Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Mar 17, 2006 6:00pm PSTWell then! We've managed to survive long enough to make it to the weekend. This is good news. Check it
- It's coming - Order up your BluRay player - Crash cams are hot - HD-DVD shipment shrunk - Dude, time for .xxx again - RFID will kill your babies - Will Wall Street's rally last?Lastly, that newfangled 4" screen video iPod sounds like it is getting close. More $10 movies please! No wait I'd pay more! $25!
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
Ok, so I get home today.
1) I get on my computer.
2) I look at my konfabulator
3) My CPU is at 100 percent.
Keep in mind, Im idle. almost no processes are running, and the computer is running at an astonishingly slow speed. I mean really really slow.
Then, BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH, that basically says that it has preformed a physical memory dump, and that I should contact a system administrator and reboot my computer.
WTF!
Anyone got any suggestions as to what is wrong.
Im running a 3 gig p4 HT with 1 gig ddr 2 and a 6600GT with 140 gig sata drive.
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"Onyxia is serious business"
So is this what the Onyxia assault prep was like?
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Holy shit I'm laughing so hard I'm peeing ;D
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Anyone have a .wav file of the Orc in Warcraft II saying "STOP POKING ME!"
I need it for an easter egg on the company newsletter.
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Why is it so hard to find a decent keyboard?
I just received my Saitek Red Eclipse keyboard from GoGamer after receiving one heck of a sales pitch from a friend. And, indeed, it is a nice keyboard. The keyboard itself is solid, the keys are responsive, and the ability to adjust the red backlight is nice as well (backlight and keylight, blacklight only, or off). Neighbor's son has come over twice to look at it.
But it is not the keyboard for me. Even with the legs down, the keyboard feels like it is flat on the desk. It doesn't feel as comfortable as my 5 year old Microsoft Internet keyboard. My fingers kept searching for Tab and 1, and typos was much higher then normal. And F7 was never quite where I thought it should be. . .
So, brand new USB Saitek Red Eclipse keyboard in its box, for sale or trade.
on order -- http://www.3dxtreme.net/index.php?id=zboardmerc1
*crosses fingers*
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Is there any real difference in the quality of a Toslink optical cable? I mean its not really a mechanical transmition medium, so would there be any real justification for spending $100 versus $30 on a digital optical cable?
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I walked away with this Nick Cave poster for $100, which is probably one of the best posters I've seen.
http://www.emek.net/posters/n/map.html
What's cool about it is all the places and scenes on the map are from the entire history of Nick Cave's musical career.
I have a 9800XT.. sort of. It's one of the MSI 9800Pros that actually shipped with the 9800XT chip, but there's only 128MB of RAM.
How much would you buy this for?
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By popular demand we will be having dinner before going to ShadowLan.
For dinner we shall be going to Humperdinks in Richardson. here is the addy 1601 N Central Expy, Richardson, TX http://maps.google.com/maps?q=humperdinks+loc%3A+1601+N+Central+expy+richardson,+tx&spn=0.015802,0.027112&f=l&cid=32969275,-96720449,2200589165375287203&hl=en . we will meet for dinner at 4:45PM. Look for the Goofy redhead if you haven't met me before i do NOT look like George McFly genjuro =-(Let me know if you're coming for the dinner part so i can call ahead and let them get a table for us.
We should be ready for gaming goodness at ShadowLan by 7-7:30pm http://maps.google.com/maps?q=humperdinks+loc%3A+1601+N+Central+expy+richardson,+tx&spn=0.015802,0.027112&f=l&cid=32969275,-96720449,2200589165375287203&hl=en . at this time i have been unable to reach them since their website is down and the phone number i found through yellowpages.com is sending me to a full voicemail box. if anyone can find their number in a phonebook or brochure and post it so i can check it against the number i have that would be great. Shadowlan closes at 1am on saturdays so we should be set there for as long as you guys want.
My apologies for the randomness and lateness of getting things together. my computer fried a few weeks ago and i only managed to get my old 200mhz computer working for about a day before it really died. If you need to contact me for whatever reason my phone number is in my profile for a limited time only (i'll remove it when i get back from the meet).
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http://splashblog.com/index.aspx <-- Main Site
http://splashblog.com/g0nk/ <-- My photo blog..
They have the ability to make a blog where multiple people can post photos to it.. I was thinking of setting up a Shacknew photoblog for all the shackers with cameraphones to post pics too.. any interest in this?? I think it would be kinda cool.. all you have to do is sign up for a splashblog account.. and that's it..
any takers?
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Last year I played BF2 all summer, the year before that it was UT2K4.... nothing seems to be on the horizon yet :[
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Reading this just blew my mind.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/03/16/cosmic.inflation.ap/index.html
This especially caught my attention:
"In that trillionth of a second after the big bang, the universe expanded from the size of a marble to a volume larger than all of observable space through a process known as inflation. At the same time, the seeds were planted for the formation of stars, galaxies, planets and every other object in the universe."
I'm probably wrong, but if thats true wouldnt that mean the "matter" expanded at a faster rate than the speed of light which is supposedly impossible for anything of mass?
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Great game, except for one thing. It's ludicrously hard on Medium. I have no idea what to do on some missions. The enemy engages, and all of a sudden you have 3 missiles on you, 2 bandits hammering your rear shields, and you die. I've died so many times on the last two missions that it's beginning to be not fun. I just don't know what to do. I drop countermeasures and boost away, and still get hit with missiles. I hang back but then my objectives get destroyed, and I lose the mission. This game is incredibly awesome, and frustratingly hard. I'm about 1/2 through it.
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http://www.justgamers.de/?page=news&news_id=42240
It's in German so I don't really understand it, but I think they are comparing the detail settings in the game. It has new videos, but I'm still in line waiting to download them. The system specs are posted also, looks like they only used a 9800PRO to make the videos. Hopefully we get to see more stuff like this before the weekend is over!
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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30365
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http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11817412
Linking it here since it was buried in the Oblivion video news post.
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Sometimes I get ideas in the shower. I think that has to do with blood flow to the brain though.
Other times it's caffeine. Coke does more for my creativity (and my Counterstrike score) than I'd care to admit. I wish I could be caffeinated all the time. That's not a good thing, right?
Most of the time, it's just before I sleep. There's nothing left to do except think. And then I get an idea, and I'm back up again, in front of the computer. An endless cycle that just leads me to fuck up my sleep schedule even more.
Is there anything you guys do when you're trying to gather creative motivation/energy? Or am I just crazy?
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I've been searching Google all morning for this but no luck, thought maybe someone has a photo somewhere of this.
A large closeup shot of a black conventional oven door, interior light on, baking rolls - preferably crescent rolls or bakers rolls. The shot should be slightly angled and show reflections of the rest of the kitchen, but not too strong.
This is for ytmnd, thanks.
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Wherein ChibiJosh gives up videogames for a month to see what happens. See Reply.
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wtf???
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6fdS2ny1J8&search=vampira
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For example:
Re: [5]: -conviction, he was on the balcony with Pontious Pilate...
wtf?
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http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=bizarre&id=3996114
K R A M E R V S K R A M E R ' e d
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6fdS2ny1J8&search=vampira
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8297574364836044520&q=farting+pig
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http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=bizarre&id=4002637
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** Maarten loves the NBA. And I don't think I've ever seen a weed reference from him.
** Steve is a master of snacks. He should write about them. Nutty bars please.
** Remo brings it hard. I'd like to see him and K-Per duke it out in a vat of mud, myspace girls looking on. Remo would figure out how to win and learn us at the same time.
** Pup is not my name.
** Phil gives me porn. (sometimes with surprise weiners)
** I've never been part of the KOCK.
** Myspace, schmyspace. I vote for shackspace. Listen to my tributes to our leaders below.
http://mannym.shackspace.com/Steve.mp3
http://mannym.shackspace.com/Maarten.mp3
http://mannym.shackspace.com/Remo.mp3
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Does anyone have the newest version of wiebo's Grid Assault (assault05.zip I believe) they could send me?
Unfortunately he seems to have exceeded his bandwidth and the link is dead. I need some Geo Wars action, stat!
What's the main difference between C++ and C# in terms of difficulty and transitioning between the two.?
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