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This is hilarious…
Engadget:
Silly us, we thought Sony was planning on grabbing market share in this console generation, but we were oh so wrong. "The name of the game is not market share, it's how fast we can grow the industry," says David Reeves, head of Sony Europe, who went on to say "We want to try and double digital entertainment in the next five to six years. Whether we have 40, 50, or 60 per cent market share is not that important." Good to know guys, we're really sorry for getting on your case about all this stuff, we had no idea you're not feeling so competitive this time around.
Heck, as long as your all about "growing the business" why not price the console at $1000 and grow the business even more!
Written by CmdrChalupa on June 4th, 2006 with no comments.
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Always on the lookout for a better launcher/utility. SlickRun is it. It reminds me a lot of LaunchBar for OSX only not tied to the menu bar.
If you hate to wander from the keyboard to launch a simple application or to check your mail, then this is the utility for you!
Despite having been built on top of Delphi I still like it. 
It just sits, hovering above all else on your desktop minding it's business displaying the date and time:
Hit the magic key combination windows key-Q and type in a "Magic Word":
viola!
Your application or command will be taken care of. Pretty nifty stuff.
Poohbah rating: A+ so far.
[This tool tip leaked by: http://www.techtoolblog.com/ The Colonel didn't give up his secret recipe but he did give up this tip.]
Tags: commands, gadgets, nifty, software, utilities, windows
Written by datapoohbah on June 1st, 2006 with no comments.
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OK, Now that I've downgraded my RAZR and resurrected the Bluetooth functionality that was meant to be there in the first place life aint so bad.
The Verizon UI still blows but it is what it is for now. The next dilemma is: Why I am stuck with only (4) Ring personalities?
- Master Volume
- Alarm Only
- Vibrate Only
- All Off
Hrms, this has to change. The other thing that is a serious issue for me is that mine seems to mysteriously be getting set to "ALL-OFF", or "ALARM ONLY" allot.
I don't know if this is a Verizon only issue or not. But you can toggle your ring mode using the outside buttons. I could do this with my v710 too but it never mysteriously changed.
These buttons seem to protrude quite a bit and I'd like to disable this feature in the RAZR.
Any suggestions?
Technorati Tags: RAZR, Verizon, Ring Settings, Motorola, Buttons
Written by datapoohbah on April 17th, 2006 with 3 comments.
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That’s the date for the new PS3 and It’s going to ship with a 60gb HDD. That’s a plus right there for game developers.
Also some interesting news about firmware upgrades for the PSP.
Written by CmdrChalupa on March 15th, 2006 with no comments.
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Wow,
So my PSP has finally come undone. I’ve had my PSP since the introduction. Since about the 2nd month, my analog stick wasn’t right. In games my characters would tend to drift, mostly to the right. I’ve survived though. Generally circling the joystick a couple times would straighten things out, but over time it’s gotten worse.
I figured it was just the nature of the beast. It’s not a true joystick feel. It kind of slides up and down, left and right instead of rocks.
A buddy of mine picked up a PSP for Xmas and grabbed a copy of GTA. He also added one of those Joy stick enhancers that give you a bigger PS2 kinda knobs to work with. Within a week he broke his joy stick. Luckily he was able to exchange his PSP at the store where he purchased it no questions asked.
Tonight, for me the wheels came off while playing GTA. No pun intended. After smashing everying in sight with the Firetruck, I was directed to blow the thing up and leave no evidence behind. I got out of the truck to do so, but couldn’t stop walking away. My joystick was done.
I don’t know, maybe it’s just GTA that does this to the PSP. Maybe it’s the road rage, or the adrenaline. If so Sony should take action against RockStar Games like everyone else.
But that doesn’t help me. I’ve got a broken PSP.
Technorati Tags: PSP, GTA, Grand Theft Auto, analog joystick, broken, no fun
Written by datapoohbah on February 12th, 2006 with 4 comments.
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RedHerring has an article
about Blizzard Entertainment shutting
down 18,000 accounts for cheating.
Basically they dropped 18,000 of their 5 million members for selling their excess, “game” gold, in the open market. Perhaps they used cheating programs to mine the gold while online.
No matter, if that’s all you have in life, you don’t have much of a life. The article says that over the last year more than $2 million dollars (real dollars) in gold sales have been conducted on ebay alone. That’s real people like you and me spending money for in-game currency because they are too lazy to play the game and earn it.
Now I realize as online games go they can be very, very addicting. I lost more than a year of my life to Tribes. But I’ll be damned if I would ever have paid ‘Cash money’ to buy things like more ammo or better weapons. Oh there were certainly cheaters, and that’s eventually what ruined that game and many others just like it. (Not to mention Dynamix and the whole Tribes 2 Blunder)
A game gets going and gets popular. If you’re late to the game, you’ll never catch up, either skill wise or resource wise in this case I’m sure.
If you’re 3 or 5 months late to the latest and greatest first person shooter you will get fragged and hard. It takes time to learn the maps, the weapons and the skills. I’m sure with World of WarCraft, there’s plenty of strategy and game play that takes time to learn and master. If you’re this late to the party, I’m sure you could easily feel pressured into buying someone else’s excess.
Games like this need to have alternate parallel universe, or certain portions of it should reset from time to time, or they need a way of handicapping the newbs, and the vets. It’s the only way to keep things rocking and rolling and fend off this kind of crap.
I applaud Blizzard for trying to keep the game clean. But if there’s a market for this stuff, people will find a way to buy and sell it. If there’s an advantage to be gained in the game, then there will always be a black market for this stuff.
It’s also reasonable that if you’ve paid your way and earned all that gold legitimately, and you are getting out of the game, legitimately, you should probably have the right to sell your stuff. After all you earned it. You paid for it, or perhaps give it back for an online credit for another online game. If it has value, it has value, right?
But come on people, mining and selling it just for pure profit, and those of you buying just to get ahead? Get a life.
Written by datapoohbah on December 23rd, 2005 with no comments.
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