Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Sep 25, 2002 6:00pm PDTBeen feeling all under the weather or something today. The woman has been going crazy catching up on all her shows on the TiVo today.. that thing is just like the coolest toy ever.
- France has an air car - A few people pointed out this McDonalds finance article - Dalai Lama apparently not hacked by chinese - Finding rockets in space - Bioinformatics? Wha? - The RIAA is having a hell of a time with Kazaa - Wireless flirting fluff piece - In case you havent been paying attention, Dell is getting into printersLastly, some really interesting stuff about home buying and the internet.
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
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=231748
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Anyway, so, I installed Detonator version 30.82 from nvidia.com, the installer says I'm not to install because Windows XP does not like my GF 4 Ti4600. Which version of Detonator should I install, for this card to work properly? 28.32? 28.82? 29.42? 40.41?
Help much appreciated... thanks, Jon
PS. I'm new here so I have no idea what I'm doing or where this post will appear... :)
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BF1942
Brand-new, in-box. $30
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...okay, this one is the straw that broke the camels back. Not even considering this tweaker's perfectly plucked eyebrows, I'm never going to buy a Mac as long as their marketing assholes are trying to push this message.
"Get out of your Windows world, it's not worth it."
I'm sorry, but I've had XP for around a year now and I can't remember the last time I crashed. Infact, one of the shittiest applications that I dread the most is QuickTime. Installing QuickTime was even more invasive than RealPlayer - why the shit would I want QuickTime to open up a .jpeg or .pict file ?
I really do like the look and feel of Mac, but they are lying and being insulting with their new ad campaign and I feel it is alienating more people than it is winning people. My only guess is that they have seen XP and what's on the horizon for the OS, understand that it is rock solid (at least far more solid than getting a little black bomb icon and a restart button that somehow will not actually restart your trance-lucent Ikea matching lifestyle accessory aka Mac) that there are applications out there for windows that blow iChat (www.trillian.cc), Rendezvous (Remote Desktop), and iTunes (Listen.com's Rhapsody) out of the water and they are scared. They are cashing in on the shortcomings of Win98 before people upgrade to XP.
This advertisement is almost a recruitment piece to attract more self-described "oppressed" misguided psuedo-inteligencia into the great overpriced, poorly supported, and trend driven Jihad that is Apple's advertising campaign.
If there wasn't so much a falsified image (see: Urban Outfitters) attached to a pile of microchips inside a plastic candy coating, I would really be in to buying my friend's tiBook. But as it stands, I want nothing to do with something so heavily attached to identity.
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This just in:
ER = red pill
FP = blue pill
or ?
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I want to buy a Flatscreen monitor from Iiyama so I called up a couple of places here in Luxembourg to see what they would charge for it.
I called mabye like 12 places and most of them didn't know Iiyama, didn't know the model or basically didn't care :-(
WTF, can't they order it, atleast get some infos about it. I want to give them my money and they apparently couldn't care less. Oh god, typing a couple of infos in a computer to see what I want is work, so no way Mister, we won't do it
So far I got 1 (yes, one !!) answer and they basically told me to go fuck myself:
Yes, we can get it for you, but we won't assure the tech support or even the guarantee if it breaks. You will have to go to Belgium in that case. But we will take you money, thank you
*GUN*
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1) do any of you watch "dead last"; it's a series about 3 people in a touring band who see ghosts.
2) do any of you play the UT mod Tactical Ops?
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http://tenebrae.sourceforge.net/
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Some dude picked me up, drove me to a tank.. i got of, took the tank and we did a dual Sherman killing spree owning two "flags" destroying one of those big ass tanks on the way (he couldn't decide who to kill). Excellent stuff..
Nothing like getting the flag up, waiting for a few secs and seeing how people start to spawn under the protection of the big old sherman.
Why anyone didn't make a game like this before is.... weird.
Oh and you should all buy it :-)
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http://www.shacknews.com/jazz/search.x?query=%22poo+dart%22
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In the US, nearly the entire country hangs on every syllable President Bush says. They sit and wait for him to make a mistake, and then the following day whatever he slipped up on is on the front page of 99% of the country's newspapers. Many Americans can't understand that along with the leader of the country, he's also an imperfect human being who, no matter how hard he tries, cannot be perfect.
My question is...are other countries like this? Does your population sit and watch their leader speak primarily to hear him fuck up and then blast him/her afterwards? Do they listen to a 2-hour speech but instead of coming away with lessons and a better understanding of the country, do they snicker that he said "an" instead of "a" or "but" instead of "and"? Are all other countries as trivial as we are?
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( http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=5607493 )
QUICK!
What have I forgotten?!!
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My iternery is:
28th Sept : Sth Africa
14th Oct: England
23th Nov: West Indies
26th Nov: New Orleans
28th Nov: Texas
3th Dec: California
7th Dec: back to Aus
mind you, these dates WILL change, I will prob leave England early and spend more time in West Indies and Texas.
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/me slashes throat
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"You are to write a report that illustrates the architecture of the gawk. The report is intended for third year computer science. Thus, you can assume basic software engineering terms and knowledge. gawk is written in C and consists of approximately 25,000 lines of code (LOC) in 19 .c files, 9 .h files."
25,000 lines of hardcore C ! how am I supposed to write a report on that?
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Lots of info in these even if you have read all my snips :-)
http://ps2.ign.com/articles/371/371301p1.html
http://ps2.ign.com/articles/371/371584p1.html
http://ps2.ign.com/articles/371/371458p1.html
A look at the GTA series:
http://ps2.ign.com/articles/370/370539p1.html
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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/ae/jump/1590431
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It does it every goddamn time. Very annoying. Someone told me it had something to do with my router, but I've got no idea how.
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http://webserv1.zhurnal.ru/~ilya/photo/misc/which-cat-stole-my-drugs.jpg
In other news I just became 'the guy who knows everything about everything' (actual used term) in my class and I spend more time helping others than myself. My teacher suggests I should find a job as a teacher. The bottom line? There is a spoon.
/ V
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Ghost in the Shell, or Perfect Blue?
I've seen Ghost before, but that was a long time ago. I've never watched Perfect Blue.
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Not only did they recently chop my bandwidth by about half, they've now implemented some weird thing where if I'm uploading anything, then my bandwidth gets cut down to like 10k/sec.
They didn't even bother to mail me to inform me of any changes.
Blow me, Rogers cable!
The P2P revolution may have been good for free (ahem) music, but it's making ISPs do some stupid shit. My university even went so far as to limit ResNet users to 500mb/week.
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