Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Mar 15, 2006 6:40pm PSTWell.. lets just say I'm glad to be at this again. Bit exhausted but sometimes stuff just happens.
- Microchip hands! - Cell phone jamming looking more likely in movies - Sweet, a RFID virus - Evolution of feathersLastly, iTunes has decided that low-res full length movies are totally worth $10. Really.
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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bahahaha, Dan Brown made that word up for his character...
Holy crap this game is addicting. It is asteriods with a twist. The music gets faster and faster the longer you survive and the more asteriods you hit the stronger your weapons get. Longest I survived was 155.23.
Screenie: http://www.surrealix.com/images/detritus6_400.jpg
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Play co-op defend. 1 base. Infinite enemies. 3 respawns. 10 minutes.
Extremely intense and extremely fun!
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http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/drawingrestraint9/trailer/
starring: Bjork ... it's like one of her music videos made into a full movie. Prepared to go "huh?" Got to love the summary too. O_o
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So I got my roommate to throttle his bit torrent down/up transfer rates, and it seems to work better now for like 10 minutes, but then all of sudden i lose all connectivity. The lights on the router are fine, but nothing resolves for me. I can't even do a ipconfig /renew... my connection is essentially dead.
If i plug the cable modem directly into my computer everything is fine, and if my roommate is not downloading BT shit, everything works fine.
Any ideas? He didn't actually tell me what he set his throttle limits to.. for all i know, he sent them to 999999999999999999/9999999999999999.
the router is a wireless netgear wgt624. I am connected via a cable, and the router is right next to my computer. he is connected via wireless on the other side of the house.
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http://chronicle.ubi.com/newspost.php?id=15088
I'm going to try it out now. I used to watch my brother play it, and it looked pretty interesting, but the interface seemed terrible.
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Links appreciated as well as general advice or suggestions where to look.
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FUCK - I want to know which one of you fuckers did it :( Seriously. ICQ has worked for me since my sophmore year of highschool. I have people on that contact list that I invited to my wedding even though I haven't met them in the 8 years I've been talking to them. Now, 24 hours later, my account is jacked.
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Well, I liked Back to the Future. I mean, who didn't? But to me, Back to the Future II ... thats where its at. I mean, they slap you around with the same over the top references, like Goldie Wilson Jr. But the vision of the future is just amazing. I love it.
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Am I the only one who hates fucking swimming events at the commonwealth and olympic games? And who also couldn't give two shits about gayboy "Fully Sick" Ian Thorpe?
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PS3 is all tip and no shaft
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=dR6XDSaurlo&search=fight
I can't count the number of times a friend of mine almost got into a fight because he paddled out and accidently got in the path of another surfer.
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Details below:
http://www.shacknews.com/shackmeet/events.x?id=2763
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However, my roommate insists that there is some dark story attached to it, and that after some of their soldiers were massacred by Austrians who then toasted each other with this phrase using the Hungarians' beer, Hungarians vowed not to use this toast for X number of years.
I'm trying to find out if that moratorium has elapsed, or if it ever existed in the first place.
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eggs up, cheese down.
eMagin has released the SDK finally for their Z800 VR Helms...
Now I might go buy one.
Hook up some Webcams and create some Augmented Reality to control my bots...
http://ds.ign.com/articles/695/695790p1.html
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http://www.shackifieds.com/phpclass/detail.php?siteid=1260
http://www.shackifieds.com/phpclass/detail.php?siteid=1259
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I played multiplayer like a year ago with a shacker and it was great, but even just the single player is alot of fun...way, way better than most other RTS games in that regard (besides maybe the Myth series), if only because modern day RTS single player always seems like the map strategies are on rails and you can only be tactical if you play MP (like Dawn of War) :(
Would getting a custom license that says
"98 jedi" be too gay of a play on words?
I think so.
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I caught a few minutes last night, but things have obviously changed since then, can someone fill me in on what's happened?
Like, Micheal is back?
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If you wanted to pick one up but were waiting for it to go on sale now is your chance. They have it for $250 off and free shipping, so it's $850 plus taxes. It's a 1 day deal only. They also have the 2005FPW for $500.
http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/days_of_deals?c=ca&cs=CADHS1&l=en&s=dhs
I think FF XII might be the only game I'm more excited about than Oblivion.
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And whats the most current version? I'm finding many different answers.
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It's just totally catered to the MTV crowd.
I loved Season 1, it was raw, badly done and GREAT - some of the episodes the full 45 minutes was on ONE myth, you got to see Adam and Jamie go to the scrap yard, fool around - find what they want - why they want it.
They'd weld it - they'd do STUFF they'd explain things, the voiceover guy didn't re-cap everything after each fucking ad break
Season 2, ok I've got to accept the guy re-caping the last 5 minutes I just watched after the ad-break, still mostly good myths and they show them doing silly shit or why they do it, MTV style editing though - a little ADD
Season 3, latest episode, the commentator guy is basically explaining EVERYTHING that is going on (STOP TALKING, I CAN SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING) - he is re-capping on top of explaining everything as it happens.
They don't seem to go outside the shop much and do fun stuff (like meet the vaccuum cleaner man or meet the people at the airport junkyard etc) - it's shitty
Oh and the myths themselves are ho hum :(
I hope this picks up.
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Extra Ax: $40
5 hours of yelling, laughing, and generally rocking out with four friends to hits by Boston, Cream, Black Sabbath, White Zombie, Helmet, and twenty others: fucking PRICELESS.
Guitar Hero is more fun than I can describe. I was skeptical when my friends made me buy it with them, but after 10 minutes I was loving it. DDR has got nothing on this game, because it feels like you're really playing the music.
Try it. you'll love it.
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i get the "There is a problem with the disk you are using. It may be dirty or damaged." error with my original xbox, with every game i own, after playing for like 20 minutes.
gee, lets check their support site, its clearly a hardware problem:
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;816785
hmm, step 3: repair the console
Whats that? No instructions or howto or wheretogo or anything on how to repair my xbox? Oh wellz, I guess I'll just scrap the 50 or so xbox games I own and rush out and buy a 360!!!
FUCK. I'm actually pretty fucking pissed off right now. I really wish my xbox still worked, now Im either going to:
a. end up buying a new one
b. end up buying a used one
c. trading in/selling everything and getting a 360, since the fucking ps3 isn't coming out until november
WTF. I have fallen into their trap. AAAARGH.
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=HuMS3KDNysM
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WTF Your gamertags? The launch is a week away, bitches!
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