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For me I would not 'need' to look at ratings for things like books, either I know of the author or a friend or acquaintance recommends it. For gadgets and electronics I have never found consensus anyhow so ratings, fake or otherwise, have not been helpful. Example: DSL modems, there isn't one that has excellent ratings, across multiple sites at least.

Other stuff that I have bought over my lifetime like a car, furniture and clothes....consumer reports may be but not user ratings and reviews.

I purchased this product in order to eat it and use the radioactive powers gained to rob a local bank, bringing me into conflict with my nemesis, the thunder god Thor. By the time it kicked in, it was 4:50 and by the time I got over to the bank in the Decatur Street traffic the furgin bank was closed. I tried to melt my way in but no go and my stomach was starting to hurt. I turned to the heavens and screamed out, "ThoooOOOORRRR!!!" And I thought the clouds parted but I guess not. So I got in my car and drove over to, well, it was going to be Denny's but I quickly realized that the emergency room was a better bet. The doctor there didn't know how to summon Thor and honestly, I was not really up to fighting him by that time. My midsection was purple as a eggplant and I had about a thousand IV tubes in me. Anyway long story short, I died, and I found that none of the religions really got it right. No light or tunnel, no old guy with a gray beard, no reincarnation. It was like one of those long anterooms at a movie theatre when you superhave to take a leak. I looked around all over for Asgard and it took like, six months to get there and, long story short, Thor wasn't even there. You may want to try the [...] douche syringe instead.

Welcome Larry. I believe you will find consensus in ditching IE but won't find any as far as which other browser to go to.

On balance I am happiest with firefox but its RAM, CPU and how poorly flash works have pushed me to Chrome and Opera. Mostly for geeky, experimental purposes I have tried Maxthon, SlimBrowser, K-Meleon and others. My earlier internet days were almost exclusively Seamonkey's predecessor Netscape.

Patent reform. Shapes and sizes are not ideas.

etc.

Browsers are really out of control, this has become a serious issue. Load a few tabs, a few addons/extensions or a few pages with flash and they are off.

There should be a judge exchange program

Checking the fine print 

^ OneNote

Part of the problem is illustrated in the comments, see how many people have commented 'but I am typing this from a Linux desktop'. If those people truly believe someone reading a Miguel de Icaza article counts as success they are missing the point of what success means in today's world (whether we agree with that definition of success is secondary).

There I was thinking I am keeping up with firefox changes 

While you're trying to keep up with FF versions, could you do me a small favour and count the drops of water in the ocean, and grains of sand in the desert and tell me which is more?

 

There I was thinking I am keeping up with firefox changes 

Thanks eleman

My personal conclusion is flash is the guiltiest, not the only one, but guiltiest. I am running a portable firefox with flashblock and there is a difference with another running parallel to it without flashblock.

Thanks, corrected and also noted about beta. That was a strange mistake on my part, not sure how I made it work that way

I wrote about it

http://www.rgdot.com/bl/2...opy-and-text-replacement/

On ghacks
http://www.ghacks.net/201...iles-in-windows-explorer/

This looks very useful. Trying it, thanks 

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There is no innocent multi-billion company, none. However there is doing business and then there is abusing the system (be it patents or whatever)

That's what that link is about... Samsung is an abuser also.  Especially as even as much as we complain about the separation of corporate interests and politics in America, in South Korea, there is no separation.

True, I agree.
I would say we live in a world where we always have to search for the lesser evil. There is little to no 'good' left.

There is no innocent multi-billion company, none. However there is doing business and then there is abusing the system (be it patents or whatever)

Another added to the list to try, thanks Mahesh

I only tried it to test, didn't actually use it on a live site

http://wordpress.org/exte...d/plugins/wp-postratings/

^To the person who wrote the malware

As far as the topic itself, I am not surprised and not even sure how it hasn't happened earlier....

home/professional OEM/Retail ... What would you be looking for?

Professional OEM

[original as in SP0]

I have original Windows discs sitting right here but for the purpose format/reinstall is there legal *up to date* Windows image available somewhere or is there some mystery method I am clueless about? (there have been 100s of MB updates since SP3 alone)

do you mean original as in SP0 so-to-speak?
If so, according to the nlite forums, you can slipstream it with SP3 (using nlite) and it should work. But I cannot guarantee that. I dont have links but did research it during the week. I actually tried it but it didnt work in a VM install - but I think that may have been to do with me adding the key in nlite and VMWare trying to also use a quick install system. Or maybe it just doesnt work...

There was an XP-up-to-SP3 download at one stage from MS -
I actually still have it I think, but it didnt work for my keys cause they are for OEM version.

Yes, I had seen WSUS Offline Update over the years at download sites but never considered using it, same with nlite. Have been hesitant to do OS reinstalls unless absolutely needed.

[c't Updater]

I have original Windows discs sitting right here but for the purpose format/reinstall is there legal *up to date* Windows image available somewhere or is there some mystery method I am clueless about? (there have been 100s of MB updates since SP3 alone)

You can slipstream all the updates, but it's far more trouble and work than it's worth for a single PC IMHO.

Easier is to just get the full archive of all available updates and install from that. Fortunately, there's a handy and free tool that will download a full set of updates and pack them onto a DVD or USB key for you to use, along with a utility that handles getting everything installed afterwards. It's variously known as the c't Updater or the WSUS Offline Update. Download it from here.

Note: It will take a while to retrieve all the files from Microsoft, so it's usually easiest to kick it off overnight the first time you gather the updates. Subsequent runs take significantly less time because the utility is smart enough to know what it's already downloaded.
 

Thanks 

I have original Windows discs sitting right here but for the purpose format/reinstall is there legal *up to date* Windows image available somewhere or is there some mystery method I am clueless about? (there have been 100s of MB updates since SP3 alone)