Every company I've worked at that has been large enough to warrant it's own IT dept. has been standoffish because they're told not to associate with the desk employees. The reason being for "security", and the overall feeling I've gotten from those I've been close to is because they basically monitor employee activity. They create logs of internet usage, emails, instant messages, and any network activity. In the last 5 or so years that has extended into time logs of entering/exiting the office, and actual desktop activity. There are three companies I've worked at that have had this behavior, with the exception of the timesheet and desktop activity recording because that was all at the same company since then, (though I've gotten the impression that this behavior was "standard" for IT now).
Either way, I feel like checking out of the corporate world entirely, because it's just pathetic. Especially if you consider where it's going: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/18/1419252/microsoft-patent-aims-to-curb-obnoxious-employee-behavior

You're just being stupid for the sake of comedy right?

Amazon.com looks good right now.
Fuck, even Best Buy looks good right now.

Origin looks like the exact same crap, but with a much less trustworthy company in charge of it. EA would sell all that personal information straight to the hackers if it meant they could turn a profit.

I really love Steam. I can't recount the number of times someone broke into my house, stole my entire game library, AND my credit card, and then used my credit card to buy tons of other games on it, and send mail to all my friends posing as me. Steam is so worth the convenience of not having to get out of my chair, go to a store, and pick up a physical copy of entertainment that I will probably revisit for years on end.

Thank you Valve!!

Who would you rather have man it? The US? They would just turn it on every other country. For "science", of course.

Another fly-by-night software developer conned some tech-ignorant government institute into buying their shit-software under the guise that it would stop their latest .

Go America! I'm sure this will work out just fine for everyone.

The game itself is supposed to be bad.

"...new UI, a new graphics engine, and a redesign of all current maps."

However, none of these things make a difference on the game design itself. Who's smoking what now?

I hate stupid developers.

So... Apple is going the way of Sony, huh?

Sony has spent the last 20+ years trying and failing to recreate the phenomenon of the Walkman. I wish companies would actually try to innovate instead of searching to recreate their past innovations.

Just from the description my experience and precognition tells me this is going to be a massive failure.

I don't think I have EVER read a story about internet security where they weren't attacking some kid on a college campus for sharing music, or blaming someones grandfather of childporn. This is actually a refreshing story for a change.

Can someone link me that story? Must have missed it. How do you shield something from water waves?

I wish, at the very least, they'd get over "improving boot/shutdown times", and make the performance of actual use better than, say, win98.
Their memory management is the WORST, and if you're an actual PC user, with heavy applications for graphics or simulation, the last several releases from this company must have crushed your productivity like it has mine.

Sadly, this is just a small hint of what's to come. I don't expect anything other than full-on corporate armies, each waging espionage and intellectual (and other) warfare against one another, to be the future of the US. Get used to it. Soon Apples Security team WILL be the police dept. :(
(and every other company with the money/man-power).

No matter how you look at it, Ribbons are inefficient, badly designed UI elements.

Microsoft continues to floor me with how valiantly they push that envelope toward a cliff.

Marijuana does a surprisingly good job of letting you see things from a different perspective. Highly recommended! ;)

I'd rather they just go out of business. It is long overdue.