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Hmm, well if they end up throttling you, I guess it's worth a try. It's as easy as ticking the "enable encryption" square under your client settings. Maybe the additional "force encryption" or rather if they're really strict. I guess down here where you pay for traffic, they don't care what you download as long as you pay up.
Temperature might have something to do with it. After lying in bed for a while later that night, I noticed the pain was gone and I could move my arm however I wanted. It was much warmer under the bed sheets. Also, I think it only happens in winter or cold weather. I don't recall this ever occurring in summer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Maybe I should keep a heat patch handy and try that the next time it happens.
I wanna die.
Care to elaborate shinta? (Or do you prefer hikari?)
Might bitch while I'm at it. Feel like utter crap from lack of sleep....end semester break will be such a blessing.
Shinta definitely. Hikari is the name of the female character in a manga I intend (if it ever happens) to make.
I am hesitant to elaborate, since people I know are actually frequent in this forum, but maybe some details are fine, if expressed in the vaguest of ways.
Hope is humanity's greatest tragedy, and dreams are a close second. I bet everyone has had the experience of knowing something is pointless/hopeless but still have an inkling of hope that it is possible, and that combination I believe produces the greatest despair. I just had a dream of a dream (an impossible one at that) coming true, and I got so pissed off upon realizing it did not happen the moment I woke up that I can't help but bitch about it, hence this post.
It is emo anyway, so saying more will just water it down.
current bitch :
got an xbox 360 last week w\ gta 4... everything is fine. I got xbox live signed up today and then goto play gta 4... and guess what? 7-8 hours of playing gone because apparently it whiped out my saved game. WTF is that?
I'm really mad right now. I'm not 14 anymore w\ nothing to do... 7 hours is alot of time to waste on a game. OMFG.
It seems like you and technology simply don't belong together.
LOL
forgive my being 2-3 years late getting a current gen console system. I didn't realize that it created a seperate profile for xbox live... logged it in automatically. Once i switched back over my saved game was still there luckily. i kinda like the 360. I was planning on just playing gta 4 through and then selling it and buying a ps3 80gb w\ metal gear 4 but I'm not sure now.
gta 4 bitch : niko, wear a f*#*@in seatbelt !! i've died twice during high speed chases by being ejected from my vehicle.
Hahha. You forgot to mention the bike chasing acts and you crash into something and then flies like miles away, only to find your bike trashed and your target gets to a place far away </3...
Dude, MGS4 will own anything the 360 has coming out in the same timeframe until its release. If I were you (which I'm not, of course) I'd still sell the 360.Quote:
Originally Posted by itadakimasu
My bitch: Vista parental controls.
As I've said in one thread or another, my father pretty much owned me by setting up the parental controls on his laptop. In order to complete this trick, he even set up a profile for me. I should have known then and there that something was up, because there was absolutely nothing wrong with his profile (besides the fact that I had downloaded WinAmp, Flash, Photoshop and Firefox on it, but that's nothing really.). Now, quite a bit of Gotwoot, more than half of the stuff on Newgrounds, and a whole crapload of other things are blocked from my use. This frickin' thing is worse than the school's internet protocol now. Bah.
Is it possible to get a computer by yourself? That's gotta suck though, I'd imagine. We have parental control at our place too.Quote:
Originally Posted by python862
Only thing is, the manager is me. :D
I wish I could have afforded a PC when I was 16. Though they are quite a bit cheaper now, so you shouldn't have a problem saving $500 for a decent budget laptop or desktop.
If you wanted a PS3 to play MGS4 and you also wanted GTA 4...why didn't you just buy a PS3 to play GTA 4 to begin with instead of getting the 360 (unless you wanted the 360 for other games that is)?Quote:
Originally Posted by itadakimasu
Why does it have to cost me my first born child to get my flat tire replaced...
Fire sale on babies at Eurasian's house.
I already do have a computer - in fact I built it from parts I bought from saved money - I just need a copy of Windows XP to fix up the problem I have (my trial period ended because I stole one fromschool and didn't get the serial in on time).Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Wow......you fail?Quote:
Originally Posted by python862
Yes, I fail.
1. Denial
2. Acceptance
3. Fail
Python fails at those too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Board of Command
You could always start fresh and borrow your dad's Vista disc if he's willing. Or is Vista smarter about multiple installs now?Quote:
Originally Posted by python862
His Vista was pre-installed... and besides, I wouldn't be caught dead with Vista on my computer.
Vista > python862
External Hard Disk failed to show up under My Computer after the XP "dun DUN", followed shortly by the infamous clicks of doom. Luckily it didn't have any important data in it. Anime was all backed onto DVDs. I think there were just a few gigs of movies that are my dad's.
Annoying thing is I didn't even get much use out of it. I've probably only turned it on like 20times, and I'm pretty sure it's lasted no more than 6 months. I would so return it to Samsung straight away if there wasn't the problem; that is Dad bought it off ebay. I'll see what I can do about it. My other one better not die. It's still got all my lecture recordings on it.
MAD:mad:
A used HD? It must have been so cheap it won't be much of a loss.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
HDs are really the one PC component not wise to buy secondhand unless the price is really good and you aren't planning on saving anything important on it.
I'm pretty sure it's not second hand, but I'll have to check. I'm just not sure if it was an actual online store that sold it though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kraco
Plus, there's no receipt, and I can't find it in the control panel since it's been longer than 60 days.
I just missed In Flames. Heard it was like the biggest mosh pit ever ... </3
I found the quote :)
It was in the box, but I missed it every time I took out the damn thing. Has email, address, website, everything...plus a 1 year warranty.
One of my housemates keeps locking the front door, even when there are people inside. For example, he often leaves 5 minutes before me in the morning. He looks right at me, closes the door and locks it. What the hell? I'm going out too.
I don't know man, I gotta side with your roommate on this one. Too much could happen in that 5 minutes, and it would all fall on him for not locking the door when he left.
My sleep schedule is messed up. Two weeks of vacation in the western hemisphere and my biological clock was reset to US central time. Now I'm back in the east and day is night and night is day, so I've been up since 4AM local time. I'll crash around 10AM local, right when I'll be busy with work.
Ah... that's gotta suck.
All I really have to bitch about is the sheer exhaustion brought about by football practice, but that's nothing. A little sunburn, a lot of soreness, and quite a bit of fun.
There are drugs that you can take for that, though unless you're a frequent traveler and sufferer, I doubt it's worth it. But yeah, like Python said, screwed up bio-clock sucks. You either have to oversleep or undersleep to fix it, and either way makes you feel shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Animeniax
Python, I envy you and the days you're living now. Good times when you can take a break and spend an arvo on a field with friends just about whenever you want. Good times.
So on Thursday I was at the beach and I dove under a wave, but stupidly didn't put my arms up, so I face planted the sand. It didn't hurt at all, but it left me with the most hideous scrape on my forehead. It looks like a friggin' birthmark!
Sucks that I just cut my hair because it would've been covered otherwise.
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v6...62012987_0.jpg
How many Harry Potter jokes have you gotten since it happened?
haha awesome!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Genma
I would tell people I'm a badass at a fight club.
i was thinking of making a thread for this but decided to just put it in my favorite thread.
I went to deposit my stimulus check yesterday afternoon at the bank. This guy had just got there before me, did not hold the door for me even though i was just behind him.. whatever. So i fill out my deposit slip and notice this guy (kinda big, 6ft / 250 - black wearing wife-beater) is just kind of looking around, then walks out... i goto the door and look and his car is gone and i was thinking, what was he doing? is he going to rob the bank or something?
ok. get back in line and not more then 10-15 seconds later i hear somebody come in and kindof turn around to see 2 black guys in hoodies pulling bandannas over their faces, one of them has a gun he is pointing at people and they tell everybody to get on the floor.... so i did of course. omfg.
I could make this a few pages but I wont. The 2 robbers end up only stealing this poor customers $140 which the bank said was of course his... so he is the only one who got robbed, the bank lost nothing. I was then held hostage for about hour and a half by police and then was able to leave after the FBI guy asked me questions.
risking 10-20 + years in prison for $140 is.... well, its insane. and if there were 3 of them that means splitting that 3 ways... get a fu*(#*%ing job.... jesus.
Cool story but you would have saved yourself and us a lot of grief if you had direct deposited that check. You're an IT professional and you still accept paper anything?
None yet, actually. I think it's because the thing looks more like a giant hindu dot than anything else, so they crack hindu jokes a lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by XanBcoo
It's healed up a little better though, but not by much. :(
I think im sticking to the drive-through for now on when banking is concerned.
also going to try to use this as a way to break our lease without consequence.
Why, so then they can rob you and jack your car at the same time? That's no solution. The best bet is to limit the number of visits and amount of time you actually spend anywhere near the bank. Do as much electronically as possible. The tech-phobics will warn you against entrusting too much to our machine overlords, but it's inevitable. Better to assimilate now.
The only time I actually use a bank machine is when I need to deposit a cheque.
i do most of my banking online but my taxes and stimulus check weren't direct deposit :(
Current bitch : I want to buy the 80gb ps3 thats coming out thursday w\ metal gear...
I'm seeing them on amazon and ebay for over $600... really hope they don't sell out before I can buy one.
Wait I'm confused. How is being in a bank when it gets robbed, not to mention that nothing was stolen from the bank itself or you for that matter, going to allow you to get out of your lease?Quote:
Originally Posted by itadakimasu
The bank is like 2 blocks from where we live... its hard to feel safe when things like that happen right next to where you live.
The bank didn't lose money because washington mutual is smart and they have you do transactions at podiums w\ computers then you have to goto a seperate "cash" podium and enter a code given to you by the clerk. They can still force tellers to give them cash but its much longer of a process then a traditional open your damn drawer kind of robbery.
Anyhow... current bitch : i'm too lazy to go out at this hour of night to buy the ps3 and nobody has their websites updated to let me buy one online even though it's now the 12th :( I really hope a bunch of douche bags who have owned ps3's for the past year don't buy up all these ps3's just to sell them for $100-200 profit...
I'd say just be patient and hope for the best. I don't think it'd sell out too easily, I think Konami made enough to meet with demands of 1 per customer, so, it shouldn't be too much of a problem. Also, about the problem with the douche bags, it's happening one way or another, it just can't be avoided.
idk... im worried because i was looking on ebay the other day and there are alot of them people bought for $750.... and lots of others @ 600+
im going to try to buy from walmart because they have $1000 gift card w\ purchase.
I fucking hate pants.
To be more precise, i hate the current fashion trend in jeans. I was at the mall with a friend today and saw this nice pair of white (with a very light hint of blue) jeans. i tried on 32/34 (waist/length) and it was as always, tight around the thighs, but perfect around the waist. Apparently guys nowadays like to have jeans which tape your crotch to your leg...its fucking uncomfortable. I decided to buy it, one size bigger (34/34)...i come home and try them on, and it turns out they're even tighter. WTF?!? how is that even possible.
I very rarely go shopping, and when i do i hardly ever find pants i like, particularly jeans.....so i was rather pissed that the one pair i liked was so fucked up. I dont wanna buy something 4 sizes bigger just to be able to wear it and have 4 inches of slack around the waist. Now i have to go return them, which i hate to do,
Fucking metrosexual fashion....since when did guys start showing off thier asses?
I found Waldo.
My bitch: people who can speak English but choose not to.
I have a few housemates that can speak Cantonese. They can speak English perfectly fine, but when they talk to each other, they always talk in Cantonese and do it very loudly. It's not like they've known each other for a long time; one of the guys only moved in a week ago. So what is this? They're too cool to speak English? Cantonese is so awesome that when they speak it, they have to let everyone else in the house know they're speaking it?
dont be hatin on the mother tongue BoC
It's not my mother tongue. Cantonese is one of those annoying languages. It makes whoever speaking it sound like a flaming douchebag. Some people are okay, but most of the time, if it's a dude speaking Cantonese then he probably sounds like a douche.
I speak Cantonese
It's okay as long as you don't think you're cooler than everyone else because you speak Cantonese.
Good job on the recovery BoC!!
=P
It's not because I speak Cantonese :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Board of Command
I was wondering what you(BoC) would say. It was quite well done.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eurasian
I was watching the NBA finals game with those two guys just now, and they keep yelling and pissing their pants in Cantonese. I don't know Cantonese so I just sat there and tried to tune them out. It was tough because they were screaming at the top of their lungs.
I would never do something like that to other people. When I'm talking to other Chinese people while non-Mandarin speakers are around, I never speak Mandarin. If I absolutely need to, such as talking with my parents, I do it quietly. In fact, my parents are the only people I speak Mandarin with. I haven't spoken with my parents in over a week, which means I haven't spoken Mandarin in over a week. I don't care. I don't try to announce to the world that I can speak Mandarin and feel like hot shit because of it. Some of my friends don't even know that I can speak Mandarin. I can speak perfectly fine; it's just that I'd rather speak English in an English-speaking society. I'm also much better with English. Why? Because I use it.
On a related note - fobs on the bus. Every day, there are stupid Chinese dudes on the buses I ride who talk and laugh really really loud in Mandarin. WTF is their problem? It bothers me because it gives a bad image to Asian people, which happens to include me.
I approve.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Do these guys also think Yao Ming is the next coming of Bill Russell/Walt Chamberlain? This Chinese guy I talked to in Beijing got upset when I told him the Rockets were T-mac's team.
I hear you about the FOBs man. They try their hardest to make us westernized Asians look like we're third world too.
English is definately my better language, since the schools here use English as the medium and I don't have a very wide vocab base for my Mandarin. But still, I almost always use Mandarin when I'm talking to my Chinese friends. It just sounds more casual, and more expressive some times.
I'll use different languages depending on who I'm talking to and stuff. One thing I've never been able to do is to mix them. I use one or the other. I hear others do it, and it definitely sounds odd. Of course, that is besides the obvious words.
Do you mean like Chinglish?Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
That's another thing about fobs that annoy me. In the middle of every sentence, they'll slot in an English word. It's the cool thing to do in Asia right now, which is a shame.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
If Chinglish means saying different words of a sentence in random Chinese/English, then yes. Abbreviations are alright, like CPU, NBA or KFC. Just words like cup, toilet paper or house. It's not like, bad or anything, since I encourage those who live in places other than their country of heritage to learn their, or their parent's native tongue. It just sounds weird sometimes, that's all.
Yesterday my manager came to talk about my situation.
red = Mandarin
blue = English
A lot of fobs from Beijing speak like this. It pisses me off.
Really? The fobs I see don't usually do that. It's more the ones who were born here (Australia, we speak English), and they'll use English words when they can't find the equivalent in Chinese.
That's why I didn't want to call it bad in my last post, since every effort made to speak another language should be encouraged.
That's perfectly fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Mixing English into Mandarin because you think it's the cool thing to do, on the other hand, is not fine.
We suffered a similar epidemic around here in Portugal too but it has passed now. Thank God...
Well shit, in one week I've managed to break my Shure headphones and burn up my XBox360 power supply. It's costing me $250 to replace them. Just recently I was thinking how lucky I've been that electronics stuff I own usually last a long time with no problems.
I almost got abducted...
*Shudders* Reminds me of how some quebequers mix English and French so unashamedly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Board of Command
@Eurasian: 0.o
That's what you get by visiting Assertn. He couldn't get enough of you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eurasian
How does that compare to breaking $150 earphones? And now my Xbox is out of commission and I can't play GTA:IV for at least a week until my new power supply arrives in the mail. You think you've got it bad with a near abduction? Cry baby.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eurasian
I don't know if Assertn trying to lock you in his closet would qualify as almost getting abducted but its still your fault because you should know not to trust him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eurasian
You're going to hate Singlish then. Just like how I hate it, though I think I occasionally use it subconciously. Just check out the grammar section and see the examples, to realise how bad it is. Sad thing is most people here speak this way. Serious. It's even becoming a national problem. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Board of Command
Why is it so damn cute when the Japanese mix in English words?
I find that really cool. Though it basically looks and sounds like every other existing creole/pidgin language out there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psyke
It's the nonsensical misuses and mangled mispronunciations, mainly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Animeniax
I really like how they take a word like "klaxon" and transform it into "ku-ra-ku-shon", or "spiral" into "su-pi-ra-lu". Ahh, those crazy Japanezees.
I think that's the very reason it doesn't always sound so bad in Japan. Deformed like that, the words fuse pretty well into the real Japanese.
That's because everything the Japanese do are better. It's the reason they are the model for other Asian cultures, or at least should be. But mostly only for the superficial stuff. If you look any deeper into their culture, it's a cesspool like any other.
Japanese isn't the only language to use loan words in that way. Kinyarwanda is the only one that comes to mind at the moment, but I know there are more.
It's not totally uncommon for languages that don't allow codas (basically a consonant at the end of a syllable), to incorporate loan words by inserting vowels. I know we came across at least 3 in one of my classes last semester.
I just got home from work and there were these two Chinese people on the bus mixing English words in to Mandarin. I was angry.
I'm freaking pissed at myself, because I made the mistake of plugging in 6 pretty high-end poweredge 1950's (dual quad-core xeon 3.16, 16gb ram, 4x146gb 10k sas 2.5inch disks) into a 20 amp fused busway access box. It was fine when they were just idle, but when I started initializing raids and installing systems, they suddenly just ... went dark.
Turns out, I was probably pulling in the neighborhood of 25 amps through it, and rather than the 20 amp fuse popping like it's supposed to, the whole frigging busway box seems to have died. This sets me back about a day in what I was doing, because now I've gotta get facilities to come in and put in a new box or two.
I think I'm going to run into this same situation again in the middle of next week, when we power on half a dozen disk shelves in a rack that's already got 3 more of those fairly beefy poweredges on one circuit and is pushing 10-15 amps to the cabinet next to it on the other one.
20 amps just ... isn't enough power.
lol noob.....
So what happened to the fuse? Did you ever find out why it didn't blow?
And did you have any say in ordering Dell products? Cause I'd be more upset with myself about that.
No idea why the fuse lived and the box died. Maybe the electrician will be able to shed some light tomorrow...
As far as dell stuff goes ... given that we're about 75% a hardcore linux shop, and 25% windows.... who's better? I have some voice on the subject, but based on my experience with them and with other vendors in the same sector, I'm all for it being a dell shop. They make some nice server hardware for just absurdly cheap prices.
I wonder who is the bigger cry baby here...boo hoo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Animeniax
If they were $10 headphones it wouldn't matter, but we're talking about high-fidelity noise-canceling aural-nirvana headphones here. And a week without GTA:IV when you're deep in the midst of a possible mafia war between the Gambetti's and the Pegorinos is just torture. Pure torture.
At least your problem was only a near abduction. You survived it, next time you'll know better. We were all genuinely concerned. I promise.
Want to elaborate on your story Eurasian?
Find me on irc! =)Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Turns out, the box and the fuse were both fine. It was the power strip (also rated 20A) that died. And it died below 20A, because it's also got a 20A breaker built in that didn't trip.Quote:
Originally Posted by complich8
Now I've got the power distributed a bit better (on two strips on two boxes, about evenly distributed). Had to install another box to make room, but no biggie there.
So yeah .... it was a mistake on my part to plug that much shit in to the same strip, but the strip was also poorly built and died before it should have. All very depressing.
Straight from my Facebook:
Today is the first time this term that I forgot to bring my house keys to work. It just so happens that when I got back from work, my room door was locked. I never lock my door, even when I'm gone, so somebody locked it from the inside. Who? I don't now. Somebody.
I tried calling my landlord but she had her phone turned off, so all I got was voice mail. The thing is, her voice mail is always full so that doesn't do me any good.
I walked to the dollar store in the nearby plaza and bought a screwdriver. Dollar store my ass. Nothing was a dollar in that store. The screwdriver costed me $2.50 + tax. Goddamn Koreans...
I unscrewed the fasteners that held the window screen on the outside of the house and pried the screen off with a spoon. Then I lifted my window open and climbed in using a kitchen stool. Luckily my room is on the ground floor and I didn't lock the window. My clothes got covered in dirt but that's okay. I'm back on the computer now and that's all that matters. In a brand new change of clothes, no less.
Upset that you couldn't buy MGS4?
I guess the real thing isn't as exciting as it looks, now is it?
I feel like MGS4ing whoever did this to me.
I just bought a jar of Skippy's Natural peanut butter, assuming it would have less saturated fat than the regular kind. Stupid assumption.
I get home and realize it's actually got more saturated fat because of the ingredient they use to keep it from separating. Waste of money and food right there. Shit.
Saturated fat PER SERVING. Just dilute it with olive oil or something. Better yet, use peanut oil.
Wouldn't you just use less of it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Board of Command
We've seen your pictures, Xan. You're 21 and seem to be in great health. Why are you worrying about things like saturated fat? Wait until you're in your 30s and 40s. Then it's all anyone talks about, plus cholesterol, carbs, etc. It really does get tiresome listening to them.
I wouldn't wait till 30 my friend. Start as early as you can. What's more important is to do something that you find comfortable and will comply with. There's no use having a healthy eating plan if you don't follow it, so just choose something healthy, even if a little, and stick with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Animeniax
I've said this before, but it's worth saying again. Getting old sucks. Yes, it's a part of life, but if you can somewhat control the risks of whether you get old healthily, or get old falling apart, why not? Really, you can enjoy a healthy lifestyle as much as a not-so-healthy one all the same. It's a state of mind. You can't say the same about enjoying living with or without Rheumatoid Arthritis, for example.
A common argument is that a shorter, good quality life is better than a longer, drawn out living death. Whether that's true is up to you. Thing is, life doesn't go that way. There's no telling that a short life is a good quality one, and a long one is tormented by diseases. What's important is to look after yourself while you can, so however long you live, you live it to the max.
But then you wouldn't be able to cover the entire slice of bread.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Sorry if I sounded anal about a few grams of saturated fat. I'm still going to eat the peanut butter, because I really don't like wasting food (and it's really not that much more fat). It's just I've been constructing a healthy diet for myself to follow in order to "clean bulk" (getting bigger without getting fatter) and keep doing stupid stuff without double checking first. It's frustrating.Quote:
Originally Posted by Animeniax
Also Buffalobiian is right about everything he said. It's not so much worrying as it is making sure you're on the right track. I have a friend who worries that he's fat, when he's not and it's very annoying. I myself am making sure that I'm eating in a way that's conducive to my goals.