So, in a few days (08/05/09) - my brother turns 18. Now, he's going to have a party, but what he doesn't know, is that I'm going to make him and his friends go on a scavenger hunt around the city! So, I need a list of things I should make him do, now that he's 18.

Here's what I got so far:


I just need a few more things..

If no one here knows what an i7 Processor is, it's the equivalent of two quad cores combined, so this computer has 4 cores and 8 threads in it (basically it's 8 cores). This thing is fucking amazing, we only slapped in one video card, which frankly is insulting to this beast. But it's a nice over clocked nvidea card, and this i7 processor is at 2.67 ghz (3.03 overclocked) with 8 MB of cache. We put in 4 gigs of ram, but sadly we had to install a 32bit OS. We will re-image this thing when Windows 7 comes out officially. It's hooked up to a 23" monitor with full HD. Oh, and of course we're using DDR3 RAM 1600mhz - but we have the option of adding a triple threaded 3Gigs of RAM!

We did some benchmarking tests..

Unreal Tournament 3 runs at 85-105fps with everything at full graphics.
World of Warcraft ran at 89fps with everything maxed, except for shadows (half way).
- If you play WoW, you know how much it lags in Delaran, we had 0 lag in this city.

This is also setup on a dual monitor, and we played UT3 and WoW at the same time, both getting 80+ FPS.

At max, this box can take 4 video cards on SLI with 6 Gigs of RAM and 12TB of SATA drives. We decided to build this spending as little money as possible, and blowing away every other computer for the same price.

Our Total Cost: $[spoiler]1100 (with tax)[/spoiler] (highlight to show)
Alienware cost: $[spoiler]3,998.00[/spoiler] (without tax)

It took us 3 trips to local hardware stores and about 6 hours in total before we had this baby up and running. And to be sure this thing kept itself in line, we stuck it in an aluminum case with 5 super silent fans. And believe me, this thing is quiet.

All in all, it hadn't been a good day. Bad traffic, a malfunctioning computer, incompetent coworkers and a sore back all made me a seething cauldron of rage. But more importantly for this story, it had been over forty-eight hours since I'd last taken a dump. I'd tried to jumpstart the process, beginning my day with a bowl of bowel-cleansing fiber cereal, following it with six cups of coffee at work, and adding a bean-laden lunch at Taco Bell. As I was returning home from work, my insides let me know with subtle rumbles and the emission of the occassional tiny fart that Big Things would be happening soon. Alas, I had to stop at the mall to pick up an order for my fiancee. I completed the task, and as I was walking past the stores on my way back to the car, I noticed a large sale sign proclaiming, "Everything Must Go!" This was prophetic, for my colon informed me with a sudden violent cramp and a wet, squeaky fart that everything was indeed about to go. I hurried to the mall bathrooms. I surveyed the five stalls, which I have numbered 0 through 4 (I write a lot of software) for your convenience:

0. Occupied.

1. Clean, but Bathroom Protocol forbids its use, as it's next to the occupied one.

2. Poo on seat.

3. Poo and toilet paper in bowl, unidentifiable liquid splattered on seat.

4. No toilet paper, no stall door, unidentifiable sticky object near base of toilet.

Clearly, it had to be Stall #1. I trudged back, entered, dropped trou and sat down. I'm normally a fairly Shameful Shitter. I wasn't happy about being next to the occupied stall, but Big Things were afoot.

I was just getting ready to bear down when all of a sudden the sweet sounds of Beethoven came from next door, followed by the fumbling, and the the sound of a voice answering the ringing phone. As usual for a cell phone conversation, the voice was exactly 8 dB louder than it needed to be. Out of Shameful habit, my sphincter slammed shut. The inane conversation went on and on. Mr. Shitter was blathering to Mrs. Shitter about the shitty day he had. I sat there, cramping and miserable, waiting for him to finish. As the loud conversation dragged on, I became angrier and angrier, thinking that I, too, had a crappy day, but was too polite to yak about in public. My bowels let me know in no uncertain terms that if I didn't get crapping soon, my day would be getting even crappier.

Finally my anger reached a point that overcame Shamefulness. I no longer cared. I gripped the toilet paper holder in one hand, branced my other hand against the side of the stall, and pushed with all my might. I was rewarded with a fart of colossal magnitude -- a cross between the sound of someone ripping a very wet bed sheet in half and of plywood being torn off a wall. The sound gradually transitioned into a heavy modulated low-RPM tone, not unlike someone firing up a Harley. I managed to hit the resonance frequency of the stall, and it shook gently.

Once my ass cheeks stopped flapping in the breeze, three things became apparent:
(1) The next-door conversation had ceased;
(2) my colon's continued seizing indicated that there was more to come, and
(3) the bathroom was now beset by a horrible, eldritch stench. It was as if a gateway to Hell had been opened. The foul miasma quickly made it's way under the stall and began choking my poop-mate. THe initial "herald" fart had ended his conversation in mid-sentence.

"Oh my God," I heard him utter, following it with suppressed sounds of choking, and then, "No, baby, that wasn't me (cough, gag), you could hear that (gag)??"

Now there was no stopping me. I pushed for all I was worth. I could swear that in the resulting cacophony of rips, squirts, splashes, poots, and blasts, I was actually lifted slightly off the pot. The amount of stuff in me was incredible. It sprayed against the bowl with tremedous force. Later, in surveying the damage, I'd see that liquid poop had managed to ricochet out of the bowl and run down the side on to the floor. But for now, all I could do was hang on for the ride.

Next door I could hear him fumbling with the paper dispenser as he desperately tried to finish his task. Little snatches of conversation made themselves heard over my anal symphony. "Gotta go... horrible... throw up... in my mouth... not... make it... tell the kids... love them... oh God..." followed by more sounds of suppressed gagging and retching.

Alas, it is evidently difficult to hold one's phone and wipe one's bum at the same time. Just as my high-pressure abuse of the toilet was winding down, I heard a plop and splash from next door, followed by a string of swear words and gags. My poop-mate had dropped his phone into the toilet.

There was a lull in my production, and the restroom became deathly quiet. I could envision him standing there, wondering what to do. A final anal announcement came trumpeting from my behind, small chunks plopping noisily into the water. That must have been the last straw, I heard a flush, a fumbling with the lock, and then the stall door was thrown open. I heard him running out of the bathroom, slamming the door behind him.

After a considerable amount of paperwork, I got up and surveyed the damage. I felt bad for the janitor who'd be forced to deal with this, but I knew that flushing was not an option. No toilet in the world could handle that unholy mess. Flushing would only lead to a floor flooded with filth.

As I left, I glanced into the next-door stall. Nothing remained in the bowl. Had he flushed his phone, or had he plucked it out and left the bathroom with nasty unwashed hands? The world will never know.

I exited the bathroom, momentarily proud and Shameless, looking around for a face glaring at me. But I saw no one. I suspect that somehow my supernatural elimination has managed to transfer my Shamefulness to my anonymous poop-mate. I think it'll be a long time before he can bring himself to poop in public -- and I doubt he'll ever again answer his cell phone in the loo. And this, my friends, is why you should never talk on your phone in the bathroom.

Shit Happens.
And when it does, post it on /b/

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I have an extra google voice invite.

Who wants it and what will you do for it?

Hi. i just joined today. I play lots of diffrent Blizzard game (diablo2,Warcraft3,starcraft,WoW ect)
im wondering if someone would like to trade there starcraft cd key for one of mine diablo 2 lod, warcraft3 roc, ft. They all work on BN plz reply to my email



spiersg@hotmail.com


Apreciate it ty.

Sup.

my pc is going to be here today, does anyone know a website where i can upload like 100 pictures and 400 songs and download them on my pc?

like a storage?

This is the following dialog taken from the following bots.
http://www.cleverbot.com/
http://www.titane.ca/concordia/dfar251/igod/main.html

Well, I decided to follow play the chatbot game, and made the two bots talk to each other, I'd say Hello to on bot, and then carry on from there, copying and pasting what they said to each other making them talk. This is the dialog that came from this.



I had no idea that the bots would give me this long philosophical spew totally out of the blue. It was very entertaining though.

After all these years, I finally felt like making one tonight, so that I may be able to contact more people in hopes of future endeavors

YahooIM ID: ViperSRT3g@ymail.com

Add me if you like, I've got no contacts for it yet XD

P.S. You can tell I'm bored, that's two threads I've created in one day.

So, I've heard some pretty good stuff about it.
Anybody want to post a couple reviews or thoughts about it? (For those of us young enough to go watch HP6 and not look stupid )

I think i'll post up a brief review after I watch it.

P.S. Hey Mods, the movies/vids section says post up clips from online, so i posted in here. If you think this belongs in there, go ahead and move it.

I recently received a job offer for Comcast. I start in a week. This will be taking up over 80 hours a week of my attention and dedication so I will have no time for forums or games or my Graphic Art. Then at the end of August I am joining the Air Force and will be heading to Texas (I might be able to meet up with a few of you.) Then after the Air Force I will be working on my Masters and PhD in psychology. So any of my free time will be spent at the gym and in my studies.

So there is a lot of changes ahead (including relationships) and I will not have very much time at all to enjoy this community as I have for the past few years. I will stop in here now and then to see how the community is doing and say hi but basically I will no longer be an active member.

Well here we go! Wish me good luck!

(I will be on the for the next couple of days so I will respond to this thread and any questions you have.)

MapQuest would have had me swim it...

(Need help? Look at step 205)

It was delicious...

http://bit.ly/zBqf2 - HAAAAAHAHA

hey register for this its pretty fun u dun have to play but please register http://frylockxxx.evony.com/

Some of my friends and I went downtown Greenville and decided to play with our "invisible rope."

Click for higher quality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEU4hHTWhBM&fmt=18

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Note there really is no rope.

For those who dont know what a lets play is its basicly a walkthrough of a game with commentary by the player. Ive been trying to get mine going and its actually working well, right now im doing Final Fantasy IX, if you wanna take a look just check them out Here

Guys, lots of Ghoztpoints for posting... come on!!!

I took this video tonight downtown... We were stopped at a red light and here is the encounter we had.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2J1AL4qPvU&fmt=18

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And yes, I do work with that Sargent.. I help them with something from time to time.

Okay yeah so most of you probably know that.
But did you know it has PERSONAS? Yup. www.getpersonas.com
You guys probably knew that, since you're all high tech and crap. ;; But for those who didn't,

I like to think of it as a "theme". Here lemme take a screenshot.


You can also create your own persona, if you're a GFX guy *cough*Zar*cough*
So yeah. If you don't have Persona, then get it. If you don't have firefox, get it.

fuck dick cunt slap

they blocked cursing so now i can't spam random curse words on pointless videos...

must let it out here now

GAHHHHH!

As maybe of a few of you know, my neighbors were selling a puppy. He'd been sitting over there for a while and....blah blah blah, no one on the internet cares. My brother and I bought him for $200! He's a Black Labrador Retriever and his Mom, Dad, and Grandmother live right next door!



His name is Ace.

It's really cool.

So as you can see from my first post, I'm really into cooling my computer. Now I would like to go into it a little further. I'm looking for someone else that has some experience in this so that maybe they can help me out a little.

To start out, cooling is the key idea. To get the computer's ambient temperature as close to room temperature as possible. Why is this important? When you start your computer all metal components tend to expand, which is the nature of all metals. Over time all the expansion and contractions from heating up and cooling down can cause wear and tear on your computer. The benefit from having a ambient room temperature is all the components are already going to be at the temperature your computer idles at, hence little or no expansion from metal parts heating up.

With that explanation aside, I'm looking for some pretty far out there ideas for cooling. Obviously overloading the case with computer fans has been covered. Mineral oil submersion, liquid nitrogen, and other ideas like that are not what I'm looking for.

So if you have a great idea for cooling a computer's ambient temperature please make a post. I don't exactly know the community I'm talking to but if anyone else is interested in this I have a pretty vast amount of knowledge on it

This is really interesting: http://www.wimp.com/tendimensions/

1. Nearly every astronaut experiences some space sickness, caused by the wildly confusing information reaching their inner ears. In addition to nausea, symptoms include headaches and trouble locating your own limbs. Just like college, really.

2. And those are the least of your worries. In weightlessness, fluids shift upward, causing nasal congestion and a puffy face; bones lose calcium, forming kidney stones; and muscles atrophy, slowing the bowels and shrinking the heart.

3. At least you’ll be puffy, constipated, and tall: The decreased pressure on the spine in zero-g causes most space travelers to grow about two inches.

4. Lab rats sent into space during midpregnancy, while their fetuses’ inner ears are developing, spawn some seriously tipsy babies (pdf).

5. No humans have yet been conceived in space, so we can only imagine.

6. So that’s what it takes: A 2001 study showed that astronauts who snored on Earth snoozed silently in space.

7. But astronauts sleep less soundly; 16 sunrises a day throws a major wrench into their circadian rhythms.

8. And Ziggy played guitar. At the start of the workday on the space shuttle, mission control in Houston broadcasts wake-up music, usually selected with a particular astronaut in mind. On the all-work, no-play International Space Station, crews wake to an alarm clock.

9. If you are ever exposed to the vacuum of space without a suit on, don’t hold your breath: Sudden decompression would cause your lungs to rupture.

10. In addition, water on the tongue, in the nose, and in the eyes would boil away. This actually happened in 1965, when a space suit failed during a NASA experiment and the tester was exposed to a near vacuum for 15 seconds.

11. Contrary to Hollywood, though, you wouldn’t explode. Lack of oxygen in the blood is what would kill you, but it would take about two minutes.

12. More explosion paranoia: Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson’s space-tourism company, reportedly considered barring women with breast implants due to fears that they might blow up.

13. John Glenn found it hard to choke down his food, but not because of the lack of gravity: Early astronauts relied on aluminum tubes of semiliquid mush, food cubes, and dehydrated meals.

14. Today astronauts can spice up their meals with salt and pepper—in liquid form. Sprinkled grains would float away, tickling noses and clogging vents.

15. Missing something? Those vents on the space shuttle and International Space Station serve as the lost and found, sucking up anything that’s floating about unsecured.

16. The shuttle commode requires that astronauts align themselves precisely in the dead center of the seat. A mock-up of the shuttle toilet, complete with built-in camera, is used to train them how to position themselves.

17. NASA tried building a bathroom into its space suits—a fitted condom attached to a bladder for men, a molded gynecological insert for women—but gave up and passed out diapers to all.

18. Returning astronauts report extreme difficulty moving their arms and legs right after touchdown, one reason why they call landing “the second birth.”

19. But some long-duration cosmonauts report that the hardest thing to readjust to about life on Earth is that when you let go of objects, they fall.

20. Better just to stay up there? Eighteen people have died on space missions, but never in space—always on the way up or the way down.

21. Most Astronauts temporarily gain about 1-2 inches in height, as the lack of gravity allows the spinal column to expand. The design of their space suits take that into account. Don't want top of their heads rubbing the inside of the helmet, or worse, rubbing on the other end.

Source: http://www.elegant-universe.webs.com/art14.html

Oh hey look, its me :-D I don't think ghozt cares that I hop on here to post my work

Anywho, system specs are regardless in this post of my pc, other than the cooling specs,enjoy!



Here is an update to my current system. Every fan is new except for the video cards and the tiny 40mm fans. They are all top notch and if you are interested in what I used I'll put a nice little list at the bottom of this post 8-)

Lowest Average Temperatures:
CPU: 24c
-Cores: 42c

GPUs: 30C

HDD: 27c


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Cooling List:

Top of case:

1 x Xigmatek 140mm http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/ind...oducts_id=25374
$13.95

2 x 40mm from Sytrin HDD Heatsink http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...&Tpk=sytrin
$24.95

Front of case:

1 x Xigmatek 140mm http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/ind...oducts_id=25374 $13.95
$13.95

2 x Noctua 120mm http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/ind...oducts_id=23306
$43.90

3 x 40mm Corsair Dominator http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16835704001
$24.99

Rear of case:

2 x Nanoxia 120mm http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/ind...oducts_id=24881
$39.90

Right side of case:(Behind motherboard)

1 x Noctua 120mm http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/ind...oducts_id=23306
$21.95

CPU Heat sink:

1 x Noctua 120mm http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/ind...oducts_id=23306
$21.95

1 x Cooler Master v8 Heatsink http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...r%20master%20v8
$62.61

GPU Heat sinks:

4 x Thermaltake 80mm http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16835106114
$129.98

In front of GPUs:

1 x Nanoxia 120mm http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/ind...oducts_id=24881
$19.95


(Edited the total number of fans to include the PSU fan.)
Total number of fans: 20
Total price of cooling setup: $418.08

Think your good at tetris? Have the patience? shiiit, try this one. Lol.

http://sovietrussia.org/f/src/tetoris.swf