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Comment Re:DRM for DVD is bad... DRM from network is evil. (Score 1) 376

Want to install the game on your girl friend PC? On your children PC? Yep... install it, but you will not get update of your game. So,... they simply release buggy version that need update and user tie with their new DRM network solution.

While each install counts as an activation, you can do this without any problems.

One time network registrations are a lot better than rootkits, dvds that only work in 50% of drives and swapping discs every time you need to play a game.

Comment Re:SSDs get slower the more you use them (Score 3, Informative) 96

Mod parent up. I'm not arguing with him, but merely emphasizing a key point.

... and adding OS awareness to the issue can essentially let the drive stay ahead of the random write requests, and erase blocks before they are needed, to ensure their is always a pool of completely erased and ready to go blocks available, and therefore keep the drive much closer to its 'like new speed' indefinitely.

Actually, this is the part about the new sata Trim command. And ironically a part where Anand swings and misses completely, or it's dumbed down to a level where it is completely misleading.

It's not so much about making the OS SSD aware in the sense that the OS now knows about the inner workings of the SSD, but making the SSD aware of what space is actually used for data, and what has been discarded. Knowing what data blocks has been discarded means you can consolidate discarded blocks, by moving valid data to other pages, and then erase the page full of discarded blocks, so it is ready for writing new data.

So not only do you get write performance that doesn't degrade with time, but you can also store slightly more, because you don't have to reserve as much space.

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