Over the years I have bought a lot of hardware even for a person in IT. I have bought new and second-hand mid-range parts for computers in an Internet café and I have bought a lot of high-end gamer hardware for personal use. One thing I have learned is that no matter how expensive and high quality hardware you get if you buy enough of it you will get a defective piece. I had parts of many different brands fail and I had parts of no-name brands work fine for decades. In my experience the more cutting edge hardware you get the more likely it is to fail. I have had an expensive high-end Asus video card fail and then its replacement fail again. This is why I am no longer impressed by people's stories about their ten year old laptops which still work fine. This is not interesting at all. The interesting part is what happens when the hardware fails because some hardware will fail.

   На 12ти март излезе разширението на StarCraft II, а именно Heart of the Swarm. След като изиграх кампанията и направих стотина игри в multiplayer смятам, че е време да споделя моето (още известно като "правилното") мнение за играта за да знаете какво да казвате като ви питат...

   A friend of mine, who knows I am an avid gamer told me of a review he once read for a game called Chess. I was not able to find the original review, so I decided to write my own and let people know what they are getting into if they decide to purchase the latest entry in the tactical board games genre...

   Just recently I gave an in-depth reply on a forum to a question that I know I have answered before. When you need to give the same lengthy answer more than once you should write an article to save your keystrokes and just link the article the next time someone asks the same question. This particular question was:

   "If I am involved in a web project where I get to make the decision about the technology stack why would I choose .NET. Why would I choose a stack that costs money, makes the project dependent on a vendor (updates, new versions, etc.) instead of use PHP, Python, Ruby or Java. I don't see any serious technical advantages of ASP.NET and the communities of competing technologies are usually bigger and more helpful."

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   Още от едно време ми тежи на съвестта, че така и не изиграх нито една игра на Haemimont. След две игри срещу компютър на Tzar обявих играта за крайно смотана и повече никога не я пуснах. Толкова години след това продължавах да прескачам игрите им. Не че ми липсваше желание да изпробвам някоя родна игра ей така от уважение, но жанровете, в които бяха продуктите на компанията не ми допадаха. По принцип харесвам city builder игри, но опитът ми с двете такива, които съм играл (Settlers 2 и Caesar 3) показа, че изискват безумно много време, което просто не бих инвестирал в такъв тип игра. Тази година обаче най-после се реших да пробвам най-новото творение на Haemimont – Omerta – City of Gangsters...