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  • S Steve Thresher

    Is the author paranoid or is just me? http://windows7sins.org/[^]

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    Dario Solera
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    Things like that make me want to drop my open-source efforts...

    If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker My Photos/CP Flickr Group - ScrewTurn Wiki

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    • S Steve Thresher

      Is the author paranoid or is just me? http://windows7sins.org/[^]

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      R Giskard Reventlov
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      What a bunch of morons: what, exactly, is wrong with MS attempting to profit from its investment? Further, why shouldn't they restrict the software and/or create different priced versions so as to maximise the potential sales and market??? Perhaps if open source software was better/easier to use/more accessible/easier for hardware manufacturers to install/easier for users to install it might provide real competition to MS. Perhaps that's the issue they should address.

      me, me, me

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      • S Steve Thresher

        Is the author paranoid or is just me? http://windows7sins.org/[^]

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        Bergholt Stuttley Johnson
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        They have a nerve complaining about the quality of microsoft code and then produce such a buggy site

        Go away and research the subject, analyze the options for and against, understand the problem and them come back when you agree with me.

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        • S Steve Thresher

          Is the author paranoid or is just me? http://windows7sins.org/[^]

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          Zhat
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          Steve Thresher wrote:

          Is the author paranoid

          Paranoid? Maybe. Total Douche? Absolutely!!

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          • R R Giskard Reventlov

            What a bunch of morons: what, exactly, is wrong with MS attempting to profit from its investment? Further, why shouldn't they restrict the software and/or create different priced versions so as to maximise the potential sales and market??? Perhaps if open source software was better/easier to use/more accessible/easier for hardware manufacturers to install/easier for users to install it might provide real competition to MS. Perhaps that's the issue they should address.

            me, me, me

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            Keith Barrow
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            Like, man, it's like important to, like, fight "the man" Yeah? Now I'm going to buy a Mac, because it's the alternative choice for free-thinkers :laugh:

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            • S Steve Thresher

              Is the author paranoid or is just me? http://windows7sins.org/[^]

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              Keith Barrow
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              If you are asking whether you are paranoid or not, you probably are :)

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              • D Dario Solera

                Things like that make me want to drop my open-source efforts...

                If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker My Photos/CP Flickr Group - ScrewTurn Wiki

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                martin_hughes
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                Dario Solera wrote:

                Things like that make me want to drop my open-source efforts

                You had better not. I like ScrewTurn wiki a lot and if you take it away, I'm affraid I shall have to track you down and I will have such revenges on you, that all the world shall--I will do such things,-- what they are, yet I know not: but they shall be the terrors of the earth., as the Bard put it :-D

                Books written by CP members

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                  Dario Solera wrote:

                  Things like that make me want to drop my open-source efforts

                  You had better not. I like ScrewTurn wiki a lot and if you take it away, I'm affraid I shall have to track you down and I will have such revenges on you, that all the world shall--I will do such things,-- what they are, yet I know not: but they shall be the terrors of the earth., as the Bard put it :-D

                  Books written by CP members

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                  Dario Solera
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                  :-D You'd better track down FSF: they say "thou shalt not use Windows".

                  If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker My Photos/CP Flickr Group - ScrewTurn Wiki

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                  • S Steve Thresher

                    Is the author paranoid or is just me? http://windows7sins.org/[^]

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                    Lost User
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                    yep, i too try and try and try quitting out of that monopoly, but i am always forced by company to stick to it.........

                    Ravie Busie Coding is my birth-right and bugs are part of feature my code has!

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                    • D Dario Solera

                      Things like that make me want to drop my open-source efforts...

                      If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker My Photos/CP Flickr Group - ScrewTurn Wiki

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                      Jim Crafton
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                      I agree. I've been seriously considering putting something on my project's website that clearly distances myself from idiots like this. What a bunch of idiots.

                      ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Personal 3D projects Just Say No to Web 2 Point Blow

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                      • B Bergholt Stuttley Johnson

                        They have a nerve complaining about the quality of microsoft code and then produce such a buggy site

                        Go away and research the subject, analyze the options for and against, understand the problem and them come back when you agree with me.

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                        phannon86
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                        Aint it just, the sliding doohiky that moves as you select the links on the main menu displays appaulingly. I can make out the bottom half of their logo and a load of text that's clearly missing. This is in FF3.5.2, hilariously, that part of the site works in IE8!

                        He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man

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                        • K Keith Barrow

                          Like, man, it's like important to, like, fight "the man" Yeah? Now I'm going to buy a Mac, because it's the alternative choice for free-thinkers :laugh:

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                          Steve Thresher
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                          keefb wrote:

                          free-thinkers

                          You got the last five letters right :-D

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                            yep, i too try and try and try quitting out of that monopoly, but i am always forced by company to stick to it.........

                            Ravie Busie Coding is my birth-right and bugs are part of feature my code has!

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                            Steve Thresher
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                            I don't want out. After trying Linux I'm very much pro-windows! The character Lady Whiteadder sprang to mind while I was reading the article.

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                              keefb wrote:

                              free-thinkers

                              You got the last five letters right :-D

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                              Keith Barrow
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                              :laugh:

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                              • S Steve Thresher

                                Is the author paranoid or is just me? http://windows7sins.org/[^]

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                                Lost User
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                                A little over the top obviously, but he has some points.. Such as DRM being evil (it is, it's not just "we want to make money", it's "we want to make money AND severely restrict you in ways that would be illegal if they weren't digital")

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                                  A little over the top obviously, but he has some points.. Such as DRM being evil (it is, it's not just "we want to make money", it's "we want to make money AND severely restrict you in ways that would be illegal if they weren't digital")

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                                  Dario Solera
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                                  DRM in Windows only has effect if you have *purchased* DRM-protected media. I've never purchased DRM-protected media for this reason.

                                  If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker My Photos/CP Flickr Group - ScrewTurn Wiki

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                                    DRM in Windows only has effect if you have *purchased* DRM-protected media. I've never purchased DRM-protected media for this reason.

                                    If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker My Photos/CP Flickr Group - ScrewTurn Wiki

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                                    Lost User
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                                    Nor do I, but should it be there in the first place? IMO it shouldn't - it's more like something to put in DVD player software (which will then of course be hacked, which I won't say is bad)

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                                      Nor do I, but should it be there in the first place? IMO it shouldn't - it's more like something to put in DVD player software (which will then of course be hacked, which I won't say is bad)

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                                      Dario Solera
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                                      Well the problem is with Blu-Ray discs manufacturers (Microsoft, for once, is not included): they require HDCP for playing HD movies which in turns requires the video and display drivers (and the monitor of course) to explicitly support HDCP, thus the need for some hooks in the operating system. That's the reason why you cannot play Blu-Ray movies on GNU/Linux.

                                      If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker My Photos/CP Flickr Group - ScrewTurn Wiki

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                                        I don't want out. After trying Linux I'm very much pro-windows! The character Lady Whiteadder sprang to mind while I was reading the article.

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                                        Wjousts
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                                        Steve Thresher wrote:

                                        Lady Whiteadder

                                        Two spikes would be an extravagance!

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                                        • D Dario Solera

                                          Well the problem is with Blu-Ray discs manufacturers (Microsoft, for once, is not included): they require HDCP for playing HD movies which in turns requires the video and display drivers (and the monitor of course) to explicitly support HDCP, thus the need for some hooks in the operating system. That's the reason why you cannot play Blu-Ray movies on GNU/Linux.

                                          If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker My Photos/CP Flickr Group - ScrewTurn Wiki

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                                          Lost User
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                                          Dario Solera wrote:

                                          That's the reason why you cannot play Blu-Ray movies on GNU/Linux.

                                          It won't be long before you can. Someone will come along and hack it (and then the keys will be invalidated, found again, repeat ad nauseam, just like the CSS debacle)

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