LOL so the only thing that really kept me from going PS3 was the netflix streaming, apparently PS3 gets that next month. I really don't see the need for paying xbox $60 some dollars each year, so I think I'm going to get a PS3, give the blu ray player to my dad and eliminate one of the media stacked units. Plus it's the last microsoft product i have in the place, i'll be free of the M$ EULA once and for all LOL

I only need two games and I miss them SOOOOO badly.



SOCOM and Gran Turismo.

You need a wii!

I have a wii. Actually i haven't played any games at all lately, no time, we use the xbox for netflix all weekend long, so that's what gives it the most use. the ps3 will have netflix soon.

I bought my first game console in my entire life last week, a Wii.... We bought it just to play rock band world tour, but we ended up playing alot of the sports games.

Its kinda fun, you can exercise while playing video games..



My latest digital dilemma is trying to find small business/accounting software for the Mac. I bought moneyworks and it just plain all out sucked.. I might have to break down and put windows 7 on it with simply accounting..

Quickbooks has a mac version, Amy used it at her old office, she uses a different version now. hate to recommend quickbooks, but it's better then nothing.

A surprising number of small businesses run Quickbooks. I once worked briefly with a company that had grown to well over 100 employees and they still used Quickbooks.

I think I'll have a look at quickbooks, my accountant didn't have much good to say about it though... I see there is a new version of MYOB out for Canada/Mac applications..

I need to get some more WII games to.

that means she's a good accountant. LOL Amy hates it, the museum even uses it for the POS registers.

You don't have a lot of good accounting software that is cheap. What are you trying to do? QB is it for under $1,000 that is okay - if you get a decent accountant or do it yourself you will learn it's issues and the work-arounds. It's like hiring the $30 an hour CPA - do you really expect them to know what they are doing? So you can't really expect QB to be the end all. Don't get me wrong it works, it's just not self explanatory. Let me know if you need help getting any of it figured out, I have been doing this a long time and am good at what I do (so my employers say). Don't get the QB for Mac it's a flaming heap of poo.

Everyone seems to hate quickbooks, there really isn't to much out there geared to handle small trades type business.

I wonder if I should wait and see what the fall out is from windows 7 before I bother buying it... The other option is just buy a 400.00 laptop and use it, but the mac is such a nice machine to work on.

i used peachtree when I had my business, that was about 10 years ago though.

Hit me up on message if you want. How big is your company and what are you trying to accomplish? The main downfall with QB for Mac is client invoicing. Do you plan on having a bunch of reoccurring invoices? If not it will probably do the trick for you. Are you planning on using payroll, inventory tracking, budgeting, within QB or what? If you set up either version correctly you can make it work. QB is like windoze it can work. If you have a small business you may not even know that its crappy software. You run into issues when entering GJ entries hitting multiple AP and AR accounts - the issue is you can't do it. Also it has issues switching between cash and accrual accounting it doesn't work 100% right but if you pick one version and stick with it and understand your accruals and cash are effected by entry date. It can mess up your liability tracking.. again if you pick one and don't try to do both it works. I have managed companies with 3M yearly budgets and it works fine. I am currently managing a 22M project that spans 2 years in QB - yes by their choice because the 15K alternative is too much to spend on accounting software. It does work you just have to manage your PL & Balance sheet on a monthly basis and make sure the numbers look good. If you do that your fine.



If your doing the books and your not an accountant take a class for a couple bucks from QB and you will be in blissful ignorance and not even know what a flaming pile it is. The only people who hate QB are accountants so if your not one don't worry about it. OR if you don't want to do it do what everyone else does hire someone.

RROD FTW!!!! lol sorry, gamer nerd came out in me for a second :P which ps3 are you getting?

I think I'd like to go PS3, but my xbox is still kickin'. If I get the RROD again, I'll go the PS3 route. I just can't justify $300 when the xbox still works fine.

The sad part on Microsoft repair site they even call it an RROD error. what a ****.



i ordered the slim 120 gig version, i got the new remote that does ir and bluetooth. I bought Endwar, socom and an old hockey game. Will prolly pre order GT5 and Bad Company 2 and have more games then i had for the xbox, i don't need many games i stick with the ones i like, I had socom and gran turismo as my only two games on PS2 for a really long time. I got endware for free basically, it had the headset and the game for $40 new. Oh i also pre ordered the new Super Mario Bros for wii when i was tradin games.

no love for call of duty? you may also look into the resistance series, and killzone two if you like FPS's.

thanks for reminding of that paperweight Wii we HAD to have, lol



I use quickbooks, but im a really small company with only a few employees, let the accountant do his thing and keep my life simple.

wiis make a great door stop :P haha

I have no employees and no inventory, its parts in/parts out. Its just the amount of parts that has become the problem.

I'm not a huge call of duty fan, had modern warfare on the xbox, too much run and gun, i like the tactical style. I was seriously looking at resistance 2, looks very good.

Isn't COD on the PS3?

yea

yeah, the resistance games are a blast, but i'd suggest getting restance fall of man first, the story is worth it lol



too bad your 360 died right when left 4 dead 2 is about to release https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.gif i'm pretty freakin stoked haha. anyone getting assassins creed 2?

I'm contemplating pickup up MW2 at the midnight release tonight, depending on weather.



I pre-ordered for my brother as a b-day gift, but didn't get one for myself. Brother has a huge school project he's working on and doesn't want the distraction, and asked if I could do him a favor by keeping it at my house until he's finished. It's a hassle, but since he's my brother, I figured I'd help him out. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...R#>/tongue.gif

haha sounds like a plan, i need to get the prestige edition on preorder so i can get amazon's 5 dollar discount. it's not much, but it's something lol :P

i pre ordered gran turismo and battlefield bad company 2 from amazon, that's also where i bought the PS3

i want the night vision goggles haha

i wear beer goggles when i play

i prefer rum goggles :P haha

I've got the kid's version (I've read they're the same quality as the COD goggles), my son got them for Christmas last year. They work, though grainy, and only uses one eye, so it's very disorienting (disorientating?).

yeah, i figured they would be no where near military spec, but it'd be something fun to play with hahahaha

i have a night vision monocular. It's nice when yer out on the ocean.

lol yeah, northern texas doesn't have any oceans :P haha

cause i'm a gamer nerd, i thought this was funny, and maybe a few of you will get it lol

the poster makes a good point.

i did that. preordered same day went to pick up a friend eat and the 3 of us waited close to 4 hours outside gamestop. got home ready to play it, nope, stupid updates needed for the game.

anywho games awesome. from game play to graphics to maps. only thing i didnt like was the new invite friend system, it takes longer, at least on my end.

we should start a thread not unlike the one for socom years ago....

oh yeah im on ps3

phins if u dont like it, ill donate the msrp amount to the board....

yea start a thread, I get my ps3 today. went and got a nice charging stand last night, man I cannot believe how much i missed the nice playstation controllers. they feel so much better to me, lighter and they fit in your hand better.

I can't stand those controllers! I remember playing for a few hours on the PS2, and my hand would be in a lot of pain, I would get cramps in the middle of my hand.



Gamecube had the most comfortable controllers, in my opinion.

I've always found the xbox ones to be too bulky.