Class

It seems that classes can cause a large slowdown with any timetables for what I plan to do.... I am still unsure what my next blog will be about and I am hoping it isn't yet another apology for not posting much or often. I plan on actually getting some ideas rolling forward.
I have gotten my hands on a preview of a new OS which I plan to review later, and might do some talking about games again.

Thoughts of Random

I am sorry I have not posted in a great long while, but I have been elsewhere with my mind.

Today I had a random thought about a post I recently read on another site basically saying that Doc Brown from Back to the Future was suicidal. The reasoning behind this as far as they were concerned is that Doc Brown had no idea that it would work at all and he aimed the car at himself and Marty.

Now let's stop here for a minute and remember the rest of the movie. Remember the fact that Marty is recording all of this, and later on shows it to Doc Brown. He has foreknowledge that it will work around this time and place due to the time circuits in the Delorean and the video evidence from the video camera. Later he would technically have knowledge of it working due to Marty traveling forward in time, or at least exploding.

So in theory he would have known this all along and actually brings me to my point. The series is actually a self contained paradox of itself. If Marty had not gone back in time in the DeLorean, would Doc Brown have given up on himself or even tried to build the time machine. We can guess that is Marty had not gone back and written the note Doc would not have been alive when he got back to the future.

In this story Marty is Doc's muse and is needed in order for Doc to even amount to what happens in the movie. And for those of us lucky enough to have beaten and played the Tell Tale game we realized this. In the game time gets all messed up by Doc and it gets rewritten in a fashion that endagers Marty's existance and the reality in which they live. The ending actually left it open for a sequel which if done in the same fashion would be awesome in my opinion.

As an avid gamer I have been following the next gen gaming talk as close as I possibly can. Sony not wanting to reveal too much before Microsoft reveals it's hand, and conversely Microsoft doing the same thing. Nintendo ran ahead with it's innovative step which somewhat combines the hand held portable market with the console market in it's Wii U.

Though much like Microsoft with it's Kinect add on for the 360, Nintendo is not taking the other initiatives to make this step much more intriguing. I saw an idea online for Wii U which could connect to a gaming culture that normally gets left behind and out, the Tabletop crowd (D&D gaming community to give a better description). 

Say we give it connectivity online and create a multiple game tabletop to play over a network, where in one person serves as the DM and the others move around in the dungeon. It could even be set up to be used locally with the players in the same room. To me this is a great idea as there are not many online table tops that work well. And making it electronic could revive the tabletop and bring it to a wider audience who are leery of a non electronic game.

"The postal service still has miles to go before becoming Amazon's courier of choice. The pilot program is limited to delivering a maximum of 200 packages per day to customers of 1-800-Flowers.com's sister brands, which sell popcorn, cookies, chocolate and gift baskets. Friess says the USPS is planning to add more retailers soon. If the test is successful, which he says the agency believes it will be, Metro Post will roll out to other large markets across the country.

Friess declined to speculate on whether the USPS' 214,000 trucks — what the agency calls the world's largest civilian fleet — could end up in the service of Amazon.

But he said he believed the USPS will start to look increasingly attractive to other companies exploring the same-day option: "We'd never close the door on ways to expand our revenue.""

http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/07/tech/web/amazon-save-us-postal/index.html


I have to say this would probably help resolve many of the USPS revenue issues. Streamlining and changing some infrastructure issues within it would make this a good thing.

I don't normally like to comment about this type of news but it occurs to me that this could be the break that the postal service has been looking for. This would possibly keep the cost down for the regular consumer and if properly structured with Amazon's same day service some consumer delivery costs could be cut by using the USPS system, and save it for our future.

A music podcast by a friend

A friend of mine DJ, has just started a music podcast. He is open to many music genres, and although we don't always agree one the music we like, he is open and honest with his opinion. Check him out.

http://dj4vibesandstuff.podomatic.com

Just one podcast for now but from what I hear right now he is gonna be great in the next episodes.

A New Beginning

Hello All,

After a long absence and some searching through what I want to do with this, I have decided.

One of the many things I had planned to do with this blog is to bridge a gap that I see in the knowledge of regular people and those that are actually fixing their devices and computers. I started to take it in a direction that I am unsure if it lead to where I wanted to go.

There are other ideas I have for it rolling around in the deep recesses of my mental void.

I should have a new video and more posts to come shortly.

The Helpful Tech

Tech News World : Pain and Suffering in Germany, or How Linux Lost to XP

"With all the world aflutter about the latest "i-thingie" to emerge from the Hallowed Halls of Cupertino, it's been a great week for catching up on Linux news from around the world.

Expecting the usual assortment of triumphant tales regarding our favorite operating system, however, Linux Girl's jaw fairly hit the floor when she came across something entirely different.
It's the sad, sad story of the German Foreign Office, to be specific, which recently chose to reverse a decade-old migration to Linux. Now, it's switching back to Windows instead." ~Katherine Noyes

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Pain-and-Suffering-in-Germany-or-How-Linux-Lost-to-XP-71983.html

Although I feel that this is a great article, I would have to say the response titled " When the truth hurts " is really why I am posting this.

http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/board/mboard.pl?board=lnitalkback&thread=5183&id=5184&display=1#message_5184

I am no elitist snob about what I do, I really want to help people understand the issues that they are having with their computer. I do have to say that there are times that even I must tell the customer " You would not understand". This is more because I can't put it into layman's terms, in other words I can't translate it for them.

But onto the response. I feel that the reasons are the big picture truth. I use MS OS products because most things work for them. The same could be said for Apple products. You can game easily on a MAC or an MS platform. Sadly even though I know there are Linux gamers, I know they find playing some games hard under the OS. Some even keep an MS product around to run for this purpose. I tried to jump through the hoops to get Wine running for games, and found that even after getting it set up it still did not work. It seems that even the VM community has started to get the notion that gaming might be a needed item. Why hasn't Linux worked this issue out... Or the others... Ubuntu people seem to be the only ones with a clue... And they've become the black sheep of the family. Hmmmm....