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I am no longer certain of the mental states behind the creators of the Metal Gear Solid games. Take these images from Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence. Now, I thought the purpose of camoflague paint was to hide, to blend in, and NOT advertise you're an enemy agent with the U.S. army: http://www.konami.com/gs/uploads/JZw081205201224.jpg OKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY... http://www.konami.com/gs/uploads/txo081205201225.jpg GOOD GOD! IT'S A WALKING BOX! http://www.konami.com/gs/uploads/oaK081205201226.jpg

SUFFER, BASTARD, SUFFERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Stony Curtis and Ann-Margrock were mentioned on an ad for last night's episode of The Simpsons!

It might. I can't remember the exact circumstances of the creation of the audio CD I had burned on the CD-RW. It was nearly a year ago, but, I believe it was created in Nero. Nero didn't burn it, just created the image used as the source for the burn.

Of course. Got nothing returned, as expected. IF it is some kind of infection, then, any attempts I make to find it will not bear fruit. So, I need independent information.

I was sitting here, working away on the latest problem to deal with on the computer. And, imagine my surprise when this box pops up and starts scrolling through a list of DLL's! It didn't show up for long, and, I've no idea what triggered it... which worries me! It appeared to be an installer and the box itself had a logo for something called "Outside In." Now, THERE'S a name I don't like. Anyone have any idea what this might have been that ran?

I knew it was over for American civilization when, locally, the library started offering Spanish only video tapes and, at one time, when the unemployment office automated service started OFF in Spanish and then said, "For English, Press 1."

Oh, you want a mushroom cloud? Here ya go! kevdriver

Here's what I want to try: a way to give my own names to windows so I can control some dumb things like when some apps name their window with constantly changing strings, such as when an app's window name is the name of the application AND the current version number. Thus, in a piece of code I have that waits for a window based on its name, when the application is updated, the code must always be updated to reflect the stupid new name change of the window. So, is there a way to run an application through its shortcut, or any way, and tell it what to name the window that will run it. For example, let's take ImgBurn. After clicking the ImgBurn.lnk that launches ImgBurn.exe, it runs in a window named ImgBurn. (This is HOW it should be, no funny version numbered names, etc. Good job! ) Is there a way I can control this process so that when I run the shortcut, the name of the window isn't ImgBurn but, say, Donate Thousands Of Pounds To LUK

"FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) trains sniffer dogs to locate DVDs" http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7543.cfm WHAT THE FUCK?! Haven't airports and the mail system got goddamn better things to do like prevent BOMBS from being smuggled into this country instead of bending over and reamed up the ass at the command of the MPAA?! I am glad the article does rightly point out the fact that any DVD will be sniffed out: pre-pressed movie, so, I guess that data DVD's, such as company off site backups and Playstation 2 games, will also be detected. Which will increase the false positives a thousand fold! Sniffer dogs are already supposed to find explosives and drugs. If you've them sniffing out DVD's and they find every single pre-pressed movie, video game, someone's home vacation or system backup, what they actually would find in terms of counterfeit DVD's will keep the mail and customs system so busy... this is just BEGGING to be taken advantage of by those who would WANT to. But, who gives a as long as the MPAA doesn't lose a possible penny, right? Hey, here's a novel concept, MPAA: if people are too smashed from illegal dope or DEAD FROM A SMUGGLED NUKE to BUY DVD's, how can you make any money? And what use will the DVD sniffing dogs be? They'll probably be too busy sniffing out the scattered DVD pieces from such a detonation to be able to find any of the BODIES!

When it comes to dead optical drives, I do have an edge, remember?

Let me guess: it no longer spun up discs? Probably a dead motor assembly. I had already had Sony replace a dead motor assembly for that reason before in 2001. Then, 3 years later, it died again for the same reason: Sony always uses cheap parts. Great designs, but, cheap execution.

Pussy! I STILL have my Version 1 PS2! I USED to still have my ancient Playstation from 1997, with the parallel port in the back. Until UniversalVideoGames.com, the guys I sent it in to repair it, since they'd done repair work for me before, went out of business, back INTO business, and back OUT again, absconding with my system!

No, blame the bloody writer for such a line. It's like a similar one from Surface, where the fancy doctor character says, of an image sequence of DNA she's looking at: "This is mammal DNA!" HOW does she know it by looking at it?! It could be frog DNA or anything just from its looks. I always wondered how she knew it was a UNIX system by looking at a GUI. It looked more like your typical CG computer screen to me. You know the kind, where people type in specific, near full sentence commands such as "Shut the park gates because dinosaurs attacking." Yet, the computer miraculously can interpret such a command line system. It was on IMDB's news page today.

I believe my disc had been a CD-Audio burned to the CD-RW in question as well. In a previous test. Let me see if I can recreate the situation by using the disc, burning a CD-Audio image to it (Using a spoken word CD, since the title I recall from the disc was for one.) and trying the same test again. However, I am more apt to wonder about the application that created the image or burned it, outside of ImgBurn. Based on the age of the disc I think was used, I burned the audio image with Alcohol. pfeerick, do you have Alcohol installed or have you used it to burn images in the past?

Ah, how times change. Remember when Silicon Graphics wowed the world with dinosaurs in Jurassic Park? Well, now they're the dinosaurs. Yes, they've filed for bankruptcy protection. "This is a Unix system. I know this!" Must be why they went under?

Pardon me, but, I was busy rehearsing my black face routine when this interrupted me! I did, though, notice the posters, side by side, of the English and the Spanish version.

Ah, it will be safe to know that the controller has a tilt sensor so that when unsuspecting Japanese people wearing yellow trot beneath them that they will snap from their moors holding them suspended magically in place and squash them! Good riddance!

Now, how can I be held responsible for the truth? Huh? The song exists. I can't help that. But, to assuade your fears, rest assured I bore the ravages of the free clinic today (Surprisingly, only 4 people were there already.) and got my atenolol. Although why you care if my hypertension stays down or not is beyond me...

Yes, the miracles pills even restored my eyesight from the ravages of myopia and killed the folicles in my face so I ne'er need to worry about buying razors again! These miracle piles even increase muscle mass, dipilitate the chest, cause the growth of spontaneous tattooes on the thighs, shrink your shorts, grow tans, and change physical matter in proximity, such as the text on a newspaper.

In fact, here in the US, there are strict laws governing the dispoal of hardware. Same with batteries. We throw them away all the time when they're dead, but, we really can't. And, some batteries like those in UPS backups contained lead acid in them.

Thanks! This was something like what I was wondering if they made! This would make the idea I had work.

Well, I should have explained that in addition to knowing next to nothing about laptops, I am troubleshooting this problem via e-mail. So, I don't even HAVE the laptop, or a laptop at all, to use a reference. Which was why I was asking for any possibilities on the choices I came up with. IF it was possible to connect a laptop to a monitor, then, someone could tell me and that would be the easiest solution. However, I wasn't aware IF that could be done, if a laptop had a port for that reason. So, I was acting only what I knew, which would be that the monitor surely was directly connected to the laptop because of their design. Hence, operating on only what I knew and with that being the case, I figured the best bet would be to remove the drive and try to connect it to a PC. But, I didn't know how they were connected. Now, it seems one can get a 44 to 40 pin adapter and, if one has an external enclosure, just connect that to the IDE to USB bridge and connect the power, or, open the PC and connect it internally.

That is the corniest joke I have heard in recent memory! It left me an empty husk!

Only YOU would know some shit like that. Not only that, but, the entire list of ten phrases was turned into a song called "One Hen, Two Ducks" and performed by people such as Jerry Lewis. One hen Two ducks Three squawking geese Four limerick oysters Five corpulent porpoises Six pair of Don Alverzo's tweezers Seven thousand Macedonians in full battle array Eight brass monkeys from the ancient sacred crypts of Egypt Nine apathetic, sympathetic, diabetic, old men on roller skates with a marked propensity towards procrastination and sloth Ten lyrical, spherical diabolical denizens of the deep who hall stall around the corner of the quo of the quay of the quivery, all at the same time. I only had problems with the 8 brass monkeys and stumbled over the phrase hall stall, because, what the Hell's that?!