Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Feb 08, 2005 7:59pm PSTSo it's been a year and I seem to have not reverted back to biting my nails. Really strange to have a habit for 20 years and then it just goes away one day. The annoying part is having to deal with actually clipping them now. What a pain in the ass. Now I just gotta give up this smoking rock habit.
- People are happy out of shape - Combining species freaking folks out - Longhorn beta coming in June - 10 best tech companies to work for - 23yr old virgin not so popular :( - Cellsocket? - VoIP not so hot?Lastly, here are all your Superbowl ads, a day late since I wrote this yesterday and then my connection broke!
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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
Something you don't see too often. Tapping on an acoustic.
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Who owns a pair of these? If you do, post impressions. If you have another pair of $200+ headphones, post what kind they are and impressions! Don't fuck around!
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http://www.wrightthisway.com/Articles/000154.html
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valentines day edition.
she hangs out with secksy london women, as seen in gallery.
http://www.shootingfromthehipster.com/
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http://www.shackbattles.net/battles/view.php?battle_id=329
If we have enough, we'll start with a few games of dm3 and choose based on popularity, probably favoring e1m2 and other common deathmatch maps. o{FUHQuake}o is recommended but not required.
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=9303728
SIGN UP PEOPLES REMEMBER YOUR ROOTS!!
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This is just hilariously wrong
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We re-wrote all the lyrics of "Ice Ice Baby" to "Christ Christ Baby" and are performing it for like... 200 people, lol.
So, my question is - I'm going to record it with my MiniDVD camcorder, can I post it on the shack Sunday night? We're using a karoake CD as the backup beat.
I think it would be awesome to post, if I can.
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http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu/cell-2.ars
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He's the perfect non-human example of 'nice guy syndrome'. "He's a wimp" -- "He's still a virgin at 23, spurned repeatedly by the four females in Buffalo, who preferred a short, dumpy ape called Omega. "
He's supposed to be an assertive alpha male silverback which has his way with the females around him. Instead "he's not as assertive as most silverbacks would be", letting the females go off and fuck the small, ugly yet assertive gorilla. Assertiveness, of course, being a traditionally male trait.
So this guy's a wussy. But worse than not getting any tail, he's letting the female gorillas "pelt him with clumps of dirt and hit him with branches. " And she's 1/3rd his age!
So what would normally be the superior gorilla misses out on the ladies simply because of his unassertive attitude.
Here's the gold mine, folks, straight from the article. I couldn't have concluded it any better myself: "He's too nice a guy," Chan said. "It might be the problem with why he never bred."]b
I wonder how many people you know that this could apply to!
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why does burning a dvd take 10 min at 8x? gaaaaaaaaaaaaaawd damn! where's my 16x media!!!!???
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More of a struggle between good and evil bit, kinda like in a straight-to-video Christopher Walken/Gabriel Byrne angels vs demons vs Lucifer vs God movie. Haven't read the Hellblazer comic (not a Neil Gaiman fan, BITE ME) but if I had to guess, the ending short on effects and high on religious philosohpy probably borrows enough from the source to make fanboys happy.
For the most part, it was a pretty decent, entertaining, exorcist/action/detective movie.
Like I said, I didn't read the comics, so when I had explain the whole "Constantine sucks because Keanu Reeves is not British and blonde" issue to my trusty anti-hype source (aka my dad), I came up really short.
Me: He's supposed to be British and blonde. Not Keanu Reeves.
Dad: Oh yeah?
M: Yup.
D: So what did you think of the ending?
M: But he's American in the movie!
D: I really liked the premise.
M: You're missing the point... he's uh... blonde!
D: It was really cool when he <something wicked cool>
M: Yeah I guess.
So I pretty much gave up on the entire idea of hating the movie for twisting Gaiman's work and accepted that it was a pretty good movie as a whole.
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Why is it that more and more sites are moving from using tables within the HTML to using CSS to dictate the layout?
Why I have this question is because I fail to see why CSS is better than actually using existing tags, that have not been depreciated.
I don't accept the content removed from layout arguement either, as HTML was always designed as a code for specifying the layout out a document.
I can understand the need for CSS to remove a lot of information about the layout from the HTML, so that it's easier to read, but almost completely having a page filled with <div> tags doesn't help make it easier to see how a page should look from viewing the code.
Or is this a move to make HTML more obfuscated?
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However, my friend who moved to the south of france a year ago has been doing some traveling through various parts of Europe. Today I got a package from him. This package was filled with awesome. One of the things in it was an interesting looking box of chocolates with a note attached:
I know you don't eat this shit, but I wouldn't send you something like this if I didn't know what I was doing. These are from Switzerland. I won't be sending anymore as I don't want to ruin your remarkable bill of health.
Ed does know what he is doing. He is truly a man of the world, I typically trust him on everything he says or does. So, ok, I will eat one of these ridiculous looking chocolates.
...
Outstanding. Like, I didn't even know Chocolate could come like this. I don't even like this stuff but this is out of control. Out of fucking control. It's like each one is a different type of chocolate filled with a different type of chocolate and each one is equal in awesome, yet a completely different kind of awesome. What the hell, swiss people? And the sculpture on these things... it's like they shouldn't even be edible. Anyway, they are almost all gone and I will probably go throw up after posting this. I already want to chew through glass from all of the sugar and I can't stop tapping my foot and have stood up 5 times to go randomly pace around while writing this post, but I just wanted to endorse hardcore swiss chocolate with no brand name. I will never eat this stuff again and now I feel my pupils dilating but seriously, that was like eating god.
I've eaten plenty of chocolate in my life, and have even had Swiss chocolate before, but this stuff is different. This is like the swiss chocolate that the elf woman from lord of the rings gives people when they are going to save middle earth.
I've got to go run. Hopefully up hill.
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My ex just called me her password has magically changed on her?
She got some "critical update" for messenger, had to re-boot and the next thing you know her account password is wrong.
Also I just signed in to it and about 15 people I've never heard of added me just like that.................. I'm thinking some kind of MSN virus?
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a bunch of people jumped on to the server and started building and playing around with the blocks. it is some fuuuun stuff, lemme tell you.
we built all sorts of cool stuff.
http://www.seaw0lf.com/blockland/legotour-divx.avi (40mb)
then some people got bored and couldn't control their urges
http://www.seaw0lf.com/blockland/legose-divx.avi
then noobles came along and started building this...
http://www.seaw0lf.com/blockland/mech-divx.avi
holy shit it's alive!!!
http://www.seaw0lf.com/blockland/mechwarrior-divx.avi
this thing is a ton of fun. it's lego for gosh sake! who didn't love lego when they were a kid. if the framerate didn't suck when there was so much to build this thing would be the best game ever. but even still, i wasted my entire afternoon and night on this thing
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Basically, I have a pc, and I have a mac. Recently, this quarter I've been starting to use my pc (school requires it). I'm all SP2'd up and all that, and up until recently, I've had no problems.
But the thing is, on Sunday my g/f and her roomate came over to use my computer and fired up IE to do some shit. Now I'm getting these messages from windows telling me that a 'program' wants to send a message via outlook express or something.
Adaware, spybot.. they got nothing. Have I missed some new e-mail worm alert or something?
I feel so stupid. Apple made me dumb :( Hepl?
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http://www.tech-boards.com/music/messingaround.mp3
That's what an hour got me, and I can't even get it to record at a decent volume :( It's either too quiet or too loud, or too tinny, arghh!!
So whats going on with you all?
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http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/driving/granturismo4/screenindex.html?
forzamotorsport:
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/driving/forzamotorsport/screenindex.html?
Which looks the most amazing to you?
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lol.. on tuesday night... wtf
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http://img226.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img226&image=bobomb3th.jpg
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Modified 'cave' wallpaper without the bat logo in 5 colors.
Original gray
Cyan
Blue
Red
Multisync
http://photobucket.com/albums/v699/spartanic/Batman%20Wallpaper/
Because I had 30 minutes to spare today.
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Should I feel wrong about jumping on someone else's unsecured WAP that happens to have DSL?
Or something not Adelphia?
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http://home.tolldog.com/~dmann/images/DSC00453.JPG
http://home.tolldog.com/~dmann/images/DSC00454.JPG
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http://mrbelles.brinkster.net/archive/2005/02/08/188.aspx if you want to check out my initial thoughts on it, compared to my 2003 CBR-600RR.
Any other riders in southeast Kansas (Pittsburg area) that can't wait for warm weather?! :P I know I'm dying for some now...
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Thanks, Microsoft!
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