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Author Topic: What the fuck?  (Read 315343 times)

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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #400 on: November 19, 2008, 04:41:42 PM »

Box cutter.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #401 on: November 19, 2008, 07:03:42 PM »

So this happened a block away from where I lived.

(THAD EDIT: The headline of the article is "Woman dies in 15-storey fall from balcony".)

The crazy part was it was so foggy that day, that you couldn't even see that far up..

I'm right in love with the google ad I got on that story:

"1 Rule of a Flat Stomach"
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #402 on: November 19, 2008, 07:35:05 PM »

I'm getting dozens of those flat stomach ads. Everywhere I look. They want me.

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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #403 on: November 20, 2008, 10:30:02 AM »

Not really what I'd call news, but still pretty :wat:

Anyway, alarmist much, Chicken LittleYahoo?
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #404 on: November 20, 2008, 10:39:50 AM »

Seems to me it's a reasonable thing to bring up.  There's no reason even the mighty Cell should be using that kind of juice WHEN IT'S SLEEPING.

It's also a good reminder that I should probably get ACPI set up on my computer.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #405 on: November 20, 2008, 10:48:48 AM »

I actually keep my Wii unplugged to avoid this sort of bullshit.  It comes as no surprise to me that it's the one console I really don't have to worry about.

Also okay yeah that light drives me crazy.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #406 on: November 20, 2008, 10:55:47 AM »

alarmist much, Chicken LittleYahoo?

 :wat: Huh! I'm sure there's a similar trend for the PS2; maybe I should turn that thing properly off since I only sit and play it maybe once a month.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #407 on: November 20, 2008, 11:10:31 AM »

I need clarification. Are they talking about people who leave the console turned on, say, at the main menu or whatever... or people who select "turn off my system" and it powers down but the console still has a glowing red light or whatever?
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #408 on: November 20, 2008, 11:13:58 AM »

Pretty sure they're talking about Standby mode.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #409 on: November 20, 2008, 11:18:40 AM »

Ah. Guess I should unplug my 360 since I don't use it very often.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #410 on: November 20, 2008, 12:21:57 PM »

i cant tell if it's talking about  OFF or standby.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #411 on: November 20, 2008, 12:32:32 PM »

Pretty sure they're talking about Standby mode.

I thought so too, but later he points out that your TV and game system's power supply aren't inextricably linked. On the other hand, he mentions that there are programs to do a full shut-down if the machine idles too long, and such software wouldn't make sense if the machine were still running but not receiving any input.

Though I guess you could commit the state to memory and do a restore like laptops do for a standby/hibernation mode.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #412 on: November 20, 2008, 02:34:02 PM »

There's no reason even the mighty Cell should be using that kind of juice WHEN IT'S SLEEPING.

Nobody's perfect.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #413 on: November 20, 2008, 06:12:22 PM »

LOL, suck on that, Duke Nukem Forever.

Also: My money's on "Album will suck ass".
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #414 on: November 20, 2008, 06:25:10 PM »

Hooray!  Free Dr. Pepper!

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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #415 on: November 20, 2008, 07:29:43 PM »

I actually keep my Wii unplugged to avoid this sort of bullshit.  It comes as no surprise to me that it's the one console I really don't have to worry about.

Also okay yeah that light drives me crazy.

Me too.  And I loathe standby modes on home boxes and other nonportable stuff.  They're a terrible paradigm.

Britain is actually starting to legislate that to cut down on wasted power and such.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #416 on: November 20, 2008, 08:15:49 PM »

This is apparently real.

It's fucking hilarious and I'm amazed MSNBC went that far with the captions.  Literally a field day.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #417 on: November 20, 2008, 10:21:51 PM »

i fucked around with one of those HOW MUCH ELECTRICITY DOES THIS THING USE meters, and that study was for standby compared to on.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #418 on: November 20, 2008, 11:12:33 PM »

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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #419 on: November 21, 2008, 12:21:46 AM »

How did they turn off a clock?

...or a security system, for that matter.
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