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Song title: Seduce Me Tonight (Flashdance OST) - My mom thought it was: "So Juicy Tonight"
Song Title: Elvira (Oak Ridge Boys) - My sister thought it was: "I'll Fire Up"

>> ^dag:
It's similar to the thing with song lyrics - it doesn't have to make a lot of sense for your brain to accept it. - For years, I thought the chorus to the B-52s song "Roam if you Want To" was "♪♪ Roll Misty Wattoo ♪♪"

I have a sudden urge to fire up IL-2 Forgotten Battles, jump into a Yak and go shoot down some Stuka's.

Id take a hurricane and shoot down some stukas with style.

Give me a P-51 mustang, or give me death.


HATERS GOTTA HATE, YO!

>> ^jimnms:
I have a sudden urge to fire up IL-2 Forgotten Battles, jump into a Yak and go shoot down some Stuka's.

Yaks, LaGGs, MiGs ... I loved BnZ'ing their buttocks with my Gustav (Bf 109 G-2) or my Kurfürst (Bf 109 K-4).

Hm, need to check if Gutted is still flying ...

I have a sudden urge to fire up IL-2 Forgotten Battles, jump into a Yak and go shoot down some Stuka's.

>> ^JiggaJonson:
Sometimes playing an old videogame is like going back to a playground you used to run around at. I do the same thing with super mario brothers, fire up the emulator and run through SMB1 and usually SMB3 occasionally Super Mario World.
This is the first time i'll be running through a game this big again though. And I will never, ever, play world of warcraft again.

I suggest taking ecstasy and playing the Legend of Zelda: A link to the past.

or taking some acid and playing Super Mario World

Better graphics don't equal a better game, sometimes you just have to change your reference point

Sometimes playing an old videogame is like going back to a playground you used to run around at. I do the same thing with super mario brothers, fire up the emulator and run through SMB1 and usually SMB3 occasionally Super Mario World.
This is the first time i'll be running through a game this big again though. And I will never, ever, play world of warcraft again.

Sometimes playing an old videogame is like going back to a playground you used to run around at. I do the same thing with super mario brothers, fire up the emulator and run through SMB1 and usually SMB3 occasionally Super Mario World.
This is the first time i'll be running through a game this big again though. And I will never, ever, play world of warcraft again.

In reply to this comment by Farhad2000:
Why not play something more modern of the same ilk like Sacred 2? I mean it's all click click on monsters and pick up lewts.

This is one of those cases where I like the position of the pieces on the board more than I like what Obama himself is doing. Let's review the rough sequence of events:

1) Obama says in declarative terms that it will be repealed.
2) Obama refuses to do anything aggressive or short-term about it that will just "embolden" the opposition.
3) The human rights activists get fed up with #2
4) The human rights activists scream at the grassroots to get fired up on the issue
5) People like Olbermann start cursing the President for moving too slow
6) Obama says "look, this is congress's baby, get me a bill and I'll sign it"

This is the ideal playing field for making something happen.

The right is placated, the left is fired up, and the public is overwhelmingly behind repealing it.

They'll probably taunt us like this for a few months, but I suspect they'll introduce a bill this year.

Sorry Dag, it's not ringing true to me.

"Oh noes, Windows Media Player* shows me ads when I start it up the first time... NOW I'LL NEVER MAKE THAT DEADLINE!! Quick fire up the MacBook!"

Hhaha, fanboy.

*Windows Media Player can be configured as you like, including not showing you ads when you start up.

Dear LORD, fire up your fucking proton packs!

I haven't laughed so hard at anything in months as at that sudden stabbing of the remote up his own butt, right after he "comes out of the closet". It's as if in that moment he just wanted to rebel and the best way to rebel in his subconscious mind is to go take some dick up the ass. If it's fake, then it's one of the most genius pieces of comedy ever written and performed. If it's real it's so goddamn funny that I think my head is going to explode.

I withheld my vote right until the end because I wanted to see if this was fake. I don't think it's fake. The kid recording seems genuinely thrilled that he's about to ruin his brother's life. That's his wireless webcam right? Or did he just start recording on his brother's webcam and run out of the room?

Here are the roast pool lists that were used for Roasts IX and X. I'm posting the links here in case any of you wish to alert any of those sifters to the upcoming roast.

November List

August List

We need fired up participation. Begging is not necessary.

Well, today I learned where the term modem comes from. I was thinking to myself, "oh, this isn't really a modem, it's more like a simple modulator\demodulator...

...oh, heh. Duh." *facepalm*


>> ^pmkierst:
He is not "on the net" on the modem. He has simply made a terminal connection to a machine that is on the net. Now if he fired up something like SLIP and brought back IP to that machine, and fired up a browser (totally possible), I'd be more impressed.

I fail to see how that would be any more impressive. This device does two things: it turns bits into beeps, and it turns beeps back into bits. It wouldn't be doing that any differently regardless of the specific application.

He is not "on the net" on the modem. He has simply made a terminal connection to a machine that is on the net. Now if he fired up something like SLIP and brought back IP to that machine, and fired up a browser (totally possible), I'd be more impressed.

I'm curious if you opposed the "alarming increases in federal power" and were for "condeming [sic] the...(increase)...of our national debt" while Bush was in power? Or are these hallow, hot-air, partisan ramblings from you? Let be honest here. Neither Republican or Democratic are for small government.

Unlike others who CLAIM to be non-partisan, I actually am... I heartily condemn many things Bush did in his term. Federal power did increase alarmingly under Bush. He expanded government in ways that should have never been allowed. Does that satisfy you? Both parties suck. We need at least ONE party to take a stand though and start paring back the size, scope, and power of government. That sure isn't going to be Obama's democrat party though.

GW and the neocons spent enough money on Iraq and Afghanistan to send manned missions to mars and back... twice? But that's cool, no problem, because ultimately, if we're killing brown people, it's all good, right WP? Spending lots of money on our own country? BAD BAD BAD.

As well as being ignorant, it seems you're also quite the racist. Unlike you, I don't place arbitrary value on human beings based on how much melanin is in their skin.

Regardless, Bush's rampant over-spending was horrible for the country. However, the bulk of Bush spending was NOT on the Iraq war. It was on massive increases to government social programs. But Obama makes Bush look like he was a miser, quintupling America's debt in 5 months. Spending 1.4 trillion we don't have? BAD BAD BAD!

I note wryly that neo-libs were all fired up about our deficit while Bush was in office. They could care less about it now. That as much as anything proves to me that most neo-libs are ignorant zombies who only care about an issue when some neo-lib flack tells them to care. Obama has told them to stop caring about debt spending, so the zombies have dutifully agreed. Pathetic.

What, did the Dag eat your harddrive?

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Jesus, you're killing me, teach. Can I get an extension on my paper?

In reply to this comment by srd:
Hmm, ok. No stutter with other apps means that the sound subsystem is basically ok, so it isn't a driver or a hardware issue.

Flash under Linux has always been treated a bit as a lead paint chip eating "special" relative by adobe, so things flash tend to run less smoothly anyway. Thing's I've observed:
Flash is a lot more CPU intensive under linux than under windows; they seem to have implemented especially the flash movie decoding and rendering rather inefficiently. But basic CPU speed shouldn't be a problem in your case, since you have a brand new dual core machine. My EEEBox croaks on HD videos

Flash movies aren't streamed from memory, they're first saved in /tmp, then played back from there once enough is buffered there. This means you have several things going on simultaneously: the flash stream coming in from the network, the flash stream being written to disk, the flash stream being read from disk and finally the decoding and rendering. The last part should be ok. Getting the flash via the network should be OK too, since I'm guessing you can tell the difference between stutter and repeated buffering pauses

So, what we have left is (barring other CPU tasks running that you didn't tell me about): the harddisk. This meshes somewhat with your observations that the problems get worse if lots of movement takes place: the bitrate of the video goes up and more data needs to be read from the disk and processed by the CPUs.

So things you could check (Homework Paintchipboy!): is there another harddisk intensive programm running (to verify my diagnosis: start up a big program like staroffice or the gimp when you're playing a video. Does stutter get worse?)? Is the partition your /tmp directory is on full? Is the harddisk being addressed in UDMA mode (sudo apt-get install hdparm; sudo hdparm /dev/sda - sorry this is keyboard work Fire up 'top' in a console. In the third row from the top you'll see a line of CPU stats. The %wa entry would be interesting while you're experiencing stutter. That's the time the CPU waits for requested data from a storage medium aka Wait Time. You can quit top by pressing 'q'.

I'm guessing your harddisk is basically ok and not damaged because you'd have tons of other problems then.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Sorry it took so long to get back to you - been kind of busy. Anyway I haven't noticed the problem with other apps. I've played other audio and video files, and they all seem to wotk fine. It's just Flash video that's the problem. It gets worse with with HD flash. If the images are relatively static there's no problem, but if there's a lot of motion then stuttering occurs.

In reply to this comment by srd:
Are you experiencing stutter with other apps? Playing mp3s for e.g.