A few years ago, my team decided that everyone should pay a small fine of $5 into a jar whenever they failed to arrive by 9 AM. As soon as this was decided, I picked up the jar and contributed $50 for 10 days worth of sleeping in as much as I wanted. The only flaw in my plan was stuffing the cash in the jar in front of everyone, because on seeing that the new policy was immediately cancelled by management.
Most of what you did was right, but the administrator account is exactly the one you need Internet Explorer's security settings to be High on. Set it high, and then put the Windows Update site in the Trusted Sites list.
I'd also recommend you check out the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer. It'll scan the computer and make similar recommendations. Visiting the Windows Update site alone is not enough. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/mb sahome.mspx
Stupid feature.
That followed by 4 minutes watching the progress bar, praying that the 97% video encoding that had taken hours already would finish first. Of course it didn't.
Do NOT watch the dubbed version. I'm not a sub purist, but in this case the dub really is terrible. Young and inexperienced characters have mature voices, gasps become goofy gufaws, and the screams of torment and anguish sound like someone yelling "Fore!" before swinging their damn golf club. And I listened in every language on that damn DVD. Every other language sounds as poor.
Do NOT browse websites for information on it. Wait until you've watched it through.
And if you decide to watch it, WATCH IT ALL. Do NOT quit halfway. I don't mean in one sitting necessarily, but if you only watch the first half of the episodes, you're going to think it's just like every other anime, or worse. Big robot mechs, teenage heros, cute girls, save the world, blah blah blah.
Mech pilots taking dance lessons to perform a ballet sequence in combat to defeat the latest enemy? Tracked to silly music? Spare me, NGE. This is mind blowing? Pft.
Or was that episode something different?
Why are the mechs in NGE so tall, thin, and dexterous when compared to the mechs in other anime series? It's because toy manufacturers have an easier time building short, heavyset mech models. Early mech designs of Gundam Wing (the most popular mech anime in Japan at the time of NGE's release) were modified to make those stupid little toys stand up better. The NGE crew didn't care about the commercial possibilities of their work, and the ballet episode was just a vehicle for that point. NGE is something more.
After you've watched it all, then you can go online for the analysis. Have fun looking things up in the Apocrypha and Pseudopygraphia (sp?). Note that the symbolism is both blatant (big crucifixes in places) and subtle (character motivations, personalities, and relationships).
You'll either love it and be blown away, or you'll hate it. I've not met anyone between.
No, I understood your intent. The point I was making is that you're the kind of bastard player that does stuff like camp respawns (what else would you call it when you get behind the other team's spawn points and cap them as they run up the beach?). That class of asshole players also tends towards teamkilling. Perhaps you're not a team killer, but I've seen enough assholes in too many games that do the things you spoke of doing and also are anti-social (well, more anti-social than the typical gamer, as we all tend to be anti-social to some extent:) assholes.
Ah. Yes, I sit on the respawns. (Actually very rarely as it isn't very actionful / doesn't get you points / doesn't win you games.) But thanks to RTCW's design, there's nothing stopping those respawning players from sniping/panzerfausting me on the respawn, while they're invincible. And there are lots of them and one of me, and being away from my lieutenants I'm running out of ammo, and the sniper gun jerks back throwing my aim off on every shot, and so on...
In other games, sitting on respawn points for kills could be considered bastardly as you say (back in Quake 1 we memorized the specific respawn order of maps to sequentially rack up spawn kills), but I wouldn't agree with RTCW. The designers did a very good job on the mauser.
You might argue that they couldn't target me fast enough. I'd argue they just have to be good enough. You could argue that they might not be good enough. I'd argue that, well, sure, beating down newbies is evil. But that doesn't make the tactic wrong. It just makes using it on newbies wrong.
Great, just what we need. Tips for cheaters. I'm sorry, but the Q3 bunny hop was a physics bug. They didn't "disable" it in RTCW, they "fixed" it. Apparently they didn't catch every case, as your post points out. Exploiting a bug is cheating just as much as running an aimbot. It detracts from the game, and makes it less fun for everybody else.
Fixed it, disabled it, whatever. Exploiting a minor bug is not cheating if everyone has the opportunity to do so and it only negligibly affects gameplay. Furthermore, if the developer is producing patches to a game and they don't fix the bug, it effectively becomes a sanctioned feature. So it is with Q3 strafe jumping. I doubt the RTCW people will be fixing this one simply because it's so trivial (though I guess certain map designs would make it a problem).
I won't even comment on your so-called "tactics" for the beach landing map. People like you make online gaming annoying. You probably teamkilled on purpose as well, didn't you?
I never (purposefully) team kill. You misunderstood me, perhaps because I didn't capitalize "Allies": I, the Axis sniper, run behind our enemies, the "Allies", to snipe them from an unexpected position. I do not snipe my fellow Axis "allies".
Forgot to mention the above tip isn't given in the readme.
Since I don't want to waste this comment saying just that, here's another tip:
They disabled Q3's bunny hopping (aka strafe jumping), however, you can still increase your speed if you jump onto a surface slanted downwards towards the direction you're headed, and then jump just as you hit it. You'll fly forward through the air a little faster than normal, and if you keep jumping, you can keep up the speed.
On the test level, I use this when I'm an axis sniper trying to get behind the allies: If you do it right from the breach you can very quickly get down to the water... you'll be moving so fast and high you can even jump clear over all the barbed wire in the way without taking damage...
I am personally guessing that there is a routine in the player code that gives them more health when they spot you. The game seems to really encourage killing things while they're still unaware of your existance.
From my experiences with the multiplayer test, I observed you inflict more damage whenever your target has his back to you. Even if you aren't taking care to be quiet, if you run up behind someone with a knife you can cut them down in one or two shots from full health. Compare that to half a dozen or so required if you strike them from the front. My most often used multiplayer tricks, therefore, are to (1) hide around a corner and wait for enemies to run past you, exposing their back, and (2) never flee with your back to the enemy.
My apologies, I should have been more specific. I have a habit of remembering odd statistics and sometimes use them out of context.:)
A passenger car at 60 kilometers per hour at 20 meters is 65 dB(A).
The A stands for A-weighted. A-weighting noise levels is an attempt to consider human perceptual factors in the values. Low pitch noises that don't bother the human ear much have lower dB(A) values than dB.
Here
's a reference with some information on decibels and whatnot.
Back in 1996 as part of a technological entrepreneurship program for students. (The program was put out by the Canadian Institude for Technological Advancement, for which I cannot find a link.)
The bus engine, powered by fuel cells, was very quiet. Fuel cells themselves have no moving parts so they don't make much noise.
When riding that bus the loudest part of the journey were the air brakes.
I've seen a number of comments pointing out the noise of this generator: 72 dB at 1 meter. A car is about that at 20 meters, so what they're really saying is that this generator is as noisy at 1 meter as a car is at 20 meters.
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A few years ago, my team decided that everyone should pay a small fine of $5 into a jar whenever they failed to arrive by 9 AM. As soon as this was decided, I picked up the jar and contributed $50 for 10 days worth of sleeping in as much as I wanted. The only flaw in my plan was stuffing the cash in the jar in front of everyone, because on seeing that the new policy was immediately cancelled by management.
Most of what you did was right, but the administrator account is exactly the one you need Internet Explorer's security settings to be High on. Set it high, and then put the Windows Update site in the Trusted Sites list. I'd also recommend you check out the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer. It'll scan the computer and make similar recommendations. Visiting the Windows Update site alone is not enough. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/mb sahome.mspx
Stupid feature. That followed by 4 minutes watching the progress bar, praying that the 97% video encoding that had taken hours already would finish first. Of course it didn't.
Why do people even bother asking why, with that admission?
Spend 15 minutes on the web looking at the opinions of others, watch a few of the good anime, and then answer the question for yourself.
Neon
Genesis
Evangelion
Do NOT watch the dubbed version. I'm not a sub purist, but in this case the dub really is terrible. Young and inexperienced characters have mature voices, gasps become goofy gufaws, and the screams of torment and anguish sound like someone yelling "Fore!" before swinging their damn golf club. And I listened in every language on that damn DVD. Every other language sounds as poor.
Do NOT browse websites for information on it. Wait until you've watched it through.
And if you decide to watch it, WATCH IT ALL. Do NOT quit halfway. I don't mean in one sitting necessarily, but if you only watch the first half of the episodes, you're going to think it's just like every other anime, or worse. Big robot mechs, teenage heros, cute girls, save the world, blah blah blah.
Mech pilots taking dance lessons to perform a ballet sequence in combat to defeat the latest enemy? Tracked to silly music? Spare me, NGE. This is mind blowing? Pft.
Or was that episode something different?
Why are the mechs in NGE so tall, thin, and dexterous when compared to the mechs in other anime series? It's because toy manufacturers have an easier time building short, heavyset mech models. Early mech designs of Gundam Wing (the most popular mech anime in Japan at the time of NGE's release) were modified to make those stupid little toys stand up better. The NGE crew didn't care about the commercial possibilities of their work, and the ballet episode was just a vehicle for that point. NGE is something more.
After you've watched it all, then you can go online for the analysis. Have fun looking things up in the Apocrypha and Pseudopygraphia (sp?). Note that the symbolism is both blatant (big crucifixes in places) and subtle (character motivations, personalities, and relationships).
You'll either love it and be blown away, or you'll hate it. I've not met anyone between.
Ah. Yes, I sit on the respawns. (Actually very rarely as it isn't very actionful / doesn't get you points / doesn't win you games.) But thanks to RTCW's design, there's nothing stopping those respawning players from sniping/panzerfausting me on the respawn, while they're invincible. And there are lots of them and one of me, and being away from my lieutenants I'm running out of ammo, and the sniper gun jerks back throwing my aim off on every shot, and so on...
In other games, sitting on respawn points for kills could be considered bastardly as you say (back in Quake 1 we memorized the specific respawn order of maps to sequentially rack up spawn kills), but I wouldn't agree with RTCW. The designers did a very good job on the mauser.
You might argue that they couldn't target me fast enough. I'd argue they just have to be good enough. You could argue that they might not be good enough. I'd argue that, well, sure, beating down newbies is evil. But that doesn't make the tactic wrong. It just makes using it on newbies wrong.
Fixed it, disabled it, whatever. Exploiting a minor bug is not cheating if everyone has the opportunity to do so and it only negligibly affects gameplay. Furthermore, if the developer is producing patches to a game and they don't fix the bug, it effectively becomes a sanctioned feature. So it is with Q3 strafe jumping. I doubt the RTCW people will be fixing this one simply because it's so trivial (though I guess certain map designs would make it a problem).
I won't even comment on your so-called "tactics" for the beach landing map. People like you make online gaming annoying. You probably teamkilled on purpose as well, didn't you?
I never (purposefully) team kill. You misunderstood me, perhaps because I didn't capitalize "Allies": I, the Axis sniper, run behind our enemies, the "Allies", to snipe them from an unexpected position. I do not snipe my fellow Axis "allies".
Forgot to mention the above tip isn't given in the readme.
Since I don't want to waste this comment saying just that, here's another tip:
They disabled Q3's bunny hopping (aka strafe jumping), however, you can still increase your speed if you jump onto a surface slanted downwards towards the direction you're headed, and then jump just as you hit it. You'll fly forward through the air a little faster than normal, and if you keep jumping, you can keep up the speed.
On the test level, I use this when I'm an axis sniper trying to get behind the allies: If you do it right from the breach you can very quickly get down to the water... you'll be moving so fast and high you can even jump clear over all the barbed wire in the way without taking damage...
From my experiences with the multiplayer test, I observed you inflict more damage whenever your target has his back to you. Even if you aren't taking care to be quiet, if you run up behind someone with a knife you can cut them down in one or two shots from full health. Compare that to half a dozen or so required if you strike them from the front. My most often used multiplayer tricks, therefore, are to (1) hide around a corner and wait for enemies to run past you, exposing their back, and (2) never flee with your back to the enemy.
My apologies, I should have been more specific. I have a habit of remembering odd statistics and sometimes use them out of context. :)
A passenger car at 60 kilometers per hour at 20 meters is 65 dB(A).
The A stands for A-weighted. A-weighting noise levels is an attempt to consider human perceptual factors in the values. Low pitch noises that don't bother the human ear much have lower dB(A) values than dB.
Here 's a reference with some information on decibels and whatnot.
Back in 1996 as part of a technological entrepreneurship program for students. (The program was put out by the Canadian Institude for Technological Advancement, for which I cannot find a link.)
The bus engine, powered by fuel cells, was very quiet. Fuel cells themselves have no moving parts so they don't make much noise.
When riding that bus the loudest part of the journey were the air brakes.
I've seen a number of comments pointing out the noise of this generator: 72 dB at 1 meter. A car is about that at 20 meters, so what they're really saying is that this generator is as noisy at 1 meter as a car is at 20 meters.