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Choc

Banned
VOOK said:
You need to stray from the formula to be worth a damn, otherwise your 'readers' just become transients.



Yeah I have help, but could do with more!



If you've got some free time that would be great, some days don't need any help other days just need all the help I can get!



That was just a tip I got about that, but the thing is I could do more investigative stuff if I had more time :(

In other news I got quoted by the ABC

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-04/nintendo-faces-trouble-as-3ds-price-slashed/2823166

I feel pro.

serrels and vooks in one article, its like one love in explosion
 

jambo

Member
Dead Man said:
I have 3 that I want, but I can't afford them for a few more weeks. If you can wait we could combine orders, but if not that's cool. Go get some goodness!!

I think my impulse shopping will get in the way of that 3 weeks of waiting =P
 

VOOK

We don't know why he keeps buying PAL, either.
Choc said:
yeah but thats not a mainstream media site is it, its a specialist site :)

No sir :(

I'm hoping I can get on the TV, so I can do a SerrelsStareTM
 

jambo

Member
Choc said:
yeah but thats not a mainstream media site is it, its a specialist site :)

Z1B83.gif
 

jambo

Member
Germany
Australia
Florida

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God damn American sizing is shitting me off. Their L is the equivalent of our XL-XXL, but their M is the equivalent of our M-L, so the shirts will either be too large, or possibly too small.

EDIT: Just found this size chart and it looks like their M lines up with our L, so I'll just grab some shirts in M today and see how they turn out!
 
jambo said:
Germany
Australia
Florida

G
A
F

God damn American sizing is shitting me off. Their L is the equivalent of our XL-XXL, but their M is the equivalent of our M-L, so the shirts will either be too large, or possibly too small.

Ahh right. don't know my geography that well :p

umm, M is pretty much medium here. S is body huggingly small. What size do u need? i own 4 american apparel shirts. Also if in doubt jambo you guys have an american apparel store in adelaide down on rundle street
 

jambo

Member
Marshmellow said:
umm, M is pretty much medium here. S is body huggingly small. What size do u need? i own 4 american apparel shirts. Also if in doubt jambo you guys have an american apparel store in adelaide down on rundle street

Going by the Target size charts, an Australian Large is 102cm across the chest.

Going by the American Apparel size charts, a US Large is 109cm across the chest.
 
jambo said:
Going by the Target size charts, an Australian Large is 102cm across the chest.

Going by the American Apparel size charts, a US Large is 109cm across the chest.

Not sure about anything above the medium personally. 7cm shouldn't make that much difference though.
 

Agyar

Member
Bernbaum said:
Ah, you're going Kindle-only huh. I know that 'Timeline' is Crichton's only book available on there.

What's the down low on jail-breaking Kindles to read/do other things? Also I like how we can say "jail-breaking" now instead of hax0ring or whatever it was ten years ago.
 

jambo

Member
Marshmellow said:
Not sure about anything above the medium personally. 7cm shouldn't make that much difference though.

Hmm, maybe. I just don't know if I can trust a Blizzard apologist...
 

Gazunta

Member
I'm going to make a Presidog shirt to wear instead.

Pro tip: Not having onion on your Subway sub like you usually do out of habit makes them heaps tastier. Also: Honey Mustard sauce.
 

EatChildren

Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Gazunta said:
Pro tip: Not having onion on your Subway sub like you usually do out of habit makes them heaps tastier. Also: Honey Mustard sauce.

LIES

and then TRUTHS
 

Fredescu

Member
Agyar said:
What's the down low on jail-breaking Kindles to read/do other things? Also I like how we can say "jail-breaking" now instead of hax0ring or whatever it was ten years ago.
I think the idea is you just use Calibre to convert other shit to the Kindle format.

Which leads to the question, are Calibre converted books functionally equivalent to Kindle native books?
 

Bernbaum

Member
Agyar said:
What's the down low on jail-breaking Kindles to read/do other things? Also I like how we can say "jail-breaking" now instead of hax0ring or whatever it was ten years ago.
As a Kindle non-owner I have no idea although I'm aware a fair number of people do it simply to have custom wallpapers. Hell, I don't even know if a vanilla-kindle has PDF reading capabilities. Still want one.

I think comics and short fiction are all I can tolerate on the iPad. I low-contrast and sepia-tone the fuck out of the display if the option is there. Longer reads require something softer on the eye.

Oh, and 60's era X-men provides a terribly campy yet wonderfully entertaining read. The stories might be simple and cartoony, but at least I understand what the hell is going on and don't need to read a bazillion other Marvel series in tandem to follow the plot.

Gazunta said:
I'm going to make a Presidog shirt to wear instead.
Day one perch.
 
Marshmellow said:
Im getting THIS and THIS




lol, you should just walk to the shop at lunch and try something on if you are worried about it.

What have you done? Now I want to get that second one of yours as well. With the Bethesda/id pack apparently coming out to coincide with quakecon my wallet will be a bit sore.
 
Doncamatic said:
What have you done? Now I want to get that second one of yours as well. With the Bethesda/id pack apparently coming out to coincide with quakecon my wallet will be a bit sore.

Muahaha. When i looked at it at 1st it was meh. But then i inspected it in its enlarged glory and had to have one. Seems like the shirt with the most design effort put into it thats for sure.
 

Rahk

Member
Fredescu said:
I think the idea is you just use Calibre to convert other shit to the Kindle format.

Which leads to the question, are Calibre converted books functionally equivalent to Kindle native books?
Conversions are pretty much spot on, but it depends on the source and format. Obviously if the source has terrible formatting the conversion will be the same.

I think the Kindle uses some form of .mobi format so converting from those is generally the best, but I've tried a bunch of different formats and they've all converted fine.

Either way the functionality is exactly the same. e.g. word searchable.
 

Bernbaum

Member
Not since my punk-rock days have I worn a t-shirt with a thing on it that I'm interested in, whether it's a band or video game or nerd culture reference or whatever.

Only exception are those BBQ aprons with big plastic boobs on the front. Boobs are pretty rad.
 

Aon

Member
VOOK said:
If you've got some free time that would be great, some days don't need any help other days just need all the help I can get!


I have way too much free time on most days, huge waits between classes at the library with nothing to do. Fire an email to aonshix@gmail.com whenever you're feeling overwhelmed ;D
 
The whole patent infringement thing is utterly ridiculous. It's hard to feel sorry for these multi national corporations, it just sucks for the consumer in the end though. No wonder Apple is trying to secure as many Patents as they can, they are apparently paying Nokia $500 Million a quarter for various 3G patent infringements that were settled...crazy.
 

Choc

Banned
Sutton Dagger said:
The whole patent infringement thing is utterly ridiculous. It's hard to feel sorry for these multi national corporations, it just sucks for the consumer in the end though. No wonder Apple is trying to secure as many Patents as they can, they are apparently paying Nokia $500 Million a quarter for various 3G patent infringements that were settled...crazy.

every phone company pays Nokia

they invented the 3G networks. Telcos took it up so all companies are now screwed.

Thats a patent i can live with as 3G was a huge thing.
 

EatChildren

Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
I got my spicy chicken kebab.

Tasted like victory.
 

Salazar

Member
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/que...cycle-station-20110803-1ibkn.html?from=smh_ft

"I am a firm believer that we should have more cycling and less cars on the road," Mr Murphy said yesterday.

However, he said a CityCycle station outside his riverside apartment tower would do more harm than good.

They say the CityCycle berth will cause them to lose street parking spaces, although most of the million-dollar plus apartments in Riverton have spaces for two cars.

They suggest it goes on nearby Austral Street or busy Sir Fred Schonell Drive.

Dickhead. They say it causes problems because it juts into the street, and yet they want it moved to the main goddamn street in the suburb.

Posh sons of bitches.
 

Omikron

Member
Choc said:
every phone company pays Nokia

they invented the 3G networks. Telcos took it up so all companies are now screwed.

Thats a patent i can live with as 3G was a huge thing.

Seems to me a difference between patenting a technology like that, rather than patenting the idea of say, multi-touch.
 
Omi said:
Seems to me a difference between patenting a technology like that, rather than patenting the idea of say, multi-touch.

I don't know, it is essentially the same thing though depending on how the patent is worded/formed. The 'idea' of multi-touch should not be patented (it can't, can it?), but the technology for how multitouch is recognised and processed by the device would be a technology patent...I hate the whole thing.
 
Omi said:
Seems to me a difference between patenting a technology like that, rather than patenting the idea of say, multi-touch.
Or "system for providing in-application update notices" or "storage and retrieval of data on an external server".

They're just far too vague, and that they're allow to patent these general ideas is madness.
 

Jintor

Member
It was pretty clear to me the moment I tried to turn and the instructor slammed on the brakes :<

I also ran a double white line turning onto a highway, which I didn't notice at all and feel bad about.

My driving as a whole was pretty good though! So... I dunno, just gotta chill I guess.
 
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