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    Owning and maintaining an inground pool.

    would love a pool, my parents have a pool and i use it constantly. my parents pool: 10" thick 16'x32' Concrete.. with a liner -have never had a leak- in the pool since my dad installed it 35ish years ago. the pipes however......
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    Routers & Other Networking Stuff

    grabbed the rb951g router to give it a shot,. it is about the same price as the netgear one i am using right now. update 7/9: Router Arrived today. first impression -it's small but feels real solid, case looks well made, i have NOT plugged it in as of yet due to not wanting to have to...
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    Tablets

    the Nook HD+ is a low/mid tier tablet. VERY well priced for what you get for 150/180 dollars(i'd get the one for 150 and spend the other 30 on a 32gig microsdcard). full google store, etc. the cpuisa bit weak for the screen size but for web browsing & watching video's/hulu+/amazon video(via...
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    Weather

    TORNADO warning in essex county MA going on right now,,,we don't get those Often my phone did the warning signal and i was like wtf is that sound....then had to check to see if i have my weather location set right torrential downpours in the merrimack valley,
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    Tablets

    i mentioned they extended the sale, i bought one, it is great Seriously Rooting the tablet takes 5 minutes a microsd card and a microsdcard reader goto xda devs nook hd+ forum go here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2062613 follow directions. it took me 5 minutes to...
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    Tablets

    also check to see if the cord has a break in it.
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    Wheel of Time series

    i hated Matt until book umm 3? once he was cured of the taint of the Dagger Lan was second best at the fight vs Damondred D: who the are you? L: i'm the man that is going to kill you. they fight yadda yadda yadda
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    Wheel of Time series

    duplicate post for some reason....
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    Wheel of Time series

    nynaeve ended up being my 3rd favorite char. Matt>Lan>Nynaeve>everyone else in all honesty i think Matt would kick Lan's ass in a real fight. Lan is a badass motherfucker though. Matt just Wins because he is the Gambler. As for Series Length...7 books tops would have been a...
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    Tablets

    i stream h264 720p files over wifi to my tablet all the time with Zero problems if it is encoded correctly and you have a good connection i am using umm wireless N i think. mx video plays them via their hd+ codec like butter. (i don't do 1080p due to my tablet not being a 1080p tablet, i use...
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    Smartphones

    i just attempted to upgrade my work's cellphone. what a fiasco. some information, we have verizon, since it is a family company we got the family plan for 4 phones back ~2003ish when nextel (something like that) the company that did the push to talk phones got bought out. our 4 phones...
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    Parent Thread

    ahh speech problem.. unless he has a medical defect preventing the forming of words tongue/mouth positioning, it should resolve "soon"(tm) it'll be fine, all kids are different your son will just take a bit longer than average. not a big deal, like i said my son really never spoke in...
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    Parent Thread

    chaos which is why i said every kid is different ymmv (your milage my vary) some kids take to the no pants/bottomless thing, some don't.
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    Parent Thread

    IF you are worried about speaking, get his hearing evaluated while he hear sounds he may be slightly hearing impaired. my 8yr old also did not talking until he was ~3ish(now he won't shut up) my 8yr old boy has a speech impediment/issue. we did the whole hearing check, specialists etc, there...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    if they had kept the drm then fleshed out the family plan as stated, the meltdowns would have been EPIC. that said, there is nothing preventing them from just doing the demo thing as a standard GOLD perk. not sure you want call of halo titanfall 12? download the full game and play it for an...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    If i get the Xbox 1, i am getting a cheap ass white noise generator and a picture frame to go in front of the camera. when i want to use the xbox -i'd be using it as a game machine/bluray player in the living room. white noise speaker right next to the mic, picture frame in front of camera-...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    they were getting hammered by the media. military personnel were slamming it, etc. polls had sony winning lime 90% of the voting.. glad this changed, but the initial damaged was done.
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    Tablets

    i am assuming you are meaning streaming "server" not media player correct? media player -MX Video player is imo the best of the bunch. media streaming- got me -sorry, i just stream the other way, from my computer/router to my tablet. i use the readyshare usb plug on my router for most of...
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    Tablets

    oh he knows how i can get him free stuff couple of things, i had not looked at the hd+ previously 1- they sell a adaptor to HDMI plug so you can plug it into pretty much any tv with hdmi- step mom got that - nice 2- the cover she got- nook branded, the tablet senses when the cover is open...
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    Parent Thread

    we used pampers. you will go through what ~6 diapers a day, and they will stink, and are inconvenient due to having to clean out the shit then wash, dry, etc. disposable diapers, get a good diaper pail/liner combination. change diaper, put in pail, forget about it until pail full, seal...
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    Parent Thread

    BEDTIMES...oh so much fun. basically make a routine, make it constant, make it the same, every night i have 3 kids - the oldest no longer has a routine since he will be 12, i still put him to bed but not any set times anymore- sometimes he is helping with an older raid etc. the 2...
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    Tablets

    my stepmom got my father a nook hd+ today. so tomorrow i get to set it up for him.
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    Playstation 4

    from living thru the past few years... this generation of consoles, the roles have swapped last gen sony was arrogant as fuck and got screwed over- initially at least- price, comments by officials etc this gen, MS is EXACTLY LIKE SONY WAS...price, comments by officials etc. plus the...
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    Tablets

    if anyone is interested the Nook Tablets are ON SALE right now the 16gig 10" hd+ is 150 until the 16th. 32gig is 180. 7" version is 130.
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    NHL 2012-13 - Half Season Thread

    go bruins :P
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    E3 2013 June 11-13

    any of you watch the full trailer for the tech demo Dark Sorcerer? its Hilarious. i'd love a RPG/game done in that style of humor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqeuHGESZBA edit in reply to vaclav below. nope its just a tech demo. the devs said they are doing something ELSE with...
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    New Super Smash Bros. for 3DS/Wii U

    my kids are going to play the fuck out of smash bros u...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    no not quite same specs same CPU yes, but Sony's is more traditional-MS has Eram(or something like that) on the die to make it more expensive Sony has a more powerful GPU (~1/3rd more powerful) Ram wise- Both have 8gig ram, however MS went with ddr3 ram, Sony did Gddr5 ram(much faster)...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    rumor has ps4 @ three sku' s, 399,499,599.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    foddon what does that battlelog me?
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    the ps4 comes in at 400 or less and it's basically game over.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    tenks recap on the One: once a day checkin online- if you go without the internet for more than 24hrs, you CANNOT play any game. if you loginto your account at a friends house this changes to once an HR checkin. right now there is NO way for video game rentals for the One. right now...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    sony is at 9 pm eastern nintendo is 10AM eastern tomorrow morning for their direct, no "conference" perse
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    500 bucks way too high imo. now, Sony's Turn, hope they come in at 400 or under.
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    E3 2013 June 11-13

    also assume any game shown if they do not say Exclusively for the xbox one, it's coming to the ps4. battlefield 4 just crashed...rofl
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    E3 2013 June 11-13

    that max game looked cute.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    true, only time will tell but CBOAT said the DRM is worse than we thought, requiring gold to play,,,would be worse than we thought. like i said before the One is not a game console, its a media computer that can play games, exactly like a pc can do-and MS seems to be treating it like that the...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    latest DRM rumor rumor update by a few reliable posters has a live subscription being mandatory. no subscription= no games playable. not sure if this means silver or gold, but the posters seemed to imply silver is going dodo, gold only, which,,,costs what 10 a month? being online i can see...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Neogaf just has a post by Cboat- from reactions(i never heard of the guy but apparently Everything he has said- ever- has come true videogame wise) the one's drm was PLANNED FROM THE START by microsoft- they went to the publishers, not the other way around. and it is worse than we know right...