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  • On the post: Can Google+ Succeed Merely By Being Not Facebook?

    ThatAVGuy ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2011 @ 03:20am

    There was an invite Loophole

    I had a friend posting on FB yesterday adding as many people as he could to G+ through an exploit loophole. Which got shut later in the day - Wouldn't suprise me if they ended up with more people than expected

    I am looking forward to trying out G+ - FB is slow, cluncky and far to open for my liking. I would be more interested in a desentralized social network, but currently there's not one that I know of that has enough of a userbase to look into

  • On the post: Simon Singh Stops Writing His Column To Focus On Fighting 'Bogus' Libel Suit

    ThatAVGuy ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2010 @ 06:42pm

    Chiropractic/Bullshit vs Science Based Medicine/Reality

    http://www.videosift.com/video/Chiropractic-vs-Science-Based-Medicine

    Very Interesting watch if your've got a spare 20mins.

  • On the post: Wait, Was That An RIAA Education Campaign… Or Is It About Turning Schoolkids Into Unpaid Shills?

    ThatAVGuy ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2009 @ 06:52am

    Free Eduction

    I love the idea that there could be free education - everyone who wants to learn can! espically these days when education can be a lot more interesting than when i was at school.
    http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/16/2115207/New-Yorks-Video-Game-Based-Public-School

    And how about free university education.... http://academicearth.org/
    I think the more places that startup like this the better - perhaps in the future we won't need schools in quiet the same way....

  • On the post: Wait, Was That An RIAA Education Campaign… Or Is It About Turning Schoolkids Into Unpaid Shills?

    ThatAVGuy ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2009 @ 06:48am

    Free Eduction

  • On the post: No Freedom To Tinker: Arrested For Modding Legally Purchased Game Consoles

    ThatAVGuy ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2009 @ 05:58pm

    Re: Re: Re: talking head.

    I think that all car makers should be put away for 10 years as well then... because obviously they should know making a car go faster than the speed limit... well that would lead to others breaking the law......

  • On the post: No Freedom To Tinker: Arrested For Modding Legally Purchased Game Consoles

    ThatAVGuy ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2009 @ 05:35pm

    This is crap

    I have a modded Console, and I can happily mod other peoples consoles, didn't realise it was against the law, well especially not here in Auz, You can buy chips and instructions all over the net.

    The console then becomes a lot more useful, I have a wii which i have put homebrew on, and now I can load games without the need to put the discs in the drive, but straight from ISO's - so when I resell my games (Which I will) they are in good condition and keep their value.

    Sure this allows me to copy games and do illegal activity, but that doesn't mean I will. I do like that with Homebrew there's a bunch more things you can do with your console.... Perhaps those anti should look into it rather than just assume everyone is a criminal.

  • On the post: No Surprise: Zookz Shuts Down Indefinitely, Refunds Money

    ThatAVGuy ( profile ), 21 Jul, 2009 @ 07:00am

    what a shame

    I must say I totally informed as many people as possible to jump in and get what they could.... but oh well :P

  • On the post: Rock Band Opening Up (Slightly) For Indie Musicians

    ThatAVGuy ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2009 @ 05:48am

    Re:

    You might be right, i definatly would want a bunch of songs I know first, but there are a bunch of songs which i didn't know on Guitar Hero that I know think are awesome, If someone released a game with a bunch of well known songs and a huge selection of unknown arists.. i think i'd totally head that way.

    alas my problem is I have a wii... and I can't play rockband without rebuying the guitars and drums... if someone was to make a game with all the indie bands... i hope they would make the controllers compatable with ones already on the market as well (Just planting seeds.... :P)

  • On the post: EA To Require Internet Connection For Command & Conquer

    ThatAVGuy ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2009 @ 03:53pm

    Pirated version will be better

    I'm finding it so annoying lately that all the games I want to purchase keep coming out with stupid things like this.
    All it means to me is that instead of handing over my hard earned cash to the company, instead i'll probably download a copy which has been cracked to enable offline play.

    Starcraft 2 has stated that they will not alloy Lan play without first connecting to the internet as well - it's so frustrating but the only thing i can do in protest is not buy the game, I suggest others do the same, hit them where it hurts.. in their pocket.

  • On the post: Apple Does As Many Expected: Kills Palm Pre iTunes Syncing

    ThatAVGuy ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2009 @ 06:26pm

    itunes vs songbird

    I realise many have probably said this already, but I did the annoying skip all the comments and just write one quickly at the end

    Itunes - works brilliantly on a mac - on a PC it is a resource hungry piece of crap - probably originally made just to make people say - Macs rock - woo woo - anyway

    Songbird - with its Ipod addon, works brilliantly - just loaded it yesterday - hate owning an ipod - but got given one for free - just thought i'd jump in and Recommend songbird to everyone!!

    Love live Open Source products!