The URL cut off at the space, this one works:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry%27s_Mod

But nope, I never heard of it either

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Sleeping before 9:00 PM or after 11:00 AM ... mostly the "after" part, I'm guessing, or sleeping during the day

I usually get up in the middle of the afternoon myself (when there's nothing in the morning), past 11:00 AM even in your timezone (2:00 PM here) ... like I got up around 4:00 PM yesterday after a long sleep

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Posted by Anya

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Gas is now over $3.00 a gallon in most places.

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It's almost $4.00 here, and it was still worse in late 2005 ... then just look at Europe, twice as high

But I think a large part of the price depends on the base oil cost (and import), not the gas companies, so they don't have much of a choice if they want to make any profit at all ...


I don't drive so I'm still not too concerned, but it does affect public transportation costs as well

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We were pretty close to win actually ... sure we've been clueless a lot and needed hints for each step, but we were getting there (and step 6 was confirmed to be the last long before anyone got it), maybe another week would have been enough

Sure it might all be fake and things are a bit suspicious (why would someone ever take $20 over a new prototype ROM, wouldn't the game be in Japanese too even if it does happen to be on a American NES cartridge, and it's been talked about for a year and half now), and I wasn't seriously expecting to see the ROM anytime soon ... but the contest still had its interesting parts and made us work together in the hope it was real


Speaking of which, GZila just won the next contest (which ended yesterday)

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ORA #$F9
ORA ($02),Y
STA $E374,X
.db $5B
CLD
EOR ($56,X)
CMP $63
LSR $88,X
.db $C0

Take a guess on what this is, and there's countless other ways to get around it as you can see on digg.com

I'd have pointed out the decimal conversion as well if HyperHacker didn't beat me to it

By the way, ○ù◄☻tã[ØAVÅcVêÀ



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Look at the last 16 bytes in this BMP now (the above one was PNG)



All this just to say you really can't copyright a simple number ... although remember last year when some people pushed that logic pretty far by splitting whole copyrighted files into a product of numbers (and setting up a file sharing system with that), so who knows

(edited)
Now with JPG:


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That's probably only the few dumbest they found, and some of the questions weren't that obvious either ... but when people don't even know about the United Kingdom, forget their own country name, place various countries in Australia or think there's 10 Eiffel Towers, there's a problem

"Name a country starting with U" even had more possible answers, like Uruguay, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Uganda, or even United Arab Emirates

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Oh, I got it to run just fine, but you wouldn't even need to ... you can easily cheat the contest by looking at the .exe in a hex editor, since the answers (and message box text) are right there in plain text

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Hint, search for the text you get when entering the wrong number (like the word "incorrect") and scroll up a bit, that's how I found it

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The first one seems to be hex ASCII for "YRUF" ("FURY" reversed) ... but the second one, I really don't know (but those 1's and 4's in it must mean something)

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I downloaded a copy of Vista Ultimate this week as well ... not to replace XP on my computer though, but to experiment with it in VMWare and shrink it all the way down like I did to XP about half a year ago

I've barely started for now, but this should be fun ... it's also funny running Vista on a virtual machine under XP

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I'm pretty damn good at this:

... but not so much without slowdown and savestates


I did about 28000 in Time Trial once, a few years ago ... now I'd need to practice all over again just to get back to 10000

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It's pretty easy, copy $8000-BFFF (sound code and data) and $1D800-1DBFF (PCM drums) from the prototype and you get the prototype's music in the final game

There seems to be a few minor changes to the music code as well, I'm guessing it's because the prototype allowed noise+PCM at once and the final game had a hardcoded noise/PCM switch (one byte telling which song used which) ...

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Probably better that way too, since you aren't going to run MacOS X very well in emulators yet (PowerPC emulation is slow) ... at least until there's virtual machines running the Intel version

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The longest I remember was track 4 from 1943 (NSF) for about 4 hours (over 300 loops), sometime in 2001 ... actually listening to it the whole time, too


I haven't gone nearly as high (or even tried) for a while now ...

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Posted by misterj

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sure its size is about 16 gb, but having 112ish gb available sort of makes it seem unsignificant. 5000 mp3s is probably around 5 gb. big games are between 1 and 2 gb. 26 episodes of some random anime is around 3 gb... hd space is no problem for me.
ram isn't much of an issue for me either. i'm running a winamp playlist with about 2000 songs, AIM, skype, mIRC on 5 servers and 18 channels, FIREFOX using 2 tabs, daemon tools with one mounted iso, as well as 2x explorer and one folder open... and i have 500/1024 mb/ram free.

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Vista "only" takes about 7GB on a clean install actually, still 5-10x bigger than XP ... with the usual bloat and crap, of course (like 143MB for "Recorded TV" samples, and support for typing Japanese/Chinese/Korean that almost no one outside of those countries will need)

For RAM, it's not that bad if you have 2GB, but 1GB is barely enough for anything with Aero on and all ... even the slimmed down copy I've messed around with lately (many services disabled, etc.) uses around 170MB minimum, while XP easily goes below 100MB


I've had it at work since about a month now, though, and it's not that bad (I didn't even get tired of the Aero theme and sidebar yet, only changed some settings like getting the menu bar back) ... but I'd still rather keep Windows XP for now on my computer, although I do remember keeping Windows 2000 for a while after XP came out as well

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I had a few thousand private messages on the first board and didn't mind ... although spam might be an exception, true

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As for me ...

- Ragnarok Online since about 3 years (played enough to get 1GB worth of screenshots ) ... all on private servers though, generally at medium rates (like 15-20x)
- Maple Story, which was fun would probably need at least 100x rates to be really enjoyable for me (I gave up at 24 when it already took a day per level)
- Trickster for about a week, that was nice and not too slow but I hated the lag (stopped at 88)


I've been into Gunbound for a good while too but that's not a RPG

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