Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Mar 14, 2005 6:40pm PSTSorta late? Barely? Dont hit me mom! I'm sorry! :(
- Shrinking glaciers bad :( - Blair Witch dude on the web - Cell phones suck - More on TV cellphones and more - Robots and cancerLastly, some pretty scary stuff with China. Yikes.
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
Going back to this post on Colorization of grayscale images: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=9681455
The Grayscale site itself has been slashdotted, so I'm not sure if it'll still be up. Here's a link in case it does, though: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~yweiss/Colorization/
Basically I made my own markup of the classic Coleman Hasselhoff pic, and I want somebody to run it through MatLab.
Original pic: http://rdemerson.home.comcast.net/pics/coleman_hasselhoff_orig.jpg
Marked pic: http://rdemerson.home.comcast.net/pics/coleman_hasselhoff.bmp
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http://www.gaminggroove.com/
no details yet, except that he was in the hospital sick and died just earlier tonight.
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Not sure wither to laugh or to cry!
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honestly? it looks like if fallout was updated (in time period when the nuke happened and in graphics) and made into this.
- Action-packed Cyber-Punk RPG which brings you into a dark and fascinating world compareable to Matrix and Bladerunner
- Four totally different characters with unique skills, each with a detailed back-story, progress independently through the same narrative; the story is revealed from various angles
- Complex roleplaying system: Each character has access to misc skills and to unique skills related to its characterization: 75 skills with 10 levels (750 skill levels in total). Uncountable number of weapons, Cyberware and Bioware to boost your abilities
- Dynamic dialogues adapted to the situation and the player's actions
- Unlimited computer generated subquests and levels
- Cooperative Multiplayer mode
i'm freaking getting it.
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http://roushimsx.shackspace.com/tontie_v1.swf
I loved the original and I can't wait to get busy with this bad boy. I found out about it yesterday at work when someone was asking me why I hadn't updated the one on my shackspace :(
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http://gerede.org/STUFF/kalasnikov.jpg
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http://www.jesperjuul.dk/ludologist/index.php?p=171
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I've been having some trouble trying to get to the Badlands.. What's the easiest way to get to the badlands from Hammerfall for a lvl 34?
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The new hawtness irony:
http://www.andresbecerra.com/ShackUploads/ShowImage.cfm?FileID=146&Title=Attempt%202%20for%20the%20Work%20Irony%20thing
Because I know you guys/gals like pictures.
I think we can turn this place around, yo. Fat fucking chance.
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when i went to E3 last year, i remember seeing different variations of what the PSP could look like.
http://img207.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img207&image=p10100613nx.jpg
http://img207.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img207&image=p10100641ct.jpg
http://img207.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img207&image=p10100487mo.jpg
So now i'm wondering... you think they'll ever make special editions or maybe better yet, different colors or styles of the PSP?
but yeah i can't wait to play with that damn thing.
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Using Tomcat, btw.
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i'm going to be captain james t. draconic and you're all going to be my redshirts.
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ive had a bitch of a time finding a replacement part. as near as i can tell the only way i can get one from sennheiser is to ship the whole kit back to them and wait like a month or more for it to return. f that.
soooo, does anyone know where i could find a cord for this? the only reason i havent gone to radio shack and picked one up, is because its some wierd stupid cord. one end is a 2.5mm jack, the other is your normal 3.5mm jack. and since the 2.5mm end goes inside the actual headphones a bit, i cant use any of the adapters ive found to plug in a regular 3.5mm jack, not without carving part of the jack or part of the headphones away. neither of which i really want to do.
someone must sell cords like this SOMEWHERE. :(
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http://www.fotosidan.se/gallery/viewlarge.htm?ID=241428
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<(^_^)>
/happy dance
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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21841
tasty potatoes indeed
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i've got tickets to costa rica on wednesday that my dad definitely doesn't want me to use, saying it's only been a few days and that just cause i feel better not doesn't mean i'm healthy enough to travel. but i desperately want to go, this has been a miserable period in my life and i want this vacation so bad. is it a really bad idea to go?
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http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20050314_maddog.jpg
Caption: Never question God's love for Gentoo. Especially when he just broke your friend's neck for not promoting it heavily enough on his shirt.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071571/trivia
Wow gone in 60 seconds the original has awful acting but the main guy is pretty darn good - several real accidents left in the movie and the guy accidentally smashed up some cars in a real caddilac lot and had to buy them
he died in a car stunt accident :(
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First hand, blinds 25/50 and I am small blind. Everyone is equal chip stacked at 4000 chips. I get KQs. Someone raises to 300, I call, 5 of 10 people in the hand.
Flop comes out 2-K-7 rainbow. Im first to bet so I bet 225. 2 people fold. Turn brings out a 10. I bet 675. 1 fold, one call. River comes out 2. No flushes, no straights, a pair on the board but who the FUCK calls a 675 bet with 2s? So, I bet 600. He raises to 1200. I know he has the 2. I can feel lit. However, at this point the pot is up to ~ 4100 with his chips. Its 600 more to me on a hand I was leading the whole way. Top pair, good kicker, even if he had the 2, I had to keep him honest. Sure enough, he called all the way with a 5-2os. Bullshit right there.
But I don't go on tilt. I don't give up. Next time I am small blind, I get a K5. Blinds are at 100/200 and I have 2000 even left after I blind. I call the extra 100 knowing big blind checks. Flop comes out 5-5-10. I hit trips with a hell of a kicker. I check. Big blind bets 300 (to which I say he has a 5 or 10 or another pocket pair). I call along with 5 others (7 in hand). Turn comes with an 8, bringing us 2 Spades to the board. I check. Big blind goes all in. I still put him on a 10 or the flush draw. He gets two (!) callers. I call (of course). Big blind wins it - he had A-5 to my K-5 - river brought junk (I had 8 outs of 45 cards). Just not my night :(
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http://www.gamasutra.com/gdc2005/features/20050311/postcard-sheffield.htm
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FUCKING VIA PIECE OF SHIT aSDF AGARDGA ETGAER TG
goddamnit
I've got a clients machine here, in for a mainboard swap...
so, I go into device manager (winxp) and delete the ATA controllers.... BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH'D
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
I think maybe I've had enough coffee this morning.
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I was playing around with ripping/encoding with FLAC last night, but only with one CD. 400Mb of Raw data down to 240Mb encoded in FLAC. However I don't think thats representative of a good average (they say that it depends greatly on the source data).
What levels of compression have you experienced? (in Number of Albums in collection versus Total Size ripped with FLAC).
Thanks.
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WinXP 64 due out March 28, 2005? I find that hard to believe
http://www.extended64.com/Article3.x64
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Are abs muscles really different from arm muscles? Do they suffer more from being worked at everyday? (Considering you subscribe to the relatively new idea of working arm muscles everyday with little or no rest days in between). Would abs benefit from such a daily routine? Or is it detrimental?
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but, i fuckin love this penguin
http://media.ebaumsworld.com/technopenguin.wmv
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I downloaded a script form php.net which makes thumbnails of all my images (max height 75, max width 100). Unfortunatly images which have a greater height than width don't fit nice into the websites layout - they have all the same maxheight but different widths.
Does anybody of you know about a script which adds extra width in a certain color to a thumbnail?
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