Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, May 08, 2005 6:38pm PDTEveryone be careful.. dont feed him he bites... oh and HAPPY MOTHERS DAY MOMMY!
- The biz of life - Yet another FireFox security hole - WiMax getting hotter - Lasers are still awesome - Net phones are here!Lastly, Red Screen of Death!
Weekend Confirmed 114 - Diablo 3, Max Payne 3, Lost Planet 3
New Zone of the Enders project underway
Carmageddon ploughing into GOG
Harry Potter for Kinect announced
Mad Riders trailer goes heavy on the meta
So is there anything concrete about the E3 shackmeet this year, or is it just gonna end up like last year where we all sign up and nothing really happens because nothing ever got organized. I really would like a chance to meet some of my fellow nerds shackers irl. So, anyone know anything yet, because when I checked the shackmeet page yesterday it was still pretty much just "Hey guyz, let's meet at E3....somewhere. Sometime. Somehow"
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Two possible biggies announced today.
In reply.
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Had a harddrive crash on me the other day. The 600 + songs that are now on my iPod will get wiped out if I reinstall iTunes and hook my iPod up to it. Any suggestions on how to fix this or what software to get that won't wipe out my iPod? This sucks...some of those I can not replace.
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http://www.myspace.com/weezer
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I wish my mum was so cool
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Lol, why is Ian McShane so awesome?
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Alone in the Dark comes out on DVD tomorrow!!! Isn't that AWESOME?!?!?!!
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Quick C question: what's the difference between a Macro and a function call? I'm quite familiar with function calls, but I want to make sure I understand macros correctly. Am I right in thinking that macros are just an easy way to "simplify" coding by replacing a label with an actual code segment, kind of how the compiler would replace go through and replace NUMLETTERS with 50 after you declare
If not, can someone correct me and/or suggest a quick resource where I can learn more about using macros?
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Gay Boss story
So my boss is gay and in the closet. I've known this for about 2 years after I found some gay porn entries on his history list on his laptop. We just fired this programmer from my work, and he sent me an email. Here's what he said:
I wanted to thank you for everything while I was at xxxx
Not working now but hopefully will be in a clinical or hospital or academic
setting soon
A couple of watchwords for our former boss
Be careful to watch what you say and do and most of all dont give any
personal info to xxxxxx
also I would'nt accept any offers to get into a vehicle with him if you want
to be left alone
He doesnt take kindly to being turned down (if you catch my drift)
OLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO
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http://www.shacknews.com/shackmeet/events.x?id=2045
So it's official. I'll try to avoid the pre-meet don't-expect-anything-spiel.
Unfortunately I realised that Stockholm really doesn't have an arcade, so what seems the natural shackmeet place is not readily available. If people think it's strictly required, we can go out to Kungens Kurva, but it's a bit of a long haul. Otherwise we just may have to talk to each other a bit more, or go to Vasamuseet or something.
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http://www.ninjatalkshow.com/zeta/zeta_beta5.5.txt (readme)
http://www.ninjatalkshow.com/zeta/zeta_beta5_5.pk4 (8MB)
I know it's like the middle of the night most places but WTF I don't care. I am totally indebted to anyone who takes the time to check it out - I know there are some things (that could 'break' or suck) that I just can't find in testing it on my own. O_O
checklist: going to consider packaging it as a mod for easy loading, finish the one last GUI for the base info station, adjust some of the visportals and info_location entities (they let you know where you are in the HUD), add in some people to the credits, do some basic entity tagging for skill levels, and stick a fork in it. Looking at completeness in 24 hours. I think I have finally mastered enough functions to know that I should start something new and it will go 100x faster and I can really plan/stretch the story/singleplayer nature of shit this time around. add in more actual new stuff, etc etc. it was kind of hard to 'write the script' when you didn't even know the language it was going to be in very well.
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I have a 60 priest that has real nice gear and a 49 rogue (Not on any of the shack servers).
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http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~zeb22/IMG_2044.jpg
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~zeb22/IMG_2048.jpg
Yes, that's a stack of pennies and the weight from my mouse. Even without compound they get frickin hot. And a nice USB fan to cool it all.
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http://img28.echo.cx/my.php?image=img00662sr.jpg
They're not quite done yet as you can see. Still need to paint the handles black and maybe add some silver touches to it, like switches and stuff. It's just 3/4 " dowel cut into 24" lenghts. The hilt is just 1/4" pressboard I cut into circles. Glue is still drying on those so I gotta wait to spary paint the handle. I hope he likes them. He'll be dual weilding light sabers in no time :)
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http://msn.foxsports.com/id/3600678_7_1.jpg
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Who sucks enough at Forza still to play with me? I'm scared that I'll suck horribly at it :(
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I played a fuck ton over the weekend of this game, and I'm now addicted. I love it, seriously. Haven't touched WoW since, and I think I'm going to cancel my 57 Warlock this weekend.
Have any of you guys opened up cars beyond the A class? I managed to get the Subaru from the A class last night, and I upgraded the shit out of it. I love racing on Live, in career mode, so that you can get all those points. It makes MP so much more fun. Only thing I don't like is that I can't just change the class, without having to restart the whole multiplayer game.
Another thing, do they make a DVI connector of some sort for the Xbox? I've been playing on my Dell flat panel wide, and S-Video doesn't look nearly as nice as component cable. I know theres xvga, but does that look any better then S-Video?
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I can see you. Join TwitchyMocha's Career Game for $$$ RAPE DOLLARS $$$
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http://img8.echo.cx/my.php?image=grizzlypawprint7an.jpg
the pic isn't great, and you can't really see his claw marks, but... that is one big son of a bitchin' bear
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Is there a way to make a row in a table delete itself after a certain amount of time, like make the row have a time to live?
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Back in the day I used a program by AT&T named VNC. It was pretty sweet.
Is VNC still the best option out there, or are there any better alternatives? (free/commercial)
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http://www.bizarrecreations.com/
http://www.bizarrecreations.com/games_nightmare.htm
Seriously, were we supposed to like any of the characters in this movie? Everyone treated each other like total shit. It was like a sex movie, with no sex at all, other then a few scenes of Portman's ass, which really wasn't that great to begin with. Sure, I'd hit it, but it wasn't anything special at all.
One of the worst movies I've seen in a long time.... Also, I hate Julie Roberts. She's got a huge nose, and no body.. and makes shitty movie after shitty movie.
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gamertag: pupismyname
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Be sure to play Rally X while it's loading and rack up a score of 50,000.
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Urge to mutilate and kill rising.
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