Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Feb 11, 2003 5:56pm PSTWow, talk about a boggling day. I guess if you have a countdown going for several days, EVERYONE knows your file is coming out... That 3DMark03 release hit us harder than any other file ever has, including Half-Life releases. We even had to come up with some 'server full' buttons for the public servers after each one clogged up with several hundred guys in the line. Congrats to the Futuremark guys on having such a popular product, although it seems to not be getting received so well (More on that later). Oh hey, here's some stuff!
- The public still supports NASA - Neuro chip! OMG! - London mayor doing cool stuff - I'd like Jesus as my lawyer, thanks - Moore's Law still holding - New plans for NASALastly, the Oscar nominations are in, I suspect we'll be seeing something from Jason on this again this year!
The Secret World delayed until July 3
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
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=6705596
MSPaint your favourite movie scenes! GO!...
http://www.crappyhosting.com/gegtik/mspaint/movie1.gif
http://www.gingerninja.org/images/baby.gif
http://skynet.bizatchu.com/images/tatonka.jpg
http://sjetman.freeshell.org/am_beauty.png
http://pablo.nevares.com/files/movie1.gif
http://www.crappyhosting.com/gegtik/mspaint/movie2.gif
http://www.shackspace.com/~emocore@shackmail.com/tbl.gif
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~asheikh/mspaint/movie.JPG NWS
http://www.freewebz.com/signalgrey/mspaint.JPG
http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/0103/paint.JPG Dragon Drop
http://www.xmission.com/~tomservo/_misc/detective.gif
http://www.crappyhosting.com/gegtik/mspaint/movie3.gif
http://members.cox.net/loyd1025/movie.JPG
http://www.mindspring.com/~atticusr/maguire.gif
http://www.shackspace.com/~malevolence@shackmail.com/images/movie.gif
ttp://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/0103/movie.JPG Dragon Drop
http://64.127.71.218/shack/paint01.JPG wait for it...
http://www.shackspace.com/~cigam@shackmail.com/movie.JPG
http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/0103/paint2.JPG Dragon Drop
http://www.shackspace.com/~emocore@shackmail.com/cannibal.GIF
http://www.neuralspasm.com/bambi.jpg
http://www.shackspace.com/~chowyuncat@shackmail.com/totoro.jpg
http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/0103/trialbystone.JPG Dragon Drop
http://kungfukenobi.txwebcrew.com/dimmak.JPG
http://www.geocities.com/coolgamer69/paint.jpg Dragon Drop
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http://www.shackspace.com/~verbatim@shackmail.com/paint.jpg
http://www.tomatoactivator.com/files/movie.jpg
http://www.shackspace.com/~wolfanoz@shackmail.com/guess.JPG
http://www.students.yorku.ca/~yu267610/movie.JPG
http://www.beatdownsquad.com/movie.jpg
http://users.skynet.be/leseid/movie.jpg NWS artistic rendering of goatse added for no reason
http://bellsouthpwp.net/d/i/diehlr/darko.GIF
http://pablo.nevares.com/files/movie2.gif
http://www.freewebz.com/signalgrey/movie.JPG
http://home.attbi.com/~mastakil/movie.jpg
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~frostp/movie.bmp
http://www.shackspace.com/~drucifer@shackmail.com/movie.jpg
I would have posted each shacker's name after each pic, but I didn't think of it until I was done :(
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Bill Gates comments on XBox2, among other things:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?section_name=pub&aid=1229
All in all, Xbox2 will have more features (like photo editing, wireless LAN support), but it will most likely also require you to give up your first born to Gates, and the size should be something like a small country.
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#1) locked the keys in the work car (it's a rental so it dont matter)
#2) i brought home the fucking work pager >=|
anyways, in the reply im going to list this years PC Gamer's game of the year awards: so give me a few mins to make it look pretty and stuff
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http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2003-02/10/11.15.film
Think it will hold a candle to the satire of the first?
http://www.hollywoodinvestigator.com/2003/dune.htm (scroll down)
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Theres somthing I noticed of nearly all old buffy episodes, they pretty much all followed a formula, banter, mystery, reference to past episodes, maybe some character arc and a funny setup for about the first 42 minutes of an episode. Then have a central character get in some life threatening trouble, Buffy comes in and saves the day. I shit you not watch the FX repeats and you will see it, you can set your watch by it.
You know tonight's episode followed that formula and its gotta be one of the best episodes of buffy I've seen in a long time.
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" http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/0103/To beard or not to beard.JPG "
(make sure you get the whole URL)
Should I keep the beard, or shave it off?
Oh yeah, pls don't photoshop me in any obscene situations, thank you =)
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http://www.shackspace.com/~shadowdane@shackmail.com/vhavoc.wmv (6.5mb)
They should play that shitty port of CT for the PS1 to see what annoying is...
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Roundtrip airfare to London from any US city $198.00 via British Airways
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But do hurry, this offer is available for 3 days only and ends midnight (Eastern Standard Time) on February 13, 2003.
http://www.britishairways.com/travel/offerusoneprice/public/en_us?source=RH_Home_ES_US
I. Wanna. Go. So. Bad.
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I hate that feeling.
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Now if I could just get this damned video conference to hurry up and finish!
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the receiver is about 6 inches from the mouse and in a direct line of sight.. does it NEED line of sight, and should it be a bit further away? or even closer?
it also seems to drop out when i get close to the keyboard.. i wonder if its interfering..
also would ps2 be better? i have it on usb right now
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I think this is the first time I ever miss school for being sick... I NEVER get sick! :(
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can you identify this funky track ? (from commander tom's set at wemf 2001)
http://pages.infinit.net/pioneer/whatisthis.mp3
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http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030123.html
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http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3
good points I heard more ppl wanna commit suicide after trying to cancel their Sims Online accounts
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Work "forgot" to deposit my 1 year bonus. So now I get to fill out paperwork and waste my time explaining to various bank and payroll people, all because someone was too dumb and/or lazy to do their job. This make Hulk mad. VERY mad!!
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http://home.iae.nl/users/franklin/battleships/pag/battleships.htm
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I now have $2.98 in my account.
god I hate my life.
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Well, in my quest for overclock, Ive run into a weird problem.
Currently I am running very stable @ 170x12.5
Well, I figured I would see what 13x and 13.5 gave me just for shits and grins.
Well, in the 1002 bios (the only one ive tried) I set my multy to 13 and it gives me 5x :< As you scroll down the list from the top they say things like 14x/6x but 13 gives no slashy. What the hell is this?
Also, I must say I am disapointed in this mobo's bios in that it seems some key tweak options are gone like the 1T command. Where the hell is that?
As an aside, I purchased one of the el-cheapo 1700+ from Newegg a week ago and i received a tbred b "j". Well, like I said, its running fine @ 170x12.5 @ 32C after a crapload of tests (prime95 , new 3dmark stuffs) and its just aircooled. Seems like that is one hell of a steal for a proc!
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I think to myself "Oh I will go to hotmail now!"
*type type type type*
Welcome to Shacknews!
fuck14!$!@$
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Who's with me?
Mwah. Mwahah. Mwahahahahahah!
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On a more positive note, I finished Splinter Cell last night :) I hope they make a sequel the ending cinematic seems to point to that, anyway :)