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Haha, look, DBB still exists and my account is still working

I drive a BMW 330d such as this one:

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I really liked the original Half-Life. That was EXCELLENT! A couple of others from memory: Unreal Serious Sam American McGee's Alice No One Lives Forever (omg! this was hilarious) And among the older stuff: Duke3D Rise of the Triad (too difficult!) Blood C&C (the original!!) Diablo (mouse elbow ...

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I like those blast from the past threads

Any other oldschoolers still alive?

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Nobody reads Cyanide & Happiness? (www.explosm.net)
I've recently grown a liking to Dilbert, since most of the situations are quite recognisable (working in a multinational corp).

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Looks like a kind of Agapantha (or Agapanthus as Wikipedia just revealed to me)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agapanthus

Then maybe it might be something else

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I found this in a file dated 11-MAY-2002. I probably meant to post this, but never did. So here goes (will probably give many people a blast from the past, hehe :)) Tribute to Descent community: Helping with my sites: Tetrad has helped me with RedFactionPlanet and used to help me on TNet as well ...

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I played the D2 Redbook tracks again and damn they're awesome (with a few exceptions). It reminds me of my biggest deception of D3: the music. As Solrazor once said, either you love or you hate the D3 music. Well, I hate it :) You know what, I think I still have a Voodoo² card lying around. Maybe I ...

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In the absence of forces, an object (ship) follows what we call a geodesic , which is \"the shortest path between origin & destination\". When there is no mass (and thus no gravity and no space-time bending) this is a straight line. However, in the presence off mass (i.e. a planet) this geodesic can ...

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K, knowing you from the past, this makes me want to go out there, buy HL² (and a PC that can actually run it

) and enjoy the sheer quality work that I know I can expect from you.

This will be awesome! I'll toy with a PIV machine I have laying around.

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Something the providers are cheating a bit on is the fact that the internet as a swarm is only as fast as the sum of the connected upload speed. So no matter how many 10-30 mbit downloads you attach to the net, it will still be no faster than the 512 kbit uploads they offer. That would be true if ...

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Blast from the past

Who else is still lurking around here?

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Actually, eating an egg with an unhatched chick in it is the same as a \"normal\" egg plus some sperm

Hell, even your regular eggs could be fertilized

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I think I've got something pretty exclusive: Two CDR's with D3 build 325, burned and handwritten by Kevin Bentley himself, sent straight to me from the Outrage office :D http://tricord.be/stuff/d3-internal-cd01.jpg http://tricord.be/stuff/d3-internal-cd02.jpg Edit: I also found this: http://tricord ...

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Roid, that's a nice theory but I see a huge flaw. Suppose a civilisation was able to harness 100% of the energy emanating from a star, rendering it invisible. What do you think happens with the energy? My guess is that it has to be transported someplace else to be actually used . You can't just ...

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I'm 179cm (between 5'10" and 5'11") and weigh about 68kgs (150 pounds) My goal is to weigh more than 70kgs. I also eat more than anyone I know. Weight training helped me to gain weight (I was at 62kgs 2.5 years ago) and I will pick that up again. I just didn't have the time in the last 5 months as ...

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The problem is, either you have absolute hearing, or you do not. You can't train it. What you can do when tuning a guitar however, is take your best guess at the first string you tune, then tune the rest of them matching the first. Thus you can tune a guitar that will sound perfectly fine on its own ...

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I could never work from home until this came out because of the nightmare to connect. Now it's just VPN+RD and I can be chained to my desk at home too! Hey wait... VPN+VNC is very easy.. :P I think it's too slow for remote office work. It's just usuable to remote admin a box, nothing more. Remote ...

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Capm wrote:... Okay, light moves at the speed of light and has mass, but doesn't require infinite energy to do so. ...

Where do you get that from?

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TechPro wrote:
JMEaT wrote:On the subject of Word. 2007 rocks.
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EDIT: But only after you've customized it a bit.

I haven't tried 2007, but 2003 lost all its points in my book because of the FRIGGIN automatic chapter numbering that took me more time to get right than writing my PhD thesis itself!

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The effect predicted by the theory of relativity, namely that it takes an infinite amount of energy to accelerate a mass to the speed of light, has already been verified. The most important part in this is that light has a finite travelling speed, it is not instantaneous. This has nothing to do with ...

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Not sure if it's a widespread brand in the US, but I absolutely love the Fujitsu-Siemens line.

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Really? I thought English was pretty easy compared to say, French or German (my native tongue is Dutch and is also known to be more difficult to learn than English, but I wouldn't know about that

).

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By the way, I see your 10 Mbps and raise you one OC-48 link straight to the VZ backbone. The connectors terminate in the next room over. ;) I can't beat that, but you're probably not paying for that yourself ;) I do have a gigE connect to the Interoute backbone and negociating with Level3 for a ...

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What I don't get is how Harry convinced MJ to break up with Peter on that bridge. Is it because he threatened her? I think in that case MJ would have tried to warn Peter there's more behind what she's doing. I also found the obvious stars&stripes flag waving thing extremely corny :) And the piano ...

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Here's some trivia:

In Belgium, not only you have a right to vote, you have an obligation to vote. If you don't show up, you are prosecuted. So we have a 100% turn up

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In line with what Ford Perfect says, you could walk down the street and get hit by a car whose driver \"snapped\" or \"lost control\". The risk is real and inherent to cars driving around, but it is deemed low enough not to act on it. In particular nobody is: 1. erecting concrete walls between the ...

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The problem I have with arming more people (be it teachers or cops or janitors, qualified or not) is that in proposing so, you acknowledge that mass killers are an inherent part of your society and so there would be a structural need for increased protection against killing sprees everywhere in ...

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Well, since my job has just been fixed and is set to start in october '07, I was wondering what you guys do for a living. After two master's degrees and seven years of university I signed a contract to work at the marketing division at P&G. I'm also still working for my own hosting company, which I ...

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Thanks flip, but that wasn't quite what I was looking for. It still requires me to hook up my laptop to the transceiver with a cable.

I'm looking for something that doesn't require any device connected to the laptop -- not even a bluetooth dongle. Having a small perimeter is not a problem for me.

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Maybe someone can give some insight in this: My laptop is Bluetooth capable, I'd like to buy a Bluetooth audio receiver so that I can connect it to my amp (using cinch jacks or 3.5mm stereo jack). On the laptop side, the receiver should be recognised as a soundcard, so that whatever sound my laptop ...

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I have no RSS feeds. I haven't paid enough attention to them to find out what they really are. They're just blogs, eh? Tech and space feeds I might be interersted in...where do you view the feeds once you (I guess) subscribe to it? Right in Firefox? Exactly my story. If upgrading wasn't mandatory ...

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The problem is that in the Arab world, political leaders are also religious leaders, or have very strong religious signature. The political power has to be separated from religious power in order to achieve freedom, democracy and all other nice things we'd like to see in the Middle East. This power ...

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That's bad... Last time we've had an outage was three years ago.. I was driving in the city at night, and I saw all lights -- everything -- blink off and on again in half a second.

It was enough to reboot all PC's though.

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Sounds like a lot of fun. Before you know it, you'll have a set of slick tyres for track days and will do a full brake maintenance before each one. When you do that, the first few laps are to be taken easy not in order to warm up the tyres, but in order to set in the new brake pads :) Didn't you ...

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As of two years ago, I always hibernate, because it boots much faster. I was pushing 280 days without a reboot until we had a power cut, so I had to reboot. I have grown used to the fact I can leave programs and things open, hibernate, and find everything back as I left it the next day. I see no ...

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Since the game devs themselves hopped in on this thread, I feel I owe them an elaboration of my comments. Yes, the engine may have more features than the D3 engine, it may be able to draw more polys and do lots of nifty eye-candy stuff and whatnot. If all that is the case, the screenshots mentioned ...

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You don't know me and have proven that you have a hard time understanding even the simplest of sentences composed of short words and easy to follow logic so spare us your analysis. I've never said anything about all muslims, however when I say that all the 9/11 hijackers were muslim male extremists ...

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Personally I couldn't care less. But the gaming industry has come a long way since the 1998-ish days of D3, and I remember back then we were saying the same thing about an engine that had pretty much the same capabilities. But eight years later, games have evolved (and so has hardware!). You are ...

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They should have put their patenting budget into psychologic treatment and medication. What's next, turning lead into gold?

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I'm not impressed by the screenshots. It's on par with D3, at best. And that is somewhat dated

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