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Basically, too many regular idiots are on Mytwitface and some people would rather be on a network that has some exclusivity. Got it.

Get some rest, man!

Oh wait. Actually I didn't tell this story: Last week I took my friend lunch (a salad from McDonald's) because I prefer to see her when she's sober. I got there right when her club opens, but so did her regular customer. But it was hot and the club has AC and most importantly no one else was...

Thanks mubs. My stripper friend and I went to dinner last night. She attempted to cheer me up as well. I think today one of the other chicks at her club wants me to look at her laptop.

I own a 27" Ultrasharp as well, but for $800 I could have two of those. There is a certain sort of appeal to that.

It still does make me sick. I do better with people I actually know somehow.

... yes, because the one actual contact I've had from EIGHT YEARS on dating sites has been so rewarding.

I have a friend who happens to be a stripper. The challenge in that is trying to treat her like a person instead of her job description. Even she has a hard time with the ethics of wanting to behave that way, but she's usually grateful for it. This other person was someone I met online. She's...

Generally speaking I live without them.

There is no cycle of drama. I'm just (justifiably, I think) angry. I doubt I'll have further contact with her. Though she has a bunch of my books. That's annoying now that I think of it.

Also it is particularly aggravating given my previous history, something she is well aware of.

Nah. My stripper friend screws all kinds of people. But at least she's honest about it.

I met a nice young woman back at the end of May. We were seeing each other a couple times a week for some reason or other. Made plans to do things into September and October. Last week she just kind of vanished from normal forms of communication. When I finally got her to answer me she told me...

Microcenter apparently sells weirdo off-brand large-format computer screens. Like this one. That's a 27" IPS screen with a 2560x1440 resolution and 1000:1 contrast. There are also 32" models, though the one I go to doesn't have any right now. Apparently they're B stock that were made for sale...

Probably both.

I am angry about something.

1810 calories worth. My knees are fine. And I don't feel any worse for having done it. Not any better, either. But I did it.

Why does it take a system with an i7 CPU and decent video hardware two or three seconds to bring up the page numbering options in Word 2010?

If you tick the box for "Amazon Prime Eligible", you'll get stuff that ships from an Amazon warehouse every time, even if you don't have Prime. I spent two and a half hours on a stair machine last night. This morning I was four pounds lighter.

Can't you tap on EVERY notebook with a touchpad? The only difference on an MBP is that the whole stupid pad moves when you do it. Lenovo has a sexy new X1 coming out in a couple weeks. 14", 3lbs, 18mm thick and, importantly, proper buttons.

Does the paid NOD32 security suite similarly bog down a machine? Is it the third party firewall that actually kills performance rather than antivirus like I'd always assumed? Or some goofy antimalware aspect?

Has anyone a recent experience to add to this discussion? I hadn't seen a machine with the current paid version of Avast (v7) until this weekend. It's blecherous, easily as bad as AVG or Norton in terms of the load it places on a machine. On a six year old Core 2 machine, I was looking at...

They're made by WD.

Or Mercutio.

It's worth the $10 a year I think.

Zoltan works for either gender. Or Spatula. Another fine name.

All the good short words have been taken by .coms.

It's not too early to start the lobbying to name it Zoltan.

Sometimes you just make friends with them and they crash on your couch because they're drunk after work and want to watch Harry Potter movies on a big TV.

Your stripper?

Remember too that this is going to be an MMO, so it behooves the developers to make something that's playable on a wide range of systems. CryEngine3 is clearly capable of some breathtaking stuff, but it might not be the best idea build a game that needs to find a customer base right now using...

I'm not sure what you're objecting to. They're doing a lot right now in those videos to showcase their maps (they show off three in the footage) and the accuracy of their mech models compared to previous depictions. One of the interesting things about this iteration of Mechwarrior is that the...

Metro is retarded but I barely see it. I leave a cmd.exe window for starting most of the things I need.

It's a CryEngine 3 title. Unfortunately that is probably the limit of my ability to comment at this time.

Here's the Youtube Channel for Giant Robot SMASH.

Microsoft just posted a bunch of ebooks on its MSDN blog. Stuff about Windows and Office, but also SQL Server and dev tools. Might be handy.

Anand is still harping on how much of a crime against humanity Sandforce is, I see.

Congratulations, Handy. Be sure to hold out for registration at Newegg and Microcenter. :D

Dammit. That should be plastered all over their main page. >:(

My relatives tend to do the courthouse thing. One of my cousins was married for two or three years before anyone noticed she had started wearing a ring. My other friends are mostly gay chicks or internet people who don't get married. Facebook lost money because it's built on a scam and it's...

Basically the only one of my friends who can even legally marry is Nitsirk and she's against the idea.

You know, I've never been to an actual wedding now that I think of it.

I see now that there's just no way to make Server 2012 run on ESXi 4. I thought maybe I was just using an unsupported disk controller or somesuch, but no. To do Windows 8 or Server 2012 you need fully patch ESXi 5. I might as well dedicate real hardware to it as bring down all my crap to do an...

Actually, thanks for coming by and letting us know what the deal is.

Never mind. I was thinking of somebody else's weirdo quasi-proprietary RAID deal anyway. I've been reading white papers on everybody's different tech for doing this while I look for something to do with my stack of WD20EADSs and it's kind of all blurred together.

Basically the Synology RAID is as I recall a variant on RAID4. So there's one disk dedicated to parity information. Since Parity isn't calculated for all writes, only for the parity disk, it's going to be faster than RAID5.

Sure, but in my experience I wouldn't hold out for 10m.

XBMC is kind of a swiss army knife media player front end. It integrates with internet services, supports ridiculous numbers of file formats and it's standardized across almost everything that can run it... which is almost everything with a general purpose CPU and a reasonable amount of RAM at...

A couple random things: 1. Enable Dreamscene on Windows 7. One of my students asked me where it went since it was a big special feature of Vista Ultimate. 2. Soft2Base. Kinda like Ninite, only there's no restriction on commercial use. Interestingly, the authors support the Firefox Adblock...

I thought this was an interesting idea. Stick the board in a static bag and tape it to the back of a TV. Wham. XBMC.