Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Jul 11, 2006 6:00pm PDTSo Maarten and I represented some in Titan Quest finally. We're up to about level 15 so far. He's doing a sword monkey with earth enchantment and I'm a bow monkey with lightning. Together we persecute skeletons and zombies because they are different from us.
- The cult of Leia's bikini - Social searching is hot - 103 inch plasma TV - Web gambling upsetting peeps - Hotel tycoon going after spaceLastly, FireFox 2 beta is available
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Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
Demon's Souls servers extended again
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Digital Rebel 300d 6.3mp for sale
I've barely used it and is still in the great condition that it was in when I bought it. Price is $650 obo and worth it.
with it comes:
- body
- strap
- battery
- charger
- kit lens 18-55mm
- canon ef 100-300mm 1:4.5-5.6 (according to the local camera store worth around $175)
- camera-rca video cable to view pictures on tv
- usb cable
- sandisk 512mb CF
- user manuals
- nylog bag i use to carry the camera + lenses around in
- original box
- battery lasts forever also.
- some VERY minor scuff marks on the bottom of the camera
- This item is in full and complete functioning condition
Very happy with it, just need to unload it as I need the $$. I'm moving and I need the $$ asap.
pics of camera
http://www.redhavana.net/gallery/gear
EVERYTHING MUST GO GO GO!!!
I've been messing around with the Windows Media Player 10 tag editor... and for some reason, one that I don't quite understand, only half of the changes actually take.
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http://www.nflight.com/files/Counter-Strike/csrealism01.jpg
http://www.nflight.com/files/Counter-Strike/csrealism02.jpg
http://www.nflight.com/files/Counter-Strike/csrealism03.jpg
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I finally downloaded the Prey demo. I thought it wouldnt run on my laptop, so I didnt bother before. This game is fucking WEIRD. Does it stay this fucking weird throughout the full game? If so, I am totally buying it.
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They have a guest in favor of forcing administering: OK, we are preventing an STD, sounds good to me.
They have a guest against forcing administering: This will require parents to have adult discussions about sex with 11 year old girls, possibly encouraging their sexual experimentation.
Now, I'd like to understand the argument against administering it a little better, because to me that sounds strikingly ridiculous. Further, how many parents explain technical medical details or reasoning for mandatory vaccines to their kid, and what kind of excuse is that anyway?
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I've only ever been to the cinema's on my own once too - that was also weird.
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I don't know why I'm doing what I'm doing, but for the last few days I've just felt like being alone. So I turned off my phone, didnt show up to hang out with some people I said I would, and didnt try to explain why.
Problem is, one of my friends is only in town for a bit, and she's really really hurt that I would treat her like this.. completely shut her out. We're pretty close, but when I can't even explain to myself why I'm in such a weird mood, how can I explain to someone else.
At any rate, I think I did some serious damage. And I don't know if there is anything I can say to make things right.
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ftp://gruint.korea.com/gruint/videogamerx/news/200607/0708/bw.wmv
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Now, here is the one that just blew my mind. According to their experts, what we need in this country is mandatory withdrawals for contributions into retirement accounts, be it 401(k) or other such funds. Don't we already have money mandatory withdrawals into something called Social Security? Isn't that system already fucked up as is? Why do so many "experts" have such a hard time letting people do this shit on their own?
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Question I have is, can I set the remote up so that when I go to power everything down, it doesn't power down a certain item (say set top box)?
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Rocky Balboa trailer..
movies.yahoo.com, center column for trailer.
Man, I don't know whether to laugh, or cry. Something tells me this flick will either kill, or suck hard.
For the haters, remember - "Rocky" (first film) won 3 Oscars and Stallone was nominated for Best Screenplay and Lead Actor.
Lame sequel cash-in or think it will be good?
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http://lolifox.com/
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my g/f got me on to this and it fucks me off, she does it for up to 90 minutes before going to work.
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Outside of RPGs games when I were growing up were $50-$60 and could be beat in less then ten hours or so, many could be finished in thirty minutes once you mastered them... like Contra.
I rather buy Contra for $50 and beat it in thirty minutes then some of the shit they shovel out today that's over ten hours.
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Quake 4 (PC) $19.99 shipped at EB Games
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If your little tyke is having trouble toilet training, why not open the Japanese playbook and use dancing and singing tigers to teach that bugger how to use the potty?
This stuff is hilarious, esp. the Japanese Mr. Hankey!
http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=251
(from http://www.mcvuk.com/newsitem.php?id=1171)
Epic Games' outspoken VP Mark Rein has used his Develop In Brighton conference keynote to warn developers away from episodic gaming and what he called the "insane" theory behind its business.
"It's not feasible to bring out a level every week - you'll see a lot of recycled content. Fatigue will set in, and franchise fatigue means dimishing returns."
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http://rivercityrestaurant.ytmnd.com/
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when the wii comes out please release some form of usb adaptor so i can use it with my pc
ta
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http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2006q3/supertalent-flashide/index.x?pg=1
tl;dr = random access ARE FAST, everything else is TEH SLOW
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Can anyone remember this link?
Please tell me that the level design isn't the same as in the demo throughout the whole game (like that bio-mechanical industrial-type setting). It got REALLY old after the demo. It needs more levels like the bar level. I also got sick (literally) of walking up and down walls all the time.
Is the rest of the game as interactive as the bar level?
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General Tech (already listen to twit)
Programming (.NET mainly)
Games
go! :)
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Also, how many more weapons are there in the full version compared to the demo?
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After reinstalling XP, it decides to to a chkdsk /f on my D: partition before booting up and while its fixing stuff it totally removes the path information for 15 GB worth of files, files from all over my system.
There's this found.000 folder and in it are like 188 folders going from dir0000.chk to dir0188.chk and then some .chk files that are like file0000.chk and on. In the folders are files that are from pretty much anywhere in my stored data and are totally in a jumbled mess--most of it would require painful reinstallations and resortting for stuff like pics and MP3s.
So, is there some way that chkdsk recorded the directory paths and stored that somewhere or can restore it for me? If not, I have a long night
Since when did installing a fan controller magically corrupt my Windows installation?
It says I need to restore this file but it just gives me the path C:\Windows\System (or somesuch) and no filenames at all. In the recovery console, it's apparently unable to read the SAM and thus cannot access the Administrator account, so it defaults me to the limited access mode in which I can't do a chkdsk /f; chkdsk /r told me that there were errors that were unrecoveryable (that F would fix).
Right now I'm booted up onto my Norton Ghost 10.0 disk but I don't see anything that'd allow me to back up my C: drive to an image before I format and reinstall :(
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ok i have this antenna http://shopper.cnet.com/Philips_Magnavox_SCP020_TV_radio_antenna/4014-6509_9-30903467.html?tag=coco& and curious if it can pick up local channels in hd? if not (most likely) how would i go about getting my hdtv to play local channels IN hd?
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