Archive for June 16th, 2005

Xbox 2 Hardware

By
Andy
 – June 16, 2005Posted in: Hardware

Well the Xbox 2 is due out sometime before the end of the world (it is Microsoft after all) and there have been leaked reports on the interweb about the specification. These aren´t official so they may change on release or be completely different altogether.

 
The hardware consists of some juicy goodies such as:


  • 3 core PowerPC CPU with each core running at 3.2 GHz. Nice.

  • Another custom ATI graphics chip running at 500 MHz with a load of embedded RAM to increase performance.

  • Half a Gig of fast high bandwidth RAM

  • Dolby 5.1 Audio

  • Extras such as Wi-Fi ready, removable hdd, 4 wireless controllers

There´s also mention of the various online and offline features but these are a bit vague until Microsoft releases more information. There´s also no info on things such as OS. It´s fairly certain that it won´t be backwards compatible either, but, oh well.

Always tell people you are a professional killer

By
Andy
 – June 16, 2005Posted in: Uncategorized

It´s my whole new strategy for getting out of doing people favours. Once people find out that you know about websites, the interweb and computers then they will ring you or email you all the time asking all sorts of questions. This is ok if you don´t mind helping your mates etc, but when it gets to people you don´t know that well or friends of friends then it starts to get annoying.

 
The other thing is that they assume you know EVERYTHING about websites, the internet and computers and if you don´t you have to go and find out for them. SO annoying. Oh, and downloading stuff. I´ve got 4meg broadband and a bunch of PCs so the actual downloading doesn´t bother me but I´m not made of blank CDrs people!
 
So, new plan. I´m going to start telling people I´m a professional killer.
 
This way people just assume you´re joking and laugh. You then just quietly squint at them for a uncomfortable few seconds and hopefully they will never mention work again! Sorted!