Big Business: First, the anti-virus; now, anti-games |
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Sorry everyone, but at the rate that things are going, this might just mean no more LAN parties and/or Molten Core runs from the office from now on. Some employers are starting to call on other companies such as Sophos PLC and Websense Inc. who specialize in weeding out and completely stopping games from getting into the office network. And with the demand for those said game-exterminators, you might want to just consider playing at a friend's instead.Anyway, the reason for this is basically a barrage of complaints from employers who say that whole networks are getting bogged down by games that are being played using office resources. They have reason to be concerned, too, because of the resulting drop in productivity, to the point that they are starting to treat games like viruses and malware. In fact, there is already a piece of security software out there which, by reading the signature of specific programs, can stop a game from launching.
On the other hand, there are other employers who are comfortable with their workers playing casual games from time to time, as it helps keep morale high, PLUS some games have actually been proven to help with mental alertness, among other things.
But we think that you just really can't blame a company who doesn't want multiple copies of Oblivion (on the highest settings, too) running on the network.
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1st you homos!
Why would Oblivion, a game with next to no network usage affect an office network? Even more so with it's graphic settings?
You're really on the ball today.
And most of the computers at my office only have crappy onboard video -_- best thing i played on it was Half life 2 on low >.
Why are you "Picking" on Kristine C.
This is probley the 3rd post that you were correcting her.
Go Pick on another blogger She has had enghough from you today