Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Jun 23, 2005 6:02pm PDTEveryone just remain calm... it will all be over shortly
- The end of the free internet is coming! (Really, it sucks) - Some odd info on Italian dudes - First person to read this wins 100 grand! The candybar :( - MS helping out partners with legal fees - So is this thing gonna do realtime DD on hardware or not? I'm thinking not. :(Lastly, where have all the movie lovers gone? I know I've been going to a lot less movies myself the past year but I dont think that's really due to the quality of movies out there, just a change in schedule mostly. I still havent seen Batman :(
Mad Riders trailer goes heavy on the meta
Anarchy Reigns finished, delayed by Sega anyway
Jet Set Radio making its way to Vita
Diablo 3 patch coming next week
Elder Scrolls Online plans to sort out bugs with long beta
A bedtime story, in reply:
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My mouse died. Can someone recommend a good one? I was thinking of the Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer. I used the 3.0 back in the day and loved it.
Wired mouses only plz.
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MAYBE if ad's were 99% of the time A) Malicious or B) Downright Intrusive we wouldnt NEED to stop advertising on the internet.
I blame the people who make the ads, and find it distgusting that they are going to cry wolf when they ARE the wolf in sheeps clothing.
Get real, and Get a clue.
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http://forums.gamespot.com/gamespot/show_messages.php?board=909102863&topic=21463233&page=0
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http://img153.echo.cx/my.php?image=dsc000027ug.jpg
this is my truck before i took off in the morning...
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i parked at my friend's work to pick her up for some PF chang lunch time
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some cool shoes i found in the mall in mexico
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my gf's new cat. Her mom's friend is a vet and picks up strays from the streets and cleans them up (shots, baths, etc.) and so my gf got a new cat.
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putting gas with the sun FINALLY going down.
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finally going o CompUSA to buy BF2. My friend in the red shirt helped me out.
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good times.
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I definitely like having two side buttons, but I'm not sure if I need more than that. I've found the smaller side buttons a bit annoying in the past, but hey - times and changing.
What say you?
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Anyone have this keyboard? I've had my eye on it for a while and it's on sale at a local store for 50% off.
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I just witnessed FIVE snipers on the crane in the demo map. Firing rounds off like they had 100's of bullets and not killing very many at all :p.
pisses me off, started with me being the only sniper there (who provided the commander with much spotting) and having a very high kill rate :( and then like half the team turned into snipers before the damn round ended.
well... at least I've figured out that new weapon leading crap with the sniper rifle :). ph34r lolol.
I can't wait 'til retail starts selling here so I can join you guys :(
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Nothing has been learned from the LFS S1 release :D
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http://interviews.teamxbox.com/xbox/1190/Xbox-360-Interview-Todd-Holmdahl/p1/
Be carefull for fanboy propaganda though.
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http://games.kikizo.com/news/200506/116.asp
I think a huge advantage that Microsoft has is launching within a week or so window globably. They definatly have the right idea, this whole waiting half a year before launching in US and Europe shit better stop. It's really getting rediculous, I mean in this day and age, there should be no lag in console release for different Territories.
I actually feel bad for Europe the most as they always get the shittiest deal, with the advent of MS's, hopefully new adapted strategy, Sony and Nintendo get there shit together and stop with this crap.
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NWS
http://www.appleinsider.com/image.php?i=appledevkit6&id=1146
^^^
The Apple/Intel devkits have AMD64 lololol enabled processors in them.
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question though: will I run into problems getting it to run in WinXP? and whats the max resolution it can run at?
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Totally useless for a WinXP box, though. I can see why it's great for the Mac interface...
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RTS: Total Annihilation
FPS (multi): Quake 1
FPS (sneak): 3 way tie - Thief 2, Deus Ex, System Shock 2
FPS (adventure): Heretic II (3rd person view)
RPG : 3 way tie - Ultima IV, Chrono Trigger, Planescape Torment
Platform Side Scroller: Super MarioWorld
Shmup: UN Squadron (lol)
Skater: Tony Hawk 2
Tactical Turn Based: Tie - Advance Wars 2, WarLords II
Puzzle: Tetris for original GameBoy
any questions?
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Is anyone old enough to have witnessed the Fischer v. Spassky games for the FIDE championship? I'm reading a book about this match specifically, and it mentions that some of the games were filmed live. The rest of the time Fischer got angry and denied cameras to film the match. My friend's dad says he remembers watching the match on TV. There was a bunch of grandmasters sitting in front of a huge chess board, discussing the strategies. Then they would get word that one of the players had moved and would freak out analyzing it as fast as they could.
Does anyone remember watching that? I wish I could somehow see it...
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fight
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1, 2, 3, go!
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A fast food chain in Japan is now serving a deep fried minke whale meat burger. How do you like your whale burger?
[ ] Rare.
[ ] Medium rare.
[ ] Well done.
[ ] Yech. No thanks.
*seriously whales swim at like, well, fast speeds! faster than mr. sleepy ripping off your bike!
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http://cptgloval.shackspace.com/photgraphy/boatatsunset-small.jpg
looks like something out of a bank ad. "get a boat loan. family time and stuff."
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For those who don't know. The Hidden is a mod in which every player except for one assumes the roll of a marine with a SMG or a shotgun, a knife and pistol. The other player assumes the roll of the "Hidden" a semi-super human armed with a knife and some grenades who is rendered almost completely invisible except for a very small shadow (that I never saw) and a slightly wavy/hazy appearance (which is nearly impossible to see upclose but you can spot from a distance pretty easy). The marines, of course, are... the hunter... as well as the hunted. Essentially, for the Hidden to win, he must kill all the marines. For marines to win, they must survive. That's it.
It's pretty sweet, there is just about only one server out there in Seattle. Download it, try it out if you haven't. It's a blast. Definitely cool for fans of Predator I'd guess.
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http://www.tvmovie.de/imageTransfer/XXLR224FR32.jpg
Worst Batman movie ever.
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* "Just" being a loose term of course..... since it was OVER 4000 SECONDS AGO.
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* To target an enemy, players must now press the "R" button and can cycle through targets using the left and right buttons on the D-Pad
* The on screen display (both radar and health meters etc) will be semi-transparent, giving a better view of the action on PSP's small screen.
* MP3 playback from the memory stick will be supported!
* The clothing changes are said to be more akin to San Andreas than Vice City
* The magazine claims that the game is "80% finished"
* Toni is controlled using the PSP's analog stick
* The camera change function is operated by the select button
* Clothing changes are confirmed
* All of the cars from GTAIII + Bikes from Vice City will be included
* Reflection maps will be used on the cars
* It may take the average player almost as long as Vice City to complete the storyline
* Unique Jumps, Hidden Packages and Submissions (such as Vigilante and Firefighter) will be included
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I'm trying to reinstall doom3, and the installation goes fine except at the end I get "1628: Failed to Complete Installation" and no shortcut or start items get created, only the pak files get copied, and nothing works.
Now anything I try to install from CD gives me the same problems.
This page isn't helping at all
http://consumer.installshield.com/kb.asp?id=Q110740
Any help?
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I've slagged them off a lot lately, in particular the absolute horseshit coming out of Ken K's mouth, and I'm also annoyed that the £1400 monitor I bought a year and a half ago has stopped working because of something as trivial as the standby switch (which no longer switches), but I have to give the company credit for their monitor warranties.
You get 3 years standard which seems unusual to me. (Maybe this is normal and/or required by law but, on the shopping sites I've browsed, I've only the 3 year warranty mentioned explicitly for Sony monitors.)
Even better, when I phoned their repair line to report the problem they arranged a next-day courier to come take my current monitor away for repair and at the same time drop off a loaned 18" TFT (biggest they had available) to keep me going until the repair is done. Outstanding, if you ask me, given I didn't explicitly pay extra for this service.
Of course, Sony monitors cost a bit extra anyway so you could probably insure a different brand and end up with the same deal but I think it's v. cool to get all this as standard and, despite the increased cost and the standby switch breakage, I'll definitely consider Sony for my next monitor.
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i love nod32.
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Someone needs to die.
In other news, HK-47 is awesome.
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