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by Maarten Goldstein, Apr 10, 2007 6:54am PDTI'm like six years late to the party, but I finally ordered my first iPod (a Nano) today. I've always been on the fence about getting one of these things, but I finally felt like I could use one. The deciding factor was that my gym has some awful music playing, and since I've been buying albums through iTunes for a couple of years now (burning them to CD for playing in my car or CD player for US trips) it seemed like a good idea to go with an iPod over a random other player. I did consider the iPod Shuffle before going with the Nano, but I don't think 1gb would've worked for me. Also on FileShack
- Bomb 'N Dash Client 1.6.1.72 - online action puzzler.
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
I currently have a Dell with Intel Pentium D 830 Dual Core (3GHz). Can i upgrade to one of the Core 2 Duos?
http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/12325
I'm basically confused over "Dual Core" vs "Core 2 Duos"
Fix your buggy Gears of War update. Good job breaking the cover system. Also make Annex gameplay a mixture of warzone and execution so you can be killed from afar but also can get up when you bleedout. This will stop assholes from just letting you bleed on the ground for 20 seconds and then wait another 15 to respawn.
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I have to be in Seattle next week for a conference, and I need suggestions for a good place to have a many beers. I've been there a number of times before - been to Pyramid before a Mariners game, been out to Red Hook, drank lots of Fat Tires at Pioneer Saloon, and had some great beers at Elysian in Capitol Hill. Where/what am I missing? Prefer divey places, but good beer is good beer.
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I met some British folk a few years ago, and I can't remember whether they called what is commonly known as a Butterfly a "Butterbug" or whether they called Ladybugs Butterbugs?
Anyone familiar with this term?
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Is the expansion worth the money? Do any of the improvements (caravan storage, pet orders, etc.) apply to the regular campaign, or only to the expansion campaign?
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A friend of mine gave me an old copy of System Shock 2, because I've never played it, and you guys rave about it.
Anything I should install patchwise before I load it up?
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Basically most of the parents I know just let there kids play whatever. 8 year old playing GTA:SA or Halo isn't uncommon. Even with parents who are gamers and know what is in M rated games seem ok with it. Myself I'm fairly strict. My boys are 6 and 7. E games just fly, I play T rated games first but I let them play most of them, and M rated games are forbidden. I will sometimes play an M rated game in front of them if I am completely controlling the action to the level that is "T."
Yesterday I came home and found my wife had left the boys play the Crackdown demo. She had the sound turned off so they didn't hear any "bad words" but beyond that they were happily looking for orbs and shooting people. My wife doesn't have an issue and feels I'm too strict. So am I?
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I need to send out graduation invitation cards, but I cant find anything that I really like and personalized shit is expensive as hell.
Is there a possibility that a shacker would be kind enough to design a Graduation invitation card for me? Nothing to fancy, just something professional and clean.
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have you guys heard any good things on the VW GTI?
im really really really considering trading in my truck for this lil car
gas on my truck is like 14mpg and its kicking my ass.
It's paid off for so if i trade it in it would just all go towards the car
anyways the car in question is a VW GTI Fahrenheit
http://www.babez.de/vw/vw-gti-fahrenheit.php
it's kind of too teenager ish for me, freakin orange color
so i need to hear if these cars are built well and would last me a long time like my toyota has
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If you like indie/instrumental/guitar driven music this post is for you!
I was listening to some music and wanted to share its awesomeness with someone. I figure Teh Shack would be a good outlet for this..on to the music
Pelican
Guitar driven music with awesome build-ups and 10 minute songs -<3-
Check out their media play here:
http://www.hydrahead.org/hh/thefire/pelican_player.html
You can listen to the album The Fire in Our Throats will Beckon the Thaw, which is a concept album about the seasons. Check out the 2nd song, at the 4:47 mark...so sweet.
The Mercury Program
A bit softer, warmer, and more melodic sound than Pelican. I highly reccomend the album All the Suits Began to Fall. It's full of xylaphony awesomness. Check out thier myspace to hear some songs:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=23858919
Volta Do Mar
Took me a bit to warm up to these guys but I freaking love'em now. Check the myspace for songs:
http://www.myspace.com/voltadomar
65 Days of Static
More guitar heavy music...this time with a bit of electronica thrown in. They have a media play on the top right of their site:
http://www.65daysofstatic.com/index3.html
I hope at least one of you finds something new that you like. I love music, and its so hard nowadays to find new and refreshing shit to listen to. Please feel free to show me some of the bands you guys listen to that aren't all radio'd out and may have slipped under the radar.
I'd have sick host advantage
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This is cool - Song/Music Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHTU2i8RhH8&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ekotaku%2Ecom%2F
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Ok - Resistance seems slow to get into the action while CoD3 was in your face right away. I think I still like Resistance better. What about you guys? I haven't actually bought a PS3 game yet. I'm not sure when I will as I have a rental thing going on and plenty of cheap PS2 titles to get. Resistance is tempting though.
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119047
The trim comes in silver, blue, or red. But the best thing about it is the airflow. My machine runs as cool in this case as it did in my old tower, which I left the side off of for better ventilation.
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My dad's being stubborn. He broke his shoulder easter night and the doctors game him some meds for pain. Painkillers with part "APAP", aka acetaminophen aka Tylenol. The problem is he drinks alot, and I've heard alot about toxic interaction between acetaminophen and alcohol.
I've tried to convince him of this using words like "acute liver failure" and to get him to ask his doc for something with no APAP, but he won't listen.
Is there anything on the web I can show him that might help change his mind?
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I have an HDD here from my work machine that's giving me some problems. Here are the symptoms (viewed by the host machine):
1) System with complete BIOS checks fine
2) System displays the Windows splash screen with the black background and scrolling blue shit at the bottom
3) Everything is normal to this point... the blue status bar goes through 2-3 full runs then BOOM, I see a BSOD for about half a second and it reboots.
I've tried dumping the drive into another machine to get my files and Windows prompts that the drive is not formatted.
I have an external IDE->USD2.0 thing that shows nothing on a Windows machine. When I connect it to my Mac, I get a message that the Mac can't read the drive, would I like to Initialize, Ignore, or Eject. I select Ignore and I can browse the file hierarchy but OSX won't let me copy any files from the drive.
So my guess is that something got hosed on the partition table but I've been out of the Windows support circle for so long I don't remember how to fix this kind of thing. What would joo guys suggest?
Many thanks in advance!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvICN8DNMpY
He plays the same character in every movie. Doesn't that sort of mean he's not "acting" in the true sense of the word?
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My PS3 just arrived... hooray for me.
Thank you Pancake Humper for your original "Hay guys I gots a PS3" post that convinced me to go through with it :)
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I have to attend a workshop at the Naval Weapons Center in Indiana in two weeks. I'll be staying in Bloomington. Any decent restaurants in the area near the Fairfield Inn? Do they have anything in this town other than corn?
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So I bought Tofu yesterday at the grocery store. It says it's "extra firm" huh huh huh and looks like one solid brick. However, it doesn't have any type of preparation instructions, so I ask some of you... what do you recommend? I'm googling around and finding stuff, but I'm hoping drucifer or someone who is a good cook can chime in about this. I want to make it tonight after dinner but am kind of nervous :(
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free eats
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I figured out the best way to bet at the craps table and im interested to hear your thoughts about it...
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OK, all this news about Google's new 'My Maps' got me interested, so I've made a few maps, but when I got to print them, it doesn't put any of the markers on the map that I so painstakingly put there, nor does it print any of the lines I've drawn :(
Does anyone else have a suggestion as to what I am doing wrong? I can't be the only person who's decided to print these maps out...
Anyone help me?
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