Quote: "The revelation that was made is something I don’t fully comprehend (Bad explanation) but it has something to do with making the fields perpendicular to each other (I think) or rotating them… not certain"
If I were you I wouldn't quote articles willy-nilly when you forget all of the facts.
People have been predicting walls in technology for years. It hasn't come yet, so whether it comes tomorrow is anyone's guess. My figures with the 80TB hard drive were merely based on the speed increases in technology that have come in the past 15 years that I've had a PC.
Quote: "Now, before I leave for your subjective scrutiny let me ask this one question. If Electronic Arts hates piracy, why would they make their games install everything to the HD?"
I think I have an idea. Basically most people hate disc-swapping, and since many games come on multi-CDs, then it's a hassle to switch disks to load levels or cinematics, don't you think?
And back when hard drives were small (as in less than 200MB), most CD-ROM games didn't give you the option to install the cinematics to your HD. People who pirated them basically said "screw it" and didn't trade the game with the movies intact.
Quote: "but a no cd crack"
Nowadays if someone wants to pirate a game, they'll just copy the entire CDs or DVDs to blank disks, *and* use the no-CD crack. You can't win with piracy, so it's good that you can do a full install of a game to your HD--- makes it more convenient for the gameplayer in my opinion. Obviously companies like EA have unlimited bank accounts for R&D to figure this kind of stuff out from the market
"I understand creative people. After all, I worked with towel designers." - Ray Kassar, former head of Atari
