You mean a land-line? I was shocked how many people called their family/friends to make sure they were okay. It was an earthquake yes, but it wasn't soo bad (also in Ottawa here)

Actually, it's my Nokia 5130 cellphone. I don't even care to make a call, but my phone just completely locks up when it's turned on.

45.37623 N, 75.67543 W or so. I didn't think it was so bad, but my neighbours/Facebook friends seem to disagree.

As a side note, my cellphone is completely borked. Seems whenever the carriers become overloaded the damn thing won't even boot/function at all... time to grab the back up phone...

Does anyone else just grimace when they see "Duke Nukem"-anything related news anymore? I was 7 when Duke Nukem 3d came out, and although freaking awesome, what of note has the franchise done since?

Been a bucketload of fail, and a waste of terabytes of useless "news" stories posted on the internet.

Can we just call this one, guys? Time of death: 2005 (and that's being GENEROUS ).

/rant

I hate loud commercials too, but this is just too much government IMHO. I'd much rather just have intelligent TVs or receivers that turned the volume down upon detecting a commercial...based on the settings *I* want, not what the government thinks is best for me.

My old as hell tube TV has this (it's a 27" RCA TV, circa 1999). I just checked and it's called SoundLogic in the menu, and I've gotta tell you it's a pretty terrible feature. It basically turns the volume on everything down (making an amp or what have you work harder), and anytime there is a spike in volume it re-adjusts and turns it down.

What I've found it does is make every good kaboom in every good movie I've watched with it on go flat. It also takes a second or two for it to adjust, so you still get too much sound. With commercials that are only 30 seconds long, this leads to a very uneven "HAVE YOu ever heard of product x?", 30 seconds later "WATCH THis tv show on sunday", etc.

Like I said too, you always have to remember to toggle it off before you watch a movie. Kind of a pain.

Maybe the technology needs to be improved, but my experience with it has been pretty bad. I don't think it's been enabled in at least 8 years.

Dad: Who hacked us!?

Granny: idk my bff jill?

I'll go kill myself now.

I waited a full year after launch to buy my console.

All this time since launch, and consoles are still dropping. I feel a fool for giving them my money *stares pointedly at his 360 with messed up video output*.

Call me a troll, but I feel ripped off: Fucking FAIL

I know, I know, I just replied to myself, bad form. But I probably should've linked to the site for Foxit. Here's the download page.

But ya, worth a try at least, it is free.

As always, Foxit does all that stuff.

Insert typical: it's also smaller, more efficient, free* and typically immune to these types of attacks.

* Sure, theres a "pay" version, but the only thing I've ever noticed is when you add text to a pdf it puts a little "Edited using Foxit!" stamp on the top of the page. A small concession IMO.

Eau de la Vag Vert!

Why was that the first place my mind went? I can picture the ad campaign now, "Is your man a Star Trek nerd? Has he always wanted to boldly go where no man has gone before? To seek out new life, and fuck it? Well now he can experience all the extraterrestrial aromas with *dramatic pause*, Eau de la Vag Vert!"

Maybe I should seek professional help. Anyone got Deanna Troi's number? :P.

Haha, for a second there I thought it said "Human-Animal Hybrids Fail"

...Oh wait... it did... Eeewww.

So They're still US-only eh?. I thought Pandora died a slow and painful death around third quarter last year some time after they decided to ignore the rest of the world...

Guess not, though them being US-only, they might as well be. Too bad, I remember enjoying it.

What? No Motofone / Motorola F3 support :P .

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