Brad Wardell's views about technology, politics, religion, world affairs, and all sorts of politically incorrect topics.
Draginol's Articles for December, 2017
December 13, 2017 by Draginol
How's that for a dramatic headline? Groupy is a new program from Stardock that does something so simple that, in hindsight, seems like it should have always been part of the OS.  It allows users to drag windows together and create a single tabbed window. Like so: A few years ago at CES, I showed a prototype of it to Mary Jo Foley , Paul Thurrott , Brad Sams and others.  The motivation to create Groupy came from the frustrating of having lots of windows ope...
December 20, 2017 by Draginol
Just in time for Christmas we released version 2.71 which is almost strictly about AI tweaks based on player feedback and saved games.  Now, someone might ask "Why do you need save games to make the AI do [obvious thing]?".  The answer is that with so many different ways of playing the game (both in terms of game setup and in-game strategies) it turns out people play the game very differently from one another.  It's one of the reasons why you have most people who think the...