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Anyway, I'd like to remove the tint so I don't have to worry about it again, but I definitely don't want to pay to get it removed. What's the best method for properly removing car window tint?
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http://www.autoblog.com/2007/02/21/dude-that-takes-stones-pics-of-the-corvette-ss-blue-devil/
Can't wait to see some performance numbers on this thing.
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http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx
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God fucking damn it... I am so sick and tired of hearing that shit. What are they psychics or something that can read the future. How the hell do they know allready that it is the "hottest movie this year"??? Or you can look at it the other way... its the hottest movie soo far this year. Big fucking deal its only febuary and there isent much competion for the title of "hottest movie of the year"
TV pisses me off
Fight Night is the shit that is all. Especially now that I recently discovered Ali's secret, muahah.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6385071.stm
Only the second one ever caught, and probably the largest. The fact that these things even exist freaks the hell out of me.
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So I posted about this a couple days ago, and have a few more questions regarding source control
So I have one developer writing Java and integrating it with SAP portal, he has the need to add zip files/folders and java code, likely sql code too. Server is Windows 2k3
The other developer (me) is on PHP/MySQL, and some Perl I'd like to add,server is Linux.
The only experience I have is with Visual Source Safe. What would everyone reccomend?
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I'm so tired of these fucking episodes where they claim they're going to answer all these questions; they never answer shit, and they only add 10 more. This show honestly pisses me off so much; I loved it at first, but I'm so tired of this constant cock teasing. And reading some of the interviews from the writers making it sound like they have no idea where they're going with shit only makes it all the more discouraging. AGH /rantoff
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Specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 Conroe 2.66GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557E6700 - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819115002
EVGA 122-CK-NF68-TR LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813188010
4ea. - Crucial Ballistix 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Desktop Memory Model BL12864AA804 - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820146560
EVGA 768-P2-N831-AR GeForce 8800GTX 768MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card - Retail
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Thermaltake Eureka VC8000BWA Black Chassis : 1.0mm all aluminum Front bezel : Aluminum ATX Full Tower Computer Case - Retail
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Antec True Power Trio TP3-550 ATX12V 550W Power Supply with Three 12V Rails - Retail
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2ea. - Seagate Barracuda ES ST3320620NS 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
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2ea. - LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Bruner With 12X DVD-RAM Write Black SATA Model LH-20A1S - Retail
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Microsoft Laser Mouse 6000 C6W-00001 2-Tone 4 Buttons 1x Wheel button USB - Retail
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Logitech G11 Silver & Black USB Standard Gaming Keyboard - Retail
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NEC Black 1.44MB 3.5" Internal Floppy Drive - OEM (Yes, a floppy. I need it for development work. Sorry if it offends you)
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MS WINDOWS VISTA ULTIMATE DVD RTL - Retail
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It is going to be a Beast! :)
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FINALLY -- both NYTimes and Sunrocket verified for me, 8 days after I signed up for each of them. I'll probably keep the NYTimes until the 4 weeks for $4 runs out... Sunrocket will get cancelled today. And now my Gift Status screen says the following:
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anyone wanna play with me?
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..i wish apple still made the original ipods with that heavy look and feel to them.
Not a very a strong review
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Mercenaries 2 confirmed for Xbox 360! And PC. And PS2.
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/766/766680p1.html
The trend of "drop-in" co-op continues with the ability for a second player to hop in at any time.
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a Windows XP machine with 256MB of ram (and integrated video!) that is SO spyware laden the commit charge booted to the bare desktop is 1.2 FUCKING GIGS
Fucks sake, I've got Virtual PC, firefox, itunes and various saundries running on this thing and I'm only 50MB ahead of the damned thing.
* mumbles something about wishing more clients would just fucking buy macs *
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You know,.. some of us - back in the day loved C&C1, or Warcraft (or both) or Red Alert (or all 3) etc - but honestly, when I tried TA - it just didn't click for me.
Maybe because no one was standing next to me saying "dude try this and that and this!" which often really helps people love a game (when a friend shows all the cool shit)
So sadly I played TA for 5 minutes and just said meh.
SC could be awesome - infact TA might be, but I can totally see why some people would want more C&C - it could be awesome - cause C&C normally is.
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AVG != good?
if true then what is?
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My annual predictions are up:
http://www.loonyblog.net/2007/02/22/oscar-2k7/
The cheat sheet if you only care about the top categories:
Best Picture: The Departed
Best Director: Martin Scorscese
Actor: Forrest Whitaker
Acress: Helen Mirren
Supporting Actor: Eddie Murphy
Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson
Adapted Screenplay: The Departed
Original Screenplay: Little Miss Sunshine
(Lots more at the above link, plus commentary)
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So in light of this thread http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=13894647 I went to the local Half Price Books with the intent of picking up the next book in the Krondor series by Feist to finish it up, and the first book of Song of Ice and Fire. Unfortunately, they had niether of these.
Instead I came out with Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind. I've heard of it before and a few friends highly recommended it to me, so even though no one mentioned it in the thread I got it. I was about a nanosecond away from getting Ender's Game, but in the end I didn't feel like being in the mood for a sci-fi type book. But I think I'll definately have to read that sometime and The Foundation Series, they both seem intriguing.
Anyways, has anyone read Wizard's First Rule? Im kind of excited the way my friend talked it up. But regardless thanks for the suggestions, I think my college years are set.
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The man said nothing and just showered and that would have been the end of that. Except it took an interesting twist... it turned out that the speedo man and his friend are gays. That is to say that they are homosexuals. Proof? Nothing more then them making out in the parking lot before getting in separate cars and heading away. Of course I have no problem with this but it confuses me... a lot.
I can understand being gay. I can understand being shy of other men seeing you naked in the showers. I don't understand how you can be afraid of men seeing you naked when you are gay.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a_FZJvDJLU
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What are some cool things I could get myself to celebrate now? I'm thinking an iPod Video but my Mini still works fine. And a 360 I think I'll wait until I finish all these PS2, Wii and DS games first.
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Crackdown or Saint's Row?
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We got our tax returns back and we're "loaded" as my wife put it. I need a new computer, but I don't wanna pay for an 8800 so I've gotta wait for the new DX10 cards to come out.
So this damn money's burning a hole in my pocket. Gotta resist...
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gotta run out for 10 min ill be back!
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I dont play too many games these days, largely cause i dont have the time or money to invest in them, but the odd game does come along that really grabs my attention. Recently Bioshock has really caught my eye, considering it comes from a lot of the people behind thief and system shock 1&2, a couple of my favourite games. I've read, watched and listened to just about as much info is available on this game, including the played podcast (which is great btw) with Kev levine.
What i'm really attracted to about this game is the setting and enviroment and the potential plot and story that relates to it. Finally a visually sophisticated game that actually ventures somewhere new... hooray!
A big deal has been made by Kev himself and the press everywhere about this game, particularly its open endedness. I'm a little worried though that its going to be a bit of a let down in that regard. The key question in the played podcast had one of the team ask ' so how much of the game has been revealed?' To which Kev replied, so much, soo soooooo much stuff is still to be revealed. Which is i agree at first promising, but in the very next breath he goes on to list everything we already know about the game simply claiming theirs a lot more to each of those elements, i.e more combinations and possibilites that we're aware of.
When it comes down to it, as far as game play mechanics go, i havent heard much about this game that is particularly ground breaking. Security systems you can hack? I did that before is ss2, not that its a bad feature, but its not something you can really tout as a breakthrough. Same goes for all the modifications which are given silly names as if to distance them for the notion that they are simply 'pickups' or 'upgrades' the kind of which we've been used to in games for decades.
Am i the only person out there who isnt really interested in this side of games? Pick ups and modifications for guns arnt a selling point for me. I was recently watching a video of mass effect which looked great until it got in to a gameplay combat section when it suddenly began to look very dull. The narrator with great excitement explained how i could modify my shotgun to shoot plasma coated shells, great for taking down heavily armoured targets or whatever. SO ? Who gives a shit i'm still just shooting him , the only difference is the visual effect when i hit him. It really means nothing to me. Oh you can upgrade your bionic feet so you can jump higher... oh great. Bet you spent weeks cooking up that great idea huh?
Dont get me wrong i'm not claiming bioshoch will be poo, i know it wont be. I think all the things that made ss2 and thief great will be in bioshock too, i.e atmosphere and an engaging plot. But i'm less convinced that a lot of the gameplay mechanics will be radically different to loads of games we've played before. Maybe my hopes for some games are too high and i expect too much, but if open ended game play comes down to just 'use this kind of gun, or modify it with this to take out your enemy' or 'hack that convienantly placed turrent' or 'let the bad guys fight each other and sneak past' then i'll be dissapointed.
/monstrous silly rant
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