Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Apr 06, 2007 7:00pm PDTWell that STALKER news sure is a little interesting. I'd guess and hope that its just leftover placeholder art that isnt actually used in the game. I cant imagine any lawsuits flying around but perhaps a little quiet settlement. If there was ever a day we needed to be able to collapse/expand news items on the front page I believe today is that day. I'll really try and figure that out to get along with our antique news engine this weekend.
- AppleTV is hackarific - Vonage wins something - Your ex-gf's crotch grew fins - MS changes mind on DRMLastly, your past life is screwing with your memory.
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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
So I can land fully-loaded 747s in Flight Simulator and did a Los Angeles to Sydney 747 flight last night/this morning. I learned how to navigate by VORs, etc.
But the goddamned Private Pilot Checkride:
-Fail from too much altitude because trying to trim the fucking Cessna is like trying to keep an excitable dog from sniffing shit
-Fail from too much speed because I managed to keep the altitude but managing the throttle also is just a bitch.
And before I've gotten to the steep turns, but apparently 45 degrees isn't 45 degrees.
Seriously wtf. I bet a real aircraft is easier to fly.
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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x12565_beatbox-fame-game
http://fukung.net/v/63/couldsecx.jpg
(nws)
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new hotness: http://orbit.vect.org/img/gallery/41/img_2884sm.jpg
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If you are an old fart like me, you'll know who these guys are. Buster Poindexter was a Doll.
Anyway, the song is called "Dance Like Monkey" and the video is AWESOME.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_XEiV-l97o
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FUCK TIER 7 ON HARD!
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I just tried this and so far the whammy bar seems a lot better!
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There is an attempt to make it not a complete grind fest, which is good, but the quests feel more like something out of guildwars or the warcraft world (never played WoW, but the atmosphere is a lot like warcraft 3).
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Hot women.
Ari gets really angry at someone or something.
Lloyd does something gay.
SO EXCITED!
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are there multiple endings to the game? i finished it yesterday and the ending video i got was pretty disappointing. At the end i touched the Wish Granter, my dude wished to be rich, then went insane thinking gold was falling from the sky, but in reality i was crushed by a pile of rubble.
Here's the kicker, i didnt follow through with trying to find Strelok, i must have missed something somewhere or forgot to go talk to somebody (i was too excited about going into the Chernobyl NPP to pay much attention to anything else.
Anyways im playing through it again with the patch installed and my main purpose to find him and at least finish that part of the story, which is fine because this game is oodles of fun!
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http://www.automobilemag.com/future_cars/2008/0609_2008_lexus_isf/
paddle shifters are nice.
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"C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Max Payne 2\MaxPayne2.exe" -developer
^^ thats what I have as my shortcut. ive read everywhere that the shortcut I have should work, but it doesnt bring down the console with ~!
help!
Before Sunrise - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112471/
Before Sunset - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381681/
Both of these movies were directed by Richard Linklater and star Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. I think these are the two best love story movies ever made. If you have a girlfriend or wife and have not seen these movies I highly suggest renting them.. rent them both at the same time.
Basically both of these movies are just two people talking... that's it... nothing else. You might think it sounds extremely boring but it's not. It's extremely well written and the the dialog with incredible and realisitic. I was never bored during either movie.
The first movie, Before Sunrise, came out in 1995 and has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/before_sunrise/
The second movie, Before Sunset, came out in 2004 and has 94% on Rotten Tomatoes.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/before_sunset/
I am not a big fan of chic flic, love story movies, but these are worth watching.
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I wanna buy a car from someone and I wanna know if car's fully paid for.
Dear Shack, with sugar on top, What do I do? There must be a site for this, rite? AFAIK, Carfax does not have that feature. (I could be wrong, been a while).
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:( :(
About 2 years worth of my carefully organized Firefox bookmark just disappeared.
Anyone know if there's a backup file kept anywhere or how I go about restoring them?
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Free 411 1800FREE411 - 18003733411
That's neat, I didn't know that.
No coverage but emergency. Dial 112. Says that it searches for ANY network to get the call through.
If your battery is very low to get more time, type *3370# and it should restart and have a 50% increase in battery. Says its reserve and that it will replenish once you get to a charger.
This one seems pretty nuts, I'll have to try it out (minus the locking my keys in the car thing):
If you lock your keys, with a remote, in the car but you have another pair at home, you can call someone who can get to them, and have them press the unlock button near the phone while you hold yours about a foot from the door lock.
I don't know if any of these work aside from the free 411. But worth a shot to try them, aside from trying the 112 :P
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http://thesuperficial.com/2007/03/bam_margera_loves_lance_bass.php
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I'm so proud of myself. This is my new favorite song.
Tomorrow, I conquer Hard!
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http://www.applegeeks.com/lite/index.php?aglitecomic=2007-04-06
Felt the need to post this since one of the trivia items displayed prior to the "Grindhouse" showing was that the script for "Speed 2: Cruise Control" was originally supposed to be for "Die Hard 3."
Also I just ate a country sausage patty that's been in the refrigerator for a week. Now I'm thinking that was a bad idea. Should I get my things in order and prepare for the end?
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Here's a scenario for you and I'm trying to find out if it's possible:
-You have a server sitting in front of a SAN. The server can be any OS.
-The server (let's call it Server A) is sharing out the SAN volume it's attached to.
-Three servers are mapped/connected to the share from Server A.
Can those three servers share that share? If so, can they do it so it's still a UNC path?
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