Coming from you, that's a corker of hypocrisy. -- ______________________________________________________________________________ | spike1@freenet.co.uk | | |Andrew Halliwell BSc(hons)| "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't | | in | suck is probably the day they start making | | Computer science | vacuum cleaners" - Ernst Jan Plugge | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

spike1@freenet.co.uk wrote: > DFS <nospam@dfs_.com> did eloquently scribble: >> Reprehensible, money-obsessed goon. > > Oh, that's rich. > > Coming from you, that's a corker of hypocrisy. That was a bit of sarcasm I hoped Linonut would find amusing.

raylopez99 <raylopez99@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Account #: XXXX-XXXX > Paid on: 12/13/2007 > > The amounts shown below have been credited to your account. > > MICROSOFT CORP (MSFT) > Amount: $220.00 The fact that MS now pays a divident marks their change from a high growth investment to a 'mature' company with limited growth potential. If the stock price is growing, there is no need to pay dividends to keep the investors happy. Paying dividends cuts into available capital for acquisitions and future product development. I'm not saying this marks the death of MS by any stretch, but I am sure they would rather show higher valuation and no dividend if they could. Oh, and GLACI, Inc. (a Linux specializing corporation of which I own all the stock) paid me considerabley more than that. ;) Thad -- Yeah, I drank the Open Source cool-aid... Unlike the other brand, it had all the ingredients on the label.

Hadron <hadronquark@googlemail.com> did eloquently scribble: > So less of the *we* - yo get no brown nose points from the COLA > gang. You know they think you are a troll and a windiot. So stop kissing > their butts with the *we* line. You will now backup your claim that keir is one of the only truthful linux advocates here by quoting one lie from every single other one. You can leave quotes out from 7 because he's almost as useless as you are. -- ______________________________________________________________________________ | spike1@freenet.co.uk | "Are you pondering what I'm pondering Pinky?" | |Andrew Halliwell BSc(hons)| | | in | "I think so brain, but this time, you control | | Computer Science | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* Richard Rasker fired off this tart reply: > No Vista on my new Linux machine: $150 > No need to buy a top-of-the-line machine $200 > No MS Office on my new Linux machine: $400 > No antivirus on my new Linux machine: $50 > No 5 hours of installation time to get going: $250 > No expensive Vista-incompatible software upgrades $800 > > Total amount saved: $1850 Pleasure at being part of the Free software community: Priceless -- Tux rox!

Linonut <linonut@bollsouth.nut> did eloquently scribble: > * Richard Rasker fired off this tart reply: >> No Vista on my new Linux machine: $150 >> No need to buy a top-of-the-line machine $200 >> No MS Office on my new Linux machine: $400 >> No antivirus on my new Linux machine: $50 >> No 5 hours of installation time to get going: $250 >> No expensive Vista-incompatible software upgrades $800 >> >> Total amount saved: $1850 > Pleasure at being part of the > Free software community: Priceless Suppose someone had to do it. :) -- ______________________________________________________________________________ | spike1@freenet.co.uk | "I'm alive!!! I can touch! I can taste! | |Andrew Halliwell BSc(hons)| I can SMELL!!! KRYTEN!!! Unpack Rachel and | | in | get out the puncture repair kit!" | | Computer Science | Arnold Judas Rimmer- Red Dwarf | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Richard Rasker wrote: > > No Vista on my new Linux machine: $150 Vista 32-Bit Ultimate OEM is $169US Vista 64-Bit Ultimate OEM is $180US > No need to buy a top-of-the-line machine $200 Asus M3A AM2+/AM2 $95 AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ $62 Corsair XMS2 2GB (PC2 6400) $62US Sapphire 100205L Radeon HD 2400XT 256MB $72 For a total of $291, which is less than I paid for the Asus L1N64-SLI WS motherboard. > No MS Office on my new Linux machine: $400 Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 Retail is $125US Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 Retail is $400US > No anti virus on my new Linux machine: $50 AntiVir and AVG are both free. NOD32 ver3 is $30/year. > No 5 hours of installation time to get going: $250 One hour for installation and updates. Another 45 mins for additional software and customizing settings. Restoring an image is 20 mins. > No expensive Vista-incompatible software upgrades $800 Name the software and versions _you_ own which needed to be upgraded to run on Vista.

DFS <nospam@dfs_.com> did eloquently scribble: > Reprehensible, money-obsessed goon. Oh, that's rich. Coming from you, that's a corker of hypocrisy. -- ______________________________________________________________________________ | spike1@freenet.co.uk | | |Andrew Halliwell BSc(hons)| "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't | | in | suck is probably the day they start making | | Computer science | vacuum cleaners" - Ernst Jan Plugge | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

spike1@freenet.co.uk wrote: > DFS <nospam@dfs_.com> did eloquently scribble: >> Reprehensible, money-obsessed goon. > > Oh, that's rich. > > Coming from you, that's a corker of hypocrisy. That was a bit of sarcasm I hoped Linonut would find amusing.