Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Dec 10, 2004 5:07pm PSTSo it's raining really tall foreigners around these parts tomorrow... The big choice to be made? Watching the Mavs play Atlanta or Golden State. Wow... tough one. Blah.
- File sharing in high court - Mike Tyson is still good for some chuckles - High tech posters - British dudes dont like to party - Being a mall santa is tough - Troops arent dying fast enough, they need cancer too.Lastly, apparently spam is still a problem?
Daily Filter: Planetside 2, Deadlight
Weekend PC digital deals: strategy-o-rama
38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
Demon's Souls servers extended again
http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/HalfLife_2_Antlion_Troopers_Singleplayer_Map;34215#Download
NOTE: Lots of lag if you have a slow computer.
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http://www.movieboxmedia.com/mp3/batmanbegins.wmv
It shows a good deal more than the first teaser, but still not a lot. Looks very awesome though, although the clip quality is pretty low.
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PS2
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=2553982
Xbox Live Enabled
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=2553917
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5.07.
its on download.com
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Anyone want to confess how much they have made from ebaying through various mmorpgs?
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I have a 3.2 p4, 9800 pro 128mb, and a gig of ram. I'm running the game on the "balanced" setting and my frame rate absolutely DIES sometimes. We're talking 3-4 FPS in some cases.
The reason I am asking is because some guy had a system very similar to mine and he said he could run the game on the High Quality setting and not have a frame rate loss. I figure the guy doesn't know what he's talking about but I just thought I'd come see how well it runs for you guys..... just to play it safe. :)
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On Monday, before, during, or after my MEPS Physical, I will be interviewed by a high-up-dude (A technical term I'm told) for several things. One of these things is Why I Want to Join the Navy. Naturally my answer is "education, money, travel opportunities, etc", but I'm not about to tell him that.
In fact, I am required to write up a little bit about why I want to join... so I pulled out my big-bullshit-boots:
My family has had a history of both the United States Navy, and also The Army Air Corps. My Father served two terms during his college years, one of them being Officer's Candidate School. I want to be part of both the legacy my family has in the service, as well as be part of The United States Navy tradition.
I am at a point in my life where I am both physically and mentally prepared to handle the kind of challenges I believe the Navy has to offer me. I see this as an opportunity to prove to both myself, and others, that I can accomplish great things. I want to be able to look back one day and see that I have achieved my goals, and had the chance to make my country proud while doing so.
I feel that I can contribute and learn so much in the Navy, in comparison to any other branch of service, and am excited to do so.
Quite a bit of that is true actually, but still... it feels so cheesy. But my recruiter said "You want to write it as if you're going to try and make them cry with joy".
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http://worldofwarcraft.com/
The banhammer to come down on people who sell in game items, including characters.
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I wish I was talented enough to do that shit...
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We should gang up and gauss off your asses... does the Steam friends list work now?
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(I cant compile my code because I dont have vc++ so I'm throwing ideas out into the public)
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Interesting article on the physics of aikido.
http://www.fightingarts.com/reading/article.php?id=284
It talks about how it looks like someone is "throwing themselves" and the physics behind what is actually happening. It's pretty cool..it took me about a year of training before I started seeing the physics behind the art. It's really fascinating to me.
Is this real?
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http://files.filefront.com/Crazygodtechnique/;1682956;;/fileinfo.html
it's the crazy Super Mario Bros. video where the guy does shit that seems impossible.
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http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2.cgi?PAGE=PROFRAME&PROD_ID=682365
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cheapest place to buy sony ericsson K700i? i want this phone!
one that will ship internationally too if possible.
ta ta
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"What level are you in WoW?" Game
I'm a level 30 human pal-e-dine
on Blackhand
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saw it last night, good flick. many laughs
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"and it boasts an unlockable "commentary" mode, which annotates the entire game with extensive, often fascinating DVD-style audio commentary from the frightfully talented development team at Stockholm-based Starbreeze Studios."
That is *awesome*
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ghetto but awesome head crab plush kit
sample image: http://auburn.edu/~fullemg/mod/Project5.jpg
full blue print and other pics at http://auburn.edu/~fullemg/mod/
i wish valve would do something official. best halloween mask ever.
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The artsty thing ... it will grown on me on the DVD, I can tell already. In fact, as much as I love Ocean's 11, I wasn't in love with it when I watched it the first time. But after watching it a few more times, Bernie Mack cracked me up and it all fell together.
What im trying to say is it didn't hit me very strong, but I liked it - a lot.
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A few days ago someone posted a link to some free music production software. I think the company is offering it free so they can sell their hardware. I remember they have some USB dealie, so I'm pretty sure it's not Mackie. Anyone know?
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I've been having this problem where my machine is perfectly stable if I don't play games, but when I play, it locks up within 10-45 minutes, and after that within about 10 minutes if I keep rebooting it and trying to keep playing. I thought it was a heat issue, so I took the case side off, put it on its side, and mounted a fan blowing air in, but the lockups still happened (although I thought they might happen a tiny bit later than before, but I didn't time things). Plus, when it locks up, the video card heatsink and CPU heatsink seem relatively cool to the touch (not burning my fingers).
So now I suspect power, and my power supply is a lame-o 300W supply that can't actually put out 300W. I've got it hooked up to an Athlon XP 2500+, Radeon 9600 PRO, and 3 hard drives. I'm not sure if it's enough for the system, but I don't have anything much better to swap for it, and I don't have any way of determining my power drain (sadly, no multimeter to clip into the wires and monitor the voltages or current draws).
The video card was formerly in a different machine (a T-bird 1.2), where it was rock solid, but in this machine the box locks up even with that other machine's power supply. The RAM is known good stuff from my work machine. Maybe my mobo is bad? But then it seems like it would at least occasionally lock while not playing games.
The particular symptom of the lockup is that the video either freezes or goes black, and occasionally ATI's VPU Recover is able to reset the card and keep playing (after 10 seconds or so), but it will lock up again within minutes and be gone, needing a hard reset.
This is driving me crazy and making it very hard to play games :(
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Seriously, this is very cool.
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If you kids liked the chick in Ong Bak ("Air" Pumwaree Yodkamol), you may want to watch iTV right now since her little drama/sitcom is on
mms://streaming1.ip-tv.tv/itv_live
The streaming video quality sucks (56k), there's no subtitles, and you'll probably be annoyed by the voices, but hey...it's that chick from Ong Bak. Eh? EH? EH?
(it's on at 5pm Saturday each week, so ~4am Sat for us Central Timers)
Tune in and watch!
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