Just what I’ve always thought to be honest, a former Xbox Europe VP stated that he can see gaming consoles dead within 10-15 years. Truthfully I’ve never got into them, I find that their over priced and by the time you’ve got all the games and stuff for it another model from another manufacturer thats better than what you have got comes out. Its an extremely competitive market and if the consoles don’t make it within in about at least a month that to me kinda tells us whether or not its going to go well for that company; a good example of this is the Sega Dreamcast, it was ahead of it’s time in my view therefore not many people were interested in it so therefore after a few months on the market it was pulled from production.At first I didn’t think the PS3 was going to kick off, but now it turns out due to the death of HD DVD that PS3s have been selling really well lately since it is considered a cheap Blu-Ray player.
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Couple of additions to the website. Two new pages of Ratings/Reviews. One page of Movies I have watched recently or within the past few years and another page of three Music Albums I have most recently listened to. Albums will be updated once every week or two and Movies will be updated constantly throughout the week.

These albums are not new releases their just albums that I am currently listening to.

After reading an article [click] on the website Digg. I then signed the petition to stop the “artist” doing the same again and it got me thinking - what can actually pass as art nowadays? If starving a dog to death is passed as art rather than animal cruelty then so could things such as bombing buildings and torturing unwilling people. It seems like humans are persistent on trying to find new shock values, and if they can somehow call it art the Officials will not frown upon it.



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In the modern day I question how do companies look upon the “Valued Customer” perspective. We the consumer buy certain material from these companies and expect a certain amount of aftercare with the manufacturer.Sometimes we get treated like royalty but on the other hand sometimes we get treated like we never mattered and we even know deep inside that with big corporate multi selling companies that they don’t really care of a certain amount about if were pleased with the product or disappointed. It only matters to them if it leaves a dent in their ego or actual finance whether or not to take action.



This is my story.



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New layout for the blog. Thought this one looks better than the last Green look.
Sidebar works in IE as well now.

Recently I’ve been customizing my windows layout; managed to get Windows Blinds/Icon packager/Object Dock all by Stardock. I’ve always preferred the way that Mac OS have the dock at the bottom of the screen and everything and the overall appearance but I’m used to the windows OS way of how you run programs etc. So I thought i’d try my best to combine the two within XP Professional.



On my current dock:
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Cubase SX3
iTunes
Firefox
Reason 3
Twitter
Sony Vegas Movies Studio Platinum 8.0
Windows Live Messenger
My Computer
Recycle Bin

Along with this I’ve also applied the skin of which you can see in the picture, I like the whole idea of the smooth layout and very simplistic look. To me Microsoft have never got the look quite right whereas Mac has, but I find Windows is more user friendly as it has been one of the most popular OS so most people have a better understanding of it. And I’ve seen that many a times; especially in my college courses when we have to apply ourselves to Mac OS which I don’t have a problem with at all.

Was browsing the internet on PC Case Mods and came across this lil beauty. AT first people thought it might have been a prop for a Wolfenstien movie. But once they seen it they found out in fact it was a PC modified to look like a radio from Wolfenstien. I really like the idea behind it, as in my opinion Wolfenstien never gets the real respect it deserves. If you talk to most people going into their early 20’s they always seem to recall Doom as being the first ever first person shooter, but it was actually Castle Wolfenstein.



I always remember growing up playing it on my 600MHz PC, especially the last level with the chain gun. And when Return to Castle Wolfenstein came out I couldn’t believe that it took them so long to come out with a sequel. Its only now in the modern day their releasing new versions of games that I grew up playing, Doom 3 came out a few years ago, RTCW came out before that and soon to be released is the new Duke Nukem game. Now thats an old game which is sooo much fun on a LAN party.
But talking about first person shooters, I had a discussion with my friend earlier on today and I’ve noticed that for some reason I find shoot’em ups are not the games to be played on consoles. They originated on PC’s and thats how I’ve grown up with them; I just feel they aren’t the type of games to be played on a console with a controller.



Thats just my personal opinion

The other day I read an Online Journal of one of my friends. She was recently writing about students, and the way how adults call these “the best days of our lives”. But when you do look at it these days are mostly just money and study obsessed.

I’ve been a student for almost two years now and I can see where people are coming from. My brother was a student for four years and he had to work his own way for food/electricity/internet however my parents paid the rent. We were lucky compared to some students of whom have to pay for their own rent AND food/electricity/internet. I don’t see how some people can manage to work about two to three jobs and study at the same time, I’ve seen first hand how it effects any students studying plan.
I myself have applied for a student loan from the government, however how on earth do they expect me to live on £92 a month where I don’t receive any money from my parents apart from rent and I am unemployed. They base these loans on parents income and estimate how much our parents are meant to give to us but how do they KNOW that they are actually going to lend us that amount. Roughly around 40% of students of whom do not receive money from their parents are meant to receive at least over £2500 from them. In which cases they don’t receive any money at all so therefore they don’t get a big enough loan or bursary from the government.



So as far as “the best days of our lives” goes, it’s just a saying that the elder generation speak of their time. A lot of students actually come out of education into a job that doesn’t even have anything to do with their last 3-4 years of studying. This has me thinking that is it right that at the age of about 13-15 that we choose our career that we want to partake for the rest of our lives? If in the end we just leave our education to go into a job we have no knowledge or interest in from the past 5-8 years.

Recently I’ve been thinking about the newest laptop from Mac, The Macbook Air. I watched the keynote with Steve Jobs, and the unveiling of the MBA. I admit I was impressed by the size of the laptop but the most impressive thing was the technology behind it and the specs, the fact the 1.6GHz/1.8Ghz Dual Core CPU chip is 60% smaller than a usual CPU chip and the motherboard is no bigger than a wooden pencil with 2GB of RAM. However the were several cutbacks on this laptop, and that is that there isn’t many USB Ports or anything and as expected there is no Optical Drive.
About two days after I had watched all of this I noticed an article on the internet that a member of Digg had posted. And that was that Sony is not even impressed by the MBA. So I decided to read on in the article, turns out in 2004 they released a laptop the Vaio X505 that at the thinnest point of it was 0.3 Inches, where Apple is boasting it’s 0.16 Inches. This means about 4 years ago Sony were already ahead of Apple with the thinnest laptop until now. However the only downside of the X505 is that the specs are far worse than that of the MBA, but that was because the technology and the size of the components aren’t at what today’s standards are. Sony also cutback on the Optical Drive back in 2004 just like Apple have done now but the difference is that in 2004 it wasn’t what the consumers wanted. Now because of USB keys and wireless it’s not as necessary, I’m just starting to wonder when CD’s will be taken out of the picture all together and that all PC Games, Software and Music will be sold on USB keys. I’m also wondering if this is the way gaming consoles are going to go as well.

Another laptop that seems to be making an impact on size and weight is Intel’s Metro, although I have been having difficulty to find it on the the specs of it and how much and when it will be available as it is only a concept at this point. The only information that I know is that it’s got a Core Duo inside it, it’s 1KG in weight and the thinnest point is 0.7 Inches, the wireless notebook also has a feature in which the user can switch between WI-FI, Bluetooth and WiMax with in aerial. The idea behind it is that it is completely wireless for the user, and there is one nice feature of the notebook and that is, even when the laptop is switched off there is a screen on the outside that stays on that lets you check your e-mails, news etc very quickly without having to boot up.
So in the end I’m not convinced by the WBA as of yet seeing as Sony already made a laptop back in 2004 close enough to it’s size but I am convinced by the technology inside it so we’ll just have to wait to see what happens within the next line of laptops from other company’s if they can get their hands on the technology.

So here’s is another miss judgement YET again by the wonderful PC world. I recently seen the new Apple commercial where it states that PC World had tested many computers with Windows Vista and the result was the fastest laptop to run Windows Vista was the MacBook Pro. This was there to prove that MacBook Pro’s were more compatible with Vista than any other laptop……
Turns out PC World made a little blooper. Turns out this was not the final result as later on they decided to test the Eurocom D900C Phantom; which then turned out to be the fastes laptop to run Vista on it.
But wait here’s the sweet part. PC World has now declared that Vista is the Number 1 with a bullet in their Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007. Well this is just throwing the people that don’t really know anything about computers completely off the ropes. Their saying one thing and then the next minute going against it.



Personally to me I don’t find Vista that bad; I run it on my laptop and once you know how to disable the annoying secrurity pop-ups it’s just more of a pleasent version of XP. And to be honest I wouldn’t really trust PC World with a ten foot barge poll due to my experience.