Posted 10/01/2009 at 09:40:34am

First of all.

@Dragonflythecat. Go troll elsewhere.

Now that is out of way I'd like to state I'm having a blast with Windows 7.

I stuck with XP as my PC is now 5 years old and didn't bother going through the hassle with Vista.

I'm glad I didn't upgrade as it showed me how amazing the RC runs on my creeky pile of junk. I had difficulty finding drivers for my ATI 3850 AGP but found a workable version.

I used Vista at length on a laptop but never liked it. The permissions system was intensely annoying. Aero was pretty but I just found Vista a chore.

I use OS X a lot too and find W7 just as enjoyable to use.

Although W7 is great, my big beef is the cost and the number of versions available. Microsoft, we love you (honest) but for HEAVEN'S SAKE please release one version of Windows 8 with clearly identifiable upgrade paths.

Posted 08/24/2009 at 09:25:25am

Saddest moment in gaming was when Legend released the hideously bad (and grossly overhyped) "The Great Space Race" after the sublime "Valhalla".

It was brutal.

Posted 08/24/2009 at 09:19:59am

I'm sure the IE8 team dearly wish it was so.

I am also quite sure Amy "Bazookas" Barzdukas is a secret Firefox user :)

Posted 08/24/2009 at 09:14:22am

I, for one, welcome our new insect...oops, I mean..hacker overlords.

Posted 08/24/2009 at 09:08:12am

"Vista is widely considered to be Microsoft’s biggest failure."

 I put ME as a contender for that title.

 Saying that, I think Vista is pants and almost made me want to run back to CP/M.  XP caught me in her stable arms again so I didn't go that far back ;)

 MS, in their newly found wisdom, did a beautiful job with W7. I have the RC and I'm madly in love with it as only a nerd can be in love with an O/S.

 W7 restored my faith in MS.  Let us hope MS, with their new numerical moniker, doesn't become like a weird Star Trek movie Twilight Zone thing. Windows 8 was terrible, Windows 9 was yum. You read it here first.

Posted 07/19/2009 at 10:53:33am

After many years of being a computer nerd I have nothing on paper to prove it.

I'm studying for Comptia A+ and buying a new laptop when Windows 7 is released. I would feel a touch miffed if there was a feature I needed for my studies/future work/whatever and only Ultimate had it and I opted for Home Premium. It's only an extra 120 bucks so I'm going for Ultimate.

I'm not giddy with joy I assure you. I was content with CP/M and grumbled when MS-DOS was making waves :)

Posted 07/19/2009 at 10:42:49am

We can concede that the customers were not supposed to have been able to purchase these books.

What I find abhorrent is the fact that these books were deleted from the customer's Kindles with no notification.

The customer was not at fault. Amazon should have paid a royalty to the publisher and allowed the customer to keep these books.

What's next? You legally buy a book and then Amazon changes certain passages or deletes the book because it has controversial content?

This story isn't just dripping in irony. It's a Niagara Falls torrent of irony here. So much so it could almost be a publicity stunt shortly on the heels of a price cut.

Either way it is sickening. I wonder what Mr. Bradbury thinks of this. I remember reading a comment he made in Fahrenheit 451 about how people send him letters. One woman actually had the audacity to suggest he rewrite Martian Chronicles with more women in it. Is that what may happen in a digital future? A classic long out of print will be available digitally and the powers that be decide to alter parts of it that fits in more nicely with the favoured narrow band of thought we will be living in.I can see it now.. Winston will be a black male. The party will be a white racist entity, hence their fierce opposition to Winstons and Julias love for each other. Hell, they can even throw in a comment that the reason his Victory cigarettes are terrible because only the whites in the inner party get the good stuff. This can apply to Animal Farm too. All they have to do is have an introduction from some "literary professor" who says that the pigs represent the Democrats and the farmers Republicans (or the other way round, depending on what the future PC brigade decide works best). A little change here and there and the pigs could have indeed made a wonderful change for the "oppressed" livestock.

I was going to but I will not now or ever buy a Kindle.

Hopefully the day will never come where I will to have to sit in an alcove to read or write something that some might disagree with.

In closing, I'd like to say that I still have the freedom to say that 2+2=5. Let's hope that will never change.