Windows 7 Beta users: Check out my Washington D.C. theme

Any thoughts on where else I might upload this? :) Geesh. --- you can try megaupload.com :) M.

good luck, mike.

Paul, Sweet desktop theme. Using it right now. Thanks.

I guess I'll have to check it out in the evening at home. <7 days with Windows 7 and still enjoying it!!>

Dang Mike, who'll spank the tr0lls down now? Good luck and see you back soon.

I really like those wallpaper photos - where were they taken?

That, plus I like to debate...its a hobby!!! --tayme

I really would like to know what kind of debate you've had with robertsjoe :-)

Mike, Moving to the Dallas area are you?

" "That, plus I like to debate...its a hobby!!!" No it isn't." Oh come on, now yo're just stupid. Of course it's a hobby. :p

Farewell Mike, I've always enjoyed reading your responses to the many posts here.

Oh my God, they're starting to sound like eulogies now.

"I guess lotsa and tayme can start going after each other now. " I like "tayme", even if I don't think he's as objective as he claims to be. His questions are usually direct and not rhetorical. At least if he asks me a question, I'll answer it. "mikegalos" is the master of obfuscation...he'll often talk around a difficult question rather than answer it directly.

Thanks for the themes Paul, I'm Canadian and this is the first time in a long time that I feel comfortable (happy even) putting Americana somewhere people can see it like on my desktop. Great pics by the way!!

@tayme: Re: Google: Google has the right to take any and all content you post, regardless of how you set sharing options for content. Microsoft can only take content that you post publicly, as their wording states. Microsoft doesn't claim the use of any information that you post as "private" or "shared" (restricted sharing), as opposed to Google, which makes no such distinction. That's the difference between their privacy policies. That's a pretty big difference too.

@Waethorn - It is a big difference...but as somebody else said, I don't see where either of them sell your private information. Since I don't have cookies turned on most of the time and I don't use gmail, I am not too worried. I totally agree that Google is more an advertising company than a search company...I mostly use Yahoo! for searching anyway. I wonder what their TOS says? I've never worried too much about it, since I have nothing to hide. Most people would be bored with what they could find about me! -tayme

I previously thought that the messenger issue was intermittent, but I just realized that it actually happens every time if (and only if) the last window minimized is a Firefox

@mikegalos: "Actually, they're apparently fine with doing evil, the slogan is "Don't BE evil" so I guess you can do lots of evil as long as it doesn't change who you are..." As opposed to Microsoft that don't say "We are evil", yet they are?

@Mike good luck and continued success. @robertsjoe try at least maintaining a facade of class just once. Maybe? no 0%class 100% of the time. Typical Mac user (on a Windows blog).

@whiplash55: If you can't handle the truth, leave.

"I don't see where either of them sell your private information." It doesn't matter what you see or not. Google reserves that right. Microsoft doesn't (the scrutiny that they face doesn't allow them that "freedom"), so you can hold them liable for any transgressions. That's the difference between the companies, and why I dislike Google so. I'm not the only one that scrutinizes privacy policies and terms of service either. I relate this to the insurance policy that you get with quality surge protectors - something that I run into on a regular basis with outside customers: You can buy a computer with a crap PSU, and in a minor electrical storm, the PSU can easily burn out. It happens frequently around here (not usually with the power supplies that I sell, but they're more expensive and higher quality - usually Antec - than these no-name ones you see in $30 cases). Anyway, after a good t-storm, I get calls from numerous people that have problems with their system not turning on. Some people say they have these cheap gray power bars and think that they're proper surge protectors. If they don't know that their power bar includes insurance or a lifetime warranty, then it's usually a crappy $8 Zellers special. A good quality one (like APC) will have a lifetime warranty, a $25,000 or higher insurance policy for attached equipment, and a large, well-known, respectable company that pays out if something goes wrong. (note: Belkin and Monster definitely don't in my experience) How does this relate? Think about it this way: A company that puts the effort into offering a good-quality surge protector with a high-level of insurance and warranty does so with confidence under the assumption that the likelihood that they would ever have to pay out is very slim, because they make a superior product. The company that doesn't offer the same services will hide their contact information, warranty (if there is one), and provides little to no insurance because they couldn't care less about the product, nor do they hold any confidence (read: self-respect) in their own brand. They have your money, and that's the end of it. There is no back-end support. I put absolutely no trust in companies like that, but some people will still pay them for their product without knowing any better, at least until something goes horribly wrong. Although the principles are different, it's the same feeling I get from Google - they flagrantly act behind their terms of service, and users would just rather assume everything is peachy....Microsoft's TOS doesn't contain anything that can be misconstrued as wrong-doing. It wouldn't be possible anyway, because they have to put their name on the line with the scrutiny that they face after their DoJ battles. The fact that they're willing to do that is telling enough. Because of that, I liken Microsoft to APC. Google, not so much. >:( Without mentioning anything about Google off-hand, I asked a few people (customers) recently that use services like Picasa and Gmail, just to read Section 11 and comment on it. It was unanimous: they were appalled by what they read. They had no idea. I didn't even comment on it myself until they gave me their opinion. Everybody I asked understood it well. "I am sure mama would be proud." When someone posts a line like that, it's all too telling of their level of maturity. BTW: Your mama certainly is proud of me. :P <- me being hypocritically silly in response (you don't need to point that out losta)

robertsjoe, don't you have homework to do?

FYI: The new photo gallery on the PS3 is pretty slick.

Dang blasted Microsoft and their never ending treadmill of upgrades!! Why isn't this doable on my Windows 2000 pc??? Darn blasted evil Microsoft!

@waethorn: More and more nasty bugs continue to plague WIndows http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxo... Gotta love Windows sieve like security.