Thanks, Ken, for posting that.

I gave that a try.

When I tried it from Mozilla, they put up a message (in the usual MS
fashion) that I needed a different browser to see the movies.  So I tried
it with MS IE.  They then informed me that I would need to download and
install their latest movie viewer program add-on.

So I just clicked on "rate this movie".  Four check-boxes and a few
comments and on to the next four reviews.  No need to actually download and
view their wonderful movies.

I sort of felt bad about circumventing their pr-circus so on the last movie
review where they asked for suggestions for more topics to produce movies
on, I suggested movies of naked people jumping up and down. 30 seconds
later, I received my email secret number confirmation.

They emailed me that my copy will be sent out in a few weeks.

I mention this only for those folks out there who don't have fast net
connections and might otherwise hesitate to enter the promotion due to not
having hours to download the movies.

Tom


At 07:25 PM 5/10/04 -0400, you wrote:
>First, let me apologize that this post is not a dead-on 100% 'OT' topic.
>However, my intentions are good and I only mean well, because a lot of
>people like myself interface PICs to PCs and use high-level programming
>languages on the PC to communicate with PICs. The following just sounds like
>a pretty nice offer that I wanted the PICLIST community to be aware about it
>since VB .NET Standard Edition is normally $99.
>
>
>For those that have not seen this promotion from Microsoft check out:
>
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/atthemovies/

--
http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList
mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu