Reducing an existing Linux partition for Windows use....

[Jerry Snitselaar]

On Saturday 13 September 2008 01:08:20 am der.hans wrote:
> Am 13. Sep, 2008 schwätzte Dan Lund so:
>
> moin moin Dan,
>
> > Okay, I'm pulling the pistol away from my head now, but I'll need to
> > use Windows on my desktop in order to play Spore now that it is
>
> Spore looks really, really cool. The DRM crap looks really, really evil.
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/10/spore_drm_amazon_effect/
> http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/07/amazon-reviewers-clo.html
>
> Wow, they really got some people to post against them.
>
> 5 star: 	3% 	 (73)
> 4 star: 	2% 	 (50)
> 3 star: 	0% 	 (21)
> 2 star: 	2% 	 (57)
> 1 star: 	90% 	 (2,018)
>
> http://www.amazon.com/review/product/B000FKBCX4/ref=dp_db_cm_cr_acr_txt/002
>-5356881-7975207?_encoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
>
> Hmm, that negative review makes it sound like they dropped out some of the
> cool features as well :(.
>
Yeah. The DRM isn't cool. Luckily they were cool about it when I ran into it 
with the Creature Creator and gave me another activation with no questions.

As far as reviews of Spore go, I think there will be mostly 3 types. 

One will be people who are trashing it just because of the DRM, which I have 
seen quite a few of and having nothing really to do with the game itself. 
Then there will be those who love it, and those who hate it. It is definitely 
geared towards mass appeal, and the different modes are fairly simplified 
compared to other games that fit those genres. So there are hardcore gamers 
complaining that it isn't detailed enough and is too easy. You have other 
people saying it is too hard. I have played lots of games over the years, and 
I have actually enjoyed it so far. It is fairly simplified, but that doesn't 
mean it can't be fun. I think that if they had added the complexity that some 
people want, you would never be able to complete a game. As it is now it will 
probably take hours upon hours to expand from your homeworld to the center of 
the galaxy. What people need to understand is the game's main audience is the 
masses of people that bought 'The Sims', not the gamer who loves Warcraft 
III, Age of Empires, and such games.

I think that as a piece of technology it is amazing. As a game it is decent. 
It is almost like a concept car. I think they have presented a lot of things 
that hopefully others will use to further advance games.

Hopefully they will add some features back in with the expansions that will 
most certainly appear.

It does seems to crash every once in a while, and there is no autosave 
feature, which is someone I really don't understand. It doesn't take long to 
save though, so make sure you do it often. I've only experienced crashes in 
the space stage.

Re: resizing a Windows partition (someone else in the thread asked this). I 
would defrag the partition prior to resizing it.