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| 09-15-10 06:34am - 5212 days | #6 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
tangub, what kind of a dog is your avatar? I still haven't gotten used to looking at him/her yet. It must be some kind of British breed, where the dogs (and people) are different-looking from US breeds.  | |
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| 09-13-10 11:36pm - 5214 days | #7 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Unless you are a techie, you can't really rely on what "tests" or some page showing data readout on your connection means. I could not browse the Internet the last 2 days. The problem was my DSL modem had a password stored on it that was different from the password stored on the server at my ISP. So instead of being able to surf the Internet, and go from one site to another, the only page I was able to view was an error message from my ISP telling me that my DSL modem password did not match the password at the ISP. But when I opened some page/whatEverYouCallIt on my computer that showed my modem connection data (that I was directed to by tech support), as far as I could tell, everything was working great on the modem. It showed good transmission speeds and everything else was working good, as far as I could tell. Even though I could not browse the Internet, or see any Internet page except for the error message that my password was incorrect. What I'm trying to say, is that by looking at the page showing readouts for my modem connection, everything looked great. Except that I couldn't browse the Internet. But the readouts page didn't show any errors that I could tell. Anyway, tech support talked me through resetting my modem password, and I am now able to browse the Internet. I don't have AVG, I have Norton. And PU and all the other sites I visit are non-sticky. If someone else at PU has the sticky problem, maybe they could respond by telling us about it. Otherwise, I would guess the problem is with your ISP, rather than the AVG or Microsoft updates, because AVG is used by a huge number of people, Microsoft is used by a huge number of people, and if there was a common problem to either one of those sources, it should have been reported many times on the Internet as a news item. Reports of problems with Microsoft updates and antivirus updates are common. But you would probably have seen at least a few references to your problem in the Internet news, if there was a "sticky" problem showing up because of Microsoft or AVG. Edit01: As a side note. Relying on messages from your computer. I've been copying some files from one hard drive to another. The message I've been getting from my computer is "Two minutes and 15 seconds remaining" (to finish copying the files). I've seen that same message for more than 4 hours now, and it's still copying the files. Also, when I started copying the files, the computer message was that it would take 30 minutes. About 10 minutes after it started copying the files, the estimate changed to 60 minutes. And like I said, I've been looking at the estimate of 2 minutes 15 seconds for more than 4 hours.  Edited on Sep 14, 2010, 03:51am | |
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| 09-11-10 06:51am - 5216 days | #4 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Welcome to PU. Glad you found us. Do you speak English? If not, it seems you have a great translation program.  | |
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| 09-10-10 07:37pm - 5217 days | #12 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
You must be reading my mind, turboshaft, because that's exactly what is inside my brain. | |
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| 09-08-10 07:18pm - 5219 days | #57 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
My belief is that female porn stars should probably avoid taking a vacation in Iran. Because if they do visit Iran, their professional careers could end prematurely.  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Iran woman's stoning suspended after global outcry By Robin Pomeroy Robin Pomeroy � Wed Sep 8, 2010 2:40 pm ET TEHRAN (Reuters) � Iranian authorities have suspended the execution by stoning of a woman convicted of adultery, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, after weeks of condemnation from around the world. "The verdict regarding the extramarital affairs has stopped and it's being reviewed," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told Iran's state-run English-language Press TV. The statement came a day after European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso called the stoning sentence against Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani "barbaric beyond words," the latest in a string of criticisms by foreign powers. She was convicted of adultery -- a capital crime in the Islamic Republic -- in 2006. She also has been charged with involvement in her husband's murder. In a live telephone interview, Mehmanparast said the murder charge was "being investigated for the final verdict to be issued." Adultery is the only crime which carries the penalty of death by stoning under the sharia law which Iran adopted after the 1979 Islamic revolution, a lawyer told Reuters. The death penalty for murder in Iran is by hanging. The lawyer said Ashtiani might receive 15 years' jail if convicted of being an accomplice to murder. At no point in the interview, which was in the Farsi language but was dubbed over by a simultaneous translation into English, did Mehmanparast mention "stoning," referring merely to Ashtiani's "death sentence." "We think that this is a very normal case," he said. "This dossier looks likes many other dossiers that exist in other countries." SOFT WAR Human rights campaigners, intellectuals and politicians in Europe, including French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni, have taken up Ashtiani's cause. In Washington, U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told a briefing on Wednesday: "Stoning is a barbaric and abhorrent act. We have joined with many, many voices around the world in condemning this prospective action by Iran. But ultimately this is in the hand of Iranian authorities." Karim Lahidji, Paris-based president of the Iranian League for the Defense of Human Rights, told France 24 television: "We are very happy with the result of this campaign ... even though, to this day, no decision has been made in a court. "As long as she is not freed, we really don't know if this case is definitely closed." Mehmanparast blamed the United States for stirring the furor to hurt Iran's international image as it faces sanctions aimed at curbing its nuclear program. "It looks like they are playing a political game," he said. "This lady's case that is being followed ... is in direct connection and relation with the soft war that is being waged against Iran and the aim is to create a rift in relations between Iran, Brazil and Turkey." Both Brazil and Turkey have worked diplomatically to try to solve the impasse over the nuclear program which Iran says is entirely peaceful but which the United States and European countries suspect is aimed at making a bomb. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said Iran may return to talks with global powers after the holy month of Ramadan which ends this week. Human rights campaigners had said they feared Ashtiani's execution could be carried out after Ramadan. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva offered asylum to Ashtiani, prompting an embarrassing public rejection of his offer by Iran which said he was a "humane and sensitive character" but was not in possession of all the facts. According to Amnesty International, Iran is second only to China in the number of people it executes. It put to death at least 346 people in 2008. (Additional Reporting by Bate Felix in Paris; Editing by Michael Roddy and Paul Taylor) | |
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| 09-08-10 08:28am - 5219 days | #298 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Resident Evil: Afterlife opens this Friday. The movie is in 3D, which I am not a fan of. But the movie also stars Milla Jovovich, who is one of my favorite babes. | |
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| 09-07-10 03:13pm - 5220 days | #5 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Just personal taste, but I don't like any tattoos on a girl, no matter how small the tattoo.  And I used to use the same technique of trying to identify similar-looking girls by the placement of a mole. But as I'm getting older, I am losing energy and patience. And some of these models, no matter how cute, just look too much alike for me to tell them apart any more. Especially when they can have different hair colors, slightly different appearance at different ages or when shot by different photographers, etc. There are definitely times when I don't recognize a model in different photoshoots (usually because the photographer is different, but sometimes because of different hair color or some other change in her appearance). Edited on Sep 07, 2010, 03:20pm | |
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| 09-07-10 10:18am - 5220 days | #3 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Mole removal by surgery and/or photoshopping. Photoshopping is more common than you would think. You sometimes come across a photoset of a model you like, and it turns out, because there is little photoshopping in that particular photoset, that the model has moles and freckles and brown spots on her that you never saw before, so the simple answer is the other photosets were photoshopped or some similar technique. Makeup can also be used as covering. | |
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| 09-06-10 09:18pm - 5221 days | #5 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Good news, sports fans. Although Rocco Siffredi retired in 2004, he decided there was no king to take his place, and un-retired to come back into the business.  Quoting from a page on his web site: In June 2004, Siffredi declared that he would retire from performing in porn for the sake of his children, and instead focus on filming and producing. "My children are growing up," he said, "and I can no longer just say 'Dad is going to work to make money for the family.' They want to know more." However, as of 2008, Siffredi has continued to perform. Porn director Axel Braun told Adult Video News in 2004: "The problem is that he's been trying for years to find an 'heir to the throne,' but it's no easy task. He thought he found him in Nacho Vidal, but then Nacho went his own way." Edited on Sep 06, 2010, 09:25pm | |
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| 09-02-10 07:09pm - 5225 days | #297 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Rachel Bilson: Not a lot of work the last few years. A few movies, very little TV: Waiting for Forever 2010 .... Emma Twist New York, I Love You 2009 .... Molly Jumper 2008 .... Millie The Last Kiss 2006 .... Kim | |
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| 09-02-10 05:31pm - 5225 days | #295 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Rachel Bilson as you've never seen her before. She goes topless, and is in a sex scene. Dangerous scene, this might blow your mind and change the way you think of this lovely girl forever! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9VfQz7_D1E | |
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| 09-01-10 08:21am - 5226 days | #292 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
OFF TOPIC: Actors can get a little crazy at times. Actor stabs ex-girlfriend more than 20 times, then claims he thought, because it was dark, that he was trying to fight off the ex-girlfriend's current boyfriend. You would think the actor could afford to hire a better script-writer, one who could come up with a better story. I mean, after stabbing his ex-girlfriend 3 times, and hearing her scream, it seems unreasonable that he would keep stabbing her another 17 times, while still thinking the girl was a boy. And before he started stabbing with the knife, he said her name 3 times, while hiding the knife behind his back. The actor's lawyer claims it was self-defense, because the actor was trying to defend himself against the ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend (who apparently wasn't even present during the stabbing). >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Stabbing Details Emerge at Trial of 40-Year-Old Virgin Actor By Tim Nudd Wednesday September 01, 2010 08:20 AM EDT Stabbing Details Emerge at Trial of 40-Year-Old Virgin Actor Shelley Malil, an actor best known for playing an electronics-store clerk in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, calmly walked up to his ex-girlfriend Kendra Beebe in her backyard two years ago, leaned in as if to hug her, then stabbed her repeatedly, Beebe testified Tuesday in Malil's trial for attempted murder. "I felt a primal, instinctual, animal fear," Beebe told a jury in Vista, Calif., reports the San Diego Union-Tribune. Beebe said Malil had one hand behind his back as he approached. "He said, 'Kendra, Kendra, Kendra.' … I saw a flash of silver, and he goes bang, bang, bang," she said, showing the jury how he stabbed her in the torso three times. Beebe, 38, was stabbed more than 20 times on that night in August 2008. She suffered a punctured lung and other injuries but survived. Malil, 45, has pleaded not guilty to charges of premeditated attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and residential burglary. He could get 21 years to life in prison if convicted. Beebe was socializing with another man, a local musician named David Maldonado, at the time of the alleged attack. She said she had broken up with Malil and that he had seemed agitated in the days beforehand. The actor's lawyer has said that in dark of the patio, Malil mistakenly thought he was fighting off Maldonado. | |
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| 09-01-10 02:53am - 5227 days | #290 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Slutty, I think you probably have a lot of company when you don't rank James Cameron among the greatest filmmakers of all time. The producer of Piranha 3D appears to be in your camp. Below is an article where the Piranha 3D producer disses James Cameron because Cameron criticized the Piranha 3D movie.  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< "Piranha" producer bites back at James Cameron (Reuters) Source: Reuters 1 hour, 32 minutes ago LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Producer Mark Canton is coming back swinging at James Cameron after the "Avatar" director insulted his new "Piranha" sequel. In a Vanity Fair interview that hit the web earlier this week, Cameron dissed "Piranha 3D," which he briefly worked on: "I worked on Piranha 2 (sic) for a few days and got fired off of it; I don't put it on my official filmography. So there's no sort of fond connection for me whatsoever. "In fact, I would go even farther and say that ... I tend almost never to throw other films under the bus, but that is exactly an example of what we should not be doing in 3D. Because it just cheapens the medium and reminds you of the bad 3D horror films from the 70s and 80s, like 'Friday the 13th' 3D.'" (The film's actual name was Friday the 13th Part 3.") Sniped back Canton Tuesday, "Cameron consistently celebrates himself out as though he is a team of one. His comments are ridiculous, self-serving and insulting to those of us who are not caught up in serving his ego and his rhetoric." He also challenged Cameron to watch the movie on the big screen. "On opening weekend (August 20-22), I was in a Los Angeles theater with a number of today's great filmmakers including J.J. Abrams ("Star Trek"), who actually had nothing short of the fabulous, fun 3D experience that the movie provides," Canton said. Edited on Sep 01, 2010, 03:02am | |
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| 08-30-10 08:56pm - 5228 days | #286 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I must be blind or something, but when I watch Milla Jovovich onscreen, I focus on her face and great shape, and I'm not even looking for her nudity. Maybe that's why her onscreen nudity doesn't stick out in my mind. But that's a great short pictorial of the lovely nude Milla Jovovich: http://www.buzz-me-baby.com/milla-jovovi...urple-magazine-1888/ Many thanks, Toadsith. Milla just comes across as a totally gorgeous female. And she actually has a mind, as well.  | |
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| 08-30-10 06:27pm - 5228 days | #282 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I never saw "Blue Lagoon" or "Return to the Blue Lagoon" that I can remember. But I did see "Paradise" and "Fast Times at Ridgmont High" with Phoebe Cates, who was lovely, adorable, and topless in both films. She was probably around 18 when those movies were shot. I don't recall much, if any, nudity in the Resident Evil movies. They are mainly action/science fiction/game-based movies. But I really enjoy seeing Milla Jovovich on the screen: she is lovely, and for a female action star, believable. In spite of my attraction, I wouldn't want her beating up on me.  | |
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| 08-30-10 10:57am - 5228 days | #280 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Sort of off-topic, or maybe not. Who says porn ain't art? If some rapper can "sing" a song saying "Fuck you" to some ex-girlfriend, and call it art, then the porno I look at, especially the softcore variety, can certainly be called art. Edit01: I haven't actually heard the rap song yet, because I'm not really into rap. I'm more into visual softcore art. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Cee Lo says f-bomb song is 'art' AP By MESFIN FEKADU, Associated Press Writer Mesfin Fekadu, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 49 mins ago NEW YORK – Cee Lo's expletive-laden song has been criticized for being in poor taste, but the musician says it's actually a work of art. "What I've tried to accomplish, like, is making art products ... so I still believe that (the song) can be classified as art because it's an original piece and the edge and alternative is there, and the integrity is intact," he said in an interview last week. The song, about a gold-digging ex, is titled "(Expletive) You" and he drops 16 f-bombs in just 3 1/2 minutes over a sweet-sounding, retro groove. The current video is a colorful stream of the song's lyrics and its been viewed more than 3.7 million times in the last 11 days on the singer's YouTube page. An official video will be released this week and the song will appear on Cee Lo's album "The Lady Killer," out on Dec. 7. Though the jam has gotten rave reviews, it's also had its share of criticism. Dan Isett, the director of public policy for the Parents Television Council, said in a statement that the song "is just the latest example of an entertainment industry bent on racing to the bottom of the barrel." But Cee Lo said he was trying to elevate music with the song, and it's something that the music industry does not do enough. "The system does not, you know, advocate art so to speak, but it does package and promote products and product placement and there's a definitive difference between the two, art and product," he said. "I have yet to sit down and try to write something for the sake of radio. I just never done it, not consciously." Still, there will be a radio-friendly version of the viral hit: The mildly titled "Forget You" will hit airwaves soon, though Cee Lo says that wasn't the initial plan. "It wasn't like we were looking for it to be a radio hit of some sort. It was only until a short time after that we considered doing a clean version just in case," he said. Cee Lo is best-known as one-half of the Grammy-winning duo Gnarls Barkley, who had the instant classic "Crazy." He first appeared on the music scene in 1995 with the Southern hip-hop group Goodie Mob. Cee Lo calls the success of his latest song "a miracle of some sort." Although he may have lofty views of its artistic merit, he's also aware that it's just a dose of naughtiness too. "I get to be bad a little bit so that's what was fun about it. It's quite a bit of mischief in that song, so we weren't taking ourselves too seriously," he said. In October, Cee Lo will host Fuse TV's "Lay It Down," an interview and performance-based show he calls "more intimate (and) off the record." | |
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| 08-30-10 10:49am - 5228 days | #279 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
The reason I watch the Resident Evil movies is Milla Jovovich. She is hot and yummy. Hot is usually different from yummy, but she is both. | |
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| 08-30-10 05:59am - 5229 days | #277 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
YouTube eyes pay-per-view films Source: The Hollywood Reporter 4 hours, 52 minutes ago Google's YouTube video service is in talks with Hollywood studios to launch a streaming pay-per-view movie service by year's end. The Financial Times reported that the service is expected to launch in the U.S. and then get rolled out globally. The move would put YouTube into more direct competition with Apple and others, such as Hulu and Netflix, as players try to become the preferred destination for distribution of content in the digital age. Hollywood seems intrigued by the idea of YouTube's big reach, according to the FT report. It said newer film titles would cost about $5 on the planned on-demand streaming service. The news of the planned YouTube film service launch comes after Google top executives wooed studios and guilds during a chat with reporters on the sidelines of Herb Allen's annual Sun Valley media mogul gathering in July. | |
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| 08-29-10 01:08pm - 5229 days | #50 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Perhaps a better motto would serve: Speak Plainly. Then we wouldn't need a dictionary to understand our motto. Edited on Aug 29, 2010, 01:12pm | |
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| 08-28-10 08:14pm - 5230 days | #16 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I was born in LA. The hospital was Cedars of Lebanon, now part of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. I remember way back when (sometimes in the 1970s or 1980s, I think), going with some relatives, male and female, to the beach. We saw a young couple there, probably in their 20s. They were nude. The girl was very attractive. I guess the guy was too, but I paid little attention to him. They were both very casual about the nudity. My impression was that the nudity was legal at the time, because the nude couple was not being an exhibitionist or demonstrating or anything, they were just sitting or lying on the ground. I thought at the time that the beach was nudity-permitted. But I did not try to verify that the nudity was legal or illegal. It was just that my relatives and I came across a nude couple at a beach. And the couple did not try to hide their nudity, or get dressed or leave after we got there. That was the only time I saw a nude couple at an LA beach, and that was by accident. >>>>>>>>>> I found this on the Internet: Los Angeles County Nude Beach Guide Several years ago, public nudity was made illegal in Los Angeles County, and there is no such thing as a legal Los Angeles County nude beach. Anyone found nude here can be cited. Punishment includes a stiff fine and court appearance. Read the Los Angeles County nudity laws. <<<<<<<<<< So apparently public nudity was legal, at least in some places, if Los Angeles passed a law making it illegal several years ago. But my Google search skills are not sufficient for me to find an article stating when or where there was public nudity/toplessness permitted at LA beaches. | |
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| 08-27-10 08:43pm - 5231 days | #19 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I've said it before as well, but with the current size of photos and videos, 100 GB seems overly restrictive. I'm surprised that a huge number of customers aren't complaining about the issue, because even "regular" people can easily exceed those download limits. My DSL connection is extremely slow compared to most PU members, but I'm finally going to upgrade my service for a faster connection. And I sure as heck hope that I won't discover that I'm going to be hitting download limits set by my ISP. If I do hit limits, I'll be looking for a new ISP. | |
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| 08-27-10 04:41pm - 5231 days | #17 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Once you hit the big 30 mark, you will suddenly gain added maturity, and realize that porn is not the true path. You will then start collecting stamps or coins, which you can hold in both hands for a tactile sensation. What does a porn collection allow you to hold? | |
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| 08-27-10 01:58am - 5232 days | #8 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
The grey ghost makes a reappearance, with McGoohan looking as handsome as ever! Thanks for the tip of 10MinuteMail.com. But not trusting the New York Times on spam? And I thought I was the paranoid one. | |
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| 08-26-10 03:08pm - 5232 days | #5 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Yariana, I believe you are at least partly preaching to the wrong crowd. The regular members of PU are people who pay for their porn site memberships. They do not regard porn as free. And while I have no hard evidence for my belief, I do not think most PU members download material from pay porn sites and repost it on the tube/free sites. I have no hard evidence, but from the many postings and comments of our members, it seems that almost everyone here recognizes and believes that porn sites have the right to charge for their material. At the same time, I think most PU members that have expressed an opinion on the subject, dislike DRM and streaming-only sites. Even though we don't "own" the porn we download, we want to be able to access it on our computers if we have paid the membership fee to the site. And that includes the ability to access that downloaded porn even after our site membership has expired. | |
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| 08-26-10 01:26pm - 5232 days | #2 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I believe there were topless beaches in L.A. back around the 1970s-1980s. Never took advantage of it back then, more the pity. | |
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| 08-26-10 01:13pm - 5232 days | #273 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
James Cameron admits to being a money grubbing vampire. Does not say when he became a vampire, but it was probably before the current vampire trend, because he's the kind of guy who starts trends instead of following them. Also talks about sequels to Avatar, and why the first Avatar will be in theaters tomorrow Friday with a few minutes more of expanded film (to make more money, of course, because the billions in box office and the additional billions from other sales is never enough for these money-hungry Hollywood moguls. Avatar is a fantastic film, worth the admission price to a 3D theater. Or you can watch it on DVD. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< A Minute With: James Cameron talking new "Avatar" (Reuters) Source: Reuters 4 hours, 50 minutes ago LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When "Titanic" director James Cameron released his film "Avatar" last year, there were not as many theaters equipped with 3D equipment to screen the 3D version as he would have liked. So, on Friday, film studio 20th Century Fox is releasing an "Avatar: Special Edition" version of the biggest blockbuster of all time ($2.7 billion in global ticket sales) exclusively in Imax 3D theaters and venues equipped with digital 3D. Cameron spoke to Reuters about the nine minutes of new film on the "special edition," the movie's success, and whether movies or science is his favored pursuit. Q: Why a new one? The first was pretty good. A: "There are a couple of factors. There's footage I think people would be interested in. I don't want to completely reinvent the movie and turn it into something it's not. It's really more an embellishment; it's a fuller experience. "The other factor is I think people want to see 'Avatar' in movie theaters. That's just my instinct. This all came about because when "Alice in Wonderland" came out, they had booked all the Imax 3D screens. We were still doing well, still selling out ... but we lost all those screens in one night. So, we knew there was still a market for people seeing the film." Q: Many people, me included, thought, 'they already made $2.7 billion! How much more do they want?' Money grubbers?'" A: "Yeah, we are just money grubbing vampires. (smiles) No, I think making money is called good business. At least, in this country it still is. And two, it's a side-effect of giving people what they want. If we're correct and this is what people want, then we've done a humanitarian service (laughs)." Q: Right, Hollywood does perform humanitarian services. A: "Sometimes. (laughs again) Sometimes it can, but it's usually just liberal guilt... "No, it's like an illuminated manuscript, there's just more to it. I also want to encourage people to remember the movie in 3D on the big screen. And this will be the last hurrah ... It'll disappear from big screens -- other than an occasional Imax may want to book it -- for 10 years, 20 years, maybe forever." Q: So, the new footage, what are people going to see? A: "We got different kinds of stuff. Some of it little things, 10-, 15-, 30-second pops that just show up here and there where if you've seen the movie, you'll ask yourself, 'did I see that before, or is that new.' "Then, there are going to be things like a big action scene where they hunt these herd animals that didn't even exist in the first movie because we'd cut them out. There are new creatures, a big flight scene, almost like a Buffalo hunt. I think it's one of the top visual scenes in the film. "There's an emotional scene that plays out at the end where Tsu'tey is dying and there's a very emotional scene with Jake and Neytiri. Everybody thought I was crazy when I took it out. I did it for pace and tempo, but I was playing it pretty conservative. I was concerned about eye fatigue on a 2-hour and 40-minute film. I was concerned about sensory overload... "We never got much criticism about length. I was expecting a lot. I was expecting at least critics to say, 'really good film' or 'pretty good film, but too long,' but we didn't get much of that. It seemed like we had permission to go longer." Q: So, you and Fox have the two top grossing films of all time. Can you now get about anything you want from Fox? A: "Do they listen to me more, now? Probably not, if they weren't going to listen to me after 'Titanic,' they're not going to listen to me now, any more or any less." Q: You're doing another 'Avatar' film. Is there a third? A: "The next script will be essentially two scripts, and I don't know if we'll shoot it together or shoot it separately. We'll release it separately, obviously. "If that works, there will probably be another one, but at that point, I probably won't be directing them. I do want to do the second and probably the third film myself just because it's so much a part of me and my philosophy and ideas." Q: Beyond movies, you've become a bona fide expert on deep underwater exploration. When all is said and done, what do you want to be remembered for -- big movies or exploration? A: "What goes on the tombstone?" (laughs) Q: Well, without having to ask it that way, yes. A: "I'm satisfied with 'innovator' because it requires innovation to do all this deep ocean exploration. We're building lights, cameras, robotics, submersibles, fiber optic systems, and I love all that stuff. I love imagining something, building it, and making it work in the ocean... "On the filmmaking side, there's the innovation of how you make the movie and there's the innovation of what the movie is, meaning the story, the characters, the creation of a world, the imagination required for that. I love all that stuff. The problem for me is task managing in such a way that I don't get so focused on one that I forget about doing the other." | |
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| 08-26-10 01:07pm - 5232 days | #2 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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My only question: Is that you on top, or on the bottom? Second question: Who's your partner? That wouldn't be Khan, by any chance? Third question: Are the two of you considering a diet anytime soon? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< I certainly don't like DRM or stream-only sites, even if I'm not into vids that heavily. It's the psychology more than the economics. I think to be successful, you would have to "educate" your potential customers into accepting the stream/DRM concept. I believe most PU members are hoarders, who collect their porn, store it, and almost never watch the bulk of it beyond the initial viewing. | |
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| 08-26-10 10:29am - 5232 days | #5 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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turboshaft, Denner, thanks for the Gmail tip. I guess I will open a Gmail account for new mail, and leave the Yahoo email for spam and whatever. Then I should change my email address at accounts that I want to keep open for communication, lost passwords, etc. And try to be more careful about giving out my Gmail account address in the future.  | |
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| 08-25-10 04:08pm - 5233 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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One foolish way to put your name on spammer lists is to join a Yahoo group. You join the group, your email is made public to that group, a spammer gets the list, and bing, you are now the target of additional spam that is sent to the membership list of that Yahoo group. Lately I've been getting all kinds of stupid offers in my email box addressed to the Yahoo group I joined years ago, and that group is inactive except for the spammer messages.  | |
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| 08-25-10 12:06am - 5234 days | #272 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Interesting article on how an ultra low-cost movie can be marketed. A few points from the article: MTV just made a slasher movie for $250,000-$300,000. They don't plan a theatrical release because the cost of a theatrical release is too high. They are trying to maximize potential profits from the film. So they will be going for TV distribution, digital distribution (Internet sales), international rights, syndication revenue. There could also be an unrated DVD and download-to-own distribution down the line. "Paranormal Activity" (a different, low-budget film) cost an estimated $11,000 and went on to gross nearly $108 million at the U.S. box office. There are a very few low-budget films that make a large amount of money, but those are the exceptions. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< MTV slasher pic gets social-media campaign (Reuters) Source: Reuters 35 minutes ago NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - MTV is looking for a bit of the same magic that corporate sibling Paramount had with "Paranormal Activity" as it experiments with new distribution and marketing methods in the digital age. The cable network has teamed with digital information service and marketer Eventful to launch a social media campaign for its forthcoming indie slasher film "Savage County," which it originally had planned to release as a Web series. MTV still doesn't plan to release it in theaters, but it has added a potential TV run to the mix that would come in October, in time for Halloween. To help raise awareness and create a sense of investment in the 80-minute film, MTV is working with Eventful to allow folks to "demand" to see the movie at http://eventful.com/competitions/savagecounty2010. If at least 100,000 people want it, MTV2 will air the movie, according to a spokesman (the website simply says "MTV"). The campaign quietly kicked off about two weeks ago, and the film had received just over 64,000 "demands" as of Tuesday night. "We're still in a world where movie and TV seem like the A+ level platforms, so we wanted to add the TV element," said David Gale, executive vp of MTV new media and executive producer of "Savage County." "Theatrical is the one and only platform we'll forgo, and that's by design. Costs of distributing films are very high. However, this is a low-cost production, and we think we can recoup the cost and then some" in alternative ways. Beyond selling ads around the film's potential TV and digital distribution, MTV is looking to sell international rights and bring in syndication revenue. Gale also eyes an unrated DVD and download-to-own distribution down the line. "Savage County," by untested director David Harris, is about a group of teens who collide with their town's dark past when a prank gone wrong makes them the target of a family of bloodthirsty killers. Unlike with much of today's Hollywood superhero or book-based fare, "there is no built-in audience, because this is not a known franchise," Gale said. "The online voting seemed like a cool way to get people engaged to see it." The film cost $250,000-$300,000 to make. "Paranormal Activity" cost an estimated $11,000 and went on to gross nearly $108 million at the U.S. box office. "Paranormal Activity" also used Eventful's "Demand It" feature in a couple of ways. Eventually, 1 million demands gave the green light for the film's nationwide release. Jordan Glazier, CEO of Eventful, said his firm started moving into the film and TV space within the past 18 months. Nearly 16 million people use Eventful to find out about film and music events and the like. More than 3 million of them have identified themselves as being interested in horror films, which allows for targeting. "We help identify people who are passionate about something and instill in them a sense of participation and ownership," Glazier said. | |
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| 08-21-10 08:12pm - 5237 days | #270 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Vampires Suck only cost $20 million. I remember when a million dollars was a lot of money. So I guess $20 million for a movie is chicken feed. But I sure could have a happy time on $20 million. Or even $10 million. | |
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| 08-20-10 08:34pm - 5238 days | #268 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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I hardly ever visit Rotten Tomatoes. I used to go there occassionally years ago, but got out of the habit of checking in. So I don't know the spread that movie ratings get. But 3% approval rating for Vampires Suck seems like an enormously low rating. I wonder how bad the movie can be to deserve a rating like that. There are movies so bad that they sometimes achieve a cult fan base that love to watch them. I wonder if Vampires Suck will fall into that category. But 3% approval rating? The trailer alone should have put it higher than that. | |
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| 08-20-10 08:23pm - 5238 days | #7 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Before Obama got in, there was a great air of excitement and anticipation about what a wonderful president he would be and what he would do for our country. I think that excitement and anticipation has evaporated. And now he's seen as just the guy who won the election.  | |
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| 08-20-10 01:39pm - 5238 days | #7 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Do not like tattoos (any size), fake breasts (unless done for a medical reason), or body piercings (but pierced ears are ok, unless you have 10 or more holes in each ear, which is also done). | |
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| 08-19-10 03:09am - 5240 days | #265 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Sexual activity will be added to the Avatar theatrical re-release. How can James Cameron, the director, shamelessly pollute the film's purity in an effort to sell more tickets and increase the box office of this movie?  'Avatar' Re-Release Includes Alien Sex Scene James Cameron restores an intimate scene between Jake and Naytiri for the epic's end of the summer re-release By William Yelles TheWrap.com When "Avatar" returns to theaters in 3-D and 3-D IMAX for a limited engagement Aug. 27, among the eight minutes of new bonus footage is a scene that has had fanboys buzzing for months. "It's been restored, every last frame of it. Seriously," director James Cameron tells MTV News. However, "I would say, just so that we correctly manage people's expectations, it does not change our rating at all. I would call it more of an alien foreplay scene. It's not like they're ripping their clothes off and going at it." Naytiri (Zoe Saldana) and Jake's (Sam Worthington) lovemaking is described as "the ultimate intimacy" in the screenplay. "They come together into a kiss and sink down on the bed of moss, and ripples of light spread out around them." Cameron is also said to be considering shooting the two sequels to "Avatar" back-to-back since the movies would involve so much motion capture and special effects work. He also claims to be working on a novelization of the first film. | |
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| 08-19-10 02:14am - 5240 days | #18 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Please don't tell me that Windows is not the perfect system for updates and whatnot. Are you trying to destroy my faith in my beloved Microsoft Operating System? | |
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| 08-18-10 01:51am - 5241 days | #14 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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slutty, I posted a URL and thread that might explain your problem. The post is the one previous to this one. That post has a url for the thread, and the page has links to other threads that are about similar problems. | |
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| 08-18-10 12:39am - 5241 days | #29 | |
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The only one I really believe in is the one about Wittyguy's avatar. | |
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| 08-17-10 09:10pm - 5241 days | #264 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Leaked "Vampires Suck" hits 100,000 downloads (Reuters) Source: Reuters 2 hours, 11 minutes ago LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - An unfinished copy of "Vampires Suck," Fox's the hotly anticipated parody of "Twilight" scheduled to hit U.S. theaters Wednesday, has now been downloaded more than 100,000 times since its leak more than a month ago, according to TorrentFreak. Two years ago, of course, Fox was bitten when a rough copy of "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" leaked online a month before hitting theaters. Reports suggested that more than one million people viewed at least part of the work print. The incident garnered national attention, a rebuke from Fox's upper management, and eventually, a belated arrest. Despite the hubbub, it was never revealed exactly how the unfinished film ended up online (it also wasn't clear how the piracy influenced box office sales). Now faced with another major leak, Fox's legal department has quietly become more aggressive, sending takedown requests to torrent sites and Google. They likely want to avoid the fate of the 2004 parody film "Soul Plane," which prompted an FBI investigation after pirated copies flooded the black market weeks before its release. "Soul Plane" was cited as one of the first Hollywood films to be impacted by digital piracy. Will pirates suck the life out of "Vampires Suck?" Fox is publicly downplaying down the leak, saying the incident occurred a month ago and there isn't anything new to report. | |
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| 08-17-10 01:41pm - 5241 days | #7 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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That is only true at the beginning of the sexual encounter. But every porno book I ever read, the virgin girl was climaxing and begging for more and harder sex before the guy was finished doing her. Are you telling me my sex education in porn is not reliable? | |
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| 08-17-10 09:02am - 5241 days | #39 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Sir badandy400, was I asleep when you broke 100 points? There must have been a huge PU party, and I missed it completely. Belated congratulations on passing the 100 point mark.  | |
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| 08-17-10 03:42am - 5242 days | #13 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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slutty, Windows media playback problems: There are forums that deal with your problem. It's not just a Windows 7 problem. Here's one thread/forum on your problem, with possible solutions. But the solutions can be very technical, beyond what I can understand: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Foru...45-ae1b-4102612b154e If you go to the URL above, you can read the fairly short discussion on program freezing when playing a video file. There are also some hot links to other threads on the same/similar topic of (the links are on the right side of the page, under the heading: "Related Topics" Computer freezes after playing avi, mpg and sometimes flash files Windows 7 Media Player freezes when playing DVD movies Windows 7 freezes / hangs when playing video or audio on any media ... windows 7 freeze when I try to watch video. ----------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Foru...45-ae1b-4102612b154e I've pasted the start of the forum/thread below. This sounds like the problem you are having: Computer freezes when playing video Monday, January 12, 2009 5:39 AMAnthony.UCR As soon as I start to play any video file (.avi for example) in any player, the computer freezes up. No errors, just completely locks up until I force a shut-down/restart. I've installed all the necessary codecs; it did this before and after I installed them. I've tried Windows Media Player as well as Media Player Classic. Display Adaptor: Mobile Intel 915G/GMS,910GML Express Chipset Family Any ideas? ------------------------------------- Answers Proposed As Answer byhalofan Tuesday, January 13, 2009 2:55 AM I ran into the same issue. After researching the problem, it turns out that it is because there is no WDDM driver available for the Intel 915 graphics chipset. The only driver available is an XPDM driver. From what I've read, Windows Vista worked with an XPDM driver, just not with Aero. Windows 7 apparently does not support the use of an XPDM driver. See the release notes here (scroll down to the 'Video drivers' section): http://download.microsoft.com/download/F...0Release%20Notes.htm Read Intel's response on why a WDDM driver is not available: http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/20...dm-driver-for-vista/ ------------- RDrr Thursday, January 15, 2009 8:44 Reading up, on the 'net... there's not going to be any WDDM drivers for the 910/915 chipset (regardless of intel employee and 3rd party blogs, which have gone silent since the 'Vista capable' lawsuits). Trying Microsoft's suggestion (from the 'release notes, Video section' link above)... I managed to load "Standard VGA" drivers... and pushed my display res upto 1280x768... and... Windows Media Player played a sample video withOUT locking up... but display quality suffers a bit. And, right now, my desktop on an external monitor is pushed down and to the right of the VGA display limits, slightly... I'm using a Westinghouse 26" HDTV (capable of 1366x76  ... so I guess I'd have to try adjusting the tv to bring my desktop up properly... don't know where any software adjustments are, don't seem to be any... set to 'hardware defaults'.I had to reboot, with external monitor unplugged, to get the display to switch back to laptop screen, which placed the 1280x768 display properly. I couldn't adjust the tv/monitor enough to get 1280x768 all on the limited VGA display area, portions were still cut off. But 1024x768 displayed the entire desktop within the VGA limits, on the external monitor. And... I was able to run the Windows Experience rating (1.0 for graphics) without locking up. "Standard VGA Graphics adapter" also allows the playing of DVD's.... without locking up ...on the 910/915 chipset. But... I don't have the intel chipset accelerator features... like dual monitor, etc. And, I still can't use my Fn key  ... to switch between notebook screen and external monitor.Hmmm. Edited byRDrr Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:46 AM ---------------------------------------- Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:43 AM mroshaw Hi all! I'm glad I came to this forum - this has been driving me nuts! I have installed Windows 7 beta on a Dell Precision M60 laptop, which has an nVidia Go FX 700 card. The problem manifested itself as a complete freeze whenever I tried to run the Windows Experience Index process - the machine froze when the process reached the test around encoding and decoding media files. I narrowed the problem down to opening the video files in the C:\Windows\Performance folder. The process ran through, still with errors though, when I uninstalled the drivers (which were 2004 XP drivers from Dell - I couldn't find anything later for this adapter). I'm guessing this is never going to be resolved - presumably nVidia won't be developing compliant drivers for such old hardware? | |
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| 08-16-10 10:45pm - 5242 days | #262 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Stallone is already talking sequel for The Expendables. Because the movie had the best opening of his career, and it really was a shot in the arm for him. | |
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| 08-16-10 10:35pm - 5242 days | #3 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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At this network, a BJ, a grunt, a groan, even a quick fart is considered adequate foreplay. That's my scientific conclusion. | |
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| 08-16-10 10:30pm - 5242 days | #260 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Watching How To Train Your Dragon in 3D gave me a bad experience, because I could not get used to wearing the 3D glasses. That's just me, because very few people seem bothered by the 3D glasses. So I will be skipping Piranha 3D. The higher ticket price (an extra $3-4), doesn't make the movie more attractive, either. The early reviews that I read on Vampires Suck indicate the movie will probably bomb, if the critics have any impact. But audiences often pay little attention to the critics. Word of mouth is far more important than critics' reviews. But predicting box office for a movie is risky business. The fans at comic con in San Diego were supposed to go crazy over Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. The critics and Yahoo users gave the movie high marks, yet it opened this weekend at #5, with $10.5 million. So the movie bombed. | |
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| 08-16-10 03:10pm - 5242 days | #3 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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The preview pages for this site are extremely limited, giving you very little idea of what the site contents are. There do seem to be a few cute models. But in a reply to Drooler's comment on this site, pat362 wrote: All the content on this site can be found at smackmybitch." Smackmybitch is twice as expensive, but which site is the better deal? | |
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| 08-16-10 05:23am - 5243 days | #258 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Great news on upcoming movies: 2 of the biggiest, most anticipated films of the year will open this Friday. 1. Vampires Suck, the real story on vampires, and why the Twilight movies were sugar-coated pap instead of giving us the down and dirty on what vampires really do. 2. Piranha 3D. A movie that explodes on the silver screen, with flesh-eating monsters that will gobble and gorge on the innocent and guilty alike. Who knows, I might be forced to see The Expendables, even though I was never a fan of Stallone. | |
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| 08-16-10 01:57am - 5243 days | #11 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Player conflict. I assume you've done a complete scan of your PC for virus/malware. Sorry if the question seems obvious. | |
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| 08-16-10 01:51am - 5243 days | #10 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Just curious. Does your entire PC freeze? You get a frozen image on the monitor, and your mouse and keyboard are unresponsive? Or is it just a single program that freezes? Your browser, media play, whatever? And you can still use the mouse and keyboard for other programs, in spite of the media freeze? If your entire PC is frozen, how do you reboot the PC? Do you have to cut off the power with the power switch, or are you able to turn off the PC using the Windows shutdown procedure. My understanding is that the more times you are forced to turn off a PC because the entire PC freezes, using the power switch, the more errors you might be creating in the software somewhere. But when the entire PC freezes (keyboard and mouse are dead), the only way to reboot is to turn off the power to the PC, and then turn the power back on. Because you can't use the Windows shutdown procedure, which requires a functioning mouse or keyboard. | |
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| 08-16-10 01:39am - 5243 days | #9 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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I'm not a computer expert, never will be, no matter how long I spend on computers. But my understanding is that the longer you have a machine, the more programs you load onto it, the more potential conflicts you will have because of registry changes and whatever. Even deleting conflicting programs won't necessarily solve the problem, because the registry might still be a source of conflicts from what was previously installed. There are free threads on the Internet for computer problems, some of which can be very helpful. But it's been a long while since I searched any of them, so I can't remember which ones I thought were really helpful. Maybe you could do Google search about your problem, and see if you can find a thread or two that is free, that might offer helpful advice. Many threads are useless for one reason or another (slow response time, answers that are worthless). But there are people out there, on the Internet, that are knowledgeable, and willing to help others, for free. There are also fee-based threads, but I never used any of those. I always thought it wasn't worth the money. | |
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