I bought Splinter Cell: Conviction at Christmas on Steam with but hadn't installed it yet. Looks like it was a waste of my money. Unsurprising, I should have expected this. Of course they won't spend a dime to patch their games, fuck the community! It's the bottom dollar that matters, I mean really, it's not like the gaming community are the ones who will buy the games, right? I guess I'll have to download a crack to play it.

Yeah and considering computers aren't people, it's nothing short of mind-numbing stupidity.

Highly interesting, thanks for the insight!

I agree totally, except for the first 5 words... not human nature. American nature. U.S.

Because destroying the hard drives wasn't enough, wasting tens of thousands of dollars in perfectly good hardware was the right thing to do.

Ha, beautiful. :)

Americans are war-weary? Legalize the hacking they've already been doing in secret!

PGO = Profile Guided Optimization. It allows the optimizing compiler/linker to figure out for itself exactly what the critical execution path(s) of the program (the code that runs most frequently) is/are by requiring the user to execute the code with this special pgo-instrumentation of the compiled code as many times as required to cover typical use-cases, and optimize the code based around the execution paths taken. Profile guided optimization is a strictly optional step which can be used to improve program performance (potentially) more or better than the generalized optimizer (/Ox compiler option with MSVC) can. Fuck. Posting this is undoing my moderations. Oh well.

No, she's all woman.

Qtel seems to do a really thorough job, unfortunately. :|

Master hypocrits.

Too bad, she's right.

A fox is now guarding this particular hen-house, how novel.

OpenID is decent, granted it doesn't solve the whole single point of failure problem but it doesn't try to, either. It does a good job of consolidating login and user data, so the only trust a user need grant is to that of their provider.

If I could mod you up I would, Anonymous would have to separate the list of those forced from those who joined willingly.