Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Aug 22, 2005 6:20pm PDTDealing with cell phone companies is always a pleasure. Seriously. I suggest calling your cell provider just to chat and perhaps ask a few easy questions about your account. Once you're done with that maybe give your cable company a call. What the hell.
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I've always wanted to know what kind of music people listen to on the Shack. Seems like the majority are hardcore rockers but I refuse to believe everyone is.
Anyways, please don't copy and paste your library here, just link to the HTML the program below will generate for you. And just so you non-iTunes heathens/winamp users users don't feel left out, link us to your library too.
i tried to make this more mod-friendly, if not, let me know how for next time :P
In iTunes, select the "Library" playlist, then go to File>Export Song List.
Then download this http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/32530 and use it to show us your library. Make sure you only keep Artist, Album, and Song name checked when you convert the file.
http://www.glio.net/Library.html
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FP, these days, mainly consists of 2 or 3 senteces stating that certain things suck. Traveling sucks. Blah blah, yadda.
And Evening Reading is about the same. With some added sarcasm.
Seems to me that Remo is the only person breaking the mood and actually adding some constructive content to the site.
Wassup dynamic duo? Business taking it's toll?
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Anyone think that this is too risky to just buy without seeing in person?
1024x768 native at $2,200 canadian... hard to resist.
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J Allard (Expert):
Q: Why is the hard drive so highly priced? A 20GB hard drive now a days goes for about 20-30... why $100? I believe this will deter alot of sales..
A: one of the reasons that we designed a user removable hard drive is in direct response to the hard core gaming audience to make it easier to take game saves, game maps, soundtracks, etc. easily to their friends house or lan party. they also wanted the ability to upgrade to larger capacity drives. and if the drive is not present because someone in the house took it on the road, you still want to be able to use the console for movies, music or games.
J Allard (Expert):
Q: Can we stream videos from our PCs?
A: yes. if you have media center on those pcs. you will be able to stream standard and high definition video.
Seriously? wtf?
Not only do I strongly disagree with the no hard-drive option (hell they could have put a small 5 gig install / swap drive) to cut down on loading times but why on earth do we have to pay a 70-80 dollar premium on it.
If you are going to fuck us over on the HD MS, make it standard and we can put our own in.
and streaming support from media center ONLY? don't get me started.
I WAS looking forward to this console, now I am not so sure.
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I am selling my wife's old van via craig'slist for $2500. A guy in New York (about 4 hour drive from me) wants to buy it. He is offering to wire via western union $500 to hold it till he can pick it up two weeks later. He is suppose to bring the rest of the balance in cash.
Anything I should be weary of?
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The only reason its so expensive is that Microsoft has, unlike developpers of XBMC and other homebrewed media center solutions, to pay for licenses for the decoders of various formats that are used to the internet (xvid,divx,etc)
You have to use the media center of windows because the licenses have already been paid for when you get that version.
It's the same deal emulation with backward compatibility. Unlike Sony, Microsoft didnt build all of the xbox'1 hardware in-house. The video chip, for example, is made by nvidia; so they HAVE to pay license fees if they want to emulated it it in a _LEGIT_ way for the xbox 360.
The nature of the xbox, how it was made, makes it much harder to emulate, unlike the psx's simplier constitution, who was emulated by having a psx-on-a-chip concept + software ods and ends solution on the ps2.
Therefore, more cost for MS. It was the same concept for the xbox dvd playback. You had to buy the remote, since MS couldnt secure rights and licenses to have them out of the xbox. Having them out of box would have made the console more expensive from the start.
That is all. Dismiss.
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Who's going and if not, would you go if you had a chance?
I just got off the phone with a friend of mine who is going. I originally wasn't planning on going due to the cost of the entry + the travel expenses. However, my friend is getting their entry, plane ticket, and hotel paid by Blizzard. She said I should go and she'd let me stay with her. So based on my current situation, I have tons of frequent flier miles I could use to go to Anaheim for free. So hotel + airfare = free and all I'd be paying for is a Blizzcon ticket + shopping/foodstuffs.
What do you guys think?
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The weird part was all of the bolded stuff in the email were pink... 0_o
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I've got an old laptop that i'm setting up for a friend. Unfortunately, the drives are partitioned so that the C drive is 55 megs, and the E drive is about 39 gigs.
There's some software that when installed, installs on the CD drive automatically.
How can i repartition this so that the drives make a little more sense? Should i reformat? It's a clean install, so it wouldn't be a huge problem.
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Sorry for the new thread (kind of a re-post)-
I need to buy a decent HDTV for gaming (xbox 360) and for DVD watching. The sale on the following ends in a few days, and my only chance to buy it would be in a few hours when I get off work. Does anyone recommend this for what I would use it for (high res gaming and DVD watching on a budget)?
http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?sku_id=0770HDS0010043355&catid=11299&logon=&langid=EN
Thanks in advance!
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I need to get optical audio cables for the following:
My time warner HD-DVR cable box
My Xbox
Nintendo Gamecube
Can I buy three random cheapo optical cables, or do they all need their own, seperates? Does Gamecube even support it?
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It's not even close to as large a game as any GTA title, and the story missions are more linear, but it's got a great soundtrack, great voice-acting, wonderful, well-textured characters, and really cool car physics. Plus you've got these Free Ride modes where you can run a rampage a la GTA.
It's $9.99 brand-new now and still looks competent visually - certainly no worse than PC San Andreas, and maybe even nicer in some spots.
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Check out that mad DDR action.
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Monster Cable Interlink® 400 MkII Advanced Bandwith Balanced® Audio Interconnect Cable® Connectors with 8-cut Turbine
WTF? How does that help their sales? If I went into a store looking for an RCA to RCA cable and the salesman came at me with "Monster Cable Interlink® 400 MkII Advanced Bandwith Balanced® Audio Interconnect Cable® Connectors with 8-cut Turbine" I'd be, uh, no, I just need an RCA to RCA cable. And he'd have to spend 5 minutes comvincing me that his "Monster Cable Interlink® 400 MkII Advanced Bandwith Balanced® Audio Interconnect Cable® Connectors with 8-cut Turbine" is actually what I'm looking for, and then I'd just grab a $5 RCA to RCA no name brand cable anyway and say 'Sorry, I'm not paying extra for pretention."
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For Free!!!
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:'(
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Anyone else who got in on this deal have theirs go through?
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Hard drive enclosure $20
But noooo, we're getting ripped off, $100 for a hard drive? Gimme a break.
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Currently, esmokah is broadcasting some great beats, followed by broly1718 with All Things Awesome from 10 til 12.
Tomorrow morning draconic is lining up with The Best Of.. The Pillows, starting at midnight and going through to 1am.
After that MastarP is hosting a talk show which promises to be full of ZING, and that's followed by mr. sleepy with BRAIN BEATS, RITALIN RADIO and BRAIN SEX, so download Skype and say hello.
After you're all sufficiently soaked, I'm up with The Drip for two hours (5am-7am) with some chillout beats.
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$95 of bullshit if you ask me. I don't pay the price tag + restocking fees at the grocery store, why should I pay a 'cost of doing business' fee for a $14k car?
I'm tempted to just walk out on the deal unless he drops the fee.
What do you guys think? What's your experience with BS fees when buying a car?
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