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Reply to Newest Additions Change in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Hooray.

Reply to New York Times recognizes skinners in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

lol. How can you do an article on skinning without mentioning Stardock? WinAmp is crucial and obvious but it's hard to imagine a decent article that doesn't at least mention WindowBlinds.

Reply to Rating in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Perhaps the admins can look into it and re-evaluate the access level of the person who is doing these ratings? I think that is a better solution than wrecking the rating system.

Strategy games that should inspire GalCiv? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

So what games do you like that you think would be a good inspiration for Galactic Civilizations? I'd start with Civilization, Masters of Orion, Europa Universalis.

Reply to A big thanks to everyone! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

If the game can be fun without the diplomacy in, then that is good. All parts of the game it seems to me should be fun to play.

Reply to No ranges? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Ranges would be a nice option after the release but with only 6 alien races, that would be a problem. Maybe future versoins of GalCiv could have 20 ot 30 races to play with. Then ranges would make more sense.

Reply to GalCiv - updates as a business strategy in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Depends on sales expectations. How many sales can a game mainly available on-line make?

Reply to Bored in Kuwait -- I want to help in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Do you have Drengin?

Reply to Ideas for small empire / technological advancement in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Going to have to digest this stuff. Any way this could be implemented as an event or anamoly?

Reply to Litestep.net is gone. in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

This is the type of rubbish that burns me up. They need to eliminate anonymousness from the Internet so that people CAN be traced if necessary. It migth get cracked but it would be better than nothing. Litestep.net was a great site. Litestep is one of the things that really got me interested in skinning.

Reply to Msgboard Chatroom Marathon in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Brad better not get me sick! Stay out of the lab sick boy!

Traffic out of control! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Last few weeks traffic here sure seems to be really heavy. Now have to have 1500 downloads just to make it into the top 10 skin authors. Adni has 14,000 per day and we don't even make a notice! Remember when Alexandrie got 5000 downloads and it caused posts to be written? Now someone's getting over 10,000 downloads per day and it's no big deal. Do you think this is due to WinXP's release or just busier in the Winter or something else?

Reply to Performance on Win XP vs. Win 2k in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I've heard that Win2K is overall faster in general benchmarks.

Reply to Cybersquatting Extortion Scheme Targets WinStep in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

Very bad.

Reply to The GUI Olympics! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I doubt any new major skinning features are going to show up during the contest.

Lawsuits and trademarks in the Internet age in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

Stardock's Brad Wardell writes a monthly column for the game website, Avault. This month he writes about how trademarks are being increasingly abused on the Internet.

Reply to Immense Style XP arrogance! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

http://www.netsol.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois?STRING=WinCustomize.com&SearchType=do&STRING2.x=17&STRING2.y=4 WinCustomize is owned 100% by Stardock. And paid for by Stardock. Coded by Stardock. [Disclaimer I work for Stardock] While Stardock doesn't expressly state that buying Object Desktop supports "the community" it effectively does since it's sales of Object Desktop that pay for this site and the Stardock news groups which are quite massive. But Stardock's software never t

Reply to My problems with WinStyles (long) in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Shoggot's meglomania aside, let's be constructive. WinStyles is a reality. If SD didn't make it, someone else would have. Skinning is very popular. People want easy ways to skin their computers. So what features should be added to WinStyles to address the concerns raised?

Reply to The StyleXP part is over? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

So if I write a crack to crack Style XP which cracks MS's theme protection, can I charge for that? I promise to write important sounding posts saying how we have had "discussions" with the makers of StyleXP (not say what they said of course) and imply that they are "aware" of what I'm doing and therefore approve of it. I'll only charge $10. I'm not greedy you know.

Reply to The StyleXP part is over? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

All this time I thought you had to actually write software to charge for it. Apparently the better way is to crack OTHER people's software and charge for the crack.

Reply to competing visions of the community in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I read the latter one this afternoon. Shoggot's words are insulting and erroneous. I used to think Shoggot knew a lot about skinning software but he really shows that he's out of touch. VDE was never freeware and DesktopX is not a derivative of it. I don't think Shoggot runs any of these programs and hasn't in a long while. Shoggot also shows an almost imperial attitude towards skin sites. Lots of people don't want to muck through 50 or 100 sections. I think the reaso

Reply to My rant -Is there REALLY a skin "community"? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

It is truly sad to see Shoggot completely altering history just to try to paint Stardock in a negative light. I wonder if Shoggot realizes how hurtful his comments are to us who work at Stardock. What Stardock usually does is fit the project with the person and it prefers to work with people who are already in the community. Shoggot has twisted this into being a bad thing. DesktopX was in the original Object Desktop specificiation from 1997, it needed a lead developer. Stardock brought

Reply to My rant -Is there REALLY a skin "community"? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Disclaimer: I work for the "evil" stardock. Shoggot, what you say about DesktopX is very insulting. Alberto, developer of VDE and the lead developer of DesktopX has publicly stated many times that DesktopX is not based on VDE. DesktopX was started from scratch and he used knowledge he accumulated during its development on DesktopX. Being one of the people at Stardock who has spent the past 2 years of my life working on DesktopX with Furan, Brad, Kris, Alex and others, you demonstrate ju

War in Afganastan in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Who's been keeping up with events?

Long horn and beyond in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Anyone seen any screenshots or mockups of what Longhorn or other future MS OSes might look like?