It’s never necessary. That’s closed garden type of thinking for media ecosystems. You know what system types brought us? Microsoft trying to kill PC gaming in favor of their XBox.

I agree that to truly find out if it’s passing, is by not telling people when it’s being used.

It doesnt matter how good it gets, CGI will always get complaints.

No wonder Half Life 3 is taking so long...

Your system will also keep copies of the registry under your ‘system volume information’ folder - which is accessable if you boot from a recovery OS like bartPE or linux (I perfer knoppix for this task) - I’ve found in practice there are usually 10-50x as many ‘restore’ points for registry files than are available…

Still a great article and still very relevant since I don’t think Microsoft is getting rid of any of those anytime soon.

Great article! But there’s one thing missing about DLLs and that’s about even though they’re modular, there really isn’t any one size fits all solution to problems that arise from them. For example, in some programs, some DLLs that go missing won’t actually affect the functionality of the software, but present nothing…

Besides claim copyright and block it?

I'm sure DICE gets this sort of complains all the time that they're probably indifferent by now.

They are bringing old maps back in Second Assault - for better or worse.

I love that map. Such a brilliant idea.

I think it's because there are tons of people who play BF like it's CoD. This is easier to do in Conquest and still contribute, but in Rush, if you aren't consciously trying to strategize and go for/defend the objectives, you will lose. So conquest is still fun with people who don't know what they are doing. Rush…

Nomination: Corsair K70
The look, feel, and build quality and no superfluous keys.

Interesting. Most of the Brazilian players I know from various FPS games are all waist deep in Battlefield.

For .NET applications, config files are the preferred way to go. They're similar to INI files, but are structured using XML.

That might be the best compliment I've ever been given. Or a very sad note about the state of education...

Like PM said, it's unified. It's also faster. Both of which I said in the article multiple times.

I am a computer teacher and this article will be a reading assignment for my students tomorrow morning.