Fanboyism (2007/04/16)
Engadget has a poll up, for “best console of 2006”. I first saw this through a link on a Playstation fan forum, where someone had cheerfully commented that “second place isn’t bad, with all the negative press”. Now, consider that, of the other three contenders, one is the Nintendo DS, which was released before 2006, and one is the “GP2X MK2”, a specialized hobbyist console. Obviously, the third is the Wii. The numbers were pretty solid last I checked; the Wii was at 63% of the vote, and the PS3 at 24%. Second place is, in this case, quite bad.
[read more...]Google Checkout sees poor customer satisfaction: Duh. (2007/01/21)
Google Checkout Sees Poor Customer Satisfaction, says Slashdot.
[read more...]Why Nintendo seems to be winning (2007/01/15)
I’ve been hanging out on a PS3 board (because I’m doing paying work on the PS3 right now), and I’ve noticed something. Many of the PS3 fans are absolutely confident that the Wii will “get boring” once people are “used to the controls”. They’re seeing it entirely in terms of novelty value; that the controls are attractive only because they are unfamiliar.
[read more...]Amiga RDB disk partition unpacking utility (2007/01/11)
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PS3: First impressions (2006/12/29)
I have a PS3 now. It’s for work.
[read more...]Frys still going... (2006/12/15)
Just for reference, the Frys spam run to old addresses is still going; I just got my fourth. So far, I have gotten no response from them, despite sending all the requested emails, jumping through hoops, and so on… And yes, I’m still getting mail from them.
[read more...]Spammed by Frys (2006/11/25)
So, Frys Electronics seems to have bought the ancient “Cyberian Outpost” web store.
[read more...]Wii! (2006/11/20)
I have had one of those experiences which is really interesting to have. Once.
[read more...]Windows, again. (2006/10/08)
So, Fireball’s computer is acting up. Can’t play videos. Research reveals that it can maybe play them with acceleration turned off, which leads to the discovery that the BIOS is not assigning an interrupt to the video card.
[read more...]NetBSD on an Intel-based Mac mini (2006/10/07)
Quick summary: NetBSD-current loads and runs beautifully on the Intel-based Mac mini.
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