daily education eps 1

ignore the type-o at the end..=] thank you

Windows 7 = October 23rd, 2009

So it's been awhile since anything techy has been posted so here's something to fill the quota. As some of you may know by now, Windows 7 has taken shape and is getting ready for its RC version to hit the public pretty soon. Well it looks like some dudes over at Acer spilled the beans and have announced they're all-in-one PC will be ready to order on Oct. 23rd with Windows 7.

So if you're looking for a brand new PC, you may wanna wait until the end of October to get one since Vista is pretty much obsolete...both by Windows XP and 7.

Fun at work

Now that's just nasty.

Once Again

Poppy Festival 2009!!!! WHOOOHOO

Went to the annual Poppy Festival at Lancaster Park (my family makes it a mission to go to these every year) and it turned out to be ok. I got to see lots of people walk around, lots of cowboy hats, Roamin Roman Hoplites, lotsa Jazz, and ate some BBQ and Funnel Cake. Oh yeah, I also got some more time in on FFIII but Im severly stuck at the Golden Castle part... Here's some pics so you can virtually relive PoppyFEST 2009!!!!

BF Heroes Sneak Peek

Gotta Love Chinese Products

Finally...

Finally got into this shiznit. Will cap some footy and post it later on tonight for those interested.

Bitchsquito

Pushed To 2011

Bundle of Joy

Congrats are in order for me!( or my mom). I found out today that im getting another little brother, or possibly a sister? I cant even begin to explain how excited i am. Why dont you guys participate in coming up with some names. Boy & Girl. Go ahead and post 'em in the shoutbox.

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

Gosh damn, nerds are so dope.

elephnat. and THE man

So if you scrolled down enough on the site lately, you might have noticed that there are ads along the right side of the page now (gasp!). I'm not sure what happened but basically after we got OVER 9000!!!!!!! hits, a new option appeared in the admin section of the site which allowed us to host some money making ads on our blog. Now, I'll be the first one to admit I hate browsing through websites with obtrusive ads like Gamespot, or any Cnet subsidiary,etc. but after thinking about it for a bit, I realized this might be a great way to help raise money for elephnat. related purchases like a movie projector for our tournaments/movie nights, help pay for movie props and production, and other elephnat stuff that we can all share with our local and non-local viewers. So yeah, I gave in to the man, dammit. But hopefully we can take advantage of this. For now its just a small section on the lower right hand side, hopefully it won't get in the way of browsing through our blog.

ElephnatCast #2 Coming AtchYa!

Puppy Update

Puppies say Hi

Fallout 3: New Vegas

So Fallout 3 was a pretty cool game and it was one of the rare titles I actually sat down and played through to the end. So what's next? Bethesda has just announced the next Fallout game, "Fallout: New Vegas" which will be released sometime next year. It's important to note that this is not a sequel...or quadruquel to the Fallout series, just Fallout 3 set in or near Las Vegas in the same engine/period. Cool, I guess. I can't expect to wait 5 years for the next one to come out, I'd be 29 by then...fook that's scary.

QoTW: 04/19/09

strangeling
on April 19, 2009

SIM SANDWICH! Impressive.

Thanks Guys!

More Gifts From Fans

This little cutie was made and donated to Team elephnat by a fellow named chad. It was painstakingly painted at the AV malls Paint a Dream.Estimates time of completion approx. 1 and a half hours. Thanks to chad and his constant thinking about us. Heres to the fans.

YouTube Got Me

Chillin With Aj from anthony del rio on Vimeo.

Time Warner Cable & Their Crappy Tiered Billing Plans

I've been following all the news surrounding Time Warner Cable for the past couple of weeks or so regarding their new "Tier Service" marketing. Now TWC isn't the first US ISP to place bandwidth caps on customers internet service (we have to thank Comcast for that) but TWC is the first to place different maximum bandwidth caps on their monthly plans. Don't let their PR fool you, they aren't the good guys here and are only doing this to help bring in more cash from their "power" users (anyone who streams movies, watches online TV, download games...which contains alot of people according to the number of subscribers/accounts/sales).

Here's a quick look at the new pricing system:
10 GB, 20 GB, 40 GB and 60 GB for Road Runner Lite, Basic, Standard and Turbo packages, respectively. Package prices will remain the same. Overage charges will be $1 per GB per month.

*estimated avg. streaming movies for 7 hours a week = 40GB


This is bad news. Not only is TWC my ISP, I was quite happy with their service up until now. Even though they're not actively testing my area with this bullshit plan pricing, I refuse to sit idly while they are performing these business decisions. Placing caps like this on internet service can effectively put a choke hold on online services, and with no good reason to boot.

So if Time Warner Cable is your ISP, please either consider writing them an email just to let them know you know what's going on and aren't down with it. Also, please begin checking out other comparable services like AT&T U-Verse or Verizon Fios if they are in your area.

Here is a link to the SoCal Feedback page for Time Warner Cable:
http://www.timewarnerla.com/support/feedback/

ZuneHD? Yes please

Here we have another beautiful shot of the confirmed for fall ZuneHD. Still waiting on details, but this image alone is enougn to make me buy it

**Edit - RJ - Was gonna post up some more info for the ZuneHD but decided to squeeze it all in here. Exciting times ahead!

Pulled from an exclusive story over from Neowin.net

An overview of the Zune HD specs:
3.6 inchish OLED full touch screen. (Yes!)
NVIDIA Tegra powered. (Smooth HD playback, Yes!)
4GB, 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, and 120GB versions. (4GB ZuneHD? Pfft. No size increase from last year, doh!)
HDMI Connection to stream straight to your TV. (Hell Yes!)
HD Radio. (Whaaa? Oh yeah, HD Radio. Finally can check it out now, cool.)
Web Browser. (Sure, why not.)
WiFi compatible, with wireless marketplace. (Yup.)
Released, early fall. (Yup.)
International release of the Zune device itself. (There's other countries besides us?)
Home AV packs, Car packs, Charge packs. (No Zune-Beer Hat? WTF!)

ZuneHD

Meet the ZuneHD. No hard details yet but lack of buttons suggest touchscreen interface, bigger screen, and slimmer profile. If this thing can output 720p as well, you could seriously have an HD PMP in your pocket, sweet!

New addition to my family...say hi DSi

So I picked up a DSi a couple days ago and I'm finding it to be a pretty cool little system. I've always kinda looked the other way with Nintendo's crazy popular hand-held due to the overall "cuddliness" of the system. After actually browsing through the various titles for the DS, I could actually see myself putting in lots of hours playing awesome remakes of FFIII, FFIV, and Chrono not to mention GTA, Castlevania and Advanced Wars. Add the promise of DLC through the DSWare shop and it's definitely a nice console to have on you.

The camera is pretty neat, but since this is my first DS I can't really look back in retrospective, still cool nevertheless although a bit unnessecary. SD card seems like a natural given, having extra storage space is necessary this day in age and is probably the biggest improvement hardware wise for the system. And you get a little more real estate on the screens as a nice cherry on the top. I wish I had this thing a few years ago when I didn't have alot of time to spend gaming at home...

Bumptop

This little program/GUI is great.Its main audience is for the touch screen pc crowd, but works great with a mouse. its basically an awesome way organize your desktop....with PHYSICS! I hoenstly cant explain how much fun this is. After looking at the image, i really hope you try this out.

DOWNLOAD LINK

Via CNET

OMG TEH WIDGETS!!!111oneone

Stumbled across this sprint ad page, and lemme tell ya, its pretty cool. have fun trying to take in all the information on this site. its what our desktops are going to look like in the near future, JK i hope?
CLICK,NO REALLY,CLICK

Epic

Giantbomb.com QOTW

not today....

the number you haved dialed is no longer in service

can u spell elephnat?

8.25 to 9.25

If you live in CA be prepared to pay a little extra at the .99 store. Starting today, state sales tax rose from 8.25% to 9.25%. No, this isnt some April fools day joke, well maybe from the top cheese in Sacramento but certainly not from me. It doesn't add up to much for your average taco or McChicken but you might feel it on larger orders.