12/3    So my little sister is asking for an Xbox 360 for Christmas. I
        sked her if she meant the new Kinect controller one and she said
        no, just the regular controllers. What exactly is she asking for
        here? -not really a gaming geek anymore
        \_ She's asking for an Xbox 360. Is there anything complicated about
           that? Don't bother getting the Kinect, but ideally don't go cheapo
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5/21    http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/8/indie-game-developer-finds-success-on-xbox-360-est-825k-sales-in-first-week
        "[blojo] should be able to make game developing a full-time gig."
        What else does he do with his time? This sounds like really crappy
        journalism. Now we just need an iPhone release and he can retire.
   \_ Making a living writing console games by yourself is a huge
      accomplishment these days.  Most games are made by giving a huge
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2/20    Has anyone played Braid?
        \_ My roommate the vid game progrmamer loves it, and worships
           blojo for being the one independent game developer in the world
           who appears to be doing ok.
        \_ I've played the demo on Xbox.  I enjoyed it, and will probably buy
           it when I have more time to play it.  Actually, the only reason
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12/15   Anyone have opinions on media streamers that connect to your tv and
        let you play all those bittorrented movies?  I'm getting sick of
        my xbox refusing to play every other video.
        \_ My current solution is an old pc with a cheap video card, using
           Synergy on my laptop.  This plus every episode of MST3K has provided
           much entertainment.
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11/12   Should I have another kid or get an Xbox live subscription?
        \_ you want to spend in the face of a downturn economy?
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10/31   If you like survival horror and Sci Fi, you owe it to yourself to play
        Dead Space.  Awesome game.  (Only drawback is non-skippable death
        animations, but at least those are all pretty amazing.)
        \_ xbox 360 or pc?
           \_ I played it on PC.  Played through in a single sitting (about 20
              hours).
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10/12   Any recommedations on budget Xbox 360 games?  Here's mine:
        Crackdown is a lot of fun for $15 at Gamestop.
        I can get Sneak King for $1, is that worth it?
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10/12   Any recommednations on budget Xbox 360 games?  Here's mine:
        Crackdown is a lot of fun for $15 at Gamestop.
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8/5     Hey blojo got a game up on xbox live:
        http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/b/braidxboxlivearcade/default.htm
        Guess he finally finished something!!!
        \_ Braid looks beautiful. I hope they port it to other platforms.
        \_ It totally sucks that, while the game costs 15 dollars, you can
           have to spend 25 dollars to buy enough points to buy the damn
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5/28    I got an Xbox 360 a while back, and I didn't have a system last
        generation, so I've been buying old Xbox games from the bargain bin.
        Does anyone have any recommendations?  At $4 a pop, it doesn't have to
        be amazing.
        \_ At $4 per 1/2 box, you can shoot a bunch of 9mm's from
           a nice Beretta and have more fun than being a geek.
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10/16   Are standard poodles smarter than George W Bush?
        \_ Yes because they're not as stubborn and bullheaded as GWB.
        \_ Why the obsession with smart dogs?  They're harder to train and
           get bored easily.  Bored dogs destroy stuff.
           \_ Actually, I have experiences with both smart and dumb dogs
              (poodle, beagle, dachshund, yorkies) and the smarter they
	...

3/15    Why does MS put double-quotes around the '8' in Windows Server 8, like
        the following?
        - Windows 8
        - Windows Server "8"
        \_ Because when they didn't do it, code didn't see the '\0'
           and went over?  Looks better than '8','\0' *shrug*
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4/17    If you have a general access AssOS machines, this is worth
        taking this seriously. --psb
  http://c-skills.blogspot.com/2009/04/udev-trickery-cve-2009-1185-and-cve.html
        <DEAD>admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/udev-127-5.fc10<DEAD>
        \_ What does this have to do with MS Windows?
           \_ psb is a bsd lover.
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4/2     I'm running Windows.  How do i get cool virtual desktops
        like on a mac or 100 million other Unix window managers?
        \_ 2 minutes of googling should get you some answers.
           MS has a "powertoy" for this.
        \_ VMware Workstation?
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2/1     MS tries to buy Yahoo
        \_ GOOG 514.60  -49.70
           :-)
           I'm not the "short GOOG" guy, just someone who envies Google
           employees.
        \_ Official buyout letter from MSFT http://tinyurl.com/3ysrzu
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10/1    Where's the short Google at 100 guy?
        \_ Me thinks it's a great time to short now.
           \_ Yeah, definitely short it now!  Funny thing about stock
              valuation:  it can sometimes be rational and sometimes
              be irrational.  If everyone hates a stock, and everyone
              shorts it except for a few, and no one who actually owns
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7/10    My girlfriend downloaded music from iTunes onto another computer,
        which we do not have access to anymore. Apple has record of the
        purchases through the "Purchase History" option, but their policy
        is that you can only download once. I never realized that. WTF?!
        Why would they have such a policy when they clearly know what she
        bought? Has anyone sued them over this? We have so many songs in
	...

5/25    Happy towel day.  Question:  does anyone know of a Windows screen
        saver that displays the user desktop as it is, including showing
        updates (such as from logfile scrolling by in an application, etc.)
        but works with the normal MS screen lock function?  -John
        \_ If the screen saver displays the desktop as it is, how does it save
           the screen?
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5/13    Someone please give us a 411 on Windows Vista? Is activation
        tougher than WinXP sp2? Is it impossible to get around now forcing
        you to pay for upgrades? Let me just say that I don't like Windows
        OS.  I don't mind using Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint,
        and they actually make decent games. However, for over a decade
        I've been sucked into using Windows3.0/95/98/2K/XP because
	...

5/3     so you think microsoft will buy yahoo?
        \_ If yahoo is owned by MS, perhaps they will no longer have scientology
           moles within their organization farming for the email addresses of
           people who are trying to avoid the COS.  Fuck Yahoo, and fuck their
           evil scientology moles!
        \_ God I hope not.  -tom
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4/13    I use IE7 to browse a web site, and the server says the UserAgent
        string is
        "UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET
        CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)"
        Is MS bowing to the Mozilla community?
        \_ What are you talking about?  IE has always reported its UserAgent
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11/3    In my WinSock.h for v1.1 (dated 6/4/02), there is this line:
                #define AF_FIREFOX      19              /* FireFox */
        What is that???  FireFox socket address family?
        \_ It is a hack MS put into the windows network stack back in '02 to
           slow down FireFox network connections.
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