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Cuda68 wrote:http://websitemanagers.net/

The guy who runs it is named Jim. Known him for 13 or 14 years now. You will love his service and attitude.

Excellent - thanks heaps Cuda.

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This one made me laugh - how in God's name can you surreptitiously steal 500 truckloads of ANYTHING?

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=649986

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Spidey wrote:There is always more room for big evil corporations.

There is always more room TO HATE big evil corparations too.

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For the first time in living memory, these debates have been screened live in Australia (sign of the times I guess). I think Will has a point. I was purturbed by Obama's intention to 'spend his way into office' and to deliver tax cuts to the middle class at the same time. Given the financial mess th...

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You're right Kyouryuu, MMOs are a crowded marketplace, but to the best of my knowledge I can't think of any MMO Fallout clones. There's plenty of Fantasy-themed MMOs out there, so many of them may fail because of a lack of clear differentiation. Fallout shouldn't have that problem. I imagine that MM...

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The IP rights for the Fallout franchise were sold to Bethesda a while ago for over $1 million. This removed a lot of debt that Interplay had hanging over their heads. At the same time, Interplay licensed the rights to produce an MMO version of Fallout back from Bethesda. The version coming out soon ...

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Duper wrote:Oh, I'm not Gekko. Although I expect a Descent title no sooner than 5 years.

That timeline is probably pretty accurate Duper - (which means I've got 5 years to get my multiplayer skills back up to scratch...)

...now where'd I put that Joystick?

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thank you for sharing Bett - and may he rest in peace.

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Don't write off Interplay just yet people. From a funding point of view, if Fallout 3 is as popular as the early reviews believe it will be, then Interplay (having licensing rights for an MMO) are sitting much prettier than they have been in years. If Fallout takes off, then Interplay will *definite...

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Can any one recommend a super-reliable, affordable, US-based web hosting service (Linux, not Windows)? I'm putting together a new site for a company I'm involved with and we need to base this site in the US. Specifically it needs to support: - Apache with support for mod_rewrite - MySQL - GD version...

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CUDA wrote:http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=642988
personally I dont give a **** about the rest of the world I want whats best for the US

...As you should. But what if 'what's best for the US' is to reconnect with the international community and to retore its sliding public image?

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I'd love to hear your comments on the article below people. Granted, nothing within it has any real bearing on the US Presdential race ...but assuming it's an accurate poll, it does paint an interesting picture of the world's view of the two candidates. http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=642...

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Anyway, make sure you sign up and vote Descent as your favorite original Interplay creation. Back in the day, we had to battle with fans of Freespace to keep Descent IV possible, now let us battle with these fans of Fallout. Raise the numbers so Descent is seen as number 1, as it should be. That wa...

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“There's a saying / truism in my country - whenever the US markets sneeze, the Australian markets catch a cold. Recent increases in trade with China will insulate Aust. to some extent - but there's still a lot of pain to go round yet.” Watch out Gekko. There are a lot worst virions coming out of th...

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A finance joke... An entrepreneur walked into a bank in New York City and asked for the loan officer. He needed to borrow $5,000 for two weeks, but he was not a depositor of the bank. The loan officer said that the bank would need some form of security for the loan, so the entrepreneur handed over ...

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That imaginary money made its way through a lot of systems, and a lot of people (through no fault of their own) are seeing their imaginary gains disappear. It's not as though any real product was actually destroyed by this process -- it's not like a hurricane wiping out billions of dollars of build...

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Watch it all just go away. Oh Lord - why do I bother? :roll: Remember the S&L scandal? Yea... it just went away. In the western world our whole lifestyle is on the back of others. You know it. Watch it all just go away. Sorry TheCope, but I don't agree. The S&L scandal (from memory) was iso...

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TheCope wrote:Watch it all just go away.

Oh Lord - why do I bother?

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I actually work in the financial industry but not in a number cruncher capacity. Office ***** by trade. In Minnesota there is a 6% increase in financial services hiring from last year. I find all of this "crisis" to be quite hilarious as it throws a mirror in your face. If you can't pay f...

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The taxpayers of the U.S. have become victims of the 'Moral Hazard' that resulted from UNREGULATED AND NONTRANSPARENT derivative finance schemes in the Stock Market and Mortgage Banking. Not just US taxpayers Tunnelcat. Australian retail banks (just one example) had exposure to this mess totalling ...

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In many respects I'd agree with that Duper (I just finished watching \"Sin City\" - that sign of yours fits perfectly

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\"Art is not marks on paper... Art lies in what those marks on paper do to you as their Observer\"

Unknown.

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Chieftec cases from China I've found to be supurb - excellent airflow, easy to open up & work on, solid construction and extremely quiet.

http://www.chieftec.com/

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Some foreign commentators are painting a very bleak picture for the future based upon this mess. One example: http://money.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=632789 Personally I this guy's view is pretty extreme. Quote: \"Two very powerful factors make this crisis different from the others. The US ...

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You're quite right Gren, my bad! I'll switch to a GA-MA78GM-S2H. It's a slightly cheaper card too which doesn't hurt.

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Not sure Grendel... It's not going to be a gaming tower, it's for work use only. I know GF/X cards start pretty cheap, but I haven't built a tower in over 2 years and I don't know how good the onboard stuff has gotten. My instinct says ditch one of the RAM Chips & trim elsewhere to affort a dece...

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I'm buiding a new tower for a good friend of mine as a favour and I'm in need of some impartial feedback. His budget is circa-$600 (Australian) and he needs it in a hurry, so I'm stuck with local suppliers. The system I'm looking at is as follows: AMD Althon 64 X2 6000+ AM2 D/Core CPU - $115 Gigabyt...

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yeah, that was the one - one of these days I'm going ot catch me one of the f&#KERS that writes s&#t like this and tear them a new one on behalf of computer users everywhere.

Thanks for the help guys -I'll pass the info on.

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A friend of mine recently was attacked by the most freaky viris I ever saw. It went right past Avast 4.8 and infected thousands of files thorughout his hard drive - mostly in windows / system32 sub directories. When trying to clean it out with a boot scan, avast detected multiple infected files from...

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How lovely indeed.

If Descent is the game that refuses to die, then why can't we bring the series back to a healthier sort of life?

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:words: Your point about the lowest common denominator in Anime is well made Krom. Yes, there is a large amount of anime-trash in the market and yes, it is extremely derivative and formulaic. My appreciation of anime refers more to the classics: (Spirited Away, Howls Moving Castle, Astro Boy, Kimba...

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4 Kids edits its programs not just for an American / Canadian Audience. They take their animated series to the world, where cultural, religious and societal norms differ widely. If that make Anime beige conceptually then personally I don't mind. Anime would not be as popular as it is today without t...

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I have a new hero! An Australian researcher has just developed a way to create cheap solar cells using household materials such as an inkjet printer, nail polish and a pizza oven - thereby giving poorer nations acess to green technology that they can actually afford to produce. No word on their effi...

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Great Stuff - downloading the hi-res version now.

Is it worth putting some Into Cerberon footage in ther as well - as a way of hopefully drawing ex-pilots back to the fold?

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Don't know about the web site - but if they're NOT working on HL3 somewhere then I'm a pickled pig's booty.

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What - no goodbye party?

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If it wasn't for the Burn DVDs thing - I'd consider an Asus Eee PC or Acer Aspire One... you'd pay close to the same money. How many DVDs would she burn in a month? You may get by with an external USB DVD drive. Otherwise she's going to be carrying around a lot more weight than she needs - given the...

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Yes - you're nesting. Enjoy it. :lol: Yes - you will not sleep again for months, maybe years. Enjoy sleep now while you can :) Yes - your wife will undergo an enormous transformation. Prepare for it. :o You will never again be in sole control of your life. Get used to it. :wink: ...Fatherhood - ther...

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...there's an ugly side to teaching too Bee that you should be aware of:

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=609653

I don't doubt you could find similar incidences of this behaviour in the US.

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It's pretty easy to travel with a teacher's degree too - Australia is crying out for them right now and the wages are climbing because of lack of supply(...ditto for nurses now that I think about it.

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