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    UPS Having Trouble Handling Holiday Online Orders

    The ups guy on my route is currently driving a rental truck budget i think.... has for the past week, they are inundated with packages atm- and have to make more deliveries than they had trucks- my local area, the guy says they rented ~20 of the trucks for the holiday season to meet demand
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    Humanity Has Consumed All Of Earth's Resources In Eight Months

    rofl. first off- the think tank is a bunch of idiots but they are paid for the doomsday stuff second- we produce MORE foodstuffs now than we did 50 years ago- look it up, per acre we grow more food- in part by better farming practices, in part by better seed, in part by...more carbon...
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    Chicago Now Taxes Netflix And Other Cloud-Based Services

    the rational? while i do not agree with it, but it is simple: money. charging a tax- now is it 9% a month? 9% a movie? a show? what if you do not use the service for a month, do you still get that ~dollar tax on your bill? you did not USE the service, thus TECHNICALLY you shouldn't have to...
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    ASUS Radeon R9 380 STRIX GAMING Review

    i'm thinking of upgrading my wife's and my video cards. ...depending on where the price ultimately is for the nano. lets see the 290x is 275 watts correct? the nano is ~175 watts if the nano is 2x per watt performance vs the 290 then the nano should perform as a 350watt 290.... 275 is...
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    This Website Maps The Speed Of A Zombie Outbreak

    how many zombies are going to walk 50 miles? probably none, the issue would be the infected PRIOR to being turned. places like boston nyc etc. pretty much doomed too many ways in and out more rural areas though, esp in the mountains would/should be able to enact quarantine protocols at most of...
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    What Is Behind Summer's Free Fall At The Box Office

    Put out good movies we want to WATCH AT THE THEATRE and we'll go, it is that simple-nothing so far this summer- to me- has had that I MUST GO SEE THIS MOVIE vibe. there has not been Many "must see" movies out so far this year for me and my family- so we have not gone. the next - for me at...
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    Xbox Live Removing Gold Requirement for Netflix, Hulu?

    Besides removing the gold for hulu/netflix they are moving more towards a plus style with free games for gold AND just ANNOUNCED PRICE CUT--sorta- $399 for an xbox one...WITHOUT KINECT!
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    Amazon Launches Fire TV

    well it has apps, the question is, can you side load them if so, what would stop me from loading say mxvideo player and es file explorer on it it does have Plex on it so..maybe will give this a shot in a few weeks
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    Tweets, Vines Set to Play on U.S. Movie Screens

    i'd be ok with during the movie is not coming on for 15 minutes "reel" before the show when everyone is getting seats. secret for a largish party & popcorn.. bring extra bags -brown paper bags-or white etc that are smaller. say a party of 5 going to the movies order a large popcorn, give the...
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    NSA Patented The Secure Manhole

    woo woo :) i'd never do it, it will be in the story i am writing but that is the extent of it. hell we get invade by zombies-that are attracted by sound, i have the perfect ...well zombie mulcher is the name i came up with-adopted from john ringo's description of his version in his darkling...
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    NSA Patented The Secure Manhole

    communication is the reason but.... I'm A Civil Engineer by trade- mostly land survey but do a lot of residential city work. with a bit of planning, i could wreak havok on a large portion of any modern city in the world-without harming anyone.
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    Barnes & Noble Fired Its Nook Engineering Staff

    i'm sticking with 10.2.1 atm, i don't pay attn to that much, it works for everything i want on a media tablet, though a few sites don't work...correctly on my browser due to my insisting on having an ad-blocker active pretty much 100% of the time. i'll switch when 11 gets an official non...
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    Barnes & Noble Fired Its Nook Engineering Staff

    i have a nook- first edition with the touch pad on the bottom, a nook tablet and a nook hd+ initially the tablet and hd+'s problems were not hardware related, the hardware is great- for what they are- it was their marketplace- which sucked. no google play, now that they come with that, they are...
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    It’s Time, Nintendo: Kill Wii U and Think Big

    YOU OBVIOUSLY do not turn your Wii-U on more than once every 3 months. my Wii-U is played AT LEAST 5 times a week, its always connected and it has had - 3? updates in a year. it has great games, hell my kids got 3ds's for xmas and monster hunter 3 for that- so now we all play together on...
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    Steam Removes Game From User Libraries

    it was square shutting off the server that means the game is 100% unplayable now.(even in single player mode)
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    Steam Removes Game From User Libraries

    i can understand them pulling it from the store but removing it from the library is - to me- a no-no the problem is, always online drm that came with the game- square shut off the server= you literally cannot play the game since it requires the server to be there to "check in" which...
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    Crystal Dynamics Defends $60 Tomb Raider Port

    all the same even with the DLC, shouldn't be more than 30-40 bucks i bought it on steam the other day, have played ~7ish hrs (i am at the helicopter crash) good game, though honestly, i'd like less combat and more exploration and puzzles. tomb raider is about puzzles and exploration, not mowing...
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    Nintendo’s Wii U Is Costing It Billions

    the biggest problem with the Wii-U is two fold well 3 fold but we all know the 3rd one. biggest problem is the bloody NAME..Wii-U was AWFUL. Wii2, Super Wii, or a completely different name would have been better. 2nd biggest problem is lack of -steady-game releases. the wiiu had a ~6 month...
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    The NSA Spied On World of Warcraft Players

    it'd be level 90 tanks(max level is 90 atm) but :)
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    Corsair Debuting CHERRY MX RGB Based Mechanical Gaming Keyboards In 2014

    i'll be upgrading to a mechanical next time i buy a keyboard. my wife however, will have a problem gaming if she switches keyboard, oh about 7 years ago, i bought her an -at the time- ideazon(now steelseries) merc keyboard- you know the keyboard that has the "hand pad" on the left side that...
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    Sony Has Sold 2.1M PS4s

    What i meant for the numbers ps4 released in US and Canada only- sold a million units week later- Xbox 1 released worldwide- well 13ish markets- sold a million units week later ps4 releases world wide- except japan i believe- sold a 1.1 million units. same week black friday- xbox 1 sells more...
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    Sony Has Sold 2.1M PS4s

    pretty much, however, "initial release day" totals ps4 ~2.1 million units xbone 1 million units the xbox 1 did a world wide release, the ps4 did staggered. but the problem is while black friday more xbox 1's might have been sold, the ps4 sold twice as many overall in the month of november...
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    Netflix On TV Gets A Major Makeover

    the wiiu has this "layout" already. so does my android tablet. personally, i am indifferent about it. it works but i'd rather have the older style, it gave more choices, faster. still doesn't have my favority show on it, but i have PtP networking for that muhahaha (though i need a new hard...
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    Titanfall To Remain Exclusive To PC and Xbox Consoles For Life

    Titanfall to remain xbox/pc "for life. not a problem. they supposedly will have DLC for it. in 6 months new for the ps4...titanfall Deluxe/GOTY edition, get all of titanfall and it's DLC in one game, all new all improved.... there titanfall 1 for all systems. if it is successful titanfall's...
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    'World of Warcraft' Patch 5.4 Launches Tuesday

    meant 470 weapons, damn ilevels mess me up :P
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    'World of Warcraft' Patch 5.4 Launches Tuesday

    i'm a lapsed raider. i play, i have fun, occasionally i'll go on a raid with a guild that knows me. i just started raidfinder- but find myself 2nd or 3rd on HPS consistantly- i do well at dps, but lack the higher end weapons to be more than middle of the pack dps wise(dual level 370 weapons). i...
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    Twitter Users Rebelling Against Promoted Tweets

    i have a few twitters links i follow due to it being for my favorite tv show, but other than that i never saw a use for twitter.
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    The North Pole Is Now a Lake

    for those that won't click that link excellent website btw, very factual and -unlike some other "climate" websites posts both sides of the issue but tends to be more skeptical in nature... that lake of the north pole has 2 problems problem 1- it all froze again (similar to the greenland...
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    The North Pole Is Now a Lake

    the highest "low" for the arctic that is, dang this no edit button
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    The North Pole Is Now a Lake

    if you pay attention for the past say 16 years. the temps- as they figure the "global average" (whatever that is) per all 3 major temperature "charts" hasn't moved all that much, a bit warmer in summer, a bit cooler in winter, but overall... the temp's has plateaud. does this mean that...
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    Xbox Executive: Stick With The 360

    The thing with the Bone is. despite them touting it as a console, it isn't it is a MEDIA COMPUTER that plays games, tell me one thing- ONE THING- that a computer cannot do (not including kinect) that the One does currently? the one cannot play games without installing it, a...
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    Microsoft E3 2013 Xbox One Liveblog

    but it isn't insignificant. its a killer to me, my kids trade games with his friends all the time. my neighbor use redbox for game rentals etc. to you it may be insignificant, to me it is a loss of consumer rights that further erodes what we can and cannot do with things we bought...
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    Microsoft E3 2013 Xbox One Liveblog

    with the draconian style DRM the One Seems to be doing, no way in hell i am getting this. if anyone doesn't know, basically the One is a purpose built media computer that plays games, Not a games console. summary: mandatory installs of games mandatory 24hr check in online or no playing...
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    Verizon's Unlimited Data Stops At 77TB

    WE DON'T HAVE THE whole story about the bandwidth APPARENTLY the guy runs a business and needs the bandwidth for ..something he was PAYING for business but switched to residential- 2 lines- because it was half the price of the single business line. also, the person he talked to...
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    Xbox Announcement Live Stream

    damn it is HUGE
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    Xbox Always Online Controversy Gets Weirder

    Always on requirement to play imo is a bad idea. what happens if you lose the internet for a few hrs ...you cannot play any games on the system. REALLLY bad idea, in my opinion. serial numbers loaded during first install then "registering" said number to your account - ONCE- then being able to...
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    Next Xbox ‘Always On, Always Connected’?

    how they implement the always on thing will be important. easiest fix for the always Kinect is...Duct Tape the Cameras/have it face the wall. Personally i am not buying the Nextbox OR ps4- we do have the WiiU (awful name imo but hey i don't set the names) if not for the lack of ALOT of...
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    Airwriting Glove Lets you Text with the Wave of Your Hand

    My idea, is, a glove, motion sensors recognize all movements relative to a "central sensor" around the palm, and fingerstips(sensors on the back. have it programmed for sign language recognition as well as having it programmable for gestures for words.. you enter "learning mode" and enter the...
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    EA Building Microtransactions Into All Its Games

    two words about microtransactions in games. No Thanks. IF the game is good i will buy it. however the second i have to buy an item/content to finish the game, is the day i stop buying games.
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    Nintendo To Post Unexpected Loss As Wii-U Falters

    what weird new controller? have you held the thing, its extremely comfortable to use. AND it is a Traditional Controller with a 6" touch screen in the middle. wow really weird...not. every single current and future 360 and ps3 game (excluding kinect and move games- though those would...
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