Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Aug 19, 2008 7:33pm PDTPlease excuse the late start this evening! I was of course out getting trashed and setting mail boxes on fire etc. The standard 33rd birthday stuff. Thank you very much everyone who wished me well.
No recap for the evening or anything, you'll just have to like... scroll down on the website!
FileShack: Unity of Command, Skyjacker
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
$280 for Visiontek HD4870
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$330 for BFG 260 GTX
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where are the motherfucking photos?
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A few people were interested in this so I'm putting it out there. There are 2 M4R files. One is ready to go for iPhone, and the other is for converting to another format (M4R can be renamed to M4A and converted to MP3).
http://www.mediafire.com/?z9yaksxky4d
Enjoy!
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So, I'm trying to figure out how to sort a two dimensional array. I'm trying to sort in a curious way, though.
The array has coordinates of objects in 2d space (x, y)
I want to sort the objects into horizontal lines. i.e. First sort the object closest to the bottom of the plane from left to right are put into the array, followed by objects higher up, left to right, etc..
I'm trying to think of an efficient way of doing this in C.
Any ideas?
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I have this chick neighbor, who may or may not be a part-time stripper, who has 2 dogs. One of her dogs doesn't stop BARKING all fucking day and sometimes even at night (when she's not home?)
I work from home so she is out for a good part of the day as well and the fucking thing won't stop yelping. I almost feel like I'm going to go Berkowitz on it's ass! Am I allowed to file a complaint with concierge downstairs? Like WTF.
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So it was a lot of fun playing with you guys tonight. Definitely good times. I basically haven't played since they started releasing unlockables though, and I have to say - I feel like I'm really at a disadvantage. I know that they're pretty well balanced for the most part, but it sucks not having access to those weapons. And some of those achievements are fucking nuts and like never going to happen unless you farm, and that's annoying. Yeah.
So, good times and all, but I wish I had all the cool toys. =(
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Well, today I made a huge decision regarding my game play and wrote a new blog post about it.
http://www.howdoiplaygame.com
TL;DR I started half-life over tonight.
I know this sets the time-table of me ever finishing the game to a lot further down the road, but I think I'll enjoy the game more going back and playing through levels with all that I've learned so far.
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Thoughts in reply...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioiOAdFJKYE
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freelancer_(video_game)
I haven't found a good space sim since. The game controls where spot on. It was a simple game made for the masses I guess but was still fun.
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Hilarious.
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It's just too bad the movie falls apart at the end.
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What are they good _free_ antivirus apps out these days? It'd be preferable if I can turn it on/off easily (like when I might have torrents running in the background).
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How do I know when a form has finished submitting? For example, after clicking on Save Changes in the shack settings page ( http://www.shacknews.com/settings/ ), the page interacts with bananas.shacknews and google-analytics. I want to do something (say, close the window) after that is done. But I make sure all transactions are complete. How can I do that in Javascript? :\
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef6_9Wclh7Q
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* Gemma Atkinson (Hollyoaks)
* Tim Curry (Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Hunt for Red October)
* Andrew Divoff (LOST)
* Kelly Hu (X2, The Scorpion King)
* Jenny McCarthy (Scream 3, former Playboy Playmate of the Year)
* Ivana Milicevic (Casino Royale)
* Jonathan Pryce (Pirates of the Caribbean)
* J.K. Simmons (Spider-Man, Juno)
* Autumn Reeser (The OC)
* Peter Stormare (Prison Break, Armageddon)
* George Takei (Star Trek, Heroes)
* Randy "The Natural" Couture (former UFC Heavyweight champion)
* Gina "Conviction" Carano (Undefeated Elite XC fighter, American Gladiators)
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/19/tsa.watch.list/index.html
TL;DR: family with 5 year old son "James Robinson" on the terrorist watch list discovers that booking him under his first initial and middle name subverts the list matching software. Airline Pilot, certified to carry a gun, James Robinson discovers that booking as Jim Robinson gets him past the list.
Government still waiting to catch James Robinson the terrorist. Hopefully he's not smarter than the mom of the 5 year old but is going to use his full name when booking his ticket to Allah.
Also bonus points: write an article critical of the list, and get put on the list.
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Also Captain Gloveall said he was into Michelob Amber Bock lately so I picked some up and am quite surprised. It's very rich and smooth. I always saw it on the shelf and assumed it was like Budweiser.
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I'm Shacking in bed because I'm sick. :(
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXKCe4Polyo
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I've been glued to my couch since Thursday night.
:(
The good news is I've managed to squeeze in the largest block of gaming time I've done in fucking years. In the last 2 days I've managed to make it half-way through Half-Life 2 (yes, I'm WAAAYYYY behind on that shit) and Braid is blowing my mind. It's seriously one of the greatest games I've ever played.
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What the fuck? I've only had this RAM for two months. Why do they count 90 days from the original order date and not start it over when you get a replacement?
When I sent it back I specifically asked for RAM from a different batch (not a different model, but a different batch number) and they sent me one from the same batch anyway.
So now I have to go through Crucial to RMA this shit and I'm pissed off.
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For those working for themselves, what does your business card say?
I mean, the title besides your name..
I want to avoid something like Company Director, because that's too megalomanous, for a small company like mine. Need some ideas.
Serious answers only haha
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http://www.explosm.net/comics/1377/
:)
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I went to the bedroom and got the game from its safe spot under my pillow, then slipped the cd out of its diamond-encrusted jewel case. Since my last play-through, though, I've moved to a Mac, and the Mac version only works on older architecture, from before OS X and Intel Macs. The good news, though, is that the game should be 100% playable on Windows through VMWare! Oh, the joys of older games.
So, anyway, Shack Alerted. I've got to go talk to Paul.
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Is there some kind of website where I can type in which ingredients I have and it shows me recipes that use those ingredients? Cause that would be awesome.
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tastyyyyy
what are you eating for dinner tonight shack
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