Yesterday I was playing a game called Modern Warfare 2 by Infinity Ward. The game is fun at times, but when you get into a game with a badass, things get hairy.
For example, I was playing Domination (a game where there is 3 flags on the map that can be captured by being close to them, and you gain points by holding flags) and one guy on the other team was getting a lot of kills. He got a killstreak reward of an AC130 gunship (lasts for about 45 seconds, is a deadly airplane with giant guns like 105mm howitzers that can fire high explosive rounds) The guy on the other team called it in and immediately started spawn-killing us (kills you, then you respawn, then get killed again) and got 11 kills that way. He got another AC130, and one more. This whole time I tried to shoot it down with a Stinger missile, and could not for I was being killed. At the end of the match he had 45 kills and everyone on our team had double-digit deaths.
This is why Modern Warfare 2 is hard to play, and why I am considering buying Battlefield: Bad Company 2 by EA…
I haven’t been posting in a while because I am in school and in my free time really enjoying playing Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 on my PS3. The blog will probably ramp up in June when summer starts, but don”t expect lots of new posts now.
Modern Warfare 2 is a fun game, you should really try it at a friend’s or watch some videos. Search “Machinima modern warfare 2″ on youtube and there will be lots of great videos.
There is a lot of great freeware out there, and these programs are the ones you should have on every computer you own.
1. Mozilla Firefox
With great add-on capabilities and a good feature set, this browser wins in my opinion. While it may not be the fastest, the add-ons make up for it. You can block ads, change appearances, block flash/javascript, sync bookmarks and history, and even download youtube videos.
2. Paint.net
Fantastic image editor with most of the functions of photoshop elements. Add a bit of awesome sauce and there you go.
3. Audacity
Record a podcast, a song, or whatever you want.Audacity is an opensource audio editor that is very easy to use, although to export MP3s you have to download the LAME MP3 codec (also free). Audacity won’t do m4a or wma formats, only WAV or MP3 which is kind of annoying.
4. VLC Media player
Utilitarian media player. Very small size (17MB). Plays EVERYTHING I have thrown at it so far + CDs/DVDs, Capture cards, and network streams.
5. Open Office
Microsoft office clone that is also opensource. Has all the cool stuff like spreadsheets, word processing, slideshows, databases, math calculations. Large download (around 120MB)
I recently recieved a new XP-8000 in the mail. What is this XP-8000?
It is a less-well-known portable power pack, but it works very well. The package includes 3 cables for different voltage outputs (16-19,9-12, and 5) and a myriad of tips to fit all kinds of electronic crap (like my HP camera that can’t hold a charge for more than 30 seconds). I got it mainly as a backup battery to charge my iPod touch when I was away from a wall, but it also functions as a netbook charger for most of the netbooks out there. I didn’t even need to use a tip for my MSI wind.
The power capacity of the battery is 8000 mAh. This is rather nondescriptive, since they do not include the voltage in the name (you have to find it in the specifications section, it is 5v). 8000 mAh @5v would be equal to 40 Wh.
The battery works well so far. It charges my iPod touch using the included USB cable and iPhone tip, and also with the cable that came with my iPod. Theoretically it should charge my iPod around 14 times, but with power loss from converting voltages and such, it is less. I have yet to test it with repeated discharges/charges.
The battery charges my MSI Wind netbook. Using the 19 Volt cable I can just plug it right in without a tip, and it will start charging. My MSI Wind battery is about 49 Wh so it would theoretically charge it .8 times but in reality it is less.
Also, there is a 9-12 volt output on the battery which has tips that can be used with the 5 volt cable, but not the other way around so you won’t fry your electronics. There is a charge checker/on button on the top of the device, which has 4 LEDs to tell you the current charge state.
On a side note I find it annoying that manufacturers name their products with a large number to make it seem better, even when the large number is leaving something out.
This is the email I sent to some guy at site5 about them sucking so bad:
Hello this is @amddude from twitter.
The fail that happened was with a favorite site of mine hosted on site5 that i am involved with got turned off for abuse. There are reasons why this should not happen.
1. The resource usage was the same for may and june. (7500 visits/day with an almost all text page)
2. The owner was not going over her bandwidth limit, or storage limit and Site5’s accusation of “abuse” was false (reason was too much resource use) becuase of the previous reason and that the website was only running a standard wordpress blog.
3. Site5 was wrong to disable the site (with a 403 forbidden error) without at least a few days prior notification to the owner that the site was overusing resources. The site was disabled right then and the email sent after it was disabled. Policy FAILURE.
4. The fact that there was no apology whatsoever about the takedown.
5. the email came from abuse@site5.com and not from customer/billing support
“This app requires OS 3.0″ WTF. 3.0 is just a big fail with compatibility of applications. The batterylog app now works with 3.0 and it only updates in 5% increments and idiots are complaining that it is doing that when all the other battery apps for 3.0 are doing the same thing. It is a limitation ofthe new software not the application people so just shutup and downgrade to 2.2.1 which has accurate battery life readings to the single percentile and not limited by apple with their lame and restrictive APIs.
Another reason against 3.0 is that cydia sucks and crashes every 5 minutes ( literally) and hangs during install. Taptaprevenge doesn’t transfer the songs you downloaded, and a lot of JB apps don’t work.
