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From El Reg[^]
Microsoft have finally gone completely bananas.
Using Hentai Anime to flog their wares!
Rather creepy to use a 13 year old sexually provocative character with her short skirt and, oddly for the Asian market, large blue eyes.
It is bordering on hebephilia.
What next? Will she do a Money Shot every time someone buys VS13?
Seriously, the hive mind at Redmond must have authorised this, although how and why it got through as a 'Good Idea' is beyond me.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Yeah was on the CP New articles yesterday. I'm a big fan of anime, unfortunately IE would like to ruin that for me. TIt's hard to describe just how shocking it is or even describe how on earth microsoft, an american company, came to the conclusion to use a japanese advertisement.
If they wanted a mascot, stick to Cortana, (female version of the paper clip).
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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Very bad choice. Cortana doesn't deserve this fate. Please spare her.
Cortana
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Dalek Dave wrote: 'Good Idea'
Good Ideas work. Maybe this will work.
Inori Aizawa probably isn't going to make me use IE, but I was interested enough that I looked up some more drawings.
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harold aptroot wrote: Inori Aizawa probably isn't going to make me use IE
...but it'll sure as hell make me stop using it!
If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can.
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"The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone
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I'm afraid that that's how you advertise in Japan. It might not be of much use with Jethro and Bobby-Sue, but it's pretty much ideal for the Japanese market.
The metaphors are clear (I particularly like the huge, evil -- is it burning? -- clanky monster with fox-like ears, at the end), so it makes the points it wants to make to the people it wants to make the points to.
It's a well scripted and implemented ad.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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They are desperate to convince people that IE should be their default browser... 
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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Desperation me thinks?
Dalek Dave wrote: What next? Will she do a Money Shot every time someone buys VS13?
I think they're going to do like McDs and put a sign out front at Redmond saying how many sold.
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I don't find the relationship between animation/hentai and hebephilia. I have seen some of the stuff and to be honest, it is more funny than anything else. I would but it right in line with watching employees at Mc Donalds attempting to figure out how to make fries using group think, or a group of Apes eating ants with a straw. Funny, and interesting but nothing else.
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Recently Purchased a Laptop with 8gb Ram, 1 Tb Hdd, 2gb graphics, Win8..
Mostly i do Development Stuff, gaming, little bit of Photoshop, Heavy Browsing...
can any one suggest some must have software's for security, system maintenance, Folder locking..
Any light weight anti virus..?
Never used any other OS except those of windows... so am trying to get my hands on Linux Operating systems. Planning to install VMWare Player... Can any one suggest which flavor of Linux should i start with...
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Raja Sekhar S wrote: Any light weight anti virus..?
MSE - works for me!
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Raja Sekhar S wrote: Can any one suggest which flavour of Linux
Depending on what you want:
If you want something easy to start go for UBUNTU.
If you want to get dirty in Linux internals, go for DEBIAN.
There are plenty of options in between.
As a server, I've only tested redhat (and it truly works well) but CENTOS is the "free redhat version" something based on redhat that's free.
Try it there are plenty of them that are free, test, and if you are not happy, change it.
modified 8-Nov-13 3:58am.
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Thanks for the Suggestion Joan Murt... First i'll try UBUNTU... then i'll try with DEBIAN...
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Take your pick from the stuff on offer at www.ninite.com[^]
Lots of useful stuff in one place with all of the crapware stripped out
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Nice one.. Installing now...
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I personally like Fedora Linux. Very user-friendly.
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Raja Sekhar S wrote: Any light weight anti virus..?
It is included in Win8. Just make sure Defender is turned on.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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k will do that....
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It is one of the causes to produce a weak team, as the strong members do not like that, and they soon quit.
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Strong ones follow the book that is why they don't like intimidation
I <3 my Job
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Management by intimidation 
That's another way to say
Poor management -> poor development team.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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FTFY (the subject)
Thanks,
Milind
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One of the worst things a manager can do, and it is the surest sign of a bad manager, is to have a generic solution to a specific problem.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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They are urged by the desire to generalize
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