Posted 11/12/2009 at 07:53:47am

You gotta be kidding!

Posted 10/23/2009 at 07:39:22am

You wanna know what's amazing - the difference in individual experiences. How is this possible? Even between the RC version and the RTM versions in the same machine!

Got the new OS and installed last night in the same computer that I've had relatively little problems with while using Windows RC. After installing on a brand new SSD, my raid 5 drives don't appear. No problem, I can fix that.  No internet connectivity. No problem, I can fix that. Boot manager comes up and makes me select from three different versions of Windows on my machine. No problem, I can fix that. Wait a minute! This didn't happen when I installed Windows RC months ago. WTF? I thought that this was going to be the easiest install ever? What happened Microsoft?

Posted 10/22/2009 at 02:13:15pm

Nice job MPC keeping us up to speed on the rollout of Windows 7! I've appreciated your many articles about the new OS.

Now, on Windows 7's birthday, it seems a bit anticlimactic since most of us have been using some form of this OS for a few months. My new software should be delivered today, and I hope that it cleans up the few problems that I've had with the RC version such as the computer not always closing down, an IDE drive not installing, and a few other minor things. If not, at least I'm confident now that MS will have the fixes before long.

The big question is what makes this OS good enough to make someone buy it instead of continuing to use XP, for example. The short answer is - I don't know - yet.  I hope that the simplest answer will be "because it works better than ever". As for that - so far, so good...

Posted 05/06/2009 at 12:39:42am

Ok, lord pyro,

how many pens have you stolen? Hmmmmm? let me have one of your fingers. But before you give me the finger, let me say good for you, don't steal. Thank you...kris79

Posted 04/24/2009 at 07:36:50am

Thus, you look like an even bigger nitwit than you did before. Note - try to get a new word other than "lame" - your tired desription of anything other that your own dithering and blather.

Posted 04/19/2009 at 01:49:25am

Keep the Faith Velcrow. You got it right...kris79

Posted 04/19/2009 at 01:01:08am

Dude? Does this mean "Master" or "Exalted one, who is so much smarter than me", because I am.... Nevertheless, "Fool", you may lick my ass.-  I think that translates well between Norwegian and American. You're too stupid to know that we're on the same side - up to a point. Go back to school.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            NB. You're dismissed now. Thank you...kris79

Posted 04/18/2009 at 11:33:32pm

Cudos to pcwizmtl and ghot for funny and insightful comments. Velcrow also shows that his parents probably sent him to a private school. IMO several others on both sides of this issue have made great arguments both for and against the Pirate Bay. This is a landmark case that will affect all of us. If you've read my initial comments they said "fight piracy" and nothing about pirating - only that I believed that some judges had to be paid off to reach the conclusion that they did from all of the evidence that I saw - and since there was nothing that was secret about that trial, I probably saw most of it. I think I was accused of being in favor of piracy, but since I'm Norwegian, I may have missed some nuances of the English language that only you Americans are aware of.  I'm not even particularly fond of Swedes since my name ends in SEN rather that SON. Scandinavians will understand what I mean. And, you'll not find anything on my computer that I didn't pay for - unless perhaps you include my porn collection.

Here's my take on piracy. There are large buildings in every town in America that include copywrited material. This material is used by hundreds of thousands of people every day, and most pay exactly - nothing for it. Books, newspapers, music and movies can be taken from these buildings and read or played in your homes as many times as you want. These buildings are called libraries.  But if you copy these same works over the internet, it's called stealing.

The internet contains thousands more great works of writers, painters , and other artists who poured out their heart and soul into masterpieces for the rest of humanity. Many are gone now but their works live on because they are kept alive by us - the users of their great talent.  As much as we admire them, we pay nothing to them.  They are dead. Yet there are some that feel that their luck to have selected the right parents allows them to say that we are stealing from them.

There are great institutions where the masterpieces, and even not so masterful, works of others are taught, argued about, studied, dissected, and discussed. The creators rarely see a penny of profit from their labors. These places are called universities.

Lastly, I do molecular biology for a living. I am paid to find ways to combat human disease. In the academia medical research community, we work long hours for little pay, spend much of our lives in a laboratory, and we freely give our lives scientific work and help to others like us all over the world so that they can succeed in the event that we may fail. One stone after another will build a castle.

Contrast that with the jingle writer who writes a really good piece of music that is so annoying that you can't get it out of your head. He expects to be paid for it from the moment it's created until the last member of his family dies in the far distant future. Play it without paying for it is called stealing.

Chopin, Beethoven, George Harrison wrote some really great music that we can't listen to unless we pay. Who? They're D.E.A.D.!

I love PC games and the people who make them, and probably have paid for numerous lobster dinners for PC code writers simply to keep them writing. Consider honoring them for their labor. Or pay them after pirating their game..

I still haven't said which side I'm on - you can reach your own conclusions. Cheers...kris79

Posted 04/17/2009 at 09:04:01pm

Agreeing with the judges' decision takes a Kierkegaardian leap of faith that simply wasn't borne by the evidence. I read it avidly - you didn't. The prosecution didn't know what a torrent was or how it worked. They simply said that there must be something illegal going on here because somehow, somebody was copying stuff. You know, much the same as you probably do every single day on your computer so that you can see it on your monitor? When the prosecution brought in their star witness, he showed that he was able to copy stuff from pirate bay. When asked if he knew how a bit torrent site worked or even where that supposed copyrighted material came from - he didn't know. No evidence to back it up. Nothing but specious accusations. What makes the Pirate Bay most legally heinous apparently, is that some music tycoon probably isn't getting his bank account stroked as much as he would like. And somebody, by God, has to pay! Don't worry though, dude, the rich have ways to get what they want. That was my only message- only this time, much more simplified.

Nevertheless, you have your dogma, and please continue to be happy with it. I've got to move on and won't be reading this thread anymore. It's simply too tiring to try to repair all the damage done by some public school systems...kris79

Posted 04/17/2009 at 01:03:17pm

Don't need to be an Einstein - just be able to reason. Fold in a little common sense and the ability to read. Mix well with the numerous accounts of the trial and how the prosecution was so inept that it had to keep changing its teminology and presumed offenses during the trial because it didn't have a clue what it was prosecuting them for. Add a pinch of life's experience and the ability to read between the lines that comes of it. These are all things that apparently you, sir, lack in your mental recipe. Or perhaps when you wrote the question for me, you were suffering another of your attacks - in which case, I apologize.

And, BTW, in Sweden, there are 3 judges in this type of trial - so I presume that it must have cost the recording media a few more coins to bribe at least two of them to guarantee its winning...kris79