DuckReconMajor

Edit: whoops, wrong year.

In the year 1655, Titan was discovered.

The time is now.

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I'm toxic!

I'm using a blue Allsop mousepad with a water droplet pattern that I bought at Walmart for like $10. If I had to estimate, I'd say I've had this mousepad for ten years, probably longer. It's held up very well, considering all the internet browsing and furious gaming that has taken place on it.

Technician said:

My mouse pad is a piece of human skin pair of size D boobies stretched over a plank of wood. Beat that.

FTFY. Also makes for an awesome stress reliever ;-)

Use a power supply calculator to work out how much actual wattage you need under max load, and get something at least 25% better than that. I dunno about Corsair, but the three good Antec models (TruePower, NeoPower, EarthWatts) remain in their efficiency range up to their sticker rating and can supply ~100W more without breaking a sweat. I have one of these, total overkill for my shitbox but awesome future-proof investment.

Fact: DDR2 is more efficient if operating at bus speeds 800MHz and below. DDR3 is more efficient if operating faster. Base your choice off this, plus the fact that a DDR3/AM3 board is likely to have USB3 which will be cool when fast thumbdrives become available.

I have two WD Green Powers and they are fine. Faster than the other 2-yearold Seagate 7200RPM drives I have. They operate at a fixed spindle speed per model (ie: all 1Tb drives run at the same speed, all 2Tb drives run at the same speed, but a different speed to 1Tb drives) which WD do not disclose but acoustic testing shows them all to operate between 5000 and 7200rpm. Blacks are faster. If you're going multiple drives, I'd get a Black for OS/apps and Green for data storage.

The case is listed as Unavailable so I can't see the price, but how good is it? After purchasing an Antec P182B I can't stress how nice it is to have a really good, quiet, cool case. This particular one has the drives in a separate air area to the rest, this is important to me as it gets really hot here and I was starting to cook drives during summer. It's a $200 case but so worth it.

Nice CPU, not sure I'm sold on the mobo. There's probably a better Asus or Gigabyte board out there for only a few bucks more. Read overclocker reviews on these. Even if you're not overclocking, you want something that's capable and resistant so it doesn't die within a couple of years.

If you're not overclocking, why bother with the Black Edition? You could save some cash getting something with fixed bus.

People said stuff about :
Activation

That's why cracked/VLK releases are for. Even if legally own XP and Vista, I prefer using "overcl0xx0rz 1337 h4xx0rz" releases to avoid the PITA of reactivating. Do a handful of "major" changes like GFX, RAM disk and you're out, not good if you are constantly experimenting with hardware like me.

Since they shoved a copy of XP (and now Vista/7) down yo ass every time you buy a new laptop, you might as well use an up-to-date VLK slipstreamed installation with the latest SP, instead of a shitty "system restore" disk or a wimpy, service pack 0 level POS that needs phone activation. The license has been paid for anyway.

Yeah if you change hardware often then going legit is more trouble than it's worth.

Makes me want to play through with PC Speaker emulation

OPL music + true vanilla (port) makes the game hella scary. I don't know why, it just is. I heartily recommend everyone to play the game through at least once like that.

OPL music is certainly scary. You never know when your ears will burst in pain!

DuckReconMajor said:

The data files are accessible; you can do whatever you want with them. Steam pretty much just installs the games to its internal folder.

Keen/Doom/Wolf3d actually run in DOSBox, and each has its own copy of DOSBox in it. Steam still launches the games in the same way you might launch them yourself, but you can tell they weren't expecting you to tweak anything behind the scenes. For example, Doom lacks a setup utility. If you want to change the controls, you'll have to find the number for each button and edit the config yourself.

heh. I Kind of expected this.

Happy birthday DuckReconMajor!

You want to hear about the birth of DRM? DRM was invented by a cartel of shady media guys in suits in order to compensate for their idealistic bankruptcy, their lack of business creativity and total inability to provide actual value to consumers, in the internet age, without ripping them off. They cannot find ways to compete in a market that's overwhelming them (it's a better deal to watch a DVDRip than it is to actually buy a copy of the DVD what with all the unskippable and now mythical "You wouldn't steal a loaf of bread" propaganda ads - curiously enough those were originally made in Portugal, for the Portuguese market) because it provides so much better prices, then coerce the software and electronics manufacturers (disregard this if you're thinking Sony, they're all the same kind of wretched scum no matter what subsidiary they come from) into intentionally crippling their products in order to maintain their profit margin stupidly high, while reducing the coverage of the actually provided services. All this encased in a "consumer protection" façade which goes to show how perfidious the music and film industries are, because it's actually not that different from racketeering. And consumerism is how they poison us.

Back to using one FPS Freek on the right stick. God, I'm an idiot. Sorry Use3D for leading you otherwise.

I find those things work best on both sticks, feels more consistent.

DuckReconMajor said:

Back to using one FPS Freek on the right stick. God, I'm an idiot. Sorry Use3D for leading you otherwise.

It's okay, I got a pair of vipers since my two didn't match (was making me nuts), and have been using both for a while. I find tracking targets while moving in BC2 is easier, but it could very well be my imagination. I know I'll be keeping the right one regardless.

DuckReconMajor said:

MTG 2011 Core booster pack (just got into this recently)[/list]

Look out, this will suck you in.

Happy [EDIT: belated] Brithday! Another decade is always something to look back on. Now you get to look forward to the next turning point of age - quarter of a century :P

Gonna check out that duck wad after class is over....

Since I had to learn advanced Automata theory, It took me a year longer than it should have.

Congrats, man.

I`m going back to school this autumn (maybe next autumn if I`m unlucky). Yay, only 3 (actually 4) years of studying and little money to look forward to. Good thing I`m so young, ONLY 29! haha :(

Csonicgo said:

Since I had to learn advanced Automata theory, It took me a year longer than it should have.

We did intro to theoretical computer science, where we did automata and turing machines and whatnot. There were like five of us who were lucky enough to get it and got As on everything while everyone else failed every assignment. They were smart people too, I felt bad. Once you get it though and start to enjoy them you feel so nerdy, heh.

A funny story, the professor let the people who failed one test retake it the following class while those who got As didn't have to come that day. He tells the people in the retake that the next class is cancelled. So the people who didn't retake all showed up and would have waited for a long time had someone not been nice enough to stay back and tell everyone.

darkreaver said:

Congrats, man.

I`m going back to school this autumn (maybe next autumn if I`m unlucky). Yay, only 3 (actually 4) years of studying and little money to look forward to. Good thing I`m so young, ONLY 29! haha :(

Most of the people I went to school with were in their late 20s. Unless it's some fancy-pants college where your course schedule is written out for you at the beginning and living on campus is all but mandatory, someone your age going to school is pretty much normal.

Maes said:

That's quite an unusual occurrence today. In some markets, in particular Java programming, employers look for knowledge of specific frameworks (Spring, Hibernate, Struts and MVC frameworks in general) and "proven experience" using them, so showing an "off topic" portfolio (e.g. showing DIP applications for a web framework position, which unfortunately are the majority) and even a "willingness to learn" and "ability to pick up things real quick" isn't going to work .

From what I've heard, that kind of stuff is asked for, but not for entry level positions. I could be wrong though.

Danarchy said:

As a barista, this thread makes me facepalm.

You essentially work at the overpriced McDonalds of the coffee world.

Barnes & Noble is like McDonalds?

Also, it's only overpriced because of the wankers who make overly complicated drink orders, then have us remake them 5 times because they weren't quite right.

Danarchy said:

Barnes & Noble is like McDonalds?

Yeah. The part with books is the PlayPlace. For nerds.

I was trying anything at that point.

Many general-purpose data-recovery programs have names referring to recovering photos, as that is what a lot of people tend to need them for ("OMG I accidentally deleted all the photos on my chip!"). They're useful for lots of other things though.

I find it's always useful to have a copy of PhotoRec on my computer when I'm travelling, as every so often you do meet some distraught soul who doesn't realize that deleted files aren't really deleted.

General anesthesia for wisdom teeth is pointless. You might as well do it for a normal extraction for all the benefit there is. In my experience the wisdom tooth extractions were painless under local, and that includes the one that was buried sideways underneath the gum. The only other reason to be asleep is the crackling sound that vibrates through your jaw when the dentist is breaking the tooth into pieces. The extraction is followed by several days of dull, aching pain. That would be the correct time to be comatose.

AndrewB said:

The only other reason to be asleep is the crackling sound that vibrates through your jaw when the dentist is breaking the tooth into pieces.

That's a DAMN GOOD REASON.

Yeah, that's a pretty damn good reason. Same reason I really don't want to watch Marathon Man.

Super Jamie said:

I have never played Galaga.

I'm sorry.

Maes said:

Not at all. If we're talking about real arcade machines without CMOS backup or emulators without high-score saving, then it's normal that the high scores are lost when the machines are powered down. Very few arcade machines made before 1997 saved high scores - the norm was them being purely RAM & ROM affairs.

Actually, I liked "ephemeral" vanity tables best, at least for frequently played/popular games: every day the situation changed, so you had to be a regular in a given room to keep your name up high.

There were slow days, sure, but it avoided situations where a vanity table would be filled with closely tied scores that were impossible to get past (e.g. game-completion scores in Puzzle Bobble were all pretty close save for a few digits).

Good point. In my case, however, I'm glad it's the way it is. This machine is in the arcade room at Great Wolf Lodge Virginia. I go there maybe 2-3 times a year and it's the only thing there I really enjoy doing.

The first time I discovered you could rescue your ship, I peed myself.

i don't recall the pizza hut in town having galaga when i was younger, though they did have samurai shodown for a while then:



truly a riveting tale of the man there were long long ago who try to make his skill ultimate

That's okay, I never finished Eternal III. I think a part of my soul is still wandering aimlessly around map30 trying to find the next hidden passage.

Yeah, that thread basically explains why I never beat it. I have beaten every level of it individually, but I've never actually done it from start to finish. In my defense, I have beaten all the episodes of The Ultimate Doom multiple times.

Also lol @ bucket's signature. Where the Hell does that come from?

myk said:

Yeah, it looks like 9 out of 114 people failed the kindergarten entry test, and 15 admitted cheating.

Signature material

printz said:

Interesting, I didn't know Asus also made GeForce cards (I thought it was NVidia's property). Does this mean they support CUDA programs?

Lots of different manufacturers make Nvidia and ATI cards based on the "reference" designs. Sometimes they are identical to the spec, sometimes they come factory overclocked with things like bigger fans, etc.

Yeah, this card is very very non-reference.

NVidia doesn't manufacture any of their own cards do they?

Also, I'm pretty sure any card based on a CUDA supporting NVidia chipset is going to support CUDA programs no matter which company manufactures the card.

They used to release OEM cards, yeah. Don't know if that still happens.

I always thought you were a little older for some reason.

Technician said:

Reading it to Departure is more appropriate.

Now you've got me reading it to "Higher and Higher".

It's good to have goals.

Well, I did always hate you, and I'll assume the subjective "sexy bastard" is true as well

Maes said:

I always hated you, you sexy bastard, because you ruined my fantasy of you being an agile waterfowl hunter, as your name suggested :-(

I felt the same about you until I found it wasn't that hard to imagine you as a rock hard cyberdemon ass, you big strong man you.

DuckReconMajor said:

It's okay I baked my own.

*hands them out to everybody*

LOVELY!!!! I still kinda want to smack this thread in the mouth :/

DuckReconMajor said:

Heh, just noticed that each time I've posted today my posts per day goes up by .01

Consider yourself lucky. I need 4.65 posts to get the same .01 rise. :(
Nice biscuits!!

DuckReconMajor for Admin!

It says "File a claim for ANY PRIZE at any Lottery Customer Service Center", but I don't know if that means any retailer or that office I'd have to drive for half an hour to get to (by which time I'd probably spend most of it on gas).

Anyway, I was considering going out tonight to see but I'll just do it tomorrow. Thanks anyway.

You can cash it at any place that has a lotto machine.

I personally never play lottery. Not only is it a complete money pit, I'm not giving the state any more of my cash.

I play fortune cookie numbers for fun. I got a cookie at the mall and it had two fortunes in it so I was like EXTRA LUCKY so I ran to the machine there and stuck a $10 in, too stupid to realize the machine doesn't give change. So among the many tickets bought I did a Power Play on my sister's boyfriend's numbers which got the Powerball number right.

Still have the Mega Millions drawing tonight, heh.

Congrats. I hope it works out.

I spent the summer trying to start up a design studio, but I think I'm going to break down and get temp work. I might get a hook-up with a lucrative job, but I'm not too excited about the Dilbert-like atmosphere and reporting to HQ in NYC.

exp(x) said:

Congrats. I hope it works out.

Thank you. Again good luck to you as well. Don't get stuck in grad school forever.

Bucket said:

I spent the summer trying to start up a design studio, but I think I'm going to break down and get temp work. I might get a hook-up with a lucrative job, but I'm not too excited about the Dilbert-like atmosphere and reporting to HQ in NYC.

Dilbert-like atmospheres never bothered me. My dad would take me to work when I was younger so I was practically raised in one. Besides, all I do is sit at my computer all day anyway.

The place I'll be working is more of a lab environment though, so I'm not quite working the cubicle farm yet.

Hey my friend. Apologies if I in any way misled you. I actually PM'd you about it before it all happened. :) But yes haha this is literally the longest scooby doo episode ever. Agreed. THanks my friend. Appreciated.

LOL you definitely did (message me a decade ago and I forgot). I didn't feel misled at all, this is great news! edit: I missed the whole dang thread you posted! hahahaha

Glad you didn't miss it! Only the most important thread in the history of doomworld!! lol. It is so so good to be back and involved again. And weirdly healing in some ways too. Appreciate your support. Hope your 'mediocre' programming is going well. (I will never ever show you the acs scripting I did for a particular project. Beyond bad. I program like a creative. ie catastrophically.)

Heh. All those tech rants are finally starting to pay "dividends" I see. This old cyberdemon butt has ascended to the status of "authoritative Internet research source", no less.

Good poem. Now we need to get into the enterprise and do this :-P!