Yeah John Madden says the same stuff over and over again, but I still love the guy. It's almost comforting to hear him say his greatest hits during a MNF game. Great announcers don't get in the way of the game. Does anybody want Dennis Miller back? The ESPN Sunday Night Football announcers are examples of guys who make you shoot yourself if you don't turn off the sound. Sometimes I want to break Joe Theisman's leg like Lawrence Taylor. (I know 95% of Slashdot doesn't understand the reference.)
Maybe I am wierd, but I think a state govenor should look out for the interests of consumers instead of a corporation.
This one of the reasons technology progress is often slowed by the government in America. Do you know America is 16th in industrialized nations with broadband access? Why is America's cellular network like the European version in 1986? I think a lot is due to the fact the American political system protects corporations instead of consumers.
Actually I have been bullied. I have never played football. I would say A-holes are more likely to play sports but sports don't cause people to be A-holes. A basketball player would even be a weaker argument.
That's great. So football must cause violence if a football player committed violent acts? What if the case was that a guy played GTA and then beat up a cop? Did GTA cause the guy to beat up a cop? No. There isn't a direct cause and effect.
Football doesn't cause aggression anymore than video games causes violence. It's all crap. You might want to think football is the problem because you don't play football but you do play videogames. You are committing the same crime as the members of Congress. You are scapegoating an activity that you dislike.
And how many of those people do you think would be able to buy a copy of Windows XP at $200? There is no real market there.
All the Chinese people aren't living in huts. The Chinese economy is actually quite strong and American companies have been doing a lot to get into China and tap into the growing middle and upper class. There is no real market for software and music because a copy can be found for ten cents anywhere in China.
If the government wants to help American business, they need to stop exporting American businesses and return to exporting American products.
Sounds great. How do we do that? How do we change the American economy so you don't feel bad about downloading movies and music off of bittorrent?
There is 6.4 billion people in China with a 90% piracy rate. It doesn't take a leap of faith to say that's a lot of money America is losing.
Since we have no more manufacturing jobs in the US borders, thanks to outsourcing, the only thing America "manufactures" is intellectual property. It is our best interest to protect what is supporting our economy before we are have nothing left.
If you want to appease the/. crowd you should install a bunch of open source tools. If your not a zealot, you should just use Windows Scripting Host which is already installed on an XP machine. Here is a three step example to get you started.
1. Open up notepad
2. Create a file with a vbs extension like "test.vbs".
3. Save the following text:
MsgBox "test"
Now just click on the file in Windows Explorer. There are whole websites to using VBScript.
I don't care about Mod points or I would of just said use some open source tool. I use open source tools all the time when it is the right tool for the job.
Sounds like you blame EA because you play online with asshats. EA did include bots to fix that problem. You don't even have to worry about getting disconnected.
It only takes one drop to throw off the missles for a flyover. By the time the chaff/flares are gone the plane is gone. On the next pass the same plane will drop flares/chaff and throw off the missles again. By the time you get a third pass you are taken out on the AA gun.
Another thing is why does the missle 100% of the time fly to the flares?? Surely in reality the flares don't work 100% of the time.
Planes... nearly impossible to kill, unless you're in an AA gun vehicle. The stationary AA missiles don't seem to have the speed or range to nail them, and there's no way to hit them with small arms.
Yeah the planes and helicopters can drop endless chaff to throw off the guided missiles. It would seem to balance it out if they limited the amount of chaff that can be dropped.
Step 4 - Add this in the code session of "ThisOutLookSession".
Step 5 - Reformat the thing. I spent more time trying get it through the Slashdot filters than writing it.
Private Declare Function PlaySound Lib "winmm.dll" _
Alias "PlaySoundA" (ByVal lpszName As String, _
ByVal hModule As Long, ByVal dwFlags As Long) As Long
Function GetAllFilesInDir(ByVal strDirPath As String) As Variant
' Loop through the directory specified in strDirPath and save each
' file name in an array, then return that array to the calling
' procedure.
' Return False if strDirPath is not a valid directory.
Dim strTempName As String
Dim varFiles() As Variant
Dim lngFileCount As Long
On Error GoTo GetAllFiles_Err
' Make sure that strDirPath ends with a "\" character.
If Right$(strDirPath, 1) "\" Then
strDirPath = strDirPath & "\"
End If
' Make sure strDirPath is a directory.
If GetAttr(strDirPath) = vbDirectory Then
strTempName = Dir(strDirPath, vbDirectory)
Do Until Len(strTempName) = 0
' Exclude ".", "..".
If (strTempName ".") And (strTempName "..") Then
' Make sure we do not have a sub-directory name.
If (GetAttr(strDirPath & strTempName) _
And vbDirectory) vbDirectory Then
' Increase the size of the array
' to accommodate the found filename
' and add the filename to the array.
ReDim Preserve varFiles(lngFileCount)
varFiles(lngFileCount) = strTempName
lngFileCount = lngFileCount + 1
End If
End If
' Use the Dir function to find the next filename.
strTempName = Dir()
Loop
' Return the array of found files.
GetAllFilesInDir = varFiles
End If
GetAllFiles_End:
Exit Function
GetAllFiles_Err:
GetAllFilesInDir = False
Resume GetAllFiles_End
End Function
Private Sub Application_NewMail()
Const SND_SYNC = &H0
Const SND_ASYNC = &H1
Const SND_FILENAME = &H20000
Dim varFileArray As Variant
Dim lngI As Long
Dim strDirName As String
Const NO_FILES_IN_DIR As Long = 9
Const INVALID_DIR As Long = 13
On Error GoTo Test_Err
strDirName = "C:\windows\media"
varFileArray = GetAllFilesInDir(strDirName)
For lngI = 0 To UBound(varFileArray)
Debug.Print varFileArray(lngI)
Next lngI
lngI = Math.Round(Math.Rnd() * UBound(varFileArray))
WAVFile = "C:\windows\media\" & varFileArray(lngI)
Call PlaySound(WAVFile, 0&, SND_ASYNC Or SND_FILENAME)
Test_Err:
Select Case Err.Number
Case NO_FILES_IN_DIR
MsgBox "The directory named '" & strDirName _
& "' contains no files."
Case INVALID_DIR
MsgBox "'" & strDirName & "' is not a valid directory."
Case 0
Case Else
MsgBox "Error #" & Err.Number & " - " & Err.Description
End Select
End Sub
Step 6 - Ignore all replies to this post. They are all the same Microsoft bashing crap you've already read 1000 times on/.
Step 7 - If you think this is some kind of virus learn to code and then you can check it yourself.
Bands earn more on tours than from album sales, but an album is relatively easy, sit back, do a video or two and let the cash roll in from the rest of the world.
Yeah, it is really easy dude. I am suprised everyone isn't making albums and raking in the dough. You just stum a guitar and hit a drum a few times. Bam! Instant millionaire.
As most portable gaming devices are used when travelling, I don't think the DS WiFi play has the same demand as an X-box. Most of the places I play my GBA is where no WiFi is really feasable. Apples and Oranges.
Yes, when Karl Rove was asked if he leaked the information, he said that he didn't "say her name". What he actually said was that Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA agent. I guess Joseph Wilson could have multiple wives and therefore keep Valerie Plame anonymous. So technically he isn't lying in a semantic parsing of words kind of way.
I think President Bush should honor his words and fire the person responsible.
As someone who started with BASIC I know what you mean. I actually took some Community College courses to help myself learn real languages. Books just didn't do it until I heard someone explain it to me. Community College courses are cheap. I even put them on my resume but it probably hurts more than helps.:-)
There a thousands of 18+ movies/site with far more explicit sex scenes, and far more easily accessible.
But the voters, that politicians are targeting to blame everything on video games, watch movies. If they talked about controling content in movies they would lose support from a good portion of the population. Targeting video games only loses a younger population that doesn't vote anyway. Senetor Liberman doesn't care about losing a vote your not going to cast. Young people should get off their ass if they don't want thier hobbies targeted as scapegoats for problems that are much more complicated to fix.
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Yeah John Madden says the same stuff over and over again, but I still love the guy. It's almost comforting to hear him say his greatest hits during a MNF game. Great announcers don't get in the way of the game. Does anybody want Dennis Miller back? The ESPN Sunday Night Football announcers are examples of guys who make you shoot yourself if you don't turn off the sound. Sometimes I want to break Joe Theisman's leg like Lawrence Taylor. (I know 95% of Slashdot doesn't understand the reference.)
Maybe I am wierd, but I think a state govenor should look out for the interests of consumers instead of a corporation.
This one of the reasons technology progress is often slowed by the government in America. Do you know America is 16th in industrialized nations with broadband access? Why is America's cellular network like the European version in 1986? I think a lot is due to the fact the American political system protects corporations instead of consumers.
liberals who want the government to force us don't share our internet conection because mmm...god...yeah... says that it should be a utility
After reading your post, maybe we should put more money into the education system instead of wi-fi.
Seems like this child was left behind.
The broadband providers are already putting a stop to it. They have the money to grease the politicians and they already did it in Philadelphia: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1735342,00.as p
Actually I have been bullied. I have never played football. I would say A-holes are more likely to play sports but sports don't cause people to be A-holes. A basketball player would even be a weaker argument.
That's great. So football must cause violence if a football player committed violent acts? What if the case was that a guy played GTA and then beat up a cop? Did GTA cause the guy to beat up a cop? No. There isn't a direct cause and effect.
Football doesn't cause aggression anymore than video games causes violence. It's all crap. You might want to think football is the problem because you don't play football but you do play videogames. You are committing the same crime as the members of Congress. You are scapegoating an activity that you dislike.
Copied the wrong number from wikipedia. There are 1.3 billion people in China.
And how many of those people do you think would be able to buy a copy of Windows XP at $200? There is no real market there.
All the Chinese people aren't living in huts. The Chinese economy is actually quite strong and American companies have been doing a lot to get into China and tap into the growing middle and upper class. There is no real market for software and music because a copy can be found for ten cents anywhere in China.
If the government wants to help American business, they need to stop exporting American businesses and return to exporting American products.
Sounds great. How do we do that? How do we change the American economy so you don't feel bad about downloading movies and music off of bittorrent?
There is 6.4 billion people in China with a 90% piracy rate. It doesn't take a leap of faith to say that's a lot of money America is losing.
Since we have no more manufacturing jobs in the US borders, thanks to outsourcing, the only thing America "manufactures" is intellectual property. It is our best interest to protect what is supporting our economy before we are have nothing left.
My brain hurts trying to think of how this works.
If you want to appease the /. crowd you should install a bunch of open source tools. If your not a zealot, you should just use Windows Scripting Host which is already installed on an XP machine. Here is a three step example to get you started.
1. Open up notepad
2. Create a file with a vbs extension like "test.vbs".
3. Save the following text:
MsgBox "test"
Now just click on the file in Windows Explorer. There are whole websites to using VBScript.
I don't care about Mod points or I would of just said use some open source tool. I use open source tools all the time when it is the right tool for the job.
Sounds like you blame EA because you play online with asshats. EA did include bots to fix that problem. You don't even have to worry about getting disconnected.
It only takes one drop to throw off the missles for a flyover. By the time the chaff/flares are gone the plane is gone. On the next pass the same plane will drop flares/chaff and throw off the missles again. By the time you get a third pass you are taken out on the AA gun.
Another thing is why does the missle 100% of the time fly to the flares?? Surely in reality the flares don't work 100% of the time.
Planes... nearly impossible to kill, unless you're in an AA gun vehicle. The stationary AA missiles don't seem to have the speed or range to nail them, and there's no way to hit them with small arms.
Yeah the planes and helicopters can drop endless chaff to throw off the guided missiles. It would seem to balance it out if they limited the amount of chaff that can be dropped.
Step 1 - Lower your macro security.
/.
Step 2 - Close Outlook and restart Outlook.
Step 3 - Open up the Visual Basic editor.
Step 4 - Add this in the code session of "ThisOutLookSession".
Step 5 - Reformat the thing. I spent more time trying get it through the Slashdot filters than writing it.
Private Declare Function PlaySound Lib "winmm.dll" _ Alias "PlaySoundA" (ByVal lpszName As String, _ ByVal hModule As Long, ByVal dwFlags As Long) As Long Function GetAllFilesInDir(ByVal strDirPath As String) As Variant ' Loop through the directory specified in strDirPath and save each ' file name in an array, then return that array to the calling ' procedure. ' Return False if strDirPath is not a valid directory. Dim strTempName As String Dim varFiles() As Variant Dim lngFileCount As Long On Error GoTo GetAllFiles_Err ' Make sure that strDirPath ends with a "\" character. If Right$(strDirPath, 1) "\" Then strDirPath = strDirPath & "\" End If ' Make sure strDirPath is a directory. If GetAttr(strDirPath) = vbDirectory Then strTempName = Dir(strDirPath, vbDirectory) Do Until Len(strTempName) = 0 ' Exclude ".", "..". If (strTempName ".") And (strTempName "..") Then ' Make sure we do not have a sub-directory name. If (GetAttr(strDirPath & strTempName) _ And vbDirectory) vbDirectory Then ' Increase the size of the array ' to accommodate the found filename ' and add the filename to the array. ReDim Preserve varFiles(lngFileCount) varFiles(lngFileCount) = strTempName lngFileCount = lngFileCount + 1 End If End If ' Use the Dir function to find the next filename. strTempName = Dir() Loop ' Return the array of found files. GetAllFilesInDir = varFiles End If GetAllFiles_End: Exit Function GetAllFiles_Err: GetAllFilesInDir = False Resume GetAllFiles_End End Function Private Sub Application_NewMail() Const SND_SYNC = &H0 Const SND_ASYNC = &H1 Const SND_FILENAME = &H20000 Dim varFileArray As Variant Dim lngI As Long Dim strDirName As String Const NO_FILES_IN_DIR As Long = 9 Const INVALID_DIR As Long = 13 On Error GoTo Test_Err strDirName = "C:\windows\media" varFileArray = GetAllFilesInDir(strDirName) For lngI = 0 To UBound(varFileArray) Debug.Print varFileArray(lngI) Next lngI lngI = Math.Round(Math.Rnd() * UBound(varFileArray)) WAVFile = "C:\windows\media\" & varFileArray(lngI) Call PlaySound(WAVFile, 0&, SND_ASYNC Or SND_FILENAME) Test_Err: Select Case Err.Number Case NO_FILES_IN_DIR MsgBox "The directory named '" & strDirName _ & "' contains no files." Case INVALID_DIR MsgBox "'" & strDirName & "' is not a valid directory." Case 0 Case Else MsgBox "Error #" & Err.Number & " - " & Err.Description End Select End Sub
Step 6 - Ignore all replies to this post. They are all the same Microsoft bashing crap you've already read 1000 times on
Step 7 - If you think this is some kind of virus learn to code and then you can check it yourself.
Step 8 - Fix the API call. It is too slow.
Bands earn more on tours than from album sales, but an album is relatively easy, sit back, do a video or two and let the cash roll in from the rest of the world.
Yeah, it is really easy dude. I am suprised everyone isn't making albums and raking in the dough. You just stum a guitar and hit a drum a few times. Bam! Instant millionaire.
Obviously you never tried to write a song before.
Playing live is so much easier than recording.
It is a lot like the Scooby Doo backgrounds. When they are walking, the same stuff keeps showing up in the background in a loop.
As most portable gaming devices are used when travelling, I don't think the DS WiFi play has the same demand as an X-box. Most of the places I play my GBA is where no WiFi is really feasable. Apples and Oranges.
I don't have 3 friends.
Yes, when Karl Rove was asked if he leaked the information, he said that he didn't "say her name". What he actually said was that Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA agent. I guess Joseph Wilson could have multiple wives and therefore keep Valerie Plame anonymous. So technically he isn't lying in a semantic parsing of words kind of way.
I think President Bush should honor his words and fire the person responsible.
As someone who started with BASIC I know what you mean. I actually took some Community College courses to help myself learn real languages. Books just didn't do it until I heard someone explain it to me. Community College courses are cheap. I even put them on my resume but it probably hurts more than helps. :-)
I still use my SP every week on a plane. Does the job and the games are still lots of fun.
Good Graphics != Fun
I just hope the movie has the awesome soundtrack like the cartoon movie.
You got the touch
You got the power
After all is said and done
You've never walked, you've never run,
You're a winner
You got the moves, you know the streets
Break the rules, take the heat
You're nobody's fool
You're at your best when when the goin' gets rough
You've been put to the test, but it's never enough
You got the touch You got the power
There a thousands of 18+ movies/site with far more explicit sex scenes, and far more easily accessible.
But the voters, that politicians are targeting to blame everything on video games, watch movies. If they talked about controling content in movies they would lose support from a good portion of the population. Targeting video games only loses a younger population that doesn't vote anyway. Senetor Liberman doesn't care about losing a vote your not going to cast. Young people should get off their ass if they don't want thier hobbies targeted as scapegoats for problems that are much more complicated to fix.