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PS3 May Win… Years From Now with 3D and Motion Control
Back when the PS3 and Xbox 360 were first announced, we aren’t ashamed to say that we were avid fans of the PS3 platform… much more so than the self-aborting Xbox 360. It was a much higher build quality, the technical achievement of the Cell Processor was ridiculously complex and therefore impressive, it played Blu-ray [...]
Continue reading...Video Games Show First Signs of Dominating Entertainment Market
Saturday, January 24, 2009
From cdfreaks.com: At least in terms of consumer spending, retail video games were more popular than DVD and Blu-ray discs in 2008, according to an international research group. Games accounted for 53 percent of entertainment software spending worldwide, Media Control GfK International said. These figures do not include movie or game rentals. The momentum is clearly in video [...]
Continue reading...Next Xbox Not Coming Soon
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
When Playstation 3 released Sony clearly stated that they plan for it to be their system for 10 years. Microsoft has not made any announcements about their next Xbox iteration but industry analysts were speculating it may released in time for. the 2010 Holiday season. However, Microsoft this week eluded to the Xbox 360 [...]
Continue reading...Sony’s Poor Playstation 3 Sales and Marketing Isn’t Sabotage – It’s Just Sony
Saturday, December 13, 2008
The Washington Times’s Sonny Bunch wrote an article recently that raked Sony over the coals for: No price cut this holiday season — instead they actually released a more expensive bundle Not properly promoting DVD-upscaling capabilities of the PS3 No Netflix (or other 3rd party) streaming movie support This is all in the wake of Sony’s falling PS3 sales [...]
Continue reading...Playstation Home Launch Hits a Few Snags
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Well I finally got around to installing the new Playstation Home client that launched yesterday and tried to login to Home for about 20mins where I was only met with the above screen – retry after retry. At first glance, I’d have to say the avatars and environments seem to be very “Second Life 2.0″ — [...]
Continue reading...Is Java Becoming Irrelevant?
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Update #1: To clear up any confusion, this article is focused on the business value of Java – it’s ability to control and generate revenue – not it’s value as a language or a technology. So the word “irrelevant” is applied to it’s business value, not if it’s a good technology or not. Sun Microsystems announced [...]
Continue reading...Black Spots on Tomato Plants, Signs of Hornworms
Saturday, September 6, 2008
My wife wanted to get into tomato growing after getting a couple of EarthBoxes (that we love, but find way overpriced… you can build something similar yourself from 1/10th the cost if you are interested) and noticed that after a few months of excellent tomato production, we started to see quite a bit of stalk [...]
Continue reading...Handling Self Doubt and Battling Inactivity
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
About a month ago I wrote a piece about “Chronic Underachievement” and yesterday the CEO of OpenRain wrote an article about “Handling Self Doubt” that touched on 3 excellent points I skipped over completely and still struggle with today, more specifically: Criticism is a good thing (it means people care) Self-Doubt can cause you to freeze in [...]
Continue reading...Sun to Begin Closing up MySQL Source Code
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Uh-oh, Spaghettio’s! Looks like Sun is going to start closing up some of the open source portions of MySQL, namely the more advanced functionality and the backup solutions that are currently open sourced. Can you blame them? They paid a goddamn billion for MySQL, it’s not too surprising that they want to create some value-add [...]
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
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