GameSpot's history of Mega Man

fan of the original NES? fan of Mega Man?

GameSpot has written a little feature called "The History of Mega Man"

you can read it HERE. (removed)

i use to like the Mega Man games... well, starting with the second at least. when i first played the first one, i didnt really "get it" (it was a rental, and i found most stages too hard to get through, and never got to practice much before returning it). when the second one came out, a friend got it, and me and him put a lot of play time into it. he then got the first one, and we put a lot of play time into that. i rented the third, he bought the 4th, rented the 5th, etc, etc. we started playing the "X" series on the SNES and PSX after that.

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One very good thing about iTunes...

First, you can listen to 30 seconds of all their songs for free.

This is the cool part of the service:
Basically, search for what you want, listing to it (if you've never heard it before or aren't sure if you selected the correct song). Once you know what you want - go load up Kazaa and download the full song.

iTunes is a great little app to browse and sample music (its like going to Best Buy where they have those headphones set up to listing to some CDs).

http://www.apple.com/itunes/

Of course, if you can afford it, just pay the $0.99 for the song you want. I don't think I would pay unless the songs are about $0.49 each.

Searching for "Gravity Kills" returned Zero results, which pissed me off. There are two CDs of theirs I was considering buying soon, and I wanted to see how easily I could get one song for $0.99 (to test the whole "buy a song download" concept, and see how their format works).

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iTunes for Windows is out...

i know a lot of people out there are fans of music and downloading music.

one of the most successful "legit" music downloading service was iTunes for Mac. today iTunes for Windows finally came out.

you can check it out at apple.com/itunes. it is Free to download and use.

also - its more than just a music store, its a media player, kinda like Windows Media Player or Winamp. it has built in streaming music (you dont have to pay for it, its free), visualizations, and some other stuff.

it also has the slick MacOS X interface, which a lot of people like.

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oh wait, i got something now...

it pisses me off when computer hardware breaks.. i have a 40 Gig hard drive here (Samsung), and Windows keeps saying it has bad blocks. CPU use hits 100% when trying to read some files off the drive. i've done low formats (zero writes) to it several times, and im still ending up with bad sectors.

i also have a generic 30 gig (actually has a big lable on it saying GENERIC, as if it were a brand name). it seems to work fine - until there is a lot banging sound from within the drive. then the computer seems to hang while waiting for the hard drive to respond. after rebooting, i usually get some "hard drive failure" error.

if anyone wants to donate a (WORKING) IDE hard drive in the 10-80 gig range, i would gladly accept it.

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i locked my keys in my car today.....

my window was open just a tad, enough for me to stick my hand half way in it... but certainly not enough to get my arm in it.

i was in the middle of a pizza delivery, i had just got out of my car to take a pizza to someone's door. when i got back to my car, the door was locked. that surprised me, because my door doesnt open up unless its already unlocked (pulling the handle doesnt unlock it). so it was unlocked when i opened the door, but somehow was locked when i closed it. i looked around to see if i saw anyone (one fear ive had when i leave my car unlocked and running when doing a delivery is that someone might run up to either steal my car or lock the door to fuck with me).

i was at the customer's house for a long time. i had made a phone call to work saying that i was locked out of my car (and i still had a delivery to go). the guy who lived there said he use to be a cop, and he had this device that unfolded that he stuck inside the door to try to unlock it that way, but he didn't have any luck. i took off my belt and tried to hook it around the little handle to try to roll the window down some more, but that didn't work either.

i found out that i could pull my window up, and out some - just enough to fit my arm inside to reach the lock. i dont know if that damaged anything, but the window seems to work fine.

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