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by Maarten Goldstein, Aug 24, 2006 4:43am PDTSince it's free I grabbed Texas Hold'em from the Xbox Live Marketplace, even though I know absolutely nothing about poker. After several hours I'm slowly starting to grasp it. The game itself could be better though, especially the meager presentation. Also on FileShack
- Ballistic Weapons - Bonus Weapon Pack - three new weapons for this UT2004 mod.
- STACKED patch #3 - more updates for this poker game.
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
There has been a few posts the last few days on job searching/new jerbs/what have you. I want to offer you up some advice that has helped me throughout my IT career when it comes to job searching. Since I graduated from college in 2001 I have about 8 different IT jobs and have been interviewing continuously and let me tell you the most important part of an interview is when the employer asks:
"Do you have any questions?"
This my fellow shackers is when the true interview begins. Posted below are some killer questions. I have found myself always moved on to the 2nd interview after asking some of these. I have turned down job offers after just a few phone interviews because the hiring/HR people are so impressed. I will also post the worst questions one can ask and I will also provide any interview help I can.
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http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=8285&category_id=40&manufacturer_id=0
http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/114738
http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/114797
Whats the advantage of DVI, and also are there any disadvantages to widescreen? Nobody seems to like answering these questions but I'm too indecisive to choose one by myself.
I didnt see this posted, I searched. Apparently through the ARG that's going on for LOST, there are a series of 55 small video clips embedded in numerous sites, that when edited together reveal a new DHARMA Orientation video, hosted by Alvar hanso
However...if you wish to figure out what DHARMA is on your own, what it stands for and more...don't watch the video...if you want some more ansers...
click here: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=timdorr
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx
IE team blog on this update:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/08/24/715752.aspx
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1m57s of sweeeeeeeeeet.
Enjoy.
http://www.actiongames.co.uk/files/Movie_GC_ArmA_Trailer.divx
Previous screens:
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MEGATRON: http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=24276
Or specifically:
http://www.aintitcool.com/images2006/megatron1.jpg
http://www.aintitcool.com/images2006/megatronhead.jpg
http://www.aintitcool.com/images2006/megatronhead2.jpg
http://www.aintitcool.com/images2006/megatron2.jpg
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It's a ton of fly overs with the tilt-shift lens thing, I've never seen vide tilt-shifiting before, good song btw.
http://stage6.divx.com/Decibel/show_video/4730
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i'm playing with the notion of ripping my entire DVD collection and putting it on a media server type thingie. i'd like to rip them all using WMV format so it'll be very accessable on my Windows/X360 network. if i rip them to WMV, will i be able to grab the audio in 5.1 surround sound as well? what about DTS tracks?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/24/business/media/24survivor.html?_r=3&ref=media&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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Super late, late notice, but Dognose, Giggles, and I are going to go play mini-golf tonight at 6! I'm leaving town to go back to DigiPen in Washington on Monday and wanted to meet the biggest DNF fan around, so we decided to do something fun. We're going to go to Golfland in Sunnyvale in the south bay, so if you can make it, we'd love to have you show up as well.
http://www.google.com/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&q=miniature+golf&near=Santa+Clara,+CA&ie=UTF8&sll=37.062500,-95.677068&sspn=23.875000,57.630033&latlng=37347500,-121942778,4180011727268090473
If you think you're going to come, shackmessage me and I'll give you my phone number to meet up before I head out.
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So, I finally got my BF2142 Beta Key, I downloaded it in 15 minutes or so, installed it. Loaded it up, ramped the graphics up, still no 1280x1024 option in the menu, settled for 1024x768.
Popped up the server browser, seemed more responsive than the BF2 server browser. Attempted to join a server with 11 out of 32 players.
It took FIVE whole minutes to load the map, "Verdun".
I have a 3800 X2, 7800GT, and 2GB of ram. Even if it's a beta, it's unacceptable to take FIVE minutes to load.
However, when it was done, the Join Game button appeared. My icon still hadn't returned to the Idle cursor, it was still the Busy cursor. I pressed Join Game. Another minute passed, and the moment of truth...
BF2142 had just crashed to the desktop.
Who do I contact for getting my 6 minutes back?
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And yes, I am aware of the Conroe performance characteristics - I had already taken delivery of the parts for my AMD system before Conroe came out, and I want SLI with the nForce 590 chipset, and there are no Conroe boards with nForce 590 support.
Thoughts would be appreciated!
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and then.... i about jizzed my pants when i saw 4500MB ohhhhhhhhh jesssusss afk all day burning dvds...
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My take on Amazing Grace. There's like 5 or 6 seconds of blank time in the beginning, but don't mind that.
Tell me what you think!
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Last night they did a segment on Workplace Web Surfing. You know, talking to experts, managers, and employees about workplace Web policies and habits.
I was shocked to hear how many Web nazis there were. I'm all for limits on what you can view at work, but some of these filters are incredible. Filtering out news sites, sports sites..shit like MSNBC, MSN, etc. And the way these managers talked was as if they held their employees in general contempt and distrust. Distrust by default, as soon as they walk in the door.
I just feel you should hire people you trust and allow them generally free Web access, with the philosophy that yes, people are going to check their e-mail or surf a bit each day, and no, just because you outlaw that doesn't mean productivity will increase at all. In fact, I'll bet you could like lenient Web policies to increased productivity in some cases.
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Awesome Polish movie posters: http://www.retrocrush.com/archive2006/polishposters/
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I just got back from my first class of a course I have to take to be able to graduate at the end of my spring semester.
The course requires a laptop. I dont have a laptop. I have a desktop.
The most arrogant pompous teacher says to the 10 of us in the class that dont have a laptop "The college of engineering requires that you have a laptop. If you dont have one, you have two options if you wish to continue to take this class."
(At this point Im thinking... yeah, Ive been going to this school for 5 years, and not once has any class required anyone to have a laptop.)
"One: You can buy a laptop. Two: You can skip thursdays class and wing it."
Ok... so this makes tons of sense. I should spend money on a laptop I havent needed for 5 years for one class, and I only need it for this one class ONE DAY OUT OF THE WEEK.
To sum it up... anyone have a cheap laptop I can buy?
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Can anybody advise me on some cool apps I can download for it?
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New Test Drive Unlimited Demo on Xbox Live!
From what I have read the differences are 3 new cars and one bike one hour of gamplay and more road to explore. Yes this is a different demo then the E3 one.
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pity it's not my 360 and i have to give it back in two days. :(
40/50 achievements isn't bad tho. :D
yeah yeah, my TV ain't HDTV, suck it.
(I missed my final exam because I'm a retard)
I went and talked to an Academic Counselor, who gave me a "letter of support" basically stating that she believed my story (I went in and told her the truth, that I'm a retard and I fucked up). I tried to get ahold of the proff but she was gone until September. I e-mailed the department head, and she contacted the proff, and they're going to let me write the final tomorrow!
Wooooo! Now not only do I get a sweet ass job, but I get to graduate on time too. Fucking A!
I wrote thank you letters to both the proff and the department head, and I believe I will also write one to the academic counselor who helped me out.
Now I'm gonna go study. It'd be a real kick in the ass to fail the exam after all this.
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I'm pissed off. Rest in reply.
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Ok, I just saw a video of Chou Sou Juu Mecha MG for the DS (from Sandlot, the creators of R.A.D. and Earth Defense Force 2), and while the intial screenshots looked ok-but-not-great, the promo video has convinced me to mark it down for future importing.
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/aigj/movie/index.html
Sadly, I won't be able to afford it when it comes out Sept 2nd :(
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=402067&in_page_id=1770
I want some :[
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Seriously, I enjoyed it more than Snakes on a Plane, and I really enjoyed SOAP.
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