I've heard that on low-quality HDTVs the image doesn't scale well but on higher quality it looks much better, I don't consider 32' to be large though. I was thinking 40' and up. What brand/model is your TV, nymanium?

LOL our 27" SDTV must really be tiny then. Amazing what one can consider big and tiny. I've never had anything bigger than 27", so 32" is large to me.

I found this, which looks to be the most comprehensive graphics mod available:

http://mayday.w.staszic.waw.pl/df.htm

I tried getting into the game before, but it was a little hard trying to figure out how to work it and see what went on. Hopefully I'll like this better.

Someone had the brilliant idea of using audio from another James Earl Jones movie, Coming to America, and dubbing Star Wars using it. Brilliant video!

"I know you have been inconvenienced. Shall we say 1 million.......AHA!!!!!!!"

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=utGXF5orynk&feature=related

You know, ironically I just started reading the book and I was thinking about the infocom text adventure last night.

What, you mean your weather wasn't nice yesterday? Was beautiful here. I just hope it stays that way though, because we had some nice weather a few weeks ago and then it snowed again.

It doesn't have to be an either/or choice, but some folks only use one community or the other for whatever reasons.  If members didn't feel a difference then one board would fit all and we wouldn't have different communities.  I can't honestly say why I ended up at OO, but I imagine it was because I'm a PC gamer.  But for some folks, the differences are important.  Of course, no one is forced to go anywhere they don't want to go.

Exactly. After GG, the community splintered off onto different sites. I know I registered here first, under a different nickname of course). I never felt like the community was really for me as I felt something was lacking, and that's not due to the people in charge, I assure you. It's just that the focus of the forums were more towards console, considering it was Console Gold before it changed to GamingTrend, and not having a console, well, you can see how it would be awkward. When I first discovered OO, I realized what was missing. It was the crowd that I posted with the most and it's where most of my favourite posters ended up at, so in the end, that's where I ended up.

That said, I appreciate what's been done to help make us comfortable here, and I'm sure it won't be forgotten. Even when OO goes back up, I'll keep checking this place out even if I don't post much.

If you do, you'll pay for the damages, thank you very much 

Holy crap! This thread almost made my MacBook melt down....


Nope. Just kidding. I said almost

Is that a challenge... I bet CeeKay and I could make it happen.

When I was in my teens, I had the brilliant idea of a tomato and peanut butter sandwich.  Surprisingly, it tasted pretty good.  But it's not something I'd likely make again.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=zUxp63OTyog

I think she may be a Nickel Creek/Chris Thile according to her username.

Nature: 1
Me: pwned

It's all downhill from there, I'm afraid. I've had my first around 18 or 19, maybe even earlier and they've only multiplied, to the point of even being part of my beard.

I think we might need an OO forum skin to help make those of us feel at home, should the forum be lost for good.

Holy crap! This thread almost made my MacBook melt down....











Nope. Just kidding. I said almost

Yeah, it's still in beta, so I'm sure they'll expand their coverage as it goes.  I know that while service is available for Canada, that you can't have a Canadian number because those aren't available yet, for instance.

Thanks for looking into it, Austin.

Yeah, from what I hear, Panasonic cameras are getting great reviews lately.

About a year ago, we bought a Panasonic Mini-DV camera and I couldn't be happier. While it only has one CCD and is SD only, people keep coming up to me and wonder what kind of camera I've used to get such a good picture quality. Honestly, I don't see how HD would really make a difference at this point, as it's so close to looking like HD. The detail it captures is quite impressive.

My favourite fast food joints are Wendy's and A&W. Used to not care so much about A&W when I was young, but I've grown to be really fond of them. I think they've only gotten better, and you can't complain that they water down their pop either, as they don't put tons of ice in it like most places do.

I didn't realize goats could be so small. And they look so fluffy looking, almost like a dog's fur. What do you bathe them in?

I don't think Moslo works on modern computers, from what I heard.  Because it works by slowing a computer's clock and the effectiveless is marginal at best on the fast computers of today.

When the Trackman Marble first came out, I got it for $200 and never looked back. It lasted me for about 8 years before giving up the ghost. It was a great product.

GameTZ is better anyways.

http://gametz.com/

Yep, I get phone service through my cable company for instance, but it still uses a normal phone line. And it doesn't exactly help with the marketing calls.

Btw, since we're on the topic of VoiP. Has anyone tried this? Seems quite promising.

http://www.magicjack.com/1/index.asp

An article about it here:

http://windowssecrets.com/comp/071213#story1

I have every single one of my phone numbers signed up with the government's Do Not Call List, and it's been pretty effective.  Have you given that a try?

Unfortunately Canada is a bit behind the times on this idea!

Actually there is one. The law is that any telemarker can't call you beyond a certain hour, and not at dinner hour. If you catch them doing so, you can ask them to put you on their Do No Call List. It works as my Mom had a call center call constantly, multiple times of day, and I convinced her after reading some official documents online, to tell them to shove it and be put on the do not call list, and they stopped. If they don't abide by your request, it's grounds for termination, and you can use that as a threat.


You can also check this site out which is pretty comprehensive:

http://ioptout.ca/

Ok, so now that Disney owns Pixar, Disney is making them do direct-to-video releases. That's never a good thing, and I fear Disney might make them stretch themselves too thin, especially in the creativity department.

One of the things that has made Pixar stand out is that you'd get one really good movie a year from them. But I just don't see the same level of quality coming out if they start churning out movies like there's no tomorrow. I was already quite disappointed with Cars. I thought that I'd like it, but I felt there was something missing. I guess Disney feels the cars are easy to market to children, hence the sequel.

Other than that, I'm very iffy about the list. It doesn't really sound like there's anything catching my eye. Nothing very inspiring.

Actually, that would be kind of lame considering how much it backfired with Daikatana. I think it's something game publishers would try to avoid as much as possible.

WTF?  Everyone has different levels of tragedy. What may not seem like a tragedy to you, might be a tragedy to someone else. I don't know Daehawk personally, but if I were him, something like this would be a tragedy to me. I don't exactly have the money to just rebuild something.  What are you to judge that it's not something worthy of angts-filled woe? How do you know his monetary situation? Do YOU have the money to help him rebuild?? If not....

So if someone posts that the "world shit on them" because they have a hangnail, you won't mind?

Nope, but this isn't on the same level as a hangnail. It's far worse, in my opinion. I wouldn't call it "just an inconvenience". Just because it's a small tragedy to you, doesn't mean it's a small tragedy to someone else.  We all have personal tragedies for instance. Just because it's not a large tragedy that affects you or me doesn't mean it's not something worth being angry about. As you can tell, Daehawk's having a tough time in his life at the moment, and this is something that only adds to it. To him, it's definitely not just "a hangnail."

I don't see a big deal here.  A tree fell on your out building.  A small inconvenience in life, along the lines of "my car broke down" or "my refrigerator stopped working and I just restocked the groceries".  It doesn't deserve a big, traumatic, angst-filled "woe is me" thread. 

Of course, a one-ton tree doesn't just fall on its own - with "no rain, wind, or anything today".  I'm sure it was dead.  Therefore, you probably just ignored the risk for quite a while.  Dead trees fall over...that's why we hikers call them "widowmakers" and you never camp under one.  Next time you have a dead tree in your yard, remove it before it falls on something.

WTF?  Everyone has different levels of tragedy. What may not seem like a tragedy to you, might be a tragedy to someone else. I don't know Daehawk personally, but if I were him, something like this would be a tragedy to me. I don't exactly have the money to just rebuild something.  What are you to judge that it's not something worthy of angts-filled woe? How do you know his monetary situation? Do YOU have the money to help him rebuild?? If not....

It might not have been a dead tree as Daehawk indicates. But it could have been a weak tree with a disease. It could have been rotten with no way of knowing it would fall. The fact is, it was out of his control. Nature decided to throw him a curveball. How is he supposed to react?

This would however make me check the other trees in the area to make sure they don't have the same problem. Maybe cut down the trees that are close to the shed.

One year when I was young, my Grandmother rented a cottage, and she invited the whole family to stay with her for a few weeks. As chance would have it, we had a tornado pass by that luckily missed us. It was very scary as we had never experienced anything like it, living in Ontario. We all heard the fierce heavy wind, and it was scary. It's something that I remember vividly.

Anyhow, we woke up the morning after to find one of the big large trees had just missed us, uprooted, and fallen on the neighbour's roof, which had completely crushed it, but we felt traumatized anyway because it had happened so close by, and we felt terrible for the neighbours

Exactly, W95. I think the technique's called Geolocation. Part of it anyway. Either that or they block whole IP ranges that belong to certain countries.

A lot of the time however, giving BSG as an example, they'll release webisodes or special features, which aren't available outside the US. This, I understand, but at least give the opportunity for those that can't view the content that way to view it from the Space Channel website. Not only do people get locked out, but alternate ways of viewing aren't given, which is what pisses me off the most. If you're gonna lock people out, then make the other things available to the right holders for that country. Is that so hard?

I just finished "Walk in the Woods" and was motivated to pick up both "I'm a stranger here myself" and "Notes from a Sunburned Country". I very much look forward to ready more from him. He has a way of describing people and things that are both exceptionally true and funny.

I know this is about 2 years old, but I'm gonna respond anyway. I also love Bill Bryson. My first book by him was The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that way. I highly recommend it.  Next to that, my favourite is Notes from a Small Island. And consequently, I'm actually reading A Walk in the Woods at the moment, but while good, I'm finding it quite tame compared to his others. Doesn't seem as inspired and the humour isn't really there.

Get this though. Notes from a Small Island got voted as the book that best represents the UK. He's a highly respected figure in England, where he's been appointed President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, because he highly respects the culture and the old buildings and hates to see modern architecture get in the way of that when there really is no need for it. He was also appointed Chancellor of Durham University, succeeding Peter Ustinov. Big shoes to fill, that guy, hehe. But it must be quite an honour.

Anyway, check out his Wikipedia page. Very interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bryson

I'd love to get my hands on the miniseries based on Notes from a Small Island.

Dammit, Ok so who quoted Monty Python?