I wanted to do a post today to celebrate and thank those who have served in our military, and those who are currently serving. All day I’ve had different ideas of how I wanted to go about it. Some of them were so elaborate and stretched out it seemed more like a ploy to get people to look at my site rather then to truly thank those who put everything on the line just so we can continue to have the government we all bitch about today. On the other side of the spectrum, I’ve had thoughts that were so simple that I felt it wasn’t doing justice to how I felt. While checking my email and the news through my iGoogle page, I noticed that the Geekologie Writer had put out a new post since my last check titled “FREEDOM ISN’T FREE: Happy Veterans Day”. Looking at it I found the satisfaction that I was looking for in my own post. 3 lines and an image is all there, but he says what he really feels, so I say thanks to GW for helping me realize t hat it doesn’t really matter how elaborate or simple the post is; the idea is to give thanks for those doing for the many what not everyone is capable of doing.
Microsoft recently announced that it will be cutting access to their online servers to up to 1,000,000 x-box live subscribers. These subscribers have been chosen to lose their service based on the fact that they modified their x-box 360 in some manner. Most of these modifications were to the DVD-ROM drive to allow “backed up” (at least that’s what the modifier will tell you, majority of the time its pirated games) to be played on the 360 console. The other modifications were mainly modifications to the hard drives because people either wanted/needed more storage space then Microsoft currently supplies, or, They were not willing to pay what Microsoft is attempting to charge (on average $1.00/Gb compared to $.10/Gb for standard hard drives).
