Mark this date in your calendars – Ghost Recon: Future Soldier – October 1st 2010. Below is a live action trailer of the game. Update: By the way, UbiSoft has been granted a trademark, by the USPTO, for the name Ghost Recon: Future Soldier?!?

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Beer and Fireworks = Bad Combination

The idiot morons in my neighborhood are already starting with the fireworks. WTF?! It’s only July 1st! There are 3 days left before I have to endure the random and unnecessary thumping of fireworks. Which, the previously mentions idiots, last year were setting off randomly throughout the night for a month after July 4th. When you are trying to sleep and when you have small children it is very inconsiderate and rude to be woken up, multiple times during the night, because the mentally lacking in capacity neighbors can’t control themselves. I was finding leftover fireworks in my yard for two months after July 4th, but it was more discouraging and enraging when I found the fireworks debris on the roof of our home.

Fittingly, here is a video dedicated to fireworks idiots. Enjoy!

P.S. I like fireworks, I like watching fireworks shows. When we were on out honeymoon in San Diego, I watched a fireworks shows that was coordinated between 12 different locations throughout the city. I could see 9 of those. It was great. It was awesome. But as a home owner, I prefer to keep explosives that I’m not in control of, and knowing that if  something happens no one is going to take responsibility for, away from my property and loved ones.

xbox 360, logo, controller

Over the weekend I had some lack of video from my XBox360. Nothing that some heat couldn’t fix. Apparently most problems with the Xbox360 are fixed by that which kills PCs – heat.

I have an XBox360, which is one of those that was born with bugs and “genetic” issue – meaning an early version – one from the early ones, made before the red ring of death became evident  and all the various versions started to come out. Luckily, I don’t abuse and rarely spend massive amount of hours playing it, thus I don’t have very many problem with it! Other than the occasional screen flicker and the constant refusal of the DVD-Rom tray to actually stay closed after attempting to close it. Apparently the DVD drive gets a bad taste from DVD discs and refuses to work with them. HAHA. My solution for the latter is to place my thumb on the drive tray and prevent it from coming back out, then pushing the open/close button again!!

This past weekend I experienced something new – the XBox booted fine and there was audio, but no video. The digital TV detected an active video source, but there was no picture. At first I was going to disassemble the XBox to look for problem myself, because the warranty had expired a long time ago. But then I decided to wait for Monday and call Microsoft and possibly sent it back.

After researching the problem in the global knowledge fix and repair database, i.e. the Internet, I was able to determined that 1) it might not be worth the money spend to sent it in for repair, and 2) the issue could be related to the heat sync on the video chip. Something about the x-clamp (see x-clamp fix video at the end of the post). A problem which is most commonly fixed by wrapping the Xbox in a towel causing it to overheat. I again considered taking it apart and performing the x-clam fix, because I wasn’t willing to wrap the XBox in something to cause it to overheat and possibly cause heat damage to other components. Before proceeding, I simply opted out to just turn it on and let it run heat up. I’ve noticed how hot it can get! About 20 minutes later I came back to check on it. I turned the XBox off and back on. Voila, there was video again! Problem fixed.

Now if that darn DVD-drive tray could stay closed, it would be great.

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I find it to be revealing as far as plot and Terminator canon changes. Something I wasn’t expecting, making it even more desirable to see. At least to me.

Will you see Terminator 4: Salvation in the theater or on DVD? Let me know in the poll below.

It appears , though, that in Russia bullets are cheaper, even when the chase is moving at less than 10 miles per hour.

It appears to me that after the long! chase, the offender had finally given up as a result of losing control over the vehicle due to nearly dieing from laughter. Unfortunately a quick beat down was administered by the police!

Thank you EnglishRussia.

07:48 AM Currently it is showing the presidential limo, staff members, secret service and other security waiting for president elect to come out and be take to the inauguration site. I can also hear in the distant background the inauguration orchestra practicing.

Update 08:21 AM That’s a lot of people. I am sure there is two or three times that somewhere around also attending the inauguration ceremony.

08:21 AM Presidential Inauguration - a lot of people

Update 08:28 AM I was just thinking, because of its significance and because of the people involved, this is probably one of the most documented events in our history! Publicly and privately.

Update 08:39 AM Here is another screenshot of the amount of people attending the presidential inauguration.

08:39 AM Presidential Inauguration - lots more people

Update 09:01 AM The AP reporter just said that there are between 1 and 2 million people on site. Sorry I missed his name, but if you know his name feel free to leave his name in the comments below, I will update here. He also said that people are also as far as 1 mile away from the ceremony site. I don’t know what they can see from that far, but binoculars or telepresence will do, I suppose. The white rectangles you see on the right of the first and second images above are telepresence movie screens mounted on 18 wheelers.

Update 09:12 AM Bush and Obama together at last for the traditional transitional coffee.

Bush and Obama pose for a photo op.

I enjoy the fact that it can be programed. Although in the begging of the video it looked like that guy’s head was about to be smeared all over the floor.

Do you guys have any robots you would like to have. Leave me some links to pictures or videos of your favorite/wish to have robot in the comments below.

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I really enjoy watching this video. I really love the fact that there are references of other games, movies, media and personal work of the actors. The fact that the content of this ad was not limited to just the game makes it a great video ad, which can appeal to all generations of gamers. A video to be watched over and over again.

Good job EA and long live Westwood.

Westwood Studios was the company behind the Command and Conquer games franchise. It was founded in 1985 as Westwood Associates by Brett Sperry and Louis Castle and was based in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 1992 it was renamed to Westwood Studios and it was sold to Virgin Interactive. In August 1998 it was was bought by game publisher giant Electronic Arts. The company was liquidated in March of 2003 by EA. At the time its staff numbered over 100 employees. You can read more information on Westwood Studios here.

BTW, TechCrunch50 is 52 this year. Two extra companies, which is good. The more the better.

UPDATE: Look at all the bloggers/laptop screens.

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Also, listening to how members of the community talk, I can say that even though they might not know each other they are more open to sharing and conversing. I guess exposing your life for everyone to watch has to come with extrovert personality.

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You can find the instruction on how to create your own helicopter birthday cake here, on Instructables, an awesome do-it-yourself site.

Need I say more?!

And it is funny.

I don’t remember much of the movie, other than it was about a robot, which was build on site, and it end up trying to kill the inhabitants of a space station. I was a kid and I thought it was pretty cool movie. Since I remembered about its existence, few years ago, I have been wanting to find out its name so I can see it again.

This is the trailer of the movie. In my opinion, it makes the movie look kind of goofy, but I like the olg cliches, costumes and animatronics. Sometimes they are better and more entertaining than today’s CG.

Now that I know its name I will have to try to find it. I am sure that I will be able to find it on DVD, but if I can’t I will have to go to few video rental places that still offer the good old VHS tapes. Maybe one of them might have it.

After watching the movie trailer, it think that it looks more than decent. In many people’s eye Uwe has the reputation of being the man with the ability to take a great game and turn it into a total shit movie. I have seen number of his movies and I do like his work. I have also watched interviews with him and at first he can come across as an arrogant prick, but he is “cool” and gets the job done, when others can’t event get off the ground.

Good cast also.

Personally I hate dealing with players like this, unless it is my own clan mates and we are on the server for the sole purpose of screwing around. It is one thing having to put up with people that you know. It is completely different having to put up with a guy or a few, who decided to be complete dicks to everyone on the server.

I did like the trivia portion if it.

Is this video supposed to represent what happens when no one else will join your server, except someone random during a moment of incredible boredom, or while waiting for open slots on their favorite server?

I have been on both sides of the coin. I can say, it feels pretty much the way the video shows it. I am sure that most gamers, who play online multiplayer shooter games or have plaid at one point , not MMOGs, have experienced the same.

Kind of long and repetitive, but that’s the whole point.

Good job Lit Fuse.

The game, as always, looks great and I can hardly wait for it to be released. Unlike the LEGO Batman game, which I am not particularly excited for. Lets just hope that Lucas will not do the same they did with the LEGO Star Wars games, where they re-released both games as one – LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga (as if the first two games were not complete), with new levels, effects and characters. Causing for a lot of people to have to go out and buy the game a second time. Although, this time it is also on the Wii, which is probably the platform I am going to buy it for. Now I just have to decide on which platform I want to play LEGO Indi – the Nintendo Wii or XBOX360.

After watching the video, I definitely like the game. It looks like they are using the same game engine that is in Lego Star Wars and Star Wars II. The game is appealing and I am looking forward to its release.