Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Jan 10, 2008 6:00pm PSTERRRRRRRRRR late!
- WiMax may one day
href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GadgetGuide/story?id=4112161&page=1">be hot
? - HD DVD support
href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/hd-dvds-fall-like-dominoes/?ref=technology">falling
fast
- Amazon picks up Sony
href="http://www.reuters.com/article/industryNews/idUSWEN333620080111">music
- Motion control is
hot
- Earth barely
href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/scienceandsociety/2008/01/earth-barely-bi.html">makes it
- YouTube nation
Lastly, I continue my journey towards supernerd. Mom got me one of those mini fridge
thingies to have by my desk. Fortunately the thing is super quiet as I'm pretty much anal
about ambient noise.
Daily Filter: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition, MLB 12: The Show
Cradle trailer shows off Russian indie adventure game
WoW Monopoly, StarCraft RISK announced at Toy Fair
Jersey Shore's 'The Situation' signs App deal
Blacklight: Retribution open beta begins Feb 27
christ...
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http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gZ9t0K8xidKzz7rtkrB6Xye0LNcQ
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So I get into stealth mode and watch the helicopter land and drop off more KPA soldiers, that's fine I can deal with them. I sneak up to a tower and crawl up there and deal with the watch tower guy and pick up a nice sniper rifle.
So here I play crazy guy in the watch tower with a sniper rifle™ for a bit and I notice the KPA are getting a little smarter, they are all hiding down below the tower waiting! SO I turn into the predator and jump out of the tower in stealth mode and proceed to maul them all down with my MG. ooora what a good firefight! All that is left if for me to grab the files from the barracks and away I go!
So here I am, all bad ass after taking care of at least 30 soldiers, thinking that nothing can take me down now. But wait, I notice something to the right of the barracks. Why, it's a innocent looking 2x4 leaning up against the barracks! Well this certainly posses no problem to me I think I'll grab it and use MAXIMUM STRENGTH to toss it into the air like I do everything.
Well I go up to this 2x4 and before I could grab it, it falls on me and I die.
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http://gizmodo.com/343348/confessions-the-meanest-thing-gizmodo-did-at-ces
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you see Jimmy Carter's latest column about the presidential candidates?
So you want me to run for president again? Yeah, sure, absolutely, I'll do it. I'd be honored to do it—with my fucking dick in your mouth, you worthless scumbags.
http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/i_got_what_america_needs_right?utm_source=EMTF_Onion
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http://flickr.com/photos/12138809@N08/2184657938/in/photostream/
http://flickr.com/photos/12138809@N08/2184658126/in/photostream/
http://flickr.com/photos/12138809@N08/2184658560/in/photostream/
Descriptions under the pics. Enjoy. And the ratio on the salsa was 1 mango, 1 avocado, 1/2 red onion, 1 peach, 1 lime, some cilantro. S&P to taste.
Dry rub was a 4/2/2/1 ratio salt/cayenne/paprika/pepper.
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For those of you who've helped me thus far, thanks. This game has been nothing but a thorn in my ass since reaching the end and failing not once, but twice. Hopefully those ribbons that I have so blatantly ignored will help me succeed, for I am very much tired of this 3-hour-marathon-to-reach-the-end nonsense.
Much love.
btw I am currently about to do the four dark crystals again. I'll let ya'll know how that goes. : )
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Thankfully, it's not as bad as the Green Acres theme of a few days ago - but it's still annoying...
It's "Uncle Fucka" from the South Park movie.
I need help, don't I?
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i ping like 60 on average to 69 and dallas in TF2 but both eve online and wow both suck ass, disconnecting me and going from like 300 - in the thousands. is it just the number of players?
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so I'm rmaing my 7800GT(for the 3rd time).
Hopefully I'll get an 8600, according to my friend at XFX i most likely will as they don't have any 7800's in stock. At all.
Anyway, anyone got any tech info they can spread me on the 8600? Should I expect better? Worse? (in terms of performance) I already know I'm getting better :Heat management/power usage.
hook me up, guys.
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http://www.newsnet5.com/news/15023503/detail.html
Motorists were not amused. :)
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http://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/archive/2008/01/10/simcity-source-code-released-to-the-wild-let-the-ports-begin.aspx
Which is essentially great. :)
(Now the part that gets eyes rolling: they removed the 'plane crashing' disaster because of 9/11....)
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ive already got heat, saving private ryan and matrix. the new star wars episodes had good sound right?
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Snopes debunks the whole North American Union thing:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/nau.asp
This is one of many things mentioned in the greatest internet conspiracy movie of all time, Zeitgeist:
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
^ I'm not saying this shit is true, I'm just saying it's the biggest pile of internet conspiracy there is.
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I have to 2 Mythos invites if anyone's interested. First SM with EMail wins.
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Engineer busts a move: http://i3.tinypic.com/6ljn98g.jpg
(nfi if it's a repost)
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Name me some programs/games to put this thing through its paces?
Already on my list is:
Crysis
COD4
Doom 3 (ultra textures)
whats the hot shit for system benchmarks these days? Im still using PcMark & SiSoft Sandra and of course 3dMark.
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http://www.appliancist.com/juicers_juice_makers/champion-juicer-masticating-juicers.html
It has been years.
Now i might have joined a modded server (since everybody spawned with ever weapon except for the RL... wtf) ... but was Quake 3 really QuakeWorld fast? Either i completely forgot or the current batch of slow walking shooters fucked up my aim. :(
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Long term upgrading on a budget plan - I'll get the cheapest core2duo I can at the start of feb with 2gigs of ram. Then in march I'll upgrade my video card (x1800xt 512mb). Then hopefully the 45nm cpus will be about and I can upgrade the CPU. The rest of my computer (case, screen, psu, soundcard, HDD) is all still pretty good. I just got burned when AMD stopped making sckt 939 and now I can't upgrade my CPU without paying stupid prices for a 939 X2 on ebay.
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Bloody hell, might as well be called "we all suck Bay's cock". I like the film and all, but from the hour of extras ive watched so far, its just clips of people saying what an amazing DYNAMIC guy he is.
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I think that snippet from the latest Zero Punctuation credit sequence demonstrates Yahtzee's reviews weren't just a fluke flash in the pan, the guy's clearly got the potential to be entertaining and creative in his area for quite some time to come.
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