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  That is the official price, amazon is just lazy. : DarkWolf5
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    That was the original tentative price, it has since changed and they have not modified it yet. Both item... : Iwannaacura
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      wtf? : sesmaster
      • what color is this? e [ ] e : sesmaster
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  so i'm still unclear on the bundle, does it only come with one guitar or two (so you can play bass)? : FrayLo
  • One, I think. : crummynz
  • http://www.amazon.com/MTV-Games-Rock-Special-Edition/dp/B000TSX3TS/ref=pd_bbs_3/102-4871422-6260958?ie=UT... : Iwannaacura
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    one guitar, but it's supposedly compatible with GH2/3 guitars so if you're having/getting those, you'll b... : Deathlove
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      How does that work with the ps3? Since the Gh2/3 controllers don't work on the ps3 (even with an adapter) : d3tached
      • this applies to 360 only i believe : FrayLo
      • It doesn't. If you have a PS3, you'll need to get another PS3 guitar to add bass. : Masem
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  I read that as Toysaurus which is a much cooler name for a store. : sammyl
  • fuck. that's awesome. They should totally change their name to that. : trevis
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  the Amazon one has TWO guitars. thus the higher price. : hamachi
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    wtf are you sure? the amazon page does not specify what's included in the bundle : FrayLo
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      it links to target right? go to target.com and look it up. two guitars in the "special edition" pack. ... : hamachi
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        " The Special Edition includes lead/bass guitar, drum kit and microphone" I think they just meant hat th... : Modulus
        • if that's the case: they suck! : hamachi
  • what? where do you see this? : Modulus
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  It's 159 at new egg. (and if halo3 taught us anything it's that newegg cant be bothered with street date... : trevis
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    Do I have to do overnight shipping to get it day of with Newegg? : pilgrimage
    • With Halo 3 you would have received it several days early with next day shipping. : pyrogen
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  related question: when you preorder online, do these places ship on the release date, or do they ship a f... : FrayLo
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    It depends on the shipping type you pick. Usually overnight = you get it release day. Anything else and y... : sigpro
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      thanks. i guess GH3 i'm not as worried about, but for rock band i will be preordering from online. i do... : FrayLo
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        I ordered halo 3 from EB online and did the overnight shipping and I had it the same day it was in stores... : sigpro
        • I have a $50 GC to amazon.com, so i just pre-ordered GH3 for 360 and did overnight shipping. Looks l... : FrayLo
  • depends on the place, and even then your mileage will vary from release to release. my experience with p... : Modulus
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  holy hell, this fucking thing comes out beginning of november? : fletch_
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    yeah, 2 more weeks! and rock band comes out day after thanksgiving : FrayLo
    • well suck me sideways, thats cool : fletch_
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      This thread is about Rock Band, not Guitar Hero 3. I think the TRU page is just wrong. They list Rock ... : Nick Breckon
      • aww mother fucker : fletch_
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  Is there a bundle that's just game and drums? If so, how much? : Edges
  • I read somewhere this morning that there will be only the full bundle available, no separate instruments. : Goncyn
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  ATTN: Amazon will be crediting the people that preorder the difference between the actual price and the $... : byorn
  • What the hell? : c0bra
  • who told him this.. !? 7575 sure didnt they know nothing! : Iwannaacura

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  Using flash memory for hard-drives has been looked on as the next big step for a long time. They're small : sgtsanity
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    limited number of write cycles in each memory block :( : biskits
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      ioMemory™ uses sophisticated error correction techniques and wear-leveling to minimize fatigu : Rag and Bone Man
      • my comment was about existing flash drives. though it seems they've worked on that major issue; 8 years ... : biskits
    • That may be so but they'll still outlast regular old hard drives. : Horn
    • The technology used today makes this a null point. I cant quote the numbers off of the top of my head but... : Pettytheft
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    wait, just read the site. NAND != flash : biskits
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      ...the ioDrive's™ revolutionary architecture leverages NAND Flash while eliminating the inher : sgtsanity
      • $30 a gig vs 20 cents a gig is a big difference. Sounds awesome though. I'd like to see how fast a sys... : trevis
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  because it's nothing new. there was a pci card a few years back that took flash memory and had a SATA co... : electroly
  • Going even further back, RAMDrive has been around since... forever? DOS days at least. Granted, it wasn'... : slickdoody
  • There's also these: http://www.logicsupply.com/products/fdm4400i2g : Conan
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  I could see it being used for OS and maybe some select programs, but not as a replacement for general med... : aethyr
  • SAN are a lot more then $30/GB, the server market will order that stuff up as fast as they can make it. : Neech
• Maybe using it as your 'working' drive. But I don't think they'll ever catch up in storage size. http:... : AhmNee
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  Price is the biggest problem. : Fred Garvin
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    I'd like to see some prices. : pieman
    • the linked page says $30/gig. For a 150 gig drive, that's $4,500. Contrast that with less than $200 for... : Finestaut
  • Ya, $15,000 for a 500gb drive is just.. a lot of money. If the performance benefit is more than theoreti... : slickdoody
  • Seriously. Price: FusionIO says ~$30/GB How about those $2.4k 80GB drives? : yoonix
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    Yeah, NAND is still not cheap enough for this to work, but in the future (and sooner than most people thi... : ovrlrd
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      considering a couple years ago a 1GB thumb drive would have cost well over $100, and now you can get one ... : cpt_gloval
      • About five years ago I had a Trek Thumbdrive on loan as a review sample, it was like £250 worth a... : Toraz Chryx
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        i paid $75 for a 32MB thumb drive a couple years ago :( : electroly
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          couple > 6 ? http://web.archive.org/web/20011121062657/www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?submit=manufac... : aethyr
          • Feb 1, 2003 according to thinkgeek, where i bought it. : electroly
  • I just forwarded this to my boss, and he's very interested in it. We're a small business, but even for u... : Ride-My-Rocket
  • Some geek will pony up that money in order to have the fastest gaming rig around. : riptyde
• There was a company @ Qcon demoing stuff like this, but better because they gave me free food. : rosewood
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  When can we replace slow ass CDs and DVDs with something more reliable, quicker, and quieter? : Blackdawgg
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    Gamecube : paravis
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      bro : boomstickah
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        reminds me... you got a link to that site? : paravis
        • http://www.jackjohnsonmusic.com/ : AlexXdude
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          which site? Because bro rape is everywhere....bro! : boomstickah
          • I cauitiously googled "bro rape". http://www.derrickcomedy.com/ : paravis
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    you mean like flash drives? : NeoMoose
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      Yes, I demand all future games to come on flash drives. : Blackdawgg
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        And as a bonus you can get a massive USB hub and never have to worry about swapping discs ever again. : Blackdawgg
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          ...i'm now wondering if it's possible to rip a CD/DVD to a thumb drive and run a game from it. i mean, a... : Korban
          • seems possible. i mean if daemon tools can simulate a cd drive with a folder on your hd it seems like it ... : spector
          • Why not just use Daemon tools? : riptyde
          • Depends on the game, if Daemon tools works with it then sure, otherwise not so much. : xxx2xxx
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        won't the games get erased when the cashier runs them over that huge magnet that deactivates the security... : Korban
        • Negative I've had airport metal detector wands go over my flash drive before and nothing happened : Blackdawgg
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          I remember reading something awhile back that you'd need a magnet strong enough to suck the iron from you... : hawkeye
          • i need one of those magnets mounted to a gun so i can eliminate my enemies : cpt_gloval
        • flash drives are not magnetic-based like hard drives are. : electroly
        • flash drives are based on charge storage so magnetic fields shouldn't effect them at all. Retention is n... : pap26
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  is it agreeable that data storage tech is one of the slowest progressing computer techs? I mean 5 years a : paravis
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    WTH sata is 100x easier to deal with than IDE : feek
    • WHA?! How so? Sata cables are far far more stiff than an regular IDE cable, and what makes that so bad,... : paravis
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    at least you could fix it, have you ever bent a row of IDE pins? : cpt_gloval
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      I BARELY fixed it. Two of the gold sticks were pushed almost all the way inside the drive. I assumed th... : paravis
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        I'd backup everything on it and RMA it : feek
        • yeah definintely. I'm lucky I guess in that it was my older raptor not my newer version (slight perf twe... : paravis
• Expensive, but I hope more work goes into making this stuff the norm. I know i'd like a lighter laptop! : riptyde
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  Ya, check these out: http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=636&Tpk=solid+state+disk... : vynn
  • Not very fast at all. These disks are only good for seek times. Read/Write on these drives are atrocious.... : Pettytheft
  • why in the fuck are they IDE instead of sata? : Old_Fart
  • 15k RPM ftw: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148284 crazy expensive ftl =( : paravis
• NAND is pronounced SAND? eh? : sanchez
• Forget the storage, who is the lady? : tomservo

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• Also, lol: http://rock_elf.shackspace.com/eli_silo_blame.mp3 : rock elf
• I took it as him implicating g-man as the start of all of this. I didn't get any reference to Breen. I : pigvomit
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  G-man told Breen to use the crystal. : NFXFSX
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    OK, the reason I'm confused is because, in HL2, the g-man has you working for the resistance, against the : rock elf
    • One thing I read in Ventro's Half-Life story site is that the G-Man wants to use Earth as the battlegroun : freshyk
    • aka the galaxy's biggest douche : buzzbat
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      Well, what happened in HL1? It does seem clear that the GMan represents a "contractor" of sorts, playin : VinnieTheSquid
      • ^^^^ This is what I think it is too. : NFXFSX
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      He's an intergalactic arms dealer : VegasX
      • That would look sweet on a business card. : oatmela
    • I think we put it down to not having the whole story yet. : Conan
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      Gordon is the G-man duh! : pancake humper
      • There's a bit of gman in all of us. : rock elf
• I took it to mean that the gman brought the crystal and is responsible for the whole black mesa incident, : re4ctor
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  Uhh, I still think HEAVY SPOILERS the g-man is going to bring other forces to earth to fight the combine, : Amnesty_intl2
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    If thats the case then he succeeded anyway because the Vortigaunts are allied now. It probably wasn't his : ovrlrd
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      Oh thinking about it he didn't choose to save Alyx either at the end of Episode 1, but maybe he felt it w : ovrlrd
      • Bah HL2 not Episode 1. I think I need more beer. : ovrlrd
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  When did G-Man rescue Alyx exactly?? I thought it was all the Vertis' work? : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    Not sure, but I think he mentions in the cutscene-ish HL2E2 bit that he took Alyx out of Black Mesa at so : Felraiser
    • I'm going with this one. : rock elf
    • This is exactly what happened, thats what that cutscene was supposed to tell you. : ovrlrd
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    i don't think we know this (yet?). i'd assume it was sometime during or after the original half-life. : pyide
    • thats how i understood it too : Maarten Goldstein
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    I thought that was pretty obvious. She was right there with you when the citadel portal exploded. : moogle
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      that wasnt it though : Maarten Goldstein
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        It was. G-Man saved you, he didn't have to save Alyx. But he did. : hardfl1p
        • nm, I remember the Vortigaunts now : hardfl1p
    • but eli didn't know about that, did he? and she didn't even know what happened. plus the g-man really onl : pyide
• the biggest questions remain: 1. Who is pulling the G-man's strings, and why? 2. What does the G-m : oatmela
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  Did anyone catch the part before the 8.5lb anomly. They were talking about a backup routine in the rocke... : stgdz
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    or they were talking about Lamarr, the headcrab : MurrayTheSkull
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      No it was before that, I will have to watch the part again but I think it alluded to something else. Mag... : stgdz
      • before the hatch opens or when it opens? if it's at the same time, then it's lamarr (or the lawn gnome) : MurrayTheSkull
  • Yeah, I thought for sure it was going to be a bomb or something. I expected the rocket to blow up right : pigvomit

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  holy shit! Is there a link to this? : cltcprd
  • http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=914047 : trOmblyj
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    I saw commercials for it yesterday during the late football game saying they added more stations and woul... : sigpro
    • well they added some last month so that commercial has been around for awhile. : cltcprd
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  Comcast really needs to get it together... their HD offers really do suck. : Shadowdane
  • Yeah, I thought Time Warner was bad, but Comcast is even worse. : jason bergman
  • I'd be happy if they just fixed their fucking AWFUL compression. I've got web videos porn with less comp... : hawkeye
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  FINALLY!! I can watch BSG in HD and still keep up with the series! I gotta finish the last season (got t... : pigvomit
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    SciFi was added on 10/3 or 10/4 : trOmblyj
    • oh lol, i never turned to that channel, I assumed it was the science channel. Well, my point still remai... : pigvomit
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  do you pay extra for each of those (or some packages)? : derelict515
  • Because I have HBO/Cinemax/Starz/Showtime I get those movie channels in HD as part of that package. Othe... : trOmblyj
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    Nope, if you get HD and the appropriate premium packages (HBO, Cinemax, Showtime) all these channels are ... : cltcprd
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      so if you buy the basic package (the one with USA/Sci Fi/FX/etc but not the real movie channels) you also... : derelict515
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        you pay $10 for the HD package. : cltcprd
        • which includes HD channels of all other channels you already receive. : cltcprd
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  Damn, Cox needs to step it up. : skizl
  • LOL Cox : Wolfanoz
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  OK Comcast I want SciFi, FX, and Cartoon Network in HD ASAP. : Evil Benius
  • SECONDED! : CaptainDawg
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  Fucking comcast : gmd
  • Comcast just opened a few new ones last week. FoodHD & TBS HD were the only notable ones...more of the "... : Saman
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    IAWTFC :( : skinlab133
    • IAWTIAWTFC :( : Zero|DPX
• wow. I'd love to go back but I still don't know how they'd install the thing in my place. guess I'l... : hamachi
• Fucking brighthouse and their 8 HD channels. An extra $10+ a month and we just got History channel HD. : Blackdawgg
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  What does the * on Food HD mean? I may switch to DirecTV because COX is really pissing me off. : rosewood
  • It's not a simulcast of their SD channel. : trOmblyj
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    * = not a simulcast of the SD channel (if available), programming will vary. : cltcprd
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      lol i'm owning you in this thread :) : trOmblyj
      • seriously :( Fuck this I'm going back to watching Top Gear. : cltcprd
• DAMN YOU COMCAST : FrayLo
• MHD sucks so much balls. I'M SICK OF SEEING THAT 50 CENT CONCERT. He's so motherfucking boring as a stage... : Rauol Duke
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  I've got to get that 5LNB dish up. : edgewise
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    What do you have now? 2? I got the 3 LNB when I joined a couple months ago and I get all the HD channel... : Wolfanoz
    • I have the 3... wait a minute... Maybe I should check.. : edgewise
    • also, maybe my tuners can't do it... I dunno, but the dtv website specifically states 5LNB is needed, but : edgewise
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      are you SURE you only have the 3LNB? : trOmblyj
      • Positive. It has 3. : Wolfanoz
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  I'd be interested in getting this when I go to get TV service again, however unless I can just sign up fo... : mancide
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    I seriously doubt anyone will ever let you do that. : hamachi
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      Someone will eventually let you do it. Maybe not for a few years, but I think ala carte TV is the way of ... : mancide
      • people keep saying it'll happen, but I doubt it. since so many channels are owned by the same companies ... : hamachi
  • When we first got COX they said "and you can sign up for just the HD package to get the HD channels!" and... : rosewood
• SKINEMAXX in HD - Awesome! : PapaBoo
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  YETTTHHHHHH BRAVO HD HERE WEEEE GOOOOOOOO!!!!! : virus
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    come on Oxygen ... come on Oxygen!!! : kanix
    • Lifetime Movie Network HD > Oxygen HD Meridith Baxter-Birney in HD... *drool* : trOmblyj
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  Is Direct TV Hd still considered "quasi" HD or whatever? I've read that it doesn't look like pure HD. : Sparhawk6
  • I thought they just compressed it to hell and back : rosewood
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    Their original channels had some issues, but the new channels look great. They switched to MPEG4 compres... : trOmblyj
    • wish = which : trOmblyj
    • ah good to hear. Thanks. : Sparhawk6
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  Is macroblocking as prevalent with satellite as it is with cable? That shit absolutely ruins the HD exper : Prototype
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    some channels are worse than others, I haven't seen any macroblocking on the new MPEG4 channels. : cltcprd
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      actually the only place i really get it is on local HD channels. : cltcprd
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        Why you get the good comcast signal?!?! Just about any scene with (fast motion) looks like shit. I've rea... : Prototype
        • i have directv. The Local HD channels on Directv are the only place i see macro blocking. : cltcprd
• I wonder when IPTV goes active for the 360 in the Fall Update? : Wolfanoz
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  i thought about switching but those fuckers make you BUY the hd-dvrs, right? : [fry]
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    DING! Yea, I would switch in a heat-beat but I'm not about to spend $200 on a hd dvr when I get it for fr... : Visceral Monkey
    • but tivo.... =( : Break
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      well ours ain't exactly free these days. i think i get charged an 8 dollar cable box fee and an 8 dollar ... : [fry]
      • I thought you still had to pay a fee to use the hd-dvrs with DTV? : rosewood
    • Seriously. I just fucking joined and they want $300 for a new box. I think eBay is in order down the ro... : Wolfanoz
• I'm so jealous.. Time Warner is horrible for HD. I may switch to Direct TV at my next apartment. : heff
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  with channels like Bravo, Sci-Fi, USA, CNBC, Food, FX, and Cartoon Network, is it HD in the same sense th... : Korban
  • Well, from what I've seen its not stretched - its the actual HD version of the show that is on. If it is... : trOmblyj
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  omg Food Network HD? : timmie
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    pics of giada's cleavage in hd pls : FrayLo
    • Now THIS is getting me hungry. : treefingers1
  • I'm getting hungry already. : pap26
• SCI-FI finally in HD. Awesome. New episodes of BSG on the way too. : spazzium

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• I think Dwight's beard was more to show how torn up he is over losing Angela. Before that he was extreme : walker270
• I think it was just he's falling apart after the lady problems. : great-white
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  am I the only one who thinks Angela is way hot :( : nomaad
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    Not "way hot" but she is a lot more attractive than previous seasons. : carazy
    • Take a chance on me. : Saman
  • I do love a bitch. : Rauol Duke
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    In person she's not so great, and my buddies say that drunk 5 am she looks even worse. : kingdepork
    • I would like to know more. : HojuSimpson
    • did they take her home : boomstickah
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      My buddy works at the bog where kevin and angela got trashed after hours. A couple my buddies were in th... : kingdepork
      • : Oh dear... that poor Lohan....Speaking of traveling....would you perhaps be going back to Scranton for ... : kingdepork
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    IMDB says born in '71. I would have guessed older... not a good sign. : smax
    • 36..seems about right for the look : EvilDolemite
  • Yeah I'd say it goes Angela - Karen - Pam - Jan - Meredith - Phyllis. : NastyJack
  • obvious, she is single now; chicks always try to look better after breakups : Flynn
• Last episode annoyed me. I really life the office in a faux documentary form. Then you have dwight wh... : kingdepork
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  The DVD screensaver bit was too funny. : smax
  • I agree. I screamed "OMG me too!" : thejm4n
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    What was the joke there, anyway? I missed it and only saw them screaming at the screensaver : EvilDolemite
    • They wanted to see what would happen when the logo went exactly into the corner of the screen. : walker270
    • During the meeting they were watching the screen saver bounce around and waiting for the box to go into a... : freshyk
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      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_izXKpEmkyw : smax
      • but it didn't really go into the corner... :( : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • I've stared at my buddy's many times over the past 4 years praying it would hit the corner. : kingdepork
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  Okay, how many of you guys are or want to be Ryan? He's such a douche : EvilDolemite
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    I have a feeling that by the end of the season, he'll be demoted back to Scranton. : Edges
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      His rampant use of businessese was driving me nuts. His demotion is in the cards, you mark me! : Enkidu
      • it was so funny, he used every cliche known to man in that one interview : FrayLo
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    He's a complete poser. No experience, no knowledge, no vision for the field -- he's completely out of hi... : walker270
    • heh, what got him promoted was Jim taking himself out of contention. : edgewise
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  I wish the show was more documentary like and less sitcom like. Its going towards sitcom absurdity levels... : bozer
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    The UK version was a lot more consistent in this regard; at this point I've kind of just discarded that e... : Chris Remo
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      I just don't understand the point of the show. It's a film crew doing a documentary, right? Is it ever... : kingdepork
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        We're watching the documentary. : walker270
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          thanks buddy. My point is, in their world it's being filmed and aired. They don't comment, get embarass... : kingdepork
          • i like the cuts to the "confession chair" but i wish they were a bit more common. : cpt_gloval
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            i just try and enjoy the show for what it is: funny : FrayLo
            • It's funny but conflicted. I wish it would make up it's mind, cuz it's a year away from a laugh track th... : kingdepork
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      UK show was only like half a US season long though. It's crazy how few episodes were made compared to the... : Geoffrois
      • They had the whole thing planned out and did it in 2 seasons. It came out perfect because they didn't h... : kingdepork
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    Exactly my comment above. The british office's camera work and characters were much closer to reality. ... : kingdepork
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      I work with Dwight. Seriously, I believe it. :( : Ebu
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        sorry, but no. Do the instant message thing from the last episode. They either won't believe it or act ... : kingdepork
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          (I haven't really seen an ep since season 1) : Ebu
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            Then you haven't seen how over the top he gets. : kingdepork
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              I used to know a guy who had no sense of humor or skepticism, and no ability to discern sarcasm. I suspe... : Finestaut
              • I think anyone whose technical knowledge comes largely from Hollywood would fall from the Instant Messeng... : walker270
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                Some of the shit that came out of this guy's mouth was also eerily similar to Dwight's lines. I find Dwi... : Finestaut
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                  Our HR department is like one big giant collective Micheal. Some guy gets stung by a bee on his way ho... : walker270
                  • Unless your boss dressed like a bee, no. : kingdepork
  • I used to think that way but I'm willing to sacrifice the show's documentary style to humor. You can't re... : freshyk
• I didn't think it was that great than the previous ones. : thejm4n
• I watched last week's episode yesterday as well... And what the hell. I liked the first two episodes well... : mittense
• An hour is too much for me. Also the show is funniest when it's commenting on real people and realistic ... : Boxelder
• on thursdays, Always Sunny in Philadelphia gets more laughs from me, but the office and 30 rock are still... : mankeroo
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  no creed :( : edgewise
  • he was in the episode iirc, i saw him file out of the meeting room after the screensaver hit the corner. ... : cpt_gloval
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  Update: I still want to stick my penis in Jenna Fischer. : DOOManiac
  • I'll do you one better: I still want to stick my penis in Jenna Fischer's BUTT : trOmblyj
• I don't really watch it but you were right, that episode was fantastic. : pauk111
• i think he was just so distraught after breaking up with Angela that he's forgetting to take care of hims : Flying h4x0r

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  How dare you make fun of Halo the greatest game ever made forged from Zeus' shit. : gmd
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    yeah, + .com/faggot : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • i was wondering when that would pop up again.. lol : Shadowdane
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  It is not impossible on Legendary : EvilDolemite
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    i could never see me being able to complete the game on legendary in solo play. without the teammate r : ^-SeaWolf-^
    • those things close up pretty fast with energy weapons like the plasma rifles. : pyide
    • It's totally possible :) : EvilDolemite
• Buckle up. Here we go. : qtseng
• probably because its not : kill9
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  it's the combat. grenades/weapons/melee. outdoor action with vehicles. if you didn't like taking down tho... : pyide
  • that's really all i found fun, flying the orca knockoffs from c&c taking down the scarabs, driving the ve... : ^-SeaWolf-^
• Could always read wikipedia. That's what I do if I don't understand a game. : thejm4n
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  sounds like you just went in with a PC elitism bias. The plot is easy to understand, but can also have s... : paravis
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    wrong wrong wrong. i'm not a pc elitest. i love fps console games, in fact as of now the best fps i've ... : ^-SeaWolf-^
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      "they talked a lot in the cutscenes" You do realize what the cutscenes are for right? They tell you... : paravis
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        i'd appreciate it if you stopped taking jabs at me for no good reason, please feel free to get out of thi... : ^-SeaWolf-^
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          damn it SeaWolf - he likes the game, you have to also. i agree with you - the cutscenes BARELY moved t... : virus
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            How am I taking shots? It's obvious he wanted create a thread like this, otherwise he wouldn't have made ... : paravis
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              i can see that you're insulting him needlessly in each of your posts. so stop. : virus
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                You somehow manage to show up in every Halo 3 post supporting whoever is currently hating on it. I feel i... : Jackass1233
                • i do? really? considering this is like *maybe* the 3rd post ive made about halo 3, total, in my histo... : virus
              • I'm insulting him? How? Did you read his OP? Read his last sentence. If you consider what I've said "ins... : paravis
            • Uh perhaps your comment "sounds like you just went in with a PC elitism bias" could be considered taking ... : OverloadUT
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              There is no reason why you can't just close the the thread with the x button if you don't want to hear ab... : razlebol
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                What a load of bull. Read his post again, throughly. Then tell me again that he was just expressing his : paravis
                • Why is that even pissing you off? Why do you care what he thinks of the master chief? : razlebol
                • taking comments about halo 3 a bit personally aren't we? if you don't like what he says then say somethi : virus
• They are going tyo kill EVERY SENTIENT BEING IN TEH UNIVERSE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH : Boxelder
• I got my "Wolf"s confused for a bit there and was all O_o : Ebu
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  i've only played Halo3 but i have no fucking clue what it was all about... it probably would have helped ... : MagicWishMonkey
  • huh -- it was fine here : Shadowdane
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    Boost your center channel. Had the same problem as well. : Pettytheft
    • yea i saw a thread about it last week, i've already finished it though and i doubt i will pick it up agai... : MagicWishMonkey
• its pretty complicated : johnny rotten
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  ahh another day another thread about this. : -=kodiak=-
  • Please, please !!! Don't say anything wrong of my favorite game on my favorite system ever or I will kill... : razlebol
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  the story is standard blah dee dah sci-fi, but nobody cares. it's fun except for the flood, which suck a... : mikecyb
  • This pretty much sums up thousands of posts. : peanut-
• oh god not this fucking thred again goddamn you halo 3 god damn you shack ahh why do you suck so bad what... : Gauss
• THE FLOOD ARE THE BORG!!! : virus
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  I think that last sentence is a pretty good summation of what you need to know about the plot of Halo. : Sexpansion Pack
  • agreed; I feel like I want to build a Motivator poster with that last line. : the archvile
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  pay attention to the game? how can you not know whats going on? they practically spell this shit out for ... : maulla
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    maybe its not a matter of paying attention but about how good the story is? : headbone
    • i think it's both. just like the people saying HL2 and the episodes had no story. mind-boggling to me, bu... : pyide
    • you can bash the story all you want. but its not hard to follow at all . . . : jedi_27
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  I can understand how you don't get some of the plot in Halo3. The first Halo was pretty clear. The second... : Pettytheft
  • or watch the cutscenes, where it literally spelled out for the person playing. : Jackass1233
• if i can beat halo 3 on heroic, theres no doubt i can beat it on legendary. i havent seriously play a fp... : oHnOES
• ok : jonin
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  It's because they try to advance the plot while you are fighting. Dear god, so many time that AI chick w... : Modulus
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    ahhhhh what game did you play? the story is explained during the cut scenese and at the start and end of... : jedi_27
    • Halo 3, what game are you talking about? Seems like they were always trying to say something right when... : Modulus
• Halo IS generic and forgettable. You got all there is to get. : David Craddock
• you know what game had an awesome ending? Wolf3D. Just Blazkowicz running out of a prison, throwing up ... : NeoMoose
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  Hey guys HALO SUCKS, NO IT DOESN'T, YES IT DOES!!! I hope we can continue this debate two threads from n... : carazy
  • see ya tomorrow. same time, same place, different retarded thread. ugh . . . . : jedi_27
• did you not pay attention at all? this isnt half life 2... they exposition is actually there : bradsh
• hey wtf chapter 8 flood what do i do : snagger
• They need to make a Halo Space combat game. After reading all the books it was really the best part of t... : podung
• I had little trouble with Halo 3 on Heroic playing solo, and Legendary is nowhere near impossible. Wha... : Magus
• HGIDGH3 post of the day. : brickmatt
• *sigh* : action roommate
• HALO BEST GAME EVER!!!!!1111one : Yanks
• halo 3 is the worst game on the xbox360 : mr.sleepy

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  People out in the sticks. : EvilDolemite
  • There's a lot of places that aren't even that remote with no broadband (save satellite, of course). : datoo
• I know probably 3-4 people that still use dial up. For some reason, the extra $10 a month is not worth i... : pigvomit
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  haha, until recently my best friend did (he lived with his mom and didn't want to pay for broadband) a... : porp
  • my tv didn't have knobs, but a volume slider :) : dodob
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  my gf's parents still use dial up. :/ : burningtrees
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    mine too, and her dad teaches IT something or other at a community college. : xxiv
    • Probably one of those old annoying math teachers that switch over to IT. : Pettytheft
• some people who access the network at work remotely have been known to call with dial up problems. : xxiv
• Yup. : thejm4n
• there is dialup at my friend's cabin. But it is 80 miles from any "town" really. : cltcprd
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  I dont know anyone with dial-up, but I know quite a few with no internet at all. : feek
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    That is just weird to me. That's like not having plumbing. : EvilDolemite
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      some people live their lives instead of talking about it on the internet : Old_Fart
      • It's true. I'm mostly thinking of people who live in warehouses or houses called things like "the shitsha... : feek
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        it doesn't matter how you live your life, internet can always improve aspects of it : Neech
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          a while ago slammy from stoofoo told me about meditation and i really sorta wrote him off, but ive been d... : oHnOES
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            well i guess you could call it a journal but whatever : oHnOES
            • Dear Diary, Today, someone at StooFoo called me a fag. I am so depressed. So I went to the Shack to... : CRasterImage
  • I know a few who don't even own a computer. : DOOManiac
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  My grandpa, he is getting dsl soon though : xxx2xxx
  • my parents went from Dial-up to FIOS :( : drucifer
• spazer : oHnOES
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  I use a telegraph : drucifer
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    I fax morse code : sikander
    • I use TTY : drucifer
• Yep, many people. Some places still fail to carry broadband, and others charge out the ass for even the s... : Kaerof
• I do! At home though. And because I cant get broadband where I live. But I just learned that I can get... : kikilupo
• ummmm... like half of Kansas. Too many little tiny mom-n-pop telcos that don't have the cash for major in... : fatman
• The ISP i work a still does dialup and we have a few users on it. Probably 15 or so :/ and supporting th... : m0nkz
• My mom lives in a small farmtown. It's not avaliable to her. Fortunately my little sister just escaped to... : moogle
• there are quite a few here in Montana. Most of them are 40's or later, but there are still quite a few. : samekh
• I have 26.4 back at home. Don't even get a stable wireless - broadband connection :( : thief
• My parents do. The only possible broadband option for them would be satellite, and that's really expensiv... : ChibiJosh
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  My grandma uses 2 tin cans and a wire. : paravis
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    my Grandpop uses semaphore : drucifer
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      my pappi uses smoke signals : Korban
      • My grandfathers use ectoplasm cause they're dead :( : voodooraze
• i get customers all the time who still use dialup (and some using aol's dialup at that) : hobosapien
• my parents. they are just in an area were they can't get DSL and they already have DTV so don't want to ... : hamachi
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  fleabug works for an ISP in Dallas that consists mainly of dialup customers. : dognose
  • Yep. Mostly older folks in rural areas. You'd be really surprised, I sure was. : fleabug
• I have one person that works for me that uses dialup. : jedi_27
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  My mother does, she lives in England though and will be leaving soon. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    Why do people leave England? :( : dognose
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      lots of reasons :) : jedi_27
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        I actually got choked up the first time I hadda leave England; I didn't wanna go :( : dognose
        • i was 15 when i left. i was pretty upset before we left. but you soon learn that every part of the worl... : jedi_27
    • Cause its an island : FiReaNG3L
• My parents. They live in a rural area. : godwit
• I know of a few people, though not many. : dmason
• My parents : Zero|DPX
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  I had dialup until last month. I got Verizon's USB720 device and haven't looked back. There is a CO about... : Lynn Minmei
  • doesn't Verizon's EVDO have a 5GB monthly cap? : Postal
• My parents just switched to DSL last year. I was so impressed! This from the people who refuse to own cel... : edlin
• About 25% of people who try to signup for JamPlay.com are using dialup and promptly ask for a refund beca... : nukewinter
• We use DSL where I work. One DSL covad connection for the whole office (9 people). And I'm pretty sure so... : not work safe
• yeah, my grandparents : Flying h4x0r

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  Avalons come with complimentary AARP membership : Blackdawgg
  • It's true, but holy crap are they easy to drive. : spazzium
• bentley continental : multisync
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  bmw 760Li : FrayLo
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    my stupid response > your stupid response : multisync
    • yeah i couldn't think of anything stupider really : FrayLo
• I really like my Cadillac CTS : MagicWishMonkey
• Mercedes-Benz S65 AMG. : nomaad
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  maybe an Altima? : Degenerate
  • I'd say Maxima over the Altima but they by the time the are fully loaded you are into G35 price range. : sigpro
  • the new Altimas have some pretty kickass features : MagicWishMonkey
• Acura RL. Biggish, but not really big. : mafu5150
• Lincoln LS : cpt_gloval
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  I'd say VW Passat, but you guys will just laugh at me. : deject
  • I won't :P : Blackdawgg
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  how big? how expensive? : Omning
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    hm, a 3 year old one should go for under 30k. although, less is great. : sumo-hacker
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      the Lincoln LS comes in at about 20k for a 2-3yo model. has ford modular V8 (solid, proven), rwd, power e... : cpt_gloval
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        how's reliability and maintenance? : sumo-hacker
        • The usual for an American car that's never pushed hard - it's bulletproof. : snagger
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  new camry : oatmela
  • i like the avalons more than the camry. they feel a ton smoother. : sumo-hacker
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  74-78 Ford LTD or Lincoln : PapaBoo
  • LTD + FI 5.0 = hilarity : cpt_gloval
  • Pimpin' PapaBoo knows wtf. I say go with a towncar. : davantalus
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  Duh an Acura. : Iwannaacura
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    My TL is smooth like buttah, not huge but has plenty of headroom for me (6'2") and oh so nice, very low m... : GonzoRookie
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      I have the same ride and the same height and I love it. But it's not really a big car. It's mid-sized. I ... : Pettytheft
      • the RL is so freaking nice though. : GonzoRookie
• I drove a friend's avalon the other day. Although it was a comfy ride, holy cow did it feel like driving ... : festivalman
• Volvo S80 or Lincoln LS : re4ctor
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  Tangent: What's a good small-ish, smooth car? Low maintenance required. : dodob
  • er..Honda Civic? : re4ctor
  • Corolla : NFXFSX
  • smooth? usually the being smooth is associated with heavier cars. the Ford Fusion gets positive reviews b... : cpt_gloval
  • Civic - the Fit is a nice car (as is the Toyota Yaris, for the most part), but it's not going to be the w... : Postal
  • I can't think of one that's honestly that smooth. A new Corolla or Civic would feel smooth at first but ... : snagger
• I like my Taurus :/ : Slowtreme
• Maybach 57s : mojo the helpr monke
• Lexus GS 350. Big, fast, smooth... zero maintenenance, lots of techy gadgety stuff. Love it : bozer
• Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 : Durandal07
• A tank : DooBall
• My parents have an '05 Avalon. "Big" and "smooth" are the first two words I would use to describe it. : afty