Det. Bart Lasiter Posted February 10, 2009 Posted February 10, 2009 we spend more than every other nation combined on our military and there's plenty of areas within the defense budget that can be fixed so that we can maintain the same size/quality military. areas like giving billions to defense contractors so they can piss it all away
edlib Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 Mmmm... politics. Spent most of the day at working puttering away at Intranet pages. *Yawn...* Thrilling... positively thrilling, I tells ya'. Well... if nothing else, it's refreshed my HTML chops again. Blah.
Kuuki Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 Should have stayed in the Navy until the private sector improved. Seriously, it's the best job security in the world at this point. Considering applying and seeing if I still qualified for O.C.S at Annapolis. You can always turn to Super-Villainy. Lots of openings left in that field. Definitely combine those two, 'Captain Chaos' doesnt work so well as an O3, but an O6, now we're talking...
Rogue15 Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 had a dream last night i went into a cave and there was a bear sleeping in the shadows, i had a rifle, and suddenly felt adrenaline and charged at the bear, missed the shot, and was mauled to death. love those kinds of dreams!
edlib Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 I have thought about ripping them all. I have a small subset on my hard drive at work as mp3s, but to really do the job right, I'd want to use a non-lossy format. Does anyone know the most supported non-lossy audio format? Supported in terms of software players across various OSs, and support on portable music players? This could be good for backup purposes, but I'd want to use a very standard format so my data does not become obsolete. I could just use wav files, but the size would be...ridiculous. I just read an article in the latest issue of PC World on how to rip audiophile quality compressed files. I haven't been able to find the article online yet... but basically it says to use Exact Audio Copy with the Accurate Rip plugin, and rip to the FLAC codec. There's a lot of specific settings he goes into... so I would recommend picking up the issue if you are interested. These articles usually end up online eventually. I'll try to provide a link when it does. The article claims FLAC is currently the best sounding codec... though support is less than universal (but growing.) Just thought I'd put it out there...
Keyan Farlander Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 Thanks. You know, though, even FLAC isn't going to get you much better than 2:1. Maybe it's better to just stick with wav. I'll have to think about it.
edlib Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 Yeah... by dream is to have a couple of very large external drives networked, with all my CDs backed-up as .wavs on them, that I can access from any room in the house. Expensive... but if you want it done right, that's the only way to really go.
Zargon Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 we spend more than every other nation combined on our military and there's plenty of areas within the defense budget that can be fixed so that we can maintain the same size/quality military. areas like giving billions to defense contractors so they can piss it all away true. except all thats controlled by lobbyists who the defense contractors pay big bucks too so the soldier will suffer the most cuz they have no lobbyist because our system is severly broken. like how EVERY public opinion poll was against the bail out 2-1, but it passed anyways:(
Keyan Farlander Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 Yeah... by dream is to have a couple of very large external drives networked, with all my CDs backed-up as .wavs on them, that I can access from any room in the house. Expensive... but if you want it done right, that's the only way to really go. I would think one external drive for the network and another one for backup that is not normally connected to anything, so if anything happens that one will be OK. And keep it near the door so you can grab it on the way out in case of fire
Zargon Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 NAS raid edlib....... FreeNAS should work well enough to serve music..... or get WHS and do a MMS server so you have your own broadcasted interradio in your house serving off a file server with a big USB drive for backup
K_Kinnison Posted February 11, 2009 Author Posted February 11, 2009 I have been conversing via E-mails with a lady for 3 weeks. Finally going to meet her after work at a coffee shop today
Zargon Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 I have been conversing via E-mails with a lady for 3 weeks. Finally going to meet her after work at a coffee shop today 5 bucks says its a dude seriously though, good luck!
Rogue Nine Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 Just got this. I know you're all insanely jealous, don't even try to lie.
Ray Jones Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 You got two of those?? I mean, I am not jealous, but I demand justice! *grabs your wallet and sneaks out*
Cmdr. Cracken Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 Wow. Not even I am that nerdy. I have... been defeated.
Nitro Posted February 12, 2009 Posted February 12, 2009 Keyan I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical; Favorite showtune song ever! Rosie or Guildy? Gosh i really miss rosie I dunno about Rosie, but last I heard Guildy was married and living in Japan.
Rogue Nine Posted February 12, 2009 Posted February 12, 2009 She was living in Japan for a time with her husband, but I heard she was back in Canada. http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?p=2309291#post2309291 Luuuuuuuu ;_;
K_Kinnison Posted February 12, 2009 Author Posted February 12, 2009 she was not a guy, very nice lady. Not too sharp tho. I don't think it will work out, conversations seemed to revolve around our pets. And she didn't seem to be interested in Curling at all. Didn't even MENTION being a gamer
edlib Posted February 12, 2009 Posted February 12, 2009 That's exactly what I found with the one I saw last year. We just weren't very compatible. I'm sure she saw the same thing. I know it would have eventually fell apart in the long run. I probably would have tried to make it work a bit longer if she hadn't obviously cooled on the whole idea first, though. But it was probably for the best. Oh well... keep looking dude.
Zargon Posted February 12, 2009 Posted February 12, 2009 she was not a guy, very nice lady. Not too sharp tho. I don't think it will work out, conversations seemed to revolve around our pets. And she didn't seem to be interested in Curling at all. Didn't even MENTION being a gamer wait wait wait there are women that ARENT interested in curling??? *GASP*
Cmdr. Cracken Posted February 12, 2009 Posted February 12, 2009 I'm surprised more at the non-gamer thing, with things like RB2 and the music games kinda as a gateway game into the larger gaming world. 'course, they are not advertised as games, so they kinda get lost under the radar there...
Nitro Posted February 12, 2009 Posted February 12, 2009 Hey, I just realized I've been here 10 years and don't have the 10 year badge. Hook a brother up with some e-bling!
Ray Jones Posted February 12, 2009 Posted February 12, 2009 post that photo of yourself in thong and sneakers first bro then I'll do my best to do something about it
GUNNER Posted February 12, 2009 Posted February 12, 2009 So I ordered me a new Sapphire 3650 512mg card and 2gig or ram for my old broke down PC. Should be here tomorrow. Yippie.. New hardware. And the wife got 2gig ram and a new 250G HDD
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