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Comment Re:Hope it's not too late (Score 1) 218

My problem with Origin is just how annoying and featureless it is. In steam, you can set it to go straight to your games library and not show any popups. In origin, every time you launch it, it opens (SLOWLY) the store page and has an annoying popup that says "BUY THIS NOW!" There is no option to disable or change this behavior. There's also no way (built-in that is) of backing up games, unlike steam. You may enjoy downloading a 16.2gig game every time you reformat, but I sure as hell don't. Lets not forget that, despite checking save password and autologin boxes, origin will, after a random amount of time, error out and force me to type in my password. A problem I don't have with say... steam.

I don't hate origin because it's made by EA. I hate origin because it's inferior in every single way to the competition.

Comment Not Having High Hopes (Score 1) 102

Not having high hopes for this one. Developed my terminal reality who gave us BloodRayne, Ghostbusters: The Video Game, and Kinect Star Wars. Published by Ubisoft which hates the PC platform and, if the problems with the newest Ghost Recon are any indication, not too fond of consoles either. It's going to bomb. Even if it's playable, I suspect it'll be mediocre gameplay at best. The only thing it has going for it is the license. Those games are never worth the purchase price.
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Microsoft Claims Google Chrome Steals Your Privacy 522

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft is going on the offensive against Google, accusing the search giant of creating a browser that does not respect user privacy. The company posted a video, embedded below, on TechNet Edge with the following description: 'Watch a demo on how Google Chrome collects every keystroke you make and how Internet Explorer 8 keeps your information private through two address bars and In Private browsing.' Microsoft's first criticism is Chrome's combining the address bar and the search box into a single entry box; IE8 keeps those fields separate. 'By keeping these boxes separate, your privacy is better protected and the addresses of the sites you're visiting aren't automatically shared with Microsoft, or anyone else,' says IE product manager Pete LePage."

Comment Re:P4 pride (Score 1) 354

Pfft... until 5 months ago, my "current" computer was a Pentium 4 at 1.8 MHz. (Actually, I don't know how my year-old Aspire One compared with that, because I never used it for serious work).

Only 1.8 MHz? Yes, I think you've won the slowest computer of the century award.

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