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Finally. Halo 3 is here.
Is it awesome? Duh. Are the graphics great despite the BS pixel nerds that are talking about the 640 lines issue? Yes. Is it actually fun to play? Of course. Is the story good? So far. I'm only 5 missions deep.
I'm glad that all of the reviews of Halo 3 have been 9.5's or greater. I haven't found anything about the game that I don't like yet except for a few random crashes (never really had any on my XBOX 360) but a reset fixes it. I'm surprised at how difficult Heroic is, and Legendary is insane. I'm playing on Normal right now to get the game done then I'll go back for the rest.
I played my CMO Sam Decker tonight on XBOX LIVE and it was rather entertaining, but our lag was terrible. I'm sure neither of us (being minor gamers at best) have invested in the time or router technology to ensure a fast connection, but it was fun nonetheless. He's a better shot than he looks.
GPS technology is a sector of tech that's hot right now. Why? Because everyone and everything needs to know where it is, always. Think about it - even when you're dying to get lost from it all, you're really not interested in actually being LOST.
The companies that are really interesting right now are Navteq (NYSE:NVT), Garmin (NASDAQ:GRMN), SiRF (NASDAQ:SIRF), and maybe Magellan (private). I'm personally an investor in Navteq and it has risen by 178% in the last 8 months. The sector is moving in that direction with the ever increasing number of cars that come standard with GPS based navigation, the proliferation of phone based GPS systems like on the Blackberry 8800 (my business phone), and the price decreases seen in consumer devices like the ones from Garmin.
I owned a Garmin eTrex when I was having fun with Geocaching and enjoyed it thoroughly. We'll only see more interest in Navteq data as systems like Google Earth and others become the basis for so many mashups and useful offshoots.
I'm no Jim Cramer, but I firmly believe that GPS tech is a great investment for the next year at least.
Seems that I only post when I'm in London. This time around its because the Metronet has decided to strike, literally crippling an entire city's public transportation. This is NOTHING like Austin where light rail means an illuminated rail - this is going to keep people from going to work. Estimated losses in the Evening Standard were 50 million GBP or about $100mm USD daily. WOW. And this over what the Mayor has already supposedly capitulated on, the restoration or security of jobs for about 3,000 railworkers from the company that was taken over earlier this year. Lame if you ask me.
London needs robots. Then by all means strike away.
I'm flying home tomorrow and luckily don't need the tube (but could have used it to get to where I'm going). Sad that a city as great as this is going to be taken hostage in the middle of the work week.
-MRO
