Anti-Microsoft

I guess with any monopoly, there are always the haters of those monopolies.  Microsoft is considered a monopoly, and they have their shares of haters.

BadVista.org is one of them.

lovin Vista myself - TMS

Robot Rights

Anyone watch the move Bicentennial Man?  It starred Robin Williams and was a really well done movie about robots and the rights as a self aware individual.

Well maybe one day this concept could become a reality!

The BBC wrote and article on the rights of robots in the future.  You can read the article here.

Very self aware - TMS

Paying for gaming lessons, what?

I think I’m getting a little old.  As I am reading my daily sites, I find an article about a 15 years old gamer that is charging for lessons.  Intrigued, I read the full article on Wired.com.  Though the article was very well written and kept me interest throughout, I am baffled at how serious people take gaming these days.  I enjoy playing games probably more then most 41 year olds do, but would I actually pay for lessons?  No. 

Maybe  I am too old for today’s generation.  I would like to think that I am hip or cool.  I can relate to my kids very well, understand their quirky nuances and I feel that I am rather open minded about today’s "different" looks and styles.  But to me, gaming is fun.  It's a way to blow off steam from the work days frustrations,  to get away for a few and leave the real world behind.  It's not a serious adventure.  I don’t care that I get beat by the computer or a 15 year old kid. It's still fun to lose myself in a game for a few. To actually pay someone to teach me how to play a game better and become an elitist?  No, I don’t think so.

You can find the article I read here.

Trying to keep a good perspecticve.  TMS

deader than a door nail

I know deader is not a real word, but it fits.  My computer started hard locking while I was playing my one game.  LOTRBFME.  Then it started not wanting to boot cleanly, hard locking during the loading of Windows.  Eventually over the next day or so, it just would not boot at all, not even POST.

While all this was happening, I decided to load ASUS probe and watch the temps of my system while I was gaming and such.  What I noticed was my CPU reaching it's temp threshold while I would be in the middle of gaming.  I have a Intel 3.0 ghz Prescott that has been the earmark of stability since I put it in a few years ago.  I feared the worse.  It was dying from over heating too many times.

Newegg to the rescue!  I bought a new CPU, waited over the Thanksgiving holiday for it to arrive. and when it did, eagerly replaced my dead prescott.  No POST.  :-(

Newegg to the rescue!  I bought a new motherboard.  I had a ASUS P4P800SE that I have had for about 4 years, originally purchased with a 2.4 ghz prescott.  I guess it was old and tired.  O purchased a ASUS P4S800D-X which looked to be about the same mobo but with a SIS chipset insetead of an Intel chipset. Bliss!  I now have a new 3.0 ghz prescott cpu and a new ASUS mobo.

In all this hoopla of finding the bad guy, I now have a good 3.0ghz prescottt CPU.  Since the mobo only cost 53.00 from newegg, I think I will buy another one and upgrade my stepsons older AMD system. 

happily computing - TMS