The incredible tall Cory Doctorow posted about this on BoingBoing. It’s about this premium wireless carrier called Voce. They are targeting rich people but it’s not that ridiculously expensive. Their basic plan is $500 to buy one of their phones, which is unlocked and you’re not locked into a contract. Then it’s $200 a month after that. It seems like a lot but I know a lot of people are out there that go over on their plans and end up paying that much anyway.

Aside from the price, there is one feature that this carrier has that no one else has worth noting. They have a 24/7 personal assistance service included in their plan. You can call anytime and call your PA anything. The PA will research anything for you and give you detailed information on whatever you ask. One of the testimonials read that when asking about a certain model car and its competition, the PA gave a very detailed information on all of them and set up a test drive for the first car.

Cory also called Voce and noted that the person who, answered within two rings, knew what they were doing. Seriously, you don’t get that kind of service from any other carrier. You always go to an automated system where it asks you what language you speak. It’s definitely not for me since I don’t use the phone that much and I know everything but I know cellphone power users should definitely consider this carrier.

I got it and I see the hype. I just played it for 3 hours without doing anything else by myself, Ignoring everything else that is going on. It is great. My fingers won’t move. I’m typing using a pen in my mouth. It is very difficult.

Guitar Hero 2 for Xbox 360

Yes, these sandals have a built-in flask. Think of the possibilities! The possibilities!

30 Karats or diamonds and 10 ounces of 18-Karat white gold makes up this $150,000. It’s a lot of jewelry in the shift knob but I’m more interested in how it is made. I would only buy it if it was assembled by the Queen of England …with just her left hand…while being tickled.

Yes, it’s a bubble machine that blows bubbles that taste like chicken. It says it’s made for dogs but I think it’s more of a suggestion.

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Looks like the PS3 is finally going to come out in Europe in March and it is going to cost £425. £425 is $840 US! Seriously, I don’t think Sony really wants the PS3 to be successful. They might be giving up on the division like they did with most of their other divisions. Sony’s pride is going to destroy them slowly.

For awhile, Sony’s SCEA division was the only profitable part of Sony. Now it has shifted to their TV’s. They have some of the best displays out there. The Sony Bravia video processor chip is probably one of the top 5 chips out there. Maybe they don’t believe that they can maintain two successful divisions at once, even though they have very talented people working and more resources than most. It might also be that they want the PS3 to be an HDTV accessory. If you look at it that way, the PS3 is a great accessory to your Sony SXRD HD televsion, but the Xbox 360 is just as good, if not better, and more importantly, cheaper.

Well my main computer’s motherboard isn’t working correctly. It won’t power and spin the cpu fan anymore. First time I’ve seen this problem. I tried a different cpu fan just to see if it was the fan but I got the same result. I was running an overclocked Athlon64 3000+ CPU (I forget what my last stable setting was). I unoverclocked it to see, same result. So I had to get the credit card involved.

Instead of replacing my motherboard, I decided to get a whole new computer. If I’m going to replace a computer part, I mind as well upgrade while I’m at it. I’m kinda upset since I really liked the motherboard, it had everything I could ask for in a motherboard.

I then decided that I should get a brand name computer with a warranty since something like this would’ve been covered. The motherboard warranty only covered it for 90 days. So I got a Dell. Specifically, I got a Dimension 9200. It has a Core 2 Duo 2.13 processor and nothing else really. I wanted just a barebones computer and use my current parts.

I’m not sure why I’m posting. I guess I’m excited about my purchase and I posted last time I bought a new computer.

This is a chart of the stocks of Apple, Palm, RIM, Motorola, and Nokia on January 9th, 2007. You can see when iPhone was introduced and when Palm and RIM (blackberry) pulled their hair out, started to go home, and beat their wives/husbands.

This is a video of someone who hacked one of those portable credit card processors. I see these all the time at computer shows but the reception is bad on them so the vendors have to run outside of the convention hall to process credit card purchases.

Anyway, someone hacked them so that they could play Tetris on it. Here is the link to the article about it. Link

I was reading an interesting article about how the PS3 is a dud for Sony. Then I came across a preview for Gran Turismo HD, which the demo for is now available to download. As you can see to your left and in the screenshots at the article, Gran Turismo HD looks incredible. There’s no denying that it is by far the best looking game you can play on a console at the moment. Then I realized it’s not the best graphics you can possibly get at this exact moment and this won’t change for a long time. One of the biggest arguements for console over a PC loaded with a high-end graphics card, CPU, RAM, etc. was the price.

Obviously, you can easily spend more than $500-600 for the graphics card alone but I think there’s a line in price where the hardcore gamer that demand the highest graphics possible and the more casual gamer meet, and that line is lower than $600.

Sony has priced themselves out of the console wars. It no longer competes as a gaming machine, it’s an entertainment box with gaming capabilities. Sony admits to this. When the Xbox 360 HD-DVD add-on came out the PS3 was no longer the best entertainment box you could get. Now, both the 360 and the PS3 have the ability to play High Definition movies but one major difference, PS3 cannot play your old DVDs! The PS3 only has the Blue-Ray blue laser sensor that can only play Blue-Ray discs, it is different from the regular red laser used in normal CD/DVD players. So you would need a separate DVD player by your television to watch all those DVDs you’ve bought over the years. Either that or buy them again in Blue-Ray version, of course if the movie you want is under the studio that supports Blue-Ray.

Right now there is no way that I would buy a PS3 even if it was cheaper than the Xbox 360. I would not have fun with it. Then again, I’ll probably get one once Final Fantasy XIII comes out (the picture below is an actual gameplay screenshot).