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I know not many people here are PC gamers, but anyone getting Starcraft 2 today? - oblique Jul 27, 09:25 5
- I was thinking about it, then I saw that the single-player campaign only has the human faction. -- nm - Ender Jul 27, 09:27 1
  - what? really? there is supposed to be campaigns for all 3 -- nm - sycor Jul 27, 09:30
- Most folks are PC gamers as well as console. -- nm - budice Jul 27, 09:26 2
  - Most? Doubtful. -- nm - Black Rabbit Jul 27, 09:27 1
    - Depends how you define things. Technically, anyone who plays HSX or Ikariam could be considered a PC Gamer. -- nm - Ender Jul 27, 09:28
PSA - Non-profit administrators...be sure your group is aware of the new IRS regs.... -- (link) - MojaveMeg Jul 27, 09:21
Not sure if this link will work, but some kind of cool Emmy Foundation auctions going on, incl. HIMYM set visit for 2, Family Guy table read, etc. -- (link) - JaxSean Jul 27, 09:19
Lady Gaga Kidnaps Commissioner Gordon -- (link) - nubby Jul 27, 09:17 1
- stole this. -- nm - Remlik Jul 27, 09:22
Utah Supreme Court reverses conviction of "sect' (that is, "cult") leader Warren Jeffs. -- (link) - Mop (221 lbs) Jul 27, 09:17
sycor, you really should look at this probably. ION2 based (better GPU and CPU than the Revo) -- (link) - oblique Jul 27, 09:16 7
- I would really like to get netflix in whatever I decide to do. I'd also like to get something that is capable of adding a universal remote so the - sycor Jul 27, 09:25 3
  - So be sure to get Windows 7 with the Zotac. Get the Home Premium and you'll get Windows Media Center included which has a great Netflix plugin -- nm - oblique Jul 27, 09:27 1
    - You can even use tricks like this to integrated XBMC into Windows Media Center for playing back files like MKV which WMC normally doesn't like -- (link) - oblique Jul 27, 09:30
  - Not so. Any PC works with a remote. You just grab one of these -- (link) - oblique Jul 27, 09:26
- I got a Dell Zino HD for the express purpose of using it as a media center. The Windows Media interface is awesome. - Mop (221 lbs) Jul 27, 09:20 1
  - The only thing with the Zino is that it is lacking in the CPU and GPU department for using anything other than Windows - oblique Jul 27, 09:23
- If you don't care about Netflix, you can skip Windows 7 and just install XBMC (Linux) on it. You can see in the reviews how well it does -- nm - oblique Jul 27, 09:18
The stupid ideas just get stupider. -- (link) - LMS Jul 27, 09:16 1
- ugh. -- nm - Remlik Jul 27, 09:23
Birthday MFK: Cliff Curtis, Julian McMahon, Jonathan Rhys Meyers -- nm - Dano Jul 27, 09:10 5
- I chose A-Rod over Curtis. -- nm - nubby Jul 27, 09:18
- who, who and who again? -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jul 27, 09:11
- FKM -- nm - ty97 Jul 27, 09:11 2
  - Meyers has issues. I don't think I'd want to marry him. So MKF. -- nm - Dano Jul 27, 09:13 1
    - Ditto. -- nm - nubby Jul 27, 09:24
Jeez. 11am already -- nm - oblique Jul 27, 09:05
BF Vamps: Accepting trade offers for Steve Smith (WR-CAR) -- nm - budice Jul 27, 09:02 11
- And I am listening to offers for Devin Hester or Santonio Holmes -- nm - Strongbad Jul 27, 09:15
- BF Asts: I am entertaining trade offers. Mainly looking for picks. -- nm - Black Rabbit Jul 27, 09:04 9
  - The autodraft doesn't do it for you anymore? -- nm - nubby Jul 27, 09:23 1
    - I hunger for more picks. -- nm - Autodraft Jul 27, 09:24
  - I do love that you view yourself as a seller. - the wrong element, bad guy Jul 27, 09:16 4
    - ... and yes, the Jets are getting interest. Basically, at this point I am willing to give them to whoever gives me the best pick for them. -- nm - Black Rabbit Jul 27, 09:20 2
      - I think they would be a very solid keeper for your team. - the wrong element, bad guy Jul 27, 09:25 1
        
        More than likely, that will happen. I drafted the Jets D in most of my leagues last year, and got a few laughs. - Black Rabbit Jul 27, 09:27
    - I have already got a couple offers. - Black Rabbit Jul 27, 09:18
  - I can't fathom how you won with that team -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 27, 09:11 1
    - *flexes* -- nm - Black Rabbit Jul 27, 09:15
Mad Men thoughts since I was able to watch it last night (spoils). - HdnAgnda Jul 27, 08:59 6
- In response... - budice Jul 27, 09:21
- Loved Henry's mom. I hope we see more of her. - Remlik Jul 27, 09:20
- One thing I'm still trying to figure out...(spoils) - znufrii Jul 27, 09:15 1
  - Interesting. I did not know the 'John/Marsha' thing was that old. Perhaps the website 'The Footnotes of Mad Men' will elaborate on it. That is a - HdnAgnda Jul 27, 09:28
- CO - I thought that too. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jul 27, 09:09 1
  - Same here. -- nm - Ender Jul 27, 09:18
Shel Silverstein wrote Johnny Cash's hit "A Boy named Sue" -- nm - amoxy Jul 27, 08:55 4
- Was watching Deadliest Catch last night and noticed a Johnny Cash song that played at the end of one was written by Sheryl Crow. - JaxSean Jul 27, 08:56 3
  - Not exactly a "Johnny Cash song". The American Recordings series were almost exlusive albums of covers. -- nm - Reagen Jul 27, 09:00
  - It surprises me because I thought he wrote most of his stuff -- nm - amoxy Jul 27, 08:57 1
    - Later on, not so much. -- nm - Black Rabbit Jul 27, 08:58
ST Excel PIRR: I am working on an Excel Workbook that I took over for a weekly procedure. How many Sheets does it have? - JaxSean Jul 27, 08:53 22
- Winner: Amoxy. If we were playing CTTP, Will would have won. 156 tabs/sheets. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 27, 09:03 9
  - jesus, that is some overkill right there. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 27, 09:04 8
    - I add two sheets a week. The old ones are just historical. - JaxSean Jul 27, 09:07 7
      - we've got one of those with a sheet every month going back to 2003 - znufrii Jul 27, 09:16
      - sounds like a database might be the right tool -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jul 27, 09:08 5
        
        No need - this is coming from our databases. I have *no idea* who looks at this workbook that I email out, - JaxSean Jul 27, 09:13 2
        
        Or just create a yearly "version" of the book so that you only have 1 year's worth of tabs -- nm - oblique Jul 27, 09:20 1
        
        I'm already planning to revise this whole weekly thing next month anyway. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 27, 09:25
        
        yup, simple import button and a date stamp. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 27, 09:09 1
        
        nooo it can't be simple it must be complex and costly -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jul 27, 09:11
- 69 -- nm - Don Homer Jul 27, 09:03
- 13 -- nm - CQ Jul 27, 09:01
- 52 -- nm - Gwaahjo Jul 27, 08:59
- 26 -- nm - oblique Jul 27, 08:59
- 187 -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 27, 08:58
- 48 -- nm - Vernita Green Jul 27, 08:58
- 76 -- nm - amoxy Jul 27, 08:56
- 312.50 -- nm - budice Jul 27, 08:56
- $ 1 Bob -- nm - Epiphany Jul 27, 08:55
- tabs? - groiny Jul 27, 08:54 1
  - Yes. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 27, 08:55
- 23 -- nm - znufrii Jul 27, 08:54
We had a new high level exec come to meet with us yesterday. He was nice, smart, funny. One thing he mentioned... - Mel Profit Jul 27, 08:53
Yay! new Blackberry has arrived! -- nm - znufrii Jul 27, 08:52
Need computer-ish advice. Setting up a media player. What are my options? - sycor Jul 27, 08:50 27
- I stream all of my stuff through my Xbox. -- nm - Reagen Jul 27, 08:53 15
  - for some reason I cannot get my xbox to see my PC. it's a weird problem with XP home apparently. and besides I'd rather not use my xbox for anything - sycor Jul 27, 08:54 14
    - I have that same issue. the computer sees the xbox, but will not connect. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 27, 08:55 13
      - do you guys go through Windows Media Player? Easy peasy. -- nm - Reagen Jul 27, 09:01 2
        
        should be, see amoxy's post. - groiny Jul 27, 09:02 1
        
        there's WMP and there's that other thing that the Xbox wants you to do that I've never done. - Reagen Jul 27, 09:04
      - it will connect to my laptop no problem which is running XP pro but it will not see the desktop no matter what I do. and it's wireless to both devices -- nm - sycor Jul 27, 08:56
      - Wow, I am not the only one. I get an error saying I need to reinstall the media center -- nm - amoxy Jul 27, 08:56 8
        
        yes. - groiny Jul 27, 08:56 7
        
        Hey (tangent) - Black Rabbit Jul 27, 09:00 5
        
        dude, it was 11:30! - groiny Jul 27, 09:00 4
        
        heh. Played 4 ranked games, won three. -- nm - Black Rabbit Jul 27, 09:03 3
        
        we were victims of idiot teammates all night. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 27, 09:05 2
        
        Yeah, the game I lost I had 3 quiters. -- nm - Black Rabbit Jul 27, 09:12 1
        
        I wish they quit. Tru and I could have beaten the other team by ourselves - groiny Jul 27, 09:14
        
        This is when I use TVersity. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 27, 08:58
- What's the video codec inside the MKV? It's just a container. Is it H.264? MPEG-2? -- nm - oblique Jul 27, 08:52 10
  - H.264 -- nm - sycor Jul 27, 08:53 9
    - 480p DVD resolution or did you encode at something higher? -- nm - oblique Jul 27, 08:53 8
      - I'm going to say yes but I'll be honest I'm not 100%. I use handbreak if that helps. hehe custom setting I got from a friend. - sycor Jul 27, 08:55 7
        
        For that content, you could probably grab an Acer Revo. Anything with an ION or ION2 chipset should work very well - oblique Jul 27, 08:57 6
        
        ok I have no idea what this thing is. lol. can it do netflix? does it need a PC? Can a 1TB drive be connected? - sycor Jul 27, 09:04 4
        
        It's a PC. You can run Windows on it (including Windows Media Center with Netflix) or XBMC if you want. You can connect USB drives to it for sure - oblique Jul 27, 09:06 3
        
        it's so tiny. wow. can it handle 720p TV shows? -- nm - sycor Jul 27, 09:07 2
        
        It has an NVIDIA 9000 series GPU in it (just like a system I have at home). It can playback 1080p recorded ATSC HD no problem - oblique Jul 27, 09:10 1
        
        interesting. ok something new to research. lol -- nm - sycor Jul 27, 09:11
        
        btw, the ION based systems work great with either Linux or Windows -- nm - oblique Jul 27, 08:58
Tugboat hits oil well in the Gulf. 20ft. high oil spew seen -- (link) - oblique Jul 27, 08:44
Milestone post: I get to take Cam's wheelchair back to the DME store today. Wheeeee! - Jim Jul 27, 08:42 6
- Great to hear! -- nm - MojaveMeg Jul 27, 08:59
- Awesome. -- nm - Black Rabbit Jul 27, 08:56
- Nice! does he get to go out to celebrate tonight? -- nm - Andie Jul 27, 08:50
- Thanks Dad! And I'm not planning any revenge. -- nm - Cam si Jul 27, 08:45
- Yeah!! -- nm - Epiphany Jul 27, 08:42
- don't run him over on the way to the store! nm -- nm - groiny Jul 27, 08:42
Since I don't have internet at home, what are some TV shows I should start following? - Hotkiss Jul 27, 08:41 8
- MI5 (on DVD). -- nm - LMS Jul 27, 09:02
- Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead when it starts. Modern Family is always good. Pawn Stars, American Pickers, City Confidential, Nat Geo Wild -- nm - CQ Jul 27, 08:51
- Dexter, if you haven't seen it already [side note: I'm liking S3 a lot more than I was lead to believe that I would] -- nm - prayformojo Jul 27, 08:48 2
  - Jimmy Smits was great. -- nm - Don Homer Jul 27, 08:49 1
    - he was good but the season as a whole was lacking for sure. -- nm - sycor Jul 27, 08:52
- The Daily Show. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 27, 08:48
- The Wire. -- nm - Don Homer Jul 27, 08:47
- finish Lost. -- nm - Remlik Jul 27, 08:47
Soundgarden at the Vic in Chicago on August 5th.... -- nm - Remlik Jul 27, 08:40 5
- Looking California -- nm - David Jul 27, 08:41 4
  - Feelling Minnesota - Epiphany Jul 27, 08:42 3
    - Raising Arizona -- nm - ty97 Jul 27, 08:43 2
      - Fleeing Alabama -- nm - Mop (221 lbs) Jul 27, 08:44 1
        
        Leaving Las Vegas -- nm - Black Rabbit Jul 27, 08:57
Looks like Eric Hosmer figured out whatever ailment he was having. - Will Hunting Jul 27, 08:38
for the first time since I've lived in VA, I saw a snake in the wild yesterday - prayformojo Jul 27, 08:38 25
- I see snakes every now and again and they generally freak me right out. - Callisto Jul 27, 08:49 13
  - The copperhead that bit me was 4' long. Hate snakes. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 27, 08:57 9
    - those are poisonous? - groiny Jul 27, 08:58 8
      - very -- nm - Black Rabbit Jul 27, 09:00 5
        
        I've heard they're poisonous enough to mess you up but if you get any real treatment you'll be fine in most cases. - Will Hunting Jul 27, 09:02 3
        
        went on a canoe trip once (can't remember where we were), but the waters were - groiny Jul 27, 09:04 2
        
        Yeah, we went on a canoe trip and they had us eat lunch across the stream from the normal place. Why? It's call Copperhead Cove. - Will Hunting Jul 27, 09:05
        
        good thing you brought Ricky Schreoder with you. -- nm - Reagen Jul 27, 09:05
        
        thought so. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 27, 09:01
      - yes, they're poisonous. I was 6yrs old and its fangs went in the sole of my shoe. - Will Hunting Jul 27, 09:00 1
        
        yikes -- nm - Don Homer Jul 27, 09:03
  - when I was a kid, one of my brother's friends lost about a 6-foot boa in our house during a party - Reagen Jul 27, 08:56
  - I encounter them pretty regularly especially in small warm pump houses. they love those places -- nm - CQ Jul 27, 08:53
  - I swear that when fishing once on the Mississippi river, I saw a huge boa - groiny Jul 27, 08:51
- garden snake probably -- nm - CQ Jul 27, 08:48 1
  - aka black racer or a rat snake - 'lia Jul 27, 09:12
- water moccasin? -- nm - JaxSean Jul 27, 08:46 4
  - anaconda -- nm - decline Jul 27, 08:47 2
    - Danoconda! -- nm - prayformojo Jul 27, 08:47 1
      - don't want none, unless you got buns hun. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 27, 08:55
  - I'll guess rat snake. -- nm - Don Homer Jul 27, 08:47
- BLACK MAMBA! nm -- nm - groiny Jul 27, 08:42 3
  - Black Mamba. I shoulda been motherfuckin' Black Mamba. -- nm - Vernita Green Jul 27, 08:48 1
    - really,she did have a point. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 27, 08:52
  - bam'a lam! -- nm - oblique Jul 27, 08:46
LYC: is anyone watching the Real L world? want to dish? -- nm - Epiphany Jul 27, 08:37 2
- Lesbians everywhere! nm -- nm - groiny Jul 27, 08:42 1
  - they are mean as black mambas -- nm - Epiphany Jul 27, 08:43
*flunks mandatory ST conditioning test* -- nm - Beaker Jul 27, 08:34 3
- crap, it's mandatory? *holds out* -- nm - CQ Jul 27, 08:37
- Spawn? -- nm - nubby Jul 27, 08:35
- but in my defense, the wife and I started the 100 pushups and 200 situps program yesterday :) -- nm - Beaker Jul 27, 08:34

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