Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Mar 20, 2005 4:54pm PSTToday seems like a good day for pizza! PIZZA PARTY!
- PDA addict are ya? - People goofing off online - Video blogs - Signs in the wavesLastly, EU is worried about Microsoft being naughty instead of nice.
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
Mad Riders: Techland's ATV racer coming to PC, PSN, XBLA
True Song (Overseas Version) $17.99
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Break Of Dawn (Overseas Ver.) $17.99
I am... (Overseas Version) $17.99
Memorial address (Overseas Version) $16.99
Japan Mini: Naruto Fullcolor R (1 Randomly Out of 8)
NEW WORLD (Limited Edition)(Japan Version) $20.99
MY STORY (Overseas Version) $17.99
NEED YOUR LOVE (CD+DVD) (Limited Edition) (Overseas Version) $19.25
Japan Mini: Naruto Fullcolor R (1 Randomly Out of 8)
Discount -$5.00
Best of Inuyasha [IMPORT] [Audio CD] Best of Inuyasha [Audio CD] $10.83
Best of Inuyasha V.2 [IMPORT] [Audio CD] Japanimation [Audio CD] $21.96
Gundam Seed Complete Best [IMPORT] [Audio CD] Gundam Seed Complete Best [Audio CD] $17.13
"Naruto: Best Hit Collection [IMPORT] [Audio CD] Japanimation [Audio CD] " $23.67
Amazon Shipping & Tax $9.96
Slayers, Best of Radio and Television CD $14.98
Shipping $4.00
Grand total for 13 CD's: $244.71
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There's a new album coming up?! :D
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050312/music_nm/music_queens_dc
But no Dave Grohl?! :(
source: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=1556673&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=9&o=14
Good drunken debate from a few nights ago.
The question: How many 5 year-olds could you take on at once?
The specifics:
- You are in an enclosed area, roughly the size of a basketball court. There are no foreign objects.
- You are not allowed to touch a wall.
- When you are knocked unconscious, you lose. When they are all knocked unconscious, they lose. Once a kid is knocked unconscious, that kid is "out."
- I (or someone else intent on seeing to it you fail) get to choose the kids from a pool that is twice the size of your magic number. The pool will be 50/50 in terms of gender and will have no discernable abnormalities in terms of demographics, other than they are all healthy Americans.
- The kids receive one day of training from hand-to-hand combat experts who will train them specifically to team up to take down one adult. You will receive one hour of "counter-tactics" training.
- There is no protective padding for any combatant other than the standard-issue cup.
* The kids are motivated enough to not get scared, regardless of the bloodshed. Even the very last one will give it his/her best to take you down.
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dual core p4's are not pin compatible with current mboards
dual core a64's are
amd wins.
The Nintendo Revolution will have a touch-screen as a controller.
I don't know what I think about this!
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Just got sent this picture (cropped to protect the innocent)
http://members.iinet.com.au/~mitchellgrove/PICT0012a.JPG
Its a digital picture taken in poor light of the actual b&w photo (hence the bad quality)
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If you've never played, GW is a Diablo-like game with comprehensive multiplayer campaign as well as super PVP system. The PVP, which is the main draw for many of us, activates the same neurons as FPS games 8)
Obligatory selection of screenshots: http://s87349172.onlinehome.us/GW/March_weekend/
MVP of the screenshot archive is http://s87349172.onlinehome.us/GW/March_weekend/wizards_tower.jpg .
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Dear god, it looks awful..... sorry -TKF- I really wanted to like this one but 4 Megs of texture memory is just showing through too much
That said, 1080i on PS2 at 60fps is a technical achievement probably unequaled in modern games, I'm very impressed.
and of course the gameplay is classic GT.
Ready for next gen plz. need super hi res texutres for 720p and 1080i plz.
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http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000332.php
They split into 3 perfect wedges. Hell yeah.
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AMD Athlon64 3200+ (2.0GHz) - $324.50
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Intel Pentium4 3.0GHz Skt 478 CPU - $297.00
If I can get that extra speed for less, it must be better!! Right?
So what's wrong with it? (mid level gaming pc)
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Silent Hunter 3 for $27.99 + Free Shipping at Outpost.com!!!
http://shop1.outpost.com/product/4385265
IGN gave it an 8.8 + Editor's Choice award, but I'm still waiting for a few more reviews to filter in. Anybody pick this up yet? How is it?
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http://www.ew.com/ew/article/quiz/0,6115,1038276_1_0_,00.html?cnn=yes
I'm a lumberjack
6-10
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I recently got a firewire card for my dv cam. windows wont see the cam, but the cam will recognize that its hooked up via firewire. And windows sees it as a firewire card, with no confilcts.
I know other people have had this problem, so i was wondering if there was a fix.
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After finishing my first contracted website (!), I decided I better put one together for myself. I had been toying with the idea in my small squirl like brain for awhile. As I do my travel from office to office, I end up telling people the same shit over and over when it comes to things like Spyware, Phishing, Etc.
So, I figured I could put together a page that lists my rates, up sells shit, gives more information, but also has a collection of tech tips like this. I wanted to write them so that any schmuck in an office could read them. Some of them I wanted to include tips so that if a Shacker wanted to know more about it, even he would gain something.
My first rough draft is up at http://rosew/mysite/techtips/phishing.asp and I would like feedback. It has been forever since I have had to write something other then a Shackpost and I am sure that is horrible on so many levels.
More importantly, what articles would you like to see written? Think of things that you have to explain over and over and wish you could just say "here, read this!" Just while typing this post I thought that maybe I should write an article of Peer-to-Peer and file sharing.
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I've been using Thunderbird for a few months now and liked it fairly well. Only complaint I had was that sometimes it would check mail and not actually download the messages which was rare. So for reasons that will remain private, I had to go back to Outlook and needed to import my mail into Outlook 2003 from Thunderbird. This is almost fucking impossible to do. There is no export function in Thunderbird whatsoever and I had to download Eudora to act as the middleman. Steps were as follows:
- Download and install Eudora.
- Find Thunderbird profile and give all of the file names mbx extentions.
- Copy said files into Eudora folder
- Open Eudora and reorganize folders
- Open Outlook Express and import from Eudora
- Open Outlook and import from Outlook Express
What a fucking nightmare. I will never user Thunderbird again until it has some sort of export function. Talk about MS hooking you into something! Once you go Thunderbird, they make it EXTREMELY hard to go back to something else.
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- Thunderbird and OE both give the "couldn't connect" error.
- IMAP on the same email accounts works fine.
- 3 different POP3 servers (ISP, my own webspace, random other one), none will connect.
- 2 different routers, both with port 110 forwarded.
- 2 different internet conenctions (home & college), doesn't work on either.
- All software firewalls disabled.
- The same accounts work fine on my laptop in Thunderbird and OE.
I've exhausted all the connection options, so it has to be something wrong on my PC. I really have no idea what to check though, and Google is being pretty useless.
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http://www.thegamerslodge.com/video/GWTVfG.wmv
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So what's the name of that fat dude that puts corn on chicks backs while he flogs them. I want more of his work!!!
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Ok got me a new charcoal grill. The manual suggests brushing vegtable oil on the inside then burning wood for 2 hours to prepare it. Will good old lump charcoal due the trick or does it have to be wood?
ok and...
http://img240.exs.cx/img240/8285/charbroilsierra5si.jpg
492 Square inches of BBQing/Grilling and Smoking beauty.
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http://www.collegehumor.com/?movie_id=128084
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Dear god, needs more ambience, more personality, more Farah, less angst. Maybe it'll be fairly fun throughout as far as gameplay, but right now it's too 'quiet' and tries too hard to be edgy. =/ Sad panda.
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9.8
http://ps2.ign.com/articles/596/596778p1.html
And check out the video:
Like Jak 3, God of War achieves what no PS2 game should by omitting load times almost completely and yet still offering visuals on par with or even surpassing most of those on competing systems.
Click the first link:
http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?id=498
More stuff:
http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Media/Media.htm?CS_pid={F1FD055E-0882-4791-BA1A-66BB59DE689C}
-Click- *add to basket*
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http://img239.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img239&image=posterchick8dl.jpg
I wave to her on the bus in the mornings when no one is looking, and when I walk by at night, I sorta slow down and talk to her a little about my day. And she listens, and smiles back.
I call her Audrey.
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I want to learn how to play.
Is there an online store I should order from, or is ebay ok?
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- <$300
- I don't care about features/specs other than a basic optical zoom
- Size is the deal breaker. I want it to be as small as possible so I can carry it around in my pocket, so nothing like the Nikon mini-SLR designs.
At the moment I'm leaning towards the Canon Ixus 430. Any Shack recommendations?
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Never worked for me :P
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yeah. where's my futuristic mmo? i'm fucking sick of fantasy settings.
i want.. basically? i want a shadowrun mmo, but with tweaks. i wanna hack, i wanna shoot, i wanna upgrade my fully/partial cybernetic/human body into a better me. i want holograms, i want a dirty ass city where i can get anything on the black market, and i want a pristine city where everything is controlled by a massive AI, everything is perfect. i want contrast in my worlds.
i wanna look at someone and say "i can be you." and go to a chop shop and redesign myself to look exactly like them. for a mission, for shits and giggles. because i want to be taller. because i want to be a woman. it doesn't matter. i have the cash, so do it, scalpel jockey.
i want to travel by means no one has invented yet. i want to go into space for lunch. check on my apartment on.. whatever planet, and head back here so i can get my jobs done to earn more cash in the struggle in becoming even cooler than i am.
before you say neocron, speak matrix online, or utter galaxies: neocron sucked, if i wanted kung fu i'd talk to xocsida, and i hate wookies. is it just me? i just want to play system shock with thousands of other players, in a drastically larger setting. why hasn't anyone done this? does this not sound like a cool idea?
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