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On Windows, I use a free version of XChat compiled for it (it went shareware for Windows a while back, so a bunch of people took the GPL'd version and compiled it for Windows. This is what I use - http://www.silverex.org/download/ - it calls itself "YChat". A more maintained version is Hexchat...

The actual RANK doesn't matter, it's the relative rank that matters. Eventually we'll be properly graded on a curve (which can apply to not only when grades are low, but when grades are high. Piss off a professor and see that A turn into a D when they decide to apply the curve).

Well, if you take it literally, yes. In this instance, it means more "rip your heart out with our teeth and spit it out" but it doesn't have the same ring. It technically is a grave insult since spitting out food is a sign of dislike and distaste. It's when killing them isn't enough, but you...

If he's hogging the bandwidth, have a chat with him and his parents - because you're going to be held responsible for what he downloads. Remember all those RIAA and MPAA lawsuits? It'll be *you* getting the letter and having to show up in court or paying the settlement. If you can put up with...

That sounds right if they were created on a PC platform, but the 90's had tons of work done on Unix as well - video editing and the like, and maybe even the Amiga for video. Or hell, a Mac even, since they all practically came with SCSI ports by default. I think there was a previous recovery...

Aww, and none of you could relink it to a cute cat video on YouTube or something?

Interesting - no comment on the SOny deal that was basically killed just before they signed on the dotted line. There it was to delay the release for a year or so so Star Wars would've been a distant memory...

According to the book, it's the other way around. Fox wanted to release it (with Star Wars trailer), Chris wanted to delay it to fix up numerous issues. Sony agreed to the delay (in the end, it was perfect - Chris got his delay, Fox got its guaranteed profit, etc), but Fox killed it in the end...

Well, I was reading this book "Generation Xbox: How Videogames Invaded Hollywood" and came across an interesting background in the WC movie (if you have the book, it's pages 154-160). The book's gist is about Videogames and movies - both as movies based on videogames, videogames based on...

Not that odd actually - a lot of software distribution formats do that - they adjust the floppy timing so that they can fit more data on the outer tracks of the disk (like a hard drive). It's how the original Mac got 800K on a 3.5" floppy, for example. They can do this because a floppy...

Still need to find the receipt to do the RMA, even though it's probably under a year old...

Those machines were common. You usually got 1 AGP and 1 ISA slot, and 3 PCI slots. They weren't hard to find - circa 2001 machines often had all three. The ISA was purely for compatibility (mostly for older SoundBlaster cards as the PCI ones never were that great because of Creative's...

All drives are RPC2 these days (region code embedded in drive) - it's a requirement for the "DVD" logo. If you have a drive older than 5 years, it's quite likely to be an RPC1 drive. RPC1 drives are "region free" and region coding is enforced by software. RPC2 drives are region coded in...

When I checked it, the US sites were selling it at $17 _ $3.50, which means super slow shipping. The Canadian ones were $28+. I'm fairly certain they're all reliable, it's just what kind of shipping you get for $3.50 doesn't pay for much these days - first class if you're lucky, media most...

Yeah, the big problem is the cheapest Amazon.ca zShow is $17 plus $3.50 for the shipping. But it ships from the US, so $3.50 doesn't go far... last time it happened (oddly for the WC Movie soundtrack), the damn thing took *months* to arrive. Cheapest Canadian zShop has it for $28 plus $3.50...

Stupid question - any way to get one in Canada? The only sellers on Amazon.ca are zShops (no free shipping)...

Cool. Wonder how it plays with the RealFont.sf2 sound font (it's a HUGE (~100MB) patch bank but sounds awesome). I usually use it with timidity...

Oh man, I remember those Gravis joysticks. Had one with my first PC back in the 80s... long junked as the springs went lame...

That's why there's the calibration. The wonderful thing about Kinect is it knows what audio the Xbox is playing. All it needs to do is figure out what the game audio sounds like (delay, echo, transformation) from each speaker. So when the Xbox plays a sound, it knows how to cancel it out by...

Did you calibrate the Kinect? It needs to be calibrated in order to ignore the game audio properly.