John Hamp

Reply to Planetary Improvement understood in GalCiv Journals Stardock Forums

Me likey!

Reply to Galactic Civilizations is not Master of Orion in GalCiv Journals Stardock Forums

MOO2 was like all the Simtex games. Long on neat features and short on challenging computer players.

Reply to Why do game sites compair this game to MOO2? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

When I was a kid I loved my Commodore 64 games. They were awesome. But a couple of years ago, I tried some of them out via a C-64 emulator. You know what? They weren't so great after all. MOO1 and MOO2 are kind of like that to me. I played MOO2 (getting MOO1 to run is a pain) recently. That's MOO2. A game whose computer players were brain dead. A game that involved almost no strategy at all to pla

Why I love WinCustomize in Community WinCustomize Forums

On IRC Brad (aka Frogboy) was talking about how frustrating he gets when he sees people treat WinCustomize as if it were some company service of Stardock rather than as a community. So I decided to write this up. I love WinCustomize. I've been a user for a few years now. And in that time I've also become a fan of Stardock. I play their games, I use their apps, it's a company that really is about doing good things. WinCustomize is a place I

Reply to Does Stardock "need" WinCustomize? in Community WinCustomize Forums

I hate to say this but I think the site will be better served by making it more limited to those who would free load. Why should WinCustomize's community care about the silent masses who just take take take?

Reply to TD Beta Tester Call in ThinkDesk Stardock Forums

Stephen Soymonoff: One post making a complaint seems legitimate to me. A half dozen just seems to be ranting. Like Thomassen said, the ThinkDesk beta is on their home page. I got the email too. For $45 I can get 4 programs that cost $40 each. That's a pretty good deal. 1 of those programs is already released and costs $40. Another one is basically done. The other two are in rougher shape but being regularly updated. You also men

Reply to Stardock got ill, has it gotten better yet? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

GoodMorphing, add me to the list of people who found Feline's words insulting. The title of the thread is insulting. The claims are insulting. The use of "*sarcasm mode*" is insulting. What about those of us who I bet are the majority who don't find Object Desktop to be buggy? I don't accept his premise and generalizations.

Reply to ThinkDesk Beta begins! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Let me get this straight. Your version of "doing the right thing" is that you bought a computer whose previous owner didn't delete his software and you demanded of Stardock some sort of special discount, just for you, since you could pirate it? Nearly every person here could, if they wanted, find a pirated copy of Stardock's various programs. Should we all start demanding special prices in exchange for not pirating it?

Reply to Stardock got ill, has it gotten better yet? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

"the software should come with support, specifically bug reports should be acknowledged in some meaningful way, and bugs should be fixed" I think all software companies try to do this to various extents. Are you seriously trying to argue that Stardock is less responsive than Adobe, Corel, Microsoft, or others? I have never had a bug report of mine acknowledged by any of those companies. For example, I paid hundreds of dollars for

Reply to Supporting Jark in a real way in Virtual Communities WinCustomize Forums

I don't have much faith in the Deviantart community. They're all talk but when the chips are down I expect them to behave like the kids they are. I don't think any of us are privy to the details of the case. But it doesn't take a legal scholar to know that firing employees who are vesting in stock is a very tricky business. For da's sake, I hope they have a long documented history of disciplinary action or something against Jark. Otherwise i

Reply to The Register's take on Yahoo and Konfabulator in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Serious grudges against Konfabulator? Huh? Arlo Rose has been running around for the past two years claiming he's invented a totally new thing when places like The Register knew better. The Register's article is spot on. What the heck was Yahoo thinking? They could have bought a freeware widget program. Why didn't they? Yahoo probably bought into Arlo Rose's hype.

Reply to Yahoo buys Konfabulator in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Talk about being sellouts. In hindsight this was very predictable. They were hot stuff on the Mac, came over to Windows and discovered that programs like DesktopX, Avedesk, Kapsules, Samurize and others were already entrenched and took the buy-out option. Don't expect to see much innovation coming from Konfabulator now that it's Yahoo's nickel.

Reply to DesktopX Builder Palette in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

It's working here.

DesktopX 3.1 a winner! in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

I've been fiddling with DesktopX since the very first beta over 5 years ago. I've been stalking Stardock since their OS/2 days and I have a confession, I didn't like DesktopX very much when it came out. I was hoping DesktopX was going to be the Workplace shell from OS/2 but on Windows. It's not. It's restricted to just the desktop and most people seem to either use it to put a bunch of useless crap on their desktop. I mean really, do we need somethin

Reply to Konfabulator pretentious or what? in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

This isn't anything new. Konfabulator is a nice program. I give them that. But Konfabulator is 90% hype, 10% substance. I believe they've hoodwinked the press and other developers together with all the widget mania. What's the evidence? A typical Konfabulator widget on their own site gets a few thousand downloads tops. Their hype is based on a falsehood. One they continue to spread and that is that Konfabulator is something original, even re

Reply to DesktopX 3.1 released! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

It's really a fantastic release. Things seem to have really come together for this release! Nice work.

Reply to Install DesktopX Objects in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Gadgets are not widgets, they're just stand alone mini programs.

Reply to IconDeveloper not saving icons as png's in IconDeveloper WinCustomize Forums

It worked here. Maybe you're doing it a different way?

Reply to WindowBlinds & Longhorn Beta 1 in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Tarkus - odds are FB has given the issue a lot of thought in the past. lol.

Reply to 3 days until the new "Harry Potter" book is released... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I've got my book now!

Reply to Massive Site Issues: Help? in WinCustomize Site Issues WinCustomize Forums

Yea, WC seems to have been pretty problematic for the past week. It's working well tonight. but then again, it's 2am!

Reply to Social Link Sharing: Working On Knowledge Base Networking in Developer Journals WinCustomize Forums

Is this like friendster?

Reply to DX widget about screen? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Have you tried just importing in that widget that has the fancy screen and seeing how it does it?

Reply to HI in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Buenos Dias!

Reply to ObjectDock 1.2 Released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I'm an experienced technical troubleshooter with 3 years experience doing in-house white-box tshooting for one of the world's 5 largest software publishers. I'm capable of recognize when I've upgraded a product and not installed or changed any other program on the system inside a 2 minute period. Why