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[quote]I haven’t gotten my hands on Windows 7 yet, but I am hearing some really great things about it so far.[/quote] At the very least, it'll fix the biggest issues with Vista. [quote]Steve Jobs leave Apple. Apple shocked the tech community recently when they announced this years Macworld will be its last, and that Steve Jobs will not give the final keynote.[/quote] Hard to say exactly what that really means. Apple isn't really transparent about why exactly thi

Well, if they are making the claims, then the burden of proof rests on them. Okay, you are cleared. But don't confuse refuting a claim with not having enough evidence. A refutation is a type of proof (a proof that something is wrong or erroneous), and therefore needs some type of evidence. Having no evidence at all is not a type of refutation.

[quote]i have Portal, a very interesting and cool game, however as we recently lost internet connection, and changed to another provider, my access to the game went completely down. I had to have a connection to the internet in order to play it.[/quote] Yes - Portal, can't forget that :). Great game. Absolutely the best ending of any game. As far as your troubles go - there is an offline mode in Steam, and these days it works quite well (unlike how it worked a while b

[quote]Love those blanket statements and one sided value system comments.[/quote] [quote]In my opinion conservatism especially the fundamentalist religious version of it represents the bane of society . . .[/quote] Love those blanket statements and one sided value system comments.

I found a bunch of free puzzle games while looking for games for my mobile device. If doesn't mind something really challenging and doesn't mind exploring (or getting lost in, heh) virtual worlds, there's always the Myst series of games.

[quote]Do you have statistics proving it is? If I am to be deemed guilty by the industry without proof, why is it then my burden to prove I'm not? [/quote] You made a claim, I merely asked for evidence. Whining does not prove your case. Yes, given enough data, you can use statistice to test whether or not there is a correlation between the various factors affecting piracy. [quote]One is either honest or they are not. To think honesty is a situational variable

[quote]Although Relic "owns" the homeworld rights they don't really have much of a say on what games they make anymore. THQ currently owns them and the rights but they have no current "known" plans for a sequal to homeworld 2. So anyone who wants homeworld back needs to write to THQ instead of relic.[/quote] Alas, this is the story for many great games - frankly, one practice I'd love to see stopped is the insanity of "rights" to games being separated from the original developers and

[quote]32-bit browser never supports 64-bit plug-ins. Similarly, 64-bit browser never supports 32-bit plug-ins. This is the general rule for every OS - Windows, UNIX, or, any UNIX-like OSes.[/quote] Which to me is actually quite odd, considering how well the 64 bit OS itself handles 32 bit applications. I dunno about Linix, but 64 bit Windows normally works quite well with 32 bit applications. I'm wondering why browsers are different in that respect.

Great to see Sins winning so many awards - but some of the comments in IGN's comment section are kinda disheartening. I guess there [i]is[/i] a bit of a point to the game taking so long - to be honest, I make sure I have a lot of free time before I play Sins, because even on smaller maps, I know time is going to fly and it'll be many hourse of game play. This isn't a game you can finish in a short period of time.

[quote]That's better. In Linux we face a problem with Java plug-ins. 64-bit browser don't recognize 32-bit plug-ins.[/quote] Alas, that's an issue in Windows as well. I ended up dumping 64 bit Java and going totally 32 bit Java because of of that issue. BTW, V8 is just JavaScript. It is not Java. You still need a virtual machine to run Java. JavaScript is not Java. Java is not JavaScript. To be more precise, what we commonly call "JavaScript" i

[quote]Particularly now that I've reached an age where my reflexes are slowing, and I have to rely more on tactics and experience.[/quote] Yeah, you can only be young once. A lot of the new casual games look like fun, but I often ended up more frustrated than entertained. There's only so many times I care to restart and retry a level.

[quote]I think you wanted to mean - for Chrome, Google developed their own virtual machine.[/quote] No, I meant what I said. It's a direct compile to machine code . Starting at 24:34 in the video I linked to, they explain it. [quote]But, the most amazing news that I found about it is that it is Open Source. Is it true? I can't believe it.[/quote] It's true. Why are you surprised? Google has been a big player

[quote]The Google Analytics stuff is just creepy, and getting darned near as ubiquitous as doubleclick.net tracking cookies.[/quote] I've got mixed feelings on this. As somebody who does a bit of web development, it is nice to see how many visitors you're getting, what browsers they're using so you know what to design for, etc. [quote]But, is this speed due to compromise the security?[/quote] Not necessarily. Right now, Chrome is the only browser that co

[quote]I think game developers, artists and the media conglomorate in general need to realize that there is not an indefinite amount of cash to be had from their customers. The vast majority are like me, relatively low-wage income and we have to pay for the hardware to run their software, hardware to play the cd's and dvd's, televisions to display their programming. Then we've got rent, electrical, heating, clothing, food and what have you.[/quote] I have to agree with this. Give us a

[quote]I'm starting to feel like, what's the point of playing a game if you have nothing to "really" lose.[/quote] For me, the whole point of a game is really to get away from real life and its worries. dingbat91: I saw your post in the StarQuest forums, thanks.

[quote]if your interested in a sci-fi mmo then may i point out starquest online[/quote] What is the subscription fee? They show all kinds of info about a 30 day trial, but I'd like to know how much it costs after the trial is over, which seems to missing from their website.

[quote]I don't find too many options regarding security. What I really like is its speed.[/quote] Yeah, that's a bit of a problem - Chrome was a bit of a mixed bag for security. They got the architecture right, but the UI for handling security needed work. Good to hear it's fast, though. That, plus I liked the way you could detach and reattach tabs.

[quote]Is EVE online good enough to pay for?[/quote] Is EVE good at all? I've heard it's absolute anarchy. Personally, I keep falling back to WoW. I don't know why people dislike it. I suppose it's understandable if people don't have enough money. It all depends on your tastes. Some people like PvE, some people like PvP. Some people don't mind spending hours grinding, some people hate grinding. Personally, I like PvE and I hate grinding. But that's just me. Tas

Out of beta already? That's pretty fast for Google. Usually the "beta" tag is permanent for their products. [quote]At the same time I've noticed that some scripts are not working with it.[/quote] Yeah, they use a custom JavaScript engine called "V8" that is supposed to be lightning fast. But it's not something that has had a lot of testing on a large scale, so I wouldn't be surprised if it had a lot of bugs. My biggest question is: Have they improved the security of th

[quote]Sales are not pirated copies. If you sell a million copies of the game and a thousand people pirate it, that might look successful but the piracy rate is irrelevant.[/quote] Is it? How do you know that? It's a question of statistics and correlation. If you have some statistics available that proves or disproves a correlation, I'd be interested in seeing those statistics.

Not enough time for a full reply, but the article looks pretty good. . . . except the part about ring 0 access and emulators. I think he's confusing emulators (which only need access to a turing complete instruction set) with virtualizers (which work with the hardware to create virtual machines). Virtual Machines need ring 0 access, but true emulators don't need it. Other than that, good read so far.

Heh. This movement is growing. First Steve Jobs , now Gabe Newell, eh? Frankly, I think the old forms of DRM are slowly dying. They never worked, they didn't stop the pirates, and they inconvenienced the customers. SecuROM was the only company that really saw any benefits whatsoever. EA didn't really benefit because their games were still pirated. Wal-Mart didn't benefit because they had to deal with returns. T

[quote]- Better overall visual experience. Sure, Aero can be slow for older computers, but proper hardware provides a better experience...[/quote] On computers with video cards, Aero is actually faster due to using the GPU instead of the CPU :). It's a myth that you need a "high end" system to use Aero. Quite the contrary, I had a three year old card that ran Aero nicely. Aero capable cards can be found for $20 or less. For $20 I can turn any computer that runs Vista

[quote]He has Vista I have XP. My computer is faster.[/quote] Maybe it's the OS, maybe it's the computer. Maybe some things are fast, maybe some things are slow. Maybe in some places they made speed/feature tradeoffs. Maybe Vista works for some people. [quote]I was running XP (64bit) and had good luck with it but made the move to Vista 64bit because of the lack of software and driver developement for XP 64bit. [/quote] Agreed - 64 bit Vista has much more supp

[quote]Some time ago I decided I'd had enough of Vista and would go back to XP. After 2 BSODS and explorer crashing when I tried to rename a file, I decided now was the time.[/quote] I haven't had a BSOD for quite some time; I'd guess a driver is to blame. I've had my share of BSODs in XP anyways, so I'm not sure XP is all that different in that regard. But I guess that doesn't matter now that you've made the switch. I plan on sticking with Vista myself. It has worked well for