Dear Customer,

Your subscription to Xbox Live Subscription Transfer is scheduled to be automatically renewed to Xbox Live 12 mo. Gold Membership on Monday, October 09, 2006.

Ummm, no thank you. I have decided not to update my credit card on file, and just let my subscription lapse into the nothingness of Xbox Hell.

The Xbox 360 was the biggest dissapointment in my 20+ years of gaming. I have no desire to ever play this piece of trash again. The 360 will never live up to the fun of the original Xbox and Xbox Live service. And BTW… Halo 2 sux0rz to all get out!

A Mac user praising Microsoft? Yup! Every now and then ole’ Bill has a really great idea.

The idea worth mentioning is called the Windows Performance Rating, a feature in the upcoming Windows Vista OS, which will rate a PC based on how well it is running and on how much it can take advantage of Vista’s capabilities.

The Windows Performance Rating evaluates components such as the processor, the memory, the hard drive and graphics cards to come up with an overall score. The rating appears in a large blue circle and can be seen in multiple places in the operating system. The main rating is on a scale of 1 to 5, but individual components are also given a “sub rating.”

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I received my first computer back in 1994 when I was a senior in High School. It was a Packard Bell Legend 1956 Supreme, 486/DX2 50 MHz. Although advertised as 50 MHz, it was actually 25 MHz with DX2 technology, effectively doubling the processor speed with some type of voodoo.

That Packard Bell was running Windows for Workgroups 3.11. At a cost of around $2,200.00, it was the best model Sears had at the time, with a whopping 400 MB of HD space and a punchy 4MB of RAM. Jumper settings, IRQ and DMA settings were horrible. It would sometimes take a half-hour of trial and error to find the right settings for your sound card when installing a game. The good old days.

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