Kirb

UAC isn't as bad as people make it to be, although it definately could use some improvements. - Kirb

seems like sprint & embarq should've stayed together, and left nextel alone - Kirb

frustrating and irritating. - Kirb

I guess if they're giving us all this software without charge, we shouldn't expect it to come totally strings-free. - Mitch

t'would be nice to be able to switch it off or be prompted that it would like to check now - immaterial

no contracts are good!! - Kirb

cool. I just wish they would turn on labs for my Google Apps account. - Kirb

cool. - Kirb

That soon? Not a chance. I reckon early 2010 at the earliest. - Martin Bryant

I reckon early 2010 as well. It doesn't hurt to wish for it though. :) - Kirb

Geez. Since Vista is such a disaster, I wonder if it will be a "free" or really cheap upgrade from that? Would be funny if it costs more to upgrade from XP than Vista. - Michael Sheehan

hehe!! - Kirb

heh. funny. - Kirb

please fix now. - Kirb

my wife laughed pretty hard at the orignial one showing on tv - Jonathan Jesse

this is a lot better, reading the code book to the kid was great - Jonathan Jesse

hehe. reading the code book was definately the best! - Kirb

...nutty! - JA Castillo

awesome. i've been waiting for this. - Kirb

i must be an iden freak then. :) - Kirb

this is definately a must have. I use it all the time. I just wish they would give you more stats like IP Address, OS, etc. - Kirb

apparently I suggested this back in 2001... who remembers that kind of stuff? :-) - Jeremy Zawodny

i like. a lot. - Kirb

maybe they did for a little, but according to Google Finance apple's a wee bit less than googles. It could go either way yet. Who knows with this crazy stock market. - Kirb

Good point. Vista impresses at first glance, but irritates with long-term use. - Eugene

and you've had long-term use with vista? - Kirb

Some extended use. Even now, I don't think Vista looks bad; it's pretty. But that focus on prettiness causes nagging changes and slowdowns that really get irritating after a while. - Eugene

I'm going to wait for my new iPod till September. - Eugene

goodness. you have that much music? - Kirb

No, only 11 GB. But it's a great portable hard drive too. - Eugene

how do you get your google talk status' to work in friend feed. I can't. but maybe its because I'm using Google Apps. - Kirb

Dunno... just tried adding it last week. Apps may be a good reason it's not working, though. - Eugene

For some reason, I don't buy their line. - Eugene

embarq is the local phone company here, I guess its a good thing they don't have dsl at my place yet! :) - Kirb

Ah, yes. WGA - a perfectly harmless antipiracy measure. - Eugene

inaccurate story. read the updated story. It was actually activations that were failing. In fact I tried to activate a copy of Office 2007 and couldn't, so I called them and the lady from "India" said that the servers were down or something. It was somewhat similar to the apple fiasco, but at least you could continue to use the product this time around, whereas with apple you were pretty much bricked. - Kirb

Touché. :) - Eugene

Mesh is Awesome! - Kirb

interesting. That's a pretty big jump. - Kirb

apple needs to get a life and allow partners to oem install Mac OS X on third party hardware. Market share would probably double overnight. - Kirb

They aren't after market share by itself. Seriously. Apple would rather do fewer things right than more things half-cooked, and they still get into binds sometimes - like last weekend. - Eugene

and what's not right about licensing MAC OS X to OEM's? - Kirb

Much less control of the end product. It's a different mindset, Kirb - OS X is one half of a Mac. The other is the box it runs on. Apple is in the business of selling Macs, not OS X, not sexy boxes. If MS controlled both the software and the hardware, they'd have a much easier job. Look at their shift from PlaysForSure (platform) to Zune (whole widget), for instance. - Eugene

Uhhh... this guy doesn't quite have his facts straight. OS X isn't open-source, although many parts of it are. But it *is* a platform open for development, it *does* allow FOSS software. iTunes may well become a Mac application store, but it won't be exclusive. And with his "pretty apps on pretty devices" comment he reveals that he doesn't get the notion of good design. - Eugene

Oh, and Apple actually is a decent OSS citizen. They fund and head up WebKit, which provides a world-class HTML renderer used by some of Apple's competitors (Symbian/Nokia for instance). Apple *owns* CUPS, which is used throughout Linux. Apple's approach is to work heavily on the framework, and then build their own app on top of it (Safari for instance). - Eugene

his point was simply this - "There is a very very bad bias towards Apple and against other companies, and I am calling bullshit on it - because thats what it is" - Kirb

Even if he has to spout BS to prove his point? Yeah, right. - Eugene

sounds like he's full of hot air. - Kirb