You: Hey baby I got a PS3!
Drunk Woman: No they are about C cups, stop staring at my boobs please.
You: It's only $600, see I'm loaded babe.
Drunk Woman: Buy me a drink then.
You: Sure (calls over bartender) Apple martini for the lady and a Jack and Coke for me.
Drunk Woman: Thanks for the martini babe! (makes out with bartender)
You: (Go home, j*rk off, play Katamari Damacy 3 on your HDTV in 1080p and 7.1 surround sound until 7am when your blackberry goes off and your boss tells you to come into work)
most popular definition of a clod for the rest of us
(courtesy of Urbandictionary)
clod
1. A hardened mass of dirt.
2. A person who would have to learn ettiquette just to elevate himself to the title of hardened mass of dirt.
3. A popular French given name.
It hasn't rained in weeks, look at all those clods!
Some clod sped through the puddle and splashed mud all over my suit!
Wrong. Windows 2000's mainstream support was retired on June 30th, 2005. See here.Microsoft will continue to support Windows 2000 for corporations that have purchased the extended support license until 2010.
However, according to this site, Microsoft is going to support IE6 until September 2006. I'm not really sure what that means since they haven't updated the browser significantly in 2 years or so.
IE7 will be bundled with Longhorn, and people will likely continue to use whatever is bundled on their PC's... I don't see IE's dominance letting up anytime soon, despite Firefox being a superior browser (in my opinion).
I honestly hope that Ubuntu won't be the "next Red Hat." I don't like the idea of one of the friendliest Linux experiences I've ever had all of a sudden goes the commercial route.
Don't get me wrong, I think Red Hat is a great company, I just get that warm fuzzy feeling from Ubuntu Linux, its userbase, its forums, and the fact that they ship you free cd's (free s&h too!) of their latest distro for free, no questions asked.
I'm no programmer, however isn't Java's appeal the fact that it's very easy to make Java apps cross-platform?
While Sun's intentions in open sourcing their products may not be neccesarily benign, they ARE giving *something significant* to the open source communuity. The best example I can give is OpenOffice.
Sun does have it's own commercial office suite called StarOffice which is derived from the OO suite, however OO is being developed into a very well-rounded competitor.
NeoOffice/J for OS X is a great opensource alternative for MS Office, and that project has its roots in the OpenOffice suite.
Clarification On Intel's "Press Release"
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Intel Claims No DRM
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· Score: 4, Interesting
This entire slashdot news post is misleading.
Intel's press release is based on the fact on that Computerworld's article claims that Intel is adding unnounced DRM features to their new line of Pentiums. If anyone actually read the article, it does not say ANYWHERE anything about unannounced DRM features. In fact, I would say that the Computerworld article and the Intel press release are saying basically the same thing, with their respective biases present. Honestly, the only thing newsworthy here is that Intel announced the specific DRM implementations in their chipsets.
Lastly, an opinion... DRM is not something I really would like to see implemented on the CPU-level. I don't think "THE MAN" should be controlling what I can or can't do with media that exists on my computer.
My favorite part of his entire review: Benchmarks are boring!
Because benchmarks are boring, I'll skip to the conclusion, and follow up with the process and gory details afterwards.
Glad to see that there is definately a significant performance increase in using a firewire disk, however that does kinda say something about the low-cost turtle hard drive Apple installs in its mini line to lower its price.
I think the Mac mini is a great idea, but the machine is still in its infancy to be honest. Needless to say, I would still recommend that all of you go out an buy one so that economies of scale could kick in to lower costs for superior components so that *I* may eventually buy one;-)
You do realize that Toonami has been around since 1997 on the Cartoon Network. The world was a much different place back then.
I agree the tsunami was a terrible tragedy but there is no reason for them to change the name of their Saturday evening block of cartoons because of it.
Sure, it may have been done before in the movies and in real life... however, the implementation of such a system has never been done before in a video game.
Your point doesn't hold up, because filming a scene in a movie, and creating a scenario for interactive gameplay are two very different things.
Like I said before, Katamari Damacy is the most original game of 2004... if you don't think highly of MGS3, then play that.
Katamari Damacy deserves this award.
I won't argue with that.
But take a look at a little gem of a game called Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater that also happened to be released in 2004.
Kojima's series has always been innovative in each incarnation, but I think this time he and his team outdid themselves.
Hunting for food, using trapped animals to distract or attack enemies, feeding enemies poisoned food, interrogating guards, holding them hostage, slitting their throats if you are so inclined... not to mention the new camoflague system that allows you to blend into the environment to prevent being seen.
Playing this game just feels so badass.
I've never played anything like it in my life.
I felt as though this game deserved a mention in this thread, since in my opinion it's one of the more innovative titles to come out in recent memory:-)
Frankly I don't know what to think of 2K Games, I guess it's just Take-Two with more of an aggressive acquisition and marketing strategy... kind of like how Atari is just a rethinking of corporate strategy by Infogrames.
Although one person's opinion doesn't matter, am I the only one who feels as though there could be a "Big 5" developing in the gaming industry that could work very similiarly to the RIAA someday?
If you install Kazaa with MS Antispyware running, it will install all of the spyware, but MS Antispyware will pickup about half of the spyware immediately after installation. To get rid of the rest, a thorough system spyware check will kill it.
It's important to note that while you can kill the spyware bundled with Kazaa, if you modify the Cydoor installation, then Kazaa will cease to function.
Here is a good website if you want to install "dummy" files to trick Kazaa and other adware software into thinking you have the spyware on your system, but really don't.
As you can see it shows the typical google search results page with the TEXT ads at top. After subsequent refreshes of my browser, I got the same thing.
I browsed around Google Suggest, even the Advanced Options, and got zilch. So please, include a working demo URL next time... and lastly, why would this make a FPP if it's not even verifiable?! Lol,:-)
You're right. It IS Microsoft's fault that their OS is full of holes.
I'm trying to look at the situation from a business standpoint. It's very true that spyware is hurting Microsoft's market share in the browser market, but there are other types of spyware besides ActiveX applets run via exploits in IE. So while MS develops the next version of IE and simultaneously tries to develop Longhorn (with some anti-spyware features), they need to deploy a tool to combat all of the crap that the majority of the tech support phone calls complain about.
I'm no fanboy, and I hate the idea of paying for a tool that ideally should be free, but Microsoft paid a lot of money to acquire Giant, and they need to recoup their losses somehow and justify the purchase from an accounting standpoint. Personally, I'd continue to use BPS Spyware remover in addition to a good anti-virus program. If MS lowers their $100 price point for the software, to maybe somewhere around $19.95, I'd consider picking it up if it works well.
Forgive me for linking to the file directly, but here's a direct link to a demonstration video showing the overclocking differences in Super Mario Bros. 3.
Instead of observing the obvious improvements in fluid animation (and gameplay), listen to the audio differences in both before and after overclocking. The original is exactly how I remember SMB3 to sound, while the overclocked version sounds kind of whacked.
To me, the audio from these classic games is JUST AS important as the video, so I won't be overclocking until a better method is found that won't screw up audio.... but I'd imagine the bulk of people who still have *working* NES units, wouldn't want to mess around with their precious vintage systems anyways;-)
Paint.NET is not the Anti-Gimp, it's just a tool to suit a different purpose and different people.
GIMP, from what I understand, is an opensource Photoshop style program, used mainly for image manipulation and touching up photos.
Paint.NET, which I've been using recently, is more of a MS-Paint, replacement, and as kiddie as Paint is, it is still the most installed image program in the world (bundled with Windows since god knows when), I'm happy Redmond is taking steps to updating this program, and would not be surprised to see it included in Longhorn....
Oh and my point was not to knock GIMP, because I think in time, and with a better developed interface, GIMP will be king... it's to state that Paint.NET is for us folks who want to doodle, or want to create simple artwork, with a more powerful interface than MS-Paint, but without the sheer complexity of a monster graphics program such as Photoshop or GIMP....
Look, I'll get down to it....
We all love geek chicks. Yadda, yadda, yadda...
Congrats to Jeri on her success, and now here are some pix of her, enjoy.:-)
The internet razor is here, and we got our hands on it first. The new I-Shick 1.0 is a welcome alternative to standard shaving, wax and depilatories that miss stray hairs.
Just shave your legs with the I-Shick and it memorizes your follicle patters. Then connect the Razor through a USB port or infrared to your PC. A 3-D model of your leg is uploaded to your own personal website where you can view it and a number of other leg-hair statistics. If you missed any hair, you can clearly see it on the internet.
Version 2.0 of the I-Shick will include upgrades such as armpit, face, and pubic mapping. Investing in I-Shick 1.0 and registering allows you to download ongoing software updates for a subscription fee of $9.99 per month. Free shaving cream is a gift with initial sign up.
At $2,019.99 for the razor and connectors, the I-Shick seems a little steep initially, but very comparable to the cost of laser hair removal treatments, without all of the trouble of leaving the house.
Rachel Bondi's original article:-P
Too bad its fake.... although I don't really need to shave my legs, there are some women who need to very badly.
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I miss college.
Imagine the possibilities!
You: Hey baby I got a PS3!
Drunk Woman: No they are about C cups, stop staring at my boobs please.
You: It's only $600, see I'm loaded babe.
Drunk Woman: Buy me a drink then.
You: Sure (calls over bartender) Apple martini for the lady and a Jack and Coke for me.
Drunk Woman: Thanks for the martini babe! (makes out with bartender)
You: (Go home, j*rk off, play Katamari Damacy 3 on your HDTV in 1080p and 7.1 surround sound until 7am when your blackberry goes off and your boss tells you to come into work)
(courtesy of Urbandictionary)
clod
How did you stuff 2 hard drives into your Xbox? I thought the Xbox could only support one drive?
Wrong. Windows 2000's mainstream support was retired on June 30th, 2005. See here.Microsoft will continue to support Windows 2000 for corporations that have purchased the extended support license until 2010.
However, according to this site, Microsoft is going to support IE6 until September 2006. I'm not really sure what that means since they haven't updated the browser significantly in 2 years or so.
IE7 will be bundled with Longhorn, and people will likely continue to use whatever is bundled on their PC's... I don't see IE's dominance letting up anytime soon, despite Firefox being a superior browser (in my opinion).
What is PXA, MVNO and AD2P?
I honestly hope that Ubuntu won't be the "next Red Hat." I don't like the idea of one of the friendliest Linux experiences I've ever had all of a sudden goes the commercial route.
Don't get me wrong, I think Red Hat is a great company, I just get that warm fuzzy feeling from Ubuntu Linux, its userbase, its forums, and the fact that they ship you free cd's (free s&h too!) of their latest distro for free, no questions asked.
Damn you ChillyMack... damn you...
/goes back to scheming...
I'm no programmer, however isn't Java's appeal the fact that it's very easy to make Java apps cross-platform?
While Sun's intentions in open sourcing their products may not be neccesarily benign, they ARE giving *something significant* to the open source communuity. The best example I can give is OpenOffice.
Sun does have it's own commercial office suite called StarOffice which is derived from the OO suite, however OO is being developed into a very well-rounded competitor.
NeoOffice/J for OS X is a great opensource alternative for MS Office, and that project has its roots in the OpenOffice suite.
This entire slashdot news post is misleading.
Intel's press release is based on the fact on that Computerworld's article claims that Intel is adding unnounced DRM features to their new line of Pentiums. If anyone actually read the article, it does not say ANYWHERE anything about unannounced DRM features. In fact, I would say that the Computerworld article and the Intel press release are saying basically the same thing, with their respective biases present. Honestly, the only thing newsworthy here is that Intel announced the specific DRM implementations in their chipsets.
Lastly, an opinion... DRM is not something I really would like to see implemented on the CPU-level. I don't think "THE MAN" should be controlling what I can or can't do with media that exists on my computer.
My favorite part of his entire review:
;-)
Benchmarks are boring! Because benchmarks are boring, I'll skip to the conclusion, and follow up with the process and gory details afterwards.
Glad to see that there is definately a significant performance increase in using a firewire disk, however that does kinda say something about the low-cost turtle hard drive Apple installs in its mini line to lower its price.
I think the Mac mini is a great idea, but the machine is still in its infancy to be honest. Needless to say, I would still recommend that all of you go out an buy one so that economies of scale could kick in to lower costs for superior components so that *I* may eventually buy one
You do realize that Toonami has been around since 1997 on the Cartoon Network. The world was a much different place back then.
I agree the tsunami was a terrible tragedy but there is no reason for them to change the name of their Saturday evening block of cartoons because of it.
Here are a couple of really high res images (cached) of the front and back of the new E1060 cell phone:
Front
Back
Sure, it may have been done before in the movies and in real life... however, the implementation of such a system has never been done before in a video game.
Your point doesn't hold up, because filming a scene in a movie, and creating a scenario for interactive gameplay are two very different things.
Like I said before, Katamari Damacy is the most original game of 2004... if you don't think highly of MGS3, then play that.
Katamari Damacy deserves this award. I won't argue with that.
:-)
But take a look at a little gem of a game called Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater that also happened to be released in 2004.
Kojima's series has always been innovative in each incarnation, but I think this time he and his team outdid themselves.
Hunting for food, using trapped animals to distract or attack enemies, feeding enemies poisoned food, interrogating guards, holding them hostage, slitting their throats if you are so inclined... not to mention the new camoflague system that allows you to blend into the environment to prevent being seen.
Playing this game just feels so badass. I've never played anything like it in my life.
I felt as though this game deserved a mention in this thread, since in my opinion it's one of the more innovative titles to come out in recent memory
While the website has not yet been launched, you can still check out the new 2K Games logo, if you like...
http://www.2kgames.com/
Frankly I don't know what to think of 2K Games, I guess it's just Take-Two with more of an aggressive acquisition and marketing strategy... kind of like how Atari is just a rethinking of corporate strategy by Infogrames.
Although one person's opinion doesn't matter, am I the only one who feels as though there could be a "Big 5" developing in the gaming industry that could work very similiarly to the RIAA someday?
If you install Kazaa with MS Antispyware running, it will install all of the spyware, but MS Antispyware will pickup about half of the spyware immediately after installation. To get rid of the rest, a thorough system spyware check will kill it.
It's important to note that while you can kill the spyware bundled with Kazaa, if you modify the Cydoor installation, then Kazaa will cease to function.
Here is a good website if you want to install "dummy" files to trick Kazaa and other adware software into thinking you have the spyware on your system, but really don't.
Not to repeat what everyone else is saying, but this is definately bogus.
& safe=off&c2coff=1&q=traktor&btnG=Search
:-)
Grugnog used the following URL to access the page in the first pic of his search for "traktor":
http://www.google.com/search?complete=1&hl=en&lr=
As you can see it shows the typical google search results page with the TEXT ads at top. After subsequent refreshes of my browser, I got the same thing.
I browsed around Google Suggest, even the Advanced Options, and got zilch. So please, include a working demo URL next time... and lastly, why would this make a FPP if it's not even verifiable?! Lol,
Here's a direct download link to Picasa 2 Enjoy!
Lol, in all fairness she has a nice resume as well.
You're right. It IS Microsoft's fault that their OS is full of holes.
I'm trying to look at the situation from a business standpoint. It's very true that spyware is hurting Microsoft's market share in the browser market, but there are other types of spyware besides ActiveX applets run via exploits in IE. So while MS develops the next version of IE and simultaneously tries to develop Longhorn (with some anti-spyware features), they need to deploy a tool to combat all of the crap that the majority of the tech support phone calls complain about.
I'm no fanboy, and I hate the idea of paying for a tool that ideally should be free, but Microsoft paid a lot of money to acquire Giant, and they need to recoup their losses somehow and justify the purchase from an accounting standpoint. Personally, I'd continue to use BPS Spyware remover in addition to a good anti-virus program. If MS lowers their $100 price point for the software, to maybe somewhere around $19.95, I'd consider picking it up if it works well.
Forgive me for linking to the file directly, but here's a direct link to a demonstration video showing the overclocking differences in Super Mario Bros. 3.
;-)
Instead of observing the obvious improvements in fluid animation (and gameplay), listen to the audio differences in both before and after overclocking. The original is exactly how I remember SMB3 to sound, while the overclocked version sounds kind of whacked.
To me, the audio from these classic games is JUST AS important as the video, so I won't be overclocking until a better method is found that won't screw up audio.... but I'd imagine the bulk of people who still have *working* NES units, wouldn't want to mess around with their precious vintage systems anyways
Paint.NET is not the Anti-Gimp, it's just a tool to suit a different purpose and different people.
GIMP, from what I understand, is an opensource Photoshop style program, used mainly for image manipulation and touching up photos.
Paint.NET, which I've been using recently, is more of a MS-Paint, replacement, and as kiddie as Paint is, it is still the most installed image program in the world (bundled with Windows since god knows when), I'm happy Redmond is taking steps to updating this program, and would not be surprised to see it included in Longhorn....
Oh and my point was not to knock GIMP, because I think in time, and with a better developed interface, GIMP will be king... it's to state that Paint.NET is for us folks who want to doodle, or want to create simple artwork, with a more powerful interface than MS-Paint, but without the sheer complexity of a monster graphics program such as Photoshop or GIMP....
Look, I'll get down to it.... :-)
We all love geek chicks.
Yadda, yadda, yadda...
Congrats to Jeri on her success, and now here are some pix of her, enjoy.
pic 1
pic 2
pic 3
pic 4
The internet razor is here, and we got our hands on it first. The new I-Shick 1.0 is a welcome alternative to standard shaving, wax and depilatories that miss stray hairs.
:-P
Just shave your legs with the I-Shick and it memorizes your follicle patters. Then connect the Razor through a USB port or infrared to your PC. A 3-D model of your leg is uploaded to your own personal website where you can view it and a number of other leg-hair statistics. If you missed any hair, you can clearly see it on the internet.
Version 2.0 of the I-Shick will include upgrades such as armpit, face, and pubic mapping. Investing in I-Shick 1.0 and registering allows you to download ongoing software updates for a subscription fee of $9.99 per month. Free shaving cream is a gift with initial sign up.
At $2,019.99 for the razor and connectors, the I-Shick seems a little steep initially, but very comparable to the cost of laser hair removal treatments, without all of the trouble of leaving the house.
Rachel Bondi's original article
Too bad its fake.... although I don't really need to shave my legs, there are some women who need to very badly.