michael havard

Reply to Rewriting deviantART history in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

The thing that gets to me more than anything else is this concept of name dropping. If someone is a successful business man, running a business that is based around a community that is very anti-suit/anti-establishment, is it really in your best interest to notify them of just how close to THE MAN you are. Basically what I see is some guy trying to make a power grab and justify his own self importance by notifying the community of his associ

Reply to Goodbye to Jark? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

It sounds to me as if there's a conflict between typical business practice of treating "customers" as a commodity and the more altruistic thoughts of treating "customers" like people and friends. There are few sites out there that balance the needs of the business with the strength that a sense of community creates. It's a difficult balancing act. Mostly because the people with the power forget what it's like to be a customer. They start foc

Reply to Take that file-swappers! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Everything in moderation - including moderation. First of all... file sharing is not anything new. It started out much smaller, trading a disk with a friend much like you would a cassette tape or maybe you dialed into a local BBS and downloaded something. Later came the internet and with its FTP sites, binaries in the newsgroups, warez sites and IRC. "Pirates" then were still a fringe element - people who infringed on some work and replicate

Reply to Apple Goes Bananas Over iPod PDA Emulator in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

You'd be very naive to think that Apple does all of it's own design work. While they have an internal design group they also make use of external design and marketing groups (i.e. Frog Design and others). Apple makes prolific use of NDA's in keeping a gag on 'partners' and how they may have helped or influenced design aspects of Apple products. An NDA kind of stifles the ability of a design company to put Apple on their resume of design work - hence people think that Apple designs everything int

Reply to Apple Goes Bananas Over iPod PDA Emulator in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

The Commodore 64 is probably the biggest selling machine ever. There were probably tens of millions of units sold world wide in it's 10 year run. Consider today that the remaining machines still sell across ebay, swap meets, pc shows, and garage sales all over the country and there's still an avid hobbyist market for the machines. The distinction between Apple and PC is idiotic. Apple was one of the first to introduce the Personal Computer to the masses. The real distinction is in hardw

Reply to Internet collapsing? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

What a bunch of ignorant over-reactions. This is exactly what's wrong with the justice system today. It's all about punishment and nothing about rehabilitation and fixing problems. People want nothing but retribution. We have runaway juries paying out billions for idiotic. Then we have people wanting others labeled terrorists because their internet access is slow. I think the solution is finding something for these bored mostly white middle class kids to do. Maybe set them at creating

Reply to WindowBlinds 3.51 available in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Sorry this if off topic but a frustration lately. Why is it that we get people who claim to be educated and yet can't spell, punctuate, or use proper capitalization? Have we just become lazy or careless?

Reply to Stardock Central Officially Released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Is it just me or are the percentages just a weee bit off when downloading/installing an app?

Reply to Reality Check in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Polyphemus - Stardock Central is probably, to you, just a fancy browser. It's actually more than that but embedded within it is the IE browser. And yes it goes without saying that all the security issues that IE has the embedded browser in SDC has. That means that some of the content you see within the application is being served in a browser window. What does this mean to the you the user - it means that you get a "value added" service in the form of having to go to ONE PLACE (i.e. "CENTRAL

Reply to Mac vs. PC at Business! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

It seems to me that he needs to define exactly what "low end" means. Given Frontpage's cost and featureset I wouldn't necessarily call it "low end" HTMLKit or Homesite might technically be considered "low end" (realistically closer to mid range). But what would the competing product be on Mac? GoLive, does Dreamweaver run on OS-X?

Reply to Poll result: What religion are you? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

paxx and jtfolden you will need to go immediately to landoverbaptist.com and purchase (at a premium I might add - no discounts to non-believers) your UNSAVED t-shirt. You will be required to where it at all times so that the saved can quickly and easily identify you as such and avoid you at all possible opportunities. DAMNED ATHEIST and DEMON t-shirts are also available and appropriate for your kind. And being that there are special places for people like you I would suggest the purchase of simi

Reply to Poll result: What religion are you? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

because qrayg the debil is in the chimney... http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news1299/santy.html

Reply to Poll result: What religion are you? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Here's the poll I want - how many Christians don't want to be associated with the Christian establishments because of the negative aspects of some "ruling" party. I.E. Do you go to a Southern Baptist church but despise the Southern Baptist Convention. Ah.. the politics of religion.

Reply to Poll result: What religion are you? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Brother Bob was very upset that the International Church of Bob was not listed on the poll. I just nodded at him in agreement. I think I'm bored the the ICB now so I've been doing some church and religion shopping. I was going to be a Scientologist but it's just too expensive. I think I want to join LandoverBaptist they seem to know what religions all about.

Reply to AOL Going to Skins? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I might be mistaken but doesn't AOL 8 incorporate Gecko and aren't themeing and customisable interfaces part of Gecko's feature set. Depending on where and when Gecko parts are used then you have access to change how those parts look. "I think AOL might have a new ustomer if they go through their plans." Great lets get a trend started of people over paying for crappy service to a lying stealing and hypocritical company who's under investigation for cooking their books. A compa

Reply to So many people, so little time... in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

AOL: 91 MILLION!!! HA! They''ve got to be counting all of the sites they have, plus all the popup ads, plus AIM/ICQ ads, plus all the crap in their proprietary POS. I''m sure if you counted the popup ads alone it would come close to 91 mill.

Reply to Website subscriptions: Wave of the future or bad idea? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I think there are more reasons for a given product to be able to command a specific price besides scarcity. Factors like convenience factor in, as well as quality, brand loyalty, etc. For instance, there are plenty of good quality built cars out there with plush interiors and fine craftmanship, but some people are more willing to spend the extra 10-30,000+ dollars to get a specific brand of vehicle because that branding denotes something to them. I think the model we are talking about with websi

Reply to Windows preloaded - don't even think of getting rid of it. in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Actually in alot of states if you change the engine in a car you do have to keep the documentation on it to show that you changed the engine out since there are identifying marks on both the vehicle body and the engine that identify the vehicle/mileage/state of repair. By keeping track of both sets of numbers and documentation it helps to track some stolen equipment or prove that you are not breaking the law by operating the equipment as you are. Even though we state that this is an "Inno

Reply to Windows preloaded - don't even think of getting rid of it. in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

personally it sounds as if the reporter is taking disparate statements and merging them together to form an argument against MS. From reading the MS site it seems to make pretty clear sense and not be to far out of line. When you purchased an OEM computer it came with an OS (package deal) that OS is non-transferable unless being transferred as packaged with the hardware. This keeps people from selling the hardware/installed software one place and selling the original media another place (I've

Reply to WWW.OSXP.NET Gone in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

My personal belief is that discussion, any discussion, is good. It helps us to understand the problems and find solutions. Part of the prolbem as I'm seeing it is people don't care about the law because it has been used against them too many times and is no longer a law working for the interests of anyone except the major corporations. The law is no longer the balancing act it was originally intended as - to promote the interests of the public good while allowing the copyright/patent/trademark h

Reply to WWW.OSXP.NET Gone in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

grayhaze - yeah, thanks for once again drilling the association of robbers (an active agressive and often violent crime) with copyright infringers (many of which do not know that they've committed a crime). As if we don't see this comparison made every day by Hillary and her RIAA/MPAA lackies. While the law doesn't require politeness and consideration it would be nice to see someone do it just for kicks every once in awhile. Because while the law doesn't require politeness it doesn't excl

Reply to WWW.OSXP.NET Gone in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

jtfolden - thank you for clarifying the issue of respect. Xymantix - I guess part of the problem is the issue of Trademark - is the entire OSX interface trademarked or is apple only upset over the use of OSX, APPLE, and AQUA (two of those words it should not have been able to trademark). So if we called the skin set WATER and used RED FRUIT and described Mac as My Aunts Computer could they still complain about infringement. Mostly this is just bullying. Instead of giving the infringing

Reply to WWW.OSXP.NET Gone in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

Infringement implies loss. Apple is losing nothing because of the particular "infringement" occurring. The people using the skins don't feel the need to move to Mac just for the "look". Therefore Apple is just reinforcing the reasons why NOT to purchase a Mac. It's like the RIAA's crying foul about people who never bought music in the first place. "Piracy worldwide is costing us billions (in Afghanistan)". Suddenly everyone is very un-American. jtfolden - there's a line that should be hel

Reply to CursorXP 1.1 released! in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

28 days

Reply to WindowBlinds 3.2 enhanced released in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

Sounds to me like there's some registry entry or file that doesn't get changed upon upgrade but does, either on fresh install or repair. Hmmmm. I guess it can't hurt me to give it a try or I could joing chichigirl46 in the United Nose Pickers union