Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Jan 21, 2009 6:00pm PSTSo tonight I am actually going to play that Dawn of War 2 beta. I can sense it.
- Girl games controversy!
- Space tourism
href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/scienceandsociety/2009/01/bad-news-for-mu.html">to stop
?Booooo
- Oh my god he almost
wasnt president
! - Apple is
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/21/tech/cnettechnews/main4745233.shtml">making
money
As for the the videogame news around these parts:
- Best selling multi-platform games for
2008
- Street Fighter 4 trailer with all
characters
- Sega of America layoffs for 30
people
- Battlefield Heroes beta signups
open
- Portal Gun is alive
- Microsoft talking smack about Sony
- World in Conflict expansion in
March
- Capcom partnering with MMO company
- Skate 2 screenshots for release
day
- Gears of War 2 patch details
- EA layoffs hitting Madden and
Skate 2 developers
- TRIBES veterans doing a hover tank
game
- OutRun Online now a Xbox 360 America
href="http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/56867">exclusive
- Dawn of War 2 Orks trailer
- LittleBigPlanet getting Wipeout
costumes
- GameStop vs Steam?
- FEAR2 vs FEAR comparison video
- PS3 game sales fail to impress
Lastly, I suppose I should finish watching the last season of Lost?
Chatty: Diablo III, Dragon's Dogma
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
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That or this is some elaborate satire.
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Helped me get over the fact that I can't play Dawn of War 2 or Dead Space unless I buy a new motherboard and processor because of SSE2 :(
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Did you know that if you press Home and Power once it takes a screenshot and saves it in your camera gallery?
Post any other cool tricks/tips here plz
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hahahaha for his role in: Tropic Thunder!
HAHAHAHA
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It's an event for those in the tech industry who also happen to be in bands with other tech industry people to perform. I'm being dragged to develop new tech clients. I was hoping it was something cool, like a rock band competition. Nope.
At least there is an open bar which I can't abuse.
And yes, that implies there was apparently a Battle of the Tech Bands 1.
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what is your favorite font to use and size? and what color is your main text as well as the background color?
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I have previously been posting here and there with questions about price, leasing etc. Anyways, originally, we had been looking at a Honda Civic Sedan EX-L (automatic).
MRSP is $25,990 CDN.
Dealer Invoice is, supposedly, around $24,300 according to various car reports websites.
The Dealer wanted $25,550 (giving us a "deal").
Originally, I had bargained them down to $25,000, which is $700 above invoice (though they insisted it was only $300 above and less than employee pricing.. uh huh). I thought it was a pretty good deal though, and another dealer was unwilling to match/beat it.
So anyways, I took my friend down again today and I decided to play hardball with the dealer, and somehow managed to get them to sell the car to my friend for $23,500, all fees included!
That's $2,500 LESS than MRSP, and ~$800 less than the dealer cost on the car! I see guys on Redflagdeals celebrating when they pay $24,900 for this car like they just won at life.
Anyways... :D :D :D Don't let dealers boss you around!
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Zoey's always there for me—those luscious green eyes, that finely-sculpted nose, the hair pulled behind her in such a businesslike yet feminine fashion; oh, that red jacket that must smell so sweetly of her womanly scent; and yes, that abrasion on her forehead that I just want to kiss and make better. She is the girl that I've always lusted after, the one who has always been beyond my grasp. I've never been with a woman, but that feeling I get inside my belly when I hear Zoey laughing, sobbing, screaming, moaning—that must be kind of what it's like.
In short, the only way I could think of to release the sexual tension that Zoey has stirred inside me is to write erotic Left 4 Dead fan poetry about her—four lines each, eight syllables per line. Enjoy!
(poetry in reply)
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GOD WE AUSTRALIANS ARE FAT. I'll try to take pics next time i'm the city. I did a tally of people i went passed and here is an approximation of it:
fat, obese, fat, obese,obese,obese, normal, fat, fat, fat, normal, normal, fat, obese, fat, fat,fat
Two of the normal size people were Asian.
However, its definitely demographically spread, because when I returned to my suburb (expensive and supposedly trendy), most people I saw were normal sized and quite a few were mega fit.
/haiku micro blog :)
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lets say if I was some linux guy and I had a file that I created which only user-xyz could read and write to.
Is there anything stopping me from simply loading a linux boot CD, mounting the drive, and then reading the file? Are permissions somehow respected by the file system running from the boot CD?
thanks
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It's on!
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What are the benefits for adding the following items to your car:
- a non-stock cat back exhaust
- a cold air intake
I don't know anything about cars.
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http://media2.foxnews.com/112008/worm_tumor_700.wmv
I still have the willies after watching it. :(
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7842438.stm
Surprised at the lack of Revolutionary Road. I haven't seen it, but I thought it was a shoe-in for the big categories? I'm hoping Slumdog gets the nod for best picture. It isn't perfect, but it made more of an impact on me than anything else on that list.
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I'm going to die. Worst cab driver in the world. Cookblaze, you can have my games and systems.
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anybody have a website or book they recommend for learning Active Directory?
my love for you would burn brighter than a thousand suns.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY EVIL BENIUS!!!!!!!
(AKA: My Little Albino Penis)
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http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/dock-and-windows-7-taskbar.ars
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You can upload a JPG, GIF, or PNG file. (Do not upload pictures containing celebrities, nudity, artwork or copyrighted images.)
Why no artwork or nudity?!?
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nom nom nom nom!!!
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Seriously, I hate hate hate internet providers. :(
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http://skepchick.org/blog/?p=5490
o.0
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I just got my $30 rebate card in the mail from a recent phone upgrade. Have any of you guys had trouble using the card anywhere? Do normal places like Wal-Mart, Grocery Stores, Convenience Stores take them?
kthx
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is $800 a good price for a used
"120 Watt Half Stack comes with...
Peavey XXX 120 Watt tube head
Peavey Slanted Cabinet 4x12
Footswitch to change amp channels (3channels Clean, Crunch, Ultra)"
I think it is, it retails for about 1200-1500 for the head by itself.
any thoughts?
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