{"id":257,"date":"2001-11-12T18:02:45","date_gmt":"2001-11-12T23:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=257"},"modified":"2001-11-12T18:02:45","modified_gmt":"2001-11-12T23:02:45","slug":"the-shell-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2001\/11\/12\/the-shell-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The shell game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Rothgery <a href=\"http:\/\/scobleizer.manilasites.com\/discuss\/msgReader$604\">points out<\/a> that MSDN has changed around its subscriptions quite a bit, inserting new levels and adjusting other ones.  What used to be &#8220;Professional&#8221; is now &#8220;Operating Systems&#8221; and Professional now gets Visual Studio and Visual Foxpro (does anyone really use that?).<\/p>\n<p>All well and good.<\/p>\n<p>My renewal notice didn&#8217;t tell me that.  Did I pitch out some marketing blather that came with my last MSDN shipment &#8211; I dunno, I&#8217;m no longer very discriminating about what I throw out before even looking at it since almost everything in my mailboxes, physical and virtual, is useless, absolutely insulting crap.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howthefaq.com\/msdn.jpg\">my renewal notice<\/a> &#8211; does it tell me what I need to know?  Does it give me clear options other than those which extract more money out of me?<\/p>\n<p>If you want my business, you gotta meet me more than halfway.  Don&#8217;t <i>accidentally forget<\/i> to be clear that I have options that might suit me better and save me money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Rothgery points out that MSDN has changed around its subscriptions quite a bit, inserting new levels and adjusting other ones. What used to be &#8220;Professional&#8221; is now &#8220;Operating Systems&#8221; and Professional now gets Visual Studio and Visual Foxpro (does anyone really use that?). All well and good. My renewal notice didn&#8217;t tell me that. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}