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HermanH wrote:
> On Jan 9, 5:36 pm, Giftzwerg <giftzwerg... DeleteThis @NOSPAMZ.hotmail.com> wrote:
>> In article <1c80983b-1c81-448e-b432-
>>
>> Are you saying that you simply compare "number of games sold" to "number
>> of IP addresses logged" and view any discrepancy as *piracy*!?!??!?
>
> Good point. I use a dial up connection so I generate a new IP every
> time I log on. The game probably considers me a veritable cove of
> pirates by the number of IP I generate, no?

Same here. However, even though we dial-up users get a new IP each
time they log on to the net, those IP addresses are a subset of our
ISP's IP. So in theory we might be identified that way, but what
happens if an ISP has 2 or more dial-up customers who have purchased
the game? What happens when there are dozens? Hundreds? If all
that's being queried are IP addresses, then the system is essentially
worthless.

In a similar vein, what about people who install the game on laptops
which access the net via a wireless connection? They get different IP
addresses for each wireless access point they log in through; one for
work, one for home, one for the internet cafe they like to hang out
in, and one each for their friends' houses, etc. IP address logging
is a system so fraught with the potential for generating *bad* data
that it isn't even worth discussing seriously.

He also misuses the term "proprietary." All we're really interested
in is numbers - hard data. The method that generates the data may be
proprietary, but not the data itself. But since he's just told us all
about it and it's obviously inadequate, whatever numbers he has are
useless.



--
"Man will always be Man. We tried so hard to create a society that
was equal, where there'd be nothing to envy your neighbor. But
there's always something to envy: a smile; a friendship; something you
don't have and want to appropriate. In this world, even a Soviet one,
there will always be rich and poor; rich in gifts - poor in gifts,
rich in love - poor in love." - Comrade Commissar Danilov in "Enemy at
the Gates"

On 10 jan, 00:28, Raging Tiger <RagingTi... RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:

> being a game designer and dealing with retarded
> people has given me a skin thick enough <snip>

It's funny but at a certain level I could understand this.

This happened 5 minutes ago :

Manager : somebody is getting an error when he tries to copy a record.
Me (staying calm) : I need the following info : who is getting the
problem, what's the error and which record is he trying to copy
Manager : this is the error <screenshot of the error > which he mailed
me.
Me : ok, and who is getting the error and on what record
Manager : this guy who mailed me, on the record he wants to copy

At this point I take a look at my paycheck and decide it's still worth
it, but only just, so I carefully explain that I might know a lot of
things, but not who just mailed him and that knowing which record he's
trying to copy is also beyond my divine powers.

What everyone who works in IT knows is that normal people behave like
morons when it comes to computer problems. Nobody with an IQ over 40
would phone their doctor with "doctor, doctor, someone has a ache
somewhere when he does something" - here they know the info they
provide is not enough to fix the problem, but when it comes to
computers those moron-level questions are standard.

I'd love to hear a theory as to why this is so.

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx