Heres a thought

[Guest]

Thx guys for posting. It has always been my opinion to do a clean install. I
actually have never done an upgrade.
And to be honest, with the exception of legacy software, I have never had
issues with any Windows OS when I did a clean install. I think what I was
looking for in this post was for a coorelation between upgrades and Vista
problems. I was thinking that if there was a strong coorelation perhaps
those wishing to use Vista should be advised to do a clean install.
Personally I think Windows has come a long way, when I first got into
servers I tendered the idea of running Linux. There is really no point or
advantage to using Linux or others OS's. I know many people who run Linux
and at one time I fiddled with it. Really I do not care for Linux, Windows
is much better and does all the same things and looks better. Vista is a
great OS, I hope to see some great applications for it. I can tell you that
DX10 is incredible and having a DX10 graphics card a must for Vista. My
machine pumps out the graphics and its looks damn good. I would honestly say
that to test pc v. xbox360, I bought the same games for both. The PC looks
better on average. Something for everyone to think about.
G

 

[Guest]

A clean install, and NO dual-booting has always been the way to go with
Windows; and Vista is no expection. I have had no probs except for a couple
of compatibility issues, which are ongoing!

 

[Shane Nokes]

Sorry about the anger in the earlier post.

I've been having some issues with other people who are rude.

It appeared to me that that was your attempt also at the time.


Also to attempt to explain the DRM thing a little more clearly.

Yes, MS has a framework in the OS to allow content that is protected by DRM
to play.

However, they do not ADD restrictions to content, they only allow the OS to
comply with the restrictions present, otherwise the content would not play
properly.

Now you can argue for hacking the protection, but I'm stating that the OS
allows the content to play with everything, as the copyright owner wished,
in place.

Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[Shane Nokes]

Actually most of why I wanted that quote removed was the fact that it was
partially taken out of context and the way it was being used was to ridicule
the idea that I had posted, not the actual content of my posting.

With what you quoted from me, however, is also partially out of context.

I was stating that you did not understand what an analogy was, otherwise you
would have seen the point of my prior post.

I also gave you the full definition of the term analogy and posted the rest
of my information.

At that point you posted one more time stating that you saw my point, but
did not like the way the MS licensing documents were worded and I left it at
that.


I also see later in that thread though YOU also attempted to humiliate
someone, so don't play innocent

 

[Nina DiBoy]

Sorry about the anger in the earlier post.

I've been having some issues with other people who are rude.

It appeared to me that that was your attempt also at the time.

Also to attempt to explain the DRM thing a little more clearly.

Yes, MS has a framework in the OS to allow content that is protected by
DRM to play.

However, they do not ADD restrictions to content, they only allow the OS
to comply with the restrictions present, otherwise the content would not
play properly.

Correct. And that framework put in Vista to allow the OS to comply with
the restrictions present is DRM.

Now you can argue for hacking the protection, but I'm stating that the
OS allows the content to play with everything, as the copyright owner
wished, in place.

Nothing more, nothing less.

Fair enough. Thank you for the response.

On a side note, I very rarely would ever opt to "hack the protection" or
DRM or endorse doing such a thing, I just choose whenever possible to
avoid products which have such digital content protection if it will
impede my ability to fairly use my legally aquired material, be it
music, movies, software, etc. But obviously I will speak out against
products like Vista which have content protection framework in them
since I am opposed to DRM in most forms.

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