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Morning Discussion
by Xav de Matos, Feb 22, 2011 5:00am PSTThis clock is ticking, slowly counting down to NewShackCity.
I'm not sure when the clock will expire; however, I'm acutely aware of the existence of the aforementioned clock. Yesterday, Chatty users were treated to an unintentional preview of a constant Chatty stream.
Due to some scheduling confusion regarding the holiday, there was no one around to hit Evening Reading. What's interesting is that, as yesterday's Chatty ran for 24 hours, we were about to see how the weekday conversation flowed as a singular stream. The world didn't end and conversation moved well, so I don't think the world will end when we make the switch later this week.
Of course, the new Chatty is a little more evolved than that, but you'll see what we mean soon enough. [Insert harrowing orchestral score here.]
I see you driving round Coruscant with the girl I love and I'm like FUCK YOU
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anyone want to go? 3/5 12-4pm.
beers/brewers so far (in reply):
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I figured I'd share my pain with a lot of you late 20's early 30's guys:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnsHpPNltBw
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OK here is my issue. If anyone can help I give you shack cookie.
- I have a spreadsheet with yearly data from every client we have. That's thousands of clients.
- I have another speadsheet with a list of maybe a 100 of those clients that are 'strategic' and I only need to pull yearly data for them.
How the hell do I make some type of custom or advanced filter in excel to show only those 100 strategic clients and make other other 900 or so rows not show? I've tried putting the list of 100 into a word doc, copying them like a list and then trying a text filter but it won't paste into that little box. I'm screwed!!
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I started Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands last night, and I have to say that few things in games are more satisfying than the trademark Prince of Persia wall-run. It's kind of silly, especially how you can start one even though the prince is standing still. But it looks badass, and keeping the trigger pulled down until just the right moment to jump away or perform some other move makes me feel more involved than most other actions I perform in games. I think one reason I like the Prince of Persia games is how the controls are just involved enough to make you feel like you're truly controlling the action, but simple enough to allow you to watch your guy pull off crazy acrobatic moves that you (and possibly any real human) will never pull off in real life. It's why the free-running in Assassin's Creed is less interesting. In that game, you just hold a button down and watch Altair/Ezio do crazy shit. In the Sands of Time games, I'm controlling the badassery.
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http://i.imgur.com/sj4Vy.jpg
Nice picture to commemorate 25 years of Zelda (yesterday was the 25th anniversary) and it seems to include some characters from the upcoming Wii game.
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while I'm sort of excited that it's being made, I'm also very apprehensive at the same time. Not sure how well it can be done.
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In: /Library/Application Support/Subsonic/jetty/2169/webapp/WEB-INF/jsp/videoPlayer.jsp
I found this line: var maxBitRate = ${model.maxBitRate};
If I modify the jsp file directly and hardcode a value for maxBitRate, then reload the Subsonic page in my browser, I can see the changes. But that's really dirty and I want to change the value of model itself. Problem is I can't find references to model anywhere.
Also how does JSP files work? I also found videoPlayer.java and .class in /Library/Application Support/jetty/2169/jsp/.... When are the files compiled? Should I be modifying the .java instead?
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anyone tried the demo?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=731oV00HIbk
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Also, iPad 2 possibly delayed till June due to manufacturing bottlenecks.
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"Following is a list of the top 10 most liveable cities as ranked by The Economist Intelligence Unit:
1. Vancouver, Canada
2. Melbourne, Australia
3. Vienna, Austria
4. Toronto, Canada
5. Calgary, Canada
6. Helsinki, Finland
7. Sydney, Australia
8. Perth, Australia
8. Adelaide, Australia
10. Auckland, New Zealand"
number 4 is ok I guess
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/02/22/vancouver-is-the-worlds-most-livable-city-for-a-fifth-straight-year-survey/
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If your boss called you into her office and said:
"You did awesome work this year, but we're not able to give you the rating that we think you should have. However we were able to secure you a bigger raise than you would have gotten with the better rating. You can provide a business case to have upper management consider giving you the better rating, but if you do, you'll likely get a lower raise."
What would you do? Fight for the rating you feel you earned, but accept less money, or accept the lower rating and get a bigger raise. For argument sake, let's say the difference between the two is 3% of your salary.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlicWUDf5MM
This is from the same guys who did Conan the Barbarian: The Musical:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBGOQ7SsJrw
They take the original melodies from the soundtrack, and record a new version in the style of a cheesy Broadway musical. But the hilarious part is that they use movie dialogue and sing in the style of the characters, which means they use Arnold Schwarzeneggar's Austrian accent and style of speech. Check 'em out!
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Hey Pittsburgh, PA, and some OH folks, i will be visiting my brother for the first week of March and jimmy_legs is accompanying me. And we are gonna get our shackmeet on. The place we will be going is the good old Pittsburgh Haufbrau Haus. We are thinking about early afternoon for the meet time, the date is March 5th, 2011. That's a Saturday.
Need some hotel info for Arctic Faukes
Sign up Here!
http://www.shacknews.com/shackmeet/events.x?id=7449
And for some reason the shackmeet events page hasn't been updated for the new year so it still says 2010
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So do I still have to download and pay for touchdown if I want to sync my exchange calendar to my phone? Last thread I found about this was a year ago, but at the time, that was the only option.
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http://forums.riftgame.com/showthread.php?79032-Official-Rift-Server-List!
And you can download the new pattcher now, but they haven't opened the client download just yet. I think folks will be getting an email when it's ready.
http://www.riftgame.com/en/headstart/index.php
Just as a note, the uninstall of the beta leaves a ton of crap behind you'll need to clean up yourself.
Are we doing the KOTH thing tonight or what?
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First I have to say: You guys with the PC version that tried it in DX11 mode maxed out and think it sucks are INSANE or on drugs WTF?.
The graphics are amazing(sure the environment is nto super detailed but for a baren wasteland it looks fine at least its not freking flat ass textures come on!), yes I got the graphical glitches some mentioned(on a Nvidia sys) just make a profile for the games exe and make sure you have AF set to Auto in the Nvidia Cntrl panel, do NOT force AF use the in game settings.
Also for the SLI crew set SLI to AF2 and it run like nutz maxed out I go way past 60 fps.
As for the spell effects, wow they are freaking nice, nice lighting colors everything. Combat is great love the damage models blood etc plays like DA 1 just you feel more powerful and not like some sort of pussy.
Got to go, so many games to try will post pics shortly...
I am not worried about the game at all, try the freaking demo. Also don't play the game as ARPG use the freaking pause like old DA.
\m/ I am happy :)
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http://www.drobo.com/products/drobosanbusiness.php
I wonder if they have fixed their throughput issues because that looks pretty killer.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6haVckyC4I
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OMFG THE LAST ONE OF THESE THREADS EVER Edition!
Multiplayer Servers!
Foo1 (PVP/PVE): foo1.sytes.net / richcunts.sytes.net / 216.139.192.52
MercFox1 : mercfox1.sytes.net / 75.101.148.242
Shadowdane (PVE/BiomeMod): shadowdane.shacknet.nu / sd.shkn.ws / shadowdane.shkn.ws
Chicken Fur : 69.169.149.253 / cf.shkn.ws / chickenfur.shkn.ws <--This still up?
m0rfus (Full unrestricted PVP) : morfus.dyndns.org / morfus.shkn.ws
Haxim (TNT Server) : asplode.dyndns.org / haxim.shkn.ws
Teamspeak : ts.shackbattles.com:9987
Server Renders and Stats!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24937945#itemanchor_24937945
Guides and Utilities
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24698112#itemanchor_24698112
I REALLY need some Retribution campaign mode. Need to know who the traitor was....
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Outtakes.
http://www.youtube.com/user/EpicMealTime?blend=2&ob=1
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Feel free to give any and all feedback you want.
http://beta.speedtest.net/
login: beta
password: test
Also, participate in the Shacknews Speed Wave! Let's see which of us is the fastest. You should go make accounts. They are free and take 2 seconds. Then go to settings and reserve your nicknames. This way we can see who is who in the Speed Wave.
http://beta.speedtest.net/speedwave.php?h=68a84b5f82c5cb6c8aabbe91753492c4
Shack has traditionally been the first place we do our larger presentations/beta at. We really value all the feedback you have given us over the years and it helps make things a lot better when we launch.
You guys are good at the internet.
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