I find this video really funny, a Colts fan states his reasons why he thinks the Colts will win.
Just a bit of fun, but here’s my reasons why the Bears will win:
1. They’ll score more points.
Archive for January, 2007
Why the Colts will win (hehe)
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007Sirocco Racing Sim
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007One of my old friends from RSC has been producing a racing simulation. He has released his first two preview videos (that I have seen). Looks great!
Another Ice Age? Oh… No, wait a minute…
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007Check out this article from 1974 where scientists are saying that there is every sign that the world was entering another Ice Age, it’s strangely compelling to read, especially when this one from 1978 suddenly says the complete opposite.
I really don’t want to start sounding like one of those loony conspiracy theorists, but I can’t help it… I need to see evidence of global warming globally and right now I simply don’t see it.
Of course, there are plenty of scientists saying this and that… But while you have some scientists saying the Arctic is shrinking you also have others saying the Antarctic is growing… Even if the earth actually is warming, how do we actually know that this isn’t the normal process of our earth? The history we see in our earth, such as the salt flats in Utah, show us that the earth changes massively from time to time… If the earth is getting warmer, why are there so many contradictory statements from scientists? Why couldn’t this be just a normal consequence of life on earth? Why is it so bloody freezing outside?
Low taxes… and a balanced budget?
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007Now, you tell me if this is possible…
“I’m going to submit a budget for Congress to look at that shows how we can balance the budget in five years and keep your taxes low,” George Bush said in a speech to workers of heavy equipment maker Caterpillar.
The US is in huge debt, it is losing money, it is waging a war, how is it that this man can balance the budget while keeping taxes low? I have one question; What cuts are going to be made to turn the economy around? Healthcare? Education? If you have to raise taxes, raise them, cutting services that people need can’t ever be good.
Windows Vista: 15 reasons to stay put
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007You should probably open this article is another window and keep switching between the two.
1. The Interface
Am I a child? Am I living in a cartoon? Do I really need things to spin, slide, “dance gracefully” and have magnificent shadows or rounded edges to suck the resources of my computer like a vacuum cleaner in a whirlwind? I realise that the Mac OS looks very pretty, but if I wanted a Mac I would buy one! Try being fucking original and go your own way, it needs to look smart and be functional, that’s it!
2. Flipping people off
If this is a reason for upgrading, I’m really quite shocked. If the person who wrote the article actually knew anything about how to use Windows, he would know that if you HOLD down Alt while switching with Tab, you can take your time, select what you want with the “blue box” by hitting Tab, then release Alt. That method is actually more functional that the new Vista method, which takes you through your active Windows in the order they were created in!
3. It’s ok, I didn’t want system resources anyway…
But oooooooo… It is pretty… Do people really have that little fucking imagination that they can’t leave a window alone even when they don’t have it in focus? How often is this feature actually going to be required? Never! It’s yet another trip to lala land for Microsoft and yippee – it’s my system memory taking them there.
4. Trying to cover up?
The fact that I can do everything I could ever need with Windows XP setup with 4GB of memory aside, I see what Microsoft were trying to do here. It’s obvious that their new Operating System runs about as well as a legless, stumpy donkey in 4ft deep pigshit, so they decided to allow users to setup their system with more memory. The writer of the article doesn’t seem to know what RAM is, or that it’s possible to assign memory with XP also, but nevermind. The writer is scarily talking about using USB memory… ARGH! Can you imagine the slow access times?
5. Why would I need these?
I just love that a calendar of failures is considered a bonus… Surely if the Operating System was so good, it wouldn’t need one!? Other than the calendar I have to point out that Winows XP has a RAM and CPU usage meter if you press Ctrl, Alt and Del – then switch to the performance tab.
6. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! Just bloody allow it!
During the time I spent with Windows Vista the most annoying aspect was the security prompts. Although there are ways to turn these off, the average user is never going to find them! The security also disables a lot of programs and allsorts of 32bit compatible software and services that you really would like to be able to use on the 32bit Vista… I understand the need for security, but we all know some 12 year old kid is going to walk in some big red backdoor that Microsoft left unlocked eventually.
7. Are people really that forgetful?
I personally keep all my files in folders, those folders are within other folders, those folders are in others – all my files are kept in a hierachy of folders that enables me to not lose anything 99.99% of the time… In the rare 0.01% of the time that I might need to find something, I can either look for it, or search using the existing Windows XP search… So why is Vista’s search a feature that I should upgrade for? I’ll move closer, tell me again…
8. Grrr…
More pretty stuff sucking resources that they shouldn’t, refer roughly to my comments on the interface above.
9. Please, no.
Please don’t tell me that anyone out there lets Windows manage their wireless connections if they can help it? Yes, sometimes I have had to… But from experience I found that Vista has more issues than XP!
10. This is new?
In Windows XP go to Start, Network Connections. In there you can view all details about all connections. In Windows XP go to Start, My Network Places. In there you can view a map of the Network. So, is this a “new feature” for Vista when I can find it in XP reeeeally easy too?
11. Cough…
Microsoft Digital Image Suite is also available for Windows XP… Sure, it isn’t free like it is with Vista – but I can say with unfortunate experience that it performs better in XP. Weird that, isn’t it?
12. Check my downloads page…
See the WMV downloads on the downloads page of my blog? I use the Windows Movie Maker in XP. It works great for me and has all the features I, or any other amateur, could possibly need. If you needed more features (like if you are a professional film maker or keen amateur), you are probably better off getting Avid or some other movie editing suite anyway. Also… Vista video processing is slower than XP…
13. Not new…
Ok, all the features the writer of the above linked article referred to can be done via the system tray in Windows XP, they can also be done quicker. With Windows Vista and all it’s “bells & whistles” you can wave goodbye to that battery life also, it runs down much more quickly because of the higher system usage, so the extended “support for mobility” is a little lacking.
14. Just use MSN, it’s free.
Ok, if you do have serious problems with XP file sharing (which I have at times, but not very often in a network that is correctly setup), you can just use Windows Live! Messenger to do the “synchronising” thing. Sure, it’d suck your bandwidth with large files, but I found with Vista that the feature didn’t work any better than XP filesharing anyway. Take your pick, or use a rewritable DVD.
15. Be a parent.
My sentiments on this one run along the lines of this post. What your kids are allowed to do is down to you, don’t let a TV or a version of Windows take care of your children for you.
So, now you know how I feel about Windows Vista… but you also know how I felt about that utterly pathetic article. If that really is all this man can see as reasons to upgrade, Microsoft really have wasted their money. An Operating System requires functionality over ALL else. Vista seems to be one huge gimmick, following form a lot more than function. You want to know reason 16? The Price…
Windows Vista Benchmarking
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007I tried Windows Vista a few months ago both for “work” and “play”… My findings were simple that – it sucked – everything seemed to me to run slower.
Now, finally, Tom’s Hardware have published a comparison between XP and Vista which to be honest is embarassing for Microsoft. Not only is it slower in terms of gaming but also is most processing also, that seems to contradict what Microsoft were telling us. I hope that there is a change of heart about Directx10 – because I’m sure as hell not going to be buying Vista.
Ah… So she is a politician after all…
Monday, January 29th, 2007Isn’t it a shame to see Hillary Clinton fall into the pit with the rest of the political morons? I always try go give them a chance but, as soon as she starts with the stuff she did the other day, again, I make my mind up.
Hillary Clinton backed the Iraq war, she backed the invasion and the occupation. At that time, nobody could have seen what was going to happen and what was going to need managing – neither George Bush or Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton is now critisizing current President, George W. Bush for his mismanagement of the war… While she may not be wrong that the war was mismanaged, I’m not sure anyone, including her, could have done any better once the invasion (something she backed!) was planned.
I would really like to ask her what she would have done differently, because it seems really easy to critisize when you are not the person who has to make the decisions and has to take the flak if things go wrong. It’s an easy thing to get support from those too blind to realise what is being said, when you say negative things without substance. The moment she chose to do what politicians do – attack something she brought about through her support – she becomes just another annoying politician to me. If she is like this when someone else has the power, what is she going to be like if she becomes the one making the decisions and the one who will be taking the flak?
It’s fine to take a shot at whoever is in power but you need to be able to provide details on what you would have done differently. I personally have problems seeing exactly what George Bush did wrong, he inherited a country that was already due to be attacked! We are in a world where Muslim’s seem to feel they don’t want to fit into the country they live in anymore and where Muslim’s also seem to want to attack anything “foreign” just as much as George Bush does. We are living in a messed up world, one where a war probably didn’t make an awful lot of difference either way when hatred already existed. What a shame Hillary wasn’t more creative than to bash people with the negativity stick…
Cancelling AOL
Monday, January 29th, 2007This is brilliant, this person reminds me of me. 
Mr Vincent Ferrari decided he wanted to cancel his account, he had heard horror stories about it and decided to tape the conversation…
Here is his blog post about it. You can find the whole conversation there.
The really sad thing is that the man who worked for AOL got fired. I have worked in a call-centre and you just know that the guy was doing his job, he was pushing the customer and attempting to do just what his bosses will have told him to. The fact that AOL chose to dismiss the employee rather than deal with the issue itself seems quite similar to the way their support works also – there is never any direct action on the problem itself.
He even made it onto the news…
Oh wow it’s cold!
Monday, January 29th, 2007Just walked my girlfriend to work… -1°F or -18°C… Brrr…
I used to work in a freezer (which ranged from -18 to -34°C), every time I breathed in I would feel my nose hairs crystallize up, I was stunned to be feeling that same thing OUTSIDE this morning! I think I’ll let my girlfriend get the bus home tonight.
Disney’s New Ad Campaign
Saturday, January 27th, 2007Annie Leibovitz has been called-upon by Disney for their latest advertising campaign entitled “Walt Disney World’s Year of a Million Dreams”. The campaign, which features a number of characters from the wonderful world of children’s entertainment, features some famous people – and friends of Leibovitz – as various characters.
I do wonder how many people will have heard of all the famous people involved, I also wonder how many people will be able to work out who the characters actually are… David Beckham, for example, while known throughout Europe, Asia and South America may not be known very well in the USA. His character is also a strange one, he is the Knight from Sleeping Beauty… Yet it’s very difficult to actually work that out by just looking at the picture. Maybe it’s just me?
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