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Reply to Is is "G"IF ir "J"IF... you be the Judge in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

The inventor says "JIF" ... which happens to be the way I was taught to pronounce it when the format was first gaining popularity. I've said it that way ever since, but there have always been plenty of people to argue with me about it. Now, whenever someone argues with me, I convert the image to a .png and tell them to forget about it and that "there is no spoon. For the inventors thoughts: <a href="http://www.olsenhome.com/gif

Reply to The Register's take on Yahoo and Konfabulator in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

The power in these tools, no matter their name, is to gain functionality without bloatware. For users to be able to pick and choose tiny pieces of functionality that THEY need greatly increases productivity and usability, particularly for power users. Yahoo! has a history of taking good, marketable ideas and buying them, only to allow them to get lost in the mix. Yahoo! owns a ton of useful applications, but take a look two clicks deep int

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

This discussion waxes pointless and I won't be returning. The Court made the right decision for all of those of us who have their names attached to a software patent and/or copyright. To expect the Supreme Court to cater to people who want something for nothing or who only speak in theories and vague antonyms is at best a ludicrous and futile excercise. I expect, as should you, that the Supreme Court will continue to rule in favor of those who work

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

Seems like the internet has made people even more entitlement minded. It also seems that the people who are arguing against "intellectual property" own very little of it. In order for the American society to work each individual must spend the majority of their day doing something to acquire money or goods (generally money which will later be exchanged for goods, in turn contributing to the cycle). If you take the money out of their daily

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

The Supreme Court wrote: "There is no evidence that either company (Grokster or StreamCast) made an effort to filter copyrighted material from users' downloads or otherwise impede the sharing of copyrighted files," Souter wrote. "Each company showed itself to be aiming to satisfy a known source of demand for copyright infr

Reply to Recovery Status in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Don't you just LOOOOOVE computers? Enjoy the holidays, take an extra day off and come back ready to problem solve. As bad as the current issues have proven to be they are only the beginning as the resolution will present its own set of issues. Thanks for the great free service and I look forward to the triumphant return. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/smile.gif" border