hannibal

I have been reading a lot of hate for steam. Not on this site but elsewhere on the web, and while I do not like other forms of DRM (DVDCSS, AACS, Ubisoft DRM) I love steam. First thing to get out of the way, you cannot legally re-sell physical copies of PC-Games. Unfortunately when you buy software for a Computer, you are not purchasing the physical media, they just provide that as a courtesy, what you are buying is a revocable license to use that software. Now while you can reject the terms of that license at any time, you also have to discontinue the use of the software.

Back in the day when hard drive space was scarce I needed physical media to cut down on the amount of hard drive space the game used. The drawback to using ...

Disclaimer: This is probably not 100% accurate, but it is some function of the truth.

There is a lot of misinformation out there about products, especially high end PC products. Many of them are reported as anecdotes, some purport to be conclusive scientific experiments benchmarking performance. This blog entry deals with the latter. The Truth is that benchmarks are not entirely useful. The main problem is that these benchmarks are often relative measures of performance, and the PC platform is so varied it is hard to get an apples to apples comparison. There are two reasons for this hardware and software. Let us first deal with the latter.

PC games do get better over time, but they have been overtaken by consoles with ...

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