Midnight ER!
by Steve Gibson, Dec 25, 2001 9:59pm PSTMidnight ER! Just got back from LOTR with the parents, was even cooler the second time around. Speaking of cool the chick (I forget her name) got me one of those nifty mini-fridge dealies that just fits a 6pack of cans. Always wanted one of those things.
- 20 things about PCs to change in the future. - That boat that supposedly had explosives on board was empty. - I think I saw an E-Book for the first time a couple weeks ago. - AT&T backing off of wireless a bit? - Should US net firms collect Euro taxes?Lastly, so we're at the end of 2001... is it recovery time yet?
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/listens to a raw WAV of 'Revelation' by Ozzy Osbourne, and then a 320KBPS mp3 of the same song
my word, mp3's sound like crap
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One other concern is the quality of brands. So far I've tracked down the PNY Verto at a Circuit City. I'll check Best Buy today, and maybe (BIG maybe) CompUSA. I'm not too confident that I'll find a Leadtek or an Elsa in a retail store, but that's my only choice for now since I'm at home and I want to keep this purchase off the parental radars.
On second thought, I might try out CompUSA first just for shits and giggles; I'm almost certain that they'll be out of GF3 cards, but they have their own small parking lot and they're the first store on the route I'm taking.
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When Gamespy wasn't evil and people went to planetquake for news instead of advertising, and planetquake and blues were the best places for news, and the only decent multiplayer fps games were Quake mods and maybe a little Quake2, and people actually played both, and Team Fortress ruled all, and Scary's Shugashack posted the suck on a weekly basis.
I think we all knew the end was here when Planetquake's Joost tried to invent a new word, pween, and made it a major news item on PQ.
sorry, was just playing Quakeworld DM for the first time in 2 years, and had to reminisce a bit.
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So, as I was walking to their electronics section, I had walked by a rack of 10 dollar DVDs. I go looking, and what do I see?
Reqreium for a Dream!
Then as i'm looking over the case, i re-read the cover....
Edited Version
fuck that.
Anyways, I just ordered T2: The Ultimate Edition and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon from their website.
That is all.
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waking up
>:(
and it dosent improve at all from here on out
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http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=77909585&m=5640948523
DIG IT
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Is this thing on??
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in Q3, OFP and GR button 4, 5 and 3 (scroll wheel click) are all seen as button 3.
assigning keys / macros to 4 and 5 does not work in game (works in windows though not for roger wilco), scroll wheel click can not be disabled and is often accidentally activated when using the scrollwheel (which requires some force to operate).
so in game i best don't assign anything to button 3, leaving me with just 2 usable buttons and a scrollwheel. this somewhat defeats the point of this mouse.
is this a known problem? any fixes?
or is this mouse just not all it is made out to be.
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Dear NBC Sports,
Please get with the times and implement a relatively small scoreboard for the NBA games that stays on the screen at all times. ESPN does it, Fox does it, ABC does it, and CBS does it. Why not you?
And this one has been lingering for a while, but resurfaced last night:
Dear Ted Turner,
PLEASE STOP TURNING B-GRADE MOVIES INTO SITCOMS!!
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gee, who'd have thought that a full length PCI card with a hot processor on it would screw up the cooling for the rest of the system
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/me
*installs Apache*
*installs mySQL*
*installs PHP*
*configures*
this should make the day go faster.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/12/25/plane.investigation/story.reid.ap.jpg
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I definitely will not pay the same price for an ebook as a bound book. There are some books that I don't want in an electronic format.
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be back soon
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Lossless compression by definition means there is no difference between the -uncompressed original- and the -decompressed copy-.
jo-papa seems to think lossless compression does not exist because the compressed data (file, stream) is not identical to the uncompressed original. looks like he's trying to redefine the term.
compressed data is never identical (bit for bit) to the uncompressed original, whether the compression is lossy or lossless.
However with lossless compression the actual -information- in the compressed data is identical to the information in the uncompressed original; it's just in a different more compact format.
Lossy compression means the -information- of the compressed data is not identical to the uncompressed original; some information is discarded in favor of higher compression. of course here the decompressed copy is not identical to the uncompressed original.
streaming has nothing to do with this: you can stream uncompressed, lossy compressed and lossless compressed data, it's just a matter of having sufficient bandwith.
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listenning to mp3s (streaming) and when i refresh the shack i'll get this annoying buzz sound fromt he winmap...this never happened in win98 and i'm thinking of going back just to get rid of this crap
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http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1314281454
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Auto response from PENIF: merry christmas, and if you're jewish, too fucking bad
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thank god my day is over in 20 minutes.
big-bottle-of-sake, HERE I COME!
When quitting a 3d game on OpenGL (haven't tried DirectX or 2D games), namely Half-life and Quake3, sometimes the computer locks up. The mouse seems to be fine for a while, nothing happens. Then the computer speaker beeps, everything freezes. No BSOD, no error messages.
This only happens sometimes. At first I thought it was the NVIDIA 60hz refresh rate fix but changing settings back to 60hz (and rebooting) doesn't seem to stop the lockups. Any ideas?
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Number of Downloads:
110,856 so far
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unkind words on halo
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