Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Nov 21, 2008 6:00pm PSTThe DirecTV guy today really wasnt very friendly at all. Bah.
- Does SearchWiki work?
- Here comes Colbert
Christmas
- Technical
href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/11/21/urban.agriculture.ap/index.html">agriculture
- iPhone 2.2
href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10105145-37.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1">is
here
! - Your next computer may
href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/154359/google_considers_preinstalling_chrome_on_new_pcs.html#">come
with Chrome
As for the the videogame news around these parts:
- 7-Elevel serious about game sales
- ArmA 2 screenshots
- Rise of Argonauts delay yet again
- Eidos trying to control the press
and failing again
- Far Cry 2 DLC details
- Midway doesnt hate Unreal tech as
much as you thought
- Rock Band DLC update
- Harmonix gets Rock Band 2 class
action lawsuit
- More Grand Theft Auto 4 PC video
and details
- Tabula Rasa shutting down
- Red Alert 3 PC demo next week
- Valve wants to SCAN YOUR BRAIN
- Take-Two settles over M rated game
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- Stormrise screenshots
- Fallout 3 keeps kicking PC ass
in sales
- Latest Company of Heroes expansion
trailer
Lastly, I changed my mind about the economy. We're all screwed. Get to the bunkers. We
have a new
guy we can start blaming soon!
Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag for PC to come after consoles
DTS Headphone:X brings 11.1 channel surround sound to headsets
Xbox One policy change means loss of family sharing, disc-free gaming
Crytek working on The Collectibles for iOS
Guys, I'm about to reformat to Vista Ultimate 64-bit from XP 32-bit. What should I be ready to change/fix/do after it's done installing?
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It's damn near locking up at each stage and takes for effing ever. What the hell gives?
It's probably not even going to work anyways.
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For some reason I thought shackers would be interested in that Stephie is BACK ON THE MARKET!
http://jam.canoe.ca/Television/2008/11/21/7493176-jam.html
don't ask why I read this shitty canadian news website. LOL beavers
No word yet on Kimmy Gibbler's availability.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vxzIamlzoA
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Because people who use the iPhone have no need for public transportation :(
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In my living room is a new 60" PRO-141FD Pioneer Signature Elite Kuro plasma TV, Marantz AV8003/MM8003 prepro and amplifier separates, and Bowers & Wilkins CM Series speakers (CM7 pair, CM Center, CM1 pair, ASW 10CM subwoofer). Picture of the speaker set minus the sub is here: http://assets.bowers-wilkins.com/med/Libraries/3/CM1_l2_w817_h328.jpg?dm=0
It is fucking awesome, but not nearly as awesome as when I pay for all this stuff in a few days!
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Last night I hit up some bars in order to chat up some ladies and impress them with my fine British accent. "I'm from Laaahndon innit."
I ended up talking to a woman from Brazil who was wearing a cool hat, a couple of girls from the UK (like 20 mins drive from where I live!), an au pair from Germany, some girl called Emma from Spain, a dude with an amazing moustache from Austrailia (and his gf) and a Polish woman. Epic fail.
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- Alternate melee attack animations like tackling with your shoulder instead of punching back the Infected all the time. Or using the rifle to push them back then follow up with a buttstroke. Kind of like a melee combo.
- Guns from Counter-Strike or Day of Defeat (for fun)
- Command system to control zombies as a Boomer, like spitting a ball that attracts a bunch of Zombies (like that gland from HL2).
- Riot Shield LOL
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This is pretty awesome and a testament to the Shack where you can get a pick up game going and run through and beat one of the campaigns on expert in L4D.
in reply
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CREATE AN ALBUM COVER
Step 1
Wikipedia's random article page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random - is the name of your band
Step 2
The LAST FOUR WORDS of the random quote at the BOTTOM OF THE LIST - http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 - is the album title
Step 3
Using Flickr's Interesting Photos page - http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/ - choose the THIRD IMAGE as the album cover.
Then use photoshop or paint or whatever you got to put it all together.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGD1sEM0pNo&feature=related
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On 360, it just works. Voice chat for everyone, matchmaking, etc, but it doesn't look as nice and controls worse.
On PC, I have terrible sound clipping issues that cause frame-rate stutters, my mic doesn't work even though it shows levels in Windows, and the dedicated server finding isn't so great, but it looks so much better and I'm a zombie headshot god with the mouse+keyboard.
Why can't PC games just work :(
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I just got it off of Amazon MP3 and I'm almost finished with it. Easily his best album, amazing flow, much improved lyrics, banging beats. Definitely a must buy for any hip-hop/rap fans.
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After CRasterImage's post, I realized, if there is one single game announcement I can't wait to read on the frontpage, it's that of the new BattleTech/MechWarrior game.
Knowing how it's being worked on by Mr Weisman at least it's only a question of when and not if.
That and the upcoming new stuff like the Clan Box Set, novels and new customizable maps are really exciting. Yay for more scifi / strategy goodness!
And for those who never played BattleTech, get the free quickstart rules which include everything you need to play ffs
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So I had avoided the rush at launch and finally got around to to creating a death knight and doing the starting zone. Epic as fuck.
Holy shit did blizzard ever do it all right.
Also, the death knight class is awesomely fun to play.
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I know developers do benchmarking and testing after finishing projects
because they understand the architecture and how to find the bottlenecks.
Can you strace and profile the ruby code now? See what's making the slowness
problem? Ruby code uses 99% of the resources
He said pages loaded very slow
Difficult to navigate
Images were difficult to load
I just went through every page and they load in under 3 seconds. The site is heavy javascript because that's what he wanted(flashy web 2.0 shit) No page is over 300kb in combined size. I think this guy is just trying to make up some excuse so he can avoid paying me all the money he owes me. I fucking hate this shit.
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http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/15931
IT'S FULL OF STARS!
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/24/2428151.htm?section=justin
we don't need no guns for home invaders, apparently we just bash them to death.
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To be tricky, I set this new server with the same hostname, IP address, and MAC address as the old NT server. The file structure is the same, the share structure is the same. All the clients on the network are XP Pro.
Here is the goofy part. Some of the clients (well, the newer ones that I setup and I know were using a local account to the NT4 box) are able to access the saved mapped network drives no problem what so ever. Some other clients are prompted for a new username and password the first time they go to connect, but they are given the option to save the password like you would expect.
Finally, a lot of the other old ass computers are also asking for the username / password box but they do not get the option to save password. Sure enough, if they reboot, it prompts them again. Any ideas on why captain "Save Password" checkbox is gone?
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http://www.tapewormeggs.com/
LOOSE WEIGHT EASILY
PLAY PRETTY GOOD JOKE ON FRIENDS
MAKE SCIENTIFIC PROJECT OR MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS
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In mid July I had an interview for an IRS Special Agent student coop position. When I graduate from college, if I had completed 640 hours of work for the IRS, I convert to a special agent, and start making good money.
Well, it's now November and I still haven't started. I had to get audited, complete a background check, and have a physical done. Physical had some abnormalities, some of you may remember that I thought I might have been dying because I had a bunch of abnormal EKG's. Well, I had an echo done, it was normal, sent that in and figured that was the last of the medical. That was like a one month delay because of the appointments and stuff. It was a fucking nightmare getting a referral to a cardiologist and having an echo done within a month, but that's another story.
Well like 3 weeks later I got a letter saying I wasn't medically qualified because I didn't have perfect corrected vision. Apparently my near vision tested at like 35/25 and it had a limit of 30/25, and they decided not to mention this when I was taking care of the other shit. I had to get a paper from an optometrist saying with correction, I'd have 30/25. I did that and faxed it in THE SAME DAY and that was 3 FUCKING WEEKS AGO! Some asshole just has my paperwork sitting on his desk. All they have to do is look at the simple form from my optometrist, mark me as being cool in their system, and I can start this fucking gig. But everyone I call just passes the buck, and no one know's who to contact.
Problem at this point is that exponential growth is starting to set in. Pay periods are biweekly, and I can only start at the beginning of a pay period. So each time I miss a pay period, it's another 2 week delay which means I have to work exponentially more hours per week in order to meet the 640 requirement before graduation. Monday is the beginning of the next pay period which was when I thought I'd be starting.
I don't have anyone to call and bug, hours required per week are growing exponentially and I'm fucking broke because these clowns are sitting around with my paperwork delaying my start date.
RAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEE
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081124/citigroup.html
The last time I took a major vacation, my company announced we would be bought out by Citi for 680 million dollars, this time, the government is announcing a bailout plan for Citi. Wow.. what a difference a year and a half makes eh? My group is still ridiculously profitable, I highly doubt anything happens to us. (I could always be wrong, but then again, can't worry about what I can't control right?)
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A) He realised that he had created something so perfect that man wouldn't want to come to heaven, and the only way to balance things out was to turn off the logic and emotional control sections of their brains.
or
B) He though it would be funny to make it so that the thing we want the most makes us want to kill ourselves.
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Every newbie needs to look at that installation window, go WTF at the ducks and hands, and experience that A-ha moment for themselves.
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http://www.gocomics.com/features/151/feature_items/395429
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