First Post!
by Maarten Goldstein, Jul 14, 2004 7:56am PDTAs mentioned above, EA is jumping on the DVD bandwagon with a special version of Medal of Honor Pacific Assault, and also Sims 2. Both are pre-order only for now, but at least the industry's largest publisher is testing the market. No more six CD releases please, thanks. Also on FileShack
- Juiced demo - pre-release demo of this street racing game.
Daily Filter: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13: The Masters, Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Dear Esther Mac port confirmed
Killing Floor hits a million sales, discounted on Steam
Jam Live Music Arcade announced for PS3, Xbox 360
Metal Gear Online to quietly die this summer
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cont.
www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=8128772 &
www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=8134122
For those new to this, my brother and I are on a road trip through the USA for two months. Stops include New York, Boston, Toronto Canada, Chicago, something or other, Tennessee, uh, Kentucky somewheree, and probably lots of Florida aswell. We don't plan too much. This is our second road trip, the last two years ago covering 6 of the southern states.
I am in Boston today at the Macworld expo here. I shook hands with David Pogue who rules. Boston kind of sucks. The traffic is terrible and the weather even worse. Ofcourse the weather is not Bostons fault, but my brother insists that New England is always like this. I dont know and it's not really relevant because I know I'm sure as hell not getting a nice tan on the cape cod beach right now!! I dont know if there is a beach there but the map seems to have lots of green and yellow there.
So we are heading west in a bit, as fast as possible so we can get away from this city. Random motel in Vermont somewhere probably. I hope Vermont has taco bell or dominoes pizza because that is just the food of the gods. We flew business class (we were lucky, we could never afford it) and drank champagne on the plane and shit, but still I think that theres nothing quite like american fast food. Oh and the liqour is 5.5 times cheaper here, I just compared yesterday. Getting drunk is expensive in Sweden. I guess that makes it cooler though.
I've got 13 states under my belt. How many have you got?
Since doing some kind of diary with photos is such a difficult task when you have little time and rare internet access, I can only post a few of the pics I took in New York right now. I'm sure you don't really care that much anyways. Here's a couple.
www.jpop.se/nyc_taxi.jpg
Times square with those yellow things
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Hotel view from 53rd floor. I love it but yet :_(
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Skyscrapers
www.jpop.se/nyc_anytime.jpg
I love myself for taking this one
www.jpop.se/nyc_telefon.jpg
Brother on the phone. AOL Keyword metropolitan!
www.jpop.se/nyc_bumble.jpg
Obligatory cute bumblebee photo
www.jpop.se/nyc_mats.jpg
I'm still a pepper
Got tips on where we should go next-- on our way to Chicago? Constructive comments are appreciated! Dont miss the word Constructive in the last sentence.
PS. I miss Little Korea in NY because that is where angels come from. DS.
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So I'm building the AMD64 system that so many of us got in the deal, and I thought everything was going great until I tried to turn it on. No dice. No fucking nothing. The power button did jack shit.
I checked all the connections, turned the power switch connector around, made sure both of the ATX connectors were firmly in place, took out all the IDE harddrives, fucking everything. It's not the motherboard, because it's lighting up (the little green light). It's not the PSU, or lack of.
So what is it? Does anybody have any suggestions?
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IT'S DONE!!!!!!!
Yes, this is the official word that DOOM 3 has been code released and has been approved for manufacturing!
It won't be long now until the anticipation ends and the PH34R begins ;-) We literally just hung up with
Activision and have confirmed that our latest release candidate has been mutually approved and is finally
GOLD. Thanks to everyone for their patience (yeah right! =) and for everyone at id, Activision and our
numerous partners for helping us create what I believe is absolutely the best game we have ever made.
So, the next question is release dates. Retailers in the States will be allowed to pick up games starting
at 12:01 AM on August 3rd. The official street date is actually August 5th in the U.S.A., but some of
your favorite stores will probably have it early for those of you who have to have it first. Check with
your local retailer for that information.
Internationally, the game will take a few more days to make it to the store shelves. The UK will probably get it first, on or about August 6th. Everywhere else will probably be Friday, August 13th (que Twilight Zone Theme) or close to that date, with just a few exceptions (e.g. Russia and Poland). This isn't
because we don't have love for you folks outside the U.S., but the localization and manufacturing process
takes a bit longer outside the U.S. where we will have JVC run 24/7 to get the units built. I guess the
European manufacturers prefer to give their employees nights and weekends off. Go figure!
The champagne is flowing here at id and smiles abound!
I'll update again with some DOOM 3 preparation tips (not what hardware to buy - you'll have to wait for
a programmer for that sort of thing). In the meantime, I want to see those "DOOM 3 GOLD!!!" threads set
new records for swamping message board servers, destroying productivity, and post counts ;-)
Recapping today's headlines....DOOM 3 GOLD!!!
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1. Shaq trade to Miami official. First round pick, Caron Butler, Brian Grant, the other main guy in the trade all go to LA.
2. Push for gay marriage ban. How about good on that one.
3. Of course, D3 goes gold, I tell Xian to take a nap no, patd says hes gonna drink a lot tonight.
Great freaking day guys. Its not over yet though :/
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Plane tickets for Quakecon: ordered.
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oh well
NWS NWS NWS
For the past 4 or 5 days, my left hand'd fingers have been going slightly numb. Not really numb, but like they're in the process of going numb. I lose some feeling in the fingertips and I'll get a very slight tingling sensation when I use them. This is especially noticable in water and often times unnoticable without water. Is this some sort of syndrome of overuse or something?
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I'm not sure if anyone has seen it but there is a new exclusive clip of video from "Sky Captain and the Worold of Tomorrow". personally I think it shows alot of promise. Not too flashy and over the top but still exciting and definetely peaked my interest as to what the story is. I love the art style and almost comic book feel to it.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/skycaptainandtheworldoftomorrow/skycap_apple_clip_large.html
Don't watch if you want to know ABSOLUTELY nothing about the movie's plot.
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The symptoms are that when I first turn on the computer, winlogon.exe will load from the HD for about 2 minutes. It will do this at the logon screen, and keep doing it even if I login. I'm in win2k professional btw.
I have used 2 fully updated virus scanners to check for viruses, but didn't find a single thing. Now, the thing which makes me believe that winlogon is infected is that I did a google search and found that the netsky worm apparantly infects winlogon.exe and searches through your HD for email addresses. Which would explain the loading.
I have downloaded a netsky removal tool, and that did nothing at all.
Is there any way that I can get a copy of winlogon.exe from another win2k machine and copy it over the old one? It's a system file, and cannot be terminated so I have a feeling it's not going to be simple. :(
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I came home and my net connection was functioning. I don't know how long it'll last, so get it while it's hot.
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My computer has been hijacked by Spyware and the like (which is bad enough) but now it has been shutting down and restarting without warning, and althought Windows tells me that it has recovered from a "serious hardware error" I am kind of suspicious.
When I send in my error report it says: "A hardware failure reported by your Central Processing Unit (CPU)"
Error: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=329284
Any suggestions appreacited on what I should do next... Does it sound like I am having hardware problems? Or maybe someone is able to shut me down remotely?
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Quakecon:
- Doom 3
- LAN goodness
- Seeing all of my cool shack homies
- Dallas
ACL Festival:
The Pixies, Neville Brothers, The Pixies, Wilco, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Modest Mouse, Ryan Adams, Cake, G. Love & the Special Sauce, Franz Ferdinand(!), Gomez, Broken Social Scene, My Morning Jacket, Asleep at the Wheel
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http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=8162643
According to hirez 7296 is the highest confirmed number today.
Where's our DNF info?
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Should I get the DVD option for $750, or Leather for $1500? I don't want to pay for both. DVD is appealing for adults and kids, but leather is appealing for its resistance to small, evil, mess making kids.
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http://www.operationsports.com/reviews.asp?game=espnnfl2005xbox
3 movies at the bottom of the page from the near final build showing Trey Wingo and Mel Kiper doing some offseason stuff as well as 2 in game videos. I love the new playcalling screen There's also a nice Q&A there by the site owner who has the game. Ships on the 20th for $20. Get ready.
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if you were to ask me two hours ago if i thought i could laugh until i cried at a hollywood movie i would have said no. if you would have asked me if i thought soul plane would be a funny movie i would have said no.
i was wrong.
simply put, this is one of the more enjoyable movies i've ever seen. and it's fucking funny. the reason is because it doesn't pull any punches. the movie knows what's funny, and unlike the rest of hollywood garbage it doesn't smother the fun under 45 minutes of date-friendly non-racist subplot idiocy.
just see this fucking movie. pay for it. do it now.
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Unfortunately, if you haven't seen it before, it's probably too late to start now; you might be lost. But I encourage you to rent it if you get a chance!
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$25 shipped if anyone wants it
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http://www.seasonale.com/
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Thoughts?
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:(
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Does taking anti-biodics effect the "no baby" pill?!?
Girlfriend heard rumor that it does, but really hoping its BS so I can get some !!
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hay guys whats going on? Japan rocks yet again. Tasty food!
After arriving in the airport and getting through customs (which only took about 2 minutes this time) I waited an hour for my girlfriend (she had to work so she was late meeting me) and then we went to a hotel for the night (commence monkey lovin). After that we returned to Sendai and I rested up while she worked that night. Now today I am at some international center so I can learn more about travelling around this zany place on my own (since the woman is yet again working and will be working every day).
Hopefully I won't screw up and do something horribly embarrassing or disgraceful.
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