PSP Overview - The only one that matters!

Last night, I was with my cousin, who recently got a Playstation Portable (PSP) for his birthday. The game he got was Rengoku, a futuristic dungeon crawler type thing. The story was really interesting (In my opinion) but hard to explain, so I won't here. I am going to give you a rundown of the PSP (even though most of you already own one) Now, this is coming from a Nintendo Dual Screen (DS) owner, and have one of every GameBoy ever made (even the old ones) so I know NINTENDO handhelds pretty good. My first impressions were "Wow! That screen is pretty!" The screen looks like the equivalent to portable High Definition! The graphics were nice, and the resolution was so good, it made the graphics look even better. The screen was also pretty big, enough to see a lot! He showed me SpiderMan 2 on it next, which came with the system. It looked better than good quality movies I download on the net (legal ones) It was like watching a movie on my TV! He let me play some, and the game was fun. The controls were better than I expected, but that is because there was a lock-on button for the enemies. The analog stick is...odd. The game we played never really gave me a chance to use it, but the swivel the camera. A nice system none the less, and now I want one!

The PS3 GPU was NOT finished!!!

Marv Burkett, nVidia's chief financial officer, revealed that the PS3's graphical processing unit (GPU), currently codenamed the RSX, is still in development and could not have been used to power the demos. The admission further fuels accusations that the demos shown at Sony's pre-E3 press conference last week were not running on actual hardware.

So the Playstation 3's graphics card wasn't finished. Well, I take back my want for the PS3. Of course, they never said if the clips from games were prerendered or real time, but they DID say that all the tech demos (the ducks in the bath and the explosion thing) were all real-time, but they used the Central Processing Unit (CPU), not the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). One thing they said was realtime was the Unreal engine, when they big guy shoots the robot. That couldn't have been real-time since the GPU wasn't even finished. I doubt it will look that good, but you never know with the guys at Epic (their engine beats Id's engine hands down!)

A fun time waster!

Want a time waster? Go to the site in my title link. The object of the game is to move the red square so it doesn't touch the black walls or the blue shapes. Sound easy. 18 seconds is brilliant. I got 22.094. Post your scores in the comments!

A cool but pointless site!!

Everyone, click on the title of this post, and look at the site. It is a site made to post pointless stuff in the comments section. Do it! I like the site and think it needs some publicity (lol it got me some!)

All Bugged Up!!!

This is funny as anything I have ever seen. It is pretty geeky, but should be funny to anyone. Truthfully, this is something that happens with every program! Read on!


Software doesn't just appear on the shelves by magic. That program shrink-wrapped inside the box along with the indecipherable manual and 12-paragraph disclaimer notice actually came to you by way of an elaborate path, through the most rigid quality control on the planet. Here, shared for the first time with the general public, are the inside details of the program development cycle.

1. Programmer produces code he believes is bug-free.

2. Product is tested. 20 bugs are found.

3. Programmer fixes 10 of the bugs and explains to the testing department
that the other 10 aren't really bugs.

4. Testing department finds that five of the fixes didn't work and discovers 15 new bugs.

5. See 3.

6. See 4.

7. See 5.

8. See 6.

9. See 7.

10. See 8.

11. Due to marketing pressure and an extremely pre-mature product announcement based on overly-optimistic programming schedule, the product is released.

12. Users find 137 new bugs.

13. Original programmer, having cashed his royalty check, is nowhere to be found.

14. Newly-assembled programming team fixes almost all of the 137 bugs, but introduce 456 new ones.

15. Original programmer sends underpaid testing department a postcard from Fiji. Entire testing department quits.

16. Company is bought in a hostile takeover by competitor using profits from their latest release, which had 783 bugs.

17. New CEO is brought in by board of directors. He hires programmer to redo program from scratch.

18. Programmer produces code he believes is bug-free....

A Prequel of a prequel?

I read on two or three sites (one of them

Digg Error

I looked on my site a few minutes ago and saw that my digged news is gone! the title is still there, but the links are gone. I went to digg.com to try and login and re-enter the HTML on my site, but I couldn't log in! I love digg for the very reason that I can post the news directly to my site, and put stuff in my sidebar! I went to kevinrose.com and his digged news is still on, and back at digg.com, the homepage is messed up and there were no links on it! Help......

Firefox VS. Internet Explorer

I have always been an Internet Explorer kind of guy. It only messed up about 2 or 3 times a week, so why bother getting a new browser!?!? Well, I finally gave in, as to everyone saying "Firefox has no flaws! It is perfect and no holes are in it at all!" It was only around 5 mb at the site, so what the heck, might as well try it. I did, and it is really not that different. I have a few Firefox extensions installed, and the tabs instead of new windows is a GREAT feature that I use all the time. The only bad thing is getting used to it. After I kind of got into it, I liked it! I mean, It isn't that much greater, but pretty nice. It imported my favorites list and my IE cookies, which was completely hassle free. I haven't tried the mail client for it, but it is said to be good. My gmail account actually works on it so I checked a ton of email yesterday (darthvader91@gmail.com) The font is kind of small, but you can change that so no bigee. Overall, it is a great web browser, but it isn't my default browser yet, for the fact that I am adapting to the change still.

UPDATE: I tried to post this from Firefox, and I couldn't click the box to type! I guess I will have to use Firefox and IE.

I came, I downloaded, I watched

World's Most Dexterous Robotic Hand

The Shadow Robot Company has developed the worlds most advanced robotic Dexterous Hand. At its website there are some pics, but I couldn't find any movies. This thing looks like we are getting into the cybernetic limbs stage. Think, we can have Anakins and Lukes walking around with robotic hands, and maybe a full Darth Vader with almost their whole body a robot!

Media Man!

Yesterday, I watched Attack of the Show. On it, not only was a farewell from Kevin Rose (I missed it, but he will get to have a going away episode Friday I have heard) Sarah Lane showed a "Darn Good Download" ;) and it was called Media Man. I have always been envious of del.ic.ious library or whatever it's called, but having no Mac, could not get any of the love! Now, we have Media Man who has come to the rescue! He can keep track of all you stuff, from DVDs to books to video games to CDs to VHS tapes, pretty ,much your whole entertainment library can be stored on this program. It used Amazon.com to look up what you put in. You can type in the barcode, the name, or even scan the barcode with a webcam (I am also webcamless, so I am stuck with typing stuff in) I only have put in a few items, but since I will have some Summer time built up, I will put in a ton of my items into my computer!

Go download this immediatly! It gets my highest reccomendation! Follow the title link to download.

To the Blogger Support person

I sent an e-mail to the Blogger Support (again) and this is a message kind of for my tech specialist :) The last post worked, and it is the same post as the Systm is up post with a different title. I don't even know if this post will be up, I will put it on until it comes up on the site.

Thank you again!

The New TechTV (I hope)

It is official! Systm is up now on the web! I am still downloading it, but when I'm done, I will give a slight review type thing. I hope this is a pretty awesome show, because if it is, I will officially quit watching G4, which I thought I was going to do on Friday anyway (gonna see Kevin Rose's last episode) I also have a question. Is Sarah leaving? And what about Kevin P? Will he stay? I hope everyone leaves and we get Kevin and company making a whole new channel. It would survive I am sure. Maybe even get the rights to The Screen Savers, Call for Help, and X-Play! It would be a channel I would watch daily! But for now, I guess we are going to download massive files from the web!

Systm Episode 1 up now!

Microsoft employee busted using Linux and OpenOffice during presentation

A presentation about Shared Source (SSI) by the head of Microsoft Ukraine was almost ruined when the Windows machine (a Tablet PC) linked to the projector developed problems. The solution was to adopt OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 and ALT Linux Compact 2.3 (A Russian distribution), which was already running on the presenter's laptop (an IBM Thinkpad).

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Kevin Rose...has left G4...

Kevin Rose. A good man.

I have decided....

Well, not a whole lot. About my blog. I am not sure what is up with it. My last post did pretty good... OK it did it exactly as it was supposed to. Then why are some other ones not fully getting on this page? I was looking at the ones that were cut off about halfway, and saw that they were all around 250 characters without spaces. That is the count on the "part-post" thing that when you post so much amount to it, it goes to its own page for all the info. The last post I did was a little less than 500. Then, there are the ones that didn't work at all, with just the title. I still haven't gotten the letter from the person who I sent the problem to.

I am not sure what's up, but will post again about it as soon as I get the info.

More Star Wars stuff than can fit in a * Star II!

recently found on the internet (what a wonderful thing!) a big huge list of Star Wars stuff. From theforce.net it is the best Star Wars Encyclopedia I have ever seen! you can download the whole thing from their site, even an aurebesh font, among other things. It is really cool, and theforce.net is THE Star Wars site on the net. Content is 2nd to only starwars.com itself, since it is the only legal site that can really have all this stuff anyway!! The whole file for Word is around 7mb, only about 1100 pages total.
No bigee.

Go check it out, theforce.net encyclopedia!