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1. Comment - Microsoft Releases December Vista CTP

   (Dec 20, 2005 - 9:04 PM)

   Yeah... prefetch with massive ram requirements... lol Oh wait, that's what Vista will be right? Just one large ram requirement? ;-)
   
   Seriously, though, it's about time they really started doing something with the prefetch... it's always been a great idea... now, if they bundle in the abilty to tweak the SuperFetch and to add apps at boot... oh that would be sweet... prefetching VS.NET at system boot would save at least 2 minutes every day of my life ;)

2. Comment - Piracy Hurting Software Industry Growth

   (Dec 8, 2005 - 4:50 PM)

   Open source sucks... that has to be the best yet...
   
   Well, consider this:
   
   FireFox (which is open-source) has well over what, 2.5 million users now?
   
   Bugzilla, again, open source, has millions of users.
   
   Um, let's see... Oh yeah, PHP, with which thousands of web apps out there are written in is open source.
   
   Before you sit there and say open source sucks, take a good, hard look at a lot of the web sites you visit or apps that you run. You never know! You may have *shock* OPEN SOURCE APPS ON YOUR MACHINE! *shock*
   
   sheesh...

3. Comment - Oops -- New Sony DRM Patch Insecure

   (Dec 8, 2005 - 4:03 PM)

   No way, that would be responsible and we all know that big companies like Sony know nothing of responsibility (just look at all the retractions that were made by Sony during the first week of this...).
   
   Good software development has been tossed completly out the window in liu of just getting a product out the door... damn the bugs! We have a deadline to meet!!!
   
   Just my 2.5 cents ;-)

4. Comment - MS to Lock Down Security Zones in IE7

   (Dec 8, 2005 - 3:52 PM)

   I still think that the way that most *nix systems make you do it is nice... you need the root password to modify almost anything beyond user apps. My kids both use Fedora for their computers because I know for certain that I can lock down anything and everything without them ever being able to break it (too badly)
   
   FLUA is something that is WAY overdue for an operating system such as Windows. Someone at MSFT has obviously finally installed a distro of Linux and tried to update something in the OS ;-) (lol)

5. Comment - Coming Soon: High-Definition Radio

   (Dec 7, 2005 - 12:49 PM)

   I have to say... I have had both XM and Sirius. They both were totally horid... Get stuck under an overpass during rushhour and there goes your music (living in the Bay Area, almost everywhere is packed and they love to build overpasses, don't they?). I ended up dropping both and now just generate random playlists on my MP3 player.
   
   As for HD Radio, I agree that this isn't a scam... this is just like the big cable push in the 80's without the cost being tied to it. Terrestrial radio really needs to do something to compete with satellite, no question about that. What they do to compete is another question entirely. As most people know, the JACK format is a complete waste of time. I don't want to hear DJ's and commercials blasting in my ear for over 4 minutes, I also want a good variety of music in whatever genre happens to fit my mood. If HD Radio can offer similar programming that satellite radio offers with no cost, I believe we are going to see XM and Sirius losing their client base rather quickly.
   
   Also, someone above was complaining about getting good HDTV reception... 2 choices, cable-based HDTV or an outdoor, roof mounted antenna. I had Dish Network for all of 2 months and dumped it largely because of their horrible HDTV offerings. Recently I went back to Comcast and got their HDTV package (We don't have a single SD TV left in the house now... heh) and added an offair antenna... I am now getting about 35 channels of HD programming with virtually no downtime at all...