I just think MS, hardware manufacturers & OEMs celebrated Vista's release like it was a license to print money...instead of ironing out the bugs.   So, they sold buckets of garbage to early adop ...

Hmmm, so more software pirates really are living under Totalitarian regimes, or "Axis of Evil..." I wonder how many of those "blacked out" computers are owned & operated by the ...

I was laughing, ROFLOL, even before I read the comments.  If I made delusional statements, like these, they'd lock me in a rubber room.I wonder what the pay-scale is, for a wishful thinking PR job -- ...

I've begun to think there's a positive side effect to this B.S. Just think of all the annoying extra Divorce Lawyers and Ambulance Chasers, who all these lawsuits keep off the street.  Even if it' ...

Here I though my best reason for still using my PS/2 keyboard was "Since I know where 1 end of the cord is, I can always find the other end."Now.  The question is, can they use the same typ ...

If EA wants to be in a "Risk Free" business, they need to start a septic service, or something.  What other "Risk Free" businesses are there?  Mortitian, Pornographer, crooked CP ...

Cool. Wish my town would do this.*As long as the town's not paying "Pentagon prices" for the installation or cabling ---and as long as quantum cabling [or something else better] doesn't come ...

I guess I'm a mutant.  I've got Civilization for DOS and Windows 3.1.  I have Civ2 & 3 as well, but the minor differences between those two have discouraged my buying any of the newer vers.  I ...

You assume EA will prefer to give you a new key, rather than sell the the new [or the improved] version.   You also assume EA won't have been bought out by some other company that reconizes the valu ...

These industry comments always amaze me.I've upgraded my vid card many times, so I guess I need to try the torrents again.  Last I checked, my ISP was so flakey anywhere from 35-90% of my attempts at ...

Ah.That makes sense.  The back of most teens heads are a horrific sight.  Plus, it keeps the "stunt" teen-agers employed. ...

That looks like some (somewhat cheap, or at least quick & dirty) college student's power-point slide show.  The equation is there, on page 31.  The diagram is there, on page 64.  I don't see an ...

In fairness to them, the $$$  was for the newest driver.  But there were no drivers elsewhere.  I found one location for free download ---a driver that was older than the software on the CD that c ...

Dude!!!   :)ROFLOL I do enjoy a good totally non-PC comment.  It must be the male WASP in me (like that leaves me anything else to be).   ...

I agree that, sadly, most people don't want to put much if any thought into the security of their computer.Just one question, though.  Isn't that a Kubuntu Linux logo, there on the wall, in that pic? ...

This is an excellent article.Summary:  Just because it's a law, doesn't mean it is not (or cannot be) used abusively.  I strongly disagree with the "copyright is bad" notion.   If yo ...

I gave up on Diamond a long time ago, when I had to do a complete re-install 6 months after buying a new 56k modem ---and they wanted cash for a driver.  Not the newest driver, or an improved driver. ...

The signal to/from a celular phone is a form of radiation.  If you're holding the antenna next to your head, you get 100,000x the radiation exposure that you get if the same antenna is an arm's lengt ...

Microsoft works with component manufacturers to make 100s of different components work, and work better.  You can build your own machine --choosing parts for the value/cost ratio you like, reuse ...

Maybe this is an obvious thing to say, but I really thing subscriptions are a big step in the wrong direction.  I can accept that there are major costs for the people putting out the software & s ...

Q: How does the current generation of stereoscopic 3D tech differ from what gamers saw 5 years ago? A: The Marketing and Legal departments allow me to state unequivically:"Now with turbonium! ...

Yes, but if everyone whos into PC gaming buys a copy of Spore --everytime they are in a store that sells it buying something else-- only to return it unopened the same day, or the next... either the s ...

Maybe it's futile. I'd like to think IT people are more ethical than the guys who sunk Enron & Arthur Anderson.  But, if your corporate culture follows the "greed is good" model, what ...

I really think they did XP pretty well, if you ignore Office and IE being given the right to modify the OS.  [a pretty big thing to ignore...]They may even have been moving in the right direction wit ...

I like Bill & Jerry, although I wish Gates had done some [err, quite a few...] things differently...The Mac commercials aren't funny, unless you mean I can't believe people will buy this B.S. line ...