Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Dec 17, 2007 6:00pm PSTLingering winter colds really kinda suck. The good news is my voice is kinda scratchy
and I actually sound older than the 12yr old boy I usually sound like at times. I could
pass for probably 15! Sweet!
- Future of
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- Sluggish
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sales
:( Go consume! - The hot
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? - Best iPhone
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My girlfriend likes stars. She wants a tattoo of stars, sort of in chain, like a shooting star. I really like this image http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=7308956 and would like it drawn, with stars instead of squares, for a tattoo that will go from her tit to her hip down her side.
If any of you have some spare time and could draw that out for me that would be very helpful. I will post NWS pictures of said tat when it is done as my thanks. The stars should be the drawn, outline variety, such as: http://lxlogo.sourceforge.net/img/star1.gif without the jaggies.
The stars should not touch each other, but should appear to grow in size sort of like a shooting star. Thanks a lot for helping me with part of my xmas gift. The NWS will be glorious, as I just purchased an HD camcorder and received permission for this :)
Please, no mean remarks, etc etc, she reads the shack, so please don't mention what the design is. She has promised not to click the link.
Thanks!
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When he fires the rocket launcher, and kind of gets thrown a bit by the kick of it... and has a surprised look on his face. Almost like an elderly man trying to shoot a high caliber rifle or something. It just kind of accentuates how gangly he is, and even if he's handy with knives, he's pretty awkward around heavy weaponry.
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I've got one granddaughter who is named after Counselor Miranda Troi from "Star Trek: The Next Generation."
I've got another granddaughter who is named after Ren Hoek from "Ren and Stimpy."
I've got yet another granddaughter whose name is a misspelling of the Klingon word for dagger. (At least she has found an acceptable nickname.)
What goofy names are in your family trees?
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About to upgrade to an HDTV, but I'd like some good 2.0 speakers to go with them. Best choices?
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Can't figure out why this isn't working... have a Function that sends a ping and returns a result, but it never works correctly for me.
Public Function Ping(ByVal hostNameOrAddress As String) As Long
Dim pSender As New Ping()
Dim pOptions As New PingOptions()
pOptions.DontFragment = True
pOptions.Ttl = 128
Dim data As String = "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
Dim buffer As Byte() = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(data)
Dim pReply As PingReply = pSender.Send(hostNameOrAddress, 1000, buffer, pOptions)
If pReply.Status = IPStatus.Success Then
Console.WriteLine("Address: ", pReply.Address.ToString)
Console.WriteLine("RoundTrip time: ", pReply.RoundtripTime)
Console.WriteLine("Time to live: ", pReply.Options.Ttl)
Console.WriteLine("Don't fragment: ", pReply.Options.DontFragment)
Console.WriteLine("Buffer size: ", pReply.Buffer.Length)
' Return Response Time in milliseconds
Return pReply.RoundtripTime
Else
' Return -1 if Ping wasn't Successful
Return -1
End If
End Function
And no matter what IP address or Hostname I input into the Function it always gives me Nothing as a result? This is what I get in the console, just blank lines for everything.
Address:
RoundTrip time:
Time to live:
Don't fragment:
Buffer size:
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The gameplay was off the wall but very original. I honestly don't understand where they came up with most of the stuff.
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That's only close to a year after the US release o_O things are getting better over here. /sarcarm
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The update took ages, multiple reboots, nothing about the interface on this thing was meant to be used from a couch, the data entry system is so cluttered it's hard to find anything, i figured i'd be nice and download Folding@Home, only when I downloaded it and ran it, it immediately downloaded a newer version of itself(!) And again, slowly at that. And my god the PS3 Online Store is hideous. I never thought the 360 blade interface was all that impressive, but at least it's simple and usable.
And seriously how can they ship a 500 dollar console without any form of HD cabling? seriously?
/rant
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I'm enjoying Tabula Rasa.
I thought WoW was arse, but this is fun. And i dunno why. I think it's because shooting stuff with bigass weapons is more fun than running up and hitting it.
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http://rgba.scenesp.org
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George says he wants to see what happens when the 800 users online is smashed. BTW: It's posted in the Duke Nukem Forever forum.
Help make it happen Shack!
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"Evening Officer"
"Sir, what's going on in there?"
"Nothing officer, just rocking out with my cock out, doing some blow off some dead hookers"
The officer actually smiled when I mentioned Rock Band, too bad he then gave me a warning.
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New Teaser Trailer for Pixar's next film: Wall-E
High res QT:
http://streamingmovies.rottentomatoes.com/movies/article/841/841937/walle_trailer2_121707_wmvhighwide.wmv
http://moviesmovies.rottentomatoes.com/movies/video/article/841/841937/walle_trailer2_121707_qthighwide.mov
Flash:
http://media.movies.ign.com/media/879/879322/vids_1.html
Viral site attached to the film: http://www.buynlarge.com/
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr_EKqNT5hM
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Well thanks to an early tipoff by shavenewok, I got tickets to this a few months ago
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iFezecFk_ZQ
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This ought to be interesting.
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Neal Stephenson was the one who coined the term "avatar"!? I had no idea. Or so he claimed in his acknowledgments. "Metaverse" and "avatar", that is.
Also, at the end I figured the pizza delivery car speeding off with the mafia car in pursuit to be Uncle Enzo chasing down Raven... Damn did it end suddenly, true to Stephenson form. Brilliant and towards the end, a breakneck pace; but then spins down to 0 rpm very suddenly.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/18/faiytale_censorship/
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I finally beat Doom II (on Ultraviolence).
After years of having deathmatched on it and a few halfhearted attempts to play through in the past (one giving up around level 10, another around level 16), I decided I'd do the whole thing. Hooray!
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Man, this is some eye opening shit right here.
http://www.crudeimpact.com
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Streaming some DivX/XVid .AVI etc. files from my desktop machine worked just fine, have yet to try WMV. They also fixed the video thumbnails in folder view. Didn't have a chance to try the new voice changer for the chat, but I will try this tonight. I hope the video chat is more stable now. There's also a new BD Data Utility. Guess this is for Blu-ray profile 1.1 discs. Don't really know what Bitmapping Type 3 does, probably some kind of upsampling for CDs?
Great multimedia device. Anybody noticed any other undocumented changes?
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