I realize that the website in question is supposed to take user reviews. However, it seems a little strange for anybody to fully trust (or expect) a vendor website to provide unbiased opinions.
Almost all sale persons that I have met will hype whatever they are trying to sell. Most of them will rarely willingly let us in on the negative side of their products/solutions. Considering that the website is probably in the position to want to sell their merchandise, they would favor good "user reviews".
I'd imagine most people will search for information/reviews from various sources. I doubt most stores will start listing "how this product sucks" if they are trying to move inventory.
I haven't been following WOW at all, but don't they use BitTorrent for distributing their updates? Will they ban Opera for including BitTorrent support in their browser too?
Imagine all the lobbying required for application vendors to have their P2P-enabled software to be "legal".
One of the issues with a free to play MMO is it attracts a lot of juvenile minds. They can easily create multiple accounts using multiple free e-mail services, and will do their best to troll everywhere.
At least on Slashdot, moderation can bury the trolls, but on a free MMO? Most will probably enjoy conversation in a relatively more civilized pay to play MMO than a free one--at least, this seem to be a trend here in Japan where I live.
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Are you sure about that?
http://groups.google.com/group/de.comp.os.linux.misc/msg/cb4b2d67ffc3ffce
Isn't he supposed to be "innocent until proven guilty" under American laws?
I realize that the website in question is supposed to take user reviews. However, it seems a little strange for anybody to fully trust (or expect) a vendor website to provide unbiased opinions.
Almost all sale persons that I have met will hype whatever they are trying to sell. Most of them will rarely willingly let us in on the negative side of their products/solutions. Considering that the website is probably in the position to want to sell their merchandise, they would favor good "user reviews".
I'd imagine most people will search for information/reviews from various sources. I doubt most stores will start listing "how this product sucks" if they are trying to move inventory.
I haven't been following WOW at all, but don't they use BitTorrent for distributing their updates? Will they ban Opera for including BitTorrent support in their browser too? Imagine all the lobbying required for application vendors to have their P2P-enabled software to be "legal".
Maybe FOSS should stop being like PETA and, instead, tell people why it's *good* to use FOSS. Why Linux is *better* than Windows
Are you sure Richard Stallman wouldn't want to impose "GNU" in there?
One of the issues with a free to play MMO is it attracts a lot of juvenile minds. They can easily create multiple accounts using multiple free e-mail services, and will do their best to troll everywhere.
At least on Slashdot, moderation can bury the trolls, but on a free MMO? Most will probably enjoy conversation in a relatively more civilized pay to play MMO than a free one--at least, this seem to be a trend here in Japan where I live.