When a company spends more press time hyping their DRM system, than the actual games, they have a major problem, and it isn't piracy.
I see DRM as a way to shut down the 2nd hand games market, more than piracy. That's been the trend lately. Activation limits, bonus items etc, are all there to reduce the value of a resold game. Game publishers seem to think that their products have no right to be resold.
I hope someone cracks this shit fast. Not because I want to pirate these games, but because they've bragged about how hard it will be to crack. I hope someone shoves a cracked version in their face on 0-day.
So they release the source to their client and server under the GPL, and you're trying to claim that they're "back pedaling" on it because they want there to be a standard on the clients that connect to the servers they own and operate?
Get real! This is the type of whiny bullshit that gives people a bad impression of the GPL. The alternative is LL just kept everything close sourced. What you advocate here is a Wild West scenario where LL would be subject to any type of client being able to access their servers.
Given the submitter of this dreck, I'm not surprised...
It's not different than arguing with creationists, Richard Hoagland, 9/11 truthers, or holocaust deniers.
They've made up their minds, the facts be damned.
Well and Kennedy is claiming on his blog that Mr. Keizer and the rest of the staff knew he was using the pseudonym for years. For me personally I really wouldn't trust anyone involved in this little scandal.
Umm I have a dedicated graphics card. WTF does that have to do with Intel needing to put out something that runs games other than Solitaire?
You should invent a jump to conclusions mat!
If you had read anything to do with this story, you'd already be aware that superfetch will not interfere with "heavy hitter" apps like games and 3d modeling programs, because the superfetched data is dumped the millisecond it's needed by an application...
What's amazing is his lack of shame. Reading through his comments there is pretty amazing. The best part is when he brags about the particular branch at Morgan Stanley that uses his software, and is met by the znet editor thanking him for that info so he can pass it along to Morgan Stanley.
Agreed. It doesn't bode well for Mr. Keizer's credibility, and this is exactly why it's important to make damn sure you know who your professional contacts are. Reputations take a lifetime to build up, and only a few minutes to completely destroy.
He really hasn't explained how he became duped this badly in a satisfying manner.
The only time I've had 7's UAC "nag" me was when installing new software. Seems to be working just fine, because it's already stopped a few stupid malware apps from being installed on the system when the kids are on it.
Because some people view operating systems like some people view sports teams, and they'll mod stuff up that is wrong, just to score points for their team.
Then there are those of us that use whatever OS get's the job done. If that's Linux, great! If that's Win7, great!
Wow just look at his comments. He's a real piece of work. No shame at all, and playing it off like he's independently wealthy from the software he sold/sells.
I really don't think it was a case of him merely "being wrong" about Win7. His software company sells a suite that is supposed to make Windows "run better". He had a direct motivation for lying about the performance of Windows. That's fraud in my book, and not merely "being wrong".
With Vista I had this consistent problem where my SATA drives would just lose communication with the system, and it would blue screen. This would happen about once every month or two. Since moving to 7, I haven't had an issue with SATA at all. Overall I don't notice nearly as much disk thrashing in Win7 as there was in Vista.
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I'm not sure which is more annoying. The hardcore environmentalists, or the hardcore assholes like you.
When a company spends more press time hyping their DRM system, than the actual games, they have a major problem, and it isn't piracy.
I see DRM as a way to shut down the 2nd hand games market, more than piracy. That's been the trend lately. Activation limits, bonus items etc, are all there to reduce the value of a resold game. Game publishers seem to think that their products have no right to be resold.
I hope someone cracks this shit fast. Not because I want to pirate these games, but because they've bragged about how hard it will be to crack. I hope someone shoves a cracked version in their face on 0-day.
Don't worry, it will be back in a second.
Yeah and that is Epic Software doing that. They aren't exactly a hobbyist working without pay...
Imagine that. If you study someone's daily routine you can "predict" where they will go. Call me shocked.
Considering I was responding to a post that referred to "nutjob denialist theories", I think it's pretty clear who I'm talking about.
So they release the source to their client and server under the GPL, and you're trying to claim that they're "back pedaling" on it because they want there to be a standard on the clients that connect to the servers they own and operate?
Get real! This is the type of whiny bullshit that gives people a bad impression of the GPL. The alternative is LL just kept everything close sourced. What you advocate here is a Wild West scenario where LL would be subject to any type of client being able to access their servers.
Given the submitter of this dreck, I'm not surprised...
Too dumb to be a good troll.
He forgot to take his medication.
It's not different than arguing with creationists, Richard Hoagland, 9/11 truthers, or holocaust deniers. They've made up their minds, the facts be damned.
Well and Kennedy is claiming on his blog that Mr. Keizer and the rest of the staff knew he was using the pseudonym for years. For me personally I really wouldn't trust anyone involved in this little scandal.
Umm I have a dedicated graphics card. WTF does that have to do with Intel needing to put out something that runs games other than Solitaire? You should invent a jump to conclusions mat!
It could even be a Sci-Fi Channel movie. I have games with better graphics.
Now maybe they can get to work on shipping on-board graphics cards that can actually play games released within the past couple of years...
I'm now moving on to Oh God.
As in "Oh god not this shit again"...
If you had read anything to do with this story, you'd already be aware that superfetch will not interfere with "heavy hitter" apps like games and 3d modeling programs, because the superfetched data is dumped the millisecond it's needed by an application...
What's amazing is his lack of shame. Reading through his comments there is pretty amazing. The best part is when he brags about the particular branch at Morgan Stanley that uses his software, and is met by the znet editor thanking him for that info so he can pass it along to Morgan Stanley.
Agreed. It doesn't bode well for Mr. Keizer's credibility, and this is exactly why it's important to make damn sure you know who your professional contacts are. Reputations take a lifetime to build up, and only a few minutes to completely destroy.
He really hasn't explained how he became duped this badly in a satisfying manner.
The only time I've had 7's UAC "nag" me was when installing new software. Seems to be working just fine, because it's already stopped a few stupid malware apps from being installed on the system when the kids are on it.
Because some people view operating systems like some people view sports teams, and they'll mod stuff up that is wrong, just to score points for their team.
Then there are those of us that use whatever OS get's the job done. If that's Linux, great! If that's Win7, great!
Too dumb to be a good troll.
Wow just look at his comments. He's a real piece of work. No shame at all, and playing it off like he's independently wealthy from the software he sold/sells.
I really don't think it was a case of him merely "being wrong" about Win7. His software company sells a suite that is supposed to make Windows "run better". He had a direct motivation for lying about the performance of Windows. That's fraud in my book, and not merely "being wrong".
With Vista I had this consistent problem where my SATA drives would just lose communication with the system, and it would blue screen. This would happen about once every month or two. Since moving to 7, I haven't had an issue with SATA at all. Overall I don't notice nearly as much disk thrashing in Win7 as there was in Vista.
To me it seems like there was fraud in both cases. He lied about his identity, and about how Win7 "hogs" memory.