Posted 11/28/2008 at 06:00:10pm

Lets trolls and other scum know that MaximumPC runs a high quality forum and is serious about keeping scum where they belong -- OUT of the forums!

Posted 11/14/2008 at 09:50:46pm

... that AMD and Intel need each other to remain competitive and keep all that computing power within reach of us working folks!

Posted 11/13/2008 at 06:58:05am

Is that I, like many, many others, have endured nearly two years of a BARRAGE of media attention for the election as if there were nothing else to talk about in America.

There ARE forums for political discussion all over the web.  This isn't one of them.  For you, there's Fox News.  For the rest of us, there's talk about PC's and technology here.  That's where the focus is on this website.  I know you've fallen behind on the facts (just like the GOP fell out of touch with voters) but do try to keep up with the rest of America.

The Republicans lost.  The election is over, the votes have been counted, the winner decided.  Get over it.

Posted 11/12/2008 at 02:55:39pm

MaximumPC needs to stop including this garbage on their otherwise excellent CD's until the software matures.  I am always getting at least one false alarm (and it's always something different, and always something that hasn't triggered an alert before).

Posted 11/06/2008 at 12:08:16am

Way too many options out there.  DSL, Cable, Wifi, FIOS, even Satellite ISP's like HughesNet.

The only reason companies do stuff like this is because they think most of their customers will simply swallow this garbage rather than switch.  If enough customers defected, they would get the message.

Don't just whine about it.  DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

Posted 11/06/2008 at 12:01:23am

The fact is that Barack Obama isn't a Muslim or an Arab.  This sort of false smear has long since been discredited.

The Republicans lost to the candidate (and a party) who simply ran a superior campaign and did a better job communicating his message to the American people.  It's exactly this sort of false-smear and race-baiting that turned off voters like me in the first place.

It's called democracy, and it worked beautifully.

As for the OS, it's a pre-beta.  Rome wasn't built in a day.  People need to BE PATIENT, tone down their expectations and give the software engineers TIME TO DO THEIR JOBS.  My guess is that some overly eager "enthusiast" purposely leaked this onto the peer to peer networks without Microsoft's knowledge or blessing.

How somebody can be smart enough to get on Microsoft's MSDN then do something this STUPID (posting a pre-release beta not meant for public consumption) completely confounds me.  I'm guessing the same "genius" who thought American voters would be "instantly turned on" to John McCain by promoting smears about Obama and talking only about who Obama was hanging out with when Obama was 8 years old.

Posted 11/03/2008 at 09:34:26am

You must be one of those "entitlement" babies that believes "because it's there and I want it, I deserve it."  Must be wonderful to live on your planet -- everybody works for free and can't afford anything because nobody pays for it.

Do you realize you're defending PIRACY?  There are legitimate alternatives:  it's called OPEN SOURCE, better known as Linux!  But no, you want YOUR stuff for free, and screw the rest of us who pay through the nose for legitimate copies?

As I said before, I have my own gripes with Microsoft, not with their employees.  Are you saying that all of those employees with families to feed ought to work for FREE for YOU?  When did you become so freaking special?

Posted 11/03/2008 at 09:23:14am

In a very rare circumstance, I find myself in agreement with M$. I don't know about you, but I'd be pretty peeved if I spent big bucks on a legitimate copy of a M$, only to discover that somebody else was able to get a fully operational PIRATED copy for literally a couple of pennies on the dollar. What the hell did I bother spending the money for on a legitimate copy then? I rail on M$ for a number of valid reasons <strong>[crappy products, high software prices, confusing upgrade paths that sometimes border on useless, confusing (sometimes worthless) features that bog down the performance of the OS, etc.]</strong>. But I don't begrudge them on the <strong>principle of wanting to get a return on their investment through legitimate software sales</strong>. Even a M$ programmer probably has himself/herself and families to feed. If M$ is going to go down, let them go down for legitimate reasons (putting out one more crappy product that doesn't work, or users migrating to a better product). Nobody deserves to have their IP (intellectual property) stolen from them.

Posted 10/21/2008 at 03:38:05pm

The MPAA/RIAA copyright Nazi's haven't changed their stripes at all.  They're still being dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century.  They're still overcharging users at CD stores everywhere for their inefficent distribution practices to just plain GREED!  $17.99 and up for most CD's, even those you can in most cases just purchase the handful of songs you actually want from ITunes for 99 cents each!  From there you can burn your custom CD of hits for less than what it costs you in a retail store.

Forget the MPAA/RIAA's Byzantine distribution system and their monopoly on Entertainment!  Digital is the way to go, and consumers are demanding the MPAA/RIAA get with the program!

Posted 10/15/2008 at 05:53:16pm

So instead of Windows being an all new OS, it's going to be Windows Vista Second Edition?