Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Dec 15, 2005 6:00pm PSTPlease, no loud noises. :(
- Mona Lisa was happy - Genetics of skin color - 10% of drivers on phone - RSS icon in FireFox heading to IE - Tech to save your marriageLastly, those crazy food packages of the future are getting close!
Daily Filter: Planetside 2, Deadlight
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
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http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d153/TimFromOhio/P0001541.jpg
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In reply. :(
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Banning skold, one of the most active and long time members of the shack, is just another classic example of the downward spiral of shacknews. But, like the venerable Q once said, "all good things must come to an end."
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dorko :( Skeletor is so mean
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TL;DR: http://img235.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img25959dn.jpg
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Son of a bitch.
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http://rosewood.shackspace.com/shackfood/4stars.png
http://rosewood.shackspace.com/shackfood/3stars.png
http://rosewood.shackspace.com/shackfood/2stars.png
http://rosewood.shackspace.com/shackfood/1star.png
The ShackFood wiki is coming along quite nicely. Thomw has been drinking a lot recently so he is still working on sobering up and getting us the bad ass user authentication system going.
Most of the ground work is done. Everything is falling into place. Keep the hype alive...
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http://www.snowshoemtn.com/mountain/photos/December_Photos/index.htm
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I didn't expect my WE to arrive before christmas really, since I'm in the UK - but yesterday I received the following. in reply...
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What is the general shack consensus about the best native resolution (cost vs performance) for use with the xbox 360? Also, if anyone has a suggestion for good HDTV's in the $1500 to $2000 range it'd be much appreciated.
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The Bet:
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11134992
The Facts:
http://www.free60.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.modxbox360.co.uk/index.php
http://www.xbox360-hacks.com/
Pity Abrasion doesn't have a 360, I can’t link the torrent for this: "Team HaxXbox XBox 360 Boot Loader DVD version 1.0 beta"
The "winnings":
http://img203.imageshack.us/full.php?image=winnings1ru.jpg
The question isn't if I won or lost the bet, but:
Does Abrasion deserve this money?
Stating the bleeding obvious should not be rewarded.
Abrasion did not show good sportsmanship during the bet:
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11271849
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11152645
He doesn’t care about the principle, just the money:
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11241736
Abrasion does not believe in forwarding the human race through ingenuity, science and progress.
I believe the "winnings" would be put to better use by sponsoring attempts to hack the x-box360. By rewarding the first shacker to run unsigned code on his x-box360, or even as a next years white-elephant gift!
So I ask ye shack:
Does Abrasion deserve this money?
yay or nay
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For those of you who hate this boss as much as I do, here is a tip that really seemed to help me.
Ignore the right analog stick once you get underwater. Just pretend that stick doesnt exist, and only aim at his stupid ball arm things with the left one and blast away.
Anyway, I'm back to having fun, and the next few levels have been awesome so far. Anyone who says the 360 doesn't look next-gen is blind/retarded, because Kameo has some of the best graphics I've ever seen in a game. There's a few points where you can tell it was once a Xbox title, but the majority of it is extremely pretty, especially in HDTV.
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Get here this morning and find that my computer was turned off. So I fire it up and load up the document that I left open before I went home yesterday, yep all couple of hours of work that I did on it is now gone. I can do the automatic updates but I really wish there was a warning at first stating that by turning on the auto install for updates it would have let me known that the computer would have restarted the computer regardless of the documents that were open.
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$1050 :D
Time for some car upgrades!
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im working on a new website idea. this is a splash i've come up with and im totally diggin it, just thought i'd shoot it up there see what you all think.
http://www.khromatic.com/woo.html
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I can't beleive I stopped watching in Season 2 or 3 cause of a couple of bad eps in a row.
I just watched the free willy recent one - where the boys need to save a whale by flying it to the moon it was absoloutely awesome.
the scene where the rocket is taking off and that band stroll up playing mexican music was totally awesome - i was lolling
also the end was funny as hell and a little sad - poor dead whale - lol
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Its an outboard HDTV and SD tuner that I could hook up to the 2405 via component.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16882125069
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wow
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He said that since he's on a waiting list for a Shelby Series1 he gets to visit the factory whenever he wants (the pic of him and Mr. Shelby posing in front of a concept Series1 is on his desk). On his latest visit to the factory, he stopped by a ferrari dealership in his econo-rental car. He ended up driving a ferrari 1200 miles home.
I'll try to get pics, but I don't want to be creepy about it.
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:(
Someone should organize a NYC Shackmeet to see the Pixar Exhibition at MoMA
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2005/pixar.html
I want to see it! :)
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(someone posted it a couple weeks/months ago)
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Developer behind the X-Wing series working on an unnamed update to a classic SEGA franchise...
Source: Totalvideogames
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Details of a new partnership between SEGA and Totally Games have today emerged, suggesting that the developer behind the X-Wing series is currently working on a PSP update to an unnamed classic SEGA franchise.
Hopefully it wont take too long before the exact identity of this title becomes revealed, however early speculation suggests it likely to be a title with the emphasis heavily placed on action.
from: http://pspupdates.qj.net/2005/12/sega-teams-up-with-totally.html
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I needed 2 Skin of Shadow for my Zul'Gurub enchant so I ran Scholomance a couple of times yesterday. I couldn't get enough guildies to go so I invited random people just to get done quickly. One guy was a chinese farmer type: rogue in all greens rolling "Need" on everything and dying constantly when we'd be funny by pulling whole rooms.
Dreadmist gloves: "I NEED"
All boss drop BOPS: "I NEED"
Essences, dark runes, boe greens: "I NEED"
So funny. I tried to guild him but my guild leader didn't see the humoristicness. So anyway God Bless You ubngkjrestor (or whatever his unpronouncable name was)!
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So I shipped a guitar I recently sold to someone on Ebay and UPS delivered without a signature. So they are claiming someone stole it off their porch. The value of it is at least $400 and it was purchased at $675 a few years ago. The problem is the insurance only covers $100 and they havent done it yet but im sure they will ask for a refund which leaves me in the hole big time and this was where my christmas gift funds were supposed to have come from. I have no idea what to do so I ask the shack collective for advice.
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BUY IT NOW YOU HOMOS
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Horribly done Catalyst Control Panel or not, I'm changing to 5.13 when it gets released:
http://firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_catalyst_5.13_video_quality/
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November 30th, afternoon - level 40
December 16th, early morning - level 60
Time to wash my socks.
(Luthandross, Dwarven hunter, Earthen Ring EU)
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I have never played (and probably never will play) a MMO. I'm sure they are good, I just have no interest (nothing blows up). But a coworker here plays WoW on his laptop, and I watch sometimes out of curiosity and because the graphics are so frickin sweet. And I have a question.
He showed me the map of the game, all the islands, and says that it's all one huge map. Not individual levels or maps, but one big map, like you could spend a long time going from one side to another. And as such, there are NO LOAD TIMES when going from one area to the next. Now NOLF2 had some huge levels, but those hadda load, and this is way bigger even, and the graphics are quite nice, which to me means a whole bunch of textures have to be loaded somewhere. It can't be doing it on the fly because there is no stutter. How the hell is this being accomplished? There is sky too! Please help me understand :(
XOXOX,
Sammy Davis III
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Frozen stuff asplodes, motion image photography, projectiles etc....
Pretty interesting pictures
The newest version of Quicktime Alternative ( http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alternative.htm ) has a built-in .mov file download which will detect the clicking of one of those Quicktime links on the HD trailer pages (i.e. here: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/da_vinci_code/ ) and launch a plugin that will extract the raw .mov file and let you play it with a cool program like Media Player Classic.
Now that you can grab the raw file easily, you can play the file with a codec that is MUCH faster than the quicktime h.264 codec. Look here: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11241993
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