-Considering ram is so cheap right now I might upgrade to 8gb. How is Windows7 64bit? I remember XP 64bit being quite unsupported software wise.

-Actually considering to buy a TV (Don't own one!). I enjoy watching movies a lot but honestly, all the TV tech is mumbo jumbo to me. I had a quick look at some TVs today and most of the LED models in the same price range don't seem to differ that much image quality wise but greatly in design - the samsungs looking very nicely though
Any pointers here?

-Do you own a SSD? What's your take after working with them?

Considering mindmapping some studying material and topics for my job.

There are a couple of broad topics and the content of each topic can go pretty deep. Each topic structured in such a way that I could make layers for each topic which would correspond with the depth of other topics. As such I thought it could be interesting to map the layers, and the detail of each layer - however far it goes - as depth (z axis if you will)... if that makes any sense?! What would be most important for me is that I could insert documents in the different topics... So I guess it would be rather extensive, almost database like.

As such, I was wondering if anyone had experience with 3d mind mapping software. I had a quick look and there don't seem to be too many products out, or none that seem particular striking. Any suggestions? Or do you have some good mind mapping experience and think the whole 3d thing would be a waste of time?

Anyone watching this?

I am not a boxing fan. Neither have I ever seen a full boxing match. But I thought this time around, I should give it a try. Especially because this fight is huge and I think the Klitschko brothers are very likable people. So obviously I know who Klitschko is and admittedly, I have no clue who Haye is.

I saw atdhe.net has a stream for it. I hope it will work. German TV also showing it, no idea if I wanna hear German commentary....

What's your take on the fight (how entertaining will it be)? Who will win? Who do you want to win?

Not sure if such post here is frowned upon (legal wise).

Anyhow, what sports streamsites-/programs do you use?
I kinda enjoy watching tennis lately, but obviously the awesome Austrian TV channel ORF only ever shows games if Juergen Melzer (World No.11) is playing...

Same goes for football btw, I think the Champion's League Final was not shown either... nor any other Interesting Champion's League games D:

Probably gonna end up dead eventually like the bear guy. But the depth of his interactions with the lions is pretty mindboggling, crazy, fascinating... etc.

Always fascinating watching these guys. I think it's one of the most nuts things to do. Don't know if one can embed a vimeo video, so the link will have to do:

http://vimeo.com/18150336

I used to be quite the movie enthusiast. Went to the cinema a lot, was excited about new releases and waited for them in anticipation. But these last couple of years I've been pretty bored with most of the western stuff. There was a fair share of good movies no doubt, but I have the feeling it were a lot less than back in the day. Maybe this is what we call 'acquired taste'? Or I am just getting old.

Either way, I've started to look into some Asian movies these past couple of days, mostly but not exclusively Chinese. I find them quite entertaining. Probably because it's different and I watch them in the original Audio. I also find that Chinese movies are usually more polished than Korean/Japanese ones. Is this just a subjective observation?

I honestly haven't seen that many yet.

EDIT: Sorting these movies in alphabetical order, links to IMDB as well as origin (Flag). I will stick to the English names where possible!
(*) means I would recommend it
(-) means I wouldn't recommend it.
Anything without either of those I consider worthwhile, but not something I would think of first if someone were to ask me for recommendations.
These are subject to change as I get to see more movies. No need to try argue with my choices, I don't care :)

Seen:
Battle Royale (*)
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (*)
Fearless (*)
Fist of Legend
Hard Boiled (*)
Hero (*)
Ichi the Killer
Infernal Affairs 1 (*)
Infernal Affairs 2
Infernal Affairs 3
Kung Fu Hustle (*)
Liar Game
Liar Game: Final Stage
Shaolin Soccer
Old Boy (*)
Ong Bak 1 (*)
Ong Bak 2
Red Cliff I
Red Cliff II
Reign of Assassins (*)
The Killer (*)
The Protector (-)
Warlords


Seen from Recommendations:
Audition
Chocolate
Fudoh: The New Generation
Go Lala Go
Goemon
He was cool
House of Flying Daggers
I saw the Devil (*)
Ip Man
Ip Man 2
Joint Security Area (*)
Little Big Soldier
Men Suddenly in Black
My Sassy Girl (*)
My Tutor Friend (*)
My Wife is a Gangster 3
Please teach me English
Protege(*)
Secret (*)
Sex is Zero (*)
Shinobi
Sophie's Revenge
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance(-)
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
The Chaser (*)
The Good, the Bad, the Weird
The Host (-)
The Shinjuku Incident
Thirst (-)
Turn Left Turn Right (-)
Versus


About to watch:
2046
Shinboru
Liar (cannot find this =/)
Ashes of Time
Chungking Express
Flashpoint (cannot find this in Original audio =/)
Musa
Chungking Express
The Sword of Doom
Break Up Club


Currently looking for:
Light Romance
Romcom

Currently I prefer to watch QL, SC and SC2 streams rather than actually playing the games. Basically, I am bored with games. The future also looks very bleak. Having played a variety of multiplayer games on a regular basis - Starcraft, Diablo2, UT99, Q3, WC3, WoW, Guild Wars, QL - I find myself extremely unimpressed and indifferent with most upcoming titles. The only games I am remotely interested in are Diablo3 and Guild Wars 2.


What about you?

Twice in one day? Seriously now...

Where - if at all - can I buy Chocodiles in Europe?

Watched like 2 TV series where they mention Chocodiles and I got interested.

Just watched this movie. I wish I hadn't.

Seriously, wtf is the point of this movie? There's so much cgi they could have as well abandoned the real actors. The cgi is also so obvious which makes it that much worse. It does look impressive at times, but that's about it. Not to mention the ridiculous narrow escapes which occur at pretty much every minute of the movie.

It's neither funny, exciting or entertaining

Was reading a National Geographic article about Somalia and it mentioned the Failed States Index and an excerpt of the rankings. Thought it would be interesting to see the entire list so I looked it up:

HTML (including criteria explanations):
http://www.fundforpeace.org/web/index.php?opt...Itemid=140

PDF:
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/images/090624_2009_final_data.pdf

Random snippets:
USA has a surprisingly (for me at least) bad Human Rights score.
Singapore has a really bad Delegitimization of the State score considering its overall placing.
Netherlands: Didn't expect such a high Group Grievance score. I know there is some tension though.
Uruguay and Chile: Expected an overall worse placing.

I guess some of the surprises for me were due to not informing myself.

Let the country bashing begin!!!

I received 3 more invitations today.

Leave your e-mail address. First come first serve. No anonymous users or users who registered today.

There will probably be many others who also got another 3 invites to share..

EDIT: I am out of invitations now. Other people may have unused invites, so check for comments and reply to. those specifically

Just got back from the bathroom. So I was wondering.

Let me know

With this year's movie line up being extremely disappointing with rare exception tossed in I find myself returning to entertaining oldies. I always enjoyed Jackie Chan movies (maybe rush hour not so much).
Though he made so many movies, I don't know where to continue. Does anyone have any recommendations?

So far I've seen Drunken Master 1&2, Police Story 1-4 recently.
Obviously I've seen Rush Hour 1-3 and Forbidden Kingdom as well at some point

I am sure I've seen many others which I don't know the name to. One in particular one is with the drunken teacher from Drunken Master 1 where they only drink cold tea.

Did anyone here get invited? First impressions?
Friend been crying on my shoulder that he wants to try it. i saw the first half of the video presentation a few weeks ago. Sounded somewhat interesting.

Discuss.

As the topic says, what country (and maybe where in that country) would you move to if you could and why specifically? Reasons not to be taken too seriously. If you say you wanna move to Hawaii, not work, drink cocktails and score chicks on the beach all day long, cool with me. It doesn't have to be very viable.

My choices:

Australia - I haven't been there, but it's kind of a childhood dream. Also, whenever I meet Australians, they are always very forthcoming, fun-loving and chilled out. And everyone I know who has been there says it's awesome.

Japan - Well, crazy society, advanced tech. Awesome environment (what's left of it). Can ski there too! Interesting history/culture.

South Korea - Don't know much, seems like a supercharged Japan. Friend who has been there says the food is good, everyone is extremely friendly. And plenty of hot/cute women there. Very clean. Bit of a Utopia

Mauritius - Sun, beaches, fun.


Oh yeah, I realize Hawaii is not country. Also, obviously stunt.us already lives in the greatest place so you don't need to tell us!

It's been pretty much exactly 3 years since I've upgraded my system and I think it's about time to get some new hardware. However, I haven't followed the hardware market at all since then. Sure, I can read some benchmarks, but I won't be able to pick out what's important for me as end-user. Could someone shed some light into the current market?

Especially the i5 vs i7 is confusing me (probably not opting for i7 anyway, as it's way too expensive).
How are AMD CPUs these days? Specifically in terms of power consumption and heat dissipation?

Scenario when I got the laptop:

Laptop, 1 Harddrive, 4 partitions. It looks as follows in the Disk Management:
Disk 0: OEM1 Partition , Parimary Boot, Primary, OEM2
OS: Vista

Formated C: and installed windows 7. I wanted to Partition C: further, but I couldn't because I am limited to 4 partitions per drive which were used up with the stupid OEM partitions. So I deleted both OEM partitions and I now have 2 unallocated partitions plus C: and D:

Now I could just use those Unallcoated partitions, but they are only 10gb (OEM1) and 3gb(OEM2) in size. So I extended D: and it merged with OEM2. However, I can not extend C: or D: any further leaving me with OEM1 just sitting there wasting space and taking up a partition slot. How do I work around this?

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

http://www.20min.ch/digital/dossier/clips/story/26097499

Pretty fucking good.

Wondering what BitTorrent software you are using? If you're happy with it? Why or why not?

I've been using utorrent since forever, but lately it has been getting on my nerves. Whenever I add a new torrent, it usually won't start downloading. Even after a long wait (speaking hours here). So I first have to close utorrent, wait for it to actually close (keeps running in processes for another 15 secs or so). Then run utorrent again. Then the new torrent will usually work. It's not a particularly new problem either. Had it for years, but never bothered me that much before.

Anyone got decent software alternatives or even a way to fix this issues?

Danke.

Seriously, what's the point of a BROWSER game if it disables the mouse every time I go into windowed mode to BROWSE? The in_mouse -1/ 1 / restart fix only works every now and then if I a get lucky.

P.s. lol @ QL rail

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyJQqDjNSIk&feature=popular

No idea how to embed videos.

Quite the ironic criticism of the God Card there. Also - "surprisingly" - only white people in the studio (or that's all they showed xD ).

And funnily enough, no actual facts about the health care system, only personal attacks on Obama? (not sure if this is the whole interview?).

Any thoughts?

Dare I even ask on ESR. I have a couple of invites left for the beta....

For those who don't know, it's a DotA remake except it is a standalone game, own engine etc. Just leave your e-mail address or PM it.

Edit: None left. Didn't give to anonymous because I'd rather give it to someone from ESR than someone who google'ed for keys! Maybe Liam has some left!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXfHLUlZf4

as the title says, bored as hell, just looking to play some 1v1.
I am not really good

sinneah at gmx.de for msn

later

Might be pretty old, but entertaining nontheless:

http://explosm.net/comics/

later

So I arrived in Vienna 3 weeks ago and I rented this room I have to be out of by the end of the month. I've looked at about 6 different rooms/flats in the last 2 days and every time at least 30 people show up to check out the room which makes it a "who-can-crawl-up-the-landlord's-ass-the-furthest-and-fastest"-game.

To my demise, I somehow feel that by the end of the month I will not have found a place to stay and will end up on the street D: I think I should take some people's advice and impregnate some austrian girl to take me in :O goddamn this place !!!!

Interestingly enough, other than at College, I don't see too many Austrians, like half the people I meet are either German or from somewhere else...

high five for first journal post, felt like ranting :O