Late Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Apr 05, 2006 7:57pm PDTDid you see that? DUDE!
- Apple one step closer to ditching the OS market - Latest stupid story taking up time on news channels - Game ratings dont tell whole story - Podcasting and NPR not getting alongLastly, the RIAA hates education
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
http://www.gamershell.com/news/29318.html
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The date is set... Saturday April 29.
http://www.shacknews.com/shackmeet/events.x?id=2826
So far the plan is to go get some food at a group friendly place like Hula Hut and possible something else. ideas for food and stuff to do welcome.
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Fuck!
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this thing its taking kinda long to download though. anybody has any impressions?
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http://speeddemosarchive.com/HalfLife2.html
Just recently posted, it's HL2 beaten in 1 hour 36 minutes from start to finish on hard difficulty. No "cheats" used. Just physics tricks, bug exploits, amazing play, and level design trickery.
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http://ytmndflash.ytmnd.com/
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So, who is working with the president? It seems only the vice-president and one of the secret service guys knew about Wayne Palmer going through that checkpoint on his way to the presidential retreat, and then Henderson's team knew to attack him. So it must be secret service or the vice-president...
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what the hell.. rory went back to that jackass logan ? ugh.. i hate him. but it looks like she's not happy with her decision and think she rushed into it.. good! also, gilmores moving in town ? oh shi....
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http://static.flickr.com/34/123938977_7d11f9f0b2_o.jpg
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TLDR: Two of the guys there played ActionQuake 2 at the same time I did. One of them was in my clan and we all remember each other well. We even went to the same lan parties. Fuck those were good times.
Time for a small reunion tonight when I get home, can't wait.
team jungle, urban 3, deep canyon, the edge, ... how I miss thee
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Help a man out!
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i wanna kill that bitch.
in other news, 24 fucking rules.
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http://hight3ch.com/post/new-game-panel-warcraft/
Holy shit.
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Where the fuck does South Park get off criticizing Family Guy? Family Guy may be dependent on non sequiturs, but at least there's never a dud episode like South Park. And talk about dependent, where would South Park be without puns (smug is close to smog! there's our episode folks) and tiresome running gags (heads in the sand, smell of our own farts). I know the South Park guys have trouble getting off their soap box, but I think their best episodes are the ones dealing with original storylines, like the Scott Tenorman and satanic woodland animal episodes. Every time they try to tackle a complex social issue, they always end up distilling it into "both sides are right, and thus stupid for thinking the other is wrong." It's pretentious bullshit.
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Ubisoft today announced that a fourth iteration of the classic Rayman platforming series is in the works. <snip blah snip> Little information was revealed in Ubisoft's press release, other than that the game will be coming this holiday season for "current and next-generation consoles."
<snip blah snip> One of the games it listed was Rayman 4, listed as coming to PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, Revolution, and "handheld."
<snip futher blah snip>
So they can make it for PS2, handhelds and the revolution but the Xbox 1 surprisingly gets no support,...
Just as I predicted and GeorgeB clarified saying "yeah rumour has it they will be dropping support quick fast" (approximate quote)
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Yeah, I know the Shack doesn't generally enjoy this kind of stuff, but I thought I'd go out on a limb and plug the first two chapters of my dystopian, post-nuclear, romantic, darkly comedic, psychological thriller of a novel. Basically... It's just as that sounds. A post-nuclear fallout shelter filled with about 12,000 people who, for all they know, may be the last surviving Americans left. It's tentatively titled Paradise.
Each chapter is about 16-17 pages double-spaced and I have a variety of reading formats (DOC, PDF, HTML) for any interested readers: http://www.polycat.net/fiction/
But, for easy-access, here are links to the HTML versions.
Chapter 1 - http://www.polycat.net/fiction/paradise-c1/
Chapter 2 - http://www.polycat.net/fiction/paradise-c2/
Repost for fallout-inspired goodness!
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I want another 360 game, only have PGR3 and Oblivion now, and I have almost enough to get Topspin 2 for free from my creidt card reward points.
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Say I have the relation
R = ( { W, X, Y, Z}, { XY -> Z, Y -> W})and want to determine both it's candidate keys and highest normal form. I come up with X and Y for candidate keys since they are the minimal set of attributes that can determine all attributes in the relation. Now for determining the highest normal form, I'm totally stumped by 2NF's requirements. It says (more or less) that the LHS of each functional dependency must be the "the key, the whole key, and nothing but the key" which I'm interpretting as XY must be on the LHS of every functional dependency in this example. Except that's not the case for any of my problems where I have to determine the highest normal form, leaving them at 1NF and leading me to believe I'm doing something wrong.
Any insight into this would be excellent since I feel like I'm right and wrong at the same time. :/
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http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2006/04/05/157704-expert-says-hard-liquor-helps-houseplants
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http://www.virtualconstructs.com/downloads/megamaneffect.shtml
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http://www.gamespot.com/pc/puzzle/cakemania/screenindex.html
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Have fun, Shack! See you soon!
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["We declare a ji-had on Family Guy. We declare a ji-had on the entire Family Guy nation."
and then...
"We need 18 dozen shovles and 62 tons of dirt to bury our heads in the sand! Let's get to it people!"
Can't wait for next weeks new episode!
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"The Home Builders Organisation is out."
"No, HBO isn't going to want us. Who do we have?"
"I think it's Showtime... we have to have a show, do a party..."
Heheh. Then the guest star montage was wicked, and the narrator's please tell your friends about this show.
So bittersweet, this end of a wonderful series.
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