PC
No Time for Games
For quite some time I have been thinking about how I don’t play games anymore. I often drift back to my 10 day trial period of World of Warcraft®. I really do want to play it. I know I would enjoy it. Unfortunately for my inner gamer, I am a family man now. I have a wife and two children and they need me to be there for them. I could totally lose myself for an entire weekend playing WoW®. I’m wondering how Diablo® III might affect me.
I can’t afford to spend too much time away from my work and my family. Within the past few years the only games I have allowed myself to play are short and quick flash games. Recently my friend Kevin purchased a Chicago Gaming Company arcarde system that features many Atari titles as well as many Taito titles. I have been playing many of the classic Atari® games on it. Many of which for the first time. I find I enjoy the ability to start and stop easily and without losing anything. My favorite is Skydiver. I’ve gotten a high score of 4900! ;P Yeah, I know it is somewhat weak.
World of Warcraft®, WoW®, and Diablo®, are registered trademarks of Blizzard Entertainment. Atari® is a registered trademark of Atari Inc.
Bioshock Demo Released for PC
Bioshock, a game that has been long awaited for it’s immersive game play and highly sophisticated AI system has been released as a demo for the PC. It is available on a lot of the usual places that make you wait in queues. I will not name URLs, but needless to say, “Surely, there is a torrent of this file.” Yes, my friends, there is indeed a torrent for this file. Behold Bioshock PC Demo. [thepiratebay.org]
I may need to point out that this is a completely legal torrent as it is a demo version and is being released for purposes of demonstration of a product. As such it is limited in its game play and is not the ‘full release.’
Enjoy.
Intel Threrading
I was getting my daily fill of Slashdot when a typo in an ad caught my eye. This rant is about that typo. Read on if you dare…
The ad in question is a flash advertisement for Intel’s line of software development tools. Mainly those which aid in the creation of multi-threaded applications. Which are only helpful to those with multiple cores and/or processors. The part with the typo is displayed in the image below.
I find this absolutely hilarious because more and more I notice that there are people who work with computers every day of their lives and depend on them so much that they’d be unable to make any money without them. Yet many such people don’t know a thing about them other than how to use certain applications. Many years ago you had to really know what you were doing to be able to call your “work” computers. Nowadays just about anyone can call them their business.
Personally I wouldn’t have even seen that ad unless it had the typo in it. So maybe they were actually using their heads. That is a smart tactic. Clientele who know their trade would spot that typo with their heads buried in a C# book or Java Manual. So this could be what the advertisement creator was thinking. Though if I were an Intel exec. in charge of this advertisement I would have been just a bit wary of trying such tactics in such a wide-reaching ad.
Perhaps what I’ve done is actually illustrated their “unconventional” marketing tactics. I’m just sad that I can’t use that tactic. The kind of clientele I look for are those who can’t program web sites. Or maybe they can’t program their VCRs. Either way I felt the need to rant about it for some reason. Hopefully you have enjoyed following my 4:30am thought process.