Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Sep 22, 2005 7:00pm PDTBeen pretty much insane these past few days, but it's time to holla at ER!
- Important studies are always going on - Helping bloggers beat censors - Service ferret? - TiVo users are scared :( - Strange patent story - Teen cell phone users + driving = bad - US broadband slowing down - A virus from your cell phone to your PC?Lastly, yup Rita is coming our way.. there may be some power outages in the area but we suspect the backup generators will do their job. We hope?
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Weekend PC digital deals: strategy-o-rama
38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
Demon's Souls servers extended again
http://www.theage.com.au/media/2005/09/22/1126982158938.html
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I just came back from the Brothers in Arms: Earned in blood launch party. I had a great time! Among other things, lamb was served and 1 free drink per person, I had a bourbon an coke. I then got a picture taken with my bud, while we waited for people to be shuffled in. THere were a ton of people there, and a crap ton of girls suprisingly enough.
While I was waiting for the party to start, I ran into none other than Randy Pitchford, I chided him for not posting on the shack as much as he used to and his excuse was he's been busy!! :) He's a great guy and one of the people I was really excited about meeting, we talked for a bit and he introduced me to his friend. I almost fell to the ground in in my own drool when it turned out to be MARK FUCKING REIN!!!!! I kept my composure and only managed to bear hug him! He was very friendly and I complimented him on gears of war as well as his impresive engine. They left and I cleaned up the pee on my pants.
The party started with some moulin rouge dancers doing all the dance numbers from the movie, 3 of them were pretty hot and i'll have some pix + divx later from that. About this same time I exchanged gollum like glances with a familiar face, our resident developer YoYo was there and we exchanged hand shakes/hugs/tea bags. If you havent got the chance to meet this guy, your missing out. He's one of the nicest guy's on the planet, save for multisync who's a little too nice if ya know what i mean. We both expressed our dismay that mr.sleepy wasn't one of the moulin rouge dancers :(
On to the info! Gearbox announced that Brothers in arms 3 is coming to the ps3, but then they actually showed some footage! THe first real was a stunning 3d model of a tank and an artillary unit they modeled. Very impressive, but the real meat was the charcter model. The facial expression and detail around the face was the most impressive charcter design i've ever seen. Gears of war style, with less exagerated facial features. It looked like you could reach out and touch this guy, and it was in engine!!! They then showed a representation see killzone of what the final product should look like. To be honest, the in engine stuff looked better than what we saw, even though it was extremly impresive.
The demo consisted of a guy shooting in first person at 3-4 germans hudled in a storefront shop. Glas flying everywhere, and just debris' like crazy flying around. The main charcter ordered his squad against the nearby wall. His squad took a glance inside the shop then flushed everyone out of the window forcibly with a well placed grenade. Impressive stuff. I hope it comes out on 360 eventually :(
All in all a great time, and a brothers in arms earned in blood looks to be a great game!
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also, my GTA games better work on the 360. I still like running around in them from time to time.
Get yourself 10 ounces of ziti and cool it to al dente. Al dente means it doesn't taste like shit. You know al dente -- firm, but not soft. Please for the love of all that is good and holy don't forget to drain the pasta and give it a quick cold shower to stop the cooking.
While you do that, why don't you bring 2 cups of half and half, a teaspoon of basil, and a teaspoon of crushed red pepper and 3 cloves of minced garlic that you fucking minced yourself you big pansy to a simmer in a big ol saucepan over medium high heat. Slowly add in all those cheeses until you got yourself a nice dairy mix going. While you are slowly adding the cheeses, beat two egg yolks together. Save the whites for some angle food cake or something, fuck if I care. Just get those egg yolks beat together and add them to that final mix. I like to use about 1 big ass pinch or two pinches of kosher salt and 3-4 grinds of FRESH BLACK PEPPER. Do I really have to make the consequences clear? Have I not gotten that message across yet? Oh yea, pour that pasta back in there and give this a nice good stir.
Dump it into that casserole dish I had you get ready earlier. See, I was thinking ahead for ya there. I look out for you, I take care of you, so you better fucking do what I say or it'll be a meat tenderizer to the back of the head for you. Put your pasta and dish in that oven you started heating and give it a nice bake so that the top forms a nice little golden brown cheese crust. Garnish with diced tomatos. To-ma-tos. Serve on hot plates with cold Peroni to drink.
And ya know what? You don't even have to use those cheeses. Fuck, you could even add more cheese if you wanted. Go 5 or 6 cheeses. Jesus Christ, why not? Cheese is fucking awesome. Anyways, yet another dish you vegetarians can enjoy but the vegans have to shy away from. Which is sad because its Italian food w/o blood in it but it does have dairy so that’s no good for you-know-who. Now, piss off.
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I have 2 gigs of OCZ 3200 that I bought from newegg. I have been crashing lately in WoW, BF2, and 3dmark. I ran memtest and it reported 13,000 errors in 30 min. I took out the offending ram chip and my computer booted in single channel mode (NForce4 A8N) and it passed memtest with no errors at all for 30 min and runs great never crashing in 3dmark or WoW. I got my new replacement 1 gig of OCZ 3200 ram from newegg today, so I installed them filling up all 4 MB slots with ram again.
I ran memtest and it reported 20-130 errors in the three 30 min tests I performed. When I run 3dmark, it crashes every time and WoW crashes too. If I pop either one of those chips out, the computer goes into single channel mode and is very stable. Now what would cause this? Is my mb not running dual channel correctly? Seems like a waste to me, I paid 140 for each gig of this stuff since it had such good reviews on their website.
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A theater in my area that participated in the ilovebees.com DVD promotion last year has been contacted by Microsoft to have an entire theater reserved and available space / power for a large mobile vehicle in early October.
0_o
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http://xbox360media.ign.com/xbox360/image/article/652/652961/dead-rising-20050922043812407.jpg
i wonder how many i can kill before i become one of them
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what else do i need?
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From what I've been reading there is an uncencored version? Is that the US version or the UK version? When is the release date (EBGames says it's not determined yet)? And is the price EB games has listed ($39.99) correct? Seems kinda low for such a great game.
Played through the demo twice, but didn't really see a change in story line... Then again I couldn't let myself get caught :\ Same reason I can't play the bad guy in RPGs I guess :\
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My WoW group of friends and I just finished Uldaman, after the fourth consecutive night of trying. I picked up a sweet new chestpiece (http://www.thottbot.com/?i=3384) and WE FINALLY TOOK THAT FUCKER DOWN (Archaedas) to loot a kick ass ring (http://www.thottbot.com/?i=8167)
Next on our list is Zul`Ferrak instance, which seemed pretty damned hard during our 30min playtime inside. Hopefully it won't take as long to complete.
We're all still pretty new to the game, but man is it fun. :)
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Because I can. I can do the sonic and the thumbaround.... working on fingerless thumbaround
I asked this before but didn't get an answer. How can I name an object based on user input? I'm reading from standard input with a simple while loop operating on a BufferedReader on an InputStream. Lets say I've got currentChar and its storing the name from standard input that I need to use. How can I then call a constructor for a data type (array, custom type, whatever) that is that name?
ie Relation xxx = new Relation(); How can I get xxx to be a variable during a loop execution? I hope that made sense and someone knows what I'm saying
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At midnight (est) I'm gonna be playing the full Wipeout Pure OST. Cuz, well.. why not? Until then I'm playing a fairly random selection of music. I just finished playing selections from a compilation called "Sampled!" Empty slots after me, so we'll see what happens after all this!
Tune in! You might hear something you like. And if not, well, book a slot and play what you want to hear :)
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I'm totally weirded out right now.
I called the owner the other day to tell him how much he's gonna owe me, and I casually asked (okay I was gushing ) how much he paid for it, since he mentioned he didn't have the recovery disks.
$100 :( :(
There is probably some sad person out there. :( :( :(
Did I mention the serial number stick is missing? :( Homeboy is paying top dollar!!
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I'm still in love with Mona Sax.
I wonder what other games I can reinstall...
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This guy has a lot of action figures!
http://board.spawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=209328
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Got my OSX games delivered a week ago. They were:
1) LEGO Star Wars
2) Star Wars Battlefront
3) TRON 2.0
4) Close Combat: First to Fight
My verdict? I would return Star Wars Battlefront and TRON 2.0. Not because they're horrible, but Battlefront was just so-so after about 8 hours of gameplay.
Close Combat is still holding my attention a couple hours each night, which is a good thing. So is LEGO Star Wars, though that fucking pod race level sucked big time.
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http://www.civanon.com/
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Even you mista mista, as much as I can't stand playing Counter-Strike with you.
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I am so sold.
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