Posted 08/10/2009 at 12:51:50pm

Murphy!

 No adsweep? 

http://adsweep.org 

Posted 02/20/2009 at 10:33:33pm

A few points about TPB:

-All admins claim the moderators handle all of the torrent removal -- disctretion is up to them.

-Brokep claimed that the emails were SPAM. They didn't respond to him after he said 'no more', so in his opinion these companies deserved to be ridiculed.

 -P really is failing

-Follow  http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23spectrial at 2 AM CST.

I rewrote the article for Game-Central.org about Newell's Keynote. 

Gabe Newell gave a keynote at the annual Dice Summit on Wednesday, covering game sales and how discounting games have impact on dollars made. Newell pointed out the fact that while discounting games may seem to deeply affect the amount of money made per sale, people will readily jump on the deal if the price is right. During the holidays, games that discounted their prices at a rate of 75% saw a 1,470% increase in sales of the game. By allowing themselves to easily make changes in price, Newell claims that it is easier than ever to see the direct effect of sales that they put on - without frustrating consumers or retailers. Still recently, Valve slashed the price of their latest triple-A Game, Left4Dead. Newell said that the price slash along with the promise for new content, spiked sales as high as 3,000% - selling more copies than they did when the game launched. Even after the sale had concluded, they continued to sell roughly double the games that they were selling prior to the sale.

 So? Are games too expensive? Possibly, possibly not. Putting games on sale shouldn't only be used to draw attraction to the game, but to make consumers happy and to re-affirm the company's brand name as a gamer-friendly establishment.

Source: http://www.edge-online.com/features/valve-are-games-too-expensive#expensivegames

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Finally: Games at $50 can stay at $50, but the games should be put on sale more often from $50. Take Call of Duty 4 for example. It hasn't moved from that pricepoint.

Posted 01/28/2009 at 12:15:40am

I'm not going to lie, I haven't used a lot of panels; but I see absolutely no issue with the montior's color. Perhaps I'm color blind? I think the colors on it look splendid but I suppose that could be from not using a lot of LCD monitors. All I know is that I have it sitting beside my Samsung 206BW, and I find the colors far richer and I find the colors on the 206 to look washed out. OH well.

Posted 01/04/2009 at 02:41:40am

Chrome is a done deal in my books. 

I, like many others who use FireFox, was determined that FireFox and it's addons ruled my world, and that nothing would ever, E V E R, replace it.  Then Chrome came along.

 All of the extra addons that I thought were the best thing ever only had ruined my user experience, in essense. It only slowed the browser and bogged the browser down. Off a clean start, FireFox took nearly a minute to load up - far from acceptable. The memory issues, the javascript that crashed the entire browser (Digg.com, especially) among other things took what I loved about FireFox away - it's unique and pleasurable user experience.

So I switched to Chrome after trying it for the first time. I had read the comic that Google "leaked" just before the release of the Chrome, and understood how the technology that Chrome worked on worked. It made me happy to see that a company was taking a step forward.

People talk about Chrome like it'll never get any extentions or plugins... ever. This is not true. For those who follow the Chromium Nightly updates, you can see that the developers are continuely tweaking the user exeperience and expanding the code base, readying the browser for plugins. It was just the other day that "unzipping" funcationality was added to a nightly build, and the dev. comment included the word "extention" several times.

Chrome includes features from FireFox that required plugins -- which is mostly a mystery to a lot of people. Firebug support is included in Chrome (inspect element); and why skinning on Chrome isn't easy (requires a 3rd party tool from an outside source to make the dll) it IS possible.

Was it worth it? Yes - it was. Chromes sheer speed and use ability (start page ftw) make Chrome a true winner.