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Mr. Arnold
Frank said:
Do you think anyone is paying attention to AAA - Adam Albright Attacks,
other than you?
Do you think anyone is paying attention to AAA - Adam Albright Attacks,
other than you?
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Adam Albright
Damn Frankie if you don't calm down you're going to pop your cork or
burst a blood vessel. Hmm... on second thought go for it you freaking
moron!
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Adam Albright
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:23:06 -0400, "Mr. Arnold" <MR.
Seems you follow Frank's rantings that must make you a Mr. Idiot.
Do you think anyone is paying attention to AAA - Adam Albright Attacks,
other than you?
Seems you follow Frank's rantings that must make you a Mr. Idiot.
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Frank
Adam said:
You're proly right. My foot is getting very sore from booting your fat
arse all over this ng. And you're starting to bore me with your
ignorance and stupidity.
But (pun intended!) you keep coming back for more!
Frank
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Saran
Mike said:
Give me a break, they certainly had a choice. They would of had a
tougher time having Blu-ray and HD-DVD support from media industry if
they didn't agree to certain terms, but they could of used the potential
demand against the media industry as well, as people want to watch on
their systems and probably sooner or later someone would find a way to
do that. Microsoft instead chose to basically kiss their collective
asses.
Personally I don't know who is worse right now, Microsoft, or the big
media industries. The MPAA has screwed many early HD TV adopters with
the HDCP - you can't watch HD-DVD/Blu-ray on an early HL TV because of
this, not without first going a route that lowers the quality to normal
DVD res or less. Or sometimes doesn't play at all. Then there was
Sony-BGM releasing DRM in the form of a virus (rootkit - actually it
allowed virus writers to use it to easily hide their viri...score
another one for DRM...) that could render your optical drive inoperable.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
I ask you, where does it stop. How many freedoms do you think we need to
give up before it becomes "wrong" or "too much" ?
I tell ya, I can't remember the last time I felt like the big media or
software vendors (including Microsoft) actually cared about their
customers. Any other industry many of the things they are doing would
never be tolerated. Would you buy a microwave that only popped certain
brands of popcorn for a lock about of time? No. When was the last time
you had to "activate" a VCR? Or prove you paid for that shaving raiser
and had it shut down if you couldn't? Sounds down right ridiculous,
right? So why the hell is it tolerated in the computer and media
industries?
-saran
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Saran
Vista said:
Yes, although I don't recall it ever being quite this bad, and what this
really proves is Microsoft hasn't learned much over the years. Vista was
supposed to be advanced way beyond anything in the past, yet what we got
here is little more than a reworked XP/2003-ish core for all intents and
purposes, with a nice flashy GUI, that, while it looks nice and all,
really serves to slow things down - Vista runs a bit faster in classic
mode, not too surprisingly, but either mode still suffers from extra
seemingly inexplicable overheard.
I for one wonder what it's doing in the back ground... not saying there
are any hidden/spy/DRM/etc processes, but if there were, it's not
exactly difficult to write the APIs that taskman, netstat, etc, use in a
manner as to filter them out. I only offer this as a potential
explanation for some of that extra overhead bulk that's in there, and
not as anything conclusive. I know some of it comes from all the extra
checks and such (some of which has to do with content protection DRM...
ie, stuff we could do without.)
-saran
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Steve K.
Mr. Arnold wrote:
[Please attribute posts so readers know who wrote what - added line]
Worthless to you perhaps, but don't speak for others. It happens that a
lot of people happen to agree.
[Please attribute posts so readers know who wrote what - added line]
Worthless to you perhaps, but don't speak for others. It happens that a
lot of people happen to agree.
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Charlie Tame
Saran said:
When WGA first appeared a number of people predicted it would become a
kill switch and MS denied that. Well of course they didn't lie, it's
just that Activation has become the actual switch.
However I defended Microsoft's right to take any steps they felt
necessary to protect their own copyright material, and also their right
to protect the material of others because failing to do so could
jeopardize Microsoft's future business.
Of course I was never asked at the time but I also defend their
customers' inalienable right to say "I've had enough of this crap, I
will use something else".
I consider that I was very loyal to Microsoft, I liked their products,
felt that they were often the best in the business and still have no
wish to harm them or the thousands of employees, but the various
debacles with Vista and the Mail client prompted me (Well almost could
say forced me I guess) to try other browsers, other mail clients and
finally after a long time thinking about it trying Linux.
What I have found is that there's a Linux version of almost everything I
use on Windows and except for a lot of hassle with printers and some
trouble getting display drivers installed properly Linux has caught up.
Guess what, I find myself now using Linux and almost never insert the
Windows drives at all.
I feel that if they force people to try the alternatives they will lose,
because it's a lot of trouble to change and once people do change many
will never come back.
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Guest
What laptop did you buy? These are not common problems. Sounds like you have
a bad computer. Don't blame Microsoft, Vista works great (on a good machine.)
a bad computer. Don't blame Microsoft, Vista works great (on a good machine.)