The Price of games! Is it all worth it?

I walked into a music store and looked at the latest games they had on their fully stocked shelves! I looked at the games I was interested in and would quickly shove them onto the shelves after looking at the price. I can’t see myself buying a game for R450 that I might not enjoy! The reason why I brought this up is because I see myself as a hard core gamer or a avid gamer! I mainly play PC but we have a Nintendo WII.

When WII came out here in sunny South Africa the games were dirt cheap.R300 for a wii game was the average price and obviously games like super Mario were more ranging in at about R600,For those of you that don’t know R10 Is 1$US. WII games are now on average R450, that’s $45.00! I don’t think that’s a good price for games! That’s too expensive .Now while I was rummaging through the games I found a game called PopStar Guitar, This game is just like Guitar hero but it doesn’t come with a full sized guitar but comes with a clip-on button thing for the wii remote. The price of this game was only R100 which is $10! For a WII game that’s Dirt cheap!

I got home and check the price online and found I GOT A GREAT DEAL! The game online is R450,and I only got it for R100.But this game is not worth the normal price tag, it’s boring and really doesn’t have anything kick ass about it. Although I have not played the game for more than an hour I don’t even know If I really want too!

I knew I was most probable not going to play it again but for the price of only R100 I would buy it. What if games were cheaper? would you buy more games even if you didn’t know if you would enjoy it? Well if I had to answer that question I would have to say yes!

If games were cheaper for both consoles and PC I would buy much more games and I would not care if they were so crap! Games should become cheaper and I can almost guarantee people will stop pirating games and more games will be bought meaning the game creators will make more money and then everyone is happy!

Basic Information on RAM(random access memory)

Random access memory also known as RAM for short stores data and programs that are going to be needed to be used by the CPU.The reason for this is because your CPU can only process a certain amount of data at a time so any data that needs to be proceed by the CPU needs to get stored somewhere while the CPU process the first tasks it receives.

RAM today has billions of bytes of memories in their ram chips. Most computers today have between 256MB to 2GB of ram but there are also computers like servers that have much more Gigabits of ram. Ram is generally long and rectangular although there are many different types of RAM. RAM fits straight into your motherboard and is secured with 2 clips that hold it into place. You are most likely going to find dual inline memory module (DIMM )RAM in computers today.

For more information on RAM and different types/speeds and any other information please go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_access_memory

The 5th best online FPS of all time.

Welcome to the first instalment on the top 5 online games of all time! On his mind will count you down from the 5th best game down to 1! Stay with us and see why we have chosen these games as the top 5 best FPS for online play!

5. Quake III Arena


Coming in as the 5th best FPS online game of all time is Quake III Arena also known as Quake 3 by many gamers is a awesome first person shooter that toke the gaming community by storm in December 1999. The game was developed by id Software and featured music composed by Sonic Mayhem and Front Line Assembly. Quake III Arena is the third in the series and differs from previous games in the series by excluding a traditional single-player element and focusing on multi-player action. The single-player is instead played against computer controlled bots in a similar style to Unreal Tournament.

Q3A's aim is to frag (kill) enemy players and score points based on the game mode's objective such as capturing the enemy flag. When a player's health points reach zero, that player's avatar is fragged; in the majority of modes the player can then respawn and continue playing, health restored, but without previously gathered weapons and power-ups. Games end when a player or team reaches a score or time-limit. Game modes include deathmatch, team deathmatch, capture the flag, and tournament.

Notable features of Quake 3 include the minimalist design, lacking rarely used items and features, the extensive customizability of player settings such as field of view, texture detail and enemy model, and advanced movement features such as strafe-jumping that give more speed with greater skill in contrast to the digital, all or nothing design of many computer games.

This game was way ahead of its class when it was released and is still played frequently online today!ID software(the creators of Q3) did a brilliant job and because of this it is listed in our top 5 online FPS games of all time.

Stay with us while we feature the top 4 FPS games of all time on this blog!

Top 5 online FPS games of all time(count down)

welcome to the on his mind top FPS(first person shooter) games of all time. Here we will tell you what the best online/LAN FPS of all time is! We will count from five down to the top online first person shooter that gamers have loved to play!

This is The “on his mind” top 5 FPS online games of all time!We hope you enjoy reading these articles and please do comment if you have any comments or if you disagree with ow selection!

every thing you need to know about SCSI and SCSI drives.

I know a lot about computers, in fact I know more than some IT technicians, but due to me being pretty young compared to computers there is a lot of old hardware I don’t know about and one of them is SCSI.


After doing some research on the internet and the like I now know quite a lot! SCSI Stands for Small Computer System Interface.SCSI is mainly in servers because it can run lots of devices simultaneously. You connect SCSI hard drives, scanners, CD-ROM/RW drives, printers and tape drives to a SCSI host adapter.You don’t see SCSI in A lot of new computers because SCSI has mainly been taken over by SATA(serial-ATA) because newer SATA drives are faster and cheaper than SCSI drives.SCSI talks to your computer with a add-on card called a host adapter, some host adapters have both internal and external SCSI ports to fit a SCSI cable into.

SCSI is a very old technology (been around for 20 odd years)yet it is very fast,currently SCSI has speeds of up to 320 megabytes per second or MBps.

SCSI comes in a lot of different shapes and sizes but I will not go into all this in this article. If you would however like to see what they all look like and information on them go here: http://www.ramelectronics.net/scsi_connectors.ep

SCSI runs parallel which means all the information is sent at the same time and does not have to wait and send information one at a time.SCSI host adaptors have a built in BIOS just like your motherboard, this SCSI BIOS controls your SCSI drives. Every SCSI devises has a SCSI ID,this ID is important because without it the host adaptor won’t be able to speak to the other devises on the SCSI chain.

On the end of a SCSI daisy chain you have to put a terminator because then the SCSI drive does not know that there is no more devises connected, to do this you need to add a termination devise or set your devise to termination mode.

For more information on SCSI visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI

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Basic information on the Central processing unit (CPU)

Many people compare the CPU(central processing unit) to the human brain, although this is slightly true it is a huge overstatement for the CPU. The CPU is more like a very powerful calculator that can calculate billions of calculations every second and because it does this so fast it does in fact look very intelligent. Everything you do on your computer is processed by the CPU.The faster the CPU is the faster it can process calculations! In other words every CPU does the same thing, but it is better to have a faster CPU so it can process tasks that need to be processed faster, well faster! If you use your PC for word processing, internet, email and other basic tasks you don’t need such a powerful CPU but if you are going to use your PC for gaming or graphics design you going to have a fast CPU to processes calculations on the fly.

The CPU fits into a CPU socket on your motherboard! Without the CPU your PC won’t be able to do anything. In my opinion CPUs and motherboards are the most important system component today. For more information on Central processing units please visit:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU

Is it better to walk or run in the rain?What's going to make you more wet

Have you ever asked yourself whether you get more what if you run or walk in the rain? Well at varsity today this became a heated argument wile it was pouring out side. We went online, argued points and disgusted how we would prove we were correct.

At the end of the lecture we all decided to find out for good! We got one Runner and one walker, each person had to go the same distance ether walking or running. We gave both students a piece of white paper that they had to hold in their hand flat wile running. We were going to inspect both the paper and the clothing for dryness.

Both the runner and the walker started at the exact same time and did the exact same distance while we stood and watched on the second floor, the runner got back to us in a couple of seconds and we examined his clothing and the paper, about a minute later the walker got back and the truth was told. The walker was much wetter than the runner, and worse his piece of paper was soaked with rain water.

This concluded that running is in fact much better than walking in the rain to stay as dry as possible.

Apparently this whole argument has become a heated discussion around some scientists and a show called myth busters has actually done tests so we can find out the truth, myth busters also found that running is better than walking.

The resone why it is better to run than walk in the rain is because of the following. If you run you will be out the rain faster than the walker. We came to the conclusion that if the runner ran for the same amount of time than the walker the runner would in fact be more wet due to the runner getting hit by rain drops from the front(Just like when you drive in the car).But remember the runner will have run triple the distance than the walker.

For more information on this discussion go to: http://www.wisegeek.com/do-you-get-wetter-if-you-run-or-walk-in-the-rain.htm

Facebook march 2009 layout update!

Last week or so facebook released their new facebook profile page layout to the world. The new design give users the ability to easily feed the news stream by friend type and network, and gives users a much easier way to post links, photos and videos. The news feed will also begin updating in real time without page refreshes.

This in my eyes is a break through!Facebook have managed to do what I think is brilliant.facebook has successfully made it more like twitter while still having everything else you have always had on facebook.But unfortunately not everyone is happy with the new setup that I love so much.


Some people don’t appreciate this new setup and are setting up groups to try take it down and change it back to the old style, I think that’s rubbish! Give them 1 month and they will learn how to use this new layout and then they will see how much better it really is! I think this is an innovation that was needed to keep facebook on top of their game! Facebook have done well up to now, and all these things are tested and improved way before the public even hear about it!

The new facebook is here to stay and if you don’t like it, then you going to have to live with it! Facebook have done a good job on this update and we should all appreciate it.

For more information on this update please go to the following sites
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/04/screen-shots-the-new-facebook-home-page/
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=59195087130