Vista Pirates

[Chad Harris]

Torrents are one of the next new dot com entreprenurial success stories.
Look up the IBD article on the startups. I'm surprised MSFT hasn't bought a
torrent company yet.

CH

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Perhaps you weren't.intending to refer to the large group
But the words you wrote:
"I've noticed some people on here who have 5472 & 5536, who are not technet
members, hence pirates."
They are all we had to see about what you said.
Since I post here and am not a Tech Net subscriber, it seems you call me a
pirate as well as many others that get the Beta from some of the many
legitimate sources.
Next time, do not give such a wide definition of pirate.

 

[Will]

Wow! Guess he never heard of technical beta and TAP.

 

[Guest]

I'm not talking about people who recieved any build legally; blackhat,
How long is this flame going to continue?

 

[Guess Who]

Imagine GE selling a light bulb and saying

you can use it in ANY compatible lamp, but if you decide to put it in
another lamp after the first one you put it in, it won't work.

-Rob

That's a whole other story... you cannot make a copy of that light bulb and
give it to someone else. Nor can you use that same light bulb in 2 different
sockets at the same time. You are free to move that lightbulb around and
use it where you wish, as you can with XP. The only difference is you have
to make a phone call to do it.

They don't prevent you from installing the same copy of the software on a
different machine, so long as it's the only machine you use it on. I switch
hardware, rebuild PCs very frequently and have had to call to activate many
times, and I never had any trouble activating. True, it's a but of a hassle
to have to call and read those numbers several times, and to try and
decipher what the person in India is telling you to type, but it's never
prevented me from using the copies of XP I paid for.

I wish activation would go away, too! To compare software to alight bulb is
apples to oranges.

 

[Dan]

How long is this flame going to continue?

Accountability hurts, huh?

 

[Guest]

Being perfect for a life time is hard. You'll choose a poor stratgey or
choice of words sometime, then someone will drill you into the ground
relentlessly. Being hateful or a smartass is easy, until you get barraged for
something that had good intentions.

 

[Chad Harris]

Don't pirates steal treasure?

CH

 

[Guest]

LOL

Don't pirates steal treasure?

CH

 

[Raven Mill]

I'm not talking about people who recieved any build legally; blackhat,
tap,
msdn, technet... or any other MS program or conference etc. What I am
talking
about are people who download Vista from torrents, IRC, and usenet. I give
up. When the SA image gets leaked sometime around December or January, I
won't say a word. Since I'm a troll, I'll just take my hidious self under
the
bridge. I'll just let MS handle leaks, getting called a troll and getting
flamed just ain't worth it.

That's very kind of you.

To be honest, if you think that anyone from loss-prevention at MS is reading
this NG, you are probably either: a) very naive. b) very ignorant. or
c) not very bright.

I'm not SAYING you ARE any of these. I'll let you decide which...

 

[Raven Mill]

How long is this flame going to continue?

Dunno, but it's ALMOST as amusing as the one about babyboi kev being booted
off of the Betatesters guild...

 

[Raven Mill]

Imagine GE selling a light bulb and saying

That's a whole other story... you cannot make a copy of that light bulb
and give it to someone else. Nor can you use that same light bulb in 2
different sockets at the same time. You are free to move that lightbulb
around and use it where you wish, as you can with XP. The only difference
is you have to make a phone call to do it.

They don't prevent you from installing the same copy of the software on a
different machine, so long as it's the only machine you use it on. I
switch hardware, rebuild PCs very frequently and have had to call to
activate many times, and I never had any trouble activating. True, it's a
but of a hassle to have to call and read those numbers several times, and
to try and decipher what the person in India is telling you to type, but
it's never prevented me from using the copies of XP I paid for.

I wish activation would go away, too! To compare software to alight bulb
is apples to oranges.

Sorry, but that is NOT the case with an OEM copy of Windows XP...

While I have, a couple times, gotten away with calling for activation, if
they KNOW you are putting an OEM copy onto a different computer, they won't
honor the CD key

 

[Guest]

Well I have been known to be naive, particularly when I was younger.
Ignorant, could be.... you wouldn't believe the shock when I learned that a
mouse was actually a pointing device. LOL wow, did I feel stupid. Of
course...., it did take me four tries to pass kindergarten.

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

OEM has many differences from retail.
One of the major differences is price.
The disadvantages of OEM are compensated by the far lower price.
You pay a lot less for your OEM than I pay for retail.

 

[John Jay Smith]

I wonder how you manage to type with that hook, and that patch over your
eye.

 

[Dan]

Being perfect for a life time is hard. You'll choose a poor stratgey or
choice of words sometime, then someone will drill you into the ground
relentlessly. Being hateful or a smartass is easy, until you get barraged
for
something that had good intentions.

Admitting when you make a mistake and apologizing to the people you maligned
can go a long way toward getting people to accept the mistake.

 

[Rob Wilkens]

No intelligence is required anywhere on the internet, I'm sorry if you were
told otherwise. The first hint should have been they let you post. ;-)

Sorry, not intentionally trolling, but I couldn't resist.