The Virtual Pub
Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: TG on September 20, 2007, 06:34:09 PM
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7001897.stm
Just for one moment when I first read this story I hoped something REALLY interesting was about to happen. But it's probably just a rock. noooo:
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Maybe they are coming to take Nick home..... whistle:
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Interesting piece here from one of my favourite bloggers:
Bad Astronomy (http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/09/20/meteorite-mayhem-part-ii-maybe-missile-mayhem/)
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Interesting indeed. Not as interesting as bug eyed monsters from the edge of the universe but more interesting than a rock.
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I've changed my vote... whistle:
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I've changed my vote... whistle:
..and my poll. I dunno. Give 'em a bit of power. noooo:
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Looks like it was a meteorite after all:
Bad Astronomy (http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/09/24/meteorite-mayhem-iii-solved/)
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Looks like it was a meteorite after all:
Bad Astronomy (http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/09/24/meteorite-mayhem-iii-solved/)
I thought so... I voted 'rock' in the first place... whistle:
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Looks like it was a meteorite after all:
Bad Astronomy (http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/09/24/meteorite-mayhem-iii-solved/)
I thought so... I voted 'rock' in the first place... whistle:
I was going to - but I couldn't make out any writing through it. So I changed my mind. again
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Bugger.No aliens to fight.
Ah well. Halo 3 is out tomorrow so that will have to keep me going until the real thing puts in an appearence.
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Bugger.No aliens to fight.
Ah well. Halo 3 is out tomorrow so that will have to keep me going until the real thing puts in an appearence.
Halo 3 packaging scratches disks
Product packaging may be causing damage to the disk media for new video game release.
SEATTLE - Within hours after die-hard fans finally got their hands on a copy of "Halo 3," blogs brimmed with reports that special limited-edition packaging is scratching the video game disks.
Source (http://us.i1.yimg.com/videogames.yahoo.com/feature/halo-3-packaging-scratches-disks/531911)
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I can't afford limited editions. cry:
I Picked up my bog standard version on the way to work this morning.
Vidoe games at my age. noooo:
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I can't afford limited editions. cry:
I Picked up my bog standard version on the way to work this morning.
Vidoe games at my age. noooo:
How much?
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?40.
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?40.
rubschin: $60 = ?40 rubschin:
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Pardon?
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$60 in the 'States somehow changes to ?40 in the UK...
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The edition in the link you posted is a different edition, extra disc etc. Think that ones about ?50 over here. Mine is a single disc version in an ordinary DVD case and is thus cheaper.
We pay well over the odds for this sort of thing in the UK. noooo:
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Borrow someone else's and copy it. That's what we do. redface:
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That is illegal you naughty man.
Had your xbox260 'flashed' have you? Even naughtier. noooo:
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Is it? We have games for the Boy's PC. I,er, copy them on my PC.
We have a soruce locally who, er, downloads them off the internet. The whole village is full of pirates.
Oh, wrong thread.
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Is it? We have games for the Boy's PC. I,er, copy them on my PC.
We have a soruce locally who, er, downloads them off the internet. The whole village is full of pirates.
Oh, wrong thread.
Xbox's will not run copied games in supplied form.
You have to (i'm told) send your Xbox off to a man who performs various technofuckery on it and sends it back to you subtley changed. It will then run naughty discs. This is ellegal and I have not done it.
There is also a rumour that if you take your dodgy Xbox online THEY can tell and before you can finish your first online gane THEY are knocking on your door ready to drag you out into the street and kill you.
scared2:
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Ah yes, the X men. Very scarey.
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Ah yes, the X men. Very scarey.
The Xbox men I should think... ::)
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Dressed up like N Wales police scared2:
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There is also a rumour that if you take your dodgy Xbox online THEY can tell and before you can finish your first online gane THEY are knocking on your door ready to drag you out into the street and kill you.
scared2:
Its feasible that Microsoft would be able to tell as they already have software capable (at least in theory) of telling a dodgy copy of windows from a genuine one. Having said that, there is a huge part of the hacking community that go out of their way to work out how to crack anything they can produce.
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?40.
rubschin: $60 = ?40 rubschin:
No. $60 = ?30 + bowlful of cream. What a country! And what a ffing dumb population that puts up with it.
I REFUSE to buy anything that ignores the exchange rate. Yes! I'll be on XP for as long as it takes, and if they don't sort it, I be on Linux.
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Ahem...
'Meteorite' Crash Breeds Mass Hysteria
Despite doubts expressed by geologists that the crater was actually caused by a meteorite and firm explanations that a meteorite would not even emit fumes and that the "sickness" was likely a case of mass hysteria, numerous onlookers far and wide were fascinated by the idea that this event could be some real-life "Andromeda Strain" (the 1969 novel by Michael Crichton), where a mysterious rock falling to Earth from outerspace made anyone who went near it ill.
Source (http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20070927/sc_space/meteoritecrashbreedsmasshysteria)
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Ahem...
'Meteorite' Crash Breeds Mass Hysteria
Despite doubts expressed by geologists that the crater was actually caused by a meteorite and firm explanations that a meteorite would not even emit fumes and that the "sickness" was likely a case of mass hysteria, numerous onlookers far and wide were fascinated by the idea that this event could be some real-life "Andromeda Strain" (the 1969 novel by Michael Crichton), where a mysterious rock falling to Earth from outerspace made anyone who went near it ill.
Source (http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20070927/sc_space/meteoritecrashbreedsmasshysteria)
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fd.yimg.com%2Fus.yimg.com%2Fp%2Fnm%2F20070919%2F2007_09_19t123653_450x300_us_peru_meteorite_1.jpg&hash=08d8ac2dfed9fe004ed868d6d86ee202ac3ee9df)
Looks like "The Swamp" to me.
Anyone seen Growler today?
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He's up a mountain and then sulking in the pub.
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There is also a rumour that if you take your dodgy Xbox online THEY can tell and before you can finish your first online gane THEY are knocking on your door ready to drag you out into the street and kill you.
scared2:
Its feasible that Microsoft would be able to tell as they already have software capable (at least in theory) of telling a dodgy copy of windows from a genuine one. Having said that, there is a huge part of the hacking community that go out of their way to work out how to crack anything they can produce.
It's interesting to note that M$ claimed that high prices were caused by pirated software, now that they have - allegedly - sorted the pirateware with WGA They up the price by another 40%.
No wonder people try to bypass it all, It's nothing more than corporate greed - and it's spreading.
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