Re: WINAPI function for setting screen saver?
- From: Bob O`Bob <filterbob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:41:35 -0700
Ken Halter wrote:
"Sergey" <serbolky@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:untyg.101$48.17@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxfwiw, our apps will not start at all if there are screen saver settings active. We show a message box stating "No Screen Savers Allowed" and bail out. We also don't allow Windows Automatic Updates to be active.
Well, I do want to make software that people will love using. If I wanted to make a piece of sh!t I'd do exactly that.
Well... you sit around and press "space buttons" (what ever that is) all day... I don't. Our software runs our machines. The customer gets what we give them. They have no choice. They're buying machines, not software.
The motherboard you're using right now was probably made by one of our machines. The ink jet you may have on your desk may've been made using our machines,... or, at least the ink jet cartridge print heads. If you're a diabetic and use one of the new computerized dispensers, I guarantee it was made by one of our machines.... and guess what... I wrote the software.
Oh ... so you can literally say that you build stuff using Windows which
(though very indirectly) people's lives depend upon.
I'd try not to tell the EULA department in Redmond if I were you.
;-)
Bob
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