It seems Sony will enable PS3 to participate in distributed projects during its idle time. That’s a very cool idea but will it save PS3 from major disaster?

I think I’ll continue with Wii for now…

I’m a video game fan, although not an addict. I can usually stay a month of heavy work without playing… and I can also spend 6 or more straight hours playing a game I like during a work-free afternoon. It depends…

I think I’ve had most of the consoles up until recent years. I remember as if it was yesterday starting with NES, followed by Super NES, Mega Drive, Game Gear, Mega CD, Saturn, PlayStation and PlayStation 2. However, the ones which I remember most dearly are surely NES and Mega Drive. These were great, really, really good. I’m still expecting another breakthrough but it hasn’t arrived yet.

For a couple of years now my will has been turned on to PS3. I was eager to get it… however, XBox was out, XBox 360 was out, and yet… PS3 seems far way… Amazon.co.uk sent me an email last September 9th:

You may be aware that Sony has postponed the launch of the PS3 in Europe until March 2007 due to a shortage of Blu-ray components.

I’m getting more and more bad feelings about this… Although I would bet in Sony to win the VideoGames industry a year or two ago, I’m definitely not betting on it now… Wii seems to be coming and now I want Wii… which after all seems to be a Wiiiiiiiiiiiiii to the VideoGames world. Amazon.co.uk just sent me this email a two days ago:

That’s right, gaming fans, Nintendo will release their latest console in the UK on December 8th–priced at a jaw-dropping £179.99 with the excellent Wii Sports game. Next-generation gaming really doesn’t get cheaper than that!

I’ve read some blog entries on it some time ago but didn’t read much more. Now, I decided to give it a bit of my time and it seems to be a real change, a real revolution…
Now, I just keep remembering how great it was to play The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Faxanadu and SuperMario and I just which I can play those again and the new generation versions… :-)

I’m truly sorry Sony… but on this console generation I’ll bet on Nintendo Wii!

My answer is NO! Although in fact, the title of the article is The Myth About Homework I don’t think that’s the point of the article.

First, it seems statistics reflect homework results for lowers academic years (children around 10-12 y.o). Nothing is mentioned about higher academic years (teenagers around 13-18 y.o.), that would also be nice. Also, two solutions are discussed.

In my opinion there’s obviously a correct amount of homework to give kids to do. It seems to be that 30min. a day would be OK. Note that 30min. is almost nothing… I’m was quite surprised about the numbers presented in the article: 52-128min. / week. Kids need to stress their brains, they need to catch up and smash todays ‘natural’ lazyness. They are surrounded with TV’s, PlayStation’s, PC’s, etc, etc… It’s quite hard to sit them down and tell them what to do when so many other things are asking them not to work. Working is hard and it is even harder when you have many other nicer things to do. If you live in a house with nothing to do except maybe some homework, house-cleaning, etc, I’m quite sure the kid would love to do its homework. Problem is, today that’s not the case and as time goes by, new things are invented to tell them not to work. My guess is, as they are told they need to brush their teeth, they also need to be told they need to do their homework. However, that’s another story since most of the time parents are not at home in the afternoon to tell them what to do and they are usually raised by their grandmother or by a maid. If you tell me… “But they are given so much workload… they can’t complete it… it’s too much.” Well, I can guess what goes by the teacher’s mind. If the teacher gave them 2 exercises, they would probably not do them. Yes, that’s right, they wouldn’t. It’s a question of not having much to do… the less you have to do, the less you achieve. If the teacher gives them 10 exercises, they will probably try to do at least 2 exercises which was the initial intent, however the parents feel their kids being pressed with a lot of workload but that was the only solution for the teacher to see something done! Well, just my five cents… still removing the homework completely for me is just non-sense.

… From the people, to the people…

(in Destak [Portuguese Free Newspaper], 16-09-2006)

Ever since the 9/11 we’ve been fed with a theory which was accepted by most: Bin Laden from Al Qaeda planned the attacks and successfully killed thousands of human beings and destroyed a whole lot of things worth in the order of a lot of million dollars. Well, that’s what I believed, and that’s what most believe, besides those which propagate conspiracy theories, which are those who usually have a minority of supporters.

Yesterday, I’ve seen hours of documentaries in Portuguese channel RTP1 and I was amazed. The documentaries briefly proposed that: the planes were not hijacked by the people the US Gov told us, these people which were communicated by the US Gov are still alive (some of them). The twin towers didn’t fell by the crash of the airplanes. They were imploded instead! There were people warned before the 9/11 attacks not to fly on that day. The pentagon explosion was not a commercial airplane. United 93 didn’t crash where everyone thinks it did… And I could continue.

Problem is… what’s the truth? Probably we will never know… However, the real question is: what should we believe? In fact, why is what I saw yesterday the truth? Why should we believe that the truth was what Bush wanted to publicize? If the US Gov made us all believe in a lie for so long, why do we hurry ourselves to believe on other documentaries which just show us a completely different perspective of what happened?

I have not delve deeply into these theories, nor have I read about them but if I really wished to understand them I think I’d not just stay for the documentaries and Bushs words… A lot of theories should be read, the facts should be analyzed by ourselves and then, with many perspectives, the facts, photos and documentaries, one should develop its own theory. Because the truth… we will, probably, never know!