Evening Reading

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  IDM is what you call electronic music people can't seem to dance to, duh :) I've always found the lab... : zakk
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    intel drumb and bass is actually amazing chillout / lounch style music... Can be danced too, but as I sa... : logik?
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      I read your typo as 'intel dumb and bass' and got a really good chuckle out of that. Really, people sla... : zakk
      • haha ooops, I had'nt even noticed =) but yeah the intel name (as you mentioned) is extremely abused. : logik?
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    heh. From allmusic.com: "Despite frequent attempts to rename the style (Warp's "electronic listening mus... : Boogieman
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      why must everything be labeled? : adnans
      • I usually don't agree with labeling myself, but it helps when searching for similar artists. I was just ... : Boogieman
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  Allmusic is 99% wrong on their genre classifications... IDM is stuff like VNV Nation, NOT boards of c... : Zoesch
  • heheh, OK. I like VNV Nation but Boards of Canada... meh. : Boogieman
  • WTF IS boards of canada, then? : alacious

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  I bet you get replies. : PantherX
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    tempting... : darweidu
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      I don't want to post a picture of myself though. : darweidu
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        Get one made that just conceals most of you. Wear a trench, hat, sunglasses. : geedeck
        • or I can post something that google finds for me! http://members.es.tripod.de/vissalys/airedespistado... : darweidu
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      I concur with Mr. X there. Could be interesting, what do you have to lose? : geedeck
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        where can I get a picture hosted? : darweidu
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          http://free.prohosting.com/ : geedeck
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            it's okay, they accept uploads. BTW, I'm just going through all the pictures and clicking yes to all ... : darweidu
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              http://www.hotornot.com/r/?emid=E : darweidu
              • oh yeah. Sarcasm in a profile means she's angry and bitter. : darweidu
              • she's kinda cute... I used to eat boogers too! : hawkeye
            • I like Brett and his long flowing mullet. um...wtf? : hawkeye
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  wunderbred??? : Zoesch
  • hey, I do the wunder trolling around here! : Bob Jones
• where do I enter my description? : darweidu
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  okay, well. I signed up. I had to shorten my description a lot, since it only allows 250 characters. I'l... : darweidu
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    Here's my profile. I won't get reponses until my picture gets approved by moderators. I'm tired, ang... : darweidu
    • Nice. Too bad you had to leave out the part about being broken, I really think that was a good part : geedeck
• OMG it's http://www.shacknews.com/advertising/pennystock/hotchaps.jpg : AllYourBase
• At least you won't breed. : freqq28
• That's EXCELLENT - that one would surely scare off the last of the girls from china "looking for chat fr... : abrasion

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  be a real man, use reel-to-reel : Toraz Chryx
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    I have 30 ips 2" track reel, I just can't seem to find decent tapes nowadays :[ And to make matters w... : Zoesch
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      here's a question for you.. what's the 'effective resolution/samplerate' of tape... unlike vinyl it'... : Toraz Chryx
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        It ranges with the type of tape, however analog tape doesn't have a quantization (like sample rate, etc)... : Zoesch
        • YEAH! Someone setup the VinylTape! : -TKF-
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          surely it has a quantization enforced on it at some point by the areal density of the tape? : Toraz Chryx
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            No, it is a different frequency response determined by the properties of the material... Some people ... : Zoesch
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              what I'm getting at is, you can only have so many magnetic particles in a certain amount of space.. and ... : Toraz Chryx
              • gah.. forget it.. my brain hurts.. and I meant to say 'how much data can you get onto a certain lengt... : Toraz Chryx
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                Yes, in some respects that's correct... except for the fact that you don't encode or quantize the data o... : Zoesch
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                  there's only so many particles TO arrange though, so the 'bit-rate' (I know it's not actually a bitrate,... : Toraz Chryx
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                    which brings me back to my original question of.... 'what's the the effective 'bitrate' of analog tape' ... : Toraz Chryx
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                      There is no effective bitrate! :[ : Zoesch
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                        perhaps 'sample rate' is a better term.. yes, I know it doesn't have a bloody samplerate either d... : Toraz Chryx
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                          Yes I do, and like vinyl there is none... It's ANALOG... that means continuous, not discrete... : Zoesch
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                            ... and yet there are NOT continous particles on the tape... which means that the recording quality will : Toraz Chryx
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                              Yes, and *GASP* there are gaps between electrons too :] The density of the tape affects the quality, ... : Zoesch
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                                yes, there ARE gaps between electrons.. including the ones our brains run on.. you still haven't answ : Toraz Chryx
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                                  Sigh, yes... analog jitter and pitch shifting... 30 ips has proven to be the best speed to not affect... : Zoesch
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                                    affect the pitch as well as producing a weaker magnetic impression (Yes it makes a difference, you spin : Toraz Chryx
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                                      Because what you're thinking about has NOTHING to do with this :] : Zoesch
                                      • so your saying the particulate density of the tape has no relevence to the quality of audio recorded ont... : Toraz Chryx
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  I see now. However, since everything I deal with is 16-bit to begin with, and I don't do any live recor... : the archvile
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    One of the reasons I'm gonna get rid of the Digi001 is because the ADC is asstastic at 24bit : Zoesch
    • Oh, i forgot... all my equipment is 24 bit compliant in either Lightpipe (Toslink), AES/EBU (XLR), TDIF ... : Zoesch

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• Hmm... http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/news/2002/01/07/jordan_divorce_ap/ : Boogieman
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  hmmm, 780 million divided by 2 equals... damn i wanna be his wife. : cavalier
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    Yea, she wants a lot it seems: "She seeks permanent custody of the couple's three children, the 25,000-s... : Boogieman
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      she's a gold miner. : keith
      • she waited long enough! :/ : moz
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      I know one thing she does. Puts up with a husband who has retired multiple times to 'spend more time wit... : zakk
      • maybe you got it backwards - he tries to spend time with them but it's so miserable he runs away :) it'... : cot
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  there goes the wizards season : fsck
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    Doubt it. They'll probably go ever better, damn them. : seemlar
    • Jordan scores 200 points in a single game after divorce. : fsck
• "Her money's money is all that money.", Homer Simpson hehe : Gareth Bryne
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  At leat MJ is gonna be pickin up mad pootie-tang, it'll be like the 80s-era Lakers all over again! : cavalier
  • so true.. : pyide
• Half, Eddie, *half.* : freqq28
• Bevy of new endorsements time! : freqq28

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  That's pretty ignorant of him. And defending it can only make it worse. : nomaad
  • Bush, Ignorant? Impossible! :] : Zoesch
• he just used to go to the local "packey" to pick up some hard liquor, right? : the archvile

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• Do you sing in a high pitch and do impossible basslines too? : Zoesch

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  W.A.S.P. hip-hop? : nomaad
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    BILLY MADISON!! : the archvile
    • * O ' D O Y L E R U L E S * : nomaad

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  I think I'm turning Japanese : oiRONFORGE
  • I really think so : Zoesch

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  works here. : drucifer
  • #3290!! WOO, I RULE : oiRONFORGE

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  or a Goth : fen boi
  • He needs fishnets : Boogieman
  • I'm not wearing eyeliner though. : drucifer

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• already did :) now i'm hungry.. a big fuck you to whoever put that poll up. : pyide

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• don't worry your pretty little head about it. : pyide

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• throw in 20-40 bucks for a pair of speakers now that i look over it : adnans
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  um, how much does that case suck?.. $20 for a case with a '400w' psu in it?? : Toraz Chryx
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    at least you can put upgrade it :P but, if you want, throw in a swanky 200 dollar aluminum case. fin... : adnans
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      okay.. but here's the BIG questions.. how much space does it take up? :) How noisy will it be? (a... : Toraz Chryx
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        it'll take up a lot of space. thats how i like my pcs, though ;) as for noise levels, spend a few ex... : adnans
        • apparently the imac generates 25db (which is pretty feckin' quiet actually) : Toraz Chryx
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      I'd say, because at least the iMac is not made of el-chapo plastic : Zoesch
      • they should do a chrome one.. if they REALLY want to get the attention of the people who buy B&O AV hard... : Toraz Chryx
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  Have fun with blue screens of death on XP. I can't figuire out for the life of me why it's doing it on ... : Nemo_NX
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    i only had 1 bad experience with bsods on XP so far (been running 2-3 months now). that was due to bad ... : adnans
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      Which ones you using? : Nemo_NX
      • i'll shackmsg you what i'm using when i get home (around 8am pacific) : adnans
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  let me know how XP home is, I've heard it's utter crap... : Phearsome
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    he's not pricing it up to buy it, he's doing a price comparison against an iMac : Toraz Chryx
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      iLamp :P : adnans
      • iOhThanks : Phearsome

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  oye!! : sexninja!!!!
  • 3 days of hell my friend... I did'nt really care about the bag of clothes they lost either, I just wante... : logik?
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  $4K of INSURED goods right? : Barbarian
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    thats the scary part, I was always under the impression your stuff was insured by the airline ... But no : logik?
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      insurance is such a scam >:( they always try to fuck you >:( that really doesnt have much to do w/... : sexninja!!!!
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        plus there are limits on how much things are insured for. best to buy insurance seperately for stuff li... : Barbarian
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          heh, lesson learned. next time I fly, seperate insurance it is. =) : logik?
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            yea, but like the thing that pisses me off, is like why cant they just "not lose your shit" to begin wit : sexninja!!!!
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              don't forget overbooking flights, I LOVE THAT! *cough* : logik?
              • especially when they don't tell you at the check-in counter, oh no....they let you think everything is f : Phearsome

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• Time Travel'd : -TKF-

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  :/ your loss just give it time! it will grow on you... its really dependent on your mood at a pa... : 16C+
  • too late : Boogieman
• Bored in Canada : drucifer

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• tested! : haokah

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  I just re-installed q2 since I can't find many online DM games that I enjoy... Q2 still holds the title ... : logik?
  • it gives a nice change from my quake 1 : kramweil

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  maybe ur dns server went down? try it again maybe? : sexninja!!!!
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    I've tried resuming several times, I've also re-copied the download URL and Download Accelerate said it ... : Shambler
    • Ah yeah it is b0rkled, even when I let the download page download automatically it doesn't work. Bollock... : Shambler
    • yeah speakeasy.net died : Maarten Goldstein
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  stop trying to ass rape steves bandwidth! : adnans
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    Can I ass rape you instead?? : Shambler
    • Pac-Man: Insert Penis : adnans

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  3dfx still exist in any form? wtf do they do? are they cleaning the bathroom at Bitboys now? : Toraz Chryx
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    i dunno, theyre like a shell company i guess http://quotes.nasdaq.com/quote.dll?page=multi&mode=stock&s : sexninja!!!!
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      how the mighty have fallen. Intel next, I hope. : Barbarian
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        Remember when Intel was the best thing evar and AMD wasn't exactly hot on their tails? Cyrix and Moto... : Boogieman
        • If only Apple would turn to IBM for their PowerPC chips rather than using Motorola's.. I'd REALLY lik... : Toraz Chryx
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  closing 14% up is nothing to laugh at : adnans
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    a 52-week high of $0.71 is tho :/ sadly i own 50 shares of those biznatch's stock >:( : sexninja!!!!
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      watch the charts. if the trends start looking like the stock price is going to be going up soon, buy an : adnans
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        i doubt theyd ever get past a dollar, cause i mean they dont even really exist anymore, right? so why wo : sexninja!!!!
        • no, never a dollar a share. : adnans
• i've been here for YEARS! : -TKF-

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• from the page Rainbow Apple 1999 I wanted both a gay pride rainbow flag sticker and an Apple sticke : Barbarian
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  [||||||||||] 100% : Gay-O-Meter
  • aahahahaha : logik?

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  they've realised, like Discreet have with Gmax, that there's a LARGE potential future user base that's c... : Toraz Chryx
  • So now Adobe should follow this lead With PS6 and Quark with Quark Express.. And i hear hell is getti... : -TKF-
• a guy at work was very happy about that : Torias
• good work Alias Wavefront : filthysock

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  bc Q3 is rife with cheats and bull shiz0t. Even RA3 sux b/c of cheating. : Gareth Bryne
  • BUT PUNKBUSTER WILL SAVE TEH DAY!!! for about 3 days : Barbarian

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  try sasami : sexninja!!!!
  • Tried. It was nice, but had no 50% scale mode and it crashed on me after getting out of fullscreen. : 0Wingfan
• i use Sasami : kenmis
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  wmp 6.4 : Barbarian
  • I hate to say this, since I designed all my music folders so the album art would appear in WMP8 when a f... : 0Wingfan

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  I'll let you use my address dude. That way we can both get the beta! : geedeck
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    No way man, read the instructions. You do that, you disqualify both of you. No same addresses. : Waverider
    • Alright, I'll use my mom's address, you use this one. : geedeck
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      haha, I'm gonna go disqualify all my enemies! : smax
      • /me whips put phonebook SORRY EVERYONE IN DALLAS, BUT WARCRAFT SHALL BE MINEz0R!! : sexninja!!!!
• not in less than 10 min. : BongSlayerB
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  you can ping the US battlenet servers ok? : radula
  • yeah! i used to play starcraft with US people all the time : filthysock

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  yes, true unholy[tm] Macolytes are a scary thing. : Toraz Chryx
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    DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS : AllYourBase
    • yeah, true Microsoft fanboys are a SCARIER thing.. : Toraz Chryx

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  hehehe excellent =) god I used to watch that show each day after school : logik?
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    I know everything about that show : AllYourBase
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      hhmm... its time for <drum roll> Saved By Teh Bell TRIVIA!!! okay no, I saw each show 3-4 time : logik?
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        oh yeah, and everything after the original show sucked balls, this includes all the new versions with ne... : logik?
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          yah, the new class sucked, college was better than the new class but was not near equal to the Hijinks t... : AllYourBase
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            yeah, it was nice to see it happen after so many years of teasing it =) : logik?
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              yah, now if they would have united Screech and Lisa, then SBTB would have been complete! : AllYourBase
              • haha yeah seriously eh? hhhmm.. what about belding tho, he needs some luvin' too! Maybe the history te... : logik?
• Sweet. Fat Mike rocks. ;-) : BorderlineBass