Mr. Hugo Chavez (Link Dead) is upset about a video game now. Mercenaries 2 takes place in his country after all. He thinks that it’s the blueprint for invading his country. Never mind that the first Mercenaries game was set in North Korea and we still haven’t invaded there yet. Shouldn’t he be complaining about Front Mission 4 too then? Half of it takes place in Venezuela showing guerrillas and some US mech pilots overthrowing a corrupt greedy dictator much like Hugo Chavez too.

Why I get stressed out whenever someone says the word “gouging” and aren’t referring to eyes. Because I have looked at enough of the economics of the situation to know the truth. Too bad more people don’t bother to do the same.

Looking through the listing at what is and isn’t supported between the editions lead to some interesting results. None of the home editions support SMP. They do support dual-core though.The 64 bit editions of the home versions are restricted to 8-16 gigabytes. Not that home users are likely to max this out within the next year or so, but it’s still an interesting choice where this OS may last for 6 years like XP has.

I commented on this before, but it seems someone has dredged it up and made it a front page news item again. Sony could potentially prevent sales of used games (Link Dead) which in turn would prevent usage of the games on more than one console in the house, and potentially prevent you from taking your game to a friends house to play with them.They’ve had the patent on this… Since 2000.

Dogs find DVDs in cargo. While all the dvds they found were legitimate, it seems like they may be actually hunting after the people who really are costing them money instead of going after the consumers for once. Hopefully they’ll refocus on this and leave us alone in the DRM arena for awhile. (Not likely, but it is nice to dream once in awhile.)One hint that they might possibly be seeing the light is that they’ve delayed ICT Downgrading for a few years.

I’m not feeling up to a full RNTM writeup, so I’ll just post this url here.

They’re discussing the control schemes for Rayman on the Wii It sounds absolutely dreadful to me. Swinging your electronics around over your head? Probably knocking over lamps and the like? Looks like Mark Rein could be right. All kinds of gimmicky games are going to be released before they settle back on stuff that works.

Microsoft’s new little avaricious venture They see people buying prepaid phones and want to get in on that market. They decide they will sell cards that give you more time running your cheap little computer. The problem with this is that the mobile phone companies are selling you a cheap phone, then selling you the cell tower service in metered bits. Microsoft is trying to sell you the right to use something you already purchased, your computer, in metered bits.

Microsoft’s Vista Upgrade Adviser is supposed to tell you what you need to upgrade your clunky old computer to Vista… Too bad it doesn’t work on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, or Windows 2000. I guess that means I won’t be upgrading to windows vista.

It’s been a rather long weekend. Quite a number of computer problems cropped up. The first was an ongoing problem with MythTV. I’ve been using it for 3-4 months now and it seems to work well… Except the system seems to be rather glitchy and the TV card would crash every 12 to 72 hours requiring a reboot. Since my mythtv box was also my secondary desktop and irc system it rather hurt my IdleRPG scores.