Get VS2008 Professional for FREE !! [modified]
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Yep, You read it right. Microsoft in its new venture called as DreamSpark is giving out the following softwares for FREE to all the students across the world. Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition Expression Studio XNA Game Studio 2.0 Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition Read the whole article here.. AllienSoft - Microsoft DreamSpark[^]
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Swader wrote:
So get it while you can.. and ya.. if you do get it.. share it with me too.. cause my country aint on that list as of yet
Besides pining to sin, you are also abetting others to join in the copyright infringements and statutory violations. You might be knowing that "
Abetting is considered a crime elevated higher than the actual crime itself".Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
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Swader wrote:
if you do get it.. share it with me too
That would be illegal.
Swader wrote:
cause my country aint on that list as of yet
That is not a valid excuse.
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
Swader wrote: if you do get it.. share it with me too That would be illegal. Swader wrote: cause my country aint on that list as of yet That is not a valid excuse.
Oh Allright.. I will wait till MS officially goes for my country :)
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Swader wrote:
So get it while you can.. and ya.. if you do get it.. share it with me too.. cause my country aint on that list as of yet
Besides pining to sin, you are also abetting others to join in the copyright infringements and statutory violations. You might be knowing that "
Abetting is considered a crime elevated higher than the actual crime itself".Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis LevinsonVasudevan Deepak K wrote:
Besides pining to sin, you are also abetting others to join in the copyright infringements and statutory violations. You might be knowing that "Abetting is considered a crime elevated higher than the actual crime itself"
As if you never committed any sin urself :P Well i was just trying to share the news.. if you dont like it.. Get it deleted ;) Sorry for posting.
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Yep, You read it right. Microsoft in its new venture called as DreamSpark is giving out the following softwares for FREE to all the students across the world. Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition Expression Studio XNA Game Studio 2.0 Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition Read the whole article here.. AllienSoft - Microsoft DreamSpark[^]
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This is one of the smartest things that Microsoft has ever done, and one of the most valuable contributions ever made to education. Back when I was in school, two companies - National Semiconductor and Texas Instruments - provided their electronics data books and application notes to engineering students for free. After 5 years of learning to design from their catalogs, most of us had the configuration, performance specs, and part numbers of their products committed to memory. Guess whose parts we specified for the rest of our careers once we entered the workforce? Student developers who spend 4 or 5 years learning their trade using Microsoft's tools will not readily change tools when they graduate, and MS can count on many years of loyal users specifying the latest and greatest versions for professional work. Nice work, Microsoft - I heartily approve, and would readily agree that you will have deserved the outrageous profits you'll be making on future sales to these students. :-D (attempt #12 to post this reply; ET 3.1 hrs)
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Yep, You read it right. Microsoft in its new venture called as DreamSpark is giving out the following softwares for FREE to all the students across the world. Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition Expression Studio XNA Game Studio 2.0 Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition Read the whole article here.. AllienSoft - Microsoft DreamSpark[^]
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Its strictly for College students. I sent that link to my son the other day as he's nearing that stage. If they are going to hook the next generation on their products IMO they should extend this offer to a younger audience. By the time they get to college they have pretty much looked and used all the available resources available and by that point made up their minds which way they are going to go! It is awful magnanimous of them though. Mike
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Its strictly for College students. I sent that link to my son the other day as he's nearing that stage. If they are going to hook the next generation on their products IMO they should extend this offer to a younger audience. By the time they get to college they have pretty much looked and used all the available resources available and by that point made up their minds which way they are going to go! It is awful magnanimous of them though. Mike
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. "George Carlin
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You may have missed the part where the article said -> "By the third quarter of 2008, Microsoft will also permit access to high school students to DreamSpark." Just so you know...
This is the end, the end my friend, the end...
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You may have missed the part where the article said -> "By the third quarter of 2008, Microsoft will also permit access to high school students to DreamSpark." Just so you know...
This is the end, the end my friend, the end...
I did miss that, thanks for the heads up. My son will be a senior then so that will work out great for him. He's been resisting learning programming, maybe this will inspire him. Thanks, Mike
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. "George Carlin
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Yep, You read it right. Microsoft in its new venture called as DreamSpark is giving out the following softwares for FREE to all the students across the world. Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition Expression Studio XNA Game Studio 2.0 Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition Read the whole article here.. AllienSoft - Microsoft DreamSpark[^]
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" He gives the kids free samples Because he knows full well That today's young innocent faces Are tomorrow's clientele " -- Tom Lehrer, The Old Dope Peddler
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I did miss that, thanks for the heads up. My son will be a senior then so that will work out great for him. He's been resisting learning programming, maybe this will inspire him. Thanks, Mike
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. "George Carlin
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Mike Hankey wrote:
He's been resisting learning programming,
My son resisted so strongly and consistently that I gave up, he's now a dive master on the great barrier reef off Cairns and loves it.:confused:
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Mike Hankey wrote:
He's been resisting learning programming,
My son resisted so strongly and consistently that I gave up, he's now a dive master on the great barrier reef off Cairns and loves it.:confused:
Mycroft Holmes wrote:
he's now a dive master on the great barrier reef off Cairns and loves it.
Thats a good thing to love what you do! I envy him wish I was young enough to do it myself! Everbodys gotta be somebody...might as well be happy. Mine is a very gifted child..Hes a Junior in High school talking Calculus, Physics, and requisits and has A+ cert., Word cert. and is going for 3 more Desktop tech. type certs in the next 2 months. He's a game addict and I tried to use the ploy if you want to design games you have to learn programming that motivated him for about 2 days and he said the heck with it. I haven't completely given up because he understands the benefits but will see. Mike
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. "George Carlin
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Mycroft Holmes wrote:
he's now a dive master on the great barrier reef off Cairns and loves it.
Thats a good thing to love what you do! I envy him wish I was young enough to do it myself! Everbodys gotta be somebody...might as well be happy. Mine is a very gifted child..Hes a Junior in High school talking Calculus, Physics, and requisits and has A+ cert., Word cert. and is going for 3 more Desktop tech. type certs in the next 2 months. He's a game addict and I tried to use the ploy if you want to design games you have to learn programming that motivated him for about 2 days and he said the heck with it. I haven't completely given up because he understands the benefits but will see. Mike
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. "George Carlin
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Thats almost frightening, my boy was always good acedemically, went through the games thing, and yeh I used the you like em you build em line as well. He did a double degree in university (neither of which was basket weaving) and ended up as a diver :sigh: Now they find it difficult to make ends meet, a lifestyle job does not make for much of the filthy lucre! Still we didn't have much when he was a kid so he doesn't have the drive to make a fortune. I almost got my guy going by building him a dive log in Access, he even maintained it for some years, never extended it like I was hoping but I guess his mind does not work that way.
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Thats almost frightening, my boy was always good acedemically, went through the games thing, and yeh I used the you like em you build em line as well. He did a double degree in university (neither of which was basket weaving) and ended up as a diver :sigh: Now they find it difficult to make ends meet, a lifestyle job does not make for much of the filthy lucre! Still we didn't have much when he was a kid so he doesn't have the drive to make a fortune. I almost got my guy going by building him a dive log in Access, he even maintained it for some years, never extended it like I was hoping but I guess his mind does not work that way.
Programming is not for everybody, some people just don't get it. Mine tells me its just not logical I don't understand that but I accept it and leave his fate in his hands. I figure it this way you teach em till they hit 10-11 then all you can do is hope you've done your job. When their born they don't come with instruction manuals so you just do what you can. He'll turn out all right he may not have a lot of money but as long as he's happy then he's rich! Mike
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. "George Carlin
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