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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-12-07 09:25 PM
Response to Reply #21
30. What I am going to do is get a Mac Mini, then look for a used
or new laptop that will run Linux.
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  -Black Screen of Darkness for Vista users. alfredo  Sep-11-07 02:31 PM   #0 
  - I guess Gates heard that Jobs was now the most hated man in the computer business.  Buzz Clik   Sep-11-07 02:45 PM   #1 
  - Thankfully Vista users will have top-notch technical support  Ezlivin   Sep-11-07 02:47 PM   #2 
  - Hey, that's my cousin.  alfredo   Sep-11-07 04:37 PM   #6 
  - To wit: "Massive Microsoft WGA meltdown fingers legit Vista and XP owners as pirates"  Poll_Blind   Sep-11-07 02:52 PM   #3 
  - I think it would be a perfect match.  alfredo   Sep-11-07 05:07 PM   #7 
  - Holy crap. A server glitches, and suddenly people's OS's start shutting down?  dicksteele   Sep-11-07 05:16 PM   #9 
  - Sometimes their paranoia gets the best of them. Yes, piracy is a big  alfredo   Sep-11-07 06:34 PM   #10 
  - The Windows "Genuine Advantage" failure story should've gotten more press  entanglement   Sep-12-07 01:13 PM   #25 
  - Gawd, I thought you were joking!  Atman   Sep-11-07 06:53 PM   #11 
  - Power and Paranoia go hand in hand.  alfredo   Sep-12-07 03:11 PM   #26 
  - but...but..but...they're CHEAPER than a MAC!  n2doc   Sep-12-07 04:33 PM   #29 
  - Who says they haven't? n/t  n2doc   Sep-12-07 04:31 PM   #28 
  - yep...'tis true  ProdigalJunkMail   Sep-11-07 03:05 PM   #4 
  - I thought "Reduced Functionality"  SixString   Sep-11-07 03:16 PM   #5 
  - LOL!  greyhound1966   Sep-11-07 05:13 PM   #8 
  - It's a "feature", not a bug  Canuckistanian   Sep-12-07 09:31 PM   #31 
  - ok, so then solutions?  riverdeep   Sep-11-07 07:02 PM   #12 
  - I don't know the solution to this. All software companies have  alfredo   Sep-11-07 10:35 PM   #13 
  - A solution that does not penalize legitimate purchasers  The Vinyl Ripper   Sep-12-07 04:25 PM   #27 
  - Simple: remove the code that AUTOMATES the process. It's just a BAD idea.  dicksteele   Sep-12-07 10:15 PM   #32 
  - Hmm, wouldn't it be nice if they spent that time fixing bugs and working toward a more stable OS  Lone_Star_Dem   Sep-11-07 10:44 PM   #14 
  - OMG worst than  burrowowl   Sep-11-07 11:27 PM   #15 
  - Yawn ...  SimpleTrend   Sep-11-07 11:27 PM   #16 
  - It will take just a few days to hack this out of the pirated versions  JCMach1   Sep-12-07 01:09 AM   #17 
  - their pricing is outrageous. Can they make it more complex? I love  alfredo   Sep-12-07 12:53 PM   #23 
  - Windows Vista: Gates' greatest gift ever to open-source OS developers  0rganism   Sep-12-07 02:00 AM   #18 
  - Get good graphics drivers, and a way to emulate Direct X and I'm there.  Beelzebud   Sep-12-07 09:41 AM   #22 
     - you're right about Linux gaming -- it lags MS by about 6 years, which sucks  0rganism   Sep-12-07 01:09 PM   #24 
  - Aw well, at least there's a silver lining ...  Nihil   Sep-12-07 08:53 AM   #19 
  - there's nothing wrong with fighting piracy, it's their history of  alfredo   Sep-12-07 09:38 AM   #20 
  - If they had spent half as much time make legitimate copies work properly, people would pay for it.  porphyrian   Sep-12-07 09:40 AM   #21 
     - What I am going to do is get a Mac Mini, then look for a used  alfredo   Sep-12-07 09:25 PM   #30 
 

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