On 19/04/2011 16:46, Darren New wrote:
> On 4/19/2011 2:45, Invisible wrote:
>> I don't personally know of anybody who actually sent a cheque
>
> AFAIK, I'm the only person in the entire world that ever paid for WinZip.

That's not even shareware any more. You get a free 30-day trail, and 
after that you're legally required to pay for it. It's just that nobody 
does. (I have no idea if PKZIP was shareware...)

Personally, I just use 7zip.

>> without the net it would have been infeasible.
>
> Yep. And without Windows it would have been infeasible too, because
> there wouldn't be enough people with compatible hardware to have a hope
> in hell of getting it working on enough varieties of machines to make it
> worthwhile.

How did all the other Unicies work?

>> of a lot of money for a program that doesn't even *do* very much and
>> isn't especially complicated.
>
> This coming from the guy who can't find the documentation on how to make
> it do stuff? :-) Granted, most people don't use most of its
> sophisticated features, but saying Word doesn't do much is like saying
> LaTeX just translates one text file into another format, no biggie.

LaTeX *does* just translate a text file into another format. ;-) About 
the only special thing about it is that it has a Turing-complete textual 
substitution engine and a sophisticated layout constraint solver. It 
surprises me that nobody has yet taken the sophisticated layout engine 
and put it into a modern piece of software...

>> Silly me, I'm thinking that prices have something to do with what it
>> costs
>> to produce something. This is the 21st century. Prices are driven by how
>> much you can rip people off and get away with it...
>
> They always have been.

Apparently I'm getting old. It used to be that people expected to *get* 
something for their money - and if they didn't, they took it elsewhere. 
Or at least, I'm now old enough to delude myself that this is how it 
used to work.

> Next time you have a problem, I'll show you how to find the answer. It's
> generally not difficult, altho sometimes it can be ugly.

Any idea why printing through Terminal Services keeps breaking for no 
apparent reason?

[You used to have to install an identical print driver on the TS server 
or it wouldn't work. Apparently they fixed that now, so that's not it.]

I can understand it never working in the first place. What I can't 
understand is why it works perfectly, and then one day one particular 
user can't print anymore.

> Especially if
> they've rearranged their site and you start getting 404's. Really,
> Microsoft? You run Bing but you haven't figured out how to not have
> internal links to broken pages?

How or to clearly document when a hotfix is included in some later 
hotfix or service pack. Or clearly state what product version(s) the 
information in a document applies to. Or...

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