JcRabbit

JcRabbit

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Reply to Anonymous Claims Crashing CIA Website, Stealing 46,000 Peoples’ Info and Now is Threatening Israel. in Internet WinCustomize Forums

You know, I have absolutely no idea if this threat from Anonymous is real or not. However, I do know how *governments* react to real, imaginary or perceived threats that have some sympathy from the general public: by launching gigantic misinformation campaigns. Hitler started WWII by convincing the Germans that the Polish had attacked Germany in the Gleiwitz incident. In reality, as we now know, it was a staged attack by Nazi forces posing as Poles. This staged attacked rallie

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Reply to Megaupload taken down by FBI–Anonymous takes down DOJ, Universal Music, RIAA, MPAA websites in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="FrogCat" reply="129" id="3063950"]In general, the ones getting the raw deal at the moment are those that create or manufacture things. The people making the real money are those that hold the power to sell those things to the public. If you make a good song, and sign a contract with a record company and they then 'release' it to the public, you don't own that song anymore - the company does. If you are a big player in these large companies, and you

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Reply to HiDPI on MacOS X in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Starcandy" reply="16" id="3063715"]Hey Jorge, what monitors are those, what's the resolution and what graphics cards are you using? I think I may have asked you those questions before, but I have a memory like a sieve these days.[/quote] Sorry, don't want to hijack the thread, but here goes: Two LG W3000H (DVI-D input only) and one HP ZR30w (DVI-D + native DisplayPort). Resolution of each monitor is 2560x1600. Graphic cards are one HD Radeon 5970 (dual GPU)

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Reply to HiDPI on MacOS X in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Island Dog" reply="8" id="3062864"] 30 inch Cinema Display *drools*[/quote] Drool some more. 3 x 30" displays. [e digicons]|-)[/e] Thoumsin, I was having a hard time understanding this too, but I think I got it (?): zoom simply pixelates the result (i.e.; a single pixel becomes a 4 pixel bulky square), but here each 4x4 pixel is 'worked some more' - a bit like

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Reply to Megaupload taken down by FBI–Anonymous takes down DOJ, Universal Music, RIAA, MPAA websites in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Thoumsin" reply="71" id="3060748"]Your example proves nothing... there is no evidence that the record sales is due to the failed crack... both event can be unrelated... the only way to be sure was for Stardock to ask these new customer why they have buy the software..[/quote] Jafo already gave you a good reply, but let me add something you might not be aware of: I'm a software developer myself, selling software on the web for the last 12 years. Unlike you, I ha

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Reply to Megaupload taken down by FBI–Anonymous takes down DOJ, Universal Music, RIAA, MPAA websites in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Cruxador" reply="68" id="3060691"]Because they're used for legitimate file hosting.[/quote] And I'm the Queen of England. [quote who="Cruxador" reply="68" id="3060691"]The "casual" pirate, which is just about every pirate, uses torrents. These are ordinary Joe users who search for a program, and find a full pre-cracked download, and use it. If they didn't find that, they would just not use the program in question. Just because you don&

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Reply to Megaupload taken down by FBI–Anonymous takes down DOJ, Universal Music, RIAA, MPAA websites in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Thoumsin" reply="64" id="3060558"]As for the hardcore pirates who remain, they are mainly people who will never buy the software/music/game/film... if they don't find it for free on the internet, they don't buy it... media company say that they loose million in sales when in fact, they loose almost nothing... majority of pirates are not potential customer...[/quote] While I might agree with you for the 'hardcore' pirate, I definitely do not agree with your

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Reply to Megaupload taken down by FBI–Anonymous takes down DOJ, Universal Music, RIAA, MPAA websites in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Cruxador" reply="59" id="3060342"]That's a nice theory, but it's not actually true. Torrents require pirates to provide their own bandwidth, and for piracy they're used far more than digital dropboxes.[/quote] If torrents were the holy grail of piracy, file sharing sites such as Megaupload would all be dead by now. But they're not, in fact, they're thriving. Why? My guess is that the 'casual' pirate does not want/know how/can&

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Reply to Megaupload taken down by FBI–Anonymous takes down DOJ, Universal Music, RIAA, MPAA websites in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="starkers" reply="17" id="3059062"]I was speaking with my sister about this MegaUpload thing and she's quite pissed because it was the site her scrapbooking group used to store and share their brushes, filters and other elements. She reckons about 15 gigs of her own work is suddenly gone from the net, no longer for others to share until another suitable venue is found. Fortunately, she has backups of it all, but that's not the point. Her entire group has b

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Reply to January 2012 Desktop Screenshots in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="47" id="3054145"]First thing I learned to do in Workshelf was to consign those dividers to oblivion.[/quote] [quote who="Uvah" reply="49" id="3054212"]Well ...... now you tell me. Okay so .... how do I consign them to never never land.[/quote] The icon dividers in the Shelf can add a really nice 3D effect, but for that to happen the skinner who made the theme must remember to set their colors properly. Some Winstep skinners (Gizmoid, *cough*cough*) d

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Reply to I used to live on this forum... in Community WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="danilloOc" reply="49" id="3054761"]Secondly, i hate those "games" posts, dang how I hate them![/quote] Unfortunately I have to agree... If it was only one 'game' thread, it would be ok. As it is, all the 'blah blah' threads end up burying the important ones sometimes mere *seconds* after having been posted. Please understand, it's not the fact that they are 'blah blah' threads that irritates me, a good forum should have a nice balance of

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Reply to Reddit will enact 'nuclear option' to protest SOPA, PIPA in Life, the Universe and Everything WinCustomize Forums

Anything to stop the craziness! This is getting out of hand, SOPA is being pushed by the very same guys who wanted to ban VCRs and MP3 players. I'm against piracy for obvious reasons, but this is no way to solve the issue - the potential for abuse and mayhem is GIGANTIC. Worse, it would not be a question of IF but WHEN it would be abused.

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Reply to Solid State Drives: Already becoming Obsolete? in PC Hardware WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="RedneckDude" reply="25" id="3050364"]The guys asked me if I had an AMD or and Intel....that it makes a difference, I said I doubted it.[/quote] In the defense of the sales guys, most people are clueless as to what motherboard they have, but they usually know what kind of CPU. From the type of CPU they have, you roughly know what chipset their motherboard has... knowing the chipset, you know if it already supports SATA III or not. If it doesn't, they will recommend

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Reply to Ohh Myyy: George Takei telling it like it is! in Everything Else WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="25" id="3049807"]Ah....Space 1999 ....Thunderbirds except with MORE wooden actors....[/quote] Hey! Do NOT bad mouth Space 1999! I grew up on a diet of that... in black & white, since that's all we had here in Portugal at the time. :) This is Eagle 1 to Moon Base Alpha! Come in, Eagle 1! Season 1 was great, Season 2... not so good because it was Americanized and lost quite a bit of what made it special... but Maya sure was sexy! :-)

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Reply to Solid State Drives: Already becoming Obsolete? in PC Hardware WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="RedneckDude" reply="11" id="3048730"]In redneck terms, can I put an SSD in my Compaq tower, with a locked down OEM MOBO, and see a major increase in speed?[/quote] Starcandy already replied to Boxxi, but let me add this: speed is not the only advantage of SSDs - in fact, personally I don't even think speed is the most important advantage. Let me explain: What takes longer when using a conventional hard drive? Reading the data from the platter or physically movi

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Reply to Solid State Drives: Already becoming Obsolete? in PC Hardware WinCustomize Forums

I just bought a new laptop, an i5 Sony Vaio. One of their cheap versions, and I did that on purpose, because my plan from the start was to swap the 500 GB hard drive that came with it with a 160 GB Intel 320 SSD. Right now, that is the single most important upgrade you can do to ANY computer - the thing simply flies, and I bet it's a lot more responsive with that SSD than the MUCH MORE expensive state-of-the-art Sony Vaio laptops with powerful i7 CPUs but puny 5400 RPM disk d

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Reply to Can't get to work "aero peek" on OD Plus 2.1 in ObjectDock WinCustomize Forums

What's up with the latest batch of laptops causing so many problems to 3rd party software? It probably does not apply to this, but just in case it might: with Winstep apps I recently started having sporadic reports of problems such as the list of running applications not updating in the Nexus dock, the Update Manager and Weather module failing to connect, etc... After a while I was able to determine that the common denominator to all the users having problems were laptops

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