Looks like I'll be stuck with Sprint anyways if I want cell service after December since I'll be living smack dab in the middle of an AT&T dead zone. I guess I better start browsing their smartphone selection. 

I just got an Epic 4G Touch and it is amazing. The screen is absolutely stunning and better than anything else out there in my eyes(hurrrr). I also got the unlimited everything plan and it's been fine so far. I also got to take advantage of there bonus thing for switching, you bring your number and go onto a smartphone plan and Sprint gives you 125 dollars. It's supposed to be for whatever ETF you have from your old carrier. I brought me and my wife over and we basically would get 2 months free of service which is cool.

I did this: http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/ and lost around 60 pounds. Whether or not you go through with it I recommend the tools to track your weight. Your weight will fluctuate wildly but don't get discouraged! The graphs on this help because it tracks the trend. Also the main purpose of exercising is that you maintain your muscle since that is what will go first and then the fat. You have a lot of muscle right now since you are carrying around that 350 pounds. The exercise will help focus your weight loss into the fat. I wish I did more exercising when I was losing weight.  And I also can't stress enough that your diet has to go into a lifestyle change, and it is the little things, if you go to subway or a sandwhich place get a small sandwich not a large, switch to ice tea and cut out all soda. And you have to cut down on snacks or switch to low/no calorie snacks. Portion control is the best to keep eating what you enjoy eating, you just have to regulate and not eat nearly as much of it. Those are the main things that changed with me. Basically you have to get into the mindset of you eat what your body NEEDS, not what your stomach/brain WANTS.

If the Republicans keep Gerry Mandering then it won't matter!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/opinion/sunday/tampering-with-the-electoral-college.html

I"m kind of confused how you can burn through a whole game in a day?

It looks like a trailer that has the 2 swinging doors, which there is no room there to close. Looks like it's pulling out to get enough room to close the doors, the 2 guys just didn't do a loadbar or strap the end of the carts.

Would be rough to move to Poland. Not the easiest to try to get into another country lately.

it's basically just Lucas fucking with stuff that doesn't need any changes. Everyone loved the originals, these aren't the originals anymore.

2. I wanted the opportunity to do some work that wasn't just about making a company money, but to do some work that would inspire me and make me feel that I was somehow using my talents to improve the world.

One of these days I would like to get there.

http://wallbase.cc/start/

It's another 4Chan and wallpaper scraping website that I kind of like more than 4walled. Although 4walled is still good.

Has anyone ever shit in that perfect swirly shit pattern though? I don't think shit is portrayed properly

I played the PC demo now and aside from not liking the keyboard controls, I was really surprised by how well it looked.  I have a nice nVidia 460 GTX, but an olllllld core 2 duo and it looked great with the settings up.

Thanks for the grenade tip! I musta hit reload (R key) accidentally once.

It does work with the XBox360 controller on PC, so you might look into that if the keys bother ya. Now I always remain confused whether you can just buy any XBox360 controller and plug it in, or if you need some special "XBox360 Controller for Windows" thing that has special Windows drivers.

I'm not so much bothered by the default keyboard keys, as much as I find some difficulty getting used to using "E" for actual combat. I'm used to just opening doors and loot chests with it.  

You need the wireless thing: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823109243

You don't need any drivers though they are all part of Windows 7.

It's hard for me since 3 quarters of all the music I listen to, is on Spotify.

Really?  But you just have a file for your program, and you put it in your applications folder.  To uninstall, you remove that file and then the program is gone.  Am I naively missing something about the way it works?

There is other stuff that gets left around so just deleting the file out of the applications folder doesn't always mean you've totally deleted the the app.

No offense, that belief is naive and no longer the case.  You are extremely susceptible to virus if that's all you do and candidly, home users with that security posture are high value targets for Bot herders because they are so easy to take advantage of. 

In regards to the 'Apple Tax', you have to remember that just because top line specifications are the same does not mean the underlying hardware the same.  One 300GB HDD is not the same quality as another.  Same can be said for basically every hardware component save the processor itself.  That's not to say that Apple stuff does not cost more in a like for like scenario, it's just as large a delta as it would seem at the surface.

What I was basing it is someones mother who has no true understanding of security on there computer. It doesn't matter how many virus scanners you've installed they'll probably click on an e-mail attachment and turn there desktop into a bot. But yes, for the moment if they have a mac it is less likely to become one and generally is safer. But I will say that MSSE has caught the most things out of the virus scanners I have run and that I would say it is the best for free.

As for the hardware, I don't believe Apple does anything more than Dell or any other company for what hardware they slam inside the pretty aluminum case. Pretty sure you will find the same 500g Hitachi Harddrive in a Macbook Pro as you would a Dell XPS. I'm sure Apple pushes for better quality over all since every little issue that happens with a Mac get's plastered everywhere, IE the screen issues and the discoloration on the plastic awhile ago, I know there's more but thats off the top of my head. Granted I will say the Apple Tax has gone down a little bit but you are still paying a premium on the same hardware.

You don't have to worry about virus's and all that nearly as much. Windows Firewall works well and MSSE works great as a virus scanner and it's free.

Absolutely disagree.  MSSE from a technology perspective is incredibly easy to defeat.  At the end of the day Windows is not significantly less secure than OSX, but you are way more likely to get a virus just due to the amount of viruses written for Windows.

As an aside, I absolutely hate the Apple marketing regarding viruses.  First, the 'OSX doesn't get PC viruses' bit is stupid.  Of course it doesn't get PC viruses, it's not a PC.  Second, Apple actively telling their customers they don't need to run anti malware software.  I find that to be horrifically irresponsible.  Everyone needs anti malware.  Everyone.

True, but I mean is it worth the extra 300 dollars. I would argue keeping Windows Firewall on and setting MSSE to scan once a week or whatever and I don't think that computer will run into any viruses. Or at least catch the random virus e-mail that his mom probably gets sent.

Macs crash just as much as PCs do. I've had to force close on my mac just as much. And windows 7 is pretty "maintenance free". You don't have to worry about virus's and all that nearly as much. Windows Firewall works well and MSSE works great as a virus scanner and it's free. And I doubt you will have any driver issues.

I'm kind of confused as to why you would want to spend extra on the apple tax than just get her a pretty good cheap PC? You can get a powerful enough desktop for her for under 300 dollars. HP has one for 279.99 that should be able to do everything you need it to for your mom. The cheapest mac mini is 600 dollars btw.

Anyway, there are quite a few small things about Mac that do differ from windows. Besides the App store installing apps is basically just dragging the app to the applications folder, finder takes a bit to get used to but for the most part everything is straightforward. I went from a PC to my macbook pro pretty easily. There are also a bunch of tutorials highlighting the differences and so forth. And I believe most to all Apple stores have classes about changing over and porting over your windows stuff into a mac.  

Pretty sure you would have to go to the doctor first and then add the amount you payed for that to the claim....

On topic, I think minis are good looking cars.  Devil, I'm certain that if you buy one vaginas will come flocking to your crotch.

This man right here, believe these words.

I will say that up until a few years ago the big 3 made shitty cars. I drove a 96 crown victoria for a good 6-7 years and in general it was fine. The interior was shit and falling apart and I had to fix the driver side window regulator a good 3 times. But it was pretty solid...surprisingly as I've learned that the transmission from the time frame was considered horrible and crapped out on everyone. In either case I was looking for a car to replace it I kept my mind open to all possibilties. I wanted an AWD sedan that was under 30k, I test drove the subaru legacy and the Ford Fusion AWD. And I enjoyed the fusion more, it had more techy stuff, the interior was nice and it was one of the highest rated sedans out there. The Subaru was fine but I just liked the Fusion more. I would of test drove a Honda or Toyota and a Hyundia if they any AWD sedans.

Basically you should look at all of the cars that meat what you want instead of just turning a blind eye to American brands because there were a couple lemons. Anyway Consumer Reports is now not recommending Honda cars, Toyota has taken an overall hit in there reliability rankings. And German cars are well...German. Pretty well known how much it costs to fix anything.

http://news.consumerreports.org/cars/2011/08/honda-redesigns-is-the-automaker-resting-on-its-laurels.html

http://news.consumerreports.org/cars/2011/08/2012-honda-civic-lx-scores-too-low-for-consumer-reports-to-recommend.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

I know it's consumer reports and some people have an issue with them but in general they've been good for me as a benchmark for me to do more research.

Seriously though, you and whoever else was on your bike should go see a doctor for that whiplash. To many people shrugged off and it ended up seriously fucking up there back. Medical expenses can be something else you add to your case.

You should of called your insurance and filed with them right after you called the cops and got an accident report. And take your passenger to the hospital.

I'm confounded as to why you didn't do this.

I just bounce between GT, Joystiq and Blues News.

I expect trailers of your cat, and any information gathered about the character your cat will play in the upcoming Avengers movie.

The Galaxy Tab has a better screen and is generally considered better than the Xoom.

I think with the online only issues and the real money auction house.....I'm...going to wait and see.

I know that is blasphemy with a Blizzard game but there are to many things that are rubbing me the wrong way.

I would question why you would want a 3D anything really? Not many movies are coming to Blu-Ray as 3D. Few games truly support it and there is no good way to do real time conversion of a 2D game into a true 3D type deal. Although supposedly Nvidia is working on drivers to so that I don't think there is to much of a time frame. Hopefully I'm not sounding overly biases but I do hate the whole 3D fad. The 3D screens have to narrow a FOV and all that also.

As of now this is what is on the blu-ray site that has 3D:

http://www.blu-ray.com/3d/

Mars Needs Moms was totally awesome.....

I'm confused how JetFlicks is able to get those shows. At least Game of Thrones, I thought HBO blocked out everyone from rights to streaming it's shows since it was going to go through HBO Go! or whatever it is.

Thanks to TiLt for the invite.   Its a pretty interesting service.  I'm leaning toward subscribing for a month to try it out on the iphone.

I think I would sub up and really like it if I could do something like with Google Music and have it auto make a playlist, or if they team up with pandora and it would build a playlist of random music of the same type. That would be a huge selling point for me anyway. In either case Spotify is awesome though.

Frustratingly I have yet to get any invitations to give out I am totally confused as to why.

Hello, Shitstorm, my old friend.

I must know more about this.  I don't think anyone walked away from it.

In the full video the guy got out and just kind of walked around the car.

And now it seems the invites left just as fast as they came.

I'm [email protected] if anyone wants to put me in a GamingTrend circle, I also made one.

It's very easy for everyone to "know" who killed someone.  It's very hard to prove it.  That's how the legal system works.

I just meant that a lot of peoples opinions are fed off of the media and there general sensationalist outlook. Without being there and seeing all the evidence provided. You can say she's totally guilty but all you've seen is what has leaked out.

I am utterly stunned.  I can't possibly imagine how a not guilty verdict was reached.

Considering nobody outside of the the people involved in the trial have all of the hard facts about the case. I, am not stunned.

Yay for armchair lawyering.

The only thing I can come up with is join a club type deal with your new Spyder. I don't mean Hell's Angels but there has to be meetups of people with your shiny new toy you got that you could potentially hang out with? With that type of...trike? There has to be a bit more geeky crowd that might play games and so forth. Just throwing that out there. At least you would have some other people to ride with and maybe get some fun spots to ride and all that. In either case maybe start with a forum and see how big the group is where you are. 

And happy birthday!

Interesting.  All these years, I have been packing inefficiently.  I do not have a smartphone, but when I carry my cell I put it in my right pocket.

So when you start the car or open a door, you swap your keys from left hand to right hand?

I swap to start the car, of course, but I don't swap to unlock a door.

Clearly, I need some time and motion studies.

Are you left handed or right handed?

I am somewhat fascinated by those of you who carry a pen in your pocket.

I worked in shipping and recieving when I was in college and people had to sign on a paper form for there boxes. I've just always had a pen with me since then, it's come in handy as more than just a pen and in signing reciepts and so forth since it's just easier for me to grab that one than the person to fumble around. One day I'll be cool and have a leatherman or something.

I got in but sadly it won't let me invite anyone at the moment. I like it more than facebook, managing your friends is awesomely easy with the whole circle thing. You can split and only view posts from different circles and you can only post to different circles, it's just so much more intuitive and simple than Facebook is. Google now owns even more of me than it did before.