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.

Sony and Microsoft both tout their systems as the best add-on to the Wii It looks like it may be Nintendo dominating the consoles this generation. Some have predicted this before actually. Their reasoning seemed to be that the WiiRev would be the lowest priced of all the consoles and would fill in the same niche as the Gamecube does now. Most people who have a gamecube also have one of the other consoles, but usually not both.

It’s about the games, and what you can do about it, silly. People are going ‘ohh sony is soooo doomed’ about them charging $600 for the full version of their console that can do everything. Interesting. Now how much have they invested on gaming themselves? I have 2 PS2 systems. One of them has a Linux kit on it. Between those two I have $800 invested in the PS2, in the consoles alone.

I voted for Wayne Allard, and will almost certainly do so again despite certain groups that are trying to derail him. In particular, Time published an article calling him one of the worst senators in the senate… And calling Dick Durban, Arlan Specter, John McCain, and Ted Kennedy among the best.If that’s what they call a GOOD senator, then I’m voting for the bad ones, thanks. Especially when your damning takes the form of “Allard, 62, is well liked among his colleagues.

WB is using Bittorrent as a delivery method for selling their movies. It’s about time some studio thought of this. BitTorrent has always been, in my mind, the best way to share legal data quickly without overburdening one individual connection on the net. Almost all of the linux distributions use it for their install cds, for example. WB uses BittorrentOn the other hand, the way they’re doing it is basically letting anyone get the file itself, but you have to purchase a DRM key to actually play it.

I find I can no longer take some websites seriously. In particular, when doing a search for reviews on last night’s premier of the Glenn Beck program, almost all of the google news articles were from one source: The humorless saps at Media matters. Looking at this article in particular, it’s nothing at all he’s ever tried to hide. He used to be an alcoholic. He was a jerk. He’s since found a new religion and straightened up his act.

China’s bad habits abroad? (Link Dead) Being loud? Being Rude? Hmm. Do they speak chinese really, really, loud so that all those dumb foreigners understand them?China, the new USA! :p