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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Monday July 30 2007 9:59am |
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since i am getting a borring dell, i was looking for something to spice it up. this looks interesting... as only those who can read japanese know what it says. http://www.hackerstickers.com/products/sticker-japanese-hacker.shtml |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Monday July 30 2007 8:10am |
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http://cgi.ebay.com/FIDSCHI-INSEL-90-Hektar-Blue-Lagoon-Island-Resort_W0QQitemZ140123811370QQihZ004QQcategoryZ66406QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem look at this island for sale ! |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Friday July 27 2007 8:00am |
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there are darker forces at work,,,,, google has created a black version of itself to reduce power consumption. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/27/054249&from=rss |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Wednesday July 25 2007 10:02am |
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iPhone exploits are starting to come out. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/23/technology/23iphone.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1185163364-1OTsRJvbylLamj17FY2wnw&oref=slogin&oref=slogin |
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| Posted by: Dream BBQ Child | Posted on: Monday July 23 2007 8:21pm |
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I don't know if The Apprentice jumped the shark already but if not, it's about to. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6902325.stm |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Monday July 23 2007 11:11am |
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When the federal government canned SETI, it went with an innovative approach, and launched the first major distributed computing project. Today the combined FLOPS behind SETI created the most powerful computer on the planet. Government funding established the concept during a cold war, but after decades of handouts, SETI lost its edge on its search, today on limited private funds the organization needs to fight for dollars to continue operations. Pushing the need to the private sector reduced government costs, and exponentially increased SETI's efficiency. What if we did that for as many government offices as we could. Today there are so many projects that use distributed computing, and they are changing the world in genetics, nano technology, and physics. This article talks about how limited resources actually make it possible for life to evolve. With an abundant number of resources evolution stagnates, "its just not necessary." http://discovermagazine.com/2005/feb/cover/article_view?b_start:int=1&-C= Its math models like this that point even more to the need to be laze fair. In a competitive world ~$0.80 on the dollar gets to the purpose, at the federal government level, only about $0.20 survives the bureaucracy. Among continual funding cuts, we need to privatize space travel, and cut NASA's federal budget entirely. Jeff Bezoes, Paul Allen, and Richard Branson are already invested in private space development, and are entrepreneurs that given the freedom to fly could add billions of dollars per year to the space industry. I would expect an open space market would quickly transition from the 12 billion we are spending on NASA to grow to 100-500 billion dollars in 2-5 years. With organizations like the Bill and Malinda Gates foundation, we could cut the government out of education, and out of health care. True leaders, are those that do not want the leadership, but are true public servants. They enjoy what they do, not who they lead. |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Monday July 23 2007 10:47am |
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I do not know if this was intentional, but peter rode the dreamcast ship too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Moore_(Microsoft) "Reebok, Peter Moore rose to prominence at Sega, being a big figure in the company's North American operations during the Dreamcast era. Moore played a pivotal acting role in the company’s decision to change its business strategy to become a platform-agnostic software publisher." |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Monday July 23 2007 10:40am |
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http://digg.com/apple/Apple_Store_to_Begin_Charging_Entrance_Fee only apple can charge for you to look at its merchandise. |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Sunday July 22 2007 5:21pm |
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Critic: Government handouts aren't reducing poverty and dependence. What should be done? Democrat: More government handouts! Critic: Our nation-building efforts in the middle east aren't reducing radical Islamism. What should be done? Republican: More nation-building in the middle east! If a symptom of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, then pretty much every politician we've ever elected is suffering from some degree of insanity, so I don't see why that should preclude Ron Paul from running. Plus, Ron Paul isn't afraid to say we should stop propping up a failed U.N., which is pretty much the most sane thing I've heard a politician say since I've been old enough to vote. |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Friday July 20 2007 6:03pm |
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Peter Moore, Xbox boss, resigns from Microsoft. http://www.joystiq.com/2007/07/17/peter-moore-resigns-from-microsoft-replaced-by-don-mattrick/ If it has something to do with their billion dollar Xbox 360 repair bill, this looks like good old fashioned corporate seppuku! Maybe Microsoft is learning something about this business from the Japanese after all. Dreamcast anyone? ;) |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Friday July 20 2007 3:47pm |
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i rather have a nut job that has no interest in running my life, than a nutless job that wants to censor my video games, internet, books and television. Hillary did not sell her soul to satan, but rather to china years ago. i can not stand that women. barack obama is viable, political and unproven to dislike government action. the best government is the minimum one necessary to avoid complete anarchy, and i felt like the constitution defined just over 200 years ago did a pretty bang-up job. to day we are lead more by fearful leaders, than we are by desires of freedom, and that scares me. it scares Ron Paul, and so i really like him as a candidate. Barack does not seem to be afraid of large governing bodies as he promotes government sponsored healthcare. |
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| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Wednesday July 18 2007 11:22pm |
| No, it's that Ron Paul thinks fire cannot melt steel, chicken wire and cinderblocks pass as accurate structural models for the WTC, metaphors from witnesses struggling to describe something they've never encountered before should be taken as literal truth, and that all explosions require the presence of C4. That's what you have to accept if you're a Troofer. Ron Paul is a nut job. Hillary and Obama are infinitely better choices than him. | |
| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Wednesday July 18 2007 7:16pm |
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R.I.P. Starsiege Tribes 11/30/98 - 8/16/07 http://www.sierra.com/en/home/news/product_news/071607_-_sierra_heritage.html |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Wednesday July 18 2007 4:58pm |
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it looks like i found a $375 Blu-ray player. and oh, it will play ps3 games too, and those ps2 ones that nearscape wants to play second hand. I am hoping to get it on friday or monday of next week. |
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| Posted by: Intrigue | Posted on: Wednesday July 18 2007 4:56pm |
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Crow, is it that Ron Paul is so anti-neocon? speaking of neo con behavior, anyone up for a mini - supreme commander lan party at the new bucket works in the next month or two? |
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| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Tuesday July 17 2007 9:24pm |
| Ron Paul == Troofer == Insane | |
| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Tuesday July 17 2007 12:49pm |
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http://www.foxsearchlight.com/sunshine/ this movie looks as cool as the original pitch black, sign up for the free tickets next week at the majestic 7:30pm on wednesday the 25th. see ya there. |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Tuesday July 17 2007 1:15am |
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i found this interesting. http://republicanrenaissance.blogspot.com/2007/06/ron-paul-and-fred-thompson-comparison.html |
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| Posted by: Peter | Posted on: Monday July 16 2007 3:33pm |
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RED DWARF named best Sci-Fi television show....assuming you take DOCTOR WHO out of the running. http://www.thelondonpaper.com/cs/Satellite/london/breakingnews/article/1157219539568?packedargs=suffix%3DBreakingNews Voters were prohibited from voting for Doctor Who since it always wins British Sci-Fi/Fantasy polls. Interestingly enough, Red Dwarf took top honors (others in the top ten include X-Files, LOST, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Heroes) |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Sunday July 15 2007 10:59am |
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http://forums.gaspowered.com/viewtopic.php?t=15012 maybe those supreme desyncs were not key based but because cjeeper had a mod? |
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| Posted by: Dream BBQ Child | Posted on: Saturday July 14 2007 2:16pm |
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I thought the Labor Day LAN was already happening? We were planning on coming down to Milwaukee for gaming on Saturday and Sunday then Labor Day evening heading out on the Lakeshore Limited for NYC. Summer will be over for the kiddies which means it will be safe to take a vacation again. :) |
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| Posted by: dtab | Posted on: Friday July 13 2007 10:34am |
| http://starwars.yahoo.com/ | |
| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Thursday July 12 2007 9:37am |
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http://www.beyondunreal.com/daedalus/singlepost.php?id=10720 UT3 in November. Some very impressive looking screenshots! Hopefully the gameplay will be more finished than UT2003. |
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| Posted by: Peter | Posted on: Wednesday July 11 2007 12:25pm |
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By now, most of you have probably heard about the E3 Halo 3 "live action" trailer (which I guess is meant to show what a Halo movie trailer would look like). Bungie has made this video available on their site in Windows Media and Quicktime formats http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=ethreeblowout |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Wednesday July 11 2007 9:12am |
| What does everyone think about a LAN party over Labor Day? | |
| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Tuesday July 10 2007 3:40pm |
| I saw Transformers, which was indeed great fun, and during that trailer I found the shaky cam very annoying on the big screen. I look forward to seeing the results, I just won't be seeing them in theaters. At least, not a good theater with a large screen. | |
| Posted by: Peter | Posted on: Tuesday July 10 2007 11:10am |
| Sorry, that was Ethan HAAS not Ethan HASS. | |
| Posted by: Peter | Posted on: Tuesday July 10 2007 11:06am |
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Intrigue, you said you wanted more info on the next J.J. Abrams project, here it is: The "Top Secret" project that Crow mentioned was shot under the title "Cloverfield" (not the actual name of the movie) and was shot completely with handycams (think Blair Witch) using relatively unknown actors (Michael Stahl-David ”The Black Donnellys”, Odet Jasmin, Mike Vogel ”Supercross” and Lizzy Kaplan ”The Class”).You can view the Teaser trailer that Crow mentioned is premiering before Transformers here: http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/11808/ It appears that this film was shot in 15 days with a 1-2 million dollar shooting budget (which is why it escaped most entertainment site radars) and it said to possibly center around a citizen's perspective of what an attack by a monster on a city would be like. Early rumors claim that the monster is Lovecraft's Cthulhu or any one of Lovecraft's Old Ones, but I wouldn't put it past J.J. to try another attempt at Godzilla. J.J Abram's has said that the total production budget (shooting +VFX budget) is around 30 million with VFX getting the larger brunt due to all of the handheld tracking shots (for which Spielberg's War of the Worlds is now famous for). J.J. Abrams has stated that their is a huge viral marketing campaign in motion for this film with many top secret sites. Abrams has noted that 1-18-08.com is one of the real sites for the movie but that he has "no knowledge" of www.EthanHassWasRight.com which many are claiming is a similar campaign to Dark Knight's www.ibelieveinharveydent.warnerbrothers.com and the Joker's subsequent www.ibelieveinharveydenttoo.warnerbrothers.com mokery. Will this film be a success despite all of the shaky camera work? As other people have commented, Signs was able to pull off a great story/scare effects with the handheld revelation of the alien at the birthday party. Can you stand 2 hours of shaky camera motion as long as there is enough scary eye candy? |
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| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Monday July 9 2007 10:06pm |
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Oh, and if you haven't already, GO SEE TRANSFORMERS. Plus there's a preview before the movie for a "Top Secret" video project, shot in the handycam-style of the Blair Witch Project, that seems to be about Cthulhu taking a stroll through New York. |
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| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Monday July 9 2007 10:00pm |
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There is just something wrong about a company, named after an Asimov story that is famous for its three laws of robotics, joining up with Taser to electrocute people. http://www.taser.com/products/law/Pages/taserirobot.aspx |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Monday July 9 2007 1:47pm |
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with MS 3rd time is always the charm. windows(3, then xp was version 6), office, ie, windows media, etc... anyways, found this and i know nearscape was interested in it at some point. this class for php renders pdf docs, the drupal guys seem to have someway to read pdfs into html too http://www.tecnick.com/public/code/cp_dpage.php?aiocp_dp=tcpdf the drupal module http://drupal.org/project/pdfview |
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| Posted by: adam | Posted on: Monday July 9 2007 12:08am |
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I have 3 Pownce invites if anyone wants them. -A |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Friday July 6 2007 10:12am |
| So much for a profitable Xbox division this generation. Maybe 3rd time is the charm? | |
| Posted by: adam | Posted on: Friday July 6 2007 1:23am |
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Code Monkey read spooLAN? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W_wd9Qf0IE -A |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Thursday July 5 2007 7:15pm |
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http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32780/118/ Microsoft is very aggressively doing the right thing, and has extended the warranty to 3 years for all xbox 360s |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Thursday July 5 2007 10:55am |
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Xbox red ring of doom? http://consumerist.com/consumer/microsoft/xbox-360-failure-rate-as-high-as-33-274847.php |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Thursday July 5 2007 10:47am |
| I think I already got that covered. | |
| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Thursday July 5 2007 10:06am |
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ok, so there have been talks before about a tokyo2k8 site, i was thinking it might be a good use of learning drupal a php cms, which supports wikis, blogs, and photo galleries. the only thing i need is a name for it, the last trip was the Tokyo banzai trip, do we want to have a more meaningfully name, one slightly in Japanese or something totally off the wall? |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Tuesday July 3 2007 2:39pm |
| Wow, that looks like Tribes Vengeance, but with all the pretty colors sucked out. Thoroughly unimpressive. And I thought you didn't care about FPS games anymore, Intrigue? | |
| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Tuesday July 3 2007 2:03pm |
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http://ps3forums.com/showthread.php?t=81823# halo 3 screenshots, why is this on a ps3 forum? |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Monday July 2 2007 6:04pm |
| Any of you hackers know if you can insert .flv Flash videos without breaking W3C XHTML Strict validation? The code generated by Adobe/Macromedia throws like 57 errors and that makes me sad. | |
| Posted by: Peter | Posted on: Monday July 2 2007 9:53am |
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I just thought I would let everyone know. Tomorrow (Tuesday, July 3rd), Weird Al Yankovic will be playing at Summerfest. Anyone interested in going? He will be at the M&I Bank Classic Rock stage at 10:00 PM (I think since it's not at the Marcus Amphitheater, you don't have to pay extra beyond the admission). Then again, some of you might already be going to Summerfest tomorrow since Ben Folds will be playing at the Marcus Amphitheater. |
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