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Living Room / Re: Hijacking airplanes with an Android phone

« Last post by wraith808 on April 12, 2013, 09:42 AM »

No... the proper response is to ban cell phones from airplanes, of course! 

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by wraith808 on April 11, 2013, 04:36 PM »

(see attachment in previous post)

-kyrathaba (April 11, 2013, 02:45 PM)

That one, my friend, is good.  (and enough for another gif)

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Living Room / Re: Adam Orth leaves Microsoft

« Last post by wraith808 on April 11, 2013, 04:31 PM »

Nope. Orth got bopped for opening up the XBox kimono a little too much without permission. That he did so in a rude fashion was just the icing that made his eventual booting by Microsoft look a lot more "for the customer" than it really was.

-40hz (April 11, 2013, 02:56 PM)

He also communicated it in a way that was anti-customer, which with the upcoming war coming, they don't want.  They want to phrase the conversation.  And from what I've seen, the phrasing is subtly different than Orth's, i.e. the always on is in the way of their cable presence and close partnership with Xfinity...  it looks like they're making the new xbox into a cable box.  It's an interesting strategy- but definitely one that can't be communicated like Orth did... or you'll get the response he did.

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Living Room / Re: Adam Orth leaves Microsoft

« Last post by wraith808 on April 11, 2013, 02:21 PM »

I didn't see that ending any other way.  I've always viewed twitter a bit like this...

Oh well. Hope he kept his LinkedIn profile up to date.

Gotta be extremely careful in today's politically correct world.

-kyrathaba (April 11, 2013, 02:10 PM)

Truthfully, don't think this had anything to do with being PC, but more about being stupid.

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Community Giveaways / SteamGifts Giveaway: THQ Pack

« Last post by wraith808 on April 11, 2013, 09:49 AM »

This is a giveaway for an awesome pack of THQ games (I had to state one, even though there are several).
The games included are:

1. Darksiders
2. Red Faction: Armageddon
3. Metro 2033
4. Company of Heroes
5. Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
6. Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor

A veritable THQ bonanza!

The rules for entry:

1. Get a steam account http://store.steampowered.com
2. Join the Donation Coder group on Steam - PM "wraith808","Deozaan", or "lanux128" your steam name, and tell him/her you want to join the group located at http://steamcommunit...groups/DonationCoder
3. Log in to http://www.steamgifts.com via your steam-account
4. Enter the giveaway - you must be a member of DC for at least 30 days to enter the giveaways.
5. Post a reply to this thread with your steam name for verification of your entry.

The giveaway is open from now until the end of the month. Good luck!

http://www.steamgift...way/5CAj1/darksiders

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Community Giveaways / SteamGifts Giveaway: Saint's Row The Third

« Last post by wraith808 on April 11, 2013, 09:43 AM »

This is a giveaway for an awesome THQ game- the most recent in the Saints Row series

Saint's Row The Third is an over the top third person sandbox game in the vein of GTA.  Great music, great style, and great action await you in this game that retails for $39.99.

1. Get a steam account
http://store.steampowered.com

2. Join the Donation Coder group on Steam - PM  "wraith808","Deozaan", or "lanux128" your steam name, and tell him/her you want to join  the group at http://steamcommunit...groups/DonationCoder

3. Log in to http://www.steamgifts.com via your  steam-account

4. Enter the giveaway - you must be a member of DC for at least 30 days to enter the giveaways.

5. Post a reply to this thread with your steam name for verification of your entry.

http://www.steamgift...saints-row-the-third

The giveaway is open from now until the end of the month.  Good luck!

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Community Giveaways / Re: Crusader Kings II, Homefront, Pid giveaway :P

« Last post by wraith808 on April 11, 2013, 09:12 AM »

I entered... wraith808 = hachibushu

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by wraith808 on April 10, 2013, 10:52 PM »

Am I the only one that can't find any hint of Stephen being offended by the term "tard" in this post, as claimed by Tinman, here, and has no clue why he told Stephen to "get over it"?  

-app103 (April 10, 2013, 09:35 PM)

He wasn't telling stephen to get over the term... he was pre-emptively telling anyone that complained about it to do so.  Seemed pretty straightforward to me.

And to keep on topic... yet another funny gif.  Vader visits the new overlords...

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by wraith808 on April 10, 2013, 10:51 PM »

Was that... sarcasm?

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by wraith808 on April 10, 2013, 06:21 PM »

Another interesting posting on Bitcoin...

http://www.reddit.co...nd_savings_invested/

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: NoteZilla

« Last post by wraith808 on April 10, 2013, 05:56 PM »

If he gave the option to allow the popup window to behave according to my OS settings, it wouldn't lock the taskbar in its fully extended position like it does.

-app103 (April 10, 2013, 01:52 PM)

An annoyance under the best conditions.  With *your* task bar?  

* wraith808 shudders

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: NoteZilla

« Last post by wraith808 on April 10, 2013, 10:53 AM »

It's a matter of what the user base uses.  It sucks to that one user (and they lose the one sale), but the store owner doesn't stock things that don't sell.

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Living Room / Re: Google Glasses BANNED!

« Last post by wraith808 on April 10, 2013, 09:04 AM »

Don’t ban me, bro: paranoia reigns in preemptive Glass bans

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by wraith808 on April 10, 2013, 07:51 AM »

Seriously though...are we playing the "Who is offended by what" card, in a thread marked as NSFW/Adult Content?

If ya don't like it...don't look at it...

Don't make me get the fucking hose out people.

-Stephen66515 (April 09, 2013, 08:47 PM)

With the lack of an upvote button, I present you with a silly gif.

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Living Room / Re: Nearly 60K Low-Quality Apps Booted From Google Play Store

« Last post by wraith808 on April 09, 2013, 12:32 PM »

Who determines what's low quality?  And what is the process for this, i.e. can you get back on?  Seems like a move towards the evil empire ecosystem...

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by wraith808 on April 08, 2013, 03:24 PM »

This is the thread marked [NSFW/adult]: If you're easily offended, then don't have a look here

Please leave it as it is, it's funny... in a way 

-Ath (April 08, 2013, 03:11 PM)

Agreed.

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by wraith808 on April 08, 2013, 03:08 PM »

I think I'm probably missing something again being a bitcoin neophyte. Limited in what way?

-40hz (April 08, 2013, 02:40 PM)

http://blockchain.in...harts/total-bitcoins

Bitcoin uses an inflation source method of Limited Release, i.e. the rate of inflation will be halved every 4 years until there are 21 million BTC.

http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/584.pdf

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Living Room / Re: Who's Going To Buy The Facebook Phone?

« Last post by wraith808 on April 08, 2013, 08:10 AM »

I guess it depends on your definition of Off.

I had 3 accounts, and now I only have one.  The other two are nowhere to be found, and the e-mail addresses behind them receive nothing to do with facebook.

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by wraith808 on April 07, 2013, 09:39 PM »

Still can't really get behind it 100% until it's possible to pay for the basic necessities with it, (rent, utilities, food) without having to convert it into traditional currency, first.

-app103 (April 07, 2013, 07:51 PM)

Well, that defines stock, gold... pretty much everything that's not hard curry.

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Living Room / Re: Discourse in Practice

« Last post by wraith808 on April 07, 2013, 12:44 PM »

It does persist progress.  Not sure by what mechanism it does it, but it does persist progress.  And that's the reason behind the endless scrolling.

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by wraith808 on April 07, 2013, 12:43 PM »

I didn't read his posts as telling people what to invest in or where to invest, or even to invest.  More of as a cackling statement of glee of his success.  And I felt good for him, and feel that it's not a bad thing to celebrate success among our members (while of course kicking myself that I didn't do the same).

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Living Room / Re: Discourse in Practice

« Last post by wraith808 on April 07, 2013, 08:43 AM »

Those are some really good questions App... and unfortunately, I don't have the answer's to any of them  I tried to look up some of your answers, but found nothing unfortunately.  It's still very much beta software, so I suppose that will change as they get closer to production ready and people start posting about issues and such.

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Living Room / Re: Discourse in Practice

« Last post by wraith808 on April 07, 2013, 12:31 AM »

^ you mean on this board?  With this thread being about Discourse, you'll probably want to post it in an area about the DoCo board...

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Living Room / Re: Disney to shut LucasArts games studio, lay off workers

« Last post by wraith808 on April 06, 2013, 08:40 AM »

In Tribute To Lucasarts, Raven Releases The Source Code For Jedi Knight II (via Kotaku)

Very cool gesture... and very cool game!

And, though I hate to say it... LucasArts has been a shadow of itself for a long time.  All of its hits post tie fighter were developed by other companies.  So, if they're going to do that, straight licensing it rather than having a group that can't make a hit seems like a smarter financial move.

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Living Room / Re: Who's Going To Buy The Facebook Phone?

« Last post by wraith808 on April 05, 2013, 01:54 PM »

I'm trying to get off facebook.