Nightcall

How am I getting on a high horse? I even admitted to piracy myself.
The funny part is that you seem to believe that the fact that piracy doesn't hurt sales at all. It does, but it is massively over exaggerated. Are the numbers sizeable enough to warrant spending massive amounts of money trying to stop it? HELL NO! It's like shoplifting: It isn't a big issue, so no big steps need to be taken. Law still needs to be enforced. Do I agree that current copyright laws are archaic? Yes! Do I believe game studios should release demos? yes! Do I think that lack of a demo warrants illegally downloading a game? Yeah! 
 
It's not your points that I have an issue with - it's your attitude. Piracy is theft, and it's illegal - that's the only claim I make, I don't even care about the reason why you pirate. I want people to acknowledge that what they're doing is illegal - even if it isn't technically hurting anyone. Stealing from the rich is still stealing. I've stolen games, at least I'm reasonable enough to admit it. I want people to stop trying to justify what they're doing, and try to make it look like they're fighting the system. Guess what, you just don't want to pay for your game, call it whatever you want.
 
You wouldn't have bought the game? Fine, it's still illegal though.
 
Also, I don't really see how a small-time writer's opinion makes your points more valid though.

Trying to compare a quantum computer to a standard microprocessor is like comparing your car to the space shuttle.  Your car does about 100kph, the shuttle orbits at about 28 000kph, but even if you had all the money in the world for a space shuttle, it's not going to drive you to work in three seconds.
 
Quantum computers are for an entirely different range of computational situations that normal microprocessors are TERRIBLE at, it's not something that will revolutionize home computing, even for the super rich.

And here we run in to another, large problem. Opinions. 

Freedom of speach does not mean freedom from consequences

You always find a way to be rude, don't you?
 
He simply wants to find out if m-itx is worth his money I presumes and he's quite young so he isn't going to write very professionally, cut him some slack and stop being a jerk.

Opening my wallet and crying.

So today was fun! Outside of my normal admin duties this got slammed in my face out of nowhere...

I try to keep most mod things behind closed doors because things just work better that way, but msquare, or whatever name they are going by currently, seems to be pulling everyone they can into this; so I'll give some public explanation to hopefully clear things up so people can finally move on.

Here we go...




We can fix problems with peoples accounts. Being banned isn't a "problem with your account". You were banned for a reason, and with that you are not allowed to come back.
msquare was not told by Linus, nor myself to make a new account. This never happened.
Windspeed correctly banned the account for ban evasion. This is our moderation policy.
Sometimes things do get lost in communication! We're a rather large team of volunteers (yes even me, I do most of my admin duties outside of work hours). This was not one of those times.


- All of this has been addressed above.



Funny you brought that up, you will find that the mod team is surprisingly well informed and I happen to know exactly who you are talking about and what posts they are actually discussing.Incoming fantastic paint censorship skills in 3...2...1...

This is the post that was removed (not deleted, just hidden)
This user was issued a warning for spamming and their post was hidden. This is a minor infraction which is fairly unimportant, yet definitely was contested.


For reference, here is the actual warning. A member made a post that only contained the word "Penis". That post was then removed and a warning was sent as it is a waste of space on our boards and served no purpose (spam). Seems pretty straight forward.





Was this dealt with entirely professionally? No it was not.
That being said, I'll re-iterate something I've said in the past. My Mods have lives, they are unpaid, they are not trained police... they will make mistakes. Sometimes they will take it slightly too far or not far enough based on external factors... It will happen. This warning was rude, you are right. Airdeano is also a very experienced moderator and deals with a metric ton of reports every day... He is a machine. I'd estimate his accuracy to be well over 99%. A pretty damn fine track record if I do say so myself and I'm proud to have him as a member of my team. Everyone slips up.
Now to add some insight, the member in question here posted a quite abrasive "I'm leaving" thread, which we don't allow and it was taken down. The member then sent me a PM requesting a ban, so he was banned. He then evaded this ban by creating a new account.. Something that is extremely frowned upon. Considering he did this in order to talk to me, fair enough.. I did respond to his PM, which consisted of him simply attacking my mods for not responding quickly enough to a thread he felt should have been taken down, and then attacking the user that posted the thread... a generally unproductive conversation.
After responding to the PM I banned him again. He requested a ban, so he was banned and he is no longer welcome on our forums... That is how it works


Oh it's YOU! That's fun. I'll let you stay around for a bit then ban you again when I get back home from Jiu-Jitsu
Cool, yup, making a new account and PM’ing me about issues is a heavily suggested way to dispute a ban! I did reply though... I can screenshot and PM it to you if you'd like! I keep WONDERFUL logs of these things
You requested a ban, this puts you in the group of people that have been banned... And you are treated like the other banned members! I mean no offense by this, but if you no longer want to be a part of the forum then so be it! But the rules still apply.
Also I didn't IP ban you, not sure what's going on there...


There was no screenshot in that thread, we still have the thread. Also you asked to be banned, I have proof of that as well.
After replying to your PM you were banned again for ban evasion, as per our policy.



That doesn't sound like mortis, but accusations like this are serious, if there is any proof this should be brought to my attention immediately. As this is the first I have heard of this I find it very hard to believe.
I am tired of people attacking my mods for their age. They act very mature regardless of their age, more mature than a lot of people who are my age.



Sometimes people are busy, sometimes the thread hasn’t been reported, there are many reasons why thread could slip through.


Yes, censorship of "Penis" was enforced.
Disputes are to be sent to my inbox, not publically over the forum.
You were not IP banned. I very rarely IP ban people... this is a tech forum, most of the users know how to and will install a VPN, so IP bans are virtually useless.
WM and BoG are both great mods, I agree, but so is the rest of my team. If any members have issues with mods please PM me, I have removed members of the mod team in the past and I will do it again if it's neededNow please. Go away. You left and requested a ban. Let's not make this awkward - we had a good run baby, now it's over... stop trying to sneak into my house

The new icons looks better (than the other Windows 10 icons) in my opinion, but it bothers me that the folders are opening up away from you. It just looks weird and unnatural.
Top is Windows 7, bottom is new Windows 10.

The fan blows air through the fins of the heatsink. It will work pulling air through but it is generally placed to push air in through heatsink.
The fan on your CPU cooler should be connected to your CPU fan header on your motherboard.
The CPU cooler mounts on the motherboard over the CPU but hangs freely on the other end.

Ok. More colours for us to choose from. Let's all shout at manufacturer for giving us options. WHAT AN AWFUL THING TO DO.
Removed excessive font size
—Mod Glenwing