Mind-altering media
May 11, 2007
Another good article from New Scientist was ‘Mind-altering media’. This is something that touches me personally as I’ve worked in the computer games industry. Myself, I find it very hard to believe that players and viewers of violent videogames and movies make for violent people. I think if you’re violent it will come up regardless of experiencing modern media. What I don’t like to see is violent games sold to underage children, someone somewhere needs to take responsibility for misselling these games. You can’t let a 12 year old play an 18 certificate game! A child will imitate, far more than an adult, what they experience, if they interact with a violent game then they are more likely to copycat the experience in real-life.
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My computer set-up
March 18, 2007
Yep I have one, well 2 and another which is sort of dead.
Hardware
I recently bought a Rock Extreme CTX Pro laptop. A laptop has been on my luxury-to-buy list for years and I decided to buy one when a much lower than expected VAT bill came my way one month. It’s amazing but eats up battery power like nobody’s business. It’s to get me away from my monster desktop machine upstairs as it’s basically a desktop replacement machine. I have a 64 bit AMD 3200+ 2GHz machine. Quick tip here, don’t buy anything 64 bit, not until 2008 anyway, bloody hard to get drivers (as its too expensive for developers to develop on) and some software will just point-blank refuse to work on it. My machine has a lush 1.5Gb of RAM and a snazzy nVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT gfx card in it. It’s dog slow at the moment. I’m about to upgrade to a 2GHz 3800+ AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core CPU and up the RAM to a total of 2.5Gb.
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Software list
March 18, 2007
This’ll be the software article then, OK, no points for guessing that I’ll chat away about software here. A list of software appears below:
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One thing I hate about MS Windows
February 11, 2007
It gets on my nerves more and more as time goes by. I like to multi-task, get more things done in a shorter space of time, but when you set off one window or program to do something then open up something else, if that first thing does something like refreshes or displays a message then it brings that to the front. So I’m happily typing or working away in my new window then the first window pops up in front of it. So annoying!! If I’ve selected that window to work in the background then it should stay there until I selected otherwise.
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