Posted 12/21/2008 at 07:02:27pm

Lets see this work on  a college campus.  You can't pinpoint anybody on a campus just by their IP.  Most are hooking wireless routers up in their dorm rooms so there could be several hundred people that could be at fault.  I didn't think it could get much more rediculous than them sueing people, but I think they just one-upped themselves.

PS: The smart people will always find a way around the RIAA.  All they will get are the stupid people.

Posted 12/17/2008 at 10:11:16am

I can't believe they still offer RealPlayer

Posted 11/12/2008 at 07:05:51pm

It doesn't punish them because it's this absolute marvel of futuristic software, it punishes them because it was poorly written and poorly executed code.  MaxPC wouldn't use Photoshop to benchmark if it was full of memory leaks, so why should they use a game with poorly written code?  And if they found Photoshop to be full of memory leaks and Adobe updated it, wouldn't they use the update version that had been fixed of all of its problems?

Posted 11/12/2008 at 06:57:50pm

I would like to start a petition right now to have Crysis removed from every hardware testers benchmark list.  For the simple fact that although it was a great looking game, they main fact that it punishes computers is the poorly written code.  If a Crysis game must be used then Warhead should be used.  The graphics are better and it runs on half the machine that it took Crysis to run.  My modest set-up would bearly run Crysis, but runs Warhead just fine, which shows how flawed Crysis was originally.  Some may not agree with the removal of Crysis, but if its not removed then any benchmark that is run with it should also be run with Warhead also.  i just think there are better games out there to use that are made with such flawed code.

Posted 11/11/2008 at 03:09:52pm

If your going to run this thing without fans you might as well set your PC on fire and save some money.  Why would they not just include a set of cheap fans with it and raise the price $5?

Posted 11/07/2008 at 06:33:52am

I have one word that would end a lot of pirating, get ready for it, "DEMO".  Its a novel idea.  Let the consumer try before they buy.  I have to admit to pirating a few of the newest games, just to make sure I can run them and they are worth it.  But the good ones are now in my collection.  I must also admit that I have a few games that I pirated and were so good that I bought the disk but never even took it out of the box.  I wouldn't have to worry about most of these hassels if they would just release a demo either before or with the game.  Don't release it 3 months after the game is out, something else will be out by then and overshadow your demo for an "old" game.

Posted 11/05/2008 at 08:49:51pm

I wonder what they will do to screw it up in the end?  Don't get me wrong, I'm a MS guy through and through but I remember getting ahold of a early version of longhorn and thinking how great it was, and now look at Vista.  Things are much better since SP1, but they messed up so much between longhorn beta's and Vista.

Posted 10/30/2008 at 08:06:50pm

No, nobody wants a "casual" starcraft game.  We have been waiting forever for this and if they screw it up by dumbing it down they won't have to bother producing the other 2 parts of the game.

Posted 10/30/2008 at 02:46:09pm

If this turns out to be true then I will have one of these players in every room of my house and 3 of their reader/writers in my PC.  They can finally put everything on 1 disk so that we don't have to have all of these multiple disk "boxed" sets.

Posted 10/30/2008 at 12:36:33pm

I was thinking of adding about 60 keys to my mouse so that I could do this very thing, but my fingers are to big.  And it's a stupid idea.