I've had a good read through Valiche's blog article and it came across as very well written, apart from his reference to comparing the computing industry to the car industry.

"In order to be able to draw parallels with current situation, let’s compare computers to cars, since both share emotional similarities." [Valiche, T., 2008]

I have to say that one cannot compare the motor industry with the computing industry, they are two entirely different kettles of...

I purchased Crysis Warhead a week ago and have enjoyed the game. However, after moving to my new house, where I didn't have internet access for a couple of days, I was annoyed when I was informed via a message box that Crysis Warhead couldn't be validated.

It appears that the game checks with online servers every so often when you first run the exe to play it, despite already being validated when first installed. I'm just creating this thread as a little record so that anyone else...

The recent news that EA are going to be using Sony's SecuRom DRM software on their future titles has me concerned for gaming and software use in general. Now let me make one thing adamantly clear: Developers and publishers who claim that software piracy is the sole reason for DRM are doing nothing more than misleading their customers.

Lets take a step back to around the time when games such as the original Half Life, and Quake 3 Arena were all the rage. Users could install the games...

Take a seat everybody, uncle t4ct1c47 is going to give you a brief history of why misinformed people think that DX10 will work on XP.

When Vista was first released, Microsoft tried to take advantage of every possible selling point. When they released Halo 2 they made it so that the game would only work with Vista. Halo 2 never needed DX10, Microsoft simply wanted another reason to persuade people to upgrade from XP.

When you first install most programs the installation...

A friend of mine at uni who's working on a final year project for his business degree came to me for help last week. His project involves him and three other students seting up a real business and tradeing. They'd chosen the simple idea of selling guitar picks, t-shirts, and buttons with custom logo's and designs on. Everything had been prepared, such as suppliers, VAT registration and the like, unfortunately they didn't have a website for their company.

I'm not the most creative...