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  1. Joeboo

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    That's pretty much exactly what the Software Etc looked like where I worked in high school. The good ol' days of selling TG16 and Genesis Games, and Single-Speed CD Rom drives for like $500 Some more Richard Garriott in a Software Etc... The boxes on the bottom row crack me up. I spent so...
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    Halt and Catch Fire

    I think season 3 is set to debut in August or September
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    Curb your Enthusiasm

    Pretty, pretty, pretty good
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    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    I use a Keurig at home most of the time, but if I'm feeling fancy on the weekend with time to spare I might bust out the French press. At work, we just use Folgers in bulk, it would be WAY too costly to use a Keurig unless everyone bought their own pods. The Folgers is fine, it delivers...
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    Silicon Valley

    Russ fucking Hanneman "Are you here fucking?" lol
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    What was your dream growing up before life kicked you in the nuts/vag?

    was it Curt Schilling's 38 studios? You avoided quite the trainwreck if you passed on that one. Good call.
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    What was your dream growing up before life kicked you in the nuts/vag?

    I wanted to design video games. Not necessarily program, but design. As a kid growing up in the late 70s and 80s I was big into text adventures, then Sierra graphic adventure games(Kings Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, etc), and then eventually console RPGs (Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy...
  8. Joeboo

    College Football 2016-2017 Season

    No no no, there's just a 50% chance that he married a lesbian. It's not a sure thing. Also relevant:
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    Desktop Computers

    Keep in mind that all of the early signs point to CPUs becoming more important under DirectX12 than they have been in recent years. More games will actually use multiple cores, and CPUs should start to play a larger part in gaming performance going forward over the next 5 years. What I don't...
  10. Joeboo

    Home buying thread

    Redfin definitely has more detailed info and demographics than Zillow does, but Zillow gets a LOT more traffic. If you are selling a home, you want it listed on Zillow, it will be seen much, much more. Zillow gets about 160 million visits per month, Redfin is about 25 million
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    Home buying thread

    Yeah, never look at the Zestimate value. The only info Zillow has to project your home value is what it last sold for. If that was more than a couple years ago, it's going to be wildly inaccurate. It has no idea what you've done to your home since you bought it(upgrades, addons, remodels, etc)
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    Home buying thread

    Thoughts on doing For Sale By Owner when selling a house? My father is retiring and needs to sell one of his homes, and I'm trying to convince him to do it FSBO. In this day and age of Zillow and various websites, if you take good pictures and give good details, hundreds of people per day will...
  13. Joeboo

    Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

    Everything I've watched on Netflix starts to load at 1%, jumps straight to 99%, and then plays. I'd say time from pressing "play" on the remote to the movie actually playing is about 2 seconds. I know Youtube basically just flat-out won't let you buffer 100% of a video from the start, but...
  14. Joeboo

    Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

    No clue, but it says that the system would require some sort of specialized receiver in the home. So surely if they can beam a gigabit speed from their end, the receiver should be set up to beam it back? Latency could be the biggest issue, rather than raw throughput, this sounds like satellite...
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    Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

    Google wants to beam gigabit internet to your home, wirelessly Alphabet wants to beam high-speed Internet to your home
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    Parent Thread

    I have to tell everyone that comes to our home to lock the bathroom door if they use it. My 3 yr old son will follow ANYONE into the bathroom. It's like he is personally offended by someone being in the bathroom without him.
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    Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

    Reporting back, have had Google Fiber since Sunday I think I'll keep it. Not getting 1000, but it consistently speed tests from like 500-800ish Awesome side note, they just upgraded all of their TV boxes to include Google Cast technology...basically each of the TV boxes in your home...
  18. Joeboo

    Routers & Other Networking Stuff

    I did not have a good experience with Arris Cable Modems. I had to use one for a few months when my old motorola shot craps(it was great for 5+ years) and I had to reset the goddamn thing pretty much daily(time Warner service). Goddamn I don't mis Arris modems. Problem is, I think all cable...
  19. Joeboo

    Routers & Other Networking Stuff

    Gotta say, I'm impressed with the Mikrotik Right out of the box, this tiny little box(about the size of a paperback book) with zero external antennas has probably 1/3 more range than my old Asust RT-N66U, and faster as well. I haven't jacked with upping the power at all, I may not bother...
  20. Joeboo

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    sometimes you can be a little *too* secure Just got an email from someone(outside of my company), needing some paperwork from us for a mutual client. No biggie, we do it every day. Except the email comes as a "registered Cisco email". The encrypted attachment has to be downloaded and saved...
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    Routers & Other Networking Stuff

    Finally bit the bullet and ordered a Mikrotik router Amazon.com: Mikrotik RB951G-2HND 5-Port Gigabit Wireless AP 1000mW: Computers Accessories Anyone want to give me any pointers of anything super important I need to update/load on this thing when I get it? Or is it going to be pretty...
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    The Fast Food Thread

    WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT? Casey's Pizza is legit. Their Taco Pizza in particular is awesome, because instead of crunched up tortilla chips, they put crunched up nacho cheese doritos on it. It's basically a doritos taco in pizza form. Now, Casey's isn't a good as the best local places (Minsky's...
  23. Joeboo

    Smartphones

    Damn, I thought Sprint was slow. My Note 5 just got 6.0.1 about a month or so ago
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    Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

    Posted that on March 9,2015 Was finally notified yesterday that I can schedule my in-home install appointment, all of the lines connecting my house are finally complete. Will be installed next week. Christ, that took forever, but at least the sweet, sweet end is in sight
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    Desktop Computers

    I'll definitely be snagging a 1070 this summer, my 970 still struggles a bit at 1440p on high/ultra settings in some games.
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    Desktop Computers

    Everything I've seen about the 480 puts it squarely between Nvidia 970 and 980(non-Ti) performance. Not bad for a $200 card, but not really overwhelmingly exciting either.
  27. Joeboo

    Desktop Computers

    As someone who has owned Crossfire'd AMD cards and SLI'd Nvidia cards in the somewhat recent past, I'll never do it again. Not unless I somehow acquire the 2nd card for free(or close to it). It's still a pain in the ass, some games never get dual-card support(and many don't have it at launch)...
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    The Fast Food Thread

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    MLB 2016

    Well this puts a dent in the attempt at 3-peating the AL Mike Moustakas Placed On Disabled List With Torn ACL - MLB Trade Rumors done for the year
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    Parent Thread

    3 year old basically wont sleep(nap or bedtime) unless someone lays down with him until he falls asleep. Doesn't matter if it's our bed, his bed, the guest bedroom, whatever. My wife has just been taking him to bed with her when she goes(she goes to bed early, gets up at 5am for work), and...
  31. Joeboo

    College Football 2016-2017 Season

    Where is Foggy and what have you done with him?
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    Home buying thread

    I have no background whatsoever in finance, but could someone explain this to me... Why is the interest paid up front on your average home loan? Why isn't the division between interest and principle even over the life of the loan? For instance, if you have a $200,000 house loan for 30...
  33. Joeboo

    College Football 2016-2017 Season

    Kenneth Starr reportedly fired as Baylor president amid football team sexual assault scandal - The Washington Post
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    Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

    AT&T Begins Capping Broadband Users Today | DSLReports, ISP Information AT&T says customers on U-Verse tiers with speeds between 768 Kbps and 6 Mbps will now face a 300 GB cap; customers on U-Verse tiers of speeds between 12 Mbps and 75Mbps will see a 600 GB cap; and customers on speeds...
  35. Joeboo

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    My go-to foods for fiber, without killing myself eating nothing but vegetables is oatmeal(love it, especially with a little brown sugar mixed in) and whole wheat pasta noodles. Peas and Lentils and Beans are all fine and good, but I can't bring myself to eat them every single day, whereas...
  36. Joeboo

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    My grandparents, back in the 80s (they were probably in their 70s at the time) attempted to make home made pizza for me and a couple other grandkids that were spending the weekend with them. Obviously, they had never eaten pizza in their entire lives but somehow knew it was something that kids...
  37. Joeboo

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    I think Brienne is fucked. She's going to walk right into a trap in the Riverlands. Littlefinger needs to get rid of Brienne to have any chance of gettting Sansa back on his side, Brienne is in the way. Sansa not mentioning that her Blackfish info came from Littlefinger is a HUGE detail...
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    Desktop Computers

    So it's probably safe to say that RAM may play a more important role in performance going forward, as resolutions increase and cards increase in power. Current cards at 1080p do next to nothing, but that looks to change.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Five Guys has breakfast? When did this happen?