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Monthly Archives: April 2010

I’ve Seen the Light

 

Religious Epiphany

The Sims 3 – Hardware Requirements

A few people have mentioned that the Sims 3 has some heavy duty hardware requirements, so I looked into it. Here’s what is says on the box: Minimum System Requirements: OS: Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition Processor: Quad Core Intel® Xeon® Processor E5540 2.53GHz,8M L3, 5.8GT/s,turbo Memory: 192GB, DDR3 Memory, 1066MHz, ECC (3 DIMMS) Graphics CARD: Dual 4.0GB NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 5800, QUAD MON, 2DP & 4DVI Hard Drive/Controller: PERC6/i SAS/SATA Hardware RAID Card 4 x 450GB, 3.0Gb/s, SAS, 3.5 […]

Ever feel like you are being RIPPED OFF?

  Hmmm, that seems reasonable doesn’t it? £613.99 for the Adobe upgrade in the UK and $599.00 for the identical upgrade in the US. What is even more ridiculous is that you can buy the upgrade as a downloadable file – i.e. no box, no DVD and therefore no theoretical distribution costs at all directly from the Adobe site and the price difference is the same as above. And they wonder why piracy is so prevalent… A few years when […]

Venice by Night

Venice is very pretty, I think everybody is probably aware of this. It’s also a photographic nightmare – it would be quite easy to spend your entire holiday taking photographs of things rather than actually looking at them – the middle class holiday version of going to a rock concert and then spending the whole evening videoing the event on you mobile phone, thus reducing the whole experience down to a 5cm x 3cm proxied rendition of events.

Palletised Solutions.

Do you think you know the English language? well if you think you do I’m sure you will be screaming by now about the above photograph on the basis that palletised – or I have to presume for our American readers’ ‘palletized’ – is, well, not a real word. The thing is, in our “content is more” Internet enabled culture defining things and making definitions of them available to the masses as quickly as possible is the way to generate traffic and […]

Every Picture Tells a Story.

An abandoned Nat West Tie lies on Tottenham Court Road… A metaphor for the fall of the world banks or disgruntled employee who’d had enough? Unfortunately I didn’t get to see its owner discard it…

One of Those Super Alternative Browsers.

So the browser ballot has offered us some “great” alternatives to the standard trio of Internet Explorer, Safari and Chrome. Here’s my particular favourite – SlimBrowser (snappy eh?) which seems to have all the aesthetic appeal of a recalcitrant teenager’s bedroom. I’m almost tempted to test it…almost, although I don’t think I’ve got enough Paracetamol to hand…

My Least Favourite Error Message of All Time.

This it has to be said is a work or art. I may print it out and frame it. Or possibly render it in oils.  Either way I reckon this message has the same effect on IT Managers as my first viewing of “Alien” did to me at the tender age of 13, sitting in a darkened bedroom listening on headphones so that my parents couldn’t hear – It scared the shit out of me. And so does this message […]

Proof on the (Non) Existence of God

Am I the only one who thinks this is funny? See the non-existence of God for yourself: http://www.christianscienceyorkshire.org.uk/

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