I think this is really great, and a big surprise. I expected the number to be much lower than what it is. A study conducted by Nielsen Entertainment showed that 64% of online gamers are woman. Also, about 8% of that are woman who are at least 45 years old. The study doesn't stay what type of games are played, so it's assumed that this also includes flash based games as well. So if any of your are on Xbox Live be sure to look me up.

I'd really like to know what happens to the people who "lose" these laptops.  "In advance of a House Committee on Government Reform hearing, in which the matter would have come up anyway, the U.S. Commerce Dept. responded to a Committee request by disclosing in a private briefing yesterday that it believes as many as 1,137 laptop computers have been lost from the Dept.'s inventory since 2001."

AMD and Streamload have launched a new service, and they are offering 25GB accounts for free. WWW Link

I told you a few weeks ago about a man who received 6 years for pirating software. Now another man has been given a record sentence of 7 years for selling pirated software on his website. He was also ordered to pay over 5.4 million dollars in restitution. "Nathan Peterson, 27, of Los Angeles, sold copyrighted software at a huge discount on his site, iBackups.net, prosecutors said. The FBI began investigating the site in 2003 and shut it down in February 2005"

Blu-ray seems to be helping the downfall already. Sony, just make a great gaming console, and leave the blu-ray to something else. "Sony will delay the European launch of its PlayStation 3 game console by about four months to March and cut its target for worldwide shipments this year by half, the company said Wednesday. Sony had planned to launch the new version of its blockbuster PlayStation console in November, setting the stage for a three-way showdown with Microsoft and Nintendo du...

That's a lot for one disc. "TDK announced Thursday that it had reached a new milestone in data storage on Blu-ray discs, revealing a prototype that can hold 200GB. The disc doubles TDK's previous 100GB prototype and is possible by creating six distinct layers of data, each capable of holding 33.6GB."

While I think the firing through text messages I posted about a few weeks ago is worse, this isn't too much better. Will this be the new way employers use to fire and lay-off employees? "RadioShack on Tuesday followed through on plans to lay off 400 employees as part of an effort to cut expenses and become more competitive in the marketplace, but the method in which the firings occurred has some fuming. The company notified employees of their dismissal through e-mail."

Adobe has released the 9.0.2 update for Photoshop CS2. Changes are: - Menus now respond correctly after a single click. - Undo/Redo work properly when multiple documents are open. - Photoshop no longer produces a program error when encountering unsupported file types through the Acrobat Touchup workflow. - Supported files that incorrectly produced an "unsupported color space" message now open as expected. - TIFF files with layer data greater than 2GB now open correctly.

I'm not sure what to say. It's just a browser people.

I always look forward to E3. I hope these changes make it more productive for smaller game developers. "GameSpot has learned that tomorrow the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) will announce changes to the format and scale of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the game industry event that typically draws in excess of 60,000 attendees and includes over 400 exhibitors. On July 28, the Web site of UK trade magazine MCV reported discussions had taken place between the ESA and...

This is hillarious. Maybe we shouldn't complain when they delay Vista again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y_Jp6PxsSQ

SkinRoundup - July 2006 I wanted to take thismoment and share some of the skins that have caught my eye in the lastfew weeks or so. I will try to keep this going every week. Windowblinds Eminence by rjsmith2007 A darkskin is something that is sometimes hard to pull off, but I think Eminence has done itvery well. Now I can have another dark WB on my computer without the word Vistain it. Eminence Noctilucent by FuzzyL...

Just wondering what IRC client people are using here.  I'm looking for a good, and free one.   

I'm seriously thinking about purchasing one.  Anybody here have own and would like to share their opinions?  I'm also curious how people have theirs setup.  I know some people have been using them with their computer monitor.

Microsoft has released the public betas for Vista and Office 2007. You can download Office 2007 here - http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/download/en/default.mspx Vista download will be available soon here - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/get_it.mspx