If you are at all like me, and i suspect someone is, you will use software on systems it wasn’t designed for. I use Irssi for chatting, on windows, due to its supereor functionality to many other clients. Unfortunately, a side effect of using software on systems it wasn’t designed for is having to use a series of workarounds to make it function. I had fixed most everything with Irssi, except for UTF-8 rendering. I fixed that today.
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The NXE comes out for everyone tomorrow. Expect a full write up, here, including details and impressions.
Lots of hype. Lets see if it lives up to all it promised
Gears of War 2 is a great game. Its a sequel to one of the classic games of the Xbox360, a game that filled the hole between Halo 2 and 3 for many people. Gears 2 is very fun, very pretty, and very different than the first one. The new engine makes things look gorgeous, but the multiplayer has fairly large flaws. The campaign is quite fun, and has lots of replay value.
Dead space is a fun game. A fun, gory game. Over the weekend, I rented and played through part of the game. While I did not finish it, I have gotten a good impression of the game.
The game is very entertaining, and, although difficult at times, proves very rewarding.
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In the many times delayed Mercenaries 2 update for the Xbox360, 2 of the new playable characters have been revealed. Obama and Palin. While this is very likely official, it comes from G4, which has been known for jokes in the past. But the video clip is too realistic. Also highlighted in the video clip are new locations, new weapons, new vehicles, and new contracts.
Kotaku got their first hands-on in real life with the NXE, and they talked about some surprising details. Its nice to have an unbiased article about it. You will likely see several more, as the early preview has launched. Unfortunately, I was not one to receive an email, so you will not be getting one from here.
In the MP3/Music player market there are 2 distinct players. The iPod, which controls most of the market, and the Zune, which holds a measly portion. However, market share numbers do not match feature counts. Zune has many oft-demanded features, and on this front seems to be the better player. However, people seem to have a market bias towards the iPod, and it is what is purchased by default. This is likely due to the iPods nature of being the first major music player, and the best, a title it held for a remarkably long time. However, with recent updates, the trend seems to be shifting
Windows 7 was announced today, if you can call it that. While knowledge about some of the operating system’s features has been out for months, this is the first time screenshots and any real meat has been released.
Among other things, 7 features a new interface, performance gains[1], time saving features, and many other fixes. What particularly interests me is the new Taskbar. Instead of merely holding running programs and toolbars, it holds tasks, icons, and many other things, a la OS X Dock. Window titles can be moved around[2], and the division between Quick Launch toolbar, the taskbar, and the system tray has been blurred. Additionally, each entry in the start menu now has a Jump Menu
, which lets you repeat frequent tasks. The Windows Search has been refined, and now uses learning, much like application launchers, to determine what you want to do.
Many window management features, a la Exposé, are added to the system, triggered by hot corners[3]. These include making all windows transparent, letting you see the desktop, and making a single window maximized.
Read about Windows 7:Webmonkey: The 7 Coolest New Features in Windows 7 Footnotes:
- Read: lower system specs, you can run it on an older computer, unlike vista [↩]
- A feature that any Window’s user can attain now through Taskbar Shuffle [↩]
- You move your mouse into a corner of the display and leave it there for a few seconds, triggering an action [↩]
This Tuesday, the Mercenaries 2 update was supposed to come out. It did, but not in the sense in which i could use it. Pandemic, contrary to what they have previously said, did not release the Xbox360 update first, and the PS3 update later, rather, did an about face and released the PS3 update, with the Xbox360 update coming out “sometime in November.” This is the second time they have delayed the Xbox360 update, with no reason, but there is likely some internal reason.
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