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  Are you recommending I watch Band of Brothers? I've been meaning to... : MrBig0
  • get on that shit : EvilDolemite
  • As a war movie nerd, a World War 2 nerd, and someone who just loves good film, Band of Brothers is among ... : tomservo
  • Probably the best thing ever on television. : Lightzout
  • You are not a man until you watch it. : NFXFSX
  • YES : sanchez
  • You must see Band of Brothers as soon as possible! : Link.
  • Yes. : stuka
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    Yes, if you only watch one HBO mini-series, make it this. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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      Generation Kill is pretty damned good too. : ArcKnight
      • I've watched the first 3 episodes of Generation Kill and while I plan on finishing the series - it's not ... : dedgecko
  • Stop what you are doing, go to the nearest store that would sell it, buy a few copies to make up for this... : scottythejock
  • yes... the series is awesome. I picked it up on BluRay last year, I've been meaning to watch it again ... : Shadowdane
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    Yes, it's pretty good. The first one or two are a bit clichéd (tough training with a quasi-sadist foll... : jcupitt
    • Because that's how it happened??? : saunders45
• As a new PS3 sucker owner, I'll grab this on blue ray as well assuming I can find it to rent. Not a ton ... : devi| dog
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  Y'all know HBO & Tall Tom Hanks are working on Pacific, right? The other half of WWII. : cerealSAM2
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    Also the other half of my post. : tomservo
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      But did you know about Band of Brothers? : Reeves
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        Hey have you heard of the band Depeche Mode : tomservo
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          Why yes I have! They aren't too bad! : Reeves
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            But did you ever see Band of the Hand? : cerealSAM2
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              Erm, no? : Reeves
              • ever see Paul McCartney and Wings perform Band on the Run? : Old_Fart
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  Yea I plan to subscribe to HBO for however long to just watch "The Pacific" in HD next year. : ant_hillbilly
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    I'm debating. I might wait and just not see any of it until it's out on blu-ray. That would be a pretty g... : tomservo
    • that's like a no fap pact. totally pointless! : skinlab133
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      You know it will be 1hr before it first airs and you will be on that phone calling the cable company smac... : ant_hillbilly
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        Hahaha. I probably won't be able to resist. But I was able to wait for all of Generation Kill! Time will ... : tomservo
        • I was just happy that I convinced myself to wait for Generation Kill to come out on Blu Ray - stupid six ... : umcpwintermute
• I just rewatched on BR as well. It really was worth the price, especially since I sold my old copy for mo... : afrochops
• I see the ads on HBO every week, when in 2010 is this coming? : Ender.Wiggin
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  i know I'll probably catch flak for this but I really dislike how WW2 and its participants have an almost... : sirsteven
  • well they did save the world : filthysock
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    May I ask your age? : DM7
    • Old enough to be out of college. : Sapiens
  • *record scratch* : kill9
  • Obvious troll is obvious. : Arctic Fox
  • Why do you dislike it? Do you think they don't deserve to be recognised? Or do you disagree with the poli... : marmite
  • they are truly the "Greatest Generation" : bipolar
  • If they hadn't fought and died in droves, the world would probably be a worse place for it. : Ride-My-Rocket
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    We should really shun veterans more, amirite? : jimmy_legs
    • That's not what he's saying. : Lone Swordsman
  • Would you sacrifice your life for your country? : Reeves
  • you're just mad people don't do more positive films about the Nazis, aren't you : dirge23
  • * D R I V E B Y ' D : zebosausamite
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    well it was pretty much the last just war we fought in. : Dschinghis Khan
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      wat : Lunatic Angelic
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        For once I'm with LA here, since one could make arguments for Korea and Afghanistan. Iraq, Vietnam, the ... : Lone Swordsman
        • yeah, i agree too, i was a bit hasty and forgot about those since i lterally just woke up 20 minutes ago. : Dschinghis Khan
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      afghanistan is just. the problem with that war isn't that it's unjust, it's that it's strategically a... : dirge23
      • true. : Dschinghis Khan
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        Afghanistan should've been a huge success. Amazing how we managed to fuck it up so badly. : hawkeye
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          it didn't get the nickname "The Graveyard of Empires" for no reason : dirge23
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            Yep, unforgiving terrain, very tribal and untrusting locals, history of insurgency - what could go wrong?... : umcpwintermute
            • no but seriously, we'll do just fine where they failed. seriously. no problem. because we're the US of A. : dirge23
  • You are right, they should actually have that status in Europe. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    It's pretty rare that you're delivered an enemy with so few redeeming qualities as the Nazi's. Usually t : hawkeye
    • the weird thing is that some of the really horrible Nazi ideas were fairly widespread at the time (eugeni... : dirge23
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    You probably deserve to be banned for this comment. Better yet, be thrown into any major War. : freakynipples69
    • I kind of agree with sirsteven, it can go over the top. Perhaps because quite a few wars since have been ... : jcupitt
  • Yeah, most of it was pretty much the same bullshit as every other war. It was a good opportunity for nati... : theghostofsmdever
• servo, the wife just got me a bluray drive and my pick of a couple of blurays. How would you say the t... : stgdz
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  What was the episode that affected you the most? Why We Fight still haunts me : Dave-A
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    Fuck that episode was hardcore. I mean, I've read about all the atrocities done in the concentration camp : Arctic Fox
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      People should watch the 'The World at War' episode on this. Way, way more disturbing but I did feel the l... : dooberzoo
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        Do you mean Genocide, or some other episode of WaW? : Lone Swordsman
        • been a little while, I think that one. The one with the bulldozers but the interviews with survivors and ... : dooberzoo
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  what bothered me about the blu-ray is that i noticed alot of DNR. everything looked very soft and mushy.... : vassili_zaitsev
  • Mine looked quite grainy, I think. Did you turn off the player and TV DNR? : jcupitt

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  As you may know, there's a contest going on: the Shacknews Become a Fan Sweepstakes on Facebook. ( http:/ : dirge23
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    hey if that T-shirt's a medium i'll trade you the large I got at the Gamefly-meet during Quakecon : RikiTiki2
    • I haven't worn a medium size t-shirt since I was like 12 years old. : dirge23
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    Congrats! I really just want the box everything was sent in. That looks pretty sweet. : melkore
    • Yeah, the ShackPack is a nice touch. : dirge23
  • and a cat! Best. website. ever! : bipolar
  • I won a Halo Wars beta invite one time from the Shack, and I sold it for $2000 enjoyed it a lot. : jingletard
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    They need to sell those coffee mugs ASAP, I want one : dognose
    • I'd buy one and I don't even drink coffee : melkore
    • Yeah, it's awesome. I'd take it to work except then people would figure out what that black website is. : dirge23
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      Holy shit I would buy the mousepad and notebook too. I have stickers, one is on my car. : dognose
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        i want stickers! : oHnOES
        • SM me your mailing address, I have a spare one. : dognose
      • I will probably follow your lead and put one of these on my car. There are still stickers on my car from ... : dirge23
      • The Shacknews sticker is only the 2nd sticker I've ever put on any car I owned : ColoradoCNC
    • dognose, IA, i would buy this as well : filthysock
    • I would buy all of that stuff, I am going to SM ECO and recommend it. : pancake humper
    • SM ECO and recommend it. I think they could easily setup a store now. I would love to decorate the office... : pancake humper
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      How about Shack shot glasses??!!!! : TastyWheat
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        ^^^ This is the most important item. : ArcKnight
        • especially for DOD Thursdays! : RetroRedEyeJr
    • I would buy a mug and stickers and pay top dollar : tomservo
    • I'd be more than happy to pay for a pack of shack gear : shavenewok
    • Seriously. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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      It looks like Cafepress stuff. http://www.cafepress.com/shacknews appears to be it : ZeroSignal
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        awesome! nice find. I still have some of my old cafepress sites up, i'd forgot about that place: http... : zuff
        • fail on first link: http://cafepress.com/yellatducks : zuff
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    eco hates shackers from outside of the USA :( : CoRDS
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      fucking lawyers :( : dirge23
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        For Canadians, they fear running afoul of our lottery laws. Without a skill testing question, it is purel... : Goalie
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          Signing up to Facebook and joining a group takes at least as much skill as answering the retarded math qu... : Mad Brahmin Disease
          • sweepstakes, that is. : Mad Brahmin Disease
        • aussies have no such qualifications. its only BLATANT RACISM THAT STOPS THEM LETTING AUSSIES WIN : CoRDS
    • We all do :( :D : tomservo
  • Gawwwwwd Dayummmmm. That's some AWESOME stuff! : MercFox1
  • fuck, I want a shackcat! : askedrelic
  • Sweet haul! I just fanned shacknews. : spazzium
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    lol @ linux iso room : opengl128
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      You can't see it in the pics but there's a jolly roger hanging on one of the walls too. Also my wooden c... : dirge23
      • Also somebody gave me a ship in a bottle kit I need to assemble one of these days. : dirge23
  • Nice haul, and gratz! : jasoncrowley
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    I'm going to guess your cat is a Burmese? : biofrog
    • i've been told he looks like a russian blue, but he's just a kitty from a feral litter we found in my mom... : dirge23
  • Holy crap, I'd buy the mug, shirt, and mousepad if our ECO's would sell them. :( : thetangent
  • I want to buy one of those coffee mugs now! Is there a way? : zuff
  • holy shit they gave you a notebook! oh. :( : kek
  • nice i want a shirt and mug :[ : kpxkrnjc
  • Nice bunch of goodies there! : helvetica
  • quite jealous. I was maybe the 23rd facebook fan. Gratz man! : Slowtreme
• That's awesome dude! Congrats : Reeves
• Congrats! This is awesome! : Galadriel07
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  Awesome haul, congrats. Now if only it were open to the rest of the world : \ : mad-d00d
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    Where is facebook not? China? : cerealSAM2
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      It's a USA only competition : chazums
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        Which kinda sucks, if a foreigner wins just make them pay shipping, this place has several regulars from ... : abrasion
        • indeed : chazums
        • aight : r3dn3ck
      • Uhm, I have a cousin in Italy who sent me a friend request. : cerealSAM2
• ECO is most happy that a real Shacker got his ShackPack. Glad you all like the schwag. And yes, as ZeroS... : ECO

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  Try and silently install it. I double dog dare you to get it to get it installed without sucking. : tsuba
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    I've done it on a corporate network. Sometimes it goes without a hitch. Other times is bitches and moans ... : TrickSh0t
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      QuickTime has got to be the hardest thing to deploy ever. I suspect it is the reason iTunes is so hard : SigENeaT
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        Adobe Flash through SMS. Not easy. : umcpwintermute
        • Well, yeah, the 160 character limit on messaging has got to be a pain. Nevermind that you have to UUEncod... : digital_d
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  Itunes fanboy has arrived. How may i shoot down your troll attempts? : Iwannaacura
  • iPhone!!! : zebosausamite
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    Not every opinion is trolling. : Jobos
    • This one very much is though. Shit, there is a whole class of software that routinely segfaults for cryin... : terath
  • This wasn't a troll attempt, it was a rage post after spending 20 transferring two songs to my iPhone. "... : hussdelrio
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  you must have led a sheltered IT life : RikiTiki2
  • ^^^ Winner! : SketchyFletchy
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  It just works on a mac. : Zombie Vonnegut
  • Pretty clever there guy. : DooBall
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    Hilariously.... yeah, it does. The problem isn't so much itunes on windows, it's Quicktime (which itun... : Toraz Chryx
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      I'm bummed that iTunes 9 will probably not fix this. :( : Yanks
      • Hoping that they will announce something suitably good to merit the 9-9-09 press conference. : sgtsanity
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  I dunno, that AS/400 version of JD Edwards screwed me up kinda bad too. : freqq28
  • oh god, we use that at work. Using it is like going back to the 1980s. : peetabix01
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  The Zune software is equally bad. I was surprised : Modulus
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    Sarcasm, right? :) : TrickSh0t
    • no, I really don't care for either itunes or zune software. : Modulus
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    I have both and I have to say zune is a ton better then itunes. : erebus
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      I agree, the manual tag editor especially in zune is intuitive, auto tagging and album art is good too. ... : threeup
      • oh, and on the same token, i HATE manual tag editing in itunes, album art is decent, navigation is decent... : threeup
  • You'd be surprised to know that you're actually quite wrong about the Zune software. Never had a single p... : ateam311
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  Do you have a goatee or a ponytail / long hair? : not work safe
  • None of the above : hussdelrio
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  I'll put $20 on black jeans. : Danny5225
  • Nope, no black jeans either. : hussdelrio
• I used to hate itunes. Then I discovered iTunes+iPhone+someiDock+iRemoteIPhoneApp. : Skoal^Fyfan
• Peachtree Accounting software, ADP, two off the top of my head much worse : bozer
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  You've never used HP Open View or Adobe products then. : abrasion
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    Fuck Adobe products. Fuck them to hell. : Whistler77
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      OMG! Trying to slipstream Acrobat Pro .msp patch files into an administrative installation? THE HORROR! : TrickSh0t
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        I'd rather do this than QuickTime : SigENeaT
        • I actually got QuickTime installs to go through with 100% success using GPO installs. If you're intereste... : TrickSh0t
  • Actually I have extensively used HP Open View (and recently upgraded to HP Operations Manager)...it was a... : hussdelrio
• www.getsharepod.com : beastrabban
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  Adobe Acrobat is up there. : Ride-My-Rocket
  • fuck yeah it is : royalally
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  Songbird FTW : NFXFSX
  • I love it except for its lack of podcast support. : Whistler77
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  I bought a couple of albums through iTunes on my phone, when I synced with my laptop it deleted all of th... : socksta
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    I don't want to give iTunes anymore of my money to test this but I don't believe there is even an option ... : socksta
    • TLDR; iTunes can go fuck themselves in the ear. : socksta
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      This is false. I don't know what caused that to happen for you but I've bought music on my phone a number... : tfboc
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        I did this about the first week they added iTunes to the iPhone maybe they patched it but my music is gon... : socksta
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          click on "transfer purcahses" : CoRDS
          • ^^^ This guy reads his prompts instead of blindly clicking away. Who does that? How silly! : SketchyFletchy
  • Weird, I bought a song through my iPhone, and it doesn't appear on my iTunes list, yet it remains in my s... : bling1bling
  • I just purchased the new Sleepthief album on my phone, synced it to my computer and it's in both places n... : Snif DeCrac
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    I put music on my ipod at work. I come home and try to transfer it to my pc here and I can't. I fucking c... : bozer
    • I didn't realize there was such a large disparity in freedom between different MPEG audio coding standard... : vigilante
    • I'm confused? If want to burn the songs to disc why would you need to convert to MP3? : pap26
    • You can't copy music off iPods because it promotes piracy. This is how it's been for years, Apple is stil... : SketchyFletchy
    • AAC isn't from Apple, its basically mp4 audio. : flooq
  • this is why i buy cds : eeeealmo
  • I've ran into this problem as well. Luckily I have everything backed up on my pc, laptop, external, nan... : Darthbrooks
• that's why i only install it at work and leave my home pc clean : grabbie
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  Winamp it really whips itunes ass : melkore
  • Yeah but Winamp uses those faggy 3d cursors and I have to go digging around for how to turn them off... g... : snuff
  • it whips itunes' ass in doing almost nothing that itunes does but play audio files : Yanks
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    I still love WinAmp on PC. I'd use it on Mac if it existed, but iTunes kinda killed all competition on Ma... : node
    • VLC is about as good as it gets for a light mp3 player on OSX, I think. Which is better than nothing, bu... : pres589
• there's also quicktime : [fry]
• Lotus Notes gives it a run for its money. : biskits
• i used to think that until i learned its quirks now its pretty easy to use. import playlist, drag to devi... : podizzle
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  It IS really laggy on PC. : bolneze
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    While it is worse in Windows, it's not very snappy on my Mac side either... mac pro quad core. : Wheatloaf
    • Weird, iTunes is perfectly snappy on my MacBook C2D 2.4 w/ 4gb RAM and a fresh 10.6 install. That said... : rudds
    • Uhhh, whut? Runs crazy fast on my Mac Pro. 46GB worth of music, all fully tagged and album art loaded. : SketchyFletchy
    • snappy as hell macbook pro c2d 2.53 : cdbeckman
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    I think he is talking about the design of it : gyokuro
    • I'm talking about just about everything - from its pseudo-malware secret installs of bonjour/apple update... : hussdelrio
• http://www.shacknews.com/search.x?type=comments&terms=itunes&cs_user=thekidd&cs_parentauthor=&s_type=all : thekidd
• I kind of like it. : pres589
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  seriously? I mean, I'm not fan of iTunes, but that better be a lot of hyperbole or your 13 years in the I... : halophoenix
  • Don't get me wrong, I've dealt with some MAJOR pain in the ass software suites in large-scale deployments... : hussdelrio
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  I love itunes mac side. I was not a fan when using it windows side, however. It makes so much more sens... : SolrFlare
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    This. It's fine on Macs, but sucks on Windows. I wonder why? : Fenring42
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      Two factors I think: 1) In order to get iTunes in its current implementation to behave the same Window... : SolrFlare
      • That was sarcasm. : Fenring42
      • Apple doesn't want to fix Windows issues when they can just say, "hey buy a Mac" and people do. : hussdelrio
• Acrobat, Shockwave, Flash, Java, iTunes... oh wait we don't support that since there isn't any business r... : trove
• I have no issues with it! Works great, though the interface can sometimes take a second or so to update a... : aggressor
• http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=20720659#itemanchor_20720659 : mysled
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  MediaMonkey FTW : watcherxp
  • Abso-fucking-lutely. : PlanetPerfecto
  • Yep. MM is great. : zipr
• Fucking thing sucks : Godhatesfatpeople
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  Rumors of iTunes 9 releasing on 9/9. I don't know how much faith in these rumors I believe, but supposed... : Tripps
  • Well, it's one of three apps remaining mac side that are not 64 bit cocoa based now that is included with... : SolrFlare
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    I am very doubtful of this because if it were 64bit it would require the use of QTKit/QTX and I just don'... : Yanks
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      Actually, it could. You see Quicktime X doesn't just use it's 64bit component. It uses it's 64bit compo... : SolrFlare
      • Pretty sure Yanks knows that. : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
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        I think though you're underestimating the range of functionality needed for something like iTunes that QT... : Yanks
        • Oh I agree it's more complex than that, but it is still feasable. The real question will be how much time... : SolrFlare
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      I used to really dislike Quicktime, but then I read that ArsTechnica article that explained how fucking s... : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
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        'parse' is a strong word -- because MOOVs are all atom based there are potentially a number of tracks thr... : Yanks
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          I take that back, I guess that was actually an untrue statement -- just opened a run of the mill CBR file... : Yanks
          • Also since we're talking about this I want to say that I am so, so glad that we're throwing away the crap... : Yanks
  • There will be a new version of iTunes next week. : -sk-
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    Probably won't run on 10.4 PPC then... which means I'll be stuck on 8 for a while, since I share tunes to... : pres589
    • I'd expect them to have a PPC and an Intel version and for the Intel version to be 64-bit. At the moment,... : BlackCat9
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  I was thinking about thie the other day. It is quite had but I have seen worst. Also it is by far the bes... : davidc02
  • I like the play count thing also. : davidc02
• I haven't had a problem with it for years since I stopped fighting it and just used it. (Well, now I do h... : rosewood
• I dont mind the design and like a lot of the functionality but seriously, the application is painful to u... : trevis
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  it's on par with real player and quicktime imo : arizona bay
  • nevermind, i change my answer. flash is the worst. : arizona bay
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  I'm convinced that Apple only writes PC software to perpetuate the stereotype of PCs sucking. What other ... : Gnowknayme
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    Anything that installs drivers which iTunes does for iPhone/iPod support : Yanks
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      It is 2009, you can install drivers w/o a reboot. You can even update your video card drivers w/o a reboo... : rosewood
      • Yes, but, as I understand it, kernel level drivers(like itunes' drivers) need windows 7 and support for i... : SolrFlare
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        Yeah, I nearly shit myself when Windows 7 didn't ask to reboot for new nVidia drivers. : node
        • Vista can do this if you use windows update for drivers. : Beady
    • I install my ATI drivers without a reboot. : Pettytheft
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  never used lotus notes? : moshman
  • ^^ He's right, as much as iTunes sucks, lotus is so much worse in every way. : devi| dog
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    i like lotus/domino :-( : eyegeegeewhy
    • you're not serious are you? I have to use it every damn day and it drives me crazy with it's non-complian... : moshman
    • get the fuck off my planet! : Toraz Chryx
• It's truly terrible, but you have had it easy for 13 years if it's your #1 enemy. : brewsterdog
• Clearly a very sheltered 13 years. : terath
• I don't think it's the worst software on the planet. It's just the worst software bearing the apple trade... : stuka
• I completely agree. I have no idea what happened given the rest of Apple's products, but iTunes is defini... : DerHuhnTeufel
• I don't know what happened to it. WHen it first came out it was nice. I loved it. After version 4 it went... : Pettytheft
• Sligh hi-jack Whats the best program to get stuff off my ipod ? : Vincenoir
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  No, Outlook is pretty much the most horrible piece of screaming bloated horrible cludgy slow ugly stupid ... : node
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    Dude, Outlook isn't even playing the same GAME as Lotus Notes, let alone being in the wrong ballpark. ... : Toraz Chryx
    • Yes Lotus Notes is very very high up on the list. But iTunes is such a PITA that I don't even want to LO... : hussdelrio
• I don't understand why it's so sucking slow in Windows 7. It was ok in windows XP with the same hardware ... : razlebol
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  Yes... Yes it is For some reason it's not letting me add certain mp3's to my library. Mp3's that worke... : shavenewok
  • apparently i have to go through each mp3 in foobar and rebuild the stream :( : shavenewok
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  if iTunes is used as intended then it is more then fine. Its only when you try and go out side the box t... : topkatz
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    "using as intended" has nothing to do with it being bloated and sluggish software : maulla
    • I dont know, I mean lets review what it does. Media organization and management. iPhone synch, backup... : topkatz

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  I am literally wetting myself with excitement over this game. I can't wait. : marmite
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    My carefactor has gone from awesome to "wait and see" after their announcements to gameplay changes. : abrasion
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      Gameplay changes? : marmite
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        Focus on more gears / action gameplay, less adventure. They claim they always wanted it to be an action g... : abrasion
        • Damn :( I'm in the same boat, I loved the first one but they needed to tone down the fighting. Or at le... : Begawkiness
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  Heh, GAYstation 3 more like. : SpaecKow
  • hah, SUCKbox fanboy : master_disaster_17
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  We've invested a lot of time maximizing the power of the machine. That's our job, to make the PS3 shine. : GodZilly
  • That's* : GodZilly
• As much as i understand the upsides to the PS3, this sounds really stupid. I read it as putting this on... : kingdepork
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  Nice, I wonder if they're replicating the textures on the disc like some other games do (resistance?). I... : chazums
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    Unless all the movies are CGI, how is it gonna be 25gb? I love my PS3 but these kind of articles piss me ... : abrasion
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      256 gigs? : massdev
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        No, 256mb of ram on the PS3 GPU, how can that move 8000x8000 textures? It can't - so claiming ultra high ... : abrasion
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          Wouldn't the xbox 360 solution just be multiple disks or hard drive? : massdev
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            You're assuming that Uncharted 2 is more than 9gb of actual data for the game itself, we don't know that.... : abrasion
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              Which invalidates what the guy claimed. He states they have 256 GIGS of data and the xbox 360 can't handl... : massdev
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                Developers are retards and always seem to think in bits, divide that figure by 8 (divide it by 10 for ove... : abrasion
                • I can neither refute nor deny the above commentary. : massdev
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                  Or someone just missed a decimal point. : Arctic Fox
                  • Yeah, this could be a writer problem just as easily. : one random winner
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                  Abrasion what are you talking about. : ieGod
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                    I don't think I've ever seen an interview with a console developer who didn't refer to bits rather than b... : abrasion
                    • I think you're making that up. Also the article refers to bytes, not bits (lower case b). : ieGod
                • The actual article (Ars Technica) says 25GB. : Bamtan
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      Other games have multiple copies on the same texture on the disc reducing seek and load times. It's pret... : chazums
      • on the of the : chazums
  • I like big assets, I cannot lie. : jasoncrowley
  • I have no doubt that they are to speed up load times. They are streaming levels off the disc and probably... : Fred Garvin
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  This is a positive. A game that showcases what the PS3 can do and the Xbox 360 can't. About time? : massdev
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    It's fluff and lies, the 360 has a stronger GPU, same amount of ram and it's more configurable when codin... : abrasion
    • The proof will be in the pudding. I guess I'm saying regardless of the bravado anything that ups the stak... : massdev
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      Ok, I'll buy that. So why isn't there a better looking game than Uncharted on 360 yet? It's two years old... : Rehevkor
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        Artistic subjective. I don't think Uncharted looks that great on the ps3. It is good but it isn't noticab... : baron calamity
        • Exactly, its a great looking game with some great art but technically I don't believe its doing anything ... : nodebug
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        GoW2 looks as good as Uncharted in terms of what they are doing on-screen (poly count, post-FX, etc). Any... : Fred Garvin
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          You mean epics art preference to only use 5 colors total in gow so it can run as well as it can? Have yo... : AndyGoin
          • So you're telling me number of colours is now a limiting factor to framerate? : Endymion_
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            hahah what, do you think GoW runs in 16 bit colour or something? : Bamtan
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              Doesn't it? : AndyGoin
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                No. Limiting the colours isn't going to make your framerate faster, either. : Endymion_
                • I was always under he impression (not just with the 360, btw) that games with lower color pallets were do... : AndyGoin
          • Like I said ART preference. The palette they use has nothing to do with the capabilities of the engine. I... : Fred Garvin
      • Or ratchet and clank or heavenly sword or wipeout HD or little big planet or mgs4 or etc etc.. Exclusive... : AndyGoin
      • When I visited Uncharted's world I found a valley which was very uncanny, I guess you were right at home ... : Endymion_
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        The SPU's are pretty neat to do purely visual stuff that the 360 can't. It certainly won't help your ... : MrLobo
        • > The SPU's are pretty neat to do purely visual stuff that the 360 can't. Proof? The SPUs are perform... : Endymion_
• They use all 256gb of space. But I would love to know how much of that is duplicated data (which is the o... : Beady
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  Developers are human... for now. : Fred Garvin
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    The quality of depth of field we have, you can't do that on the Xbox. LOL, okay. : Fred Garvin
    • You'd never know that developer was owned by Sony. : jayacheess
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  laff - replace him with the same developer speech prior to the release of God of War 2 - and it's damn ne... : dedgecko
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  I'm not sure yet, maybe both ? My computer is getting a little long in the tooth, we'll see. : qwpeoriu
  • Also, this is unrelated, the best thing that could happen to my computer upgrade-wise is if HL2:Ep3 comes... : qwpeoriu
• PC most likely. : braaains
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  Waiting for some reviews before deciding. : Ride-My-Rocket
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    Buy this game or I'm gonna kick your ass. How's them reviews? : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • ... looking much more favorable now. Is that OK, sir? : Ride-My-Rocket
• I have the 360 version on my gamefly list and waiting to see what happens with steam before I commit to a... : AgentPothead
• PC of course. : thrallie200
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  Why specificly are most people going to get it on PC? Is it the graphics? (you can have better quality)... : posito
  • Graphics and controls. I don't care about offline co-op. All things being equal, I'll always choose a g... : bipolar
  • A couple reasons. First the controls, second the PC is confirmed to have better lighting and obviously hi... : Reeves
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    My friends live on the intertubes not in my living room so no offline co-op works out for me. : socksta
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      Both eventually, prob 360 first : zuff
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        Posting in this misreply subthread. : dafugg
        • doh! winchatty got me again :P : zuff
  • controls and hopefully come cool mods/custom content : grabbie
  • PC for potential support, mods/maps? But ultimately- controls. FPS w/ mouse onry! : supaLink
  • yes, yes, steam. : pyide
  • PC because it has inventory management and I prefer to play FPS with kb/mouse. : jane911
  • Wait, whats going on with the coop? : Cliffzorz
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    who cares about split screen? if i want to hang out with my friends i hang out with them, if i want to pl... : RetroRedEyeJr
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      So what if all your friends are over at your house watching you play Borderlands, but can't? In an ideal ... : Reeves
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        Why would i hang out with my friends if i want to play a game? splitscreen just isn't something i would ... : RetroRedEyeJr
        • I'm so sorry you think that way. : Mad Brahmin Disease
        • You could play the game while hanging out with friends? One of the main points of playing split screen is... : Reeves
        • You've never LAN'd with your gaming friends? Poor guy. : DinK
    • This one will be pc I think. : afrochops
  • All I own is a PC. Even if I had a 360, I'd still get it on PC for mouse and keyboard, better graphics, S... : Link.
  • Controls and i'm more likely to play it on pc. Don't care about offline coop. : valael
  • It's a shooter. : tree8
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    Graphics are much better, I prefer to play FPS' with m+kb (it's clumsy to play with a console controller ... : Nitrium
    • I mean, at least they look much better and usually games on PC have higher resolution, AA, etc. : Nitrium
• PC and I would hope everyone : Reeves
• PC, obviously. : CrustaR
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  PC and god I cannot wait for this damn game. I keep watching the latest video with gameplay + Pitchford i... : noodleboy723
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    2 new videos! These mostly consist of the same gameplay as the recent video from gametrailers, ( http:... : Reeves
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      This is seriously good shit. Shows the game 100% better than anything else, assuming you agree that a gam... : Reeves
      • Yeah, every video I see just gets me more and more pumped. The sounds in this game seems terrific. Partic... : noodleboy723
      • Naked gameplay videos always sell me more on a game more than anything else. : tree8
    • That just put me over the edge. It's a certain purchase on day 1 for me. : TaintedSyringe
    • Looks awesome. Thanks. I don't like how the stone has no-clip on it /o\}s : humbleone
    • Looks awesome. I forget, does this game have gibs? I really really hope it does. : Begawkiness
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  360 for me : shwortdogg
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    Me too : Dave-A
    • O_o : CrustaR
• Pee See For Mee : Whistler77
• PC representin'! : deject
• PC here. : spazzium
• PC. I just like gaming from my desk more. : baron calamity
• PC. It's either this or I go pick up Crysis. This looks like more fun : melkore
• PC, hope we have a big Shackgroup. : sixfoot6
• PC...daaa uh. : gyokuro
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  360 since 99% of my friends are buying it for that. : hoov1185
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    What about the other friend? Are you just going to leave him to play by himself? : Wisp!
    • That friend needs to purchase with the hive mind, not against. : hoov1185
• PC, and not for visuals or controls, but interface. A game with this much inventory, loot, and gear mana... : EvilDolemite
• PC : ImageOmega
• PC, or course. : sheepraper
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  Is it not coming out on PS3? : freshyk
  • It is. : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • yeah, but c'mon. be serious. : bipolar
• 360, I really dont do pc gaming much anymore. : adsriordan
• 360 : bagelcc
• PC for certain. : WhatIsThisFor
• 360...my computer is more for business these days. : adhy
• FPS belongs on the PC! : omnova
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  Hell yeah I am! On 360! I run the Borderlands community Live thread! : Fenring42
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    Where? : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=71702 : Fenring42
• I'm getting it on 360. : thecray
• Pee Cee : Mondo
• PC 4 Me : Ziz
• PC of course, strange to see so many PC's for this game. : boomdeath
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  Neither yet. I'm waiting to see if the hype is valid. : Visceral Monkey
  • i'm definitely getting it but it better not turn out to be another Hellgate London : smax
• PC and there are clearly going to be plenty of us here to have some well balanced groups of slaughter. : smacknca
• PC definitely. : Confrustrating
• 360 : d3tached
• PS3 just kiddin', PC! : at0micgarden
• PC. I want this game so badly! : Link.
• PC yall : Mansmells
• PC : Grumbeld
• 360. : Mad Brahmin Disease
• PC if it wins me over : thejm4n
• PC of course. Also you forgot to list PS3 as an option. : irrerno
• definately 360, by then I should have my 50" plasma : klearlyunseen
• 360 pending reviews : humbleone
• PC : moe6
• PC, looking forward to it co-op! : node
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  honestly i know nothing about this game. so i'll await some actual media coverage : CoRDS
  • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=20806093#itemanchor_20806093 : Reeves
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    PeeCee : MercFox1
    • oops misreply : MercFox1
• PC : razlebol
• PC fo sho : poporitze
• PC here, I generally don't play single-player games but coop is an exception. I enjoyed Serious Sam and a... : Old_Fart
• 360? This is the only game I care about and I'd normally be automatically PC for this title, but I thi... : DinK
• PC 4 me : MercFox1
• PC : DM7
• PC represent! : asylumn
• Pee See. : Salad Sammich
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  3 siddy : dantastic
  • although i'm not completely sold on the game yet after watching gameplay previews. will see after review... : dantastic
• 360, because that's where my friends are! : Zombie Vonnegut
• This is a PC game through and through. : kainen1
• 360 at launch. PC once it hits Steam. : freakynipples69
• PC (maybe). So many games. D: : Rehevkor
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  PPC : ShadowRam
  • ===0~~~~~~~~~~~### : MercFox1
• probably 360, but not 100% sure yet. : Shadowdane
• PC, same as all games I plan to play online. : Zek
• PC for me : prime8
• PC (but I want it on Steam, please). : Nitrium
• PC but I have to say the local split-screen coop on 360 is tempting. : Begawkiness
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  PC but I really want to wait until it's on Steam. Hopefully that doesn't take too long. : ass-street
  • Im hoping, because Valve and Gearbox's (and Randy and Gabe's) relationship, it's a Steam title on Day 1, ... : MercFox1
• PC : RogerDandy

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• You'll have to talk to your adviser, I was able to swap out some of my classes for less sucky ones when I... : MagicWishMonkey
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  What do you dislike most about it? Coming up with a subject to talk about? Finding enough interesting s... : bipolar
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    All of it. I don't like having to come up with something to talk about and then talking about it in fron... : _DoubleU_
    • Perhaps you could use the class as an opportunity to get better at what's being taught. Public speaking ... : Sapiens
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      That's probably the most important reason *for* taking this class. In the majority of jobs, if you are g... : bipolar
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        I understand what you're saying. But the thing is if my job calls for me to speak, being a business mind... : _DoubleU_
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          Haha, what kind of speeches are you giving? Ours were usually our own choice, and topical. No strange int... : Danny5225
          • Just the usual informative, persuasive, special occasion speeches of our choosing. Can you imagine havin... : _DoubleU_
        • Compete with them for a better grade. Seriously, you just need to be able to communicate with your cowor... : zebosausamite
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          I think it's quite the opposite. If you were competitive by nature, you'd take the class and make every ... : newek
          • and avoiding typos. : newek
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          I think you're rationalizing. I doubt you'd be any more comfortable in a position where your job, to som... : bipolar
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            One thing that helped me when writing speeches was to make a series of outlines. First outline would be ... : bipolar
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              Thanks. I think a lot of it is psychological. There is a lot of social anxiety involved and worrying ab... : _DoubleU_
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                If all else fails, take a valium beforehand. : bipolar
                • Lol! : _DoubleU_
              • You really have the right idea here, and Bipolar's advice is excellent. I have pretty brutal social phobi... : DialDforDan
              • Pretend the class is full of immature business people. Oh wait it is. : unjustend
        • I'm sure that at some point, you're going to have to do things like explain concepts to a room full of pe... : Mecha Tofu Pirate
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          Dude. Speech classes were fun in college. You get to pick whatever you want. I once gave a 10 minute pers... : braaains
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            I remember my speech classes too. I rocked those things. I think the prepared speech I gave was called... : xsoulbrothax
            • I've had to go up in front of 300+ global peers with about 15 min notice as an aquiree and give the talk ... : bombay
        • Then you have a topic to discuss! Pretty easy stuff! : fleabug
        • Talk about how stupid the class is. : ieGod
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      Practice over and over. The more experience you get the better off you are. I would not hire someone wh... : zebosausamite
      • Also, I find that the key is to be very comfortable with the topic, that way you are confident in the fac... : zebosausamite
      • Definitely practice. 3-4 timed practice presentations (in front of a friend or someone helps) were a god... : Acid Gumball
    • Speaking in front of a bunch of people has nothing to do with being social or "mingling". These people h... : ArB
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  it was tough but doable. Just try not to turn a 5 minute speech into a 20 minute speech and you'll be fin... : eforce98
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    most people have the opposite problem... turning a 5 minute speech into a 2 minute speech. : Demius
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      Really? I saw way more rambling than ending up short. : Acid Gumball
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        Same here. 5 minutes is an INCREDIBLY short time to speak for. Shit, if you were reading this thread out ... : SketchyFletchy
        • Oh yeah - dude that gave his thesis presentation after me ran on for 26 minutes before they stopped him. ... : SketchyFletchy
• I tried a couple speech classes before I found one I could get through. Keep at it., it may be painful bu... : Sarcastro
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  GER? german? : RikiTiki2
  • General Educational Requirement i'd guess : Thomas Hace
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    General education requirement. It's the core set of classes (English, History, Math, etc.) that all stud... : _DoubleU_
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      i've never even heard of this and I graduated twice : RikiTiki2
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        I'm pretty sure we call it "core curriculum" here. : fleabug
        • they call it Breadth Requirements here, but if you're in certain colleges within the university you don't... : mysled
        • core at my old university as well : FrayLo
    • this is a "your school" requirement. : thenoodleincident
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      Down here we definitely don't have that for university. In high school you need a certain amount of engli... : Cliffzorz
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        Really? That's pretty much the norm in the US with few exceptions. It's fucking lame. : Vincent Grayson
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          i for one, enjoyed learning things outside of my major, and did not think it was fucking lame at all : FrayLo
          • I liked most of my non-major courses more than my major courses, which in retrospect probably should have... : FlatlineDixay
          • I like learning outside my major, but I don't like being forced to, especially when my school has weirdly... : Vincent Grayson
• I took it over the summer and got an A despite my teacher being a racist, so I guess I was awesome. An... : Vincent Grayson
• Public speaking? I did great! Well I probably didn't do great but I enjoyed it. : not work safe
• Just take it and get it over with. Do it, get the easy A. Your GPA will thank you. : newek
• if you're ever confronted with a class you think is stupid or worthless, odds are you really need to hear... : biskits
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  It's a good sign to an employer when you can't get your degree because of one speech class. : LilCrypto
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    Haha! This damned speech class... It's the only one I cannot do. My future for this damned speech clas... : _DoubleU_
    • I'm scared to speak in front of people but giving speeches is a relatively important skill to have, parti... : LilCrypto
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      100 page papers typically convey about 5% as much information to the average reader as a well thought out... : SketchyFletchy
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        Learn to skim! : terath
        • One thing I liked to do on longer papers was in the middle of, say, page 18, in the middle of a paragraph... : bipolar
  • It shows that you're good at determining what is a waste of time? : batkiwi
• I still have all my science and math requirements waiting to be taken. I don't like either. : NFXFSX
• i'm pretty sure having to take a speech class is major dependent. I took communications to satisfy that G... : peat
• That class is designed for people like you. : maulla
• Make an outline. Put your outline concisely on notecards. Know enough about your subject to expound on ea... : Psigun
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  buck the fuck up and take the class : FrayLo
  • That's pretty much what i did. I waited until almost the end to so i was in there with a lot of young fo... : trevis
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    No Kidding, it's a fucking speech class, about as easy as they get. Next he'll be whining about gym cl... : watcherxp
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      a lot of people get really anxious with public speaking, including myself : jonas54
      • And that's the purpose of the class. : watcherxp
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  Drink three beers before every class. You will have no further problems with it. : filtersweep
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    sometimes i pound a scotch before i go to my case conferences : arizona bay
    • nothing portrays confidence like the faint smell of booze on one's breath : sirsteven
• I agree with what other people here are saying. This class is an important skill to have, so you really n... : FlatlineDixay
• Just try to get over being nervous. For my part, I love public speaking especially in a business setting.... : bombay
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  If I get into the BFA program I do not have to take a language. FUCK YES. : hirosushima
  • Oh, language requirements. Those are not so good. I took four years of Spanish in high school, and fortun... : FlatlineDixay
• Speech is so easy though, why wouldn't you? Easy GPA filler course. Even for an introvert like me. : kpxkrnjc
• I took an online speech class. All I had to do was create powerpoint presentations and record narration f... : Rehevkor
• Why is it that everyone thinks they are above taking the required classes, or that the classes are unnece : ra1n
• do it, it will help you with your lisp problem : fathertime

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• MUST BE NICE : skinlab133
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  Hows that working for you? : massdev
  • pretty good so far, i'm in sweatpants, just ate some left over thai (meh) and beat a quest in fallout3. : xxiv
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  Yaaawp, it's shorts o'clock here as well : d fluke
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    Is that a barbaric yaaawp, or just your garden variety yawp? : asylumn
    • It's the 5 second long one : d fluke
• Lol, that's the spirit ! : bombay
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  that's exactly what I should be doing today, right down to your exact beer choice, which I have a fresh 1... : metalremains
  • costco dude. like a dollar a beer for this 24 of october. : xxiv
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  I wish I could do that, but if my boss even sees me out of my chair and someone tells him that I'm actual... : not work safe
  • weird. my boss says we need to get up and go spend more face time with clients. even if it means walking ... : xxiv
• Retirement is great sometimes. Just about ready for my mid-morning nap. : bipolar
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  Damn I want some Octoberfest - maybe I will just drink it at work :( : whippedcracker
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    costco has cases (24) for like 24 bucks or so. it's practically theft. : xxiv
    • I know where I'm going for my lunch break... : whippedcracker
    • I got mine at BJs for about the same. Good thing I like it because I never tried it before! : Makenxero
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  I'm working from home too. Just Mt. Dew and Rachel Maddow though, as I'm actually doing tickets. I pr... : geedeck
  • i should be setting up and deleting some network accounts but i'll be the only admin there on friday from... : xxiv
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  How does one 'fluff' from home? : abrasion
  • very skillfully! : xxiv
  • webcam : dirge23
• sweet. enjoy the day. : senseimoron
• http://www.someecards.com/card/234 : Saman
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  I've never had Octoberfest, what's it taste like? : Clay
  • October : Degenerate
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  And this is why people who "work at home" are worthless. : JohnnyRey
  • i'd rather have my thumbs up my ass at home rather than work. : ghost hacker
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    No, that's why when xxiv works from home he's worthless. A lot of us do the same amount of work if not mo... : zakazi
    • If I didn't have to be on location for my job, I'm sure I'd be able to do more from home. : one random winner
    • Yeah, I work from home one or two days a week and end up being far more productive than I would be at the... : Head Rush
  • no my roommate works from home and actually does work... he isn't really into video games though. : Shadowdane
  • yes johnnyrey. you can judge the entirety of the remote user work force by my decision to fuck off for ON... : xxiv
• at least i have friday off :( : ass-street
• I am doing one of those days myself. it's been slow as molasses at work, and well, i gotta vistit the vet... : ghost hacker
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  I had a co-worker who called in sick on Monday with "a bad headache." : CrustaR
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    that's when you just want to use sick hours for a day off and don't even want to put the effort into inve... : xxiv
    • Precisely my thoughts as well! : CrustaR

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  Sweet, I guess they are making jasper Elites. The 12.1a tells no lie. Let us know if it RRODs or not, I... : jingletard
  • It also has the different power connector, and a smaller power brick. Woo! And believe me, I'll bitch : Arctic Fox
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  See, your first 360 committed suicide to get you a better console : Dave-A
  • committed suicide sacrificed itself : ArcKnight
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    This shall go down in history as the first signs of the sentient XBox Hive Mind. : Arctic Fox
    • The first and last signs :( : ArcKnight
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  I got an elite jasper the other day at the store. I think all the new white box ones are jaspers. : DogDharma
  • Yeah, mine was one of the new box sets (that come without an HDMI cable). : Arctic Fox
• lol : abrasion
• hopefully you enjoy it, that's what these things are for : qwpeoriu
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  Follow-up question: Anyone else have problems getting sound over HDMI working? The signal path is: XBo... : Arctic Fox
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    Update: well, it seems I can get sound out of the TV speakers but not out of my Logitechs. Weird. : Arctic Fox
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      According to this: http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=techcentral&thre : mafu5150
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        Tried that, no dice. Thanks for the input though! At least now I've got audio coming out my TV speaker... : Arctic Fox
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          Did MS upgrade you for free? : Lightzout
          • Fuck no, I RMA'd the woot one (though they weren't happy about doing that) and bought a new one from Amaz... : Arctic Fox
  • Passthrough from HDMI doesn't work with every setup, sucks especially hard for console users. : jasoncrowley
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    I thought the HDMI spec does not allow 5.1 pass-through (you know, for piracy reasons). I think you can g... : silent prophet
    • Well it works with my TiVo (even 5.1) so I have no idea. Regardless, I was going to buy a receiver anyway... : Arctic Fox
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  Wow. I want one. What crazy warehouse 13 artifact did MS steal to do this to us? : freqq28
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    This is the one I bought: http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-360-Elite/dp/B002KJ9XDE/ref=sr_tr_1?ie=UTF8&s=videog... : Arctic Fox
    • Being poor sucks. I wish I could get the 120gig drive etc and leave my 20 g box in the living room now t... : Lightzout
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  Better: How the hell can I get my box to nuke itself for an Elite Upgrade?! : VictoriouSecret
  • Use a towel. : abrasion
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    Well my replacement wasn't from MS -- I RMA'd the dead one and bought a new box. : Arctic Fox
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      Dang...still trying to find away out of buying that disgustingly pricy 120GB hard drive, this box has 2 y... : VictoriouSecret
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        Well if the "Super Elite" rumours are true, and MS are releasing an SKU with a 250 GB hard drive, I'd be ... : Arctic Fox
        • The charge for the gamer tag change is just to prevent people from changing it all the time. Same thing w... : boarder2
      • 1. MS will not replace a non-hdmi model with an hdmi one 2. when they replace it they only fix the BOX, ... : batkiwi
• lol it says "nom" : Trips
• Pfft. Unicorn farts aren't that rare. I have a whole jar of 'em. : Robotic Puppy Eater
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  MADE IN CHINA, and people wonder why our economy is a tub of shit. : u sir name
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    It beats paying $699.99 for a 360. : jingletard
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      Having no jobs, or nerds saving some cash on a stupid product that constantly seems to need replacement ... : pres589
      • what : d fluke
      • by which I'm sure you mean specifically manufacturing jobs versus paying double for everything we buy. : DinK
      • Yes, no one has any jobs. It's terrible. : MagicWishMonkey
      • The pretense of American Made some how equating to quality is fucking LAUGHABLE. : ShadowRam
    • We probably will be paying that in a few years down the road : stgdz
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  that is a jasper! the 12.1a proves it... heres to hoping this one lasts longer =P : .Jayson
  • It already has :P : Arctic Fox
  • I don't get it, why the hell are people surprised when they see Jaspers? They have been available for age... : Endymion_
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  what games did you get? : .Jayson
  • Tell ussssss! : Cliffzorz
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  I've registered your X360. Thanks! : rosewood
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    Ok I didn't but I still wouldn't have posted my full serial number because that is how they find you. : rosewood
    • Heh oooops. Jasper excitement. It's already registered, but I'll get the pic take down anyhow :) : Arctic Fox
• So do Jaspers still RROD? Less frequent? Not at all? Very much decreased or what? : valael
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  haha, what was MS saying the other day about RRODs being a thing of the past? : moshman
  • They weren't saying that you would never see a single RROD ever again, that's for sure. They were saying ... : uncleanmonkey
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    I don't need to hear Jasper dying stories, that really worries me quite a bit :( I need mine soonish. : abrasion
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      Are there any Jasper dying stories yet? I've been sort of waiting for them, though not looking. : xsoulbrothax
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        http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=20805807#itemanchor_20805807 : abrasion
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          his original falcon died instantly, and the replacement he just purchased is a jasper? or am i missing so... : xsoulbrothax
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            He purchased it in August 2009, why would it be a falcon? : abrasion
            • I thought Jasper Elites were still supposed to be pretty rare. : Sapiens
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              cause he bought it from woot IIRC, and there's like a gigantic stockpile of falcons floating around in pl... : xsoulbrothax
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                oh god i said 'like' in that california way. :( also i just remembered you're from australia - check o... : xsoulbrothax
                • Yeah I should have thought of this before I ordered the original from woot. But hey, all's well that ends... : Arctic Fox
            • You don't think the tone of his post and his excitement at supposedly getting a "rare" elite jasper were ... : DinK
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              1. yes, the original unit I purchased was a Falcon. 2. Before I bought, I was led to believe that your c... : Arctic Fox
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                Isn't the only difference the hard-drive size anyway? : Mad Brahmin Disease
                • Between the Pro and the Elite, yes. If Elite Jaspers are common it's the cheapest and best option, becaus... : Arctic Fox
• Don't post your serial number /o\ Grats on the console btw :) : humbleone
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  The were rarer than unicorn farts, up until a week ago. Now you can easily find them by simply looking fo : Bold
  • Some people would call what you did deceptive or wrong, considering however the reliability of the 360 an... : abrasion
  • Ha nicely done. About the only thing I don't like about the new package is they don't provide the composi... : Arctic Fox
• NOM NOM NOM : not work safe
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  My arcade unit RROD'd a couple of weeks back, I got a brand new one back this week! Manufactured on 26th ... : scottythejock
  • Score! : Arctic Fox
  • Impressive : chazums

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• 4890 wins. : abrasion
• Ive had good luck with NVidia. : bolneze
• I've had bad luck with Nvidia. (seriously) I only buy ATI now. : megarust32
• Nvidia has had massive quality control problems in recent lines of cards. Basing your purchasing decision... : derelict515
• Isn't the new line of cards coming out really soon? : skinlab133
• Matrox G450 : pres589
• ATI : Godhatesfatpeople
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  nvidia, especially evga : Waffles!
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    Nvidia can suck my dick. ESPECIALLY evga. I have a 9800GTX+ that's been RMA'd twice nwo (for new replac... : mlev
    • On a side note, I threw my old ATI x800XL back in as a sub till I get my 4890, and it's still going stron... : mlev
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      Don't know what to tell you. My brother owns that card and it's pretty great. No issues with it. Come ... : valael
      • My biggest frustration with this whole thing was that they made me replace like 3 parts in my computer be... : mlev
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  When I asked shack, it was 4890 all the way. Power consumption is lower, less noise, and you keep the u... : davidc02
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    Did you just call ATI the underdog? : FlatlineDixay
    • According to the steam hardware survey they are down almost 4:1. : dafugg
    • They have the majority of the market with current hardware (something like 54% of the discreet market las... : one random winner
• ive had good luck with both ATI and Nvidia. : Jackass1233
• Pretty happy with my GTX260, so I'd go with the 275. : Conan
• 50/50 thanks Shack! I kid. Anyway important question still, is there an answer to the game settings s... : cetra00
• I'm in love with my 4870, I can only imagine how sweet the 4890 is. I suppose the only marginal benefi... : Derringer
• i love my GTX 275 so very very much : shavenewok
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  why not wait till Sept 10? : Vegtro
  • I have no desire to buy a DX11 card, but I didn't say I was going to buy it right away. Just trying to f... : cetra00
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    I don't get why every other person keeps saying this. The DX11 cards are going to be expensive and aren't... : Link.
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      Huh? Don't people say this about every generation of card that comes out, until you end up needing it? : llamameat
      • pretty sure I don't need DX10 yet, much less 11. That's why I went ahead and bought a GTX275 a month ago.... : Old_Fart
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      Except it also pushes prices down of the old cards. : aggressor
      • this is the only thing stopping me buying an ati4890 right now : CoRDS
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      $299.99 is not expensive : pancake humper
      • Also, it's going to push down the 4890, unless the 5850 is like $250 or maybe even $225. : one random winner
• 4890 is almost as fast as the GTX285 in some games, overclocks very well and easily, and is slightly chea... : Link.
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  My 4890 gave me a blowjob when I took it out of its box. : Sapiens
  • thats it. im buying one right now : CoRDS
• Christ I have a 8800 320 and no reason to upgrade. I like spending money, but I can't justify it as noth... : devi| dog
• I have the Sapphire Vapor-X HD4890 and it kicks ass. Comes out of the box factory overclocked, and I can ... : TastyWheat
• my only pc has an ati card and the last 2 media center machines i have had used ati cards, the one before... : CoRDS
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  No problem wuith my 275 so far, but it is fucking Xbox huge. I barely fit it into my case, whereas my 980... : node
  • Yeah that is my biggest beef with NVIDIA's cards right now. A 275 won't fit in an Antec Solo, and even o... : Sapiens
• I have two EVGA GTX 260 Core 216s, and even I would go for the 4890. : MercFox1
• Whichever one runs your favorite game better. They're pretty equal. : PointlesS76
• I am an ATI fanboy, so I say get the 4890 no question. If nothing else, AMD is desperate need of revenue... : deject

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• Both are awesome. Tombstone first tho. : trOmblyj
• Apollo 13! : Lionhart32935
• Tombstone : stump
• Apollo 13 : DrillBit
• Fucking Tombstone : devi| dog
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  You tell them I'm coming. And hell's coming with me! : LilCrypto
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    i'm your huckleberry : peat
    • haha my family used to use that quote all the time : fathertime
• Tombstone : notdeadyeti
• Tombstone : khaosman
• Tombstone : Phreakin
• Apollo 13 : angrytaxman
• Tombstone definitely : peat
• I got two guns; One fo' each of ya! : HojuSimpson
• Tombstone, hands down : jimmy_legs
• tombstone is 10x more manly than apollo 13 : re4ctor
• definitely Apollo 13 : Cheeziologist
• Apollo 13 : indosauros
• Tombstone : biskits
• The Tombstones have it. Thanks! : bipolar
• flip a coin. both are very good. : dromo5
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  I vote Tombstone : hashd
  • Tombstone to the Apollo 13 audio track or vice versa? : rosewood
• Apollo 13. Then see Tombstone, because they're both great. : halophoenix
• watch both simultaneously : semaphore
• Tombstone. If you're overly sensitive about other people's movie preferences then don't click Apollo 13 i : socksta
• Tombstone. : lodit
• tombstone! : anthonybean
• Tombstone is your huckleberry. : braaains
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  Apollo 13 BY FAR : Flint Ironstag
  • I'll cut your god damn pimp heart out YOU PIMP : Mondo
• Both- in a row, : adsriordan
• Apollo 13. : orgcaptainnemo
• Tombstone! : preachy
• Pepperoni : Dschinghis Khan
• Tombstone : bad_fish
• Tombstone hands down. Apollo 13 is great, but not as good as Tombstone. : Tripps
• Apollo 13 if you want to be a steely-eyed missile man. : Johnny Law
• tombstone : Thisispol
• Tombstone is your huckleberry : snuff
• Tombstone LUNGER : Mondo
• Tombstone. It sounds more badass because it is : mista mista
• Watch the one that is more historically accurate : cap n KRUNCH
• I'M YOUR HUCKLEBERRY : eeeealmo
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  damn it now I'm hungry for frozen pizza. : atom519
  • and a rocket pop : pyide
• Fuuuck, I hate rewatching movies. But I think Tombstone is on my 1/5 that I'll actually rent again. I d... : devi| dog
• Tombstone : jonin
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  btw I ended up watching Apollo 13 for some reason. I totally called the ending too :\ : bipolar
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    How can you "call the ending" on a true story? that's like saying "I bet that boat sinks" while watching ... : silentbobuk
    • I bet I can call the ending of Tombstone too. : bipolar
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    Don't really know why you asked us if you did the opposite of popular opinion. : DM7
    • Well I meant to watch Tombstone, but it was in the laptop in the other room and I got too lazy (didn't wa... : bipolar
  • You should have watched Tombstone. Now Val's gonna have to give you the consumption. : Lexicon_Leidun
• Tombstone easy, Apollo 13 is alright , Tombstone is spectacular. : Yabrodan
• I first thougt this was a pizza thread. :( : baron calamity

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  Hi. The new chick seems kinda cool. Was she good in DOTA? I did a quick practice round to try her out... : zebosausamite
  • Yes she was good in DotA. She has one of the strongest single target stun nukes and her ulti is great for... : Psigun
• need an invite? : pandastrong
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  Glad they put practice mode with the ability to spawn stuff. To test for number crunchers. : Iwannaacura
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    We should probably add this to the interface, but something that can be really handy for testing is the h... : s2jason
    • ah ok thanks. There is an option in the config "show magic damage" but its grey'd out. Also i still do... : Iwannaacura
    • Draw area affectors should be on always. All over the place, big shiny lights telling me where i'm gonna ... : Cliffzorz
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  new HoN hero sound replacements http://honmod.com/drflammable/Released/ Ft. dark lady -> kerrigan... : DrFlammable
  • pretty amazing work there, I like. : bongturbo
• SM me your email and i'll send you an invite. i have six left. : StolenNosferatu
• 14v14 removed :( : DrFlammable
• Learning curve for this seems to be high for non-DOTA players... : indosauros
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  HAY RE-VERSE I HAVE INVITE FOR YOU. : zebosausamite
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    he already has an invite. he was just trying to stir up conversation : DrFlammable
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      DRFLAMMABLE I HAS AN INVITE FOR YOU TOO... ... : zebosausamite
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        he already has an invite. he was just trying to stir up conversation : [7]kami
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          KAMI... HI SIR. I HAVE INVITE FOR YOU : zebosausamite
          • hey you, suck meh donk : kainen1
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  JASON purposefully took away our 14v14 battles. He hates us. * tear* : imcompa
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    maybe next time lets not make a post on the forums about it. i doubt it was a problem until the public fi... : DrFlammable
    • ugh yea so sad - it's been 'fixed' huh :( : multisync
    • who thought it would be a good idea to do that anyway, the masses of HoN are retarded why share our secre... : kpxkrnjc
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    That was the most fun in HoN i've ever had :( Please to be adding this back : H@rvester
    • Who are you? : Lightzout
  • jason, everyone is blaming me. :( : imcompa
  • That sucks, I wanted to try that. I love the idea of HoN or DOTA with TF2 sized games. : zakazi
• Wait what? : Techy007
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  Check this new 1.40/1.41 has another hero Nomad, easy instructions to enable it: Dev-Hero Nomad?! ... : shackwack
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    he's been in for awhile. he's pretty broken. : DrFlammable
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      ahhh, the hero looks pretty cool though, and his sun stroke ability says changes to a teleport at night, ... : shackwack
      • there already is day/night cycles. Ever notice your view shrinks a bit for some time? : JuffoWup
  • He's not going into the final HoN : imcompa
  • he's been in the game for a long time. His skills are still broken. His ult is overpowered its like a pas... : Iwannaacura
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  Played Soul Stealer last night (f u SD). Had no idea what do. Bought a shroud cause people with SS do tha... : [7]kami
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    farm like a monster and kill everyone. soul stealer is an unstoppable farmer. using your nuke (lvl4) t... : miasma(&)
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      o and glacius is your best friend, because it basically means unlimited demon hands. : miasma(&)
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        hmmm now you make me wanna learn him :( : [7]kami
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          I'll pick Glacius if you want to learn Soul Stealer, it was fun when I played him last night. : Bamii
          • You got yourself a deal there, buddy. : [7]kami
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      How do you aim his nukes? That confused the hell outta me. : TShandy
      • Same here. Seemed fixed length for each key in the way you're hero is facing. Which caused me to miss jus... : [7]kami
      • You right click to attack the enemy which will line you up with the target, since his nukes shoot straigh... : kpxkrnjc
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  I had the most amazing series of shitgames last night. One game we ended up with two feeders. One managed... : Bamii
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    Don't forget our retard friend. : [7]kami
    • Haha, he's so cute when he noobs :) : Bamii

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  Early CFL's did have higher levels of mercury content in them, but I've got mercury-free ones in my apart... : RomSteady
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    I'll have to find something more up to date. I just did a quick google search on the issue because I hea... : phipple
    • I just buy them at Target. The ones that are mercury free have it marked on the packaging usually. He... : RomSteady
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      I seriously don't think that the UV exposure is an issue. You would probably get more by opening you blin... : mrblarg
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        Given the way CFLs function, the idea that they'll continue emitting UV (or any other) light in significa... : Arcanum
        • You can still ionise the air that would leak into the tube (look up standard electron tube experiments), ... : SketchyFletchy
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  Seems like you believe everything you read on the internet. : ann thracks
  • I didn't really believe anything. I heard from my friend that CFLs had mercury, which some still do. I ... : phipple
• http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/business/energy-environment/01iht-bulb.html?em However, the European : Ride-My-Rocket
• I'd choose quality for your eyes over environmental benefits each and every time. : MoreVespeneGas
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  hmmm, lets see: A little bit of mercury in the CFL blubs themselves, or tons pumped directly into the atm... : TheQuad
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    Coal plants pump mercury directly into the atmosphere!? : menar003
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      http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/opinion/25sat1.html 45 tons a year or more, depending on your source... : TheQuad
      • http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mercury_and_coal another good overview : TheQuad
  • Or how about we buy millions of CFLs that are manufactured in pollution-spewing factories in China? : Derringer
• I bought them way back when they first cane out and aside from the older ones being slow to warm up, they... : boarder2
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  i dont care for the light they give off, or the delay when they turn on, or the much higher cost. : retarded talking dinosaur
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    the delay? really? : dromo5
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      Highly agreed on the delay. It is one of the most annoying things in the world to me. : cetra00
      • Not all of them have a significant delay, and the color of the light is entirely dependent on the temp. Y... : Conan
    • yes, don't they take ~5-10 seconds for full brightness? no it's not 5 minutes but still, a delay : FrayLo
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      i turn the light switch on, trying to find the light i want, and then nothing happens, so i turn it off a... : retarded talking dinosaur
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        Your bulbs are fucked, that is not normal. Mine give out 60% or so instantly and 100% within 10 seconds : batkiwi
        • He may have just bought old stock. The lights from a few years ago did this. Some of the dodgy yum cha br... : dafugg
  • the higher cost? you mean compared to the 5 or 6 normal bulbs you would have to buy otherwise : moshman
• bring em on. Or rather, I'll take dimmable LEDs, thanks. : halophoenix
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  The UV argument is moot since a massive sum of people sit in offices all day with fluorescent bulbs every... : Yanks
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    That said I don't like the harshness of them, I'll take LEDs instead plz : Yanks
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      LED is so slow coming forward and crazy expensive. If you know any good sources hook me up. : Lightzout
      • Hell yeah, this sounds rad. : phipple
      • http://www.theledlight.com/ : ShadowRam
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  So I did a bit of reading. It seems most CFL's contain anywhere from 2 -5 mg of elemental mercury. http:... : Perturbation
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    What about accumulated mercury from CFL bulbs in landfills hitting the water table? : Lightzout
    • The EPA has guidelines for mercury contamination in drinking water, with an upper limit of 2 ppb. Your l... : Perturbation
    • This was my problem, but TheQuad made a good point above. : phipple
  • If this is the case, what are your thoughts about the European Commission acknowledging that CFLs should ... : phipple
• I was an early proponent of CFL until I saw some serious problems. I install lighting regularly. Nobody ... : Lightzout
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  This is why you have to dispose of them correctly. If you take care of it the right way, you don't have ... : magistersmax
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    Yeah, I never thought of them as hazardous waste, as Lightzout mentioned above. They never made it appar... : phipple
    • They usually do have a warning. : magistersmax
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  Fewer emissions from coal power production due to higher efficiency more than offsets any mercury in the ... : Conan
  • Yep. A lot more mercury comes from power production than is in CFLs. : zipr
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  they're annoying as fuck. i won't buy them again. : [fry]
  • i don't like the light they give off.... it does not feel natural. : ghost hacker
• Aren't there limitations like not having them in an enclosure? Or only having them in sockets that are o... : Derringer
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  Oh no, UV Radiation! My child will have a....tan? Sweet. Honestly, the amount put out by those bulb... : DerHuhnTeufel
  • this does pose a problem for a coworker who was misdiagnosed with something as a child, was given medicat... : ghost hacker
• Wow welcome to many years ago when this subject first came up, cold cathodes don't have this problem. I s... : ovrlrd
• Current CFLs beat tungsten in quality of light in blind tests. The 50c supercheap ones are still crap of ... : jcupitt
• OLED lighting needs to arrive already to show everyone how it's done. : vx2o
• Jesus christ... #2... Don't these work by arcing a beam of electrons through a gas that gets excited b... : sludge vohaul
• everyone should skip over the CFLs and go straight for LEDs. they turn on right away, cost about the sam... : x4nth3
• You can grow weed with CFL's : pancake humper

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• cool thnx for posting : bozer
• Pretty cool read. : Mmmmmoo
• Kinda cool based on a quick skim. Some of the stuff is in the "well duh" category. Other stuff is overl... : Arcanum
• i dont get it : gyokuro
• Cool read. : dissembler
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  O_o in 2011 the worlds first commercial space port opens. That's like less than 2 years dudes! Anyone... : Reeves
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    http://www.spaceportamerica.com/ Broke ground in June this year and scheduled for completion in 2010. : ShekkyBoy
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      Looks like an airport. : Reeves
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        What did you expect it to look like? : MagicWishMonkey
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          Like a freaking spaceport : Reeves
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            Technology is hardly ever as cool looking as it should be. : one random winner
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              yeah. cloning seemed like a big deal but all we got was a sheep that looks like another sheep : dirge23
              • to lonely Wyoming ranchers this is a godsend, since dolly was the best looking woman in a 500 mile area. : pwnjoo
  • speaking of corporate space travel why don't we hear more about these guys? http://www.spacex.com seems l... : ass-street
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  "Video adverts on London's tube" The Copenhagen Metro has had video adverts for years. : peetabix01
  • So has the London underground in certain stations. I always think it looks really sci fi http://www.yo... : marmite
• Like hell there will be an underground train that goes 4000mph. I just don't see it happening. And the... : Yanks
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  Just read the whole thing. Interesting! I don't agree with some of it, and it seems like the whole thin... : Vantage
  • tl;dr 2000-2050: AWESOME! 2050-2100: HORRIBLE! 2100 ON: GODDAMN AWESOME! : Vantage
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    i agree on the anti aging thing. If that shit comes around when I'm so old I'm just waiting to die anyway... : lapskaus
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      just get your brain mapped onto a HD and transfer you into a robot : Bamtan
      • Or start using it and eventually they'll figure out a way to reverse aging. : one random winner
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    i'm pretty much convinced i'll live to see 100 : aeg1x
    • barring catastrophe anyway : aeg1x
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  west coast is doomed. DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!! : crypt420
  • http://doooooooooooooooomed.ytmnd.com/ : thetangent
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  Looking forward to the anti-fat drug. :) : thetangent
  • Also, where is the legalization of Cannabis on this thing!? Finally, they'll be getting anti-aging drugs ... : thetangent
• In the year two thousaaaaand. In the year two thousAAAAAAAND! : kallanta
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  I'm sure this is a horribly dumb question, but why can't water be synthesized? It seems like a simple che... : invisible_kid
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    In order to create water you first need to split apart the O2 and H2 molecules, this takes energy, which ... : thecray
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      I'm not sure if I answered your question. lol. Water can be created right now from oxygen and hydrogen (y... : thecray
      • You can do it in a fuel cell, and it takes NO energy. It creates energy. http://www.jaycar.com.au/produ... : batkiwi
  • They can quite easily create water from hydrogen and oxygen. VERY simply. I can buy a device online for... : batkiwi
  • Probably because a primary way of getting hydrogen and oxygen is to split pre-existing water. : DinK
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  I hate Sun Chips, but that biodegradable bag is pretty cool : ColoradoCNC
  • Yea I thought it was pretty cool too, I wonder how long till they can make water bottles with it? : MagicWishMonkey
• this site is kind of a joke,but still fun to read : sirsteven
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  2065-2069 - Longevity treatments that can halt aging 2067 - Male and female salaries are reaching pari... : aeg1x
  • hahah, I lol'd at that too. After that I imagined seeing: 2210 - Mankind colonizes every planet in th... : hawkeye
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  no jetpacks? fuck this : tashtego
  • Jetpacks, like flying cars, are lame. : MagicWishMonkey
  • they already exist. : freakynipples69
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  No Space Elevator? Fuck this : ShadowRam
  • It's being workded on .. dont worry about it. Also I feel like some CIV4 now. : ghost hacker
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  No hooker robots? Fuck this. : PointlesS76
  • No Suicide Booths either. : hawkeye
• fuck...infinity is kinda scary... : vassili_zaitsev
• CAN'T WAIT FOR 2039!!! 2039 Full immersion virtual reality Towards the end of this decade, perso : g0nk