Before I moved to NZ about 6 years ago I was a serious vinyl junkie. I have a high end Linn LP12 with Naim amps.

Now I just use MP3s. At work I have 50Gb of tunes that I listen to while I work. Other than that I use my droid phone as a player

I loved the quality the LP12 could give, no CD player could match it as long as the recording was good enough, but MP3s transformed music for me

Quote from Klutch :

I just got back from an australian festival called "big day out"

Did Tool play the Aussie leg and were they any good. Wish I had gone to Auckland one

Joy Division - Shadowplay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... YfROU&feature=related

Quote from Electrik Kar :

The Fall - I am Damo Suzuki

The Fall - Spoilt Victorian Child
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmQS6b1cVOo

The Fall - Mr Pharmacist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56dxJjXbnjg

Ayria - The Gun Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brYz1HbfsHo

Quote from Jakg :

A little experiment...

Of my daily drive to Uni.

(5x speed, no audio)

I had not watched this before, good vid

That is a serious drive you do.

I do a fair distance, 50km each way but only 39 corners in that 50km and hard are hard to call a corner. Also the corners count is greater than the other cars count.

My laptop battery is fooked as cant do the same for my trip.

Just seen black swan, really good dark film

As for Inception, really liked it.

You don't need big pc for these but good games

L4D2
Killing Floor
Supreme Commander 2
Batman Arkham Asylum

Quote from dadge :

so, 1 apple iphone vs all smart phones with android installed on it. so the chart is invalid. again.
they should have used one smartphone for the chart to be more fair imo. i still might be wrong (you might be too)but we all have our own opinions.

You need to re-read the chart again, you are too hung up on phones. The chart is about OS usage not which phone has sold more. It's Apples own stupid fault that they do not allow anyone else to use iOS.

Had they opened iOS to others there would be no Andriod and they would own the phone market. Instead they made the same dumb mistake as before, their ultimate loss as all figures are starting to show.

Quote from dadge :

although i enjoy kicking apple users when i get the chance. that chart doesn't explain that the apple OS is only available on apple products. android is available on a much wider base.
it's like having a chart to show that a ford focus is more popular than a bugatti vayron....

No it doesn't, it just shows smartphones so is a valid. As said above. The fact Apple does not allow others to make iOS devices will be their downfall..... again

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

It's still not good at anything.

Personally I would never consider a purchase of anything made by Apple because of how they do business. I know many many others that feel the same way.

I believe Apple are about to repeat history. Years ago when Windows was young Apple had a great OS but would not let others play with their Toys. Microsoft allowed others to make hardware that worked with Windows. The rest is now history.

The same is now starting to happen again in the phone/portable world except this time Driod is "Windows". Droid has already overtaken iOS device sales and will continue to grow and outpace iOS.

Apple only have themselves to blame for this because of their controlling ways. The rate of innovation and change in the Driod ecosystem will soon mean Apple are playing catch up. You can see their are already scared of this because they have started to wheel out the patents to try and slow Driods momentum.

Apple makes some great toys but they have one massive fatal flaw.... Apple

Quote from bunder9999 :

okay, i think my conundrum has been solved...

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets ... ble-life-as-a-netbook.ars

i don't have to buy a new laptop, and i can buy a new phone and computer at the same time...

how this isn't getting the attention the xoom is getting, is beyond me... this is truly genius.

Yep, this is a real game changer for me This sort of innovation, which is possible because of an open ecosystem, is what will make sure Driod is the new OS going forwards.

For many this will be all the computer needed. It also hooks into your HDTV as media player.

Epic phone.

Would have been even nicer of the phone hooked in as the track pad to give multi touch but can understand the design choices made as keeps the "laptop" thin

The simple rule is this:

Is the car covered in the stupid boy racer stickers that said tools appear to believe make their cars faster? If the answer is yes then do not buy. It will be owned/used by a tool that will have thrashed the crap out of it.

Up

Another pixar classic.

Quote from -NightFly- :

Under the rock perhaps yes .
I started My fps "career" with Wolfenstein ET, played that many years, then moved on to Americas Army and Day of defeat: source, atm i'm doing some action in AA3, never felt comfortable with those "new age MW styled games" so i have absolutely no idea what MW2 is and tbh i do not care either, one of these eyecandys i would love to have though: BFBC2 (since it's the fps where to 173rd Radicals shooters have moved by now)

CS:S is very fast pace and has a very brutal learning curve. Expect to die again and again and again until you get into the pace of the game. Just make sure you watch others play while you are dead to see what they do

Plants vs Zombies is on sale again. Great fun little game

I am happy. Got a stack of games to keep me busy for a ling while when I take a break from L4d[1|2], tf2 and KF

Quote from mutt107 :

i bought team fortress 2

Great fun game

lol, I must be psychic as the ball is now $5

Going to grab The Ball, Greed Corp, Amnesia and Plants vs Zombies.

All four only total $18.29

So far I have grabbed

Supreme Commander 2 ($7)
Torchlight ($5)
Buckets of Blood ($1.25)

Wish I had grabbed mirrors edge

Wonder if The Ball will be on special for $5?

I am in NZ and get redirected to an NZ version of size. Game costs $99 there, BASTARDS!!!!!

Tron:Legacy... epic

The actual religion does not matter, all have blood on their hands when you dig. This is the truth though

Fundamentalism

This is a classic version of it in comedy show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2kD1YUtA5o

Wow, just found this one... Now the dirt starts to come out!



Wednesday, 12 August 2004, 16:27
C O N F I D E N T I A L DOWNING STREET 0065323
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EUR/WE: LEVIN; EUR/SE; EUR/ERA
EO 12958 DECL: 08/18/2014
TAGS EU, PHUM, PREL, SOCI, TU, VT
SUBJECT: G.W.BUSH VISIT TO T.BLAIR
REF: A. 03 DOWNING STREET 1234
¶B. 03 DOWNING STREET 5666 C. 03 DOWNING STREET 5748
Classified By: Tony
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Summary
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¶1. (C) Details of the itinerary for the visit of G.W.Bush to T.Blair later this year.
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Entertainment Plan
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¶2. (C) You! I wanna take you to a gay bar, I wanna take you to a gay bar, I wanna take you to a gay bar, gay bar, gay bar.
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Issues to resolve
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¶3. (C) Let's start a war, start a nuclear war, At the gay bar, gay bar, gay bar. Wow! (Shout out loud) At the gay bar.
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Funding issue to resolve
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¶4. (C) Now tell me do ya, a do ya have any money? I wanna spend all your money, At the gay bar, gay bar, gay bar.
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Sleeping arrangements
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¶5. (C) I've got something to put in you, I've got something to put in you, I've got something to put in you, At the gay bar, gay bar, gay bar. Wow! (Shout out loud)
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To wind up
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¶6. (C) You're a superstar, at the gay bar. You're a superstar, at the gay bar. Yeah! you're a superstar, at the gay bar. You're a superstar, at the gay bar. Superstar. Super, super, superstar

Just watched Toy Story 3. Wow, what a dark dark film. Not what you expect from TS so GREAT