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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20318 |  larsig (501) Apr 08, 2008 - 11:21 am
| | I'd have to agree. I have yet to run into an OS that won't boot on a machine if the OS was designed to run on that machine. I would hope Vista runs on a custom build pc seeing as my comp cost about 1/5 of that machine, and unless I have had one crazy ass hallucination the past year, I have been using it successfully during that time. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20315 | larsig (501) Apr 04, 2008 - 06:16 pm
| | The US has been slow to pick up anything. Hell, there's a reason German an Japanese cars beat the crap out of US cars. They adopted newer factories and production practices that the US was slow to pick up on. Well, it's not like they had a choice post-WW2 seeing as existing factories... didn't really exist. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20318 | larsig (501) Apr 04, 2008 - 05:37 pm » Edited on Apr 04, 2008 - 05:47 pm
| What about Mac's 1.5-2 year cycle? Or Ubuntu's 6 month cycle?
I get your point though, 2 years does seem like a short time for Windows. We've probably come to expect an xp-vista break as the norm for Windows now, although that was unusually long for Microsoft. In a way, we were spoiled by it. XP worked so well that it is still going strong after 6 years, which if you consider the hardware changes in that time is a huge surprise.
Edit- Stumbled on an interesting blog about Microsoft's release dates when I was looking up what MinWin(About damn time they did that btw) was.
Link: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=361&tag=btxcsim Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20318 | larsig (501) Apr 04, 2008 - 05:27 pm
| | Unfortunately, most people follow the ignorant masses. I'm tempted to give up on society. Too many are easily swayed by what they hear rather than their own experiences. It disturbs me rather deeply that more often than not a blatant lie will stick in people's minds better than the truth. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20302 | larsig (501) Apr 03, 2008 - 02:09 pm
| | Doesn't help when the higher ups get millions of dollars legally EVEN if they drive a business into the shitter. Just look at Motorola and their dumb-ass CEO. He does nothing, but if they fire him he gets several million as a go away present. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20203 | larsig (501) Mar 31, 2008 - 08:27 am
| | Hmm, I rarely have an IBM/Lenovo laptop hard lock on me. In fact, the only time I can remember occurred during a week leading up to a catastrophic hard drive failure. It just stopped booting up so I sent it in to get the hard drive (And fan) replaced. Go 3 year warranty :) Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20229 | larsig (501) Mar 31, 2008 - 08:19 am
| | They're ticked off by the fact that he enabled features they originally didn't intend for users of those cards to have. Sorta like how some people enabled disabled stream processors in low-mid range graphics cards to make them effectively mid-high range ones. Don't see how they can sue over that though, what people do with their hardware when they rightfully purchased it is up to them. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20198 | larsig (501) Mar 30, 2008 - 07:55 am
| Heh, well, 10 years isn't a short time in the world of tech. Just think about the shift in computer power from 1992 to 2002. We went from top of the line 16bit 32mhz to standard 1+ghz 32 bit CPUs.
Well, I don't think either platform will go away soon. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they started to merge... but I don't want to see that either. I love PCs because I control what goes into them and I can gear them to various tasks. Consoles are a little limited in that aspect. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20218 | larsig (501) Mar 30, 2008 - 07:45 am
| These are not problems... It's routine maintenance. Any large and complex system (Frankly just about every type of server) has to be shut down at some point to perform maintenance tasks. These can be software or hardware related.
Seriously now, I don't even see WoW players complain this much about their maintenance periods. It costs more and their maintenance periods are more frequent. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20169 | larsig (501) Mar 26, 2008 - 05:05 pm
| | Civ mmo... Sorry, I just don't see a turn based strategy being turned into an MMO. Hey, you started out as a spearman! Guess what? There's an army of 50 modern armors in front of you. Who's gonna win? Although, I have seen a spear man kill a full health modern armor before... That's not the point. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20091 | larsig (501) Mar 23, 2008 - 09:35 am
| | Security holes and bugs may still be present. Their experiences are probably taken with the knowledge that bugs are to be expected right now. Unlike what seems like much of society, they understand that Beta means not finished, expect problems. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20091 | larsig (501) Mar 23, 2008 - 09:31 am
| | I don't care much for the speed, but the memory usage thing is a HUGE plus. I tend to keep 10 or more pages open when I develop for references and so on. On a system with 1.5 gigs of RAM and having 2 IDEs open that eat upwards of 400 megs each, I don't need to compete with my web browser that I have seen go up to 300 megs. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20008 | larsig (501) Mar 16, 2008 - 10:58 am
| | Agreed. The lens needs to stay clean, and leaving it like that could cause stuff to accumulate. Although, I suppose that the constant motion of the disk would keep it clean enough. Then again, looking at the heat sink on a 3 year old CPU doesn't inspire much confidence in that notion. Bah, stick with the tray. That way you can at least manually eject it if it won't eject normally. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19990 | larsig (501) Mar 14, 2008 - 09:38 am
| | The spin that they have over half of the top selling games and has almost half of all third party games released? You do realize that they get most of their money from software sales right? Weak my ass. Sony's sounds weaker because they have to rely on two other systems, one a decade old (Makes both Nintendo and Microsoft look bad), to make their profits larger. And Nintendo is pretty pitiful because the only thing they can put a spin on is hardware, they have almost no decent third party games. Hell, the other 4 top selling games were probably PC games. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19968 | larsig (501) Mar 13, 2008 - 10:22 am
| OK, point taken.
I don't find it that astounding. Sony still has a lot behind them, including a few good developers and the loyalty of (still) quite a few fans. It definitely didn't help, but Sony's slip-ups didn't condemn the PS3 to the history books like the Dreamcast. Especially considering the hostility thrown about against the 360 (And anything Microsoft related for that matter). Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19824 | larsig (501) Mar 04, 2008 - 09:26 pm
| Never mind about the hostility thing, I guess those Anonymous posts sorta bled over into how I interpreted your reply.
I'm not saying the loss is significant, but it is present. I know a few people personally that don't buy some games because they have the option of getting it for free. And they would have bought some of those games if they didn't get it for free. People have differing opinions, just as we do. You might not be able to see people do it, but it doesn't mean that people don't do it. I don't see why people under 21 walk down a street visibly drunk on a day when all 3 police departments on campus are on the lookout for underage drinkers. Yet, it happens several hundred times out of a population of 30,000.
I do agree that the preventative measures they take are a waste of everyone's time though. No matter what you do, someone somewhere is going to find some way around it. It's only a matter of time. The real question is what to spend the money on, aside from adding more to the games. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19824 | larsig (501) Mar 04, 2008 - 09:02 pm
| | Does no one ever read anymore? You, mr. coward, obviously would not be among those that "Would have bought the game if they did not have the option to pirate it" that I was talking about. Quite frankly, given your attitude, I can care less about your actions. Do as you will in that little corner of the fantasy world you live in. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19824 | larsig (501) Mar 04, 2008 - 01:22 pm
| Woah, I wasn't trying to be offensive with my post here, just pointing out some things.
My first point can't be denied, all it takes is one lazy person that doesn't want to pay for a game when they have the option not to. I'm not making a claim that developers are all going bankrupt because of it. I'm just saying it does impact their profits since at least some of those pirates would have bought the game if they couldn't steal it.
As for the second thing, you blew my comment way beyond what I was trying to say. I'm not saying that we should turn into a "Big Brother" society to stop this. I'm just saying from a moral standpoint pirates represent a dark face to humanity. It is up to those that enjoy the game they are paying to pay for it. It is up to those people to support developers who need to make a living, and therefore continue producing the games the consumers want. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19824 | larsig (501) Mar 04, 2008 - 08:34 am
| Also the source of why people say Windows is a bad OS... Mainstream users don't get why something bad happened, so who do they blame? I can't help you if you dropped your hard drive off a building into a vat of corrosive chemicals and put a magnet on it and can't figure out why Windows won't start. It's obviously Windows malfunctioning.
Linux can have more (and more complex) issues but you hardly see anyone slam it. Why? Because the users know that most of the time problems come from themselves, not the OS. They at least spend time to find the source of the problem before resorting to calling it a piece of crap. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19824 | larsig (501) Mar 04, 2008 - 08:25 am
| Can't deny that they are losing money to pirates. True, not everyone that pirates would have bought the game, but some of them would have if they couldn't pirate.
The guy went overboard on his rant, guess he snapped at some point. Though, think of it this way- Those that pirate a game and enjoy the game really do represent a bad facet of humans. A dedicated team sacrificed so much of their time and effort to make a good game that they enjoyed yet they are not willing to show basic appreciation by paying $50 for their hard work. Flag this | Edit this post |
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