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I can't link from my phone but Microsoft just made the news official and reversed course on the Xbox. -- nm - Krusty Jun 19, 14:00 1
- Berry has the link -- nm - eag Jun 19, 14:01
um, did i miss this? Al Queda Militants storm into UN's headquarters in Somali capital in an attack that kills 20 -- (link) - Andie Jun 19, 13:59 1
- ML is really falling down on the job - charlie Jun 19, 14:00
I just read that story on Men's Warehouse. This isn't the last you hear about it. - spamlet Jun 19, 13:59
FIFA Conf. Cup spoils - znufrii Jun 19, 13:57
Proud Daddy Post: -- (link) - Name Withheld By Request Jun 19, 13:50 4
- So cute - tiny little hand holding your cap - hee! -- nm - JenBro Jun 19, 14:34
- cute -- nm - amoxy Jun 19, 13:58
- so cute! :) - -- nm - b. Jun 19, 13:53
- very nice! -- nm - groiny Jun 19, 13:51
for the record, concerning my post below on self-plagarism .... - i'm not dead yet ! Jun 19, 13:43 1
- if it's not a published source, then don't worry about it -- nm - charlie Jun 19, 13:46
I hope that no one here uses ClickBank -- nm - Beryllium Jun 19, 13:43
"We already have a console for those who don't have an always-on connection. It's called the Xbox 360." - Mop (190 lbs) Jun 19, 13:38 9
- Xbox One is going to be about as successful as Windows 8 -- nm - Jovian Jun 19, 14:00
- The Xbox One page is now updated and stable. The Giant Bomb story said no more region lock but that's not clear in the FAQ. -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Jun 19, 13:56 2
  - linkie -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 19, 13:59 1
    - Yeah it says no regional restrictions -- nm - eag Jun 19, 14:01
- That's a ridiculous demand. They have had a perfectly good system that people have been using and enjoying for years. That system isn't going away. - Max Jun 19, 13:44
- No amount of back-pedalling can undo the damage from that statement, IMO. It cuts to the core of the problem. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 19, 13:44 3
  - In 5 months who is gonna care though - eag Jun 19, 13:52 2
    - The type of people who still care about the "work a little more to afford a ps3" comment. -- nm - Ender Jun 19, 18:16
    - This change is at least a good thing for the US military members -- nm - Beryllium Jun 19, 13:58
Huzzah! When I was hired into the new gig, I negotiated $225/month more in lieu of a parking spot. Just landed a parking spot for $95/month. - Name Withheld By Request Jun 19, 13:37 1
- Woop! -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Jun 19, 13:39
High school graduations today...chaos in the streets !! - Meg Jun 19, 13:37 2
- Brazil? -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Jun 19, 13:39 1
  - 1% give their little girls T-birds for graduation gifts and they'll have fun fun fun till you know -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 19, 13:47
Justin Robert Young on Frame Rate blows my mind again: The "mega ticket" for World War Z is just a trial run for bigger things like... - Mop (190 lbs) Jun 19, 13:36 4
- they've had charity benefit opens for years with $100 tix -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 19, 13:49
- WWZ is a bad test case. Avengers 2 and Ep VII would clean up with higher priced advance screenings -- nm - charlie Jun 19, 13:37 2
  - like even without any other perks, the hardcore fans would easily pay $50 to see it early -- nm - charlie Jun 19, 13:38
  - More a case of testing the logistics rather than fan reaction. -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Jun 19, 13:38
Dolce and Gabbana sentenced to jail for tax evasion -- (link) - DaneDukeNuuk Jun 19, 13:34 1
- thanks, I meant to click on a bb post and forgot. wow, 20 months. -- nm - b. Jun 19, 13:40
i have been on hold for 14 min and 18 sec. guess when they pick up again. -- nm - Andie Jun 19, 13:31 1
- 31 minutes 25 seconds, natch -- nm - Beryllium Jun 19, 13:35
Xbox.com posts some updates about Xbone ... -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 19, 13:29 1
- (and then I click the links for the update, and I get a 404. SCUMBAG MICROSOFT STRIKES AGAIN.) -- nm - Beryllium Jun 19, 13:30
US CFL Fans: Good news! Starting with next week's Thursday-night season opener, you can watch TWO games per week on either ESPN2 or NBC Sports. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jun 19, 13:27 3
- thank you for the warning -- nm - charlie Jun 19, 13:31
- That's pretty sweet. -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Jun 19, 13:30 1
  - Montreal-Winnipeg is the opener. Winnipeg debuts its new stadium. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jun 19, 13:32
JoBlo's got some exclusive release dates on the Star Wars movies and the "Rebels" animated series. -- (link) - Mop (190 lbs) Jun 19, 13:23
Wrigley Field done with Legos -- (link) - Beaker Jun 19, 13:21 1
- sweet -- nm - peglegpete Jun 19, 13:25
CRUSH!!! -- nm - Don Homer Jun 19, 13:20 1
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A *chick* is directing 50 Shades of Grey? Pfft! -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Jun 19, 13:11 10
- her husband is HALF her age, and I have never heard of her before -- nm - peglegpete Jun 19, 13:18 9
  - I was looking him up and came across a photo of busy phillips (unrelated). it made me "whoa" out loud. - b. Jun 19, 13:38 1
    - max hit it -- nm - charlie Jun 19, 13:45
  - Is it Sam Taylor-Johnson? -- nm - Diva (rum punch) Jun 19, 13:20 5
    - Tis. What's she made before? Never heard of her. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jun 19, 13:21 4
      - Her big deal is a 2009 movie about a teenage John Lennon meeting Paul McCartney. -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Jun 19, 13:23 3
        
        Nowhere Man. (i think) -- nm - Diva (rum punch) Jun 19, 13:25 2
        
        her lesser stuff must be really good to land her this directing job. -- nm - peglegpete Jun 19, 13:26 1
        
        With no judgement on the quality of her work, but I would wager the producers are quite happy to have the cover of a female director on this project. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jun 19, 13:28
  - I only know her because she's married to Kick-Ass. -- nm - Kim Pine Jun 19, 13:19
I may have just bought this T-shirt. -- (link) - Name Withheld By Request Jun 19, 13:01 6
- And the origin on the joke.... -- (link) - Name Withheld By Request Jun 19, 13:03 4
  - That made me laugh. -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Jun 19, 13:07
  - hee! -- nm - b. Jun 19, 13:06
  - okay that's funny. -- nm - znufrii Jun 19, 13:04 1
    - Used to be "T-Rex" jokes until someone came up with the parrot line. The Gif put it over the top. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jun 19, 13:07
- ??? -- nm - groiny Jun 19, 13:03
Microsoft about to do a double take on there DRM stuff -- (link) - eag Jun 19, 12:53 11
- Seems like pure speculation from a website that wants hits. -- nm - Inigo Jun 19, 13:17 4
  - So far, yeah. No one's corroborating. -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Jun 19, 13:26 3
    - Kotaku has it also and its coming from multiple sites not just Giant Bomb -- nm - eag Jun 19, 13:30 2
      - Kotaku's sources are WhatHiFi and GiantBomb. I don't know either of those sites but they appear independent of each other, so that's something. -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Jun 19, 13:33 1
        
        Giant Bomb is my go to site for games - eag Jun 19, 14:04
- heh, Bing v. Google search prompts for X-Box One -- (link) - charlie Jun 19, 13:13
- This honestly wouldn't have affected me, but perception is a big deal, and if the Xbone didn't sell, I'd suffer. -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Jun 19, 13:09
- Very interesting. -- nm - Krusty Jun 19, 13:08 2
  - And since they said u needed the kinnect as part of the online verificatition process - eag Jun 19, 13:12 1
    - True. That would be a smart move. -- nm - Krusty Jun 19, 13:22
- There we go. Sorry Sony. - Spawn Jun 19, 13:00
The American South has 37 percent of the country's population, but 50 percent of the new HIV diagnoses. -- (link) - ty97 Jun 19, 12:53 4
- But they only count for three-fifths of a vote. -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Jun 19, 13:11
- don't they have 50% of the meth problem too -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 19, 13:11 1
  - yes, and 50% of the math problem, too. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 19, 13:21
- If I read that right it's poor minorities that seem to have the problem, right? -- nm - decline Jun 19, 13:04
ST poll time, anyone? from an academic standpoint, is it possible to plagarize yourself? .... - i'm not dead yet ! Jun 19, 12:50 17
- that doesn't sound like plagiariism at all. -- nm - loosilu Jun 19, 13:17 2
  - if you're relying on an external source (even of your own authoring) it should be cited to within a new work -- nm - charlie Jun 19, 13:19 1
    - hmm. -- nm - loosilu Jun 19, 13:26
- I can't see that's different from an updated version of a published work - and we see those all the time. - Meg Jun 19, 13:10 1
  - depends on the expectation of the prof. -- nm - zork Jun 19, 13:16
- you might want to write a citation within the new paper that points to the old one. Let the instructor research how similar they are if he/she wants -- nm - zork Jun 19, 13:06
- the charge could come up as its easy to google a few lines and see its been used before -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 19, 12:57 2
  - if you posted your own work online somewhere previously, yes. -- nm - Andie Jun 19, 13:02 1
    - lets not forget, the assignment was to write something, not recycle the same shit as last year/course/class -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 19, 13:22
- just make sure the instructor is aware and read your school's plagiarism policy closely. - znufrii Jun 19, 12:55 1
  - abd in the latter example you would probably need to cite any of your previous work if you're referencing it verbatim -- nm - znufrii Jun 19, 12:56
- it's possible to plagiarize yourself, sure. to what extent you build on it matters, though. also the school's honor code or policy w/r/t this...nm - x Jun 19, 12:55
- It's definitely not plagarism. I have a hard time believing there's anything wrong with it at all. -- nm - mara Jun 19, 12:53
- this was a thing for a non-academic situation a while back. nm but: -- (link) - b. Jun 19, 12:52
- I wouldn't think so - you're using your own skills and knowledge after all (rather than someone else's) -- nm - Roger More Jun 19, 12:52
- I did it several times. *Every* time got a better grade on it in college than I did in HS. -- nm - Spawn Jun 19, 12:50
- Apparently! -- nm - John Fogerty Jun 19, 12:50
has anyone here successfully netflix-watched on an iPad? the app ratings are middlin'. -- nm - b. Jun 19, 12:49 15
- My wife does just about every night. - spamlet Jun 19, 12:57 10
  - I weirdly prefer hbogo on my laptop to even my tv. -- nm - amanda Jun 19, 13:18
  - thanks, everyone! I understand that IM - I've chosen the HBO app vs. on-demand for seasons 2-3 of GoT. - b. Jun 19, 13:05 8
    - use head phones :) -- nm - decline Jun 19, 13:07 5
      - it's not that big a thing, usually. :) - (b. trivia: I really don't like using them if I don't have to.) -- nm - b. Jun 19, 13:09 4
        
        okey dokey then buy this: -- (link) - decline Jun 19, 13:21 3
        
        oo, I'll check it out - thanks! :) - -- nm - b. Jun 19, 13:27 2
        
        i use this with my ipad - pretty happy with it. -- (link) - Andie Jun 19, 14:02 1
        
        (super portable) -- nm - Andie Jun 19, 14:02
    - ugh, everything in that show is so damn dark -- nm - charlie Jun 19, 13:07 1
      - not just that show - so many do it now. I'm sure it's better for people with bigger screens and higher resolutions, but there're a lot of us - b. Jun 19, 13:16
- i do it pretty regularly (netflix.ca) -- nm - Andie Jun 19, 12:52
- Sure. -- nm - Kim Pine Jun 19, 12:52
- I did all the time when I wa using an iPad, didn't have any significant problems or trouble using it. -- nm - Stephen Jun 19, 12:51 1
  - great - thanks, and thanks! -- nm - b. Jun 19, 12:53
also, i dunno if anyone else saw the popovich presser from last night, but it was classic.... - x Jun 19, 12:46 8
- press conferences are stupid - charlie Jun 19, 12:50 4
  - that's why pop's are so great. he just oozes disdain throughout the whole thing.... - x Jun 19, 12:51 3
    - this -- (link) - mud Jun 19, 13:02 [youtube]
    - And I love his mini interviews with Doris Burke and the end of the quarters - amoxy Jun 19, 12:55
    - *nods* -- nm - Bobby Knight Jun 19, 12:52
- Mike & Mike were talking about it this morning. Classic. -- nm - decline Jun 19, 12:48 1
  - #commandoheadband - Spawn Jun 19, 12:50
- Yup. People were bothered by the "European basketball", though. Would fit the theme here from earlier. -- nm - Spawn Jun 19, 12:48
the FBI is using drones to spy on you -- (link) - decline Jun 19, 12:45
dln't worry...about a thing...cause every little thing is gonna be alright -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 19, 12:44 5
- I had that in my head for days last week. *pause to check what's there* nope, still GoT. -- nm - b. Jun 19, 12:50
- Feeling alright? I'm not feeling too good myself. -- nm - Dave Mason Jun 19, 12:46 3
  - davy are you ok? are you ok davy are you ok, are you ok ok davy -- nm - MJ Jun 19, 12:50 2
    - he's playing Vegas sunday night. 3 man band, acustic tour -- nm - peglegpete Jun 19, 12:58 1
      - now you know and i know -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 19, 13:18
heh. "For all those guys who left, don't come back for Game 7." - Chris Bosh....nm - x Jun 19, 12:44 10
- all the women who left can come back? -- nm - peglegpete Jun 19, 12:48
- I would lie and never acknowledge that I left early. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jun 19, 12:44 8
  - This was a big deal on all the sports talk radio this morning. Dan Pattrick used it for the poll, even. -- nm - Spawn Jun 19, 12:47 5
    - I can't believe he left early that Fiesta Bowl between Boise State and Oklahoma -- nm - amoxy Jun 19, 12:49 4
      - heh. The closest I can come to leaving an event was just in a bar. MNF Colts/Tampa Bay. - Spawn Jun 19, 12:52
      - Truthfully, I never understand leaving early. I mean, it's gawd-damned sports! - Name Withheld By Request Jun 19, 12:52 2
        
        So this. Never leave early. - Krusty Jun 19, 12:57 1
        
        Yup. For me, whether I'm at the game or watching the game atnhome on tv, if I'm a fan I'm watching every minute, no matter how bitter the ending may - Stephen Jun 19, 13:02
  - except there is video of you doing it. -- nm - Don Homer Jun 19, 12:45 1
    - It wasn't me. -- nm - Shaggy Jun 19, 12:50
Moon! -- nm - Spawn Jun 19, 12:42 7
- Spoooooooon! -- nm - The Tick Jun 19, 12:49
- I was going to do "water from the moon" but switched at the last minute. is that what you mean? -- nm - amanda Jun 19, 12:46
- River -- nm - peglegpete Jun 19, 12:46
- *looks away* man did I pick the wrong time to drop in! -- nm - JenBro Jun 19, 12:44 3
  - Hump Day! - Spawn Jun 19, 12:46 1
    - Dang! Too late - I went from here to BB's. - JenBro Jun 19, 13:18
  - I bet when Grease is airing, you always turn it on during Blue Moon. -- nm - zork Jun 19, 12:45

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