Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Apr 18, 2007 6:00pm PDTSo after fussing with that whole 'read more..' thing a few more times it's become obvious that it's a bit more of a project to get something like that to get along with our news engine. We are certainly going to try to hax it out but it may not show up for another few weeks. In the mean time just uh.. scroll really fast!
- Satellites and Alzheimers? - Your blackberry sucks - iPhone approaches - Time to fix web measurement, you know.. like Nielsen! (ugh) - Web apps... hot?Lastly, web2.0 is here! Cease fire! Oh, is anyone using it?
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
A few years ago, in a rather strange state of mind a buddy and I conceived a cover version of Men Without Hats' hit Safety Dance. I hesitate to call it a "cover" because it really only retains the lyrics and one particular two-note pattern. For some reason, at the time, we thought it hilarious to turn it into some kind of pseudo-power-ballad thing. I have no idea if that hilarity will come through, but for some reason tonight I had the urge to record this bizarre creation for the first time ever. My buddy's not on this, it's just me.
I really don't know what this song is all about
http://chris.idlethumbs.net/crap/safetydance.mp3
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I'd go with something far, far back in antiquity, something of which records and testimonies were sparse, contradictory, or nonexistent. Perhaps the trial and death of Socrates, one of Caesar's confrontations with Cato, or the Big Bang.
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Sure, the Xbox 360 can be righteous and cool with hard-core gamers, but this is not a sufficiently large user base to recoup the magnitude of investment Microsoft has made in its gaming platform. So if this is the strategy, they've got a problem. And if their strategy is really more mass-market, then they've got some serious re-positioning to do relative to the Nintendo's (NTDOY.PK) Wii, which is both cheaper and more accessible to Ma and Pa and Timmy and Tammy gamer. In short, I am at a loss. Correct that: Microsoft is at a loss. $5.4 billion and counting.
Talks about Microsoft's business strategy with the Xbox 360 and how it's been a "financial black hole" for Microsoft and it's investors, being about 5.4 billion in operating losses for the past several years. Also talks about why Japan is an important market.
The comments at the bottom of the article are pretty interesting, too.
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Links here, get it while you can before the geeks overwhelm it.
http://releases.ubuntu.com/feisty/
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/7.04/
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/feisty/
http://mirror.lupaworld.com/ubuntu/releases/7.04/
http://torrent.ubuntu.com/releases/feisty/
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
http://releases.ubuntu.com/feisty/
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ECS RC410L/800-M vista error
what the fuck can i do
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on a related note, is there an alternative to photoshop worth checking out?
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http://www.myspace.com/dethklok
Get some.....NOW.
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Anyone using this with a Zoom X3 modem? I'm trying to get the Zoom X3 to act solely as a modem and send the IP address and routing duties over to the WRT but I just can't get it working :(
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- 6 Feet under
- M*A*S*H
- Bob Newhart
- Cheers
Conversely, what are some of the worst show finales?
Space: Above and Beyond
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Because we badly need to do laundry, I had to reach down to the bottom of the underwear draw today. The only thing left:
Tighty Whities.
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?threshold=4&mode=nested&commentsort=3&op=Change&sid=231373
That /. article is on some new high tech gear the soldiers don't like - it's quite interesting and some of the highly ranked posts appear to be from real soldiers - some of you may find it informative.
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The Greeks were dominant through much of the game (me) but trailed bismark up until the last 97 turns when i blew past him. I conquered the US and captured Washington. Overall it was a very satisfying game and just what i needed.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_breathing
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im going to sleep
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I found an awesome desktop while Google image searching...
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Is there a conspiracy going on that I am unaware of.
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I was a bigger tard than this kid when I was young, but I know I never had a thought like 'gee, a day of ridicule at school just isn't enough. I wish I could bring the judgment of the entire world down upon myself!'
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Master Chief fighting lots of enemies then a suprise guest comes to the scene and it gets bat shit crazy from there on.
http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher.php?id=57998
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http://fallout.bethsoft.com/
Nothing on it yet, but clicking the poster leads to new forums. I hope this is a sign that info will be revealed soon.
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Where do the books fit into the games? Do I have to play the games and then the books? Or are the books their own thing?
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you know when you get that call from your girlfriend/exgirlfriends ex husbands new girlfriend to figure shit out its gonna be a insightfull day.
end emo
/single
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Trying to run the Ubuntu (edgy) live-cd, and I get
/sbin/init: Can't access tty; Job control turned off
when booting from the DVD. I did a little looking around, but dammit... I cannot edit the GRUB (I don't think, anyway, I don't even know where it is!) on the DVD. This used to work, I've booted to it on an older system, also running Vista.
I've 2 SATA drives, and a 160GB IDE one. Ideally, I'd like to install Ubuntu onto the IDE and dual-boot. I haven't found a really easy how-to yet, though, with this issue popping up as well.
I don't need it 'Linux for Dummies.' I need 'Linux for Retards.'
:(
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I passed my qualification shoot! Thnx, Video Games!
I passed my first two exams!
Remember last week how I almost shot a guy in a simulation and ended up popping out my shoulder? I do that class again in one hour! :(
By Monday afternoon all my exams and assessments will be over. Next Friday we're dismissed from the College, have a week off, and then come back for a week of Drill practice.
TLDR: I'm almost a cop. Ask me again in a week or so.
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Recently my site has been flooded with (FUCKING ANNOYING) bots that sign up on my forum and link to various porn sites. Some days it's 10 others it's 2-3, and it's pissing me the hell off. Is there a free code one can use where new registrants have to enter a code from an image or something? I can't code for shit and my regular coder is busy, so it would be cool if I could get my hands on something I just have to insert somewhere.
What is the point of these bots signing up anyway? It's not like they post on the site or anything... Fucking russian cocksuckers!!!! Ahh, that helped :|
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I'm watching this movie from the 60s called Blind Beast, where a blind man and his mother kidnap a girl so that he can sculpt her and once the mother is out of the way, the two of them descend into some intense depravity together in search of the ultimate ecstasy.
So nuts I can hardly believe what I'm seeing- plus it's got xylophone music and walls made of carved breasts, legs and mouths.....
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