He, like a lot of idiots, has a completely public fb profile. And, to address your questions and the comment above, I care a lot more about not having to do the bidding of a small-minded fuckwit than I do about a raise I don't need. Flag-based patriotism is something I find frankly intolerable, and people who are fans of rum brands, well there's a difference between drinking Jim Beam on weekends and having a poster of the guy on your wall, y'know?

I've turned down jobs because of the employer's or my new superior's facebook profile. A few months back Irefused a job after seeing the CEO was in groups like:
"If you don't love the Australian flag then GET THE FUCK OUT"
"I love Bundaberg Rum"
"I tried to watch Transformers and all I saw was Megan Fox"
I'm an open-minded, relatively intelligent guy, and despite the nearly 20% salary increase the job was worth, not a chance. So yeah, facebook works both ways.

Yah...in my line I find that there's a correlation between over-committing oneself in an attempt to make more money and having a public Facebook profile that includes a bunch of obnoxious group memberships and a photo of one standing in front of a Porsche.

I heart facebook & linkedin. Used to be hard to find high-value debtors once they left the country, now linkedin tells me where they are and who they work for. I work in Melbourne, and every week I lovate people in Istanbul, Dubai, Honh Kong, LA, Brussels....once facebook or linkedin gives me a bunch of info to start with, the rest is easy. Like other posters have noted, some people cannot afford not to have a presence on these sites. Works for me...KA-CHING

I have upgraded an XP machine which had a cracked version of CS4 on it, and it kept working. I have done a clean Win 7 install then installed a cracked version of CS4 on it, no problems. The audio degradation I haven't noticed, but I suppose I can't really speak to that with evidence.

Yeah, it's rubbish. I'm running Windows 7 with CS4 and sound working perfectly. This is an alarmist suffering from PEBKAC issues.

Weird, none of the stuff in the article above is true on my Win 7 install. None of it. CS4 works like a charm, no hacking required. Capturing sound is really easy too, this whole thing is not just FUD, it's a bare-faced pack of lies. Shame on you /. for just accepting this utter nonsense because it speaks to your biases.

I don't call myself a 'linguaphile', snowgirl, I just quietly go through life with a PhD in linguistics. Also, your quote there has no bearing on anything. At all.

You can't be a linguaphile unless you can spell it. Sorry.

I've used GmailFS on my ubuntu system, and GMail Drive on my Windows system, but at the end of the day, a 32GB thumb drive kicks the shit out of either, and I dare say the same will apply to GDrive. Nice idea, but bandwidth is still an issue for a lot of people, and storing files on the internet is only going to help me reach my monthly quota faster.

I can see this becoming a popular filesharing tool; I can see myself and some online friends sharing a google account for the sake of making a free high-speed dump to replace private FTP sites, Rapidshare links etc.

Oh, hang on, no that's pretty bad.

Of course, 'shill' here means 'person I disagree with'. The fact that Windows 7 will run slower on your ridiculously outdated hardware means utterly fuck all. The fact that you're declaring which Windows version is best despite clearly not having tried Windows 7 says plenty. I'm a non-partisan user. I have an imac, a linux-booting eeepc & a dual-booting xp/ubuntu main machine. I tried Vista for four days when it was in beta and have never even though about using it again. So I hope some of this qualifies me as a legitimately open-minded end user. I fucking LOVE Windows 7. I've had one issue since installing it a week ago, and that's that windows installer is buggy as shit. Other than that, the interface is lovely, some of the newer features (which may have been in vista, I don't know) are really useful...top of the list is the integration of the quick launch toolbar into the taskbar, making the difference between a running application and a launch icon disappear. Njice paradigm shift, treating open and closed apps the same way. Windows 7 is fast enough to make that believable...Firefox loads in about a quarter of the time it takes in XP on the same machine. Being able to run a locked Windows Media Center on my TV, which is running as a second monitor, is awesome. Boot time is good, shutdown time ditto, UAC is still a bit annoying, but less so. They didn't need to fuck around with locations again...i have the way MS redefines all the control panels etc with each release. I don't need to find display settings somewhere new every time I upgrade. Still, the thing is, who needs an OS that uses on 20MB? Have you priced RAM lately? The fact is that Windows 7 will run comfortably on a pretty cheap MODERN PC. I can't loan linux on my abacus, boo-hoo.

OpenOffice is a perfect replacement for Word

Sigh. No, it's not. It's a weak, ugly, poor imitation of Word, at best. Seriously, have a look at Word 2007 and OpenOffice side by side. Now I'm no M$ shill or fanboy, I boot to Ubuntu or XP depending on my needs at the time. There are a number of things that are just fine in Linux, but Word shits all over OpenOffice for functionality, ease of use, features, aesthetics, and just about everything else.

I have a really sweet desktop machine with 2x24" monitors, and my desk has wheels, making it roughly as portable as an 11lb laptop.

I suspect a lot has to do with your role within IT, but I used to be a fairly low-level network admin (no relevant degree), and when I decided to pursue an unrelated graduate degree I had to give up on IT work, there was simply nothing, NOTHING even advertised for part-time work at my level. I still keep an eye out, but I've been doing accounting work for three years now...yay for me.