Have you ever actually had to use or provide support for Entourage? I do admit it has improved somewhat in Office 2004 but it is still pretty much a giant piece of crap. I would take Outlook over Entourage, even if it was a clunky direct port to OSX that took an extra minute to load and used more system resources than it should. I'm not a big fan of Outlook either...
Absolutely, but the fact is this is the conclusion most people draw when they see two men behaving in ways that a man and a woman do when they are a couple. The fact is if two men hold hands in public in many places in America, perhaps even MOST places, people will at the very least stare at them. I challenge anyone who thinks that people of the same gender holding hands is not an expression of homosexuality in American culture to find someone of the same gender and walk around town or go sit in a restaurant while holding their hand and see what happens.
Probably that would be covered under homosexuality but if you could make it clear in the context of the game that men rubbing each others nipples was not homosexual then that is totally OK in Oklahoma...
Replace one with a boy and I think most people would assume that the man holding his hand was his father or brother. Replace one with an autistic man and most people would probably assume that the non-autistic man was his caregiver.
In many contexts holding hands with another person is a public expression that you and that person are a couple (i.e. of your sexuality) - if that person happens to be the same gender as you then it is an expression of your homosexuality. If you see two young men in a fancy restaurant holding hands over the table are you going to think they are just really good friends or are they on a date? I would be shocked to find anyone who didn't think they were on a date (and thus expressing their sexuality through the holding of hands). This law against "violent" video games clearly bans the depiction of these sorts of expressions of homosexuality. Someone posted a joke comment about a Brokeback Mountain RPG being banned by this law but they are absolutely correct - even without any actual depiction of graphic sexual content the game would fall victim to this law because it would still depict homosexuality.
Um - if you see two men walking through the park and they are holding hands like a couple are they or are they not expressing homosexuality? If I see you on the streets holding another mans hands you are totally gay in my book (at least in America - this is apparently normal behavior in other cultures).
This law explicitly bans depictions of homosexuality in games, it specifically singles out homosexuality seperate from other sexual behaviors which can be either hetereosexual and homosexual - how much clearer can it be?
I have to use 802.11g on my desktop because it's upstairs and I don't feel like running cables through the walls - I play games on it regularly have never had a single issue with performance. There is always 1 and sometimes as many as 3 other 802.11 networks overlapping and on occasion the microwave gets used while I am gaming. The only thing that ever caused a noticeable degradation of signal strength was my 2.4ghz phone - even with the lowered signal strength though my latency was completely fine, my total bandwidth dropped a little (i.e. if I had a download going at 300k/s it would drop down to 200k/s until the phone was turned off) - actual pings in games were never noticeably effected. Comparing ping times from before and after I moved (i.e. wired and then wireless) there is absolutely no difference.
Sad but true - a few years ago a friend wanted to buy a new PC and had me come along to the local mom and pop computer store. I lurked nearby while the sleazy salesman did his song and dance, when he finished I came over and asked a few pointed questions, next thing I know he's started a full on argument about whether a Celeron can do floating-point operations or not! It was incredibly absurd because the guy clearly did not know what the hell he was talking about and until he started getting agitated had just been the normal sleazy saleman kind of guy trying to make a sale to my friend. So finally to end the argument he yells to the back of the shop and this dirty fat man lumbers out, he says: "this is our lead technician who knows everything about computers - can a Celeron do floating point operations?" The huge dirty "techician" looks at me and says "No, don't buy a Celeron - it can't do floating point operations and is worthless".
That company went out of business about two years later.
cool - I ran into psychic guards for the first time and it seriously pissed me off, I had robbed a house like 20 minutes earlier - not a single person was around then and I only took like 4 cold coins, then I was outside of a city checking out the stables with a guard suddenly ran up to me and took me away for thievery - it's awesome someone has fixed this already! I still can't figure out why they made the guards so unrealistic...
are there any mods which make sneaking more realistic? I've had situations where an NPC "locks on" and no matter what I do I can't sneak without them knowing where I am after this has happened - even if they can't physically make their way to where I am and I get way out of their realistic area of awareness and then sneak back up on them. I'd like to be able to take off running and lose anyone chasing me by sneaking around.
I called him out because he is saying Zonk is some kind of a shill, I have personal knowledge about the subject as I used to know Zonk and can attest to him not being any kind of a shill. Gamespy does have serious issues, that is a valid point - making accusations re:Zonnk which I know to be false is not valid, my comment was intended to point that out. The fact that I have been systematically troll rated for making this point IS mod abuse. Perhaps my initial response WAS off-topic, that I could see as a possibly valid moderation. I was certainly not trolling though, merely pointing out that based on my knowledge of Zonk the allegations made in the OP were false.
We're treading into OFFTOPIC territory though. I don't care personally since I've got karma to burn but seeing people try and talk shit about someone I know doesn't deserve it pisses me off, and then getting trolled for calling someone out on their BS (which was modded up!) has pissed me off even further.
Zonk is no shill. We went to college together and used to work together - he's a really nice guy and totally honest and trustworthy, he's also not afraid to express his opinion! Even though I hadn't seen him in years he still invited my wife and I to his wedding, it was totally touching and we both feel incredibly guilty about not being able to go. Trying to talk shit about Zonk is total bullshit.
I've been seriously thinking about installing that, it seems like most people agree it makes the game a lot better and balances out a lot of the bizzareness that starts happening at higher levels - do you have to start a new game for it to take effect? I'm still really early in the game so it's not that big of a deal but I'd really rather not have to begin again...
WTF is up with the crappy key binding system?! I'm sure there is a way to do it via the console or an.ini/.cfg but I shouldn't have to mess with that - this isn't the quake1 era anymore. I should have a menu that lets me bind whatever functions I want to whatever buttons/keys I want - instead I'm artificially limited to only rebinding certain functions to only the keyboard and anything other than the default settings is kind of wack. Also, what the hell is up with mwheeldown beind bound to 3rd person view? It doesn't even toggle it like R does and there is no option (that I can find anyways) to change this. It's totally bizzare - I can only assume it's yet another stupid bug...
I'm excited that we have so many mods already - what is sad is that people have to waste time creating mods that fix the game. Why aren't the developers doing this? They released a buggy as hell game with several glaring design/balancing/"realism" issues - why do we need a mod to make animals behave correctly? Why do we need mods to fix broken quests? Why do we need mods to fix the screwed up UI? Why do we need mods to fix the stupid inventory system? Why do we have to manually edit.ini files to change obvious performance enhancing settings? Why do we need people creating custom shaders to improve performance on low-end cards? Why do we need people to create improved textures for high-end cards? To me all of these issues illustrate that the development team has some serious problems - they've got their own mods out to add content to the game (that they are charging for!) but they have released a seriously flawed game - what the hell is up with that?
That said, I'm not an RPG fan really but Oblivion is one awesome game - and it does run great on my 2.3ghz A64 w/6600GT, minus all the godamn bugs. And fanboys - don't tell me it is my system! I've got a fresh install of XP, fully patched and updated - Oblivion, HL2, and Firefox are the only programs installed on it - the fact that my entire system locks up if I load any of my saved games without first creating an entirely new game on a product that the developer is already releasing paid expansions for instead of patches is BS.
I actually just saw this yesterday - two adults in the front seats, BOTH of them on cell phones, a brood of little monsters bouncing around in the back seat like they just chugged down a pint of Red Bull. Of course they were driving some giant SUV too fast down a residential street at the time. I probably should have called the police now that I think about it - I think I was just too stunned at the time, it was like seeing one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
I just reinstalled Steam/HL2 - I used to think people's complaints about it were overblown but godamn if it didn't take hours before it was done "updating" everything. It wouldn't go much over 100k down either - why the hell isn't some kind of bittorrent-like bandwidth sharing implemented in Steam?!? Other Steam issues - why don't user profiles contain more info? If I log in to my Steam account it whould remember my favorite servers and load my custom.cfg files - it's a godamn bitch have to recreate my bindings and I have to dig through thousands of servers now to find my favorite ones again.
I hadn't heard about it being for an autonomous gun platform. I watched the show last night and they presented it as purely for supply transports. They specifically mentioned Jessica Lynch and how she was just a truck driver who should never of been exposed to combat. They also mentioned that the DOD want's 1/3rd of their transport trucks to be autonomous within 10 years.
ethics? It's a cell phone company - they're some of the most crooked and dishonest people around. They'll do anything to get your money. (can you tell I'm bitter? I've had nothing but horrible experiences with cell providers).
Generally, the bigger the number and the more letters it has the better it is (GT, GS, and anything with an X or the word ULTRA in it are the best). It gets confusing because sometimes the high-end of one generation are better than the low-end of a newer generation. Basically if you just compare the clock speeds between them higher is almost always going to be better. If the choice is between a 256mb card with a lower speed vs. a 128mb card with a higher speed it's a safe bet to go with the higher speed. If you wanted to stick with AGP a 6800GS or a 6600GT is about the best you can get, I think there is going to be a 7600 that runs on AGP but that's probably the end of the line for AGP right there. Personally I'm going to buy a 6600GT soon (~$140) and wait another year or two before I switch over to PCI-E - by then I should be able to afford a 7800GS or whatever the hell is under $150 by then, they all fall down to the sub-$200 price range eventually.
I'm working on a project to deploy the enterprise version of this software. It is bad-ass! In my testing it is the most effective single piece of antispyware software, occasionally spybot is also need for really bad infections but the vast majority of machines are fully cleaned by Counterspy. The enterprise version lets you deploy an agent to every machine and then remotely control them with as much detail as you want based on customizable policies. I'm still concerned that the active protection mode may cause some issues with other software we have deployed so that's where my testing is focsed now, but the actual cleaning of infections is solid. Definitely worth the ~$10 per seat cost.
I use Ghost & Spybot regularly. I've never seen anything like this happen before. The only time I've seen any issues with corrupt Ghost images is when I image NTFS machines, occasionally those turn out corrupted - they still load, they just take forever. That's pretty rare too and in no way correlates with Spybot scans. Symantec is either stupid or trying to abuse their market position to malign Spybot.
Yeah, that is strange. I spent several months testing a variety of anti-spyware apps - CounterSpy was the best all-around. None of them were perfect of course... CounterSpy combined with Spybot took care of just about everything though.
I've flashed several with HyperWRT - no problems at all. I've got my signal boosted to about 30% higher. Several of my friends have flashed theirs, never heard of anyone have any problems. I have read of people bricking their WRT54's but those were all "I tried to boost the signal 300%" scenarios. It's like a $50 piece of hardware, go for it!
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Have you ever actually had to use or provide support for Entourage? I do admit it has improved somewhat in Office 2004 but it is still pretty much a giant piece of crap. I would take Outlook over Entourage, even if it was a clunky direct port to OSX that took an extra minute to load and used more system resources than it should. I'm not a big fan of Outlook either...
Absolutely, but the fact is this is the conclusion most people draw when they see two men behaving in ways that a man and a woman do when they are a couple. The fact is if two men hold hands in public in many places in America, perhaps even MOST places, people will at the very least stare at them. I challenge anyone who thinks that people of the same gender holding hands is not an expression of homosexuality in American culture to find someone of the same gender and walk around town or go sit in a restaurant while holding their hand and see what happens.
So you're telling me that if you see two men in a nice restaurant holding hands over a table you will not assume that they are gay?
Probably that would be covered under homosexuality but if you could make it clear in the context of the game that men rubbing each others nipples was not homosexual then that is totally OK in Oklahoma...
Replace one with a boy and I think most people would assume that the man holding his hand was his father or brother. Replace one with an autistic man and most people would probably assume that the non-autistic man was his caregiver.
In many contexts holding hands with another person is a public expression that you and that person are a couple (i.e. of your sexuality) - if that person happens to be the same gender as you then it is an expression of your homosexuality. If you see two young men in a fancy restaurant holding hands over the table are you going to think they are just really good friends or are they on a date? I would be shocked to find anyone who didn't think they were on a date (and thus expressing their sexuality through the holding of hands). This law against "violent" video games clearly bans the depiction of these sorts of expressions of homosexuality. Someone posted a joke comment about a Brokeback Mountain RPG being banned by this law but they are absolutely correct - even without any actual depiction of graphic sexual content the game would fall victim to this law because it would still depict homosexuality.
Um - if you see two men walking through the park and they are holding hands like a couple are they or are they not expressing homosexuality? If I see you on the streets holding another mans hands you are totally gay in my book (at least in America - this is apparently normal behavior in other cultures).
This law explicitly bans depictions of homosexuality in games, it specifically singles out homosexuality seperate from other sexual behaviors which can be either hetereosexual and homosexual - how much clearer can it be?
I have to use 802.11g on my desktop because it's upstairs and I don't feel like running cables through the walls - I play games on it regularly have never had a single issue with performance. There is always 1 and sometimes as many as 3 other 802.11 networks overlapping and on occasion the microwave gets used while I am gaming. The only thing that ever caused a noticeable degradation of signal strength was my 2.4ghz phone - even with the lowered signal strength though my latency was completely fine, my total bandwidth dropped a little (i.e. if I had a download going at 300k/s it would drop down to 200k/s until the phone was turned off) - actual pings in games were never noticeably effected. Comparing ping times from before and after I moved (i.e. wired and then wireless) there is absolutely no difference.
Sad but true - a few years ago a friend wanted to buy a new PC and had me come along to the local mom and pop computer store. I lurked nearby while the sleazy salesman did his song and dance, when he finished I came over and asked a few pointed questions, next thing I know he's started a full on argument about whether a Celeron can do floating-point operations or not! It was incredibly absurd because the guy clearly did not know what the hell he was talking about and until he started getting agitated had just been the normal sleazy saleman kind of guy trying to make a sale to my friend. So finally to end the argument he yells to the back of the shop and this dirty fat man lumbers out, he says: "this is our lead technician who knows everything about computers - can a Celeron do floating point operations?" The huge dirty "techician" looks at me and says "No, don't buy a Celeron - it can't do floating point operations and is worthless".
That company went out of business about two years later.
cool - I ran into psychic guards for the first time and it seriously pissed me off, I had robbed a house like 20 minutes earlier - not a single person was around then and I only took like 4 cold coins, then I was outside of a city checking out the stables with a guard suddenly ran up to me and took me away for thievery - it's awesome someone has fixed this already! I still can't figure out why they made the guards so unrealistic...
are there any mods which make sneaking more realistic? I've had situations where an NPC "locks on" and no matter what I do I can't sneak without them knowing where I am after this has happened - even if they can't physically make their way to where I am and I get way out of their realistic area of awareness and then sneak back up on them. I'd like to be able to take off running and lose anyone chasing me by sneaking around.
I called him out because he is saying Zonk is some kind of a shill, I have personal knowledge about the subject as I used to know Zonk and can attest to him not being any kind of a shill. Gamespy does have serious issues, that is a valid point - making accusations re:Zonnk which I know to be false is not valid, my comment was intended to point that out. The fact that I have been systematically troll rated for making this point IS mod abuse. Perhaps my initial response WAS off-topic, that I could see as a possibly valid moderation. I was certainly not trolling though, merely pointing out that based on my knowledge of Zonk the allegations made in the OP were false.
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We're treading into OFFTOPIC territory though. I don't care personally since I've got karma to burn but seeing people try and talk shit about someone I know doesn't deserve it pisses me off, and then getting trolled for calling someone out on their BS (which was modded up!) has pissed me off even further.
nice mod abuse there - it's assholes like you who are ruining Slashdot.
Zonk is no shill. We went to college together and used to work together - he's a really nice guy and totally honest and trustworthy, he's also not afraid to express his opinion! Even though I hadn't seen him in years he still invited my wife and I to his wedding, it was totally touching and we both feel incredibly guilty about not being able to go. Trying to talk shit about Zonk is total bullshit.
I've been seriously thinking about installing that, it seems like most people agree it makes the game a lot better and balances out a lot of the bizzareness that starts happening at higher levels - do you have to start a new game for it to take effect? I'm still really early in the game so it's not that big of a deal but I'd really rather not have to begin again...
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.ini/.cfg but I shouldn't have to mess with that - this isn't the quake1 era anymore. I should have a menu that lets me bind whatever functions I want to whatever buttons/keys I want - instead I'm artificially limited to only rebinding certain functions to only the keyboard and anything other than the default settings is kind of wack. Also, what the hell is up with mwheeldown beind bound to 3rd person view? It doesn't even toggle it like R does and there is no option (that I can find anyways) to change this. It's totally bizzare - I can only assume it's yet another stupid bug...
WTF is up with the crappy key binding system?! I'm sure there is a way to do it via the console or an
I'm excited that we have so many mods already - what is sad is that people have to waste time creating mods that fix the game. Why aren't the developers doing this? They released a buggy as hell game with several glaring design/balancing/"realism" issues - why do we need a mod to make animals behave correctly? Why do we need mods to fix broken quests? Why do we need mods to fix the screwed up UI? Why do we need mods to fix the stupid inventory system? Why do we have to manually edit .ini files to change obvious performance enhancing settings? Why do we need people creating custom shaders to improve performance on low-end cards? Why do we need people to create improved textures for high-end cards? To me all of these issues illustrate that the development team has some serious problems - they've got their own mods out to add content to the game (that they are charging for!) but they have released a seriously flawed game - what the hell is up with that?
That said, I'm not an RPG fan really but Oblivion is one awesome game - and it does run great on my 2.3ghz A64 w/6600GT, minus all the godamn bugs. And fanboys - don't tell me it is my system! I've got a fresh install of XP, fully patched and updated - Oblivion, HL2, and Firefox are the only programs installed on it - the fact that my entire system locks up if I load any of my saved games without first creating an entirely new game on a product that the developer is already releasing paid expansions for instead of patches is BS.
I actually just saw this yesterday - two adults in the front seats, BOTH of them on cell phones, a brood of little monsters bouncing around in the back seat like they just chugged down a pint of Red Bull. Of course they were driving some giant SUV too fast down a residential street at the time. I probably should have called the police now that I think about it - I think I was just too stunned at the time, it was like seeing one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
I just reinstalled Steam/HL2 - I used to think people's complaints about it were overblown but godamn if it didn't take hours before it was done "updating" everything. It wouldn't go much over 100k down either - why the hell isn't some kind of bittorrent-like bandwidth sharing implemented in Steam?!? Other Steam issues - why don't user profiles contain more info? If I log in to my Steam account it whould remember my favorite servers and load my custom .cfg files - it's a godamn bitch have to recreate my bindings and I have to dig through thousands of servers now to find my favorite ones again.
I hadn't heard about it being for an autonomous gun platform. I watched the show last night and they presented it as purely for supply transports. They specifically mentioned Jessica Lynch and how she was just a truck driver who should never of been exposed to combat. They also mentioned that the DOD want's 1/3rd of their transport trucks to be autonomous within 10 years.
ethics? It's a cell phone company - they're some of the most crooked and dishonest people around. They'll do anything to get your money. (can you tell I'm bitter? I've had nothing but horrible experiences with cell providers).
Generally, the bigger the number and the more letters it has the better it is (GT, GS, and anything with an X or the word ULTRA in it are the best). It gets confusing because sometimes the high-end of one generation are better than the low-end of a newer generation. Basically if you just compare the clock speeds between them higher is almost always going to be better. If the choice is between a 256mb card with a lower speed vs. a 128mb card with a higher speed it's a safe bet to go with the higher speed. If you wanted to stick with AGP a 6800GS or a 6600GT is about the best you can get, I think there is going to be a 7600 that runs on AGP but that's probably the end of the line for AGP right there. Personally I'm going to buy a 6600GT soon (~$140) and wait another year or two before I switch over to PCI-E - by then I should be able to afford a 7800GS or whatever the hell is under $150 by then, they all fall down to the sub-$200 price range eventually.
I'm working on a project to deploy the enterprise version of this software. It is bad-ass! In my testing it is the most effective single piece of antispyware software, occasionally spybot is also need for really bad infections but the vast majority of machines are fully cleaned by Counterspy. The enterprise version lets you deploy an agent to every machine and then remotely control them with as much detail as you want based on customizable policies. I'm still concerned that the active protection mode may cause some issues with other software we have deployed so that's where my testing is focsed now, but the actual cleaning of infections is solid. Definitely worth the ~$10 per seat cost.
I use Ghost & Spybot regularly. I've never seen anything like this happen before. The only time I've seen any issues with corrupt Ghost images is when I image NTFS machines, occasionally those turn out corrupted - they still load, they just take forever. That's pretty rare too and in no way correlates with Spybot scans. Symantec is either stupid or trying to abuse their market position to malign Spybot.
Yeah, that is strange. I spent several months testing a variety of anti-spyware apps - CounterSpy was the best all-around. None of them were perfect of course...
CounterSpy combined with Spybot took care of just about everything though.
I've flashed several with HyperWRT - no problems at all. I've got my signal boosted to about 30% higher. Several of my friends have flashed theirs, never heard of anyone have any problems. I have read of people bricking their WRT54's but those were all "I tried to boost the signal 300%" scenarios. It's like a $50 piece of hardware, go for it!