Saturday November 03, 2007

cool stuff inside only Kudos for driving the economies of scale and some neat concepts in software in producing a 200U$ computer. Thats a price point that people are comfortable buying game systems at. And even without MS there is an impressive amount of functionality in this box. But to really make this grab the consumer it is going to have to look a little better then a cheap whitebox. A PS3 or Mac Mini form factor would be orders of magnitude better. I'm sure the chicken and egg issues of creating a market and having the resources to do the miniaturization are part of the issue but given the already existing industry in mini-itx and like cases that the gamers and others like that seems like a weak decision. ( Nov 03 2007, 06:15:51 PM PDT ) Permalink

Online Attitude After having not played any online poker for months I played a few sessions lately. Low limit NLH ring games, PLO8 ring games, or NLH tournaments to get my feet wet and see how the environment has changed. One thing that hasn't changed is that people still act in ways they wouldn't in meatspace. Its amazing to me that you could get interested in a competition like poker in which you gain from your opponents mistakes and be unable to not lecture your opponents when they make a mistake. In an amusing moment I misclicked between two windows and an action intended for one game ended up in another and then I ended up sucking out. For whatever reason these are the only times I feel a little remorse. The rest of the suckouts are just part of the lack of complete information and chance in the game. But before I could say oops my opponent started "helping" me with my game. Remorse gone. ( Nov 03 2007, 05:32:03 PM PDT ) Permalink