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« on: March 29, 2010, 05:33:45 PM »
Alright, heres the story. A buddy got a really crappy condition house from his gma last year and I was helping him clean it out as she was a massive packrat and I probably spent a good 4-5 weeks of time out there. So this summer he's looking to get into the demo and the real work of fixing it up and remodeling it. Thing is I've kept telling him, go get a loan for 40k so he can buy the damn materials and get some actual work done but to my knowledge he's dragging his feet so he has a small budget to fix like one room and he'll probably run out of cash. I currently don't need any help on anything but am I just being a jerk by not entirely wanting to help him do all his "dirty" work although I probably have nothing going on and could help him? Should I expect him to help me with any projects I have coming up like building a deck or whatever? Last summer I was doing it to be a nice guy and this summer I'd help because I'm a nice guy but its starting to get to feel like he needs to step up and get serious and get a loan or I'm just pussy footing around wasting my time on something when I could be doing something else? I just know in the past I've let friends kind of walk on me and its starting to feel that way a bit, like he's using me as drive for himself to work on this because I know he'd be dragging probably more so if he didn't have my help. So am I breaking dude law or 
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« on: March 12, 2010, 07:53:43 PM »
Apple’s Cook Gets Bonus for Work During Jobs’s Leave (Update1)
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By Dina Bass
March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. awarded Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook a one-time bonus of $5 million and 75,000 restricted shares for filling in while Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs was on medical leave.
The board’s compensation committee unanimously approved a recommendation by Jobs to make the award, Cupertino, California- based Apple said today in a filing. Half of the restricted stock will be available to him on March 10, 2011, with the rest vesting a year later, assuming Cook stays with the company.
Cook was in charge of day-to-day operations at Apple between Jan. 14 and June 29 last year. Jobs, a cancer survivor, had a liver transplant during that time. While Cook was at the helm, Apple earnings topped analysts’ estimates in two straight quarters. The company also introduced a new version of the iPhone.
Apple rose $1.10 to $226.60 today on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The shares have climbed 7.5 percent this year. At today’s price, Cook’s shares would be worth almost $17 million.
--Editors: Nick Turner, Stephen West
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This is one reason I don't buy a lot of big expansive tech stuff anymore because the $500 or whatever for the iphone goes right into the pockets of the 20 or so sitting around the table on the 50th floor. Seeing crap like this makes me NOT want to give them my business although I know this happens everywhere.
Someone tell me why the fuck the average worker doesn't get paid more??
I know why they don't, I'm just bitching. Sick of seeing only a select few get rewards off the sweat of others brows.
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« on: March 12, 2010, 07:49:28 PM »
Thats more or less my opinion. I'm not looking to learn stuff thats not needed at their trying to get me to take. People looking for construction supervisor could care less if you have a degree, they want the experience, I have experience but want some more management style education. I wouldn't see why they wouldn't let people get the education they want as long as they get the money but I don't know the technicalities of it. I'll probably just have to talk to someone at the school but wondering if anyone here knows about this kind of thing.
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« on: March 12, 2010, 03:48:25 PM »
So I'm currently going to college. I'm currently in construction field supervision and I question if I should've choose this one as the instructor and program is a bit lame but I've started it and going to see how it goes.
The point though is that some of the classes they require are a bit of a waste or joke IMHO like the one I'm taking is online and all the instructor does is say do the questions on page 10, read discussion question 1 and respond on the forum. He doesn't really give feedback and his emails are nearly next to worthless.
I know of pre-req's and this "degree" has no pre-req's really. My deal is I don't want to take the worthless classes that I *know* I won't use in the job(as I've had experience in the field) so I don't plan on getting a full degree, I just want the education.
So I'm wondering if anyone here actually knows if a school can refuse to give you classes based on the fact you don't want to take other classes or won't graduate with a degree?
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« on: February 24, 2010, 02:59:06 AM »
does anyone know how to beat that f*****g second colossus on Shadow of the Colossus?
I'd ive you some advice but I forgot which one that is. If its the guy at the bottom of that valley thing or something, the spider one? Its been to long. Just head over to gamefaqs.com or something and read a walkthrough or goto youtube and watch a fight video maybe.
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« on: February 24, 2010, 02:53:23 AM »
Ok, Rogue, I appreciate your effort. Really. Actually I meant what I said. Its nice of you to re-write what I said though. Thanks for clarifying as I wasn't sure my point was getting across....
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« on: February 23, 2010, 01:32:54 AM »
When I look at a genre and really get into a genre I usually end up digging into it and learning more about it and just get an attempt to stimulate some more action around here I'm wondering what you all think would be some of histories most influential pieces would be?
For this thread I'd keep it limited to this century.
All genre's are open for debate but when I thought of this I was thinking about books in particular.
I'm wondering who were the trendsetters that defined a genre, etc.
Like I've read that Sci-Fi didn't exist before HG Wells. It was called science fantasy before him.
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« on: February 23, 2010, 01:26:07 AM »
I set forth to proclaim a proclamation that I think Garfield stands on his knee's. I present the people's evidence A1 to the court.  His feet are just to long so the joint has to be his knee. Thoughts?
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« on: February 23, 2010, 01:09:40 AM »
5) I NEVER welcome new people because they rarely stick around past 10 posts or so
Why is that? It took me like 4 years to get 50 posts to post to the hardware thread. Back in the day there were like 2 posts I REALLY wanted to post to but I didn't want to spam posts since I'm not a one sentence kind of poster and I went away. Now I'm back until I get bored again because I'm bored and have cabin fever and nothing else to do. Carrot, this forum is really a unique forum I think because nearly everyone here knows everyone else(or so it seems) and most threads are like chess games played by mail.
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« on: February 23, 2010, 01:01:44 AM »
Ever played either of the System Shock's? Those were awesome games. Also highly recommend Planescape: Torment which is based off planescape setting of D&D and it actually made me want to play table top D&D. I get bored of the same old Forgotten Realms settings. Never got to far into Neverwinter nights but heard those are good.
Torchlight is pretty sweet too. Its like Diablo I guess but I've never played Diablo long term, only demo'd. Wasn't my bag baby.
I've gotten away from gaming the last few years.
PS3 or Xbox 360?
I hear xbox is more shooters and PS is more action / puzzles?
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« on: February 23, 2010, 12:55:35 AM »
For Better or For Worse what you are thinking of?
Thats the one. Like two years ago the kids in the strip were 30's and married and now they are just kids and I can't recall the best but I swear that the art got way worse then it was before the re-do. possibly like someone else took the strip over... Kind of like some new bitch is doing Dear Abbey. Lac, I've always had it in my brain to do a comic for awhile and I've gotten a couple done but I can't draw worth a crap and I refuse to do a stick figure comic. If anyone at all gives a crap you can see my non-updated comic at http://coatedinsugar.com. I stopped doing it because I wanted to tell a story and do less one shots. I have a ton of pictures lined up to use though. I do like the World of Warcraft ones though.
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« on: February 20, 2010, 03:44:44 PM »
blah blah blah blah I'll hook you up with the guys contact info if you want and you two can debate the universe if you want? 
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« on: February 19, 2010, 08:57:43 PM »
I can't really stand Family Circus either. Little Billy and fam can die a horrible death by mutilation from an axe rapist who fooled his dotted line home.
Also I'm fascinated by the idea of a comic 'starting over' like what one comic I saw did.
I forget the name of the strip but it is one of the few where the family ages.. I can't check because my paper replaced it.
I saw the last strip though and the author got to a point that the grandparents were dying or something and everyone was old and had their own families and she just said at the end that she was essentially starting the whole deal over again so everyone will be young again tomorrow.
I find it really odd that a cartoonist can get away with that. Its like saying they've run out of stories and want a free do over.
I'm glad my paper replaced them but the one they replaced it with also sucks... /facepalm
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« on: February 19, 2010, 08:04:29 PM »
Subject: A Warning
****** STATE POLICE WARNING TO NIGHT DRIVERS
THE FOLLOWING BULLETIN WAS PUBLISHED BY THE BETHLEHEM,PA. STATE POLICE
Please be advised if you are driving after dark and you see a car without headlights on DO NOT FLASH YOUR LIGHTS.... BLOW YOUR HORN... DO NOT SIGNAL THE CAR IN ANY WAY!!!
This is a new GANG MEMBER initiation called "GAME" going on in the street and it works like this: The new member being initiated drives along with their headlights off until someone notices and flashes their at him. The car that signals to the gang member is now the "TARGET" of the game. The gang member is required to chase the car that signaled and SHOOT at, or into the car in order to complete initiation requirements.
Police ask you to share this information with your family, friends and anyone else you come into contact with. This bulletin originally came from the 3rd district of Cleveland, Ohio Police Department. We understand it is beginning to happen in the Pittsburgh, PA area also and the warning is because this could escalate into any other geographic areas.
THIS IS NOTA JOKE IT REALLY IS HAPPENING JUST CHECK WITH LOCAL STATE POLICE!!!!!
PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH YOUR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS
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My parents gave me that print out in like 1998, I remember it well.
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« on: February 19, 2010, 08:00:41 PM »
I don't know, I happened on this link and thought it was interesting, figured someone here might too.. http://www.physorg.com/news185781475.html (PhysOrg.com) -- Hollywood movies have found a mathematical formula that lets them match the effects of their shots to the attention spans of their audiences. Psychologist Professor James Cutting and his team from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, analyzed 150 high-grossing Hollywood films released from 1935 to 2005 and discovered the shot lengths in the more recent movies followed the same mathematical pattern that describes the human attention span. The pattern was derived by scientists at the University of Texas in Austin in the 1990s who studied the attention spans of subjects performing hundreds of trials. The team then converted the measurements of their attention spans into wave forms using a mathematical technique known as the Fourier transform. They found that the magnitude of the waves increased as their frequency decreased, a pattern known as pink noise, or 1/f fluctuation, which means that attention spans of the same lengths recurred at regular intervals. The same pattern has been found by Benoit Mandelbrot (the chaos theorist) in the annual flood levels of the Nile, and has been seen by others in air turbulence, and also in music. Cutting made his discovery by measuring the length of every shot in 150 comedy, drama and action films, and then converted the measurements into waves for every movie. He found that the more recent the films were, the more likely they were to obey the 1/f fluctuation, and this did not just apply to fast action movies. Cutting said the significant thing is that shots of similar lengths recur in a regular pattern through the film. Cutting believes obeying the 1/f law makes films “resonate with the rhythm of human attention spans,” and this makes them more gripping. Films edited in this way would then tend to be more successful and the style of shooting and editing more likely to be copied. Films of Cutting’s own favourite genre, the Film Noir, do not generally follow the 1/f law, with shot lengths tending to be more random. By contrast The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and the 2005 blockbuster movie Star Wars Episode III (which Cutting considers to be “just dreadful”) both follow 1/f rigidly. The researchers concluded that over the next few decades film makers may take more care to follow the 1/f law to try to boost audience engagement. More information: Attention and the Evolution of Hollywood Film; James E. Cutting, Jordan E. DeLong and Christine E. Nothelfer, Psychological Science published online 5 February 2010. DOI:10.1177/0956797610361679 . Full text of the paper is available here ( http://people.psych.cornell.edu/~jec7/pubs/cuttingetalpsychsci10.pdf ).  ___________________________________________________________________________ I love how just about everything can be put into math terms. =)
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« on: February 19, 2010, 07:53:30 PM »
Finally! A Blondie comic that is actually a fraction of a bit funny.  I'm saddened by today's comics page. The local paper has around 20 comics and about 2 of those are actually good. And can someone explain to me why the H is Charlie Brown still allowed in papers? There needs to be a time limit allowed on things like that. He might have been funny and relevant back in the 50's but not anymore. If the author's not putting out anything anymore the strip should be stopped... ... unless your Calvin'n'Hobbes or Far Side. I could stab so many comic authors because of them lameness... 
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« on: February 17, 2010, 05:48:27 PM »
I was going to post like two new super sweet posts about some relevant topics... but I forgot what they were so now I'm just posting this instead...
When are they going to let people do cybernetics so I could put a sim card in my brain and re-read its logs so I can remember everything I've thought about??
I hope that happens before I die.
BRING ON THE REPLICANTS!
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« on: February 17, 2010, 05:44:38 PM »
I lightened up a bit and now I'm an albino. THANKS A LOT!
Sorry.. Just some advice, don't go out in a lightning storm. +.25 points to those that know the reference.
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« on: February 16, 2010, 11:11:12 PM »
/bump
PS - saying everyone here has posted their info previous is like saying don't post, just read whats already been posted.
Some of you guys need to lighten up a bit IMO.
This a club or an open public forum??
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« on: February 15, 2010, 09:34:51 PM »
dwo: Just finished watching this movie called Untracable. Its a pretty good movie about... ivan: I, too, have seen some pretty good movies about stuff dwo: o really? anyone's in particular or have you enjoyed every movie ever made? ivan: Oh, you mean you want me to flesh my post out a bit? ... You mean it's not enough for you to know that a) a movie exists, b) I saw it and c) I liked it? Hmmm, now there's a thought. dwo: O please, dont be so hard on yourself, we all make naive posts every once in a while. DWO +1 ivan 0 
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« on: February 15, 2010, 08:46:01 PM »
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« on: February 15, 2010, 05:20:44 PM »
PS - what the hell are coolio points and how do they work?
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« on: February 15, 2010, 05:12:39 PM »
show everyone where you do what you do. Ill start.
This is where I do my do-do.   That was my "area" about 5 years ago before I got married.  That was my project area where I took things apart and fiddled with stuff about 5 years ago, before I got married..... now its the kids room and I have no personal space anymore......
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« on: February 15, 2010, 04:58:15 PM »
does dwoftim stand for anything? I'm always fascinated why people choose the handle they do.
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