smart computer use?

According to Steve Perlman, founder of OnLive, gaming is about to change.

A new online video game distribution network hopes to revolutionise the way people play games and re-write the economics of the industry.

OnLive, to be launched at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco, aims to let players stream on-demand games at the highest quality level.

Basically, there is no high-end hardware, software or upgrades required. The system works by simply streaming the experience from another computer system to your home. The other computer system (that is not in your presence, but streaming the game) is doing all the hard work and providing the horsepower.

Good stuff.

But here’s a quote that I don’t agree with:

The service could signal the end for Playstation, Xbox, and the Wii.

I doubt it.

Even if you could fully stream the games to your cheap end-user gaming system, what’s powering them in the background? It’s probably going to be a Playstation or something.

What this does is provides a different way to deliver gaming to users that don’t want a huge hardware/software overhead, which can be costly. There will still be plenty of demand for a box that sits in your living room. There will still be demand for generations of gaming consoles.

Haha, yeah right.

That’s my thoughts anyways.

I’m not sure if this is a comedic article, similar to something The Onion would put out. If it is it’s pretty crafty. I’m not sure though.

Here’s a good quote from the article about the study on Twitter having a negative effect on the economy:

A new study suggests that Twitter is the root cause of the current economic malaise. Policy experts predict a Twitter moratorium may be declared for Summer 2009 as part of an effort to stimulate economic production and reverse GDP declines.

Professor Martin Schmeldon of Harvard Business School recently released research findings that suggest excessive Twitter use may have caused the current economic downturn.

If by “finding” they mean “concidental bar graph correllation” I might jump on board.

Over at ThouShallBlog.com, there is a nice list of 20 reasons why they choose Wordpress. Great reasons. All of them. I agree with every single reason, as a Wordpress user.

It includes some of the obvious awesome reasons such as low maintenance, great SEO capabilities, open source (free) and on and on. But seeing all the reasons lined up in a list of 20 is pretty impressive. It just solidifies how great Wordpress has become over the years.

Head over there and read the list. If you haven’t given Wordpress a look you just might after reading this.

ROTFWKBMU…

Rolling on the floor with kids beating me up.

I liked it.

I like Pandora Internet radio quite a bit. In fact, I’m switching over to it right now since I just realized I wasn’t listening to anything at all at the moment.

Being that I use a Blackberry, I was quite amused to find that Pandora will be available on Blackberry phones shortly. From Information Week:

Pandora is a streaming-music service that uses an analysis system called the Music Genome Project to create personalized radio stations for a user based on any song or artist the consumer wants. The service will be free, but Pandora will serve visual and audio ads. The music application will run over a BlackBerry’s Wi-Fi, 3G, or EDGE connection.

Yes! It appears I should be able to use my Curve, so I should be ready to roll when it’s available.

What devices can use Pandora?

The music application is available on handsets that have the 4.3 version of the BlackBerry operating system or better, and this includes the Bold, Curve, and Pearl lines.

That should pretty much cover everybody, just make sure you are using a Wi-Fi, 3G or EDGE connection.