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| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Wednesday November 30 2005 11:05am |
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I never thought you were a liar, Crow. ;) I guess after the space water fiasco that I should have been more skeptical. :) Now, where's my gin! B_W |
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| Posted by: Anonymous | Posted on: Wednesday November 30 2005 9:56am |
| www.llamma.com/xbox360/ | |
| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Wednesday November 30 2005 9:56am |
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for all those whos modo is "you can't hack all day, unless you start in the morning" here are a few xbox 360 bling bling mods |
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| Posted by: Peter | Posted on: Wednesday November 30 2005 9:29am |
| Sadly, my trust in Crowscape has been dashed. I will never believe a single thing he ever says again... until next week. | |
| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Tuesday November 29 2005 4:33pm |
| Wow, I can't believe the story about me buying one for my mother was that believable. Makes me wish I did buy one ^_^ :P | |
| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Tuesday November 29 2005 4:15pm |
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No...just outbidding you... ;) B_W |
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| Posted by: CJOS | Posted on: Tuesday November 29 2005 1:17pm |
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My brother is having an X-Box (regular X-Box, no 360) gaming night this Saturday around 4:00 for anyone who is interested. We'll be playing Halo 2 and trying out Star Wars - Battlefront II as well. If you have an extra box or projector to bring, that'll be appreciated. E-mail me if you're interested or have any questions Chief Justice of SMACK! |
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| Posted by: adam | Posted on: Tuesday November 29 2005 1:08pm |
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FireFox 1.5 is on the FTP server but not on the website yet.. Leave it to Digg to find the backdoor: manna.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5/ -A |
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| Posted by: Peter | Posted on: Tuesday November 29 2005 11:45am |
| One Claudia Christian... (photo) | |
| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Tuesday November 29 2005 11:42am |
| One Million Claudia! | |
| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Tuesday November 29 2005 11:12am |
| so whisky is getting an xbox? | |
| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Tuesday November 29 2005 10:48am |
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I will offer you $400.00 american, safe passage to GenCon with accomodations, and all the media you can watch! Hazzah! B_W |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Tuesday November 29 2005 10:41am |
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this is my favorite post yet related to the xbox 360 crashing problem arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2005/11/28/1952 Posted November 28, 2005 @ 11:53PM by xoa A friend who managed to get a 360 has an overheating brick, but it wasn't a big deal to fix. In fact, we actually had more fun engineering a solution and then re-engineering it to be more elegant then we had playing some of the actual games Razz. It's not a bug, it's a mini-game for geeks! Anyway, since this is up in the Northeast, we made a cardboard/duct tape/fan assembly that ducts cold are from a cracked window to the power supply and then back out the window. It cools the supply, and at the same time the whole thing is insulated so no cold air gets into the house either. We are currently working on patching in some temp diodes and monitors so we can have blinky lights as well, further modifications are left as an exercise to the reader. It certainly keeps it plenty cold enough! (generally drops to at least 20 below during January/February around here). Note: I'm being serious when I say this wasn't a big deal. I'm sure Microsoft would have/will happily replace said power supply if he ever asks, but we didn't feel like waiting and it was honestly kind of fun to hack together a solution ourselves. Kept cold, the system has been stable. |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Tuesday November 29 2005 10:39am |
| jim, i will offer you what you paid for it plus 50$ plus shipping | |
| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Monday November 28 2005 10:36pm |
| I bid one hundred thousand claudia! | |
| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Monday November 28 2005 10:20pm |
| Yup. I got one for myself and one for my mother as a Christmas present. But I've kinda come to my senses and realized I probably shouldn't have a 360, or any gaming machine, until I'm done with school. So the second one is up for grabs here before I go to eBay. | |
| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Monday November 28 2005 10:06pm |
| are you bullshiting me, you have two???????? | |
| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Monday November 28 2005 5:28pm |
| Well, I have two 360s. I sell the second to the highest bidder ;) | |
| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Monday November 28 2005 3:20pm |
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Intrigue, I've heard that line before. ;) I think they say that to everyone. "Oh, you want one? Yeah, next shipment...for sure!" B_W |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Monday November 28 2005 2:41pm |
| I am withing striking distance on my xbox 360. It could be hours or days, but it should not be weeks. I am on the next shipment for sure acording to EB games. | |
| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Monday November 28 2005 2:15pm |
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thrilled, for sure. I thought he had forgotten about it. His evangelizing is what made me buy my two copies, after all. So this XBox Live Arcade is kind of like Steam I gather? Because MBC on Steam would rock most seriously. Purely hypothetically of course, since the XBox 360 hardware is apparently a tenuously constructed myth. |
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| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Monday November 28 2005 10:27am |
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Isn't this a pr0n site? I never knew... ;) Hey, Tycho ranted about Moonbase Commander. NS, what do you think about that? B_W |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Sunday November 27 2005 12:24pm |
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Child porn is a cliche used and taboo concept used to manipulate laws. As Crowscape mentioned, any one signs an anti child porn law, they probably dont even read it. The way this law is crappy, but it is not worth fighting, because it is tied to child porn, if you fight the law, the public will see you saying that we shouldnt make child porn illegal, even though it already was. This law was constructed in such a way that it would allow the government to determine what is acceptable photographs and what is not. I am waiting for a PRS(Profane Registery System) where US DNS servers must commune with, and so you will not be granted access to the DNS entery for any thing that is on the PRS entry list. THIS IS WHY ALL GOVERMENT IS CORRUPT and its reach must be limited, lazyness must not give in to granting the GOVERNMENT ALL OF OUR RIGHTS! We are all responsible for our governments actions, even our forefathers saw that. If something is wrong, it is your responsiblity to fix it if you can, YOU MUST DO WHAT YOU CAN. In the case of our forefathers they felt THEY HAD TO START A REVOLUTION, to free themselves from a non relevent distant government. Government is a social contract, nothing more, and sometimes that social contract needs to be simplefied. I am not for gun registery, and i am definately not for porn registery, and I am not going to stand for free speech registery. Corporations have been trying to attack the right to blog, through legal action. ARGH, how much are people willing to give to stop thinking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you dont want to go to a porn site, DONT FING GO. |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Friday November 25 2005 11:54pm |
| i did it, i finally lvled to 50 | |
| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Friday November 25 2005 1:16pm |
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That was *hot*! ;) God, days like this make me glad I wrote this crappy perl script... Yeah, I like freedom *for me*, but there's a reason anarchy carries a bad connotation. And the idea of voting Democrat to support personal freedoms could very well be the Platonic Form of "asinine". I say shame on the porn industry for not doing this on their own. Self-regulation for teh win! |
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| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Friday November 25 2005 12:47pm |
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Here's a more verbose response to that link: First, if you have no problems with nutritional information being required by federal law on food items, you are being a hypocrit if you have problems with this. Both codes are based off the commerce clause of the Constitution, both infringe speech in the same way by forcing disclosure of the "ingredients" of a product. Saying that this doesn't benift the public at all is stupid. First: this was obviously passed as a meausre to restrain child pornography. The entire point is to gaurantee that the actors are at least eighteen years of age. Additionally, not only is a crime to distribute child pornography, it is a crime to possess child pornography. If you are a frequent visitor to the "barely-legal" genre, you should be happy that there exists documentation to prevent your sorry butt from being thrown in jail as a sex offender, and you should make use of that documentation. Now, it may be a completely ineffective law in these regard, but there are tons of completely ineffective laws out there, and in a system as complex as the federal government, there are bound to be tons of completely ineffective laws. Freaking out about them just makes people point and laugh at you. You ahve a problem with the law, put forward a coherent arguement against it. So, who are the likely groups to have pushed for this kind of regulation? Religious zealots? Only people with the mental capacities of a five-year-old would look to this group first. If that insults anyone here, good. You need to grow up. Religious groups have much bigger fish to fry than simply asking the porn industry to push around some extra paperwork. There are two interests groups who are much more likely. The first is the anti-child porn group. Very powerful, very popular. I mean, who is for child porn other than NAMBLA and the ACLU? Put an anti-child porn bill on the table and senators and representatives will flock to sign it, as they don't want to be tarred with being for pedophiles. The second group is the porn industry itself. See, anyone who makes their own porn can easily provide that information, so it's not especially burdensome. Anyone who rips off other people's work have a problem in this regard. Sure, they could just copy the information from the site, but now they have easily traceable data back toward the original. "But it would be obvious the files themselves came from another source!" Only if the people with intimate details about that work were the ones who found it. With this system, a much larger population that has no first hand knowledge of the porn in question can readily find out if that work was stolen. You can also just use a search engine to see if anyone has ripped off your work instead of having to visit each and every porn site. Who is to blame? The courts and free-speech zealots. That's right, the free-speech zealots. See, our system was originally set up so that the First Amendment only applied to Congress. Read it some time. The only right talked about is the right to peacably assemble. There is no right to free speech mentioned anywhere in the Constitution. This is because people realized that, on some level, speech would have to be regulated. Wether it's obscenity, death threats, or lible and slander, some legal authority had to exist to regulate it. The Founder's knew this, but they also knew that such an authority would be best put closest to the people, so they allowed regulation on the state level. Enter the free-speech zealots who used the First Amendment to slap states around. They succeeded! The states were incorporated into the First Amendment. But the fact still remained that there needed to be some regulation of speech. So, the courts started poking holes in "Congress shall make no law" and turned into "Government may make some laws." Since the First Amendment now covered both state and federal government, that means these provisions which were designed to return to states what they had lost also gave the federal government authority it was never supposed to have! Oh joy! So when you see these kinds of laws, don't blame the relgious zealots like the mental five-year-old who runs that site, instead blame the ACLU, for they made it all possible. |
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| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Friday November 25 2005 12:12pm |
| Man, I wish I could vote for Bush again just to piss that guy off. | |
| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Friday November 25 2005 11:11am |
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I'm sorry, the 55-70M figure for Mao incorrectly includes earlier casualties that are probably better attributed to Japan, and Civil War. Here's a much better link which compiles many other references and puts Mao's regime more accurately at around 50 million. Scroll down to point number 7. users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat1.htm#Mao What a guy! |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Friday November 25 2005 10:37am |
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Enjoy your American freedoms today! fotm.rotten.com/fotm/ |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Friday November 25 2005 10:32am |
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Yeah, Mao's toll typically falls somewhere between 55 and 70 million depending on who's counting, though it was spread out over slightly longer time period (as if that matters). www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/bcaplan/museum/comfaq.htm#part7 As they say, he makes Hitler look like an amateur. But again, this is a wholly separate issue. You seem to be having trouble distinguishing between the crime of revisionism, and the examples provided. Mao was used to demonstrate that Japan is (sadly) falling in line with the norm of the region, which is to turn a blind eye to history for the sake of nationalism. Note the "hold...responsible" verbage in my original comparison. Responsiblility is limited to the lifetime of the perpetrators, regardless of the crime. Period. "...But that didn't happen. They decided to do what they did on their own." Actually, there was considerable dissent in the Japanese government, which is unusual given the cultural traditions involved. And there's that issue of the average citizen having no control over the situation due to the lack of elected government. Also, I recommend you spend some more time in the south, like say Savanah, where the general consensus today is that the whole desegregation thing was a bad idea, and in some cases it never happened. We're not as morally superior over here as you might think. But again, you're getting lost in the example... "...If you read, I said the 'scale' wasn't the same, but the viciousness was far worse. In fact, Nazi observers came to inspect the Japanese invasion and were "horrified"." What does this have to do with revisionism? Is it suddenly not revisionism if there isn't sufficient "viciousness" in the example? This is irrelevant. Watergate was still attempted revisionism, even though the actions revised were certainly not vicious. "Not if they pretend it didn't happen. And that they didn't invade Korea. That's a TODAY issue. And that's scary." Finally! You come back to the issue, and of course we agree. ;) So, in short: the Japanese of today are not guilty of Pre-WWII Imperialism, because the perpetrators are dead and/or removed from power. Some Japanese of today are guilty of historical revisionism. Two very different issues from where I sit. And given the existence of the internet, and the fact that it is less regulated in Japan than say, China or even the U.S., the chances of the average Japanese student buying this bullshit are pretty slim. The media tends to report the exceptions rather than the rule. More exciting that way! |
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| Posted by: Big_Whiksy | Posted on: Thursday November 24 2005 8:24pm |
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My video comptuer just passed away. It was a somewhat somber Thanksgiving in the Whisky household, as my editor failed to post. A small amount of furor insued, however cleaner heads prevailed, and I have a moderate fix in place. Anyway, I hope all of your holdiays are well, and I will be burying this box at sea shortly. Then I will be detonating the explosives I packed the case with. Huzzah. B_W |
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| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Wednesday November 23 2005 10:28pm |
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"I don't hold the average Japanese responsible for World War II, any more than I hold the average white American responsible for slavery or the attempted genocide of the Native Americans." I don't know what possessed me to think there might be a comparison there. ;) Silly me. :) "This doesn't really make sense. By this logic, Japan should be exonerated because there were many other forces that have also invaded China." Well, your logic would make sense if Japan was initially colonized by another nation, which horrendously raped and slaughtered the Chinese. Then Japan, after winning their freedom, continued the murder and rape till they realized they, and their parent nation, was wrong. But that didn't happen. They decided to do what they did on their own. "There are a few million Poles who might disagree with you." Obviously you don't know what Japan was up to. I have all the evidence right here. At least the Germans used poison gas, and didn't force their victims to cut pieces off each other till they died. If you read, I said the 'scale' wasn't the same, but the viciousness was far worse. In fact, Nazi observers came to inspect the Japanese invasion and were "horrified". "But for the sake of argument, it might be interesting to note that Mao's "great leap forward", by most accounts, resulted in more deaths than Hitler and Stalin combined." I never said I liked the current Chinese government. Mao killed over 27 million people? I never knew that. Stalin killed over 20, and I believe Hitler was 7? Wow. Mao outdid Stalin. But if you're trying to say that makes it OK for Japan to do what they did, I disagree most harshly. "Yet most Chinese cities have shrines dedicated to The Good Chairman." Welcome to Soviet style Communism. It's THAT grand? "So when, by your rules, are they allowed to "move on as a people"?" You can't write it out of your history books, you have to teach what your country did in schools, parents have to tell their children the mistakes their grandparents made. These aren't my rules, these should be for all people for all time. "Japanese Imperialism pre-WWII is quite literally a dead issue." Not if they pretend it didn't happen. And that they didn't invade Korea. That's a TODAY issue. And that's scary. B_W |
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| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Wednesday November 23 2005 4:54pm |
| We knew about both Mai Lai and Abu Grahb because of investigations by the Defense Department, not because any "whacko lefties" discovered them. Plus these two were the actions of independent soldiers, not a problem that was endemic to the military. We knew about Dresden because it was not considered a big deal at the time. I mean, as far as Americans were concerned, all Germans were Nazis, so who cared if one of their cities got the millenium bomber treatment? There was no effort to hide any of these incidents. None of these are very good instances of what you're looking for. A better example would probably be the School of the Americas, which should be getting a lot more play in the media. | |
| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Wednesday November 23 2005 3:31pm |
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"I think comparing American Slavery or the displacing of the Native Americnas to what the Japanese did is a fallacious arguement." Indeed, the actions are not equal and I never suggested they were. I'm criticizing the nationalistic (and often racist) tendency to hold an entire country at fault, indefinitely, for the actions of a few people no longer in power. This mentality creates a situation like the middle east, where the only "resolution" is the elimination of the country, nevermind the many people in said country that had nothing to do with the original conflict. It's idiotic, just like someone demanding slavery reparations of me, the descendant of Irish and Polish peasants who arrived here after the Civil War. "First, because of this false belief that only 'white Americans' ever held slaves in north America, or tried to kill Native Americans." This doesn't really make sense. By this logic, Japan should be exonerated because there were many other forces that have also invaded China. So what? You think Japan pioneered this? In any case, not being the "first and only" person to commit murder and torture is quite irrelevant in determining guilt. "Second, all those people that held slaves or killed Native Americans here in the U.S. are DEAD and have been for some time. Therefore we've moved on as a people. The things Japan pulled in WWII, in a lot of ways are far worse than what even Germany was up to..." There are a few million Poles who might disagree with you. But for the sake of argument, it might be interesting to note that Mao's "great leap forward", by most accounts, resulted in more deaths than Hitler and Stalin combined. Yet most Chinese cities have shrines dedicated to The Good Chairman. Who's having more problems with history? But that's another diversion. Your point seems to be the same as mine, that when the perpetrators die, their crimes die with them. You can't go on prosecuting their children. If anything, we disagree on just how many of these perps are still running around in Japan, and how much influence they have. Consider that Japanese (like most East Asian) culture and government, especially before WWII, was oligarchical and slanted heavily towards the elderly. Most people calling shots during WWII were old during WWII. Older than Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin (with the exception of Hirohito himself, who was very young at the time, but even he died in 1989). They're gone. Get over it. Now, the soldiers executing those orders were considerably younger, for sure, but remember that the invasions in question actually took place before the War (1931-1937). We're fast running out of WWII vets in this country, and we got into the fray quite late. Also, far more of the Japanese were killed than our own boys. If there are any old fuckers still lingering over there, their numbers are inconsequentially small. So when, by your rules, are they allowed to "move on as a people"? Japanese Imperialism pre-WWII is quite literally a dead issue. It should be for China, if they weren't too busy whipping up their own nationalism and revised histories to notice. It is a stock distraction from the real issue I think Intrigue brought up, historical revisionism itself, which is in no way isolated to Koizumi's Japan. On that issue, CrowScape is right, they need to wake the fuck up over there and knock it off. Koizumi has announced plans to step down next year (ahead of schedule, actually), so we'll see what happens. Maybe the problem is systemic, and maybe it's just dumb politics. Until any of us actually spend time there, we don't know. I have a hard time holding children at fault for what they are (or aren't) taught in school, though. As for American revisionism, it happens constantly, but fortunately our government is weak enough and we maintain enough freedoms (although Bush is working to change both) to blow most instances open very quickly before it becomes a "bombshell". If it weren't for the "wacko lefties" in the media, sometimes I wonder how much we'd know about Dresden, Mai Lai, Abu Ghraib...heck, Bush's own staff tried to "revise" that one, and even the President didn't know about it for months...supposedly... |
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| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Wednesday November 23 2005 2:47pm |
| You can't hold innocent people accountable for what someone else did. However, you can and should hold them accountable for willfully ignoring the past. The US knows about slavery and the US's treatment of American Indians, and there are very few in this country who would deny that these incidents ever took place or that they were anything but crimes. The same is not true in Japan. As long as future generations take part in perpetuating the lie they will remain accessories to the crime. | |
| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Wednesday November 23 2005 11:36am |
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I think comparing American Slavery or the displacing of the Native Americnas to what the Japanese did is a fallacious arguement. First, because of this false belief that only 'white Americans' ever held slaves in north America, or tried to kill Native Americans. I don't see any of these African Americans asking england for compensation, or the Native Americans talking to Spain, England, France, etc for killing them. So as far as that goes, we were not the pioneers, and there is quite a bit of 'guilt' to go around. Second, all those people that held slaves or killed Native Americans here in the U.S. are DEAD and have been for some time. Therefore we've moved on as a people. The things Japan pulled in WWII, in a lot of ways are far worse than what even Germany was up to. Not on the same scale, but Japanese forcing Chinese to cut their family's and neighbor's bodies apart while they were still alive, yeah, not too many people seem to remember that. That's nice that the Japanese don't want to carry the 'dishonor around anymore' (even though many who participated in such atrocities are still ALIVE, and proud of what they did). I still hold those responsible who did what they did, not so much the young people, but there still are a lot of those that performed. But as a nation I hope they know what they did, and that they remember it. B_W |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Wednesday November 23 2005 9:56am |
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the latest spike in revisionism is probably the natural result of generational shift in power. Everyone in Japan who called the shots during WWII and the preceding invasions is dead by now, and with...incomplete history education on top of that, the current generation just doesn't feel like carrying the dishonor around anymore. And really, I don't hold the average Japanese responsible for World War II, any more than I hold the average white American responsible for slavery or the attempted genocide of the Native Americans. But that's not the way China (or Jesse Jackson) sees it. Now deleting ugly history isn't the solution to the problem, I'm not advocating that. That always makes things worse. It would be nice if actual dialogue could occur between the various parties, but that's not going to happen as long as China and Korea perpetuate a pointless hatred of everything Japanese based on what a bunch of dead bastards did. It's a complex problem...and innocent people will only bear the guilt of other people's crimes for so long. Ain't nationalism grand? |
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| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Tuesday November 22 2005 11:53pm |
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Japan has been trying to brush the history of WWII under the rug since WWII. If the story is not indicative of the country as a whole, it is at least indicative of a significant portion of the Japanese population. The only thing many people in Japan know about WWII is the US dropped two nukes on them. You can see a whole lot of commentary on that in anime. Escaflowne does, and if you want an unintentionally hillarious attempt, watch Cockpit. In fact I read somewhere about the symbolism of Evangelion is actually a result of Japan's defeat to the US, of Christianity defeating Japanese gods and so being a symbol of destruction, and it made a lot more sense than other takes, even from the writer. But the whole rape, murder and pillage thing, the biological weapons testing on Chinese civilians? Strangely, not so much. Instances of historical revision in other countries always makes me suspicious of what our culture has excluded. But then I look at the "Blame America First" crowd and notice they haven't been able to come up with any bombshells contained in their unintelligable puppet-show protests, and feel secure that we're getting a fairly accurate portrayal of history. |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Tuesday November 22 2005 7:07pm |
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search.csmonitor.com/search_content/1122/p01s04-woap.html i know the internet is not always correct, but i hope this isnt a reflection of the entire country of japan |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Tuesday November 22 2005 6:27pm |
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lets do the old school/ console action at my place, i have a basement, and a living room to set up with gamming pleasures. i have 2 tvs and a projector screen if someone can bring a projector. and oh, i have plenty of xbox/ gamecube consoles, maybe even an 8 bit nintendo from my ma. |
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| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Tuesday November 22 2005 3:18pm |
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Turnout was dismal last year? Jim came up...I was there...Johnney was there...Kreuger was there...Kumph made it out a bit...I think that's pretty good! ;) B_W |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Tuesday November 22 2005 1:56pm |
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these are not fanboys, they are gamers married to xbox live, everyone I talked to was planning on buying a ps3 or revolution as well, they are all obsesive gamers and they like xbox better because of live, its not a hardware thing, its a live thing. Most were willign to sacrafice serious girlfriend duties to get these consoles too. Yes, games come before sex for these guys and gals. One gal at gamestop will probably be on the front page of the journal sentinal, she was eager to buy more than one console. I also read reports of people planing trips to japan to get consols before christmass. Sony wish they had a male fan base with this much disposible cash. A few years ago, the average xbox gamer had 10 games per console, where ps2 had 2-3 and gamecube was at 4 games. Xbox fans are more than just fans, they are usually technology gurus and gamingphiles. In fact there is an article in some of the business magazines about how MS only captured that market, they became the mercedes of gaming, and everyone else ignored them. Being the first to play on live means you have the privilage to play agianst only the elite gamers. most were willing to pay the thousands on ebay when they could not find them in the stores. This time around MS is trying tone down the specs and tone up the broad spectrum apeal. The idea of MS trying to destroy Sony is humorous because most of these first addopters are going to get both systems. The delay of oblivion at the last minute, is a stunt to spoil Sony's thunder I think. |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Tuesday November 22 2005 12:43pm |
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Oh noes, teh haxors! www.applegeeks.com/index.php?comic=46 I'm a little confused by the crazed panic to get the 360 hardware now, since the promising games (Oblivion, Gears of War, Prey, etc) aren't coming out until next year around the PS3 launch. And by then they may even do a price cut to further steal Sony's thunder. Ya'lls FANBOIS! Now, retro gaming on the 17th, that's shit hot. If turnout is as dismal as last year, and my Konami GT upright is repaired by then...we'll see. |
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| Posted by: Dream BBQ Child | Posted on: Tuesday November 22 2005 12:12pm |
| /me is not looking forward to feeling similar pain when the PS3 comes out. But then I may wait for the first GTA to hit it before I buy it. Course, then I'll have to spit on the PS3 cause it is a Sony. Just have to be careful that I don't do it in a place where it won't do any damage. | |
| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Tuesday November 22 2005 10:21am |
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Well, that's what you get for not sticking it out. ;) Joe Kim and I waited all night (on a school night no less!) for the PS2, and it was FUN! Met some interesting people. It was a great night. Anyway, good luck on the continued search. OK. Let's have a good time on the 17th. Who wants to host? ;) B_W |
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| Posted by: Intrigue | Posted on: Tuesday November 22 2005 10:01am |
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I am just glad that I atleast have one on preorder. Microsoft managed to calculate just right, the number of xbox that would sell out before any store in Milwaukee opened on November 22, 2005. How do I know this, I went to almost every store I could find between this morning and last night. You might ask, why would I go if I have one on preorder? The answer is simple, because the preorder only garentees me an xbox when it is avalible, and Microsoft is shipping less xboxs to locations that offered preorders than to locations that were selling only on launch day. Some time around 8 am this morning this all started seeming like a WoW quest to find the rare xbox 360. 2:30pm nov. 20 a quest clue was dropped that i might be able to get an xbox at BB near NorthRidge 10:30pm nov. 21 recon work led me mapout all of the Dealers between my inn and BB near NorthRidge 10:40pm nov. 21 started trek towards the Capitol, then FoxPoint, and finally NorthRidge 11:00pm nov. 21 several promising locations were discovered, and at NorthRidge there was still room in the xbox 360 raiding party(this one had 28 spaces, and only 16 were there) but we were told that the raid wasnt going to start until 9am the next day and that if i left now, i would not be able to keep my place in the raiding party, so i went looking for other locations 11:48pm nov. 21 i stopped at the gamestop as small trading post in the Grand Mall, in hopes that I might be able to be a part of a smaller party and a midnight raid. As i wait, i was introduced to the journal sentinal, a formitable character that had not only preteige on his side, but a 1st shipment reserve voucher; one which i was without. The word on the trade channel was that there might be a few unenchanted core elements avalible, but that my chances of getting the desired loot during the raid would be slim. 12:38am nov. 22 i walked out of the raid, and said my gg, but still not the loot i was looking for. 06:00am nov. 22 i mapped out an effcient route to get to the capitol stores, greenfield, southridge, brewery way, and then back to my inn, hopefully making just in time for each location to get there before the store opens. 06:54am nov. 22 I found that Walls Mart opens 1 hour early for people waiting outside, everything is sold out 07:15am nov. 22 eb's games also sold out, open 3 hours early 07:35am nov. 22 target1 opened early all systems sold 07:35am nov. 22 target2 opened early all systems sold 08:15am nov. 22 southridge, sears is sold out, open 1 hour early 08:25am nov. 22 southridge, CC is sold out, open 3 hours early 08:35am nov. 22 southridge, K's Mart is sold out, opend a few minutes early It was at this point, that I realized that the rare chance to win some loot on this rare raid opertunity would not bear fruit. My only chance now is the AH, where items may not have bound on pickup. If i really wanted this prize, i should have gone camping this last night and stayed in the avalible raiding party. |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Tuesday November 22 2005 9:17am |
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ROFLCOPTERS!!! I want to play that game. |
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| Posted by: adam | Posted on: Tuesday November 22 2005 12:39am |
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Just go: www.xs4all.nl/~jvdkuyp/flash/see.htm -A |
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| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Monday November 21 2005 5:38pm |
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I am in! Finals are over that week, and I'm not leaving for warmer climes until after Christmas. PERFECT! Of course, I do believe I will again be arriving late Friday, but no matter. JUST HAVE BOOZE, LOTS OF BOOZE. Now I'm off to work on 60 pages of papers due by the end of the semester. Remember: BOOZE! |
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| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Monday November 21 2005 1:31pm |
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Old School Event, the weekend of the 17th? Of december? ;) D.R. |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Monday November 21 2005 10:08am |
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this one is especially for DARKnes www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000380068859/ |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Sunday November 20 2005 5:01pm |
| well, i am closer to 50 than ever, but i still have a few hours left to go, this is such a gind to get passed 49, its like i am that guy in the greek fables trying to reach the grapes for eternity. i completed a few more quests in feralas, i should be able to take care of a few more rather quickly over there, but from then on, i will need to party i think to get the other quests done. i killed 3 horde today now that i found some nice help. jb i will try some of those places out when i get done with feralas. i would really like to advance my leatherworking at this point i think that is my next priority. | |
| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Sunday November 20 2005 10:26am |
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I recommend Aszhara and Un'Goro crater. Very low horde population, and 2 of the best-looking zones in the game. Fun hunting and exploring. Un'Goro doesn't even have a flight master, so there's pretty much no gankers. Just don't attack the Timbermaw Furbolg tribe in Azshara, you'll need decent reputation with them later on to get to Everlook (and they've got some leatherworking recipies they'll sell you if they trust you). Keep an eye out of a lonely Blood Elf among the ruins, he can teleport you to the tower on the mountain for more quests. If you want to make money, there's a pack of Satyr in the northern peninsula that drop Felcloth which auctions well (and they are very close to a graveyard, so if you do managed to get ambushed you don't lose much time). Also, when you're in Ironforge, join IRC channel 4 (LookingForGroup) and watch for parties leaving for Maraudon or Sunken Temple. In fact, Hax0rs tell me you can listen in on that channel from anywhere, but I'm not sure of the syntax. You should be able to blaze through 50-55 in like a week, I did. After that it's a lot easier to get help from the guild. ;) Xindicate, Teres, and Bav have been very nice helping me farm for rare materials to get my gear fixed up, and get all keyed up for the raid game. |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Saturday November 19 2005 10:33pm |
| well, its been awhile and i might log onto wow long enough to level to 50 we will see how things go and if the horde are ganking tonight, they were earlier | |
| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Friday November 18 2005 6:41pm |
| I warned you! ;) You should have thrown a few more accessories on there.... | |
| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Friday November 18 2005 5:08pm |
| i will not be able to get a 360 on the first shipment, game stop has me down for shipment 2 at this point. | |
| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Friday November 18 2005 11:37am |
| I'm down for a retro-event. Let's come up with some dates and I'll see what I can do. We should probably lock down our Japan dates first. | |
| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Friday November 18 2005 9:21am |
| next week, i hope to start the process to get my passport for japan | |
| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Thursday November 17 2005 7:08pm |
| The Milwaukee pyros continue to amaze...just when I thought fireworks season was finally over, I get home and find some crazy fuckers lighting up Marquette Park outside my windows... | |
| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Thursday November 17 2005 4:55pm |
| I got an email from Loyola talking about a Black World Studies minor, and all I could think about was that it had something to do with The Legend of Zelda... | |
| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Thursday November 17 2005 3:44pm |
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Now, I have fond memories of one of two weeks after the korporate-event last year, an 'old school' event. Similar to the event held in the future called 'npw'. Should such a thing happen a-gain? A-gain? B_W |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Wednesday November 16 2005 4:31pm |
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this is just for big whisky, cancel your cable now, because now martin sargent is on rev3 too. revision3.com/infected |
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| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Wednesday November 16 2005 11:49am |
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Vests, are just that, vests. If his arms seem inflated, perhaps he is hanging with Trent Reznor. It's doubtful he's wearing a vest there...but good thought. B_W |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Tuesday November 15 2005 9:45pm |
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lol crowscape, another scary and intrigueing note, is bush wearing a bulet proof vest in this photo, his suit seems "inflated" around the arms, it seems like there is a line simular to that of a buletproof vest???? news.yahoo.com/photo/051116/481/jpnd10411160213&g=events/pl/081201presidentbush;_ylt=AgOFhYbtlu2ivuxRGakriloGw_IE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3bGk2OHYzBHNlYwN0bXA- what do you guys think? |
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| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Tuesday November 15 2005 6:05pm |
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I have been admitted to Loyola's Political Science BA/MA program! W00t! I think if I ever hold elected office, that will be one of my first projects. Instead of using "Yea"s and "Nay"s, there will be "W00t"s and "p00t"s. |
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| Posted by: intrigue argh!! | Posted on: Tuesday November 15 2005 4:33pm |
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link err on timewarner aol clasic tv post www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-11-14-aol-classic-tv_x.htm |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Tuesday November 15 2005 4:26pm |
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star trek fans never cese to amaze www.newvoyages.com/ also here is a better link for that AOL TV article www.newvoyages.com/ |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Tuesday November 15 2005 1:20pm |
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And yea, Straczynski did beget Babylon, who forth sired Jehosephet, who did beget Nimrod, who verily did sire Thaddeus, who was also called Babylon II... In other B5 news, this is almost definitely bullshit, but funny bullshit... brilm.homestead.com/files/cuthbert-b5teepwar.jpg In the W0WZ news, there are screens here that clearly demonstrate Blizzard's desire to bring the Zerg into Azeroth instead of making a proper Starcraft II... www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/underdev/ |
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| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Tuesday November 15 2005 7:07am |
| Babylon the Fifth! | |
| Posted by: Peter | Posted on: Monday November 14 2005 6:02pm |
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Nearscape, Finally...here is ONE excuse to finally appreciate AOL! From USA Today:www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-11-14-aol-classic-tv_x.htm "America Online is bringing classic TV to the Internet. AOL announced Monday a joint venture with corporate partner Warner Bros. to webcast 300 episodes a month of 100 classic TV series, beginning in January. The shows include blasts from the past such as Growing Pains, F Troop, Babylon V and Welcome Back, Kotter. They will be shown free, on demand, with four 15-second commercials per episode on AOL.com in the USA." Babylon V? Despite all the permutations (B5, Bab5, Babylon, etc) I have never seen Babylon 5 expressed that way! |
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| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Sunday November 13 2005 12:15pm |
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Yeah, AMD is really great about that. They swapped mine out in no-time. They aren't very concerend about one CPU. If you take the time to call them, they are very happy to help. B_W |
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| Posted by: Dream BBQ Child | Posted on: Saturday November 12 2005 11:05am |
| Yeah, I'm going to have to look into that. Main thing I care about is the CPU. | |
| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Friday November 11 2005 11:52am |
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Well, I am sure many of those components are still under warranty. I don't know if you want to contact the manufacturers, but I am sure they will be understanding. AMD, IBM (now Hitachi), and MSI were all very understanding when I had an issue simalar to yours. They would rather replace legitimatly fried components (even if it wasn't necessarialy their component that failed) and make the customer happy than not. (especially if you bought them within a year) If anything it's worth a call just because. B_W |
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| Posted by: Dream BBQ Child | Posted on: Thursday November 10 2005 5:57pm |
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Thanks man but I don't know who'd want a toasted CPU, Mo-Bo and Memory or not (Again I brought it to Shawn's and found out that they're done for). CD-ROM and disk I'm keeping though. I'll build another windows box in the future but that's going to have to be a little while. No no no, game not dead. In fact when I got the PowerBook I immediately copied the source over. Thus far it has been designed to be cross platfrom friendly. So, after I rip the memory leaking and not portable MSXML stuff out of there and replace it with Xerces I'll be pretty close to back up and running (Seriously, we use MSXML at work and we've verifed even the new service packed version has a leak). Then I have to work on the GUI clicking events now that I figured out how to detect what button was hit quickly when you press the mouse THEN I have to go to sockets and implement TCP instead of just relying on UDP cause I don't trust UDP. Not to mentio that's not internet friendly. We're going to be talking a lot of C here. A lot of C. It's rather refreshing! |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Thursday November 10 2005 9:26am |
| so i guess your game is dead? | |
| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Thursday November 10 2005 9:06am |
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matt, i heard you when to the white side agian an bought another mac. have you given up on the PC? if you fedex the parts to me i will let you know what works and what doesnt at my expense/ risk. If you dont want the working parts, i might buy them off of you, or jeremy can sell them on ebay. He enjoys that sort of thing. Let me know. |
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| Posted by: Dream BBQ Child | Posted on: Wednesday November 9 2005 9:27pm |
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Something I found regarding defragmenting on OS X. Kinda spiffy diffy. macslash.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/29/190237 It's weird not owning a Windows Box. But in a good way. |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Tuesday November 8 2005 9:35pm |
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I figured Intrigue, perhaps others might find this an interesting read...it deals with the economics of World of Warcraft. Not just the in-game virtual economy, but the real-life economics of poorer countries, due to the "cottage industry" of "gold farming" it has created. www.gameguidesonline.com/guides/articles/ggoarticleoctober05_01.asp Also, there's a kick-ass lightning show outside my windows right now... |
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| Posted by: B_W | Posted on: Tuesday November 8 2005 10:06am |
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Finally some good news! B_R |
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| Posted by: Peter | Posted on: Tuesday November 8 2005 9:46am |
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Finally! The executives do something smart for a change! Today Universal announced the DVD release of Serenity on December 20th. (Just in time for Christmas!) The DVD will contain: Feature commentary with writer/director Joss Whedon A director introduction Deleted scenes Outtakes "Future History: The Story of Earth That Was" featurette "What's in a Firefly" featurette "Re-Lighting the Firefly" featurette 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen English and French Dolby Digital 5.1 tracks To view screenshots of the DVD menus and cover art go to: www.dvdanswers.com/index.php?r=0&s=1&c=8055&n=1&burl= |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Monday November 7 2005 9:35pm |
| It was the KITTYS, I know it! Works for me every time. ;) | |
| Posted by: Dream BBQ Child | Posted on: Monday November 7 2005 8:02pm |
| Oh, and for the record I'm no longer pissed about this. I just find it terribly inconvenient. Actually, I'm in a rather good mood. | |
| Posted by: Dream BBQ Child | Posted on: Monday November 7 2005 8:00pm |
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Well, for once my overreaction was right! I discovered that the HD is alive yesterday but today I ran the box over to my buddy Shawn's where we found the Mo-bo, the CPU and Memory are all shot (CPU plugged in and we don't even get a POST screen, memory is not recognized). So, since they are also direclty connected to the mo-bo things don't look good for the video and wireless cards either. So class we were reminded of two things here: Yup, everyone who says to splurge on the Power Supply is right and Hibernate BAD. I've heard these horror stories before but NEVER have I actually seen such a catostrophic failure. Thanks for your input everyone! |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Monday November 7 2005 3:21pm |
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I don't know much about the hibernate. Is WildBBQ your Athlon box? Is that a BIOS controlled thing? In any case, how could you be out $800? That's like a whole computer. If there's no burning smell then maybe it's just a $80 PSU swap or a $150 motherboard swap. Or maybe you fancy h4x0rs can "flash the BIOS" or some jumper-cable shit like that? I remember this one time, shortly after our little "logic board" adventure with our G5 at work, the box came back from the shop and the Apple tools had turned on the screen saver and some sort of auto-sleep thing. Guess how I knew when it went to "sleep"? All the fans cranked up to full speed and the machine sounded like a damaged carpet vaccuum. I bet that saves tonnes of electricity! No wonder California has so many rolling brownouts, Cupertino must be out to lunch. Oh, and the power button on the cheese grater is useless in such situations, so I had to reset the UPS to turn the damn thing off. |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Monday November 7 2005 2:58pm |
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So much kitty talk! kittys.ytmnd.com/ Thanks, DJ:EYG: Also, I made an Orc warrior in the WoWZ. He's named Muklok. He doesn't wear galoshes. |
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| Posted by: adam | Posted on: Monday November 7 2005 1:19pm |
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I don't even use hibernate on my laptop. I just have it turn off the screen and HD but it never sleeps (unless the battery gets too low). I had an older laptop that used to hibernate and it's not worth the trouble. In other news... Emalee and I got a new kitty... Her name is Kenobi (the answer to the question you all are thinking is yes). Pictures here: www.commanddotcom.com/archives/2331 -A |
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| Posted by: Peter | Posted on: Monday November 7 2005 1:10pm |
| I whole-heartedly agree with Whisky. I have lost 2 computers to the dreaded "hibernate" function. They "hibernate" and had such a good time that they never wanted to wake up again. Either keep it on, or shut it down. Hibernation is for bears, squirrels, and kowalian monkey lizards, not computers. | |
| Posted by: B_W | Posted on: Monday November 7 2005 12:11am |
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I don't trust hibernate. Once I put a computer in that mode, and it refused to come back on. I had to do some strange, un-natural $hit to get it back online. I don't think it's worth the seconds to go that rout, just shut it down, or don't. ;) B_W |
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| Posted by: Intrigue | Posted on: Sunday November 6 2005 9:01pm |
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matt, i wouldnt worry about using the multimeter do you have another computer to check things with? check the power supply with another processor, memory if it posts then the power supply is fine next check the memory in another motherboard then check the processor if you dont have backups of all of these things, i have plenty of hardware to test your stuff out, including a spare power supply i beleive. good luck matt. |
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| Posted by: Dream BBQ Child | Posted on: Saturday November 5 2005 8:12am |
| By switch I mean the on switch. | |
| Posted by: Dream BBQ Child | Posted on: Saturday November 5 2005 8:09am |
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Hey party people here's one for you: I put WildBBQ into hibernate yesterday. Then, when I went to turn it back on--- nothing happened. It simply will not power up. I've verified it's not the switch and I ripped the whole machine apart looking for evidence that something blew out. But it all smelled and looked okay. So, I'm at a loss. Possibly an $800 loss. Which pisses me off. Greatly. Anyway, I'm thinking that when it switched off on its last time the power supply somehow shorted out the motherboard. My dad and I even went so far as to put a multimeter on the cords coming out of the power supply and were able to verify there is power going to the line that listens for the switch to trigger. Any ideas? |
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| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Friday November 4 2005 5:52pm |
| Can someone give me a conversion into English customary units on Soul Caliber. I'm trying to understand how big of a gun we're talking about. | |
| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Friday November 4 2005 12:56pm |
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With absolutely no hype at all, and a single console offering, Tycho gave it a positive review, which BAFFLES me! This must either be the sleeper hit of the year, or somebodies getting paid off. In other news the game based on the film, the Warriors, is fairly great. I rented it. Fancy that. B_W |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Wednesday November 2 2005 9:54pm |
| My interpretation is that it does not suck, with the caveat being that you enjoy such things and the trappings that come with them. Circular logic? Perhaps...... | |
| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Wednesday November 2 2005 11:02am |
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What's with this Soul Caliber III action? Does it SUCK? It must suck or something. Later, David |
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| Posted by: adam | Posted on: Wednesday November 2 2005 10:57am |
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I should clarify.. First showing of the day on Ep 3. -A |
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| Posted by: adam | Posted on: Wednesday November 2 2005 10:57am |
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Catching up on reading here... Peter.. #1 is the main reason I didn't see it... I haven't been to see a movie in the theater since SW Ep 3 and even then I went to the first showing 'cause they discount the prices for that one. (Plus it was like my brother, myself and 2 other people in there so we got primo seats). The other big thing that factors in is that Emalee doesn't want to see any of that kind of stuff. Hell, she doesn't care about any of the SW films (though I think she might buy me them for Christmas... I don't have any of them on DVD. It's either that or the Simpsons Season 5 DVDs) Honestly, IMHO it's not worth going to movies anymore since they cost too much, I have a decent DVD player, TV in my apartment (need to get a better stereo, though), & I have Sundance and IFC on my cable. -A |
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| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Tuesday November 1 2005 11:15am |
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Nobody here but us chickens! ;) B_W |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Tuesday November 1 2005 8:52am |
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defcon, is the weekend before gencon aug4th-6th at the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas www.defcon.org/ just thought you cyberpunks, gravers, and goths might be interested |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Tuesday November 1 2005 7:40am |
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does any of this concern you, manipulating the weather into a weapon of mass distruction? www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9880231/ |
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