December 2011
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The greatest ad for 4G Wireless doesn't exist....
So here’s the idea: A split screen view of two different people, both of them alone in their little split screen rooms. They’re both feeling a little sick and decide to pop a couple dayquil or whatever. They both swallow wrong and start choking. They both pull out smart phones, one’s 4G the other is 3G. The 4G guy finds directions on how to self-Heimlich and laughs in the face of...
July 2011
1 post
Why Sparks is what I'm most excited for in G+
Google Plus has been, so far, quite a triumph for Google. It’s gotten a fair bit of media attention, there’s a visible clamor for invites on other social networks, and, most importantly, it’s a great product. A lot of people are still trying to it figure out. Google included, I imagine. What’s perfect as is? What’s lacking? And where? how are the masses going to use it? There are a number of...
April 2011
2 posts
Considering money isn't real anymore...
why does it take 3-4 days to process a credit card payment? You ask the bank if I have it, they say yes, you do it. SYN/ACK my money, dudes.
Why I'll Never Recommend a Seagate Product Again...
So on Tuesday night I got bored and was dicking around in the settings for my Seagate NAS. It has a DLNA feature I thought I turned on but seemed to never work because I never saw anything showing up where it should. I’m stumbling thru settings until I find a button “Sort Media.” “Oh, I see. I guess the drive needs to parse my data, find file extensions, and build a...
March 2011
3 posts
I was 5 seconds away from losing my job today.
Today I rung a guy out for an iPad 2. Afterward, his friend tried to hand me a couple pages that looked torn out from a book. He asked me if I was a believer, and I realized what he was doing. I handed it back to him, saying simply, “Hey man, it’s cool. I’m an atheist. You might want to hold these for someone else?” and handed it back. He started questioning me about it,...
Adding my voice to the fray: Sucker Punch is shit
Just watched Sucker Punch. For free, thanks to an HP event.
In short: Google for “Vanessa Hudgens naked” and you’ll be happier with what you see. Synder basically wrote a bunch of fun scenes and attempted to connect them, and failed miserably.
In detail (attempting to avoid spoilers): The movie’s based around one very cute girl losing her shit. She develops an intensely...
Where does Sprint go from here?
With AT&T buying T-Mobile, there are three national carriers left in the USA. Sprint’s the odd man out now. As a current Sprint user, I think they need to do 3 things in order to stay competitive:
1. Switch from WiMax to LTE yesterday. They need to get themselves onto the same data network as the other providers. Verizon learned from the mistake that is CDMA, and now Sprint needs to as...
February 2011
0 posts
Why, if you're a gamer, you should play Game Dev...
So there’s this game out called Game Dev Story. It’s from a Japanese developer, out for iOS, Android, and PC. The idea of the game is you start out as an up and coming game developer and you pump out games. Hire staff, put out more games, move to bigger offices, put out more games, etc, etc. It’s one of those “this won’t be fun…” games and then all the...
November 2010
1 post
Copy/paste of a quick Black Ops review I posted...
I picked it up on 360 because that’ll be the only way to play with the majority of my friends, but quick review of multiplayer: plays exactly like CoD:MW2 multiplayer. Only real difference I’ve “felt” so far is that it SEEMS like there aren’t any really “true” sniper perches. I definitely haven’t played all the maps yet, but of the ones I have I only...
More Fable thoughts (not Fable 3, though)
Weekend Confirmed’s Garnett Lee agrees with me, Fable 1 is the best of the series. I dunno if we come to the conclusion in the same way, but we agree on that much.
I felt that the change from F1 to F2 was far too big. The combat system was completely reworked. Melee/ranged combat is better with F2’s system, but F1’s magic system was far, far better. F3 adjusted the magic system...
October 2010
4 posts
Extended Fable 3 "review" (while the credits roll)
The credits are rolling right now for Fable 3. I just beat it. I have more than a couple of thoughts I want to spill out, because this ending really struck a defining opinion in me. I’m assuming you already know the premise for Fable 3, and have played at least Fable 2, if not 1 as well.
Changes versus Fable 2
First of all, the extra bit of polish that went onto Fable 2’s engine...
A thought about a comment in Weekend Confirmed
this week’s Weekend Confirmed included some discussion about how Microsoft “fixed” a part of Kinect before launch. Kinect was going to require standing, although this fix allows the system to actually recognize sitting properly. Launch titles won’t be able to use it, because they had to develop without it, but later titles will. So, the idea that the next Kinect Adventures...
A thought about Facebook: Are they an evil 12 year...
I’m watching This Week in Tech, and they’re talking about Facebook, and the whole “Facebook is willing to push the envelope of what their users want” thing.
A thought struck me.
Remember in SimCity you would raise the taxes to something stupid high, the citizens would complain, then you’d drop it by 1% and they’d be instantly happy again? Once you did it once...
September 2010
0 posts
From a digger: Why I don't like digg v4 or reddit
It took a little while but I’ve kind of come to terms with what I liked about the older versions of digg, and what I don’t like about reddit.
On the old digg, if I had an account, I could say “don’t show me stories from this category” or “only show these categories.” Although at times I went into the upcoming streams, or into the comments, mostly I...
August 2010
2 posts
Sprint repair shops are pretty fail at repairing.
I’ve taken my Evo 4G into repair shops twice now for the same problem. The problem is that it’ll randomly start “tapping” the upper left corner, even if my hand is on the back of the phone and no where near the screen. They keep trying to call it a simple “software problem.” Even after resets and whatnot, and even with the rep’s seeing exactly what...
July 2010
4 posts
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Why you shouldn't play @APBGame ... yet.
I’ve almost run out of my first batch of game time in APB that you get for buying the game, and I’ve spent enough time on both Enforcers and Crims side to make some judgments I think.
To understand some of my points, you have to understand APB’s manner of rating a player. There’s your actual rank, which is increased by literally doing ANYTHING in the game. You can never...
Explaining the WiDi/WiFi problem for @garryweil
For those unaware of the technology, Intel Wireless Display, AKA WiDi, is a new feature in many new laptops this summer. With a device that hooks up to your TV, you can wirelessly transmit what’s on your laptop’s display to the television.
At work, Best Buy, we’re using a Toshiba computer and HDTV, and the NetGear Push2TV as our display for WiDi.
Here’s an example...
Already burned out on two games I was excited for
I was really excited for Crackdown 2, but I’m already burned out on it. The largest complaint most people have is “it’s the first game, all over.” That doesn’t bother me. What does bother me at about it, at this point (little under 2/3’s done) is that it’s the same game, they just broke the environment. It’s still fun, I like it, just wasn’t...
June 2010
3 posts
An idea for @Warcraft : Server status on launcher
WoW servers are currently down while patch 3.3.5 is being applied, and I suddenly had a thought for an “improvement” to the launcher.
Currently, to find out server status, there’s only a couple methods. You can either go to the status website (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/realmstatus/), or keep trying to log in over and over. My thought is simply a little ticker, as in the...
First Impressions on Crackdown 2 (From Early Demo)
John Noonan (http://twitter.com/JohnNoonan) started throwing out early release codes for the Crackdown 2 demo, and as a HUGE fan of the first Crackdown I jumped on it. To put it in perspective, I preordered APB, a “GTA style MMO” solely because it’s made by the guys that made the first Crackdown.
So I downloaded and played the demo. Let me say this off the bat:
If your game is...
May 2010
6 posts
Back in Linux for a day and...
…I’ve already realized a few things:
It’s really nice having a system monitor (gkrellm) that doesn’t crash every hour. Gkrellm for Windows is garbage.
Apparently running games in WINE has taken a couple of steps backwards. WoW runs worse than I remember, and there’s already been a couple of “so that used to work just fine…but now it’s completely...
I hate old people. A lot.
So today as I’m coming back from lunch an older couple stopped me to ask a question or two about printers. After we land on what they wanted, the husband says, “So we need one each.” I look at them both and say “… so… two?” He stairs down his glasses at me saying, “You were never in the military, son?”
You have no idea how tempted I was to say...
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Definitely switching phones ASAP
So today at work we had an early meeting. While waiting on others to get there I updated a few of the jailbroken apps on my phone and restarted it. It never came back on. I had to spend my lunch in the Apple store getting it restored instead of eating. I’m taking it as a sign from On High to go ahead and switch my phones. I’m seriously debating between the HTC Droid Incredible on...
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Planning for switching to Android
I decided I’m definitely going to be switching to an Android phone before the end of the summer, but I have a few problems. I’m currently using Google Apps for jp-powers.com. All my email, calendar, my start page, etc. are stored in a single place. It’s designed more for small business which want to use all Google apps for all their employees. In essence, the only reason I really...
Setting up Flavors.me and Tumblr account
Recently decided an all out blog is completely unnecessary for me, so I’m gonna play around with setting up a flavors.me account to tag along with this new tumblr account.