Michael Lile
Maximum PC Member Since: September 18, 2008
Total Posted Comments: 3 Comments on 3 Articles
Maximum PC Member Since: September 18, 2008Total Posted Comments: 3 Comments on 3 Articles
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What Microsoft Must Change for Windows 7
Posted 09/18/2008 at 04:21:37am
Actually, Virtual PC is the worst thing you can do to someone trying to run Poser 5 on a virtual XP environment. One, VPC emulates a 500-900mhz computer on average, even on a 4ghz machine. Plus, not all the 4 gb of ram is available to a virtual pc, you may have 2gb. Lastly, lack of 3D will make for a bad day. It'd take 2-3 day to make an image.
Why not do like linux, and make an API layer. At least then 90% of the programs would work at full speed.
Gaming Not-Roundup: An Easy End to Videogame Piracy? You Wish
Posted 09/18/2008 at 03:02:21am
While it's great people here trying to advise companies what to do to curb it, I have to play devil's advocate. An online service wouldn't work and increase piracy due to disgruntled customers, already trampled by the lack of computer stores and PC games being sold, turning quickly to cracks and hacks to bypass (WGA anyone?)
As far as the physical "feelies," Piracy has worked around that for eons, and customers got tired of having to hold on to the thing cause they do get old. Heck, how many hold on to EVERY single manual for the games and electronics?
Cheaper products mean someone will lose money (although I agree MS needs to slash its OS price, $400-500 for the things we wanted is too high, but I digress), but prices do encourage, correct. Adobe, Sony, 3DS, all are big piracy targets.
The best way, iin my opinion, is to go to a one-time check, hard-coded into the games. The action is similar to PSX games: the disc has a physical defect on the first track. To date, no one has made a perfect copy of a PSX game (ie can be played on a non-modded system), why not the same for legitimate PC games? You buy it, it checks the disc for a defect, and goes along. no defect, or program alterred in some way, it throws up, and rejects the CD, closes, even uninstalls.
Everything You Need to Know about Nvidia’s 3D Goggle Gamble
Posted 09/18/2008 at 02:41:25am
Personally I'm glad for Nvidia. However I won't run out and buy a 3d card to support this, a new monitor, a new LCD TV.... heck maybe a new computer just to support it. As much as I'd LOVE to see 3D make a comeback (expecially 3D video, so we can get the 80's 3D movies out on DVD), I'm not willing to buy a new setup for it, and neither are the others in the majority. Take a lesson from Blu-ray, develop a low-cost alternative that works with the current setup (like a 7x+ GeForce and a regular LCD/HDTV).