Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Jul 12, 2002 6:00pm PDTWow, had no idea it was Friday for some reason. What happened to the week? Ah well, everyone enjoy the weekend. Hopefully the new ad size here on the page wont drive too many people crazy. Considering we're no longer answering to ad networks on how we do our page layout I'd like to sooner or later get things tweaked a bit more. I dont really expect that to happen anytime soon, but rest assured we're never happy around here unless we're changing something!
- The British Open is just an illegal immigration scam! - Iceland glacier freaking people out - Bingo makes you smart - Some newfangled anonymous web browsing stuff coming - Homer Simpson hates DVD region coding - AOL is looking for a new online chief - Cable providers are getting frisky with their servicesLastly, here's a fun statistic. According to a recent study people using Apple machines have a tendency to have more money and spend more money.
Daily Filter: Sleeping Dogs, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
Kingdoms of Amalur needed 3 million sales 'to break even,' RI governor says
Former Modern Warfare devs wanted to give Call of Duty series a 'rest'
Konami accused of bank loan fraud over Def Jam Rapstar
Capcom aims to shorten development cycle
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I'm working for the public school system setting up their new computers and stuff. The primary school got 50 new 900mhz imacs at a cost of ~$900 ea. Unfortunately, they dont have disk image software that works with the macs so you have to install everything manually and they want to use os 9.2. It wouldnt be a problem if these werent the slowest most fucked up unstable pieces of shit i have ever seen. You have to restart whenever you do anything. Installing a printer requires a restart. Everything is slow, moving the windows around is slow, copying is slow emptying the damn trash is slow. They dont multi-task. At all. If you are attempting to access another mac over the network and that machine doesnt respond, your machine hangs- for like a minute. Seriously. The last time i used a computer this slow was a 486 33 with windows 98 installed on it. And then there are the random crashes, general lack of logic to the "launcher", folders with custom icons that look nothing like folders, you cant click on the transparent parts of an icon so you have to click very accurately (which is impossible with that damn no button mouse) and they actually have a folder named "system" and one named "system folder" WTF were they thinking?
Easily the most horrific computing experience of my life.
And for that same $900 the other schools got 1.7Ghz p4s with 17" monitors.
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Seriously penny-arcade is lame. Loser. We know who they target... yes, the gamers..
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This should serve as a warning for anyone thinking about watching it/renting it/buying it (?!).. stay the fuck away of this movie :P
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http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/07/12/killed.for.a.dollar.ap/index.html
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I like Mac's but only people with alot of money can afford them...
those who can afford them...tend to make more money (duh)
and probably can afford better educations.
This article is fluff and poo.
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Anybody need anything.?
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http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=5086777
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www.prime.d2g.com/p/tracklist.gif
Its meant for others to listen to aswell so I cant just pick things I know i would appreciate but would take others ten listens to start to like. So its a mixed bag for the most entertainment per minute!
Btw the Infected Mushroom song is staying no matter what.
/ V
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-- Happiness
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http://www.ratfest.org/star/Great%20Comeback.w3g
So I woke up today and started playing some war3. First game I get is a lvl 11 79-18 (1v1 ladder) korean dude. Undead vs Undead on Frost Sabre. I played real shitty the first have of the game and lost all my units and was down to static D. My TH was down to like 40 hitpoints and I was able to repair it. From there, I managed to come back with aboms and win. It was so close. At the end he goes "you gosu?" then said he hadnt lost UD vs UD since 1.30 beta.
I think this really shows how necros dominate mid game, but suck late game. Had he switched to aboms instead of staying with necros, he probably would have won. He also didnt upgrade as hard as me, which really hurt him (watch how I dont lose a single abom at the end).
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http://espn.go.com/nba/news/2002/0711/1404719.html
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Just bought one today
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Any opinions? Do you think i'm crazy too like all my friends? :(
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http://www.ebingel.net/images/weirdcanuck.jpg
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Finally I can surf the web without all these ads blinking! Why didn't someone tell me about this earlier!!??
Torture = Averted at last! Thankfully, the Shack never did this too much.
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Lets see, I am at work this morning. I am shacking FINALLY!!! The past week I have been getting registry errors on my machine at home. XP machine would just keep rebooting. Fine. Tried formatting reinstalling XP, worked fine and booted into XP...go to install drivers and patch it up. Reboot a couple of times, then get registry errors. WTF!?! I format and try again same thing happens. I have reset everything to defaults in BIOS. I downloaded a diagnostics proggy from Maxtor to check the hard drive and it tells me nothing is wrong with the hard drive. I am thinking it is my DDR ram. I really hope it isn't my motherboard. Is that possible? Or my "little baby" Geforce 3 ti500. Any ideas people?
Finally back in work and shacking. Shack withdrawal I understand now.
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Have you clicked your Shack Ad today?
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i thought it was going to be something some shocking than that ;( (although he did say he was 220 pounds when he was 12)
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we've rented a movie from blockbuster in the past few months. me and him loved it, but our wives didn't like it. it was a kooky movie, kind of oddball. it is a recent movie, probably out on dvd less than 6 months.
we watched the royal tanenbaums tonight and the same scenario happened. me and him thought it was great, but the women thought it was blah. so what movie was it that we rented that one time that we can't think of?
the best i can remember, it was kind of a comedy/drama, similar to the royal tanenbaums, but other than that, i can't remember ANYTHING about it. :(
so what kooky movies have come out in the last 6 months or so. :(
donnie darko comes to mind, but that's not it. anyone else?
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What mp game u playing?
me? SOF2 of course. :)
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Just how I like my women.
G'Mornin Shack!
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