Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Oct 25, 2004 5:44pm PDTWell, for a little while I was really enjoying Top Spin but now it seems that I've figured out a few techniques that work against even the highest ranked players. Man I hate it when you figure stuff like that out. Sigh. Game ruined.
- Smart buildings are hot - Condom in your muffin? Fughetabaawtit (Yeah I mangled that) - The next space race - Song swapping still happeningLastly, perverts rejoice! Cell phones that have cameras seeing through clothes.
Super Monday Night Combat launches Turbocross mode
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'
GO!!!!
http://www.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=0c453d853bfe6e1d47f84c3220b16fae&threadid=155374
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The thing that has stuck with me about that movie was not the fact that "Satan" was green moving fluid although to me it is a fascinating concept. Why cant one of the enemies of mankind be something as simple as a parasite with supernatural powers that can transfer itself through the fluids of the human body ?
The thing that stuck with me were the segments of the movie where the woman is dreaming about the messages being sent from the future. The voice in the dreams kept saying "... This is not a dream." Some something something what you are seeing is the future or something.
As a person who has encountered things, places and people in my dreams I was totally into that movie for that aspect alone. The explaination of how the messages were sent via some "molecule" was also a fascinating concept. They really need to make a sequel to that but make it more in the vein of "Aliens". And by that make it have lots of asskicking badass weapons, monsters getting shot to pieces and lots of shit blowing up.
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I'm pretty sure it would be a bad idea all around, both in money and schoolwork, YET MY BRAIN IS STILL TELLING ME TO DO IT. Damnit, brain, wtf is wrong with you!!
someone help me :(
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http://www.shackbattles.net/battles/view.php?battle_id=301
Everything you need to know is in there. It's good to enlist, because that lets other people know that there will be people playing, which makes them more likely to play, too.
We will be playing BFPro, a mod that tweaks the vanilla maps for balance. Don't have room for it? Uninstall DC.
http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=5660
Genjuro will be playing with us tomorrow for his first big BF1942 shackbattle (maybe he played with us back in the demo days; I don't remember). Let's try to have a good showing!
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Quake 2 - The Rail Gun
Call of Duty - The Soviet Campaign
Rise of Nations - Siege Weapons
Far Cry - Gorgeous Outdoors/Jungle
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DubyaTeeEff mate? When we gonna get some matches going! Last night my team (team 12) failed to find another team to scrimmage with. Kinda sad ;(
We need to get this show on the road!
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Would you buy from him? He's selling a Radeon X800 which is either a XT or a XT PE, and he says he doesn't know which it is. If it's a XT, it's ~$40 over normal price, if it's a XT PE it's far under normal price (eBay price that is).
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How many of you "meh" guys played it on the xbox when it first came out?
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I'd appreciate anyone's thoughts on this setup, box only really. Basically just wanting to know that the components aren't crap and that the memory/hard drive/processor/motherboard will all work with each other. - Thanks in advance!
Need:
• ($36) Enlight Beige Micro ATX Mini Tower Case with 200W Power Supply, Model "EN-7358-0PU" -RETAIL
• ($60) Western Digital Special Edition 80GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive, Model WD800JB, OEM Drive Only
• ($48) Crucial 184 Pin 256MB DDR PC-2700 - OEM
• ($42) ABIT "NF7-M" nForce2 IGP Motherboard for AMD Socket A CPU -RETAIL (onboard audio/network/video)
• ($60) AMD Sempron 2400+ 1.667GHz, Socket A Processor - Retail
Total: $299.39
Already Have:
• Keyboard
• Mouse
• Monitor
• Printer
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http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-10/25/13.00.film
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http://www.shacknews.com/redir_comments.x?id=34223
"This is being run in compatibility mode and not all features are enabled"
followed by a checkbox to not show this message again. Right clicking on the iexplore.exe to turn this feature off doesn't allow me as all of the checkboxes are greyed out. It also tells me that iexplore cannot be run in compatibility mode!
Comedy switch to Firefox is not applicable in this situation as it's not my computer.
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I got Blazing Saddles in the mail from NetFlix last week after the love it was given here on the Shack. I know I'll have to turn in my members jacket after this, but I was barely able to sit through that movie. It was like watching a constant stream of dick and fart jokes, each one less imaginative than the last. My opinion of Mel Brooks wasn't changed - it was reinforced that he's not funny.
I know everyone else here loves the film, so I wont slag it further, but give me Monty Python over Brooks for slapstick comedy any day of the week.
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MINOR SPOILERS ALERT!!!!!
In reply!
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So I think I have everythign picked out for my new rig, this is the wishlist for it:
http://secure.newegg.com/app/WishR.asp?ID=1047000
I have a Nvidia 6800 GT for video cards and just a regular IDE harddrive for now, may upgrade later, this look ok to you guys?
Feel free to make suggestions.
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"Limited" ? what the sam hill does that mean?
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Check out today's and yesterday's comics.
http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/getfuzzy-20041025.html
http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/
I like the end of today's comic. heh.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3955289.stm
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http://roushimsx.shackspace.com/Image1026-0605(TV59)1.jpg
http://roushimsx.shackspace.com/Image1026-0605(TV59)2.jpg
http://roushimsx.shackspace.com/Image1026-0605(TV59)3.jpg
Wish i had a better input than coax for my cable tv though :(
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Is it OJ Simpson? Is it Leslie Nielsen? Is it Priscilla Presley? Is it the slapstick? Is it the over the top situations? Is it the fact that a character can be 100% involved in an asnine situation one moment then realize through a sly look at the camera how crazy everything is? Is it the subtle poke at standard movie stupidity or the full out barage of standard movie stupidity?
Whatever it is, these three movies are pure comic genuis!
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Goto http://www.hyperos2002.com/
Click FAQ at the top of the page
Click on HyperOs HyperDrive III Frequently Asked Questions
Then laugh…..
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000DC154/qid=1098751871/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-9563667-7160937?v=glance&s=dvd
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001JXP7K/qid=1098751871/sr=1-6/ref=sr_1_6/102-9563667-7160937?v=glance&s=dvd
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00065GX8C/qid=1098751871/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_5/102-9563667-7160937?v=glance&s=dvd
The Shack needs more Coupling love!
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Still tring to verify it from other sources, but heh, is there any doubt about this being the best fucking pc game ever now?
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Possible broken "onboard video processor" on Geforce 6800 AGP cards (but not PCI-E). I don't care that much, since my CPU's fast enough to decode DVDs by software without dropping frames, but this may be another side effect of NVidia's yield problems.
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Now, using modern technology, they are able to give me an approximate hold time. I think they use the same code that Fileshack used to use in telling you how long your download would be. The estimated hold time was between "One Hour and Twenty Six minutes and One Hour and Thirty One minutes." I think they have outsourced their call center to some guy by a pay phone in Bali.
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