Wow.

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These are fantastic.

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Wow...some really nice shots here. You're a brave man to go knocking on random peoples doors...you could find yourself unconscious in a bath full of ice, missing a kidney...or atleast that's how it is where I'm from.

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The ice was mostly melted by the time I came round. I only need one kidney to live right?

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I want to know your entire proposition dialogue upon the door being opened.

Also, Tom is right. I have forseen it in a dream, your rape and eventual death takes place in one of these flats. Number 129.

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Yes I did type this at 5.30am. I am a loser.

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Loser.

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Yeah, but didn't you pull someone's arm off in a dream? I don't see you doing that in reality.

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These are hugely insightful... but yeah, what do you say when/if the door opens?!

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'Hi, I've heard these buildings haven't got long left, and I'm interested in getting some pictures of flats…'

That usually gets a 'You what?'.

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Also, all this use of MS web portals is making me sad. Why support the arch monopolist further, particularly a product they're illegally pushing via IE7.

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I'm using IE7 right now. Out of choice. I bet that gets your kickers in a twist!

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Why? It doesn't have a single feature or performance enhancement (that I've spotted) over the competition. I suppose at least the existance of the likes of Firefox and Opera have forced MS to give you features.

I administer a network with a good number of windows workstations, in terms of an enterprise rollout IE7 is much more flexible and supported in terms of mass administration (simply not something Mozilla or Opera are interested in). For end user home installations, however? I simply don't see the point.

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Largely because preachy Firefox users annoy me.

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Heh, I don't use firefox, but there are reasons to advocate not using IE7. This used to be publicly available but the best copy I can find is from the wayback archive Evangelism is War. A fine document from MS.

Got to say, the way these people think really makes my head spin. Here's the choice quote:

"Why Evangelise Technologies?
To make money, lots of money. Establishing its proprietary technologies as industry standards has been the basis of Microsoft's success from its first day. How the control of industry standards can result in phenomenal wealth"

Another:

Every line of code that is written to our standards is a small victory; every line of code that is written to any other standard, is a small defeat. Total victory, for DRG [Developer Relations Group], is the universal adoption of our standards by developers, as this is an important step towards total victory for Microsoft itself: 'A computer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software

Their words, not mine. Does that annoy you?

(Another link here, hopefully someone has backups of all the fascinating stuff that lives on iowaconsumercase.org).

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'Their words, not mine. Does that annoy you?'

No. They are a business, and their goal is to saturate the market entirely with their product. Other businesses do the same.

If their product does what I need it to do, I'll use it. If it doesn't, I'll use someone else's.

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From here this thing could dive deep into politics, holy-wars etc. and I don't really want to pull your threads too far away from the topic. I may make a post of my own on the subject at some later point.

Politics and possible holy-wars aside, I enjoyed your post. Good night!

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Words aren't enough. Thoroughly impressed. Just excellent.

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