I no longer have confidence that the game I pay for will be the same game 6 months from now. While every game is an "entertainment experience," I at minimum expect that if I invest my time into pursuing goals in-game, that they will not be made completely obsolete on a whim.
Please give me a compelling reason why I should continue to pay $15.00/month if SOE fundamentally changes the game every 6-8 months.
To make the game more "Star Warsy" is not an adequate answer, there are tons of games already out there that are.
I have a hard time caring about a "story" posted by someone with the name WindozeSux. But I care enough to rant. McDonald's has served billions. Where's that story on Slashdot?
According to the same charts he lambasts, the Microsoft configuration outperformed the Samba configuration over the entire range of client connections. 900 to 600mbps at peak, and 350 to 200mbps at peak. Aside from altering the data, how can one deliberately modify or misrepresent these results?
That looks convincing at any scale, regardless of "how the x axis is ticked". What x-axis tickmarks would you like, to make any difference at all? And would aligning the triangles and squares with the tickmarks make any difference whatever to the result?
The y axes are at different intervals because the ranges are different! If you have a range of 350 and tickmarks at 100 each, how goofy would that look? According to this chart, the Samba is still getting outperformed, any way you scale it.
I don't see any sleight-of-hand here. This may be an example of a "sloppy" chart, with misaligned triangles, but it certainly isn't an example of a misleading one. If there is any misrepresntation going on, it's in the author's (mis)use of these charts.
And his green and red subliminal message conspiracy theory? Is he serious?
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I no longer have confidence that the game I pay for will be the same game 6 months from now. While every game is an "entertainment experience," I at minimum expect that if I invest my time into pursuing goals in-game, that they will not be made completely obsolete on a whim. Please give me a compelling reason why I should continue to pay $15.00/month if SOE fundamentally changes the game every 6-8 months. To make the game more "Star Warsy" is not an adequate answer, there are tons of games already out there that are.
I have a hard time caring about a "story" posted by someone with the name WindozeSux. But I care enough to rant. McDonald's has served billions. Where's that story on Slashdot?
Slashdot posts its 75th million Firefox download story!
I, for one, like to see these kinds of stories. The replies are great!
According to the same charts he lambasts, the Microsoft configuration outperformed the Samba configuration over the entire range of client connections. 900 to 600mbps at peak, and 350 to 200mbps at peak. Aside from altering the data, how can one deliberately modify or misrepresent these results?
That looks convincing at any scale, regardless of "how the x axis is ticked". What x-axis tickmarks would you like, to make any difference at all? And would aligning the triangles and squares with the tickmarks make any difference whatever to the result?
The y axes are at different intervals because the ranges are different! If you have a range of 350 and tickmarks at 100 each, how goofy would that look? According to this chart, the Samba is still getting outperformed, any way you scale it.
I don't see any sleight-of-hand here. This may be an example of a "sloppy" chart, with misaligned triangles, but it certainly isn't an example of a misleading one. If there is any misrepresntation going on, it's in the author's (mis)use of these charts.
And his green and red subliminal message conspiracy theory? Is he serious?
We'll convince many "ordinary users" to visit Windows Update when their registration keys are legitimate.
Only when I need to get a pair of socks to wear.
Glenn Gould is alive in my closet.
A study of 35 programs is hardly a representative sample. You can't make broad policy conclusions for the entire industry based on this.
If this were actually a useful tool, I would never know.
I am not going to give out a credit card number just to try it out.
Too bad, they might have gotten my business.