Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Mar 27, 2007 6:00pm PDTC&C 3 shows up at my door soon! Yay! I am absolutely awful at the demo but hopefully a slower introduction through the single player campaign can cure my suck. Oh, apparently I didnt break anything last night.. I'll take one more crack tonight! Also IE7 users shouldnt be getting those goofy cookie notices anymore.
- Defending blogging whores - Spam king is annoying - WiMax future - MeToo Tube - iPhone looms - MobileTV shows upLastly, agreed on Silverfall. It's just.... eh.
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.drac.org/games/lotro
(disregard 3, 4, 5, and 16 - they're shots from earlier in the month)
Keep in mind that I had to tone down the quality of the graphics to really-crappy so that I could keep up with everything going on since there were so many things and people around at once.
I've been playing for a damn long while, I've pre-ordered and actually plan to continue on into retail with the Goons once open beta starts, and if you guys have any questions, ask away.
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It will be announced at 9:00PM PST. Its currently 10:15 PM in my time zone here in Northwestern Ontario, so how much longer?
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I need a game I can run from a thumbdrive to play during lunch (off the clock) here at work. I don't have permission to install anything so it needs to be able to run from my thumbdrive. Suggestions? Will Starcraft play if I copy the game folder to the thumb? I'm getting tired of flash games and I really enjoy RTS skirmish games against the CPU and was wondering which ones will run without being installed.
system is:
P4 1.6ghz
512megs ram
Rage Fury Pro/Expert Pro video
winXP OS w/ directX 8.1
Some possibilities/rejections below.
Quake and/or other FPS rejected because I don't care for singleplayer in those games.
virtually any RTS if it will run on this system from a thumbdrive.
Mame- rejected because I don't really want people walking by and seeing a controller in my hands. Everyone here plays online flash games in their free time but we don't flaunt it.
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http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200703/N07.0327.1745.51023.htm
Lots of new and good information within, but alas no new media.
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http://www.thelastboss.com/post.phtml?pk=2504
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http://img363.imageshack.us/my.php?image=xr3da2007032723344817ch4.jpg
Its a technical issue nothing spoilerish
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more 'intimate' X360 pics in black - looks ok.
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http://www.ricohpmmc.com/uk/products/camera/Caplio_Gx100/caplio_gx100.htm
The short of it: Semi-compact P&S camera with a 24-72mm wide zoom lens]s (F2.5-F9.1), anti-shake, RAW, front dial, hotshoe, optional 90-degree electronic viewfinder, takes a proprietary lithium-ion battery as well as two AAA batteries if needed.
Goes head to head with the Canon G7, Panasonic LX2, and Sigma's DP-1. (The DP-1's APS-C Foveon sensor is arguably in an entirely different class, but the high-end P&S market slim enough as it is.)
All signs point to a removable lens cap :( On my 3-day trip to Hong Kong I found the lens cap on the LX2 almost unbearable, so much that I was taking only a dozen photos on my last day compared to the 200+ on the first and 100 on the second. When I got the camera I thought it wouldn't matter, and it still doesn't for the occasional shoot, but as a fun go-out-and-shoot cam... on my second day, I found myself leaving the cap in my jacket pocket and the camera in the other, with half my mind on handling my jacket just-so, avoiding bumps and the like. *NOT* fun.
If the GX100 has no built-in lenscap, it would seem I'll be skipping it in favor of the rumored follow-up to the GR Digital. I just sent my GRD to the shop this morning for a lens checkup. Hopefully it gets back to me before Wednesday next week in time for our long weekend :(
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Fuck WW2 shooters. I want to control an antibody and go on a virus annihilating rampage!!
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http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/xbox-360-elite-interview-with-microsofts-albert-penello-247635.php
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http://www.josplumbing.com/
Show me some crack !!!
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Here's what the track looks like:
http://sleepy.viscidity.com/nubits/trackview.JPG
Heres's what the track sounds like:
http://sleepy.viscidity.com/nubits/track1.mp3
midi is probably the best thing since water
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No fucking way around it either.
I've heard about these discs but it's the first time I've actually seen one, who wants to sit around and choke down more "The Hitchhiker" trailer since if you've gone to the movies or watched TV in the past year you've probably seen it 50x.
Guess what's not gonna get transferred if I rip this shit to PSP/iPod
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"The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is coming to ASU’s Tempe campus as part of Security Awareness Week to talk about copyright infringement, including peer-to-peer file sharing through websites like LimeWire and Morpheus. You may remember that The State Press reported earlier this month on the RIAA’s campaign to crackdown on illegal downloading of music on college campuses."
I plan on asking, ah, unconventional questions. I'm enlisting Shack help. If you could ask an RIAA flukie any question at all, what would it be?
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An awesome interview altogether.
"Obama is real scary to WHITE.... House people."
"Obama promises to put the budget back in the black. BLACK? I don't think so!"
It's the For Your Editing Pleasure clip here:
http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_colbert_report/videos/most_recent/index.jhtml
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Even the fact that there's a sequel just seems so wrong. The first one ended perfectly. PERFECTLY.
:(
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world's tallest superhero http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6178659.stm MAN gets married.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/asia_pac_enl_1175075042/html/1.stm
begin sexual jokes now.
http://img329.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cylonlovers3.gif
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Some nutjob skiing down the longest escalator on the London Underground. Having been on that escalator, I have no idea how he did this without killing himself.
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POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07085/770732-352.stm
I say possible spoiler for 2 reasons. 1, you might have been under a rock and not seen the finale. 2, he clarifies some things in the episode that I wasn't sure of and assumed would be made clear next season. Good interview though, I don't know if this was posted yet. I searched(but I do suck at the searching).
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Haha the shit will really hit the fan then, and with the horror stories of people waiting 1+ months for a system to be returned to them because theirs was lost at repair facility, its possible that it could happen (Ive had no problems with my 2 returns, however; my brother's was smooth as well).
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12 months or what?
I figure that would make an awesome desktop replacement.
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so i managed to get VIP passes to the 2 universal parks for today. the ones that let you go to the front of every line and such. does anyone know what rides are teh gay?
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