Oh what I would’ve given to be at this particular CES.
Hell yeah.
1UP had a little article a while back about "E3" from 20 years ago (when games were shown off at CES). Aw man, this was during the day when the original Nintendo was in power and the Sega Genesis had only been around a short time. If only I could travel back in time, because to me this was when gaming REALLY started to get interesting with the introduction of the Genesis. Still to this day my favorite console. Click right here to see the article in all it's glory. Thanks to Windows Gamer.
Changing gaming habits and old systems.
Are you the type of person who’s gaming habits constantly change? Maybe sometimes you play nothing but first person shooters for however long and then find yourself wanting to play an old school top down RPG. Or maybe you jump from system to system like I do. When you’re in a position like me and have lots and lots of choices … you tend to jump around. I have at LEAST 7 computers in this house of varying degrees of usefulness with literally thousands of games, an NES, a Retro Duo (a review of which is elsewhere on this site), Sega Genesis, 32X, various versions of the old Game Boy. A few PS1’s, a few Dreamcasts, a friggin’ Atari Lynx, a Playstation 2 and a ton and a half of those cheesy little Play and Play TV games … although I feel a little guilty not having the Atari Flashback 2 … my 29th birthday is soon. Bear that in mind. ;) And that’s not even all of them.
Now this is a cool mouse design.
I originally tried posting this on Geek Gamer Radio for Valentine’s Day … unfortunately Chase thought the post was a little too “racy” or something along those lines and it never made it to the site.
Then I thought “to hell with it, I’ll put it on mine. There’s all kinds of racy stuff on mine.” so here it is.
The pictures COULD be considered not safe for work or some of that nonsense, it just depends on your definition of that term. I’ll make you hit a jump anyway.
I could definitely see the 4chan kids going nuts over this thing though.
Save Internet Explorer 6? You’ve GOT to be kidding me.
There are some morons out there who actually want to SAVE Internet Explorer 6. Really? You've got to be fucking kidding me. Who the hell even willingly USES that piece of shit other than to download a better browser like Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera or Safari? I'll give it that. It works fucking GREAT for that. But for anything else? Not with the modern internet. It's just too out of date with the standards, and webmasters are getting sick of having to rework entire sites just to work on this outdated pile of dogshit. Save IE6. What the fuck? Click here to check out this joke of a site. And yes, do tell your friends to use IE6. When they first get their computers, it'll let them get a GOOD browser. A MODERN browser. Something that doesn't freak out over every little javascript thing that comes up. Something that blocks popups and ads. Something that doesn't take the entire computer with it when a page causes it to crash somehow (there are lots of assholes who run sites specifically for that). Go on. Tell them to use it! And be sure to click the "Sign the Petition" link to see the other morons who who it ... frighteningly enough ... on a regular basis? Don't worry, when you click the link you won't actually sign it.
And I'm well aware that there are people who visit this site who use this browser for some reason. GET A REAL BROWSER. For fuck's sake the thing is 8 years old.
via @VanSoaked
What Microsoft should do to make me care about their music store.
Now this is just speaking for me in specific, although I'm sure a lot of people would agree with this.
I have a 30GB 5th generation iPod video. That's what I use to listen to all my MP3s and podcasts. I could really care less about the music store because I'm not a big fan of DRM. Yes, I am aware that they have DRM free downloads for a little bit more, but I don't really care.
Sometimes I think my logic is a bit flawed.
Okay, I've said it before. But I'll say it again just in case you're new and you missed it. My default machine is an Acer Aspire One netbook with an 8.9" screen. Now, the size of the screen isn't really an issue to me, thanks to the 1024x600 resolution I can see the screen just fine.
But rather than get a regular old boring-ass USB keyboard, I got a bluetooth keyboard (Rocketfish or somethin'). And I already have a wireless mouse. So now I can use my computer anywhere in the room. But get too far away and you won't be able to see the screen.
But the keyboard was 15 bucks, so fuck it. I like it. Will make playing some of these old DOS games so much easier without having to worry about that tiny arrow key layout on the netbook's keyboard. And I also got Star Trek : The Next Generation Season 2 on DVD and Tetris for the NES complete in box with the manual and all that at Goodwill. :P
OMG our games are training future killers!
I saw the recent episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit about the violent video games. I also saw a short interview with Dan Akroyd regarding Ghostbusters : The Video Game where he said that the game isn't a "murder simulator". That you don't actually harm ANY humans in the game. With all the bullshit Jack Thompson pulls with regards to games like Grand Theft Auto and all these parents bitching that games shouldn't exist, it gets ridiculous.
Me and the internet, and cloud computing.
I've been on the internet a hell of a long time. It came around this area in 1994, and before then I had been getting on services such as America Online, Prodigy, Compuserve, and of course, the venerable bulletin board. In most of my life using computers, there hasn't really been a time where I wasn't online in some form or another.
Hmm … Does this mean my Xbox 360 can help save the Earth too???
Basically, when you spend your 35 bucks on this thing and use it ... when you're TV is off the console gets no power. Or whatever else you happen to have plugged into it because they use a lot of power or something. Hit the jump for a little more.
Google Chrome OS!
Yeah, I know I haven't been posting on here lately. Although I have been posting on here lately. But I have been posting on other sites. Given how self centered I am about most things, you'd think I'd be doing more on here. Oh well.
Anyway, Google's OS is coming out soon. Here's some info from the blog:
It's been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we're announcing a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.
Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.
Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and we are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year. The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.
Hey. I have a netbook! :P Can't wait to give it a try.