A glimpse at the future with the first game demo video of Watch Dogs.

This game looks incredible both graphics and game play, made by the same company that brought us Assassins Creed, but with completely new game play.

Computer hacking is the order of the day.

Be sure to watch the entire video.

Art installation blurs boundary between physical and digital (video)


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I'm back from a great time camping with the family, but might go back out there to them there woods for some more family fun this upcoming week

And so the commercialization of space tech etc. starts to take off (excuse the poor pun )

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18638807

I have never seen a cat do something like this

The past few days, the laptop has been plagued with performance issues, spotty network connectivity, and a few other issues that have been getting gradually worse, so I decided to look into the matter today. Everything with the OS and all of the software looked ok, with nothing amiss in the event logs, but I did notice that the top of the keyboard was slightly warmer than usual, and I also noticed that the fan was in "quiet mode", and so I couldn't hear it. I could feel warm air coming out from the exhaust ports, but it seemed warm, not hot, so I wasn't all that concerned. But I DID want to know what the various temps were, just to be absolutely certain, so I installed SpeedFan, which is a temperature monitoring/fan control app (for those who didn't already know), and I was rather shocked to find that the CPU temp was sitting at 55°C! While that's not unusual for a slightly overclocked desktop unit on a hot day, it's WAY too hot for an entry level laptop. At this point, I noticed that SpeedFan was also showing that the fan wasn't running at all (or was incorrectly reporting 0 RPM, perhaps), and I still couldn't hear it, so I shut down and let the thing cool off. That's where I am now. I'll boot the laptop up in a while, and listen for the fan to kick in during the boot process (it always jumps to "high" for a second, right at the beginning of booting up). If no fans, it's time to create a "blow box", to keep it cool till I can take it apart and see what's happening.

I HATE doing surgery on laptops!

During this past week-end, I have spent quite a lot of time with the Equestrian Types. During one conversation, I told one said Type that I knew only five things about Horses, 1) They Bite at one end, 2) They Shite out the other, 3) They have a piece of metal nailed onto each corner, 4) They Breakdown quite often and 5) They ain't the sharpest tool in the shed.

Said Type replied that I was quite correct and that was all I needed to know particularly with regard to item 5. He then stated that, "if it wasn't for humans, horses would be extinct".

Right or wrong ?, don't ask me, but it got me thinking. What else has the Human Race intervened in for the greater good, inadvertantly.

Your thoughts and ideas ?.