Evening Faylure
by Chris Faylor, Apr 21, 2009 6:00pm PDTAnother Tuesday down, countless more to go. Let's see what this one brought:
- Fallout 3 "Broken Steel" DLC Dated, Previewed
- Brutal Legend Gets "Rocktober" Release Date
- LEGO Rock Band Is Real, Has "The Final Countdown"
- Team Fortress 2 Patch Teases "Future Features"
- Your Face Not Coming to Age of Conan, After All
- Battlefield 2 v1.50 Beta Patch Released, Adds Widescreen Support
Now, to boot up Left 4 Dead, sample the latest additions, and kill some zombies.
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
I need a HD to be fast and if possible, use (in order of preference) ESATA, or firewire, or multiple USB connections. Finally, it would be perfect if there are some kind of indication what the HD is doing... and at least tell me when I can turn it off.
Any recommendation?
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http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/4/22/
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090421/ap_on_sc/eu_britain_new_planet
They keep detecting *earth-like* planets around Gliese 581, I wish it wasn't so far away :(
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I'm looking to build a new system in the coming months.
QUETIONS:
- Dual video card or single video card? Does anyone have experience with a pair of x260GT's?
Intel or AMD this time?
- how much RAM is par? Is 6gb overkill?
- Judging by the leap from Morrowind to Oblivion, take your best guess if a system with around these parameters could play Skyrim :]
TYVM ILU
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This car is awesome, but the 89,000 miles kinda kills it for me. :\
http://austin.craigslist.org/ctd/1131543240.html
I am having a really hard time finding 02/03 or 06/07 GTI's with the options, color, and mileage I want. urghh.
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We camped for 5 days (i wimped at the end though... met some hot british backpacker chicks)
Tell you what, being in the wild for 5 days and coming back to civilization, you take everything for granted.
A soft drink tastes incredible. a hot shower? No words.
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=454411
Next up is 3 weeks doing the gulf of Australia from Cairns to Darwin. I'll be on a KTM 950 Adventure for that trip, and then i want to come visit you guys in the states and do the Trans America Trail.
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They are filming this right by my building:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1264077/
I was in a shot this morning. I AM GOING TO BE FAMOUS. It's pretty cool seeing a whole production go up and seeing how many props and fake shit they add to a street to make it look different.
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I bought 1lb of this Perennial Blend Coffee from Caribou Coffee. Brewed it this morning... oh man its good stuff!! I think I'm going to have to buy another 1lb bag of whole beans as it's apparently limited time only.
If you have a Caribou Coffee near you, make sure you try it.
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http://grimmyd.shackspace.com/l4dgold.jpg
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Any reason I shouldn't get an 8800GT 512mb over a 4670 512mb? There's about an £8 difference in price.
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I suck at this game. Not in the usual sort of hanging in there but not ever winning, but in the "I can't fucking play this game" when I play undead. I don't know what it is, but I just cannot figure out how to play anything other than the boomer or the tank. My team will have scores in the hundreds and I'm sitting at 12.
Fuck this game. Fuck it hard.
I'm going back to Peggle.
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So a friend recommended my services to a company as a web designer (i'm by no means a pro developer, infact i'm more of a photoshop pro that knows html/css) for a pretty big, well paid job. They got in contact with me earlier this week and the project basically involves redesigning a page they had already paid a lot of money for and weren't happy with, confused design etc, bit clunky bla bla. So they arranged a meeting with me for thursday (tomorrow) to come in and chat things over, and gave me the details of the page so i could check it out in advance.
After checking the page i realise the job is a bit out of my depth, its not that its a crazy difficult project but it involves things i've never really dabbled in (and i dont think i'd be paid enough or given enough time to learn on the job) and on top of that the want me to redesign the existing page, i.e not start from scratch but pick through this idiots old code and sort it that way, which i've never done before and sounds like a total nightmare to me.
So what should i do? I'm arranged to have this big meeting tomorrow with this women who contacted me and all her superiors and i feel like i'm going to have to say no and basically waste my own and everyone elses time. Would you just phone in ahead and explain the situation to avoid the embarrassment of wasting everyone's time?
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I love it!
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http://www.northernireland.gov.uk/news/news-ofmdfm/news-ofmdfm-210409-hbo-to-film.htm
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So in this thread, we give IndigoAK pointers because he needs pointers or he will continue to suck at Versus mode.
I've already got the Hunter down, so tips on the other Infected would be appreciated. Thanks!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4t6zNZ-b0A
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http://artistpavel.blogspot.com/2009/04/stalker-complete-2009.html
I'll let you know if it's good or if it's wack. This game totally owns though.
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Downstairs neighbor has a PS3 that just suffered heat death (he blames the FFXIII demo, but whatever).
The HDD is still good, so far as we can tell. He also has backups on some sort of USB device.
Word is that Sony doesn't fix these units, but instead replaces them. meaning that the HDD will ask to be formatted as soon as it gets put into the "new" PS3.
He's come to me for help retrieving his saved games. Doesn't care about anything else, but he has a *massive* amount of time invested in several games.
From what I can find poking around teh interwebs, it looks like noone has come up with a reliable way of breaking the encryption, so most likely the HDD is a dead end. However, the "backups"... He's under the impression that they can't be directly restored to a "new" PS3. (To which I say, what the hell good are they, then? Doesn't that sort-of, you know, defeat the entire point?)
FWICT, backing up to USB just requires a FAT32-formatted partition - which should be readable in pretty much anything. Any way to pull the saves off the backup, and then somehow get them back onto the "new" PS3 once he gets it repaired? Anyone else been through this?
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http://www.cracked.com/blog/matthew-mcconaugheys-next-10-movies/
"How is this a realistic conflict?" lol
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http://www.wthitv.com/dpp/news/news_wthi_terrehaute_man_charged_with_rape_incest_200904171500
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