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Birth by Sleep Strategy to beating remnant of vanitas.

Aqua and Ven, use fire surge and thunder surge. Some healing would be good. And of course rolling around in most of his attacks to void them.

Post by: Kubo, Jan 2, 2011 in forum: Kingdom Hearts Help
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So here I am on my brand new computer!

Is it silent?

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How Facebook eclipsed Google in 2010

I'm not talking about which one is bigger. I am talking about how people are becoming more and more addicted to the internet.

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america?

This thread was really beautiful a few pages ago T_T

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Meteors will light up the winter sky

The Quadrantids, one of the best but least-known meteor showers, will shine in the new year.

The annual Quadrantid meteor shower is one of the yearâ€™s best. In 2011, this shower will be especially good because it reaches its peak the evening of January 3, within 8 hours of New Moon. So, not only will you see bright meteors easily, but youâ€™ll also count quite a few fainter â€œshooting stars.â€

Astronomers predict that the Quadrantids will peak around 8 p.m. EST January 3. That time works best for Europe, but North American meteor-watchers should also keep an eye out because predicting meteor showers isnâ€™t an exact science yet. New Moon occurs at 4:03 a.m. EST January 4, so no distracting moonlight will pollute the sky.

Youâ€™ll need a clear, dark sky to see more than just a few Quadrantids. â€œDarkâ€ means at least 40 miles from the lights of a large city. You wonâ€™t need a telescope or even binoculars â€” in fact, the eyes alone work best because they provide the largest field of view.

Astronomy magazine contributing editor Raymond Shubinski, who has observed more than 100 meteor showers, offers an important point: â€œComfort counts when observing meteor showers,â€ Shubinski says. â€œMost importantly, you must keep warm. Observing is not a physical activity â€” youâ€™ll just be standing or sitting.â€

When youâ€™re ready to start observing, set up a lawn chair, preferably one that reclines. To see the maximum number of meteors, just look overhead. Glancing around wonâ€™t hurt anything.

Shubinski advises observers to keep a running tally of meteors. â€œBy doing that,â€ he says, â€œyouâ€™ll get a good idea of how your site compares with observing sites around the world.â€

How many Quadrantids will you see? Most years under clear, moonless conditions, observers count 120 meteors per hour from a dark site. Thatâ€™s an average of two shooting stars a minute!

The showerâ€™s radiant lies in the northern part of the constellation BoÃ¶tes the Herdsman, which will lie low in the eastern sky at midnight and overhead at dawn. The Quadrantids got their name from a defunct constellation, Quadrans Muralis the Mural Quadrant, which used to occupy this region of sky.
Quadrantid facts
* The now-extinct constellation Quadrans Muralis the Mural Quadrant originally sat between the right foot of Hercules, the left hand of BoÃ¶tes, and Draco. It represented the mural quadrant of French astronomer JÃ©rome Lalande (1732â€“1807). Lalande used his quadrant to chart some 50,000 stars while at the College de France. French globe-maker J. Fortin introduced Quadrans Muralis as a constellation in his atlas of 1795.

* The Quadrantid meteor shower originated from a near-Earth asteroid named 2003 EH1. Although astronomers classify 2003 EH1 as an asteroid, most believe it to be a dead comet. Observers first recognized the Quadrantids as an annual meteor shower in 1839.

Meteor shower facts
* Meteors are small particles of rock and metal Earth encounters (runs into) during its orbit around the Sun. In space, these particles are â€œmeteoroids.â€ When they burn up in the atmosphere, they are â€œmeteors.â€ If they survive the fiery ordeal of passage through our thick blanket of air and land on Earth, they then become â€œmeteorites.â€

* No known meteorite has come from a meteor shower â€” the particles are too small.

Interesting facts about meteors
* To be visible, a meteor must be within about 120 miles (200 kilometers) of an observer.

* Meteors become visible at an average height of 55 miles (90 km). Nearly all burn up before they reach an altitude of 50 miles (80 km).

* The typical bright meteor is produced by a particle with a mass less than 1 gram and is no larger than a pea.

* The hourly rate on a â€œnon-showerâ€ night is approximately 6 meteors per hour.

* A meteoroid enters the atmosphere at velocities between 50,000 and 165,000 mph (81,000 and 265,000 km/h).
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Thread by: Kubo, Jan 2, 2011, 5 replies, in forum: Current Events
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How Facebook eclipsed Google in 2010

Facebook beat out Google as the No. 1 most-visited site in the United States in 2010, according to Internet analytics firm Hitwise.

How was Facebook able to outplay the former Web champion? And can Google make a comeback in 2011 and beyond?

Let's begin by admitting that the Hitwise data doesn't represent the whole truth. For starters, Hitwise only measures unique visitors in the United States. What's more, Hitwise measures sites on a per domain basis: If the analytics firm were to include Google-owned YouTube in its calculations, Google's network of websites would outrank Facebook properties.

Nonetheless, there's a tectonic shift at work here: Facebook, once easily dismissed as the next social networking fad, has seemingly discovered Google's weak spots.

What are they, and can Google regain ground here?

Identity Wars

The first area in which Facebook has bested Google is online identity. Remember the days when trying out a new website required entering your name, username, password and other details into a form? Now sites can opt to use your Facebook account for one-click signup, making life easier for both websites and their users.

Facebook was able to make this move because the service was founded around the principle of real names. While this may have slowed Facebook's growth in its early days, the company now owns a massive database of more than 500 million identities, most of them real.

As a result, Facebook is becoming the de facto identity system for the Web. The social optimization service Gigya claims that Facebook accounts for 46% of website logins versus Google's 17%.

Social struggles

Where else is Google behind? How about "social," one of the biggest Web trends of the past five years? Understanding the connections between people is Facebook's core competency, but Google has struggled to compete in the social networking arena.

Google Buzz, widely considered a flop after a highly anticipated launch this year, unsuccessfully tried to turn Gmail contacts into social networking friends. Gmail users, it turned out, didn't need yet another social network, and didn't see their email contacts as synonymous with their real-life friends. That's a major hurdle for all of Google's social efforts: The company doesn't possess a "social graph" of our real-world connections.

More troubling is that social gaming, with such Facebook hits as FarmVille, has become a megatrend over the past few years. Google has few inroads here.

Google is expected to roll out a "social layer" uniting its Web properties in 2011, but the company has played down claims that it will launch a full social network, and expectations are low for Google's next social foray. Google could change its social fortunes through an acquisition, however: The purchase of social messaging service Twitter is the obvious move.

Search Rivalry?

Google is synonymous with search and continued to reign supreme in 2010. Surely this is the one area in which the company can maintain its lead in the coming years.

Google would indeed prove difficult to unseat in search, and yet Facebook may eventually gain a little ground here, too. Not only does Facebook possess a large database of every users' personal preferences, but its increasingly popular "Like" buttons allow members to express interest in particular Web pages.

If the company felt so inclined, Facebook might be able to provide a search engine that delivers highly personalized results. Better still: Facebook may stockpile enough personal information to recommend relevant content without the need for a search box.

Such a move is unlikely to unseat Google overnight, but this means of social discovery could lessen our dependence on search engines in the long haul.

Google's big gains: Mobile, video

Facebook is only "beating" Google if we limit the playing field to the Web. But in the rapidly growing mobile sector, Facebook is a minor player.

While the leading social network is attempting to bring social features to phones, Google owns an entire operating system: Android. What's more, Android is spreading like wildfire and proving to be a real challenger to Apple's iOS. Facebook, meanwhile, doesn't even have an iPad app.

What about watching online video, one of the Web's most popular activities? Yes, Google wins there, too: As the owner of YouTube, the company serves up the vast majority of online video views. In neither mobile nor video does Facebook look to be a threat to Google's position.

Google will always retain the lead, meanwhile, in professional life: From collaborative document creation to enterprise email, it's hard to see Facebook challenging Google's role in the workplace.

An uncertain victory

In 2010, Facebook challenged Google where it is weakest: Online identity and the social Web. Given that "social" is the Web's fastest-growing trend, it's hardly surprising that Facebook has benefited from the rising tide.

And yet Facebook only outranks Google on that very narrow metric: U.S. Web traffic. As mobile operating systems and app stores grow in popularity, is Web traffic really an accurate measurement of an Internet company's success?

Oh, and let's not forget that Google still crushes Facebook on the number that really counts: Revenue.
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Humanity is one step closer to destruction.

Thread by: Kubo, Jan 2, 2011, 9 replies, in forum: Discussion
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L: The Prologue to Death Note - Rasen no Wana for DS

A friend from Japan sent me this game a few days ago. It's for the DS, and it's a good game, even though I cannot understand much of the text.
But I need some help.
I am in a building, and I must diffuse a bomb in the 3rd floor, the bomb next to the door that leads to the Elevator Hall. I can only go up to step 2/3, and I don't know what to do next. I tried turning the switch, freezing the batteries, cutting the wires (lol yeah I have a fetish for exploding bombs. I once used a hammer to diffuse the bomb- didn't go exactly as planned xD), but nothing is working.
If anyone has played the game and knows what to do, or if anyone has some info or sources about it like a translation guide, I would appreciate it much if he could help me out.

Thread by: Kubo, Jan 2, 2011, 0 replies, in forum: The Spam Zone
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Post in this thread to get another one...

Post in this thread to get another one http://www.kh-vids.net/showthread.php?106714-KH-Vids.net-Presents-Pins/page8 Be fast, there are only 3 left :P

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So Senor. I don't see any pins other than the Premium one. >_> Didn't you post in that thread,...

So Senor. I don't see any pins other than the Premium one. >_> Didn't you post in that thread, or complete the Castle?

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When we gonna play WoW together man? =/

When we gonna play WoW together man? =/

Profile Post by Kubo for spdude, Jan 1, 2011
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That's what I said too when I saw that.

That's what I said too when I saw that.

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Hip hip hooooooraaaaaaay!

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[spoiler][/spoiler]

[spoiler][/spoiler]

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What was the last movie you watched?

Die Hard 2. Awesome movie :D

Post by: Kubo, Jan 1, 2011 in forum: The Playground
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america?

Mr. Brightside said: ↑

@Kubo: Aside from the fact that a lot of the women in Greece have a hideous taste and look like wh*res you can't judge a whole nation by saying things like "Italian guys are hot" or "Norwegians are fugly" Seriously, you just can't >.>
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You can, if you are talking about the good-looking side. :P

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SEÃ‘OR said: ↑

There's gotta be some hot latina/brazilian chicks, right?
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Well yeah :d But I'm talking about the average. The Brazilan/latinos have their strong points at their body characteristics, but the greek girls are better as a whole image.
And there's also the Italian girls. :D

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Well English girls are not half-bad IMO, but I prefer ours over them. Actually, I prefer our girls over any other girls in the world.

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Don't listen to them Rat.

(That's an english ass)

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Well yeah Rat. There are always exceptions.

Post by: Kubo, Jan 1, 2011 in forum: The Spam Zone
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Yeah. And not a lot of height. You know what they say. Tall girls are for the parade, short ones for bed.

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