Larry Kuperman

Larry Kuperman

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Reply to Music Industry suing file sharers in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Apple has a pay per download music service that is successful. In discussing this here and elsewhere, people have said that this same model would not be successful in the PC realm, because people can download from Kazaa and Morpheus and other P2P for free. Why would they switch to a paid service? Well, this is RIAA's answer. If it becomes too difficult to download illegal copies, then people will be more willing to pay. The initial targets of these suits are people who are offering hund

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Reply to Hey pixtudio: re: nvidia skin in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

If you visit http://www.nvidia.com you will see that NVIDIA is spelled with all capital letters. Rudeness is harmful to the community. It is especially offensive to be rude to someone like Adam, without whom many of these skins would not exist. BoXXi, please note that a vocal minority is still a minority. Don't let the loonies win! Threatening violence to someone on a message board...what can I say? "It is past the infinite of thought." I will add that other skins that

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Reply to The Cost of Skinning in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Joshua, one of the realities of internet commerce is certain fixed charges. If an artist or a site uses a "high quality store" to handle purchases there are certain fixed transaction fees. One can try to lower the charges using other stores, but then you run the risk of people complaining of overcharges. You can't accept a $1 payment if you get charged $.99 per transaction. <img src="http://images.stardock.com

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Reply to Shakepeare and The Koop in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Dark Mist, it must be a quiet night! 41 seconds before you responded. What took you so long? If you weren't bored before, well, I did my best. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/sb.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmid

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Shakepeare and The Koop in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Warning: What follows is completely self-indulgent and is of no value to most people. If you continue reading you must be really bored and you do so being forewarned. As some of you may know, I am by day the sales manager for a (really, really cool) software company. No names needed. But for the past several weeks I have, under cover of the night, assumed an alternate identity, that of a perspiring Shakespearean actor. Uh, I meant “aspiring.” Not that I truly aspire, mind you. The word

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Reply to Happy Birthday grayhaze!!! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I have had the priveledge of getting to know Kevin (aka Grayhaze) just a little, though I look forward to getting to know him better. He is one of the nicest people that I have ever met and well deserves a very happy birthday! Cheers, Grayhaze! <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/sb.gif" border=0

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Reply to "HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE" in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

The previous posts are quite correct. Jewish people do not celebrate Easter. However, most religions do have a celebration of rebirth and renewal in the Springtime. Personally, I have no problem with someone wishing me a Happy Easter and I wish all my friends here a happy holiday (whichever one they celebrate.) Peace. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/sb.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmiddle" ALT

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The Passover Holiday in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Tonight is the first night of Passover, a holiday celebrating the Exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt. The holiday is often associated with the struggle of people to be free from oppression, a value that we all can share. The holiday is usually observed with a ceremonial dinner (a Seder) and a reading of the Haggadah (the "Telling" of the story of Passover.) It occurs to me that there is no people on this Earth who has not been oppressed and either come through that oppression already

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Reply to OK - now I'm upset! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I just listened to a British commanding officer speaking on CNN. I wish I could capture the brave commitment of his words and his tone. The closest that I can come is to repeat what was said by Prime Minister Tony Blair who said that it was the "bitter fruit of a necessary war." You are right. The sooner it is over, the better for all. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/sb.gif" border=0 ALIGN=

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Reply to OK - now I'm upset! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

The difficulties of coordinating thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of soldiers in this kind of mission cannot be underestimated. The British, American and Australian forces have limited experience in working together. Despite any and all precautions that we might take, humans make mistakes. Saying that we are 99% accurate, doesn't help if you are in the 1%. When thousands of missles and bombs are in use, even an error rate of one tenth of one percent can result in fatalities. That b

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Reply to Good Vs. Evil in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

A serious note, if I may. In the town of Bangolo, Ivory Coast, Africa there are over 200 corpses. Please see http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/03/09/ivorycoast.reut/index.html for the news item. There are more bodies in the bush around the town. The fighting in Ivory Coast and the potential for mass slaughter is so bad, that France sent in 3,000 troops to try to impose order. The people killed in Bangolo included men, women and children. They were killed by rebels (so we bel

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A Skinners Guide to Geography in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

In my family, we used to while away the hours spent on long car trips by playing word games. Hangman and Geography (you have to name a place that starts with the last letter of the preceding place) were two of our favorites. After a while, we used to make up variations. One person would challenge the others. I never said my family wasn't strange. So, here is the challenge. For each letter of the alphabet, name a place and the skinner that lives there. Let me start it o

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Reply to So I have decided to upgrade to XP, but which one? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

The difference between Home and Pro are laid out pretty clearly here: http://microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp Remote access, network connectivity, security and system restore. I use 3rd party solutions for security and system backup, so I kind of discount those. For most people, XP Home is a good choice. (koop couldn't live without Remote Desktop, but thats me!)

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