Mark Rein On Next-Gen, Rising Costs, and More

"Every year, there seems to be an article on the "death" of the PC gaming market..."
Mark Rein On Next-Gen, Rising Costs, and More

There is always the talk of a death knell for the PC gaming industry. I always was on the opposite side of that thought line as the PC is still central to everything (including console development), I was stunned with the advances on the next generation consoles and started to consider that PC gaming could soon fail, but as Mark Rein states in this article the PCs will still be central around console gaming development, and with further hardware integration the PC gaming side of the industry could see a growth spurt.

Entirely possible. Time will tell.

XChange - BellSouth Completes Contracts for Next-Gen Network

XChange - BellSouth Completes Contracts for Next-Gen Network

Oohh! Even more news on the planned upgrades for BellSouth's Broadband network. Yay!

Just Say No!

"He said that he would sell me the bed frame without collecting any information, and that I was in the 1% of people that was not willing to give him their drivers license number or personally identifiable information. I didn't doubt this information, as it was probably the first truth that came out of his mouth."
From JD's Blog on MyItForum

I am sure this is too true, when someone asks for your personal and indentifing information, Just say no, or if they persist, just ask them for their credit card number. That will shut them up.

Reply To All: Syndrome

Most people who work in a larger organization (e.g. anything over a few hundred employees) have more than likely encountered this situation. Internal company SPAM emails. What is this?

It is email that is sent from an internal user of the company to multiple other employees of the company. Most of whom have no idea what they hell they are talking about or no abilities or responsibilities to correct the issue they have, yet this clueless, hopelessly flustered person thinks that the entire (internal)world needs to know about their problem.

I just call it internal SPAM. Before you hit the send button make sure all people who are included on the email need to actually read it. Otherwise… DO NOT CLICK THE SEND BUTTON!

As an additional thought, if your organization uses internal mailing lists and you do not know who will receive the message? DO NOT CLICK THE SEND BUTTON!

Those who wonder about proper email etiquette, here is an link to email etiquette…

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/pw/p_emailett.html

Note, you can also Google: Email, Etiquette

If you know someone who suffers from excessive CC: syndrome, Reply To All: Syndrome, or any other please email some of these links to them!

broadband ? Forums ? BellSouth ? 100Mbps DSL

broadband ? Forums ? BellSouth ? 100Mbps DSL

Rumors abound regarding the future of BellSouth's high speed network. With fiber to the curb already for a lot of newer subdivisions this could bode well for next gen speed upgrades. The only questions are, When? and How Much?