Re: General discussion chat Only if you already have OS installation media spare. You're not going to beat consoles much with a PC that only loads to the BIOS.
Re: General discussion chat (imported from here) An OS is the absolute last thing I'd ever pirate. Even disregarding the legality of it you'd be in for a whole world of hurt with issues and malicious changes that you don't know could be present.
Re: General discussion chat *cough* I have a 7 DLDVD, the OEM install key is floating around online somewhere and then actually leads to a copy of windows that microsoft detects as being 100% genuine. Even windows 8 updater ran just fine on it
Re: General discussion chat Use alternative OS like Linux Steal a product key off an old laptop or something Buy one for cheap off someone with the MS thing that gives them legit keys (What I did for my desktop) Find a crack
Re: General discussion chat Well, no actually. 7loader FTW! - - - Updated - - - My disks are ripped from legal copies. I pirate the hard way.
Re: General discussion chat 7 Loader? OEM key ftw don't you mean rather than random no source cracks...
Re: General discussion chat Making myself some editing tools for my road system (Unity) (imported from here)
Re: General discussion chat Exactly. For my desktop I bought a legit key cheap. (I mean, the key is legit. Not the way I got it.) For my laptops I use either the key on that laptop or a key I got from another one. For example, My ultrabook uses 7 Pro because it has a 7 pro key but my laptop has a Vista key. I forget where I got the 7 key I used for it. What I mean is, it's much easier to use semi-legal methods than just flat out cracking it.
Re: General discussion chat i tried opening the beamng forums in windows 3.11.... it just redirects to youtube, lel then i tried opening the PCMR sub-reddit on windows 3.11.... IE didn't like that, lol
Re: General discussion chat The last thing i would want to pirate is my OS. The OS could be riddled with all sorts of bot net style stuff. I know quite a few people who are running "alternate" copies of windows, while the evil part of me wants those systems to fail because of that the part of me that i listen to would never want anyone who i know to loose all of their things. I would probably be called in as tech support if it did fail anyway. I feel that it is fairly rational to want the thing that controls your storage/hardware, allows you to access emails and government websites that most people also use for purchasing things online to be from a legitimate source that can be trusted (to some degree). Especially when the source code isn't publicly available and it is from a less than legitimate source.
Re: General discussion chat http://www.imore.com/nsfw-giving-mac-pc i do believe i've found an apple fanboy (the parent, not the kid, well, his other kids as well, but not the main kid being talked about in this article)
Re: General discussion chat Not even slightly. It sounds more like a supportive guy who prefers Mac but is just discussing his son's wants to use Windows. His only reference to Windows as "the Dark Side" sounded tongue-in-cheek too. There's a difference between Mac fan/user and Mac fanboy, and he's definitely the former.
Re: General discussion chat Certainly making a big deal out of it, anyone would think that he was blogging about his son coming out or something. On another note. Just been through my facebook wall deleting a ton of crap... Pretty much most of my statuses actually.
