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sorry if this has been discussed endlessly previously and is old news but...
WTF!!
is there anyway to get a copy without going bankrupt?
"mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them"
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Use the express editions, they are free.
Otherwise if you work for a small business that meets the BizSpark guidelines, you can get VS2013 (and a lot of other MS products) for free.
You can also look at upgrade pricing if you have an earlier version.
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Never pay for anything you can get for free. 
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well... let's see... if you're a student you can get discount pricing... if you're a professional and have an employer, then your employer should pay for it....
Otherwise, yes... it's too damn expensive... 
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TPB? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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The Microsoft Technology Action pack is £300 (in the UK) and for 3 people, and you get Windows, Windows Server, SQL Server, Office, Visual Studio etc etc with it. Pretty good deal, especially if you can split the cost with two others.
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But the licensing is sh!t by the looks of things;
"These licenses may not be used for direct revenue-generating activities (such as website or email hosting, or custom solution development for monetary compensation)."
Only really for internal systems and training / demo purposes.
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Find a VS2012 reseller who offers a price below that of the MSRP, then upgrade from 2012 to 2013 for the $99 price?
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I think we might be seeing to rise of a new business model - somewhat akin to patent trolling.
It's easy.
1) Set up a not existent shop, selling non-existent products.
2) Include a non-disparagement clause in your lengthy ToS.
3) Aim for poor customer service and bad online reviews.
4) Sue 'customers' over said disparagement.
5) Profit
Example[^]
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Kyudos wrote: Set up a not existent shop, selling non-existent products.
It's my life, I am a software developer. 
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Since they had gotten a refund and returned the product, there was no sale and the contract is void.
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Pah! Petty details like this are not for trolls! 
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I remember reading an article on drudge report a couple of years ago about an online retailer with horrible customer service in Brooklyn NY
They did that on purpose, because people would complain and post bad reviews about them, and there site landings would go through the roof, and sales just kept rising higher and higher.
So the more negative reviews they had, the higher the sales went. Go Figure.
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You know, his skills just never fail to impress me....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv3xVOs7_No[^]
You may have noticed the Dandy 1987 annual in the video, so were you a Dandy or a Beano reader? I was Beano.....my brother was Dandy.
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Pretty awesome...first Van Damme doing the splits and now this, whatcha gonna do to top it?
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Beano - got it delivered for a while, very rarely read the Dandy.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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DING
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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I soooo misread that ... I thought you said "my brother was A dandy" ... thought to myself, ok but CP is not the place to put that out there ... *heading for specsavers right now*
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DaveAuld wrote: so were you a Dandy or a Beano reader?
I liked both, and Buster and Whizzer & Chips and Whoppee & Wow and whatever else you guys published.
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A friend of mine posted the Epic Split[^] which is truly an amazing stunt.
But what caught my eye afterwards was the Hamster Stunt[^].
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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For the 1st one, never a lamppost around when you want one
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Here[^]
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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Volvo hamster stun take 32. 
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