Iain's blog

No Exotic subtropical paradise!

2012-02-01T23:56:00.000-08:00

Nothing near tropical photos. This is where I am from. Some of these are from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a miniature wall-street. I would much rather be in some subtropical climate, but at least there are no hurricanes, no tornadoes where I live. If Wisconsin was so great, why are most of the geezers envying the "The Villages" (Florida)?

In Perth, Australia for 1 week!

2012-01-28T23:06:00.000-08:00

Cottesloe Beach

greenmount national park

I saved 2 years worth of cash to go to Perth, Australia for 1 week. I was looking for tropical places to vacation. Florida would've been a safest, yet I been there in July, 1999 for a Caribbean cruise. I said I was taking pictures of the scenery and wasn't getting into anyone's beeswax. I wore my Green Bay Packer cap everywhere, because I do that anyway. My cousin from U.S. Fleet Activities Yokosuka had Australia as favorite place he visited so I took his word for it.

PC-BSD 9.0 Impressions

2012-01-23T18:50:00.000-08:00

I finally installed PC-BSD 9.0. For some reason I had to install Libreoffice with FreeBSD ports in install mode. This PC-BSD is very, very stable like PC-BSD 8.2 was. Remember, Linux Mint goes into coma for 10 seconds. I booted 15 times and nothing really showed up. The openSUSE 12.1 had a GRUB file which I added PC-BSD 9 script to the file. KDE 4.7.3 is pretty fast for 32-bit. I ordered a 64-bit DVD so PC-BSD 9 can use five more cores. The NTFS drivers were great this time around, because it mounted.

FreeBSD is ultra-powerful, ultra-secure and ultra-stable (more so than Mac OS 10.6!) yet unknown. It won't win any OS politics anytime soon. I heard MAC OS 10.6 is based on old FreeBSD 5.4! The USG should take notice.

I downloaded GAG to dual-boot PC-BSD 9 since PC-BSD 8.2 came with a loader. I didn't need GPT partition either.

It's like a 10/10.

Gnutella stands nearly alone

2012-01-19T00:59:00.000-08:00

The CIA are shutting down Rapidshare, Megaupload and others.

At least the Gnutella protocol still exists, protected by the GPL license. Gnutella doesn't have a stable connection, but is better than torrents. Thank god for Gnutella!

Linux Mint Debian 201109 better than Linux Mint 12

2012-01-16T23:07:00.000-08:00

Linux Mint 12 installer crashed on my laptop (twice). yet Linux Mint Debian 201109 and Linux Mint 11 did not. You get the Linux Kernel 3.0.6 with Linux Mint Debian however.

I officially own PC-BSD 9 Isotope Edition. It brings KDE 4.7.2, Gnome 2.32, LXDE 0.5.7, and XFCE 4.8 on the freebsd 9 kernel. Review soon.

KDE 4.7.2

Top 10 gangster films

2012-01-14T12:58:00.000-08:00

10. The Untouchables

920′s prohibition Chicago is corrupt from the judges downward. So in going up against Al Capone, Treasury agent Eliot Ness picks just two cops to help him and his accountant colleague. One is a sharp-shooting rookie, the other a seen-it-all beat man. The four of them are ready to battle Capone and his empire, but it could just be that guns are not the best way to get him.

9. The Departed

In South Boston, the state police force is waging war on Irish-American organized crime. Young undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Frank Costello. While Billy quickly gains Costello’s confidence, Colin Sullivan, a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the state police as an informer for the syndicate, is rising to a position of power in the Special Investigation Unit. Each man becomes deeply consumed by his double life, gathering information about the plans and counter-plans of the operations he has penetrated. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there’s a mole in their midst, Billy and Colin are suddenly in danger of being caught and exposed to the enemy-and each must race to uncover the identity of the other man in time to save himself. But is either willing to turn on the friends and comrades they’ve made during their long stints undercover?

8. Casino

his Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas–it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel one. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970′s and ’80′s are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw–Ace falls in love with a hustler, Ginger, and Nicky falls into an ever-deepening spiral of drugs and violence.

7. Reservoir Dogs

They were six strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime: Mr. White, a professional criminal; Mr. Orange, a young newcomer; Mr. Blonde, a trigger-happy killer; Mr. Pink, a paranoid neurotic; Mr. Brown; and Mr. Blue. Hired by mob boss Joe Cabot and given fake names so no one could identify the others, they thought there was no way their heist could have failed. But after a police ambush, killing Mr. Brown and seriously injuring Mr. Orange, the criminals return to their rendezvous point (a warehouse), and realize that one of them had to have been a police informant. But who?

6. Carlito's Way

Carlito has just gotten out of prison due to technicalities with the help of his sleazy lawyer. After a life spent trafficking heroin he decides not to pursue the life of the streets. He buys into a night club and begins saving money to move to the Bahamas, but his presence as a known player makes it inevitable that he get sucked back into his violent former life.

5. Scarface

An update of the 1932 film, Scarface (1983) follows gangster Tony Montana and his close friend Manny Ray from their trip on the Cuban Boat Lift for refugees to their arrival in Miami. After killing a powerful Cuban figure, Montana and company gain the ability to leave their refugee camps and roam around the U.S. After unsuccessfully trying to make it legitamately in the country, Montana and Ray resort to selling cocaine to dealers around the world. Tony’s rise is quick, but as he becomes more powerful, his enemies and his own paranoia begin to plague his empire.

4. Once upon a time in America

Epic, episodic, tale of the lives of a small group of New York City Jewish gangsters spanning over 40 years. Told mostly in flashbacks and flash-forwards, the movie centers on small-time hood David ‘Noodles’ Aaronson and his lifelong partners in crime; Max, Cockeye and Patsy and their friends from growing up in the rough Jewish neighborhood of New York’s Lower East Side in the 1920s, to the last years of Prohibition in the early 1930s, and then to the late 1960s where an elderly Noodles returns to New York after many years in hiding to look into the past.

3. Godfather Part 2

2. Good Fellas

The lowly, blue-collar side of New York’s Italian mafia is explored in this crime biopic of wiseguy Henry Hill. As he makes his way from strapping young petty criminal, to big-time thief, to middle-aged cocaine addict and dealer, the film explores in detail the rules and traditions of organized crime. Watching the rise and fall of Hill and his two counterparts, the slick jack-of-all-trades criminal Jimmy Conway and the brutish, intimidating Tommy DeVito, this true story realistically explores the core, blue-collar part of the mob.

1. The Godfather

the Godfather has to be number 1 because it is unparalleled in this genre (and virtually all others). Vito Corleone is the aging don (head) of the Corleone Mafia Family. His youngest son Michael has returned from WWII just in time to see the wedding of Connie Corleone (Michael’s sister) to Carlo Rizzi. All of Michael’s family is involved with the Mafia, but Michael just wants to live a normal life. Drug dealer Virgil Sollozzo is looking for Mafia Families to offer him protection in exchange for a profit of the drug money. He approaches Don Corleone about it, but, much against the advice of the Don’s lawyer Tom Hagen, the Don is morally against the use of drugs, and turns down the offer. This does not please Sollozzo, who has the Don shot down by some of his hit men. The Don barely survives, which leads his son Michael to begin a violent mob war against Sollozzo and tears the Corleone family apart.

American Communist Party in 1919

2012-01-10T22:56:00.000-08:00

Two founders were black. CPUSA is Marxist-Leninist like Pres. Obama. he wants to do 5 year plans....

The Wire complete series

2012-01-05T16:28:00.000-08:00

At this time, I wanted the greatest TV show that ever existed so I looked online. IMDB gave The Wire a 9.6. I bought the complete series. It's on DirectTV channel 101. It said "The Wire" and it's cheap off Ebay so I bought it for $60. I should have had it by now, but better really late than never.

Then I found I could also afford a new PSP 3000. The employee said it lasted 2 - 3 years, because that's what he heard on the streets. That's why there isn't any new PSP 1000s around. I needed a backup, because new ones will be hard to find after Vita comes out. PSVita comes out next month and I have money for it. I want Final Fantasy X HD the most.

Russian Pak Da

2012-01-02T11:03:00.000-08:00

The PAK DA is going to be heavily based on Russia’s current supersonic bomber Tupolev Tu-160 and is expected to have it’s maiden flight by 2015. However it was also speculated that the PAK DA would be similar to the stealthy design of the America B-2 Spirit bomber.The PAK DA concept relies on the ability to fly at stratospheric altitudes (50,000 meters) with stealth features to avoid enemy air defenses.

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The United States next generation bomber is going to be based on B2 Spirit, F-22 and F35 and is affordable. Although, I wish Northrop Gruman drop the F35 technology, because the F-35 Lightning II doesn't have any anti-gravity technology. B2 and F-22 have the anti-gravity technology.

Total program cost estimated at $40 to $50 billion
Fleet size of 175 aircraft, 120 for 10 combat squadrons plus 55 for training and reserves
Subsonic maximum speed
Range: 5,000+ nautical miles (9,260+ km)
"optionally manned" (for non-nuclear missions)
Total mission durations of 50 to 100 hours (when unmanned)
A weapons load of 14,000–28,000 lb (6,350–12,700 kg)
Ability to "survive daylight raids in heavily defended enemy territory"
Ability to carry nuclear weapon
Designed to use off-the-shelf propulsion, C4ISR, and radar technologies
Intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance along with command and control gear to enable the crew to direct other aircraft and forces.

Legend of Zelda posters

2011-12-27T11:13:00.000-08:00

There is this liberal person on facebook working at a game store which I envy once in a while, because he's closer to my status quo. I actually have money to copy his idea.

He bought at least 1 Legend of Zelda (Ocarina of Time 3D) poster for his room, and I stalemated him by buying posters of Ocarina of Time, Twilight Princess, Majoras Mask, Skyward Sword, Phantom Hourglass and hang them in my room. I cannot let him get away with that popularity costing only $15. Two can play at this game.

Whomever thinks this is silly, go to gamerankings.com and look up Ocarina of Time.

Acer Christmas

2011-12-25T12:34:00.000-08:00

AMD A6-3400M at 2.3 GHz (4 cores)
AMD Radeon HD 6520G 512 MB GDDR3
6 GB DDR3
6 cell lithium ion
15.6"
500 GB SATA
openSUSE 12.1 (KDE 4.7.2, Gnome 3.2.1, XFCE 4.8.6, LXDE 0.5.8 / 3.1.2 kernel)
Windows 7

I get internal wifi in Windows 7. I don't get wifi in Linux, yet I installed broadcom linux drivers successfully via sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware. Hope fixed in openSUSE 12.2! Didn't have wifi drivers in PC-BSD 8.2

It has no 3D games, but a mirror of my 80 GB of mp3s, aotuv vorbis 5 and aac.

I bought an Asus USB103 today to fix Yast WIFI detection. The Zune 30 and a Creative Zen touch 20 GB are new, not Christmas presents. Zen touch is the greatest battery longevity, cheapest, 20 GB media player in history.

I got a couple of laptops to use, but this is my latest owned laptop.

Elder Scrolls V

2011-12-17T12:31:00.000-08:00

I have my ESIV character in 2006

LXDE faster than WinXP on 2001 PC

2011-12-15T13:51:00.000-08:00

I know that KDE 4.7.2 and Gnome 3.2 were sluggish on the 2001 Compaq Presario with 512 MB of DDR, 128 MB video RAM, Athlon XP 2100, 40 GB 5200 RPM HDD.

LDXE 0.5.8 is only using 180 MB on the 3.1 kernel at beginning of LXDE desktop shell and I opened all the gnome, kde, and XFCE programs thru it. The resolution is 1280x1024. LibreOffice 3.4.2 only uses 38 MB of memory. Firefox 7.0.1 uses 140 MB, VLC uses 30 MB. With all those open, I was using 400 MB RAM

openSUSE 12.1 with XLDE selected is the best option. There is a LXDE BSD distro. "PC-BSD LXDE" would beat openSUSE in stability and security (newer UNIXs can kick the snot out of Linux). The PC BSD KDE distro uses 1 GB RAM at start up; therefore, "PC-BSD LXDE" would use almost twice Linux kernel memory.

To sum it up, Windows XP SP2 at 1280x768 with 32-bit color has slow periods on a 10 year old PC. EXT4 is more speedy than NTFS. LXDE is more speedy at 1280x1024 16-bit color on 2001 PC. If I download the nVidia driver, LXDE can be faster still.

Pulsed Energy Projectile

2011-12-13T06:51:00.000-08:00

PASS can create plasma in mid-air by focusing to a point.

These systems would be portable and lightweight; the battery operated solid state laser system would be comparable in size to the Armbrust and Dragon anti-tank systems, …. The man-portable… weapons system is expected to be lethal in the range of 1-5 miles, due to the fact that no sharp focusing of the laser beam is required. Therefore, it is capable of engaging both short and long ranged targets of any kind, greatly increasing the engagement area of current assault rifles.

They may also be able to create significant electro-magnetic pulse effects, and there has been work on tuning these to stun or paralyze humans.
PASS can create plasma in mid-air by focusing to a point.

These systems would be portable and lightweight; the battery operated solid state laser system would be comparable in size to the Armbrust and Dragon anti-tank systems, …. The man-portable… weapons system is expected to be lethal in the range of 1-5 miles, due to the fact that no sharp focusing of the laser beam is required. Therefore, it is capable of engaging both short and long ranged targets of any kind, greatly increasing the engagement area of current assault rifles.

They may also be able to create significant electro-magnetic pulse effects, and there has been work on tuning these to stun or paralyze humans.

Packers outperformed Dow

2011-12-12T22:56:00.000-08:00

Green Bay became the first team in the NFL to become a publicly-owned franchise when it initially offered shares in 1923 to help keep the team afloat. Back then, the team sold a few hundred shares for $5 each. Last week, the team held another stock sale, handing out 185,000 shares at $250 a pop in the first 48 hours. Green Bay’s goal is to eventually sell 250,000 shares.

The recent stock sale is part of an effort to raise US$143-million in order to help renovate the team’s Lambeau Field stadium. Renovations are expected to add two new gates, as well as about 6,700 seats and a new video board.

Xbox Loop and Wii U in 2012

2011-12-12T15:45:00.000-08:00

I hear the codename is Xbox Loop (for Xbox 720) and it will feature a ARM cPU.

six-core CPU and Crossfire GPU
2GB of GDDR3

Everybody's getting a gun for Xmas

2011-12-10T17:07:00.000-08:00

I read this townhall article where guns (handguns in particular) are the most popular 2011 Christmas gift due to cartels I guess. The Beretta M9 was picked, because the military could afford the parts which obviously the Secret Service knows better than anyone. I think the secret service has the smartest officers.

My pick would be the FN Five-Seven, because it isn't like I'm using 20 rounds of ammo. It's easy to aim, its amongst the most reliable.

Operation: Delayed blowback autoloader
Caliber: 5.7x28mm
Barrel Length: 4.8 inches
Overall Length: 8.2 inches
Weight, empty 1.3 pounds
Safety: Ambidextrous, located above trigger
Sights: Fully adjustable rear, blade front
Stocks: Integral polymer frame
Magazine Capacity: 20 rounds
Finish: Matte black
Price: $1074

FN developed two systems to utilize the new 5.7x28mm cartridge: the P90 PDW and the Five-seveN service pistol. Both are modern designs manufactured from space-age corrosion-resistant materials. The P90 is a unique-looking compact submachinegun that feeds from a horizontally mounted 50-round magazine. The companion of the P90 is the Five-seveN. It is a full-size service pistol that operates via delayed blowback. I had a chance to shoot both the P90 and Five-seveN pistol on the company’s outdoor range, but I was looking to spend more time with the Five-seveN than was possible in a mere demonstration.

The model I received was FN’s Five-seveN USG. It came in a black plastic hard case with a cleaning kit, tools, lock, and two spare 20-round magazines. A full-size service pistol with a look all its own, the USG is built on a lightweight polymer frame. Quite out of the ordinary, though, is that the slide, which houses a 4.8-inch hard-chromed barrel, also has a polymer shell. Due to the amount of polymer utilized in its construction the USG, despite its size, is relatively light, just 1.3 pounds unloaded. My sample gun weighed 1.6 pounds loaded. Overall length is 8.2 inches, and it’s approximately 5.75 inches high.

(From left to right) 5.56, 5.7x28mm SS190, 9×19, .224 BOZ, 7.62x25mm Sabot, 7.62x25mm, 5.45x18mm Soviet, 5.7x28mm SS190, 5.7x28mm SS195 LF.

the slide release is located just forward of where the safety is mounted on a 1911. This allows it to be easily depressed without having to stretch for it. Ambidextrous safety levers are mounted on both sides of the frame just above the trigger.

While this is an unusual place for a safety on a handgun, modern pistol handling doctrine calls for placing your trigger finger alongside the frame when not actually firing. This puts it right over the USG’s safety lever allowing it to be easily manipulated. To facilitate use with gloves the trigger guard is slightly oversized at the front. A takedown lever is located on the left-hand side of the pistol’s frame, allowing it to be easily stripped without tools. To show the state of the firearm, a loaded chamber indicator is mounted to the left rear of the ejection port.

The frame of the pistol is nicely contoured and textured to provide a comfortable yet secure grip. To make the design more flexible and user friendly, the dustcover features a MIL-STD 1913 rail, which allows lights and lasers to be easily mounted. Feed is from synthetic magazines that hold a whopping 20 rounds. A magazine disconnect is incorporated into the design, but the good news is that it does not degrade the quality of the trigger. Somewhat surprisingly, the trigger on the USG is quite good, being both light and crisp with a very short reset.

. With a 20-round magazine I expected the USG’s frame to be fat and bulky. Pawing it over I was pleasantly surprised to find it quite comfortable. Magazines inserted easily, the slide retracted smoothly, and the small bottleneck rounds fed readily into the chamber. The safety took a bit to get used to, simply because I was unaccustomed to its location, but I have no negative comments about it. The ammunition I had on hand for testing was a large quantity of FN’s 28-grain JHP load. I set to work making empty brass.

I began testing by checking the Five-seveN’s accuracy from the bench at 25 yards. I fired four five-shot groups off of sandbags, and the average group size came in at two inches. Velocity of 10 rounds averaged 1951 fps, which is a good bit lower than FN’s claim. Impressed by its 25-yard accuracy, I placed a target at 50 yards and repeated my testing. At this distance the Five-seveN averaged four-inch groups and is probably capable of doing better. Recoil is very mild. The muzzle simply flips slightly and then settles back into place. It’s a very pleasant pistol to shoot.

While the Five-seveN USG pistol’s push-button magazine release is conventionally located, its slide release, ambidextrous safeties, and takedown lever are positioned differently than the norm.

From the bench I moved to running drills from a holster. For gear I selected a holster and magazine carriers from Blade-Tech, Dept. ST, 2506 104th St. Court S., Suite A, Lakewood, WA 98499; 253-581-4347; www.blade-tech.com. I’ve always had good luck with Blade-Tech gear, and it did not let me down this time. Starting at the two-yard line and working my way back to the 15-yard line, I ran various drills, including shooting strong-handed, weak-handed, and with both hands–stationary and on the move with plenty of forced reloads and failure drills.

Thanks to the excellent trigger, light recoil, mild muzzle flip, and bottomless magazine you can blister targets at a rapid rate. Lock into it and the slide simply pistons back and forth as empties fly out. When the magazine finally runs dry, punch the release and it’s kicked clear. Slap another one home, hit the slide release, and keep going. Practical accuracy is excellent, and man-sized targets are easy to hit, even at 100 yards.

I like it! It’s accurate, reliable, and easy to shoot well. Plus, it’s an awful lot of fun to shoot, especially with that deep 20-round magazine capacity. My wife Emily put her Nikon up for a bit and took a turn behind it. She liked it, too. For me, a firearm simply being fun to shoot, whether it’s an M1886 Lebel or FN’s USG, is reason enough to own it.

many vocal detractors in the U.S. doubt that this small cartridge and its ultralightweight 28- or 40-grain bullets provide adequate terminal performance. Highly respected experts, such as Dr. Gary K. Roberts, have stated current 5.7x28mm loads do not offer sufficient penetration or inflict a large enough permanent wound cavity based upon testing in ordnance gelatin. A 28-grain nonexpanding .224-inch-diameter bullet at 1950 fps is certainly no magnum. Despite this, FN stands firmly behind the 5.7x28mm and states it has worked well when employed by military/law enforcement personnel in actual shootings.

Game Industry done it to themselves!

2011-12-10T01:27:00.000-08:00

I read how the game industry is failing, but that is very elementary and annoyingly obvious. Consoles have five year cycles since Atari 2600. This generation, consoles have seven year cycles so blame Microsoft for delaying Xbox Loop 24 months later and Nintendo for delaying their consoles 12 months and Sony 24 months! I am sick of the old OpenGL 2 / DirectX 9 games that existed eight years ago.

Everybody should be playing on DirectX 11 / Open GL 4 consoles for a full year. I played Crysis 2 in DirecTX 11 with a Radeon HD 5970 since 2010. I give Cyrsis 2 a 8.5. The difference is tessellation polygons. Xbox 360 doesn't do tessellation or Shader Model 5. Tessellation is the process of creating a two-dimensional plane using the repetition of a geometric shape with no overlaps and no gaps. Manufacturers should've brought out consoles in 2011 and 3DS in 2010. I wouldn't care paying $500 for Xbox Loop or $300 for Wii U in 2011. I am buying videogames, because other electronic stuff being sold offline is stupid (Cds, DVDs, radios, phones, Blurays, iPads, iPods, lesser known gimmicky media players).

I think that PS Universe (British Site) is regressing due the 24 months added to the era. Alexa reviews say the Playstation Universe's forums have regressed since their 2009 (when I left). Playstation Universe is the largest independent Playstation forum. Playstation is better than Xbox IMHO.

N64 -> Dreamcast 1.2 years
PS2 -> Xbox 360 3 years
Xbox 360 -> Wii U six years
PS3 -> PS4 seven years
DS -> 3DS seven years

NIKE Missile Base MSP-20

2011-12-08T09:01:00.000-08:00

The nike base MS-20 in Roberts, Wisconsin was for Soviets and aliens!

Facebook bureaucracy collectivism

2011-11-29T15:27:00.000-08:00

Now, People just report abuse just by me adding them to the friend list without me saying anything at all. It's corruption is what it is! Got the Facebook bureaucracy going here; its bureaucracy collectivism/monarchy. The elites are always elite getting ever popular. I alerted security, but it doesn't bother. That's what is stupid about it.

Pretty much this

Greatest Superheroes

2011-11-26T18:58:00.000-08:00

20. Dr. Doom (Fantastic 4)
19. Hunter Rose
18. Captain America
17. Wonder Woman
16. The Punisher
15. Iron Man
14. Rorschach (Watchmen)
13 Death (Sandman)
12. The Hulk
11. Jesse Custer (Preacher)
10. The Thing (Fantastic 4)
9. Magneto (Xmen)
8. The Joker (batman)
7. Judge Dredd
6. Dream ((Vertigo)
5. Spiderman
4. Wolverine
3. John Constantine (Hellblazer)
2. Batman
1. Superman (but he should be #30 here)

Today, I bought my first comic paperbacks and hardcover. Xmen Days of Futures Past, the Dark Knight Returns and The Killing Joke. I'll probably stop right there, because comics are defunct.

30 best racing tracks

2011-11-26T07:28:00.000-08:00

30. Mushroom City

Game: Mario Kart: Double Dash
Year: 2003

Oncoming traffic, multiple road options, changing colors—this track has everything I look for in a kart track.

29. Smokey Mountain

Game: Gran Turismo 3
Year: 2001

Another great GT track. Want to get comfortable with a car you've been tuning? Work it out on this short mountain course. Sweeping turns, great elevation changes, and unforgiving stages (no run-off = veer and you crash) made it a Gran Turismo favorite.

28. Grand Valley Speedway

Game: Gran Turismo (1-5)
Year: 1998-

This Gran Turismo staple appeared in damn near every installment of the series because it's just that dope. And I'm not just talking about the challenging right-hand hairpin that greets at you at the fifth corner. Turns six through 11 prove perfectly challenging, while the rest of the course allows you to hit some good speeds. Pretty much all you need in a racetrack.

27. Las Vegas

Game: Project Gotham Racing 3
Year: 2005

We usually see Las Vegas while drunk in the back of taxicabs, or through the lens of various horrible TV shows. Project Gotham Racing made me see it in a different light by molding an incredible street course through Sin City. Fly past all your favorite hotels and casinos, but don't lose focus on the glitzy straights: the nearly 90-degree turns are vicious as a Vegas lap dance.

26. Royal Raceway

Game: Mario Kart 64
Year: 1997

A pretty challenging course for a Mario Kart game, Royal Raceway gives you some hairpins and S-turns, and maybe a few rivers for you to fall into for good measure. Don't think of them as water hazards, though, think of them as cheats necessary components of a speed run

25. Rainbow Road

Game: Mario Kart 64
Year: 1997

The original Rainbow Road! We gave props for the F-Zero X rip-off, so you know I had to respect the architect. Basically the same track ripped off by its futuristic competitor, Rainbow Road is one of the greatest video game tracks ever. Very easy to get lost in the colors and find yourself falling in a black hole.

24. London

Game: Midnight Club: Street Racing
Year: 2000

Commercializing the illegal street racing genre, Midnight Club gave you an outlaw's world of freedom in each world/city you raced through. Our favorite was the London race, which directs you through what would otherwise be an open-world track. Think you can get to the finish line faster than the directions? Go 'head.

23. Nissan Speedway

Game: Forza Motorsport 2/3
Year: 2007, 2009

When I wanted to see my newly modified Toyota Supra hit 227 mph, I went straight to the Nissan Speedway oval. OK, so maybe it wasn't the best for actual racing—but for some late-night, hung-over fun, it was awesome.

22. Peach Beach

Game: Mario Kart 64
Year: 1997

By this point, I've all but mastered the surf & turn track that is Peach Beach. I know where the monsters will be, where to place my car so I hit the power-up ramp, and when to use the shell if I am not in first place (right after the turn onto the last pavement straightaway). How do I know all that? Because 13 years ago, that's ALL I EVER DID.

21. Alcatraz

Game: Rush 2
Year: 1998

Don't remember Rush or Rush 2? Don't feel too bad, they I know run-of-the-mill arcade racers. But Rush 2 came with a dope track called Alcatraz that had multiple levels, tight turns, and some crazy ramps. Was it enough to save a place for the game in my memory? Nah. But it was enough to earn it a spot on this list!

20. Trial Mountain Circuit

Game: Gran Turismo
Year: 1998

The original Gran Turismo's Trial Mountain Circuit did just what its name implies—it tried out talents. The track made us realize that Gran Turismo wasn't like all the other racing sims of the time. Not too long, with corners that allow for precise overtaking and tighter turns that would punish those looking for a quick cut. Many a dream was dashed on that circuit.

19. Twilight City

Game: Wave Race 64
Year: 1996

If you haven't noticed by now, I am like colorful tracks and nocturnal environments in future-based racers. What can I say? We're children of the night. People like to hate on Wave Race 64, saying that the game lost its identity and tried to copy F-Zero; they may be right, but it was still great fun. To wit: Twilight City. Color, night, and future. Trifecta!

18. Blue Mountains Raceway

Game: Forza Motorsport
Year: 2005

One of the most popular Forza tracks has you racing through a verdant countryside on a forgiving track that allows you to get a good feel for the dynamics of the game. More of a free cruiser than an actual racetrack, Blue Mountain Raceway is where everyone returned whenever they needed a confidence boost.

17.Florion Height

Game: Wipeout Fusion
Year: 2002

We had to throw a Wipeout track on here just for the fact that they somehow made everything look like you I'm traveling 3,000 mph.

16. New York City

Game: Forza Motorsport 2/3
Year: 2007

Living in New York City, I am always dream of ripping around the city without consequence. The best recreation of NYC has to be Forza's New York City course. It takes you all throughout NYC—from Battery Park to Times Square. We're pretty sure this is what Bernie Ecclestone had in mind for the NYC Formula 1 race circuit. We can only dream.

15. Shanghai

Game: Project Gotham Racing 4
Year: 2002

One of the narrowest tracks on this list, this track modeled on the city of Shanghai really gives you the impression of driving through the megalopolis' cramped conditions. Floor it on straights, then hop back on your brakes for the true 90-degree turns and sweeping lefts. And, yeah, it's a nighttime course.

14. Opera Paris

Game: Gran Turismo for PSP
Year: 2009

While Iwaited for fifth Gran Turismo, I eas treated to a PSP port that promised the same level of gameplay as the console versions. Ican't say that it delivered, but it did offer some interesting new tracks like Opera Paris, which put you smack-dab in the City of Love on a challenging road course. Hopefully its faithful recreation is one of the reasons GT5 has taken so long to see the light of day.

13. Olympic Square

Game: Need for Speed Underground
Year: 2005

If I made a track based in Las Vegas, this is exactly what it would look like. Young, fly and flashy, Olympic Square is perhaps one of the most entertaining courses to race based solely on aesthetics.

12. Motorland

Game: Gran Turismo 4
Year: 2005

Isn't that nice, Gran Turismo gave you the perfect place to practice your car control. Thanks, Kazunori Yamauchi!

11. DK Summit

Game: Mario Kart Wii
Year: 2008

This is the course that took us the longest to master in Mario Kart Wii , but once I learned how to dodge the snow traps on the ramp, I was golden. The key to this snowy course is to, ironically, stay out of the snow. It proved both challenging and fun. Can't ask for more than that.

10. Apricot Hill Raceway

Game: Gran Turismo 4
Year: 2005

At 2.4 miles, the Apricot Raceway is the perfect length. And with 83.7 feet of elevation change, it gives you enough change-ups to keep you on your toes. Classic Gran Turismo.

9. Game: Ridge Racer
Year: 1994

Was there anything more fun to drive than the High Level of the original Ridge Racer? Not in my eyes. It's the course that set the pace for all future RR installments.

8. Deep Forest Raceway

Game: Gran Turismo 2
Year: 1999

Imagine taking a SuperGT spec race car for a spin through the redwood forests in the hilly part of Northern California. Yeah, that's what this course is. Effin' epic. Yet another reason to love the Emerald Triangle. And this one's non-combustible!

7. Port Town

Game: F-Zero
Year: 1990

F-Zero changed my view of what a racing game could be. The game, based on Formula 1 racers from the way, way in the future, had high-powered hover racers and wide, flowing tracks (like my favorite, Port Town) that let them (and us) go nuts.

6. Chicago

Game: Midtown Madness
Year: 1999

I spent most of my time playing in the Cruise mode of Midtown Madness. Instead of racing against others, I just cruised around the seemingly endless expanse of cityscape, acting like I had a driver's license. We've said it before, and I'll say it again: can I please, please get a high-def version for Xbox360?

5. Rome Circuit

Game: Gran Turismo 3

Polyphony outdid themselves with this circuit. Tricky when it needs to be (watch as the road tightens up after certain turns), but still easy to cruise, Rome Circuit carved out a track in the Italian city that looked as good as it was to drive. You know what they say: when in Rome, try not to drive into the Trevi Fountain.

4. LA Freeway

Game: Cruis'n USA
Year: 1994

This is the one video game track I am sure everyone—and maybe even their fathers and mothers—has played. If you lost your composure on the many straightaways, you could be sure to have the front of your car kiss a palm tree (thankfully, there was no damage feature). If you haven't played this course, take your ass down to your local Dave & Buster's and get on it. 16 years later, it's like a hot tub time machine!

3. Banshee Boardwalk

Game: Mario Kart 64
Year: 1997

Dark, gloomy, dangerous—it's everything Mario Kart isn't. And that's why I love it. Yeah, the turns are hard to maneuver, and sure, some of the roadways are too narrow for the whole field. You know what? Life is unfair sometimes. Deal with it.

2. Ice Arena

Game: Gran Turismo 4
Year: 2005

Wait—I can take my cars and race... on ICE? OH HELL YES. Want to perform some real hoonery? Take your 600hp racer out on this track and watch the back kick out before you crash into a wall.

1. Bowser's Castle

Game: Super Mario Kart
Year: 1992

Yep, this is it. Bowser's Castle. The most sinister-looking track on this list. The spot where you could fall and burn to death if you handled an apex wrong. Yeah, it's only Super Mario Kart, and it's not as intricate or as detailed as other tracks and games, but this track struck more fear into our widdle hearts than any other I can think of. That's what racing's about: pushing through the fear. LOLZ! Nah, seriously, I can't think of a more fun game than SMK, and this was—and is—my favorite track from the game. Bong.

Legend of Zelda timeline

2011-11-25T10:35:00.000-08:00

I only knew the Ocarina of Time > Majora's Mask > Twilight Princess timeline and the Wind Waker > Phantom Hourglass > Spirit Tracks. I thought that Wind Waker took place before Ocarina of Time. I didn't know where the hell the other games took place. This is pretty important since Ocarina of Time takes #1 at Gamerankings.com with total of 5,000+ games. Of these I've played Legend of Zelda, Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time, Majoras Mask, Wind WAker, Minish Cap, Phantom Hourglass, Twilight Princess, and Skyward Sword.

THE START: The Legend of the Gods and the Hero of Time]

- Before the events of any game in the series the only know event that happens is that the Goddess creates the earth and heavens and stopped an evil called Demise from taking over the world.
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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Skyward Sword documents the reincarnation of the Goddess Hylia, the ancient battle against a revived Demise and the return of the land in the sky to the surface. During his quest Link must travel through the sky and the land below in order to increase the power of the Goddess Sword. Eventually the Goddess Sword turns it in to the famous Master Sword.
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- In between Skyward Sword and the events of the next game three eras pass: The Sky Era, The Era of Chaos - which marks the sealing of the Sacred Realm and The Era of Prosperity – the era in which the Kingdom of Hyrule of first formed.
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-The next two games are both set in the fourth ear: The Force Era.
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The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
The Minish Cap shows the first true inhabitants of the Kingdom of Hyrule and also marks the rise in power of the Wind Sorcerer Vaati and his untimely death. During the game Link must re-forge an ancient sword that gives him the power to spilt in to four copies of himself.
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The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords
Four Swords is a continuation of the story from The Minish Cap. It shows the revival of Vaati, and again shows his death at the hand of the four Links.
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- After Four Swords the fifth era begins: The Era of the Hero of Time.
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Ocarina of Time shows the rise to power of Ganondorf, a descendant of Demise, who goes on to win the Triforce of Power. Link must travel back and forward through time on many occasions throughout his quest to rescue the Sages and gain the strength necessary to defeat Ganondorf and bring an end to his reign as the King of Evil.
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- Here's where things get interesting. After Ocarina of Time there are actually three splits in the timeline, not two as previously believed.

[SPLIT 1: Hyrule's Decline and the Last Hero]

- This timeline, also referenced as timeline C (because nobody knew before now it existed), is what happens after the events of Ocarina of Time if the Hero of Time meets his death against Ganondorf.
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- After the death of Link the Sealing War takes place. Without Link to defend Hyrule the Sages take it in to their own hands and seal away Ganondorf themselves in the Sacred Realm. While in the Sacred Realm Ganondorf (now transformed permanently in to Ganon) builds up his power and turns it in to the Dark World.
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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

A Link to the Past documents what happens when Ganon has gained enough power to break from the Dark World and wreak havoc on Hyrule once again. Using Agahnim to cover up his plan, Ganon finally reveals himself to Link at the end of the game. Link's objective is to find the Master Sword and rescue the seven Maidens before he can even do battle against the King of Evil.
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The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages/Oracle of Seasons
After the events of A Link to the Past Link travels away from Hyrule to seek and help other lands after receiving a message from the Triforce, this leads to the events of the Oracle games. The Oracle games can be placed in any order (because the games can be played in any order), and when linked together they show the proper ending. It is revealed that Twinrova are trying to revive Ganon, but once again Link is at hand to save the day.
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The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
After the events of the Oracle games Link is traveling back to Hyrule when his boat is caught in a storm at sea which renders him unconscious. This leads to the events of Link's Awakening. The events of Link's Awakening are believed to be a dream, but if you finish the game without dying you see an alternate ending that does hint otherwise.
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- After Link's Awakening another ere begins: The Gold Era. The Gold Era is the time where the monarchy of Hyrule use the Triforce to grant their wishes.
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- Eventually the Era of Gold starts to decline, ushering in a new era: The Era of Decline.
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The Legend of Zelda
In The Legend of Zelda Ganon is revived and kidnaps Princess Zelda in order to acquire the Triforce of Wisdom. But little does he know that Zelda already shattered it in to eight pieces, which the new Link sets off to find before defeating Ganon in a climatic duel, winning the Triforce of Power in the process.
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Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
The Adventure of Link tells the story of the Hero from the previous game traveling across Hyrule, defeating all the evil to prevent another resurrection of Ganon. When Link succeeds he acquires the Triforce of Courage to go along with the two he found in his previous adventure. He then unifies the Triforce, brings peace to Hyrule and awakens Zelda from her eternal sleep.
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- These events bring an end to this timeline.

[SPLIT 2: The Dark World and The Hero's Descendant]

- This split in the timeline documents what happens at the end of the Ocarina of Time if Link succeeds in killing Ganon and travels back in time to a child, thus starting The Child Era. When back as a child Link and Zelda inform the King of Ganondorf's planned treason, so they arrest him and sentence him to death before he can put his plan in to action.
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The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Majora's Mask is only a side story which shows what happens when Link leaves Hyrule and travels in search of a dear friend. Skull Kid, who possesses the Majora's Mask – a fabled mask of untold power, attacks Link while he was riding Epona through the Lost Woods. Skull Kid steals the Ocarina of Time and Epona, and Link gets caught up in a quest to save a town from getting destroyed by a Moon that will fall from the sky in just three days.
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- After the events of Majora's Mask Ganondorf receives his death sentence at the hands of the Sages, but when they fail to kill him they open the Mirror of Twilight and send him to the Twilight Realm instead. These events bring and end to the Child Era and start a new one: The Twilight Era.
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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Twilight Princess roughly takes place 100 years after the events of Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. While trapped inside the Twilight Realm Ganondorf possesses Zant and grants him his power. Zant then uses this power to take over the Twilight Realm, transform its Queen Midna in to an imp then invade Hyrule and blanket it in Twilight. Link then rids Hyrule of its Twilight, defeats Zant and then confronts and kills the now free Ganondorf.
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- After the events of Twilight Princess a new era begins: The Shadow Era.
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The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures
Four Swords Adventures marks the resurrection of both Vaati and Ganon, only to see them yet again defeated by a Four Sword wielding Link.
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- These events bring an end to this timeline.

[SPLIT 3: The Wind Waker and the New World]

- This split documents what happens at the end of Ocarina of Time to the world in the future when Link travels back in time to his original era. With Ganon sealed all is at peace, but one day Ganon breaks his seal and takes over Hyrule unchallenged now that Link has disappeared. Because of his immense power the people of Hyrule can't defeat him, so they pray to the Gods who flood Hyrule with continual rainfall. These events marked The Era Without the Hero.
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- After Hyrule floods a new era begins: The Era of the Great Sea.
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The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
The Wink Waker takes place on top of a great sea, underneath which Hyrule once was before it was flooded. The only land still visible here are the mountain tops of Hyrule, and people that survived the flooding managed to populate them. This starts the adventure of The Wind Waker, which sees Link travel across the ocean in an attempt to stop Ganondorf terrorizing the inhabitants of the sea.
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- When the events of The Wind Waker come to an end another new era begins: The Era of the Great Voyage.
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The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
After defeating Ganondorf, Tetra and Link set off on a new adventure of discovery to find the fabled Ghost Ship, which is said to contain priceless amounts of treasure. When they find it Tetra jumps on board only for the ship to vanish. With this Link sets off across a new world to find and rescue her.
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- When the events of Phantom Hourglass finish a new era eventually beings: The Era of Hyrule's Rebirth. Eventually Link and Tetra discover a new land, which they name the new Hyrule. 100 years pass and their descendants have to fight against a new threat.
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The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
Steam power is the biggest advancement in technology in new Hyrule, as Trains become the main mode of transport. Link and Tetra's descendants must fight against Chancellor Cole and Byrne in order to stop the resurrection of Malladus. They fail to stop his resurrection, but Link goes on to defeat Malladus in a one on one fight.

The Manchurian Candidate

2011-11-22T14:31:00.000-08:00

We now have gutted NASA, thanks to the his Manchurian politics. At least we know where he gets his politics. He gave all our high tech space data to china or at least waiting for China to land to the moon, right? Obamacare is a 5 year plan. There is also a five year plan on offshore drilling. There is a 5 year plan on NASA budget freeze.

I wanted to use the Smith act (18 U.S.C. § 2385) for impeachment, maybe.

The American bureaucracy is the Stalinist bureaucracy carried to its ultimate and logical conclusion. CLR James 1955

Vote in someone else quick or smith act

OPERA neutrino anomaly

2011-11-19T12:15:00.000-08:00

OPERA neutrino anomaly has obsoleted Einstein's Theory of Relativity, because his uses a worse then light-speed algorithm. CERN will have to create an exception using a Theory of neutrino anomaly relativity. They arrived earlier by 60 nsec. Within the Standard-Model Extension (SME theory), various theorists have suggested that the neutrino have tachyonic nature. The faster-than-light propagation is possible without requiring moving objects to have imaginary mass. The Standard-Model Extension (SME theory) explains how neutrinos goes faster than light speed. Nuetrinos are found in nuclear reactors, nuclear bombs. Frederick Reines and Clyde Cowan originally found nuetrinos inside nuclear bombs in 1956.

The spaceships use neutrinos so they must be plasma-based engines and we already have military astronauts in those TAW-50 fighter-bombers running on neutrinos/nuclear fission and magnetic anti-gravity mechanisms to sustain their structural stability with high MACH speeds. We can upgrade those in the near future.

PC-BSD vs. Linux

2011-11-19T03:30:00.000-08:00

Windows 7 does not shut down properly sometimes. openSUSE and Linux Mint both shut down everytime. The Linux's goes into a coma for 10 seconds and logs out if you install something. Firefox went into a coma the most in Linux Mint.

Programs on PC-BSD 8.2 never ever went into a 10 second coma or any coma! PC-BSD 9 is supposed to have KDE 4.7.4!

PC-BSD defeats Linux, but not in politics. I'm just saying Jurassic Park ran on IRIX UNIX and UNIX is FREE!

openSUSE 12.1 64-bit review

2011-11-18T20:36:00.000-08:00

With the sea-salt whiff of Fedora 16 still hanging in the air, we now have another updated Linux distribution based on the new 3.1 kernel. OpenSUSE 12.1 offers the GNOME 3.2 shell along with KDE, Xfce and LXDE desktop flavors should you prefer something different. There are goodies like Chromium 17 and Firefox 7 and improved server side tools including WebYaST, Horde 4 apps and the ability to run on the Amazon EC2 cloud. The source link below lists plenty more improvements and of course they're all free. Software should also run faster on SUSE machines thanks to the link-time optimisation of GCC 4.6.2.

Here a Windows installation exists in parallel, openSUSE defaults to installing the boot manager in the Linux partition's boot sector and sets the active flag for this partition.

Special highlights are the Btrfs snapshot management tools and the resulting roll-back function in Yast – no other distribution currently offers this functionality. The Yast module doesn't yet allow users to create custom snapshots or delete individual snapshots from the list.

openSUSE 12.1's default browser is Firefox 7, its default email client is Thunderbird 7.0.1, and LibreOffice 3.4.2 is included.

the Packman repository should be enabled in the software manager of openSUSE's Yast admin tool, as it contains various multimedia codecs.

ZFS is copy-on-write, self-healing with 256-bit checksums, supports compression, online pool growth, scales much better than the UFS file-system commonly used on BSD operating systems, supports snapshots, supports deduplication, and the list goes on for the features of this file-system .

Otherwise, BTRFS is a lot faster (3x) with compression enabled than ZFS. BTFS also beats EXT4. At 32 threads of 32MB random writes, Btrfs continued running just fine (36MB/sec) while ZFS dropped to writing at 1.67MB/s, this was barely faster than the UFS+S speed of 1.63MB/s.

Remember BSD 8.2 BSD has slower file system, but more highest security and built for mission critical data like databases like health records that need protection from Chinese.

desktop shells 9.0 - KDE 4.7.2 faster than KDE 4.6.0 in 11.4 and KDE 4.5.5 in PC-BSD 8.2
filesystem 10 - beats ZFS in performance
overall 9.0

My lefty church

2011-11-18T12:43:00.000-08:00

In this religion, the dove is the "holy spirit"

My lefty church

2011-11-18T12:37:00.000-08:00

In this religion, the dove is the "holy spirit"

Newt Gingrich < Mitt Romney

2011-11-16T21:57:00.000-08:00

Newt has the higher intelligence of any candidate, and he had some gray trading issues with Freddie Mac, and got backfired on his flamboyant behavior in congress during Clinton admin. His Contract with America,” a document outlining legislation to be enacted by the House within the first 100 days of the 104th Congress. Among the proposals were tax cuts, a permanent line-item veto, and a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget.
He would "abolish all the White House czars" his first day in office if he were elected president.

And Gingrich is against death panels.

Gingrich: I was just swapping e-mails today with Andy von Eschenbach, who was the head of the National Cancer Institute, the head of the Food & Drug Administration. But before that, he was the provost M.D. Anderson, the largest cancer treatment center in the world. And he wrote me to point out that the most recent U.S. government intervention on whether or not to have prostate testing is basically going to kill people. …

And what Von Eschenbach will tell you if you call him is, the decision to suggest that we not test men with PSA will mean that a number of people who do not have — who are susceptible to a very rapid prostate cancer will die unnecessarily. And there was not a single urologist, not a single specialist on the board that looked at it. So, I am opposed to class intervention for these things.

It would be nice when Supreme Court throw out the Obamacare mandate so US not the Greece. It's a five year plan anyhow,

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich went too far in bragging that he “helped balance the budget for four straight years.” He was only in Congress for two of those budget years.

Newt will rearm the ICBM Peacemaker missiles and stand up to china who hack PCs, manipulate currency, and try to fund their currency. Pres. Obama hasn't told the IMF that this is what is happening, because Obama is one of marxist.

Only thing bad about Newt is he supports 25+ amnesty so I'm considering Mitt Romney at the moment. Who cares if illegals here 25 years. I agree with Romney here.

"I do not believe that the people of the United States are going to take people who have been here a quarter century, who have children and grandchildren, who are members of the community, who may have done something 25 years ago, separate them from their families, and expel them," , "I can't imagine any serious person who will walk down the street, see someone they know for 20 years and say, 'You're leaving your family, you're leaving your church, you're leaving the community... and we are kicking you out forcibly.'" Newt said.

Black weirdos

2011-11-15T16:49:00.000-08:00

I was fired volunteering by a black woman from California mentioning the word communism . I could sue, but I ain't. White House doing 5 year plans, isn't it obvious Obama's marxist-leninist or Frankfurt School?

C.J. Atkins (from Political Affairs) admits that Communist Party members work in in Democratic-aligned organizations including Organize for America, Progressive Democrats of America, the Campaign for America’s Future or the New York Working Families Party.

The context here is that Atkins believes that the Party is stigmatized by the “communist” label and should drop the name, in order to more easily and effectively work through the Democrats and other “mainstream” organizations.

gamecollection122011_LZ.mp4

2011-11-15T05:12:00.000-08:00

New arcade stick

2011-11-11T15:20:00.000-08:00

I had one HORI real arcade pro 2 for PS2 from 2005 which I never blogged about. I needed another HORI real arcade pro 2 so Ebay gave me a $67 deal. The PS2 versions are 50% cheaper and bought a $4 PS2 to PS3 converter. It is a lot better to pay $67 for this then $120-$200 for the PS3 USB version of the same arcade stick. I believe I am getting commercial cabinet quality joystick and buttons with this HORI brand. I can use it for Tekken 4, 5, 6, Virtua Fighter 4, 5, Blazblue Calamity Trigger and Continuum Shift, Soul Calibur II, III, IV, Street Fighter IV, Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Guilty Gear X, Guilty Gear Accent Core, Gradius V, R-Type Final. HORI arcade stick noticeably better than the dual shock 2 and sixaxis.

US has Type 1 characteristics.

2011-11-10T23:11:00.000-08:00

On 2250, the Earth reaches a Type 1 civilization on the Kardashev scale at the current rate. This is achieved by computers with semi-quasi reasoning skills and fusion energy. This is impossible with anything other than fusion power plants. In 2011, Earth's at .72 so hydrogen power plants will make it to .73.

Bottom line, nobody ever needs to be type 1 status with all the spacecraft crashes within 114 years since 1897 Aurora, TX in my opinion. Discovery should be 1000x easier especially with surgical laser instruments on spaceships (Roswell).
Laser Inertial Fusion Energy is supposed to work in 2020 far before any International effort. There is supposed to be a demonstration in 2012.

Newt Gingrich said that our fission reactors are on their last legs and need attention and funding since 2000

All you need is a really, really primitive dyson ring (Dyson swarm) and some lasers for wireless transfer to be Type 1.

digital distribution

2011-11-05T22:24:00.000-07:00

I read a lot on digital distribution of PC games or Virtual Console. I know I saved $3000 on Roms, ISOs and stuff. It mostly was rom games for old consoles in 1999 - 2005, because PCs could emulate old consoles. Search 'roms'.

It seems like the Gamestops and other non-big box stores are beginning to die, because of Rom collecting or ISOs.

I hate Steam. There is zero tolerance for used game ownership. Fortunately, I got out of this through Target gift cards. Electronic Arts encryption is more tolerable, I have to use No-DVD crack on all their newer games just to execute.

I played all the Saturn shooters at least once, and played enough expensive Sega Saturn games for a review. It's nice skip paying $150 just to play Panzer Dragoon Saga or Radiant Silvergun.

I downloaded a few PC games: Monkey Island Special Edition, Monkey Island 2 Special Edition, Battlefield 2142, Spellforce 2, GTR 2, GTR, Formula 1.

The Japanese likes handhelds, because most own DS and PS2 in a large margin. The Nintendo DS came out on top, with 62.1% of the group owning at least one iteration. The PlayStation 2 came in second at 58.5% .New Consoles are 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th place.Japan Loves Old Games, But Not Older Gamers. Things have become far more corporate and structured. Strangulation might follow if changes don’t occur. DS and PSP are more popular in Japan. So Japan won't buy as many new games, yet Americans would.

I'm trying to think on what obsoletes videogame sessions with Americans?

I know it's called Facebook, Farmville. The primary successor is taking pictures for facebook daily. Facebook photos and amateur photography replace videogames all together! People don't want to buy too many games as a result. I am the only person in class of 2003 in St. Croix County (including 2004-2011) who blogs anymore! They're Facebook hardcore posters entitled too much to join Google+ (joined Google+ five months ago) even blogs EXCEPT youtube.

Lesser substitutes are iPad, iPhone, Android OS for photography for flickr or photobucket.

Vita or Radeon HD 5870

2011-11-02T21:24:00.000-07:00

I just got enough money for my birthday for a Playstation Vita or a Radeon HD 5870. I cannot decide which way to go do I am sitting on a fence as far as it goes. I could use the BFGtech Geforce GTX 280 which barely meets Elder Scrolls V high pc requirements. At this point, it is common sense for Christmas 2012 for the Radeon HD 7870 and put my Radeon HD 5970 in my older PC.

Other games I anticipate are Uncharted 3, Elder Scrolls V for PC, Super Mario 3D Land, and then Mass Effect 3 in January.

I'm swamped with college homework since October. I'm coasting through the Gamespot not really hardcore game blogger. I search at night, because I like to think a little bit. I find that comprehending the post is difficult at night so I do lists instead!

For Christmas. The only reason I am getting a laptop is if I am paying electricity. It saves wear and tear on my case fans or 850 watt Power Supply Unit, but mainly it is to reduce the electricity bill. I am probably going to ignore the laptop until the electricity bill bites me in the ass five years from now. If I had digital camera JPEGs, there is nobody important enough to show off too so iPad, what's that? I shown jpegs once on Playstation Portable to my first date in 2005.

Top 11 Halloween D56

2011-10-31T19:13:00.000-07:00

They are cheap made in china lit pollen houses.

1. Dept 56 Halloween Village Rickety Railroad Station

2. Department 56 Snow Village Halloween Monsters Of The Deep

3. Department 56 Snow Village Croak-N-Haggard Mortuary

4. Department 56 Snow Village Deep Woods Haunt

5. Halloween Snow Village from Department 56 Retching Pumpkin Diner

6. Snow Village Halloween Screech Owl Farmhouse Lit House

7. Critter's Pets & Pelts

8. Department 56 Snow Village Halloween Haunted Rails Engine

9. Department 56 Original Snow Village Halloween Foggy Point Platform

10. Halloween Snow Village from Department 56 Grimsly Retirement Home

11. Halloween Snow Village from Department 56 Walter & Larry's Crypt

D56 All Hallows Houses

2011-10-31T11:42:00.000-07:00

Department 56

PC-BSD 9

2011-10-25T05:32:00.000-07:00

Found out PC-BSD is like openSuse where someone gets both Gnome 2.32.2, KDE 4.7.x, and LXDE 0.5.7. It's redesigned the control panel. 9.0 is easier to install to a ZFS file-system even if 8.2 had one click ZFS install. Note that I use the GUI installer, not 16-bit installer. I'm using q4wine for Winamp in 8.2. BSD stays up for 250 days. It keeps out almost all cyber attacks and malware via being mission critical.

This OS is if your Vista has a Trojan and you reformat and the Trojan keeps coming back. UNIX won't slow down as much over time. I played with Linux, because it's mainstream. I got bored of reconciliation. So Solaris or ProjectIndiana didn't have Libreoffice or VLC or GIMP or Google Chrome or Opera or DVD video playback on them

Mists of Pandaria

2011-10-21T19:17:00.000-07:00

Now get this Blizzard Entertainment is doing for their new expansion pack for World of Warcraft. World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria and it's great its seeing negative feedback. You think that blizzard enjoys bringing up Chinese. They do marxism-leninism. I don't agree with it or Leon Trotsky's race baiting. The western civilization should be superior. Good thing World of Warcraft is dying. Blizzard said that the numbers are down by 600,000 players in the last seven months. The reason that the decline might have slowed by Blizzard bringing in a free-to-play model. Players can play for an unlimited amount of time for free until a character hits level 20. Despite the 7.5 percent drop in customer subscriptions and potential loss of approximately $160 million in yearly subscription revenue, Blizzard is continuing to support the game with recent expansion packs like Cataclysm and future content like the Mists Of Pandaria.

World of Warcraft should die much quicker when Diablo 3 comes out and replaces WoW. You don't see any Chinese references in Diablo 3!

More people now can focus on console first person shooters, racing, console RPGs, Vita, 3DS, Wii U.

I always thought paying for WoW was stupid. I've been playing Guild Wars, Factions, Nightfall between 2005 - 2008, was free and you get same gameplay and as much continent to level through. The review scores are similar. Arenanet had people working on WoW as employees. I didn't get into the WoW PR. Before, I played Diablo (1999), Diablo 2 (2000 - 2004) and Neverwinter Nights (2002) & Hordes of the Underdark (2003) online.

Top 10 Horror Games

2011-10-19T19:41:00.000-07:00

10. Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem

9. Dead Space

8. F.E.A.R.

7. Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth

6. Condemned: Criminal Origins

5. Penumbra: Black Plague

4. Siren: Blood Curse

3. Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly

2. Amnesia: The Dark Descent

1. Silent Hill 2

Gameplay dumbing down / noobish

2011-10-18T13:55:00.000-07:00

Somewhere between handily completing Assassin's Creed and breezing through nearly all of the missions in Grand Theft Auto IV, it struck me. Have games of today become dumber? This is not to suggest that the stories contained in these games are dumb: Assassin's Creed and GTA have both been praised for their incredible storytelling. What I mean is that it increasingly feels as though game designers feel that we the players are dumb, that we need our hands constantly held throughout a game, lest we throw down the controller in frustration.

These two recent console games, while obvious examples, are not the only offenders in this recent trend of dumbing-down the challenge factor in videogames. The recently released Too Human features automatically scaling enemies so that players will never encounter any foe that is way beyond their level of experience. Fable II will include a "Breadcrumb trail" so that adventurers will never get lost while traveling from one objective to the next in its sprawling fantasy world.

Compare these modern examples with titles that - not too long ago - offered considerably more challenge and really tested both the reflexes and intelligence of players. I grew up with graphic adventure games like Kings Quest, The Secret of Monkey Island, and Conquests of Camelot, all of which are famous for placing taxing levels of difficulty on the player. In a text-based PC adventure game from the 1980s, a typical player interaction might go something like this:

Of course, modern developers have argued strongly that some retro conventions - such as text-only input and broken save systems, deserve to be laid to rest. But even beyond those technical limitations, games from that period placed challenges in the way of the player that are sorely missed in the current crop of adventure games. One of the greatest features of early PC adventures was their ability to make the player feel as though he or she were really exploring a new landscape. There were no overhead maps or radar screens, no invisible walls keeping players from wandering into dangerous territory. Gamers had to feel out the landscape on their own, in some cases even creating pen and paper maps in the real world to keep track of their location in the game. That was one of the reasons why we loved Etrian Odyssey, an RPG for the DS that uses the touch screen for mapmaking. But games like Etrian Odyssey are an increasing rarity in a market that seems to reward simplicity over challenge.

How did this happen? How did game developers arrive at the notion that what we really wanted all along was less of a challenge in our videogames? Part of the answer can probably be found in the massive economic success of the video game industry. As the digital entertainment market approaches the popularity of film, games have come to resemble Hollywood movies in many respects. Publishers seek to create games that will have massive appeal with the public -- a public that increasingly includes new and less experienced gamers, as companies seek to reach out to new consumers. The recent game Spore might not be satisfying to hardcore gamers, but it will undoubtedly sell millions of copies by appealing to more causal PC owners like my father, who has never played a real-time strategy game before. Adventure games have definitely suffered from this phenomenon. They are very expensive to make, because of their extensive use of artwork and voice-acting. Because of that, they must be able to appeal to a large enough audience to recoup the initial cost of development. Consequently, developers are taking less risks and designing their games for the lowest common denominator

All hope is not lost. A small but vocal resistance has formed, made up of hardcore masochists, completists and those who remember what games were like before they became mass-market commodities. These devoted thrill seekers will actually take great care to make their gaming experience as difficult as possible, even in "nerfed" titles like Assassin's Creed. In that game, some hardcore fans decided that playing with the HUD activated was cheating, so they forced themselves to play without a radar map. By forcing themselves to actually hunt for the next objective, these players argue, the experience is improved, and actually approaches the level of difficulty found in earlier adventure games. The hardcore can also be found on YouTube. These are the ones doing speed runs in their favorite 2D platformers, trying to shave a few seconds off of their previous and untouchably fast performance. And of course, multiplayer shooters like Call of Duty 4 offer unlimited challenge, as gamers square off against human opponents that are just as skilled as themselves.

For a real, challenging adventure game, however, options are somewhat slim these days. I hope that some game designers remember the glory days of adventure gaming on the PC, and seek to implement some of the best features from that era in new projects. Give players a sense of control over their destiny, let them make mistakes and suffer the consequences, and let them explore the virtual worlds you create without limitation. Above all, force players to use their brains to interact with your game, rather than simply spoon feeding them cutscenes. Those things are what make gaming great, after all.

Free Q4Wine for PC-BSD

2011-10-13T14:40:00.001-07:00

I found a free Wine frontend for PC-BSD 8.2 for running VLC and Winamp! Bordeaux is better and it takes $20.

I found a Q4Wine PBI installer mirror #1 mirror #2 mirror #3

Linux Mint Debian 201109 review

2011-10-12T14:53:00.001-07:00

There is something wrong with Ebay, everybody sells Debian 6, but not Linux Mint Debian 201109. What's wrong with those people? Somebody messed up knowing there was a Linux Mint Debian 201012 and decided not to wait.

Linux Mint Debian 201109 is an improvement! It is based on the solid 2.32.2 Gnome that is much more responsive and stable over still buggy Gnome 3.2. The old Linux Mint 11 came with 2.6.38.6. LMDE 201109 comes with kernel 3.0.5. It's more responsive and uses less memory than Linux Mint 11.

Right now, I updated Firefox 7.0.1 and that runs great. My HP Printer runs great.

Ubuntu 11.10 comes out tomorrow right and Ubuntu is the most popular Linux Distro. Well Linux Mint Debian 201109 is superior version to Ubuntu 11.11. I have mine loaded with Crossover Linux 9.2.1 and it's great. Winamp runs great. LMDE 201109 comes with VLC 1.1.10, LibreOffice 3.4.2, Xchat, Firefox 6.0.2, The Gimp.

It didn't crash on me yet! It only went to sleep twice for 5 seconds (with Firefox 7).

Graphics

GIMP
gThumb
LibreOffice Draw
Simple Scan

Internet

Firefox
Giver
Pidgin IM
Sun Java 6
Thunderbird Mail/News
Transmission
XChat IRC

Multimedia

Banshee
Brasero
GNOME MPlayer
Movie Player
Sound Recorder
VLC Media Player

Office

Dictionary
LibreOffice

I give this OS 9.0/10. Cream of the crop!

8.2 no longer found on ebay until 9.0 is out. PC-BSD is more stable than Linux Mint 201109 Debian, yet these days you can't tell. I got linux, pc-bsd and windows in GRUB booting. Notice that Linux uses 488 MB of RAM and BSD uses 1 GB+. The BSD could run for 240 days straight

EFX3 died: 2007-9/2011

2011-10-12T07:47:00.000-07:00

When Modblog died in June 2006, I got 58,000 hits for being able to write lots of entries. The successor was supposed to be EFX2. Then I went to EFX3, because of the blogspot import. All the EFX2 bloggers went to EFX3, because they all thought EFX2 died in terms of page views and comments. They didn't have "networkblogs" to save their site, a RSS feed for Facebook. I was the 0.5% who saved my posts from 2002 - 2005! At the bloggers.com, anonymous gave my EFX3 site a 8 out of 10 (too black and white). More of them probably backed up *.XML (wordpress) and went to wordpress.com.

What really is the shits is the Waybackmachine didn't snapshot my EFX3 site.

best Science Fiction Authors of all time

2011-10-09T08:58:00.000-07:00

15. Larry Niven - (The Mote in God’s Eye)
14. Philip Jose' Farmer (Riverworld series)
13. Robert Silverberg (Majipoor)
12. Ursula K. Le Guin (The Left Hand of Darkness)
11. Harry Harrison (Make Room! Make Room!)
10. Frederick Pohl (Undersea Trilogy )
09. Frank Herbert (Dune)
08. Harlan Ellison (A Boy and his Dog)
07. Jack Williamson (The Ultimate Earth)
06. E. E. “Doc” Smith (Lensmen and Skylark)
05. Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, We can Remember it for you Wholesale)
04. Ray Bradbury (The Fog Horn, The Meteor)
03. Robert A. Heinlein (Starship Troopers)
02. Isaac Asimov (The Gods Themselves)
01. Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood’s End)

Anticipiation list

2011-10-07T16:59:00.000-07:00

Released now.

- Dark Souls
- Gears of War III

Figured I copy Widdowson91 on his great games he still wants

Gamecube

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
Skies of Arcadia Legends

Wii

Sonic Colors
Donkey Kong Country Returns

DS

final fantasy XII ravent Wings
The World Ends with You

PS3

Modern Warfare 3
Sonic Generations
ICO/Shadows of the Collosis HD collection.

Xbox 360

DoDonPachi Resurrection (PAL Rising Star Games) is region free

upcoming

- Super Mario 3D Land
- Mario Kart 7
- Final Fantasy XIII-2 (PS3)
- Final Fantasy X HD (PS3)
- Persona 4: The Golden (Vita)
- Resistance Burning Sky (Vita)
- Elder Scrolls V (PC)
- Elder Scrolls V (360)
- Metal Gear Solid HD Collection
- Metal Gear Solid Rising
- Assassin's Creed: Revelations
- Wipeout 2048 (Vita)
- Legend of Zelda - Skyward Sword
- Mass Effect 3 (Xbox 360)
- cheap Cave developed SHMUP (360)
- Beyond the Labyrinth(3Ds)

- Uncharted Abyss (Vita)

I decided I don't want any more NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, PS1, and GBA games. Some of these are too ancient while others like PS1, I decided I own there is all worth owning. The newer games are far more interesting to play

Best horror authors of all time

2011-10-07T05:57:00.000-07:00

20. Graham Masterton (The Manitou, Charnel House)
19. Richard Laymon (The Traveling Vampire Show, The Woods of Dark, Funland)
18. F. Paul Wilson (The Keep, The Tomb, Midnight Mass)
17. Robert McCammon ( Baal, Bethany’s Sin, They Thirst, Swan Song, Stinger, and The Wolf’s Hour)
16. Ambrose Bierce (Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge)
15. Algernon Blackwood (The Willows, The Man Who found Out, Ancient Sorceries)
14. John Saul (Suffer the Children, Hellfire, The Blackstone Chronicles)
13. Jack Ketchum (Girl Next Door)
12. Dean Koontz (Whispers, The Funhouse, Hideaway, Demon Seed, Watchers (including sequels, Intensity, and The Servants of Twilight)
11. Brian Lumley (Necroscope series)
10. Joe R. Lansdale (On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks. The Drive in, Incident On and Off a Mountain Road)
09. Peter Straub (Ghost Story, Shadowland, Black House)
08. M.R. James ( Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, More Ghost Stories)
07. Ramsey Campbell (The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants, Demons by Daylight (1973), and Told by the Dead (2003)
06. Robert Bloch (Psycho!, Psycho II , Psycho House, The Hell-Bound Train)
05. Clive Barker (The Forbidden (Candyman 1992), The Last Illusion (Lord of Illusions 1995), and Midnight Meat Train (2008)
04. Edgar Allan Poe (The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Premature Burial, and Ligeia)
03. Richard Matheson (Nightmare at 20,000 feet Stir of Echoes, and Hell House, Duel, The Night Stalker & The Night Strangler )
02. Stephen King (Salem’s Lot (1975), I am Legend; The Shining (1977); The Stand (1978); Cujo (1981); Christine (1983); Pet Sematary (1983); The Talisman W/ Peter Straub (1984); It (1986); Misery (1987); The Dark Half (1989); Needful Things (1990); Gerald’s Game (1992); Then there are the collections: Night Shift (1978); Skeleton Crew (1985); Nightmares and Dreamscapes (1993); and Everything’s Eventual (2002).
01. H.P. Lovecraft (he Unnamable, The Call of Cthulhu, The Colour out of Space, The Dunwich Horror, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, Dreams in the Witch House, The Shadow out of Time, and The Haunter in the Dark.)

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Vita/PS4 games developers should make

2011-10-04T15:46:00.001-07:00

Final Fantasy VII

God of War IV

God of War V

Disgaea 5

Catharine 2

Ace Combat game

Assassin's Creed 5/6

Star Ocean V

Rosnance of Fate 2

Half-life 3

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 3

Crysis 3

Grandia 4

Radiant Silvergun 2

Uncharted 4

Tales series

Unreal Tournament 4

Quake Wars 2

Quake 5

Doom 4

remake Mission Critical

Gran Turismo 6

Battlefield 4

Driver 5

Outrun Coast to Coast 2

Neverwinter Nights 3

Rayman platformer

Star Wars The Old Republic

Deus Ex 4

Deus Ex 5

Batman Aklan 3

Assassin's Creed 5/6

Marvel Vs. Capcom 4

Blazblue 3

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4

Diablo 3

Killzone 4

Burnout Paradise 2

Final Fantasy VII-2

Final Fantasy VIII-2

Final Fantasy IX-2

Final Fantasy X-3

Xenogears 2

Alundra 3

Panzer Dragoon Saga 2

Grand Theft Auto 6

Valkryie Profile 3

Suikoden VI

Suikoden VII

Persona 6

Mass Effect 4

Mass Effect 5

Mass Effect 6

Vanquish 2

Red Dead Redemption 2

The Elder Scrolls V

Radiata Stories II

Dragon Quest XI

Final Fantasy XIII-3

Final Fantasy Versus XIII

remake Xenosaga I, II, III

Ratchet and Clank

Jak and Daxter

Sonic Generations 2

Virtua Fighter 6

Street Fighter X Tekken 2

The Longest Journey 3

Fallout 5

Dungeon Siege IV

Castlevania

another Castlevania

Resident Evil 6

World of Warcraft

Vita/PS4 games developers should make

2011-10-04T15:46:00.000-07:00

Xbox 720 beat Xbox 360 pentition game list

2011-10-03T15:23:00.000-07:00

Forza Motorsport 5

Halo 5

Kameo 2

Perfect Dark 2

Prince of Persia 3 (newest trilogy)

Tony Hawk Pro Skater /w Tony Hawk

Extreme G 5

Project Snowblind 2

Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 3

Battlefield 4

Driver 5

Outrun Coast to Coast 2

Neverwinter Nights 3

Rayman platformer

Star Wars The Old Republic

Deus Ex 4

Deus Ex 5

Batman Aklan 3

Assassin's Creed 5/6

Gears of War 4

Gears of War 5

Gears of War 6

Starcraft 2

Mass Effect 4

Mass Effect 5

Mass Effect 6

Dragon Age 3

Conker's Second Bad Fur Day

Fable IV

Condemned 3

F.E.A.R. 4

Phantom Dust 2

Mech Assault 3

Panzer Dragoon 4

Dead or Alive 5

Rallisport Challenge 3

Fatal Frame 4

Wolfenstein 3

Final Fantasy VII

Star Ocean V

Rosnance of Fate 2

Half-life 3

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 3

Crysis 3

Radiant Silvergun 2

Tales series

Unreal Tournament 4

Quake Wars 2

Quake 5

Doom 4

remake Mission Critical

Marvel Vs. Capcom 4

Blazblue 3

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4

Diablo 3

Burnout Paradise 2

Final Fantasy VII-2

Final Fantasy VIII-2

Final Fantasy IX-2

Final Fantasy X-3

Xenogears 2

Alundra 3

Panzer Dragoon Saga 2

Grand Theft Auto 6

Vanquish 2

Red Dead Redemption 2

The Elder Scrolls V

Final Fantasy XIII-3

Final Fantasy Versus XIII

Sonic Generations 2

Virtua Fighter 6

Street Fighter X Tekken 2

The Longest Journey 3

Fallout 5

Dungeon Siege IV

Castlevania

Resident Evil 6

World of Warcraft

Developers should make Wii U beat PS2

2011-10-03T12:21:00.000-07:00

Develop these. Last gen is boring with obsolete visuals! Wii is very simlar to Xbox. I cannot get why there isn't more Wii U discussions.

- Banjo and Kazooie HD

- Banjo and Tooie HD

- Battlefield 3

- Beyond Good and Evil 2

- Bioshock

- Bioshock 2

- Bioshock 3

- Blazblue

- Burnout Paradise 2

- Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3

- Castlevania Bloodlines

- Castlevania Lord of Shadow

- Castlevania Lord of Shadow II

- Castlevania Portrait of Ruin HD

- Castevania Dawn of Sorrow HD

- Castlevania Aria of Sorrow HD

- Castlevania Symphony of the Night

- Castlevania Lament of Innocence

- Cave SHMUPs

- Chrono Cross

- Chrono Trigger

- Civilization V

- Conker's Bad Fur Day 2

- Crysis

- Crysis Warhead

- Crysis 2

- Crysis 3

- Dark Souls

- Dead Space

- Dead Space 2

- Demon's Souls

- Deus Ex HD remake

- Deus Ex Human Revolution

- Diablo 3

- Doom 3

- Doom 4

- Doom II HD

- Dragon Quest VIII HD

- Dreamfall The Longest Journey HD

- Elder scrolls V

- Elderscrolls IV

- Eternal Darkness HD

- Extreme-G 4

- Fallout 3

- Fallout New Vegas

- Final Fantasy Tactics A2

- Final Fantasy Tactics HD

- Final Fantasy VI/III HD

- Final fantasy VII

- Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core

- Final Fantasy VIII

- Final Fantasy X

- Final Fantasy XII

- Final Fantasy XIII

- Final Fantasy XIII-2

- fixed Sonic the Hedgehog 2006

- Half-life 3

- Guilty Gear Accent Core 2

- Gradius V HD

- Grand Theft Auto 5

- Grandia HD

- Grandia II HD

- Ikaruga

- Kirby - Nightmare in Dreamland HD

- Panzer Dragoon Saga HD

- Panzer Dragoon Saga 2

- Legend of Zelda 3D

- Legend of Zelda Link to the Past 3D

- Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask HD

- Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time HD

- Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass HD

- Legend of Zelda the Minish Cap 3D

- Legend of Zelda - Skyward Sword

- Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess HD

- Legend of Zelda Wind Waker 3D

- Lunar Dragon Song HD

- Lunar Eternal Blue HD

- Lunar The Silver Star Story HD

- Marvel vs. Capcom vs. Namco

- Mass Effect

- Mass Effect 2

- Mass Effect 3

- Mega Man X Collection HD

- Mega Man X9

- Metal Gear Solid 4

- Metal Gear Solid HD

- Metal Gear Solid HD collection

- Metal Gear Solid Rising

- Metroid Prime 2 HD

- Metroid Prime 3 HD

- Metroid Prime 4

- Metroid Prime 5

- Metroid Prime HD

- Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2

- Nights into Dreams

- Nights into Dreams 3

- Panzer Dragoon Saga HD

- Paper Mario - The Thousand Year Door HD

- Paper Mario HD

- Parasite Eve HD

- Persona 3

- Persona 4

- Prince of Persia HD Collection

- Quake 5

- Quake II HD

- Quake IV

- Quake Wars

- Radiant Silvergun HD

- Radiant Silvergun 2

- Red Dead Redeption

- Red Dead Redeption 2

- Resonance of Fate

- Resonance of Fate 2

- Ridge Racer 8

- San Franciso Rush 2059

- Secret of Mana HD

- Sega GT 2012

- sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog 2006

- Skies of Arcadia HD

- Skies of Arcadia II

- Sonic Colors 2

- Sonic Rush

- Sonic Rush Adventure

- Sonic Rush Adventure 2

- Soul Calibur V

- Speed Devils 2

- Star Ocean III - Till the End of Time

- Star Ocean IV - THe Last Hope

- Star Wars The Old Republic

- Street Fighter X Tekken

- Super Mario 3D World

- Super Mario 64 DS HD

- Super Mario Land HD

- Super Mario RPG 2

- Super Mario RPG Legend of the Seven Stars 3D

- Super Mario Sunshine HD

- Super Mario World 3D

- Super Metroid 3D HD

- Tales of Vesperia

- Tekken 7

- The Longest Journey remake

- The Orange Box

- The Witcher 2

- The Witcher 3

- Unreal Tournament 3

- Unreal Tournament 4

- Valkryie Profile

- Valkyrie Profile 2

- Wario Land 3 HD

- Xenogears HD

- Xenosaga

- Xenosaga II

- Xenosaga III

Nintendo probably make 2x as much money remaking these games or finding developers who would than to create new games. You know Chrono Trigger is ranked highly on DS and that Super Mario World is highly ranked for GBA. Ocarina of Time is the most wanted game for Gamecube & 3DS on Gamestop.com. It makes perfect sense. Banjo and Kazooie went on Xbox 360 so Wii U works and Rareware developed for DS. Mass Effect for PC was Electronic Arts

PS4 and Xbox 720 specs

2011-10-01T14:39:00.000-07:00

Hypothetical Playstation 4 specs

Cell Broadband Engine at 3.2 GHZ 7 SPEs, 1 yeild
1 Teraflop

2 GB GDDR5
GF114 gPU Core
1950 transisters
Core: 822 MHZ Shader: 1645 MHz Memory: 4008 MHz
128 GB/sec texture bandwidth
1 Teraflop

openGL 4.2

Dual Shock 4
4 USB
6x Bluray-ROM
80 GB hard drive

Hypothetical Xbox 720 specs

Xenon 2

165 million transistors
Four symmetrical cores, each two way SMT-capable and clocked at 3.2 GHz
4 MB L2 cache
75.2 gigabytes per second of L2 memory bandwidth (256 bit × 1600 MHz)
38.6 GB/s front-side bus
Big endian architecture
2 GB GDDR5

Radeon HD 5850
core 850 MHz Memory: 1200 MHz
128 GB/sec texture bandwidth
DirectX 11 superset

6x Bluay Rom
4 USB
Controller S III
80 GB Hard drive

Peninsula State Park

2011-09-30T15:49:00.000-07:00

Ubuntu kernel upgrade

2011-09-29T14:29:00.000-07:00

Go to http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/
1- Install linux-headers-2.6.32-020632_2.6.32-020632_all.deb (ending by all.deb)

sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-2.6.32-020632_2.6.32-020632_all.deb

2- linux-headers-2.6.32-020632-generic_2.6.32-020632_i386.deb (headers ending by i386.deb or amd64.deb depending of your architecture)

sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-2.6.32-020632-generic_2.6.32-020632_i386.deb

3- linux-image-2.6.32-020632-generic_2.6.32-020632_i386.deb

sudo dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.32-020632-generic_2.6.32-020632_i386.deb

4 - Reboot your computer.

Deer Hunting with Uncle Episode 2

2011-09-25T13:17:00.000-07:00

I downsized my deer This doe was shot with a Weatherby Mark V. It died in Northern Wisconsin in Eau Claire County, approximently 5 miles north of Mondovi, WI.

Re-Election by Suspended Election Revolution

2011-09-25T07:32:00.000-07:00

Barack Obama is not campaigning. He is preparing for Stage Two using taxpayer money to prepare his Internet-identified bots for the coming Marxist Revolution.

Smith Act doesn't work for some reason. IDK. He has signed Executive Order 13528 so he has more power along with own Council of Ministers (the czars) and has gosplan to do five year planning.

The two stage theory (or stagism) is the Stalinist political theory which argues must first pass through a stage of bourgeois democracy before moving to a socialist stage. Or it could be New Democracy theory, because the Administration refuses to put the Black Panther Party on trial (true). The New Democracy theory has the two stage theory integrated.

Mitt Romney would be able to win, because he's the frontrunner.

Wine Tricks for Linux Mint

2011-09-22T13:22:00.000-07:00

Just run this command in Terminal: wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks

Now to run Winetricks open the Terminal and type “sh winetricks”

Upgrading the kernel in openSUSE .

2011-09-20T22:38:00.000-07:00

To upgrade openSUSE 11.4 to kernel 3.0, the terminal command is available. It works in openSUSE 12.x

zypper addrepo --refresh http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard Kernel:stable

zypper in --from Kernel:stable kernel-desktop

Super Mario 64: The Missing Stars

2011-09-20T16:08:00.000-07:00

I often wondered what Super Mario 64 2 would look like, until I found out there was a full hack out there with 38 stars. I wasn't aware of any 3D Mario hacks.

38 stars in about 10 new levels
A Day/night cycle replacing (most) act selectors
Choose to play as Mario or Luigi
Modified enemies, objects and bosses (too many to list!)
Custom music, including one original song (the town “night” music)
A new final boss fight

Screenshots
Download
password http://snesorama.us

Super Mario 64: Star Road

2011-09-20T15:46:00.001-07:00

I often wondered what Super Mario 64 2 would look like, and I don't mean Super Mario 3D Land here. There is a N64 Rom that I cannot wait for them to put inside a flash cartridge. It'd be worth $100 instead of $8. Someone used Toad's Tool 64 to create this sequel. This is a full hack with 121 stars and new locations.

http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=11960.0

The best movies of all time

2011-09-19T08:57:00.000-07:00

1. Casablanca (1942), dir. Michael Curtiz
2. The Godfather Part II (1974), dir. Francis Ford Coppola
3. North By Northwest (1959), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
4. Citizen Kane (1941), dir. Orson Welles
5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962), dir. David Lean
6. Manhattan (1979), dir. Woody Allen
7. Gone With The Wind (1939), dir. Victor Fleming
8. Chinatown (1974), dir. Roman Polanski
9. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), dir. John Ford
10. City Lights (1931), dir. Charles Chaplin
11. Raging Bull (1980), dir. Martin Scorsese
12. Sunset Boulevard (1950), dir. Billy Wilder
13. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), dir. Stanley Kubrick
14. The Philadelphia Story (1940), dir. George Cukor
15. To Have and Have Not (1944), dir. Howard Hawks
16. The Graduate (1967), dir. Mike Nichols
17. The Maltese Falcon (1941), dir. John Huston
18. Star Wars (1977), dir. George Lucas
19. It's A Wonderful Life (1946), dir. Frank Capra
20. The Wild Bunch (1969), dir. Sam Peckinpah
21. Vertigo (1958), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
22. Singin' In The Rain (1952), dir. Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
23. The Godfather (1972), dir. Francis Ford Coppola
24. E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), dir. Steven Spielberg
25. The Palm Beach Story (1942), dir. Preston Sturges
26. Blade Runner (1982), dir. Ridley Scott
27. Double Indemnity (1944), dir. Billy Wilder
28. The Manchurian Candidate (1962), dir. John Frankenheimer
29. All About Eve (1950), dir. Joseph Mankiewicz
30. The Searchers (1956), dir. John Ford
31. Rear Window (1954), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
32. Annie Hall (1977), dir. Woody Allen
33. Ninotchka (1939), dir. Ernst Lubitsch
34. Blue Velvet (1986), dir. David Lynch
35. The Wizard of Oz (1939), dir. Victor Fleming
36. Bringing Up Baby (1938), dir. Howard Hawks
37. The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957), dir. David Lean
38. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964), dir. Stanley Kubrick
39. Pulp Fiction (1994), dir. Quentin Tarantino
40. Some Like It Hot (1959), dir. Billy Wilder
41. On The Waterfront (1954), dir. Elia Kazan
42. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975), dir. Milos Forman
43. Taxi Driver (1976), dir. Martin Scorsese
44. Touch Of Evil (1958), dir. Orson Welles
45. Nashville (1975), dir. Robert Altman
46. Apocalypse Now (1979), dir. Francis Ford Coppola
47. The Hustler (1961), dir. Robert Rossen
48. The Big Sleep (1946), dir. Howard Hawks
49. Bonnie And Clyde (1967), dir. Arthur Penn
50. Unforgiven (1992), dir. Clint Eastwood
51. Network (1976), dir. Sidney Lumet
52. The Silence of the Lambs (1991), dir. Jonathan Demme
53. Jaws (1975), dir. Steven Spielberg
54. The Deer Hunter (1978), dir. Michael Cimino
55. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), dir. Woody Allen
56. Gunga Din (1939), dir. George Stevens
57. Schindler's List (1993), dir. Steven Spielberg
58. Hud (1963), dir. Martin Ritt
59. The Third Man (1949), dir. Carol Reed
60. Modern Times (1936), dir. Charles Chaplin
61. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), dir. Steven Spielberg
62. Red River (1948), dir. Howard Hawks
63. The Empire Strikes Back (1980), dir. Irvin Kershner
64. Hamlet (1948), dir. Laurence Olivier
65. Notorious (1946), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
66. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), dir. Elia Kazan
67. Last Tango in Paris (1972), dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
68. Sweet Smell of Success (1957), dir. Alexander Mackendrick
69. Out Of The Past (1947), dir. Jacques Tournier
70. All That Jazz (1979), dir. Bob Fosse
71. Top Hat (1935), dir. Mark Sandrich
72. The Misfits (1961), dir. John Huston
73. Tootsie (1982), dir. Sydney Pollack
74. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), dir. Frank Capra
75. Short Cuts (1993), dir. Robert Altman
76. The Grapes of Wrath (1940), dir. John Ford
77. The Apartment (1960), dir. Billy Wilder
78. A Clockwork Orange (1971), dir. Stanley Kubrick
79. Psycho (1960), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
80. Moonstruck (1987), dir. Norman Jewison
81. GoodFellas (1990), dir. Martin Scorsese
82. Stagecoach (1939), dir. John Ford
83. The Last Picture Show (1971), dir. Peter Bogdanovich
84. Die Hard (1988), dir. John McTiernan
85. Midnight Cowboy (1969), dir. John Schlesinger
86. West Side Story (1961), dir. Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
87. The Quiet Man (1952), dir. John Ford
88. Reds (1981), dir. Warren Beatty
89. Rebel Without a Cause (1955), dir. Nicholas Ray
90. A Hard Day's Night (1964), dir. Richard Lester
91. A Room With A View (1986), dir. James Ivory
92. From Here to Eternity (1953), dir. Fred Zinnemann
93. The Piano (1993), dir. Jane Campion
94. Adam's Rib (1949), dir. George Cukor
95. This Is Spinal Tap (1984), dir. Rob Reiner
96. It Happened One Night (1934), dir. Frank Capra
97. Do the Right Thing (1989), dir. Spike Lee
98. The Thin Man (1934), dir. W.S. Van Dyke
99. Patton (1970), dir. Franklin Schaffner
100. The Terminator (1984), dir. James Cameron

DC Bureaucratic collectivism

2011-09-18T10:39:00.000-07:00

In this collective bureaucracy in the Washington DC, we may get $1000 for Christmas presents this year, but each citizen has $48,462.17 debt. The bureaucrats are rich from insider information of stock market & not jailed and the rest of the country ends up poorer than before. The Democrats under our marxist president is state capitalist. One major tendency of Russian Communist Party criticized the re-employment of authoritarian capitalist relations and methods of production. As Ossinsky in particular argued, "one-man management" (rather than the democratic factory committees workers had established and Lenin abolished) and the other impositions of capitalist discipline would stifle the active participation of workers in the organization of production. US could be a degenerated workers' state is a state where the working class has succeeded in seizing power from the bourgeoisie and the means of production taken into social ownership, but where subsequently, power has been usurped by an undemocratic and unaccountable bureaucracy.

The Judicial branch (Court system) thinks it has more power than even the Vanguard Party itself! It's creepy, because that didn't exist in USSR. I don't know the outcome. It is only good when Supreme Courts want to terminate Obama's 5 year plans of nation-wide centralized exercises in rapid economic development.

Most to least powerful

Judicial Branch
Vanguard Party/White House
Congress

Now we have get 60% Republican majority in the Senate and have either Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich as President to stop Congress Democrats doing bureaucratic collectivism. Better yet, use the Smith Act (18 U.S.C. § 2385) to impeach "the Premiere". He's doing 5 year plans on NASA, oil and healthcare, has Czars (Council of Ministers) and stealth Gosplan somewhere!

gain more than lose moving away

2011-09-15T02:25:00.000-07:00

The status quo is way too high in the United States. I have to travel to commonwealth country (Canada, Australia, New Zealand) so I don't live alone, think alone, travel alone, die alone.
I live one of the most complex culture in the world, and then I can go to Canada/New Zealand > Australia and live the American Dream there with my dual citizenship.

Being stranger to someone is extremely hard -- very, very catch 22ish. The relationship is a very hardcore capitalist thing. You actually have to know quite a few things to have a relationship. For example, if I had social anxiety in the US, I be perfectly normal in Australia, Canada, New Zealand . The reader sees why this is catch 22.

Imake gains in community, lesser anxiety by not living in the US, and life is easier in the commonwealth. I don't have to think nearly at the level in the US to date, party, drink, small talk, go places with the same people repeatedly.

In this society, my anxiety skyrockets due to culture The level of common sense I need here far exceeds any commonwealth nation.

I'd do okay stuck in medicare tradeoffs in Canada, Australia, New Zealand. Life wouldn't so hard like in US. I'd meet a lot of people, obtain a lot more feedback and learn a lot more in Canada or Australia or New Zealand and thus making them better for me. All my troubles are mind boggling obvious - culture and most of the choices present are catch 22.

I'm going to have to find a way out of US if I am going to have any sort of attention and without the catch 22s. I don't know why so few (born) Americans have dual citizenship.

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/

http://travel.state.gov/law/citizenship/citizenship_778.htmlcis/cis_1753.html

Dual nationality can be safety net in case the foreign country doesn't give the results mentioned above! The law has to keep me safe until I find long-term success .

Trains: Episode 1 - St. Croix County

2011-09-13T17:03:00.000-07:00

Lets celebrate the locomotives that pass thru ST. Croix County. I got ones that were old school from 20 yrs ago! The EPA wasn't so much economic planning 20 yrs ago and the pictures look nostalgic. US got more tracks than China (not for long)! O-well.

gray goo problem

2011-09-13T15:01:00.000-07:00

Technology is all about making things smaller, and to that end, right now they're working on making the smallest things possible. Nanotechnology is the science of making robots that aren't much bigger than a molecule, and there are lots of reasons for doing it, the biggest being because we fucking can.

Imagine sending a million microscopic machines into a person's bloodstream programmed to attack a tumor, or shoot the AIDS virus with tiny little phasers. Imagine swarms of little cleaning droids mopping up the pollution in our rivers, or tiny manufacturing droids that can build anything we want, in seconds, molecule-by-molecule.

The big problem is, of course, how you actually build trillions of these little bastards. Simple: you teach them to replicate like cells, using materials from the environment.

Just think about, like, a million of these little fuckers!

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

K. Eric Drexler, one of the founding fathers of the whole nanotechnology concept, came up with a number of spine-chillingly plausible doomsday scenarios. The problem is our nanobots would be like cellular terminators, much more advanced than any of the pansy-ass creations nature invented. They could out-compete organic life overnight, obliterating it in a frenzy of Darwinism.

A million of these little fuckers!!

Taken to its extreme, we have the scenario affectionately known as the gray goo problem, which speculates the machines would simply start replicating out of control until everything in existence is just a mass of tiny, scuttling robots, which scientists imagine would look like a pile of gray slop floating through the void.

So, Basically It's Like...

Imagine you meet a magical leprechaun. For a bargain price, he offers to fix up the your house and add an extra room. So you take him home, and he proceeds to eat your house and shit out a hundred and forty more leprechans, which promptly murder you.

How Long Have We Got?

Scientists excitedly assure us that we will have a fully operational murderous death-swarm within twenty years, maybe even as soon as 2010. Right now they're trying to build something called a fabricator, which from our reading is some kind of indestructible robot swarm-queen built out of diamond, who will give birth to trillions of nanomachines and command them to consume all in their path.

Windows vs. BSD

2011-09-12T11:55:00.000-07:00

Since when was Microsoft Windows 7 a safe option? The rest of the world on UNIX (PLA going FreeBSD and Chinese private sector running Linux), and department stores only go so far as to offer Apple MAC (a FreeBSD UNIX variant) for the niche 6% compared to Windows 85%. Department stores should offer PC-BSD UNIX on shelves, because it does a favor to Department of Homeland Security.

It is the department stores fault for having this inferior Windows7 monopoly and technical expertise retarding the issue. The ZoneAlarm PRO Firewall won't save Americans, because UNIX is so much more advanced, secure, and stable. It isn't safe for US in a cyber cold war with China, Russia, Vietnam, and India.

The cost of UNIX shouldn't be at MAC prices. The government should be handing out PC-BSD like they've done with ATSC equipment.

One World Trade Center

2011-09-11T20:32:00.000-07:00

One World Trade Center will be the tallest building in the United States, standing at a symbolic height of 1,776 feet.

Tribute of Lights

Do i get any comments?

Cheap 750-inch TV in November!

2011-09-11T15:56:00.000-07:00

Sony HMZ-T1 Head Mounted Display has two .7-inch OLED displays that can produce a 1280×720 resolution image. Each OLED screen can be tweaked according to your eye, and because each one sits just inches from your field of vision it creates what looks like, or feels like a 750-inch display viewed from 60 feet away. The HMZ-T1 does HDMI devices.

If you don't care about a partner for single player games than this would be the most cost effective way for viewing video. I already have a 1080p HDTV so I won't be buying Sony HMZ-T1. This visor is for Generation Z people in public schools.

I don't think it'll sell well, because most Americans aren't fighter pilots. Nintendo Virtual Boy failed for a reason. Playstation Vita is better usage of money than HMZ-t1 ever will be.

Bizzare Military experiments

2011-09-10T14:05:00.000-07:00

7. The Bat Bomb

Working on the premise any weapon is cooler if it flies in the night on leathery wings, Bat Bombs were proposed by a dental surgeon in the '40s. Naturally the President thought it was awesome so a plan was rolled out to make the night unsafe for anyone that didn't want to have small explosives get stuck in their hair.

The Plan:
Because bats can carry a good amount of weight and tend to sneak into buildings and such, the plan was to make an army of flying rodent suicide bombers and release them over Japan. The little fellas had small napalm explosive kits made for them, which were probably the cutest incendiary devices ever, and then cases were constructed that would be dropped from B-29s, releasing the bats.

6. The Sun Gun

Destroying your enemies from space is the goal of every angry 4th grader and Scientologist. Unbeknownst to many, it was also the goal of the Nazis, who figured a space station/death ray combo would have been gangbusters.

The Plan:
Appropriating the work of less genocidal minds, Nazi physicists began work on an idea that would put a giant mirror in orbit. The mirror, which they planned to design from about one million tons of metallic sodium, would burn cities to the ground, boil reservoirs, crisp people like bacon and probably make all kinds of kids with magnifying glasses huddled over ant hills feel grossly inadequate.

The mirror would be on a space station manned by Nazi spacemen with magnetic boots to help overcome weightlessness, with oxygen provided by on-board pumpkin patches and electricity provided by solar powered steam dynamos. The cafeteria would presumably have food deep fried in love and the rec room would be structured out of the dreams of children and unicorn gonads.

What went wrong:
We did. "We" being all the non-Nazi assholes, the more colloquial name for the Allied forces. When it became clear that we were going to win the war, the US began taking German scientists out of the country and this plan, along with many others, was abandoned. Also, the epic, grand scale, and mind-bogglingly retarded nature of the entire idea was apparently a roadblock that needed to be overcome too, since we couldn't even build the damned thing now, in 2008, if we wanted to.

And trust us, we want to.

5. Project Habbakuk

When Winston Churchill got a hankering to smite his enemies, he aimed for the sky. Actually, he aimed for the ocean, where he wanted to build Holy Fuck That's Insane island. That was renamed Project Habbakuk. It was an aircraft carrier. It was an iceberg.

The Plan:
Wanting to make an unsinkable aircraft carrier that would be so intense as to make enemies shit themselves uncontrollably, and with good reason, the Brits came up with the Habbakuk. Constructed from ice (ever try to sink an ice cube?) the plan was to make it 2,000 feet long with a deck to keel depth of 200 feet and walls 40 feet thick. It would displace 2,000,000 tons (compared to the Navy's current Nimitz class carriers that displace 100,000 tons). So, it was like, really big.

When ice proved to be not entirely feasible a material to build an aircraft carrier out of, they switched to something called Pykrete, which was just ice and wood pulp. It was intense stuff that deflected bullets and since this idea was already probably the craziest thing anyone had ever heard of, why the fuck not?

What went wrong:
Practicality. A small version had been constructed in Canada that weighed 1,000 tons and was only 60 feet long to show that the idea could work. It took three summers to melt the damn thing. The full-scale model would take $70 million, 8,000 people and eight months to finish, the finished product could only travel at six knots and once it arrived where it was going, it would still be made of fucking ice.

4. The Stargate Project

Sadly having nothing to do with fighting aliens who pretend to be Egyptian gods, the Stargate Project was the CIA's way of saying goodbye to $20 million, but getting a fun story to tell the grandkids as a result. The project was an effort to discover if psychic remote viewing was real, because if it was then that would make spying a whole lot easier.

The Plan:
Apparently the Commies were spending a lot of money on paranormal research during the Cold War. So if they were doing it, the CIA wanted a slice too, before the Reds whipped out some dude who could kill the President with his mind. They started the Stargate project in the '70s with a crack team of gifted psychics provided by the Church of Scientology. Seriously.

What went wrong:
They realized right away there probably wasn't anything to the whole psychic/remote viewing thing. And by "right away" we mean 25 years later. The project lasted until 1995.

Research into the project's validity concluded that while the remote viewers could get some details right, they were also doing a stellar job of getting a shitload wrong. In fact, many say the results were exactly the same as having a group of random hobos make wild guesses, and that you could just as accurately uncover enemy hideouts by having a camel spit at a wall map.

Hey, did we mention that we spent $20 million to find that out? Don't feel bad, the Soviets spent 500 million rubles to find out the same thing.

#3.
The Pain Ray

The Active Denial System, often referred to as the Pain Ray, is a futuristic sounding way of making sure someone is about to have a really terrible day or improperly cooked microwave burritos. Designed as a method of crowd control, the ADS does just what the nickname suggests, it causes pain. At a distance!

The Plan:
In certain situations, it seems the military doesn't want its own people getting too close to the danger, but at the same time doesn't want to start picking off rowdy crowds with a sniper hidden on some kind of grassy knoll because that makes for very bad press. So developing non-lethals that make people do what you want has recently become very popular.

Thus the Active Denial System is born, a long-range weapon that uses electromagnetic radiation at a high frequency and can be directed at targets close to 500 yards away. It causes the water molecules in a person's skin to get "excited," which is a pleasant way of saying it microwaves you. But not in a permanently damaging sort of way. Maybe.

What went wrong:
Nothing, yet. They've built the thing, and it works. The ADS was first developed over a decade ago and after many trials and tests, the US military seems to have a hankering to get them into Iraq very quickly.

A lack of research into long-term effects or prolonged exposure to the weapon have some people wondering if it's such a great idea, since probably no one has volunteered to have their eye microwaved yet to see what that's like, but meh. It's called the Pain Ray, not the Rainbow Shooter. That's what you get for not dispersing on your own, angry mob!

#2.
Malodorants

Another non-lethal method of crowd control and also a psychological weapon, malodorants, or stink bombs, are supposed to create a stink the likes of which you can't imagine. Worse than rotten meat, backed-up sewage or another trip to the dump with dad to find mom an anniversary present.

The Plan:
Military forces have been playing with this idea for decades. A number of smells have been patented, including the smell of human feces, which makes us think we probably owe a hell of a lot of royalties to someone every day at about 8AM. In the Second World War, some intrepid people invented the hilariously named Who Me? as a way to make Germans disperse as well as humiliate them by making them smell worse than people on the bus.

The US has something called US Government Standard Bathroom Malodor which is apparently so bad, people who have experienced it actually start screaming within seconds. Written accounts describe it as smelling like every bad smell you can think of, put together, times ten. Reports say it actually creates visible cartoon stink lines in the air. The military thinks that's as hilarious as we do and wants to throw it at people.

What went wrong:
Though the ideas are still being developed, the fact is, historically, they don't work out so well on account of you're going to end up smelling like unbelievable ass too. Back in WWII, Who Me? couldn't really be effectively used since it not only made the target stink, it made the bomber stink and the entire area where the bomb went off stink.

Stink is a fickle mistress, and obeys no master.

Project Acoustic Kitty

When you think of spying, odds are you think of jamming a radio inside of a cat so it can listen in on stuff. And if you don't, you really need to have a good, long think about what kind of person you are. Anyway, in the '60s, the CIA hatched this idea to make a cat into a listening device and stick it to some dirty Commies.

The Plan:
The how and why of this project was probably torn up and shat on by whoever came up with it in an effort to save a shred of dignity, but nonetheless, what has survived is a plan to implant a battery and a microphone in a cat, with the antenna running up through its tail. They could let the cat loose and no one would be any the wiser of the mystery cat sitting nearby.

What went wrong:
Public transportation. It turns out, in a strange twist of logic, that once you put a battery, a microphone and an antenna inside a cat, it is not immune to taxis. So, after spending several millions of dollars and years in research, the CIA released their spy cat on its test run and a cab ran it over.

The project was then scrapped and no one spoke of it again.

If you liked that, you just might enjoy last week's article about 7 Insane Conspiracies That Actually Happened. Then go watch a smug 60 Minutes reporter get zapped with the Pain Ray. You know, for the sake of journalism.

Kylin in the Cyber Cold War

2011-09-08T07:23:00.000-07:00

I am unsure how much unsecure openSUSE is compared to BSD Unix, but at least I figured it out. The Chinese were using Kylin Unix to attack US Gov's Red Hat Linuxes. Kylin is based on FreeBSD 8.2 UNIX, more stable operating system then Linux. Stability and security should be a concern for the Pentagon. The government prefers Red Hat Linux at the moment.

I recommend entire US gov to switch to FreeBSD flavors to even the odds of the cyber cold war. I had to be self-taught on UNIX. I think Solaris UNIX administration is in the Bachelor programs.

What does this have to do with me? I'm right-wing; therefore, let the Pentagon know of their error.

Got some SHMUPs back

2011-09-04T12:31:00.000-07:00

I downloaded 5 Touhou Shoot em ups in 2007 and I got them back with ISO buster!

Perfect Cherry Blossom

Download pt1
download pt2
Mirror

Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

Download

Imperishable Night

Download pt 1
Download pt 2
Download pt 3
Download pt 4
Download pt 5
mirror

Shoot the bullet

Download

I've sampled all four for the past 7 hours. From Rapidshare, these are advanced shareware games. Far past the solitaire or spider solitaire for certain. Am the only person in Wisconsin to have downloaded free Touhou SHMUPs.

PC-BSD 8.2 impressions

2011-09-03T19:36:00.000-07:00

This is my 3rd UNIX after OpenSolaris 2009.06 and Solaris 11. It runs the KDE 4.5.5 and Gnome 2.32 desktop environments. It has a long uptime is an indication that no crashes have occurred and no kernel updates have been deemed needed. Unlike Solaris 11, the PC-BSD DVD gives you LibreOffice, The Gimp, Empanthy IM, all the KDE and Gnome programs. I test it on the PC that only takes Ubuntu Linux & Linux Mint. It does feel like a Linux, yet without Crossover Linux Pro. I am searching for free Bordeaux somewhere. I need bordeaux for VLC & Winamp. Kubuntu kicks PC-BSD's butt in all benchmarks! That meaning a less secure Linux would be better. No wonder few go with UNIX.

BSD: Berkeley Software Distribution

Ceasing oil is correct?

2011-08-31T23:00:00.000-07:00

Both President GW Bush and Barack Obama are too stupid not taking complete control of Iraq's oil fields for US usage allowing Iran to cease the oil fields. US should leave the anti-United States United Nations. US cannot have both expanded medicare and a great military, because US is no longer a rich country. China is ripping off the US a lot, and yet China is stealing many jobs. He knows OPEC raises the oil prices once the US gets out of recession so we should cease Iraq's oil and grow domestic supplies in the Gulf of Mexico oil rigs or in the continental US.

Now a neo-conservative like Rick Perry would beef up the military spending, but I wonder Romney would also do the essentials like Gerald Ford aircraft carriers, Virginia Class subs, anti-gravity projects, High Energy Liquid Laser Defense System, drones, aircraft, HUMMVEE replacement.

Minnesota State Fair @ Night

2011-08-28T09:08:00.000-07:00

I was at the MN State Fair at night and I ate french fries. I heard Daft Punk somewhere like I do every year here. Daft Punk is a House music act. I took a picture of all the lights.

Mary Shelley reverses Alzheimers

2011-08-28T01:34:00.000-07:00

Deep brain stimulation 'reverses' the famous disease from 5% to 8% by injecting electros like Victor Frankenstein once did with his monster!

Como Park

2011-08-26T12:24:00.000-07:00

anti-US Chinese have Carrier killer missile

2011-08-24T17:25:00.000-07:00

Communist Party in China funded a new super missile that can sink a Nimitz aircraft carrier within 900 miles of the coast. The new missile is called the Dong Feng (or East Wind) 21D. They attack our government computers all the time. It's a cyber cold war.

DF-21 is a two-stage, solid-fuel, medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) developed by the 2nd Aerospace Academy (now China Changfeng Mechanics and Electronics Technology Academy) in late 1970s. It was the first solid-fueled ballistic missile deployed by the Second Artillery Corp. The missile carries a single 500 kt nuclear warhead, up to 2,500 km range. The DF-21 also served as the basis for the submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) JL-1 (CSS-N-3), used on the XIA-Class SSBN. In 1996, an improved variant, the DF-21A, was introduced. Currently, an estimated 60-80 DF-21/DF-21A are in service.

The only thing that can protect a carrier is a HELLADS (High Energy Liquid Laser Defense System) pod on the flight deck. Maybe have some HELLADS on the West Coast. Maybe have a LGM-118 Peacekeeper re-commissioned, because it is 15 years newer than the LGM-30 Minuteman III in service until there is plenty of HELLADS manufactured.

Bias towards Neo-Conservative strategy again

2011-08-24T17:08:00.000-07:00

Rick Perry is in the neo-conservative selection of Conservatives like the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario or President G. W. Bush. They think Obama's marxism-leninism with his five year plans is similar to Al Gore so a neo-conservative would definitely beat a Democrat.

Mitt Romney is a neo-liberal. Ronald Reagan was also a neo-liberal. We had great success with Ronald Reagan's Laffer curve. Neo-liberalism is thinking of our well being and not military policing the world.

Laffer Curve

Neoliberalism is a market-driven approach to economic and social policy based on neoclassical theories of economics that maximize the role of the private business sector in determining the political and economic priorities of the state

Neoconservatism is a political philosophy that emerged in the United States of America, which supports using modern American economic and military power to bring liberalism, democracy, and human rights to other countries.

Mitt Romney is in front in the polls so I support Romney. He is the CEO of the Republican party. Romney is smarter and has better offense attacks, and Newt Gingrich can be Veep (smart enough).

4 core laptop on Christmas?

2011-08-22T15:07:00.000-07:00

I sent in my request for a Acer Aspire laptop with AMD Phenom II X4 N970 2.2GHz, 4GB DDR3, 320GB HDD, DVDRW, Radeon HD 4250, 15.6" Display. It's only $30 over parent's price range for this years Christmas present. If true, it'll override the free Playstation Vita.

Top 10 Gadgets

2011-08-21T15:55:00.000-07:00

Here is the list of top 10 gadgets to buy in 2011, which has not only earned immediate recognition among the users but also proffer many benefits as when these best devices are put to use.
Asus NX90

The crew at Asus has now teamed up with audiophiles at the Bang & Olufsen, and the lovechild that has blossomed out of their relationship happens to be a fabulous one to be admired as well as is one of the top 10 amazing devices you should buy in 2011. This is an 18-inch notebook that comes along with side speakers and form factor that is extra-long, as it also unveils a clean metallic design. This device is just fun to use and is more practical as when it comes to its usage.
Toshiba Cell TVs

The CES 2010 unveiled one of the beguiling TVs in the form of Toshiba Cell TVs, as it finds a place in the top 10 amazing devices you should buy in 2011. The processor in the Toshiba Cell TVs is the type that gets used in that of the PlayStation 3 as it also offers native 3D capability. Name the feature you have dreamed about and you can come across those features in Toshiba Cell TVs. Though the prices tend be on the higher side the magic of this wonderful device is worth the buy.
Samsung LED 9000 Series

When ‘Touch of Color’ design was becoming stale by the day, this beauty in the form of Samsung LED 9000 Series was conceived by the company, as it is one of the top 10 amazing gadgets you should buy in 2011. Also, this happens to be the slickest of the HDTV that you must have come across. The device is so thin as the bezel gets clad in that of the brushed metal, and the spider legs that are criss-crossed comes as a surprise to many. It is a fantastic high-end set that has made a mark in 2011.
Plastic Logic Que E-Reader

In case you wish to enjoy lifetime data connectivity as from that of AT & T, Plastic Logic Que E-Reader happens to be the ideal one to buy in 2011, as it also becomes a strong contender to find a place in top 10 amazing devices you should buy in 2011. The flat body is extremely thin, bezel free of buttons, the screen with that of touch capability, as these happen to be the features that add value to this device. Plastic Logic in forging partnerships with that of many magazines and newspapers for having their content to be formatted specifically, so as to suit this device for preserving the print like formatting, speaks volumes about the potentials of this device.
Panasonic 3D Camcorder

Panasonic’s 3D plasma is also another of the incredible 3D TVs, but the 3D camcorder falls into the category of top 10 amazing gadgets you should buy in 2011. While 3D cameras embracing production-quality have been satiating the needs of professionals, Panasonic happens to be a frontrunner in bringing 3D video to that of the consumer level, which is planned for a launch in the fall pertaining to the year 2010.
Spring Design Alex E-Reader

The e-link screen found on that of Alex doesn’t remind us of any innovation, but, it is well compensated by the full-color touch screen that runs Android and it definitely reeks of innovation, which in turn blurs the line that separates minicomputer and that of the e-reader. This is one of the devices that falls in the category of top 10 amazing devices you should buy in 2011. All benefits pertaining to e-link gets offered through Alex, as benefits pertaining to a smartphone get proffered to add value to Alex.
Motorola BackFlip

This is the second of the Android-powered device that walks without any doubt into the list of top 10 amazing devices you should buy in 2011, and it is worth mentioning the innovative design pertaining to Motorola BackFlip. You can spot the keyboard on the rear side, as it flips over backwards as when typing gets necessitated while facing the screen. Motorola has given the build quality to this flimsy design to enable rock solid feel, and the table-top mode is a good use, which helps in turning the phone into that of a makeshift alarm clock as when the screen gets positioned as that of 90 degrees related to the base.
D-Link Boxee Box

As one of the top 10 amazing devices you should buy in 2011, it is robust HTPC software and has grown up finally from alpha. The cube design pertaining to the Box is good as is also the super-simple directional pad that is remote, which also increases the innovative value of this super device as you can also come by media controls on that of top portion and the bottom part unveils the QWERTY keyboard. A fine device in the offing is the D-Link Boxee Box.
Lenovo X100e

Lenovo x100e differs from the early releases of the company in being recognized as that of a ThinkPad, as it is also one of the top 10 amazing devices you should buy in 2011. With the high-res screen as well as a full-sized keyboard, Lenovo X100e reminds more of a ThinkPad, as you might even forget that it is a notebook after all, and buying the wonderful device is a worthy deal though the price seems to wear glorious tag around it.
Kodak PlaySport

The PlaySport has made use of its inherent guts as well as optics, and it also wraps the device up with that of drop-resistant, more durable, waterproof case, which helps as while it gets dragged to different places. This is one of the top 10 amazing devices you should buy in 2011, which has undergone a change in its interface, as the durability has improved by leaps and bounds with the price getting slashed to a purse-friendly range.

PSVita beating Nintendo 3DS: A industry first | Luigi in SM64 N64

2011-08-21T09:36:00.000-07:00

You can't ring them up by putting the device up to your ear but in general I think they've got most of the capabilities that you'd find in a smartphone, with some unique capabilities that make them stand out. The 3DS launch titles has confusing titles for mainstreamers.

The PS Vita has 512 MB of RAM, two touch screens on front/back, a 4 core CPU, a 4 core GPU, a LED screen and different games.

The Playstation Portable was unsuccessful in North America, because it only had Daxter, Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid Portal Ops and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker for mainstream gamers. The Japanese liked mediocre JRPGs. The Europeans generally support Playstation consoles/handhelds, because Playstation 2 had Winning Eleven Soccer or EA's FIFA with dual shock controllers.

Someone found Luigi in Super Mario 64 (n64) as a easter egg. It is the Toad's Tool 64 exploitation of junk code.

Miyamoto: With Mario 64, we had an experiment that took advantage of the idea of the screen growing larger and smaller depending on how far apart the characters were. So we had Mario and Luigi running around in that 3-D world, but we ended up not using it.

Wired.com: Why did you decide not to use that Nintendo 64 game with Mario and Luigi?

Miyamoto: Ultimately, it’s the idea of processing speed and working within the constraints of the hardware. The DS Mario 64 had a mode with something similar to that, where you were playing with four characters.

Gnome 2.32 in openSUSE 12.1

2011-08-20T15:07:00.000-07:00

I've been using Gnome 2.32 in Linux Mint 11 and OpenSUSE 11.4 and it is absolutely necessary that it stays in this openSUSE 12.1 and 12.2. Gnome 2.32 is stable and Gnome 3 crashes so I don't want that option. KDE 4.7 would be a much more stable desktop than Gnome 3. A lot of people including me don't like going backwards.

openSUSE 11.1 had both KDE 3.5.10 and KDE 4.1.3, remember? The SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 better not have only Gnome 3.1 in it. What a disaster in the making! Fedora 15 Gnome experience was supposed to be awfully unstable.

The blog for Julie & Julia found

2011-08-18T14:03:00.000-07:00

I found that blog for the movie Julie and Juilia which got a 7.1 on IMDB. It was about blogging about Julia Child who airs on Food Network. Amy Adams was the one who wrote the blog. The best blogs are my blog(s), Michael Hyaatt, and Seth Godlin.

As far as DVDs are concerned, I bought Kemono no Souja Erin (IMDB 9.2) on ebay and two remaining boxsets of Trailer Park Boys on Amazon. Then as far as videogames: Killzone 3 (GS: 9.0),

Best Vietnam war movies

2011-08-17T06:04:00.000-07:00

1. Apocalypse Now (1979)
2. Full Metal Jacket (1978)
3. The Deer Hunter (1978)
4. Platoon (1986)
5. Rescue Dawn (2006)
6. Jacob's Ladder (1979)
7. Birdy (1984)
8. Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
9. Coming Home (1978)
10. The Siege of Firebase Gloria (1989)
11. Tigerland (2000)
12. The Quiet American (2002)

SHMUPs Episode II: Next Gen

2011-08-16T05:28:00.000-07:00

The first shmup I played was probably Darius Gaiden for Sega Saturn which was about a 7.5. Then I bought the pretty awesome Gradius V and R-Type Final for PS2. I pirated some saturn shmups and ps2 shmups for emulator usage. I got a modchip memory card that plays pirated PS2 SHMUPs on any PS2. Previously, I used PCSX2 of course.

I noticed a lot of expensive region free DoDonPachi Xbox 360 games out made by CAVE, the last SHMUP developer. SHMUPS are expensive and stupid, yet I pay up due to the $50 stable market value. I have nobody to show off too. DoDonPachi series is the hardest bullet hell shmups anywhere.

I purchased DoDonPachi Daioujou Black Label, Do Don Pachi Resurrection REV 1.5, Espgaluda II Black Label, Mushihimesama Futari Ver 1.5 this week, because I had that kind of money. Each of these are as good as Gradius V on PS2. They have review scores ranging from 7.5 to 8.5. I also realize that I can get these SHMUPs free if I can find the MAME Roms via rapidshare (no easy task, yet I'm impatient $$$$).

Do Don Pachi Resurrection

Do Don Pachi Resurrection

DoDonPachi Daioujou Black Label

Mushihimesama Futari

espgaluda ii black label

Everybody sucks at these games. I am a suicidal pilot who is lucky to get to level 3 before game over. This happens to hardcore gamers as well. Theses games are really over the top as far as difficulty.

Guilty pleasure X360 games!!!

Antimatter catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion possible with testing

2011-08-15T10:56:00.000-07:00

Now man-kind can understand how to get to Mars quicker with Antimatter catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion. Antimatter made & trapped in lab for the first time. at CERN's Geneva labs have recently managed to trap a sizeable amount of antihydrogenhave managed to trap a sizeable amount of antihydrogen.

With conventional technologies nuclear explosives can scale down to about 1/100 kiloton (10 tons, 42 GJ; W54), but making them smaller seems difficult. Large nuclear explosive charges require a heavy structure for the spacecraft, and a very large (and heavy) pusher-plate assembly. Small nuclear explosives are believed to stop shrinking in overall size and required fissile nuclear materials at around 25 kilograms weight, so smaller pulse units are much more expensive per delivered unit energy, and much less mass efficient than larger ones. By injecting a small amount of antimatter into a subcritical mass of fuel (typically plutonium or uranium) fission of the fuel can be forced. An anti-proton has a negative electric charge just like an electron, and can be captured in a similar way by a positively charged atomic nucleus. The initial configuration, however, is not stable and radiates energy as gamma rays. As a consequence, the anti-proton moves closer and closer to the nucleus until they eventually touch, at which point the anti-proton and a proton are both annihilated. This reaction releases a tremendous amount of energy, of which some is released as gamma rays and some is transferred as kinetic energy to the nucleus, causing it to explode. The resulting shower of neutrons can cause the surrounding fuel to undergo rapid fission or even nuclear fusion.

Discovery made of unnamed "Mass of any particles" boson

2011-08-14T20:43:00.000-07:00

The discovery of a huger "Higgs Boson" is a CERN coverup now. If there was an encyclopedia on-board the crashed Roswell spacecraft of 1947, the Higgs Boson would be in it! All humans needed to find was a 'Rosetta Stone' to translate alien to English. So the Large Hadron Collider was built in 2009.

Report number ATL-COM-PHYS-2011-415
Title Observation of a γγ resonance at a mass in the vicinity of 115 GeV/c2 at ATLAS and its Higgs interpretation
Author(s) Fang, Y (-) ; Flores Castillo, L R (-) ; Wang, H (-) ; Wu, S L (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Imprint 21 Apr 2011. – mult. p.
Subject category Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment CERN LHC ; ATLAS
Free keywords Diphoton ; Resonance ; EWEAK ; HIGGS ; SUSY ; EXOTICS ; EGAMMA
Abstract Motivated by the result of the Higgs boson candidates at LEP with a mass of about 115~GeV/c2, the observation given in ATLAS note ATL-COM-PHYS-2010-935 (November 18, 2010) and the publication “Production of isolated Higgs particle at the Large Hadron Collider Physics” (Letters B 683 2010 354-357), we studied the γγ invariant mass distribution over the range of 80 to 150 GeV/c2. With 37.5~pb−1 data from 2010 and 26.0~pb−1 from 2011, we observe a γγ resonance around 115~GeV/c2 with a significance of 4σ. The event rate for this resonance is about thirty times larger than the expectation from Higgs to γγ in the standard model. This channel H→γγ is of great importance because the presence of new heavy particles can enhance strongly both the Higgs production cross section and the decay branching ratio. This large enhancement over the standard model rate implies that the present result is the first definitive observation of physics beyond the standard model. Exciting new physics, including new particles, may be expected to be found in the very near future.

Fermi-lab found a bump in the diphoton mass spectrum at a mass of ~115 GeV. If the Higgs exists, it is expected to produce a bump in that spectrum, and 115 GeV is a very probable value for the mass of the Higgs. Higgs peak in this spectrum could be larger than expected if there exist new, heavy particles that we haven’t discovered yet?. The latest published result from CDF sets a limit of about 30 times the expected rate at 115 GeV in the diphoton channel.

So they found something like a Higgs Boson! Lets all just call it the Higgs Boson and cerebrate with Gatorade!

Top 12 Classic Sci-FI B movies!

2011-08-13T06:18:00.000-07:00

1. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) 8.8
2. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 8.8
3. Alien (1978) 8.6
4. Aliens (1986) 8.5
5. The War Game (1965)
6. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 8
7. Invasion of the Flying Saucers (1956) 8
8. Planet of the Apes (1968) 8
9. Frankenstein (1931)
10. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
11. Clockwork Orange
12. 2001: A Space Odyssey

Mitt Romney frontrunner without Straw Polls is a good thing

2011-08-11T23:44:00.000-07:00

It is always nice when my chosen Republican is still the front runner. He wasn't even there instead campaigning at the state fair. He couldn't have won them if he wasn't in them. Bachmann won the Ohio straw poll. Ron Paul Wins Presidential Straw Poll at CPAC for the 2nd year. The other candidates are either too inexperienced (Bachman), too libertarian (paul, Cain), too flamboyant and bouncing off the walls (Newt Gingrich).

The democrats are just playing the class struggle Bolshevik/Frankfurt school card, Democratic National Committee: "As we expect to see tonight, the GOP candidates' extreme aims to appease the far-right wing of the Republican Party shows that Republicans are more concerned with protecting their special interest friends and the wealthy than protecting working families" "Expect the overwhelming majority of the Republicans on the stage tomorrow night to proudly state that they would not have supported the bipartisan debt agreement that prevented our country from defaulting on its debt for the first time in history"

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Rush Lambaugh on AM

2011-08-10T08:25:00.000-07:00

I hate this, KTLK turned into a stupid sports radio this week. Rush Limbaugh is now only on a fox news network on 1130 AM, and it won't come in well at all. At night, there is no way I can listen to Jason Lewis on AM. I've sent a complaint to St. Croix County prompting whomever/whenever to realign a radio repeater to enhance 1130 AM broadcasts in the county. It's first amendment infringement if I cannot tune into Rush Limbaugh.

Google+

2011-08-09T10:41:00.000-07:00

The most popular user on Google+ right now may be Linus Torvalds, founder of the Linux kernel. I got a Google+ account, but none of my Yahoo imported Facebook friends are on it. Google+ won't interface with Facebook itself. Like Blogging, nobody has time to try it out. It is a beta. The beta works fine and didn't crash my browser. The Google + beta doesn't have games so people ignore it so far. I've been a member for three weeks now. The worst aspect of this site is there isn't anyone else to add, because I interfaced with Yahoo.

Whatever happened to Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft games, yet facebook users seemly cannot leave their Mafia Wars or Farmville games or reload pictures.

Quantum Zeno effect apocalyse

2011-08-07T17:46:00.000-07:00

For years, scientists have been scouring the cosmos for some kind of bizarre hypothetical anti-gravity bullshit they're calling "dark energy". And they've had some success with it ... perhaps at the expense of our mortal souls.

To grossly simplify it, on a scale smaller than atoms, the quantum level, everything suddenly turns into a goddamn circus. Quantum physics is to regular everyday physics as a David Lynch film is to a mainstream blockbuster. We're talking particles popping in and out of existence, being in two places at the same time, and generally acting like assholes.

No doubt the strangest part is the Quantum Zeno effect, which points out that simply observing and measuring particles changes them (specifically, changing the rate at which they decay). How? No one knows. It appears to be the closest science has ever come to proving black magic exists.

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

One prominent scientist theorized that the changes caused by simply observing dark energy could cause it to collapse, taking the universe with it.

Scientists, eager to see if this is true, are furiously observing dark energy whenever they get the chance.

So, Basically It's Like...

It's like crossing the streams in Ghostbusters, apparently.

How Long Have We Got?

That scientist, Professor Lawrence Krauss, thinks it may already be underway. Apparently, in the late 90s, scientists were looking at a bunch of shit exploding in space when they caught their first glimpse of some dark energy. This may have put the universe into a state where it may or may not pop like a soap bubble at any given instant. Just because we looked at it. Holy balls.

Risk Level: 3

This ... this can't be right, can it? Surely the guy's just nuts. Then again, he appears to be one of the most prominent physicists in the country and has published a huge list of papers and books on the subject.

Then again, one of them was The Physics of Star Trek and, now that we think about it, we're pretty sure he stole this whole scenario from an episode of The Next Generation.

Everybody using the Critical Theory!

2011-08-07T11:46:00.000-07:00

Since Obama came from the neo-marxist "New Party" that had the Committee of Correspondence of Democracy and Socialism (CPUSA), I guess some people is using Critical Theory against the tea party and maybe even me! Nobody talks to me much on facebook anymore.

The place I work at is using non-denominational for religion views on, because of Critical Theory is used in the military (to bust walls open). The place has this Gramscian non-denominational (m) stuff circling around where I can't do politics or religion. The place isn't Judeo-Christian, no christmas trees. There used to be Christmas trees in 1980s in my place.

prosciutto and caramelized onion pizza

2011-08-05T22:36:00.000-07:00

So just to confirm we’re all on the same page here – cheese, sweet caramelized onions, and then prosciutto.

Prosciutto and Caramelized Onion Pizza

Adapted from Pioneer Woman

(serves 4)

What You’ll Need:

1 pizza dough (I used TJ’s Whole Wheat – $1.29)

1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil ($.08 at $.08/tablespoon)

1 whole red onion halved and thinly sliced ($.59 at $.59/lb)

1/4 cup brown sugar ($.10 at $.75/lb)

sea salt

1/4 cup asiago or parmesan cheese ($.31 at $4.99/lb)

1 cup grated mozzarella or thinly sliced fresh mozzarella ($1.24 at $4.99/lb)

2-3 oz. prosciutto (about $2.00 for half a 5 oz. package at $3.99)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 500 degrees.

Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a skillet. Add onions and brown sugar and cook for 5-7 minutes, or until onions are cooked and become sort of caramely.

Roll out pizza dough to desired thickness.

Brush dough with olive oil and sprinkle with sea salt and asiago or parmesan cheese. Top with mozzarella and then caramelized onions.

Bake about 15 minutes in the oven at the lowest rack, until crust is golden brown. Remove from oven, top with prosciutto, slice, and prepare to be dazzled.

TOTAL: $5.61 or $1.40 per serving. Serve with a side salad and you’re probably around $1.75 per person.

Nutrition:

430 calories per serving (using TJ’s crust)

17 grams of fat

57 carbs

18 grams protein

4 grams fiber

Alzheimer cure semi-found thru Cloning

2011-08-04T19:39:00.000-07:00

Cloning animals is legal in the United States, yet the South Koreans try to save the elderly having Alzheimers are Parkisons. They've cloned Tegon who can glow in the dark. The new mutations in Tegon can be swapped with any substituted with genes that trigger fatal human diseases. It's been done with somatic cell nuclear transfer technology :P

There are 268 illnesses that humans and dogs have in common.

Minneopa

2011-08-01T15:37:00.000-07:00

I wasn't able to stay home and watch DirecTV or Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, play Catharine on PS3, and create another facebook event. I had to travel stupid 85 miles to Mankato, Minnesota to see Minnaopa waterfall in 90 degrees Fahrenheit. No one showed up at my Facebook event to get acquaintances I've made to photograph with me (everyone else gets it with this double standard). I assure you that moderate enough to talk what they desire. I am sure my Facebook friends with 400 comrades are talented enough to be chosen so I am jealous of their getting invitations on days like these. I am sure this Brock who say "What the fuck you talking about?" is easily more talented with 750 comrades. So I called him a bitch! Too many of my Facebook friends are real bitches.

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Uneducated Facebook users vote Camaro?

2011-08-01T04:28:00.000-07:00

Why is the worst sports car voted the most on facebook ?

Ford Mustang (2) has better handling and is much better rounded than Camaro . Is lowering the bar further good for karma and friends? Yep. The culture is degenerating - proof!

Top five Space Ghost Coast to Coast episodes

2011-07-31T20:33:00.000-07:00

Back when I used Limewire, I downloaded these Space Ghost - Coast to Coast episodes. I watched this talk show on cartoon network from 1995 - 2001. I believe I have a total of 15 Space Ghost Coast to Coast Episodes in H.263. At the time, I thought it was a corny TV series compared to live action TV shows such as Sienfield, Jay Leno, and Star Trek TNG in the 1990s.

"Pavement" (Episode 49): Space Ghost tells the viewing audience that his special musical guest will be The Beatles. He does short interviews with Colin Quinn and Tommy Davidson, but his interview with Red Green is cut short and his interview with Goldie Hawn is drowned out by Zorak's incessant keyboard playing. Space Ghost is later informed that they couldn't get The Beatles, so he tells them to just get anyone, know one will know the difference. Finally, the rock band Pavement shows up and Space Ghost introduces them as The Beatles. They perform a song about Space Ghost, using Zorak's instruments.

"Piledriver" (Episode 52): "Macho Man" Randy Savage makes an appearance as Space Ghost's grandfather but pretty much just plays the role as "Macho Man," threatening to put wrestling moves on anyone who gets in his way. At one point, Zorak beats him senseless with a folding chair. Eventually grandpa fakes his own kidnapping to get away from the show.

"Snatch" (Episode 72): Comedian Steven Wright finds himself trapped on the Ghost Planet as gigantic pod creatures take over the studio. The crew must stay awake, lest the replicating pods take over their bodies. They try everything they can think of to trick the pods, including dressing a bucket and mop as Space Ghost, and, per Moltar's suggestion, trying to become metal (because rust never sleeps).

"Fire Ant" (Episode 77): Conan O'Brien holds his own against Space Ghost in this episode, but eventually Space Ghost becomes distracted by an ant and follows it, silently, for about the last five minutes of the episode before being chased back to the studio by the ant's gigantic mutant father.

"Flip Mode" (Episode 82): Busta Rhymes is the guest in this episode, but Space Ghost is too preoccupied with all the brilliant ideas he keeps coming up with, which all seem to revolve around Zorak getting whacked in the head with a wrench. It turns out Space Ghost is getting all these "ideas" because he broke a pipe and natural gas is leaking into the studio. Highlights include the show being taken into the woods; Space Ghost taking Zorak and Moltar to a hospital that's actually a grocery store; Zorak hiding in a heating vent; and Space Ghost sanding his own face off.