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Gouramis Are Mating
May 16, 2010
It’s snowy here…
April 25, 2010
Reuters Mid East Journalists
April 6, 2010
News background: Story numero uno and story numero dos.
Nice WoW Hunter’s Pet Bug
February 5, 2010In the World of Warcraft beta hunter’s combat pets stayed with him almost anytime, even when the hunter was riding his mount. This was changed in one of the earliest patches and since than the pet is disappearing when the hunter mounts and magically appearing again when hunter dismounts.
But than the Patch 3.3.1 came with its wonderful cross-server LFG feature allowing anyone to participate in dungeons runs without any troubles. You can be out in the wild questing or farming while waiting in line for the next instance run. And there the way the bug is revealing itself.
If you were mounted in the moment you’ve been teleported into dungeon, and your pet was alive when you were teleported out of the dungeon back, you will find yourself mounted and your pet will be just right next to you. Not really annoying bug but a great feature for self portrait screenshots. Unfortunately, it won’t work with the flying mounts – only ground ones. You can see me exploiting this bug in the pic for this post about running WoW on nVidia Ion.
Also, if you are holy priest and you’ve died in the dungeon and turned into angel form, when you teleport out of dungeon you will be pretty alive with full health and mana.
Olympus E-PL1…
February 3, 2010…and why it means nothing at all for the EVIL cameras market while the camera itself is quite good?
First of all, because newly announced Olympus E-PL1 is not really affordable. Yes, it will be cheaper than any other EVIL on the market, at least till the midsummer, but there were and there are several DSLRs that are cheaper than $599 (that’s how much Olympus asking for E-PL1). Sounds good in the press release but could be considered like some kind of cheating.
The second is that Olympus E-PL1 is definitely simpler than all the previous Olympus and Panasonic Micro Four Thirds cameras but probably not the right way simpler. Take a look at E-PL1 rear side. What do you see? Exactly! A point-and-shoot.
While it seams to be a good idea to make a low-end bridge camera, which is supposed to be the link between point-and-shoot and DSLR cameras, to look like a point-and-shoot, it emerges a very important question: Is it right to treat Electronic Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens cameras as a bridge solution between amateurish point-and-shoots and pro DSLRs?
And the third, to summarize: Olympus E-PL1 is a great addition to Olympus line-up and the whole Micro 4/3 but it can’t shake EVIL market not only because it’s not the kind of product that shakes something but also because there is no real market yet. We need to wait for at least the second model in Samsung’s NX system line-up.
Thanks to Olympus, this waiting will be promising. E-PL1 makes market hotter and Samsung should consider to challenge E-PL1′s price tag or even a $500 mark.
WoW on nVidia Ion
February 2, 2010As you may know already, nVidia Ion platform is based on a GeForce 9400M GPU. It has been for a while and we know what it capable of in terms of running World of Warcraft. nVidia Ion should show itself in World of Warcraft similarly but not exactly the same, because Ion is not just GeForce 9400M – it also a chip-set and an Atom CPU. So running WoW on nVidia Ion is still an interesting question.
Fortunately, I have Lenovo S12 Ion based netbook to test WoW as thoroughly as I want. BTW, I’ve found out that the lowering resolution down from the native 1280*800 doesn’t really helps so all tests were taken on a native 1280*800 screen resolution. It’s enough for anything and looks really great. But the special effects settings better to turn down to the minimum.
Lenovo S12 nVidia Ion Review
January 31, 2010I love and hate to be an early adopter. Love it because it’s plain cool to put my wet shaky hands on a shiny new gadget and grab the curious looks when using it. Hate it because a few weeks after you paid a much for some next technology breakthrough the army of the better clones are appearing everywhere. It was the story with my MSI Wind U90 – the first 9″ LCD netbook available here in 2008. With the new nVidia Ion bigger screen netbook niche I had an illusion of choice.
There are two products in this niche available on a local market by the end of Jan, 2010: Lenovo S12 nVidia Ion and HP mini 311. Fortunately, the choice was very simple because HP mini 311 came with Window XP preinstalled but mostly due to its $70 more expensive price tag. That’s why this review is titled:
