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General Discussion / Re: Kim Dotcom sends funny letter to neighbors
« on: January 28, 2012, 04:41:19 pm »
That guy was an idiot. Should have sold the majority % of megaupload when it was worth tens of millions and would have been laughing now.

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General Discussion / Re: Hi
« on: January 02, 2012, 09:00:06 pm »
Work harder. Alternatively, rip+upload the ISOs and I'll try it when my new laptop gets here. And then we can all play!
ISO*. The anthology is pretty sweet. NoCD cracks built in, etc. That alone makes it way better than downloading BG2 ISOs and mounting/burning them. Not really sure how Atari did it, but hey.

Also, widescreen mod is fucking boss.

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General Discussion / Re: Hi
« on: January 02, 2012, 05:42:44 pm »
Ahahahaha! Seriously, where do they find these tech support people?

Heh, You've gotta watch out for The Windows XP!

I also hate those Indians that work tech support. Is it hard to find those that are actually fluent in written English? Even British-style English? That's almost a Hindi translation to English, ffs.

I might buy the pack and see what its like on Win7 with Compatabilitiy mode.
Incidentally - I bought this, but i keep getting the startup message. Something like: You have not yet started the game, please go through and set up the game config. It's really obnoxious, but oh well.

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General Discussion / Re: <obligatory-new-year's-resolutions-thread>
« on: December 30, 2011, 01:12:49 am »
Mine is usually to stop biting my nails and it falls through about a week into the new year.

You did remind me not to go to the gym for at least a month after school starts, though. All sorts of kids are gonna be in there all the time working out, trying to adhere to their resolution or whatever. :p

I've got time to think of some, right?

Fuck I forgot about this. Sigh, gonna be a brutal few weeks.

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General Discussion / Re: GoDaddy Reaps What it Sows
« on: December 26, 2011, 12:19:32 pm »
60000/50000000 = 0.0012

That's 0.12% of their customers. I doubt they even notice or care. I'm surprised they even tried to do anything about it.
I don't mean that this is a huge flux of people (I think from TFA it showed net change was actually 1k out because 22k people signed up or something). Just that it's an interesting change, because losing the favor of nerds online can sometimes be a future problem.

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General Discussion / GoDaddy Reaps What it Sows
« on: December 25, 2011, 01:48:50 pm »
http://www.thedomains.com/2011/12/25/update-godaddy-loses-28000-more-domains-on-saturday/

GoDaddy has lost over 60,000 accounts because of the whole SOPA fiasco.

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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!
« on: December 23, 2011, 02:53:51 pm »
It's like, unseasonably warm here. This may be the first Xmas where you can see the grass in most places!
I dunno about warm but there's no snow here. It's about normal though, 0-20F.

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General Discussion / Re: RIP hitchens
« on: December 21, 2011, 05:20:12 pm »
It's too bad the world, in general, was not more aware of Christopher Hitchens.  He was famous, certainly, but not a household name like Richard Dawkins, and he deserves to be.  Hitchens is a lot more interesting and intelligent and just overall unique than Dawkins.  Not that I especially have anything against Dawkins, I do like some of his writings and he's reasonably interesting and sometimes funny.  On balance I like him.  Just basically no one compared with Hitch. 

Although Hitchens was a lot more than an outspoken atheist, of the "4 horsemen", this is how I would rank them:
Christopher Hitchens > Richard Dawkins > Sam Harris > Daniel Dennett.

I find Dennett hugely boring.
It baffles me that you think Dawkins is a household name.

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General Discussion / Re: RIP hitchens
« on: December 18, 2011, 12:59:16 pm »
I think I'm the only one in the world who has never read or heard of Hitchens.

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General Discussion / Re: TeX users...thoughts?
« on: December 10, 2011, 05:01:18 pm »
Refworks has probably revolutionized my essay-writing. It supports every style manual and every journal format I've ever needed, and it's almost universally functional with every publication or database I've encountered. The few that don't directly support it still have different export functions, that refworks can then import from.

My only complaint is that, since it's a standalone platform, it can't interoperate with your paper. So if you need aphabetically organized sources, it's great. If you write mathematics/scientific papers and have a numbered list of sources, you have to reorganize a bit.

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General Discussion / Re: TeX users...thoughts?
« on: December 10, 2011, 04:37:38 pm »
The thing about BibTeX is you don't have to fumble around with a clumsy UI, enter each of the fields individually, etc.

You just find the BibTeX for the appropriate source (http://manas.tungare.name/software/isbn-to-bibtex/ for books, can find papers on citeseer/similar sites), paste it in a file, and you can reference it by saying \cite{label for reference}. It's lovely.
Who does that? "Export to Refworks" ftw.

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Tabletop Gaming/RPGs / Re: DM'ing
« on: December 10, 2011, 02:25:37 pm »
y'know...that's one of the first things i checked for. guess i was too lazy/dumb to see how it was encoded.

TAing discrete math does terrible things to you...
Completely OT: It amazes me how clueless my discrete math class as a whole was. As a TA is this normal? Do people just not understand logic?

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General Discussion / Re: TeX users...thoughts?
« on: December 08, 2011, 01:48:29 pm »
Maybe, but I don't know why you wouldn't use the standard compiler ;p
I use vim (well, gvim since I'm on Win7) to write it up and then compile with miktex. The standard latex libraries don't exist for windows afaik.

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General Discussion / Re: TeX users...thoughts?
« on: December 07, 2011, 09:06:14 pm »
MiKTeX comes with many packages and asks if you want it to find the others you need to compile. I went through that process just under a month ago.

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General Discussion / Re: TeX users...thoughts?
« on: December 07, 2011, 07:04:39 pm »
Windows 7 I use MiKTeX. TeX is incredibly frustrating. It's great for mathematical type and general typesetting, but dealing with alignment and sizing of tables, images, etc causes many headaches.

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