BlueLancer

Ok 8-) If you got a specific problem with C&C RedAlert, Tiberium wars etc.. And need it fixed, you can request help from users on this topic or make a new one, up to you.

Fixed. It's so annoying, because some languages capitalize and some don't. In Swedish and Finnish weekdays, months, and nationalities aren't capitalized, so I have to change every time I switch. Heh, thanks indeed for the correction... Yep, it can be arguably hard sometimes, if I recall right, Swedish and Finnish languages only capitalize country & place names (and people's names of course). In English almost everything is capitalized, even unique objects like "the Sun". This doesn't exist in other languages like Finnish where it's typed lower case. Again, not that these things actually matter that much outside of school, because even in a business setting, for most words, the meaning can't be lost regardless of lower or upper case.. Heck, some people (especially older ones) write in all-caps, a bit annoying but I don't really mind as long as the message comes across

It's about a sociopathic person with a difficult father-son relationship who has perfectly masked his life & his obsession. He is obsessed about killing people. His father who was a cop, decided that instead of having his son locked away in some institution for all his life, he should direct his madness towards catching criminals (almost always murderers, he also kills some other people like pedophiles in S2 though) who escaped punishment. So he taught Dexter a list of rules called the "Code", the first rule of which is "No matter what you do in life Dex, don't get caught" Personally, I think it's a fantastic series. It also has a classy selection of latino & spanish songs, horror tunes etc.. Good plots, and a pretty creepy show overall. Watch season 1 to get a good taste, it has 3 seasons so far (last episode airing in a week). It's not an overly 'serious' show at all, it has a twisted dark humorous side to it, plus the main character Dexter is very modest & humble, not some pompous idiot or a typical psycho who shuts himself from the outside world. Nobody around him has any idea of his real identity.

I've always wanted to get into an old-timey bar fight. The one or two actual fights I've been in were some kid pushing me and trying to knock me down. Most of the ones I've seen were like that, too. :/ It's nothing in like in comedy movies, meaningless bar fights often leave people blind in the other eye, serious skull fracture from glass pints, etc... There is no reason to "want" to get into a fight in normal, civilian life. Join the military if you want to fight people who are equally willing to fight back. The only distinction is poser-teens often don't have the qualities of a 'real man' or even willing to actually put their personal safety on the line. Physical violence against other people isn't funny unless it's deliberate entertainment like WWE wrestling. There's nothing "funny" about real life violence that leaves many people crippled just because some huge-ego idiots started a fight over nothing.

I hate it when people say you shouldn't combine words, or hyphenate them. English is a freakin' Germanic language, we have the ability to combine, and I'm gonna do it! Also, I hate it when people don't capatalise proper nouns like Bible, and any other proper noun, again, English is Germanic, so we can do that. Heh, I have the opposite pet peeve. Not that it matters, but americans are generally horrible with punctuation, capitalization and grammar. I can't count how many times americans (even in official magazine interviews etc.) capitalize things like "the president mentioned global warming as a matter of National Security". I've seen it thousands of times, they capitalize all sorts of words and phrases that shouldn't be.

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To be honest they look pretty ugly and huge, the nano and shuffle are pretty good though. A Zen media player is much cheaper, looks more professional IMO, and also plays videos. It also costs less than iPod and it's costly alternatives that have visual playback. I don't have either one; I got a sandisk 2gb clip. It's inexpensive (about 50 bucks) and plays MP3's just fine. As you can see it's also compact. You can also clip it to your belt or shirt, etc.. Could definitely recommend it to anyone. [hide=][/hide]

They're a corporation with an image to look after. It's not even bad in the UK; In Japan if a company's name even remotely gets associated with murder threats, scandals, organised crime or corruption, the CEO's sometimes commit suicide. Jagex may not have publicly traded shares that fluctuate along with news reports, but it's still bad press for them if it was found out people make threats on their game & nobody does anything about it. Hell in the worst case, a small percentage of people making the threats actually fulfill them. Countless mass murderers have posted warning videos, talked in chat rooms and sent media packages on forums prior to doing something horrible..

Agree to some extent... At least when I last played on free worlds and skilled just for fun; I got maybe 3 random events in a timespan of two hours. Not sure if it has anything to do with me being F2P, but that's pretty unacceptable. I've fortunately quit a long time ago, but still... The tasks should last 15 seconds at most and verify only a human could know the outcome (so that patterns can't be detected by bots, but by human eye only). More importantly, they should appear at longer intervals.

Tuskin tollaset babelfishi­t niitä pystyy kunnol kääntää ku lisäätte sekaan jotai suomenruotsalaisii 'vitsi' 'jättekiva' sanoja jne :P (Babelfish wont pick up on slang & swedish-finnish, funny way to confuse it's users who try to figure what you're saying) OT: 10981

I don't have that many fears, but.. Damn that dreaded feeling when you have something of high value in your pockets, you put your hands in, and it just isn't there on the critical moment the next time you check them. Now if I have a high-value temporary item like an important reciept, document etc... I keep it in my hand/palm until I get to the destination. A bit paranoid but if you physically feel it all the time, it can't just inexplicably disappear.

Like Joe said AGP is more or less 'yesterdays news' because pci-e has much more bandwidth and results in smoother display of images from the GPU to the monitor. You can get a pretty good Geforce 8500 GT 512MB card for $63. A few bucks above your price range but it has a high cost-quality ratio, it's out of stock in a lot of places.

Look at the amount of transistors (a good card will have 300-1000m) and memory clock [working frequency]. OpenGL support is included in just about every chipset. Only few games require DX 10.1 so that shouldn't be the major deciding factor. If you buy a very powerful card it will require it's own power supply, but in general, installing the card in the AGP slot is something even a child could do. DVI and HDMI are the same thing and are encoded in the same way, they just use a different connector (HDMI also carries audio). You can connect DVI to HDMI and the other way around without any kind of converter. In reality there is no performance difference. Some devices like your monitor may transmit better quality image through either one of them, but they are essentially identical. You can get a 22" Acer monitor for 30 bucks less on Newegg. Get Diamond Viper Radeon 3450, it costs $38 and is identical to the one offered by Dell. You can also alternatively get a significantly better Sapphire Radeon 512MB card for $57.

I'll try locating you a better fix.. But no, don't touch any sysfiles named kernel or kernel32. It's also not possible for it to be missing, because you wouldn't even be writing here in the first place. Windows can't run without the link library kernel32. The only dll's and files that can cause an irregular/unfunctional boot are those who are launched when you start windows like the abovementioned kernel32.dll, explorer.e­xe which should be write protected anyways, etc... Adding missing, passive dll's into system/system32 folders that are only called upon via user input (like opening the spore executable client) doesn't cause boot problems.

RS uses minimal bandwith, around 1-5kbps depending on if you just AFK or do multiple activities in a crowded area, so even the worst 56k connections can experience the game normally. Lag problems are almost always because of insufficient RAM or problems at your internet service provider's end. Another problem causer can be your router/insufficient firmware As Bauker said the two are not connected in any way. A 500mhz processor with 128mb RAM can download just as fast as a 3.2ghz P4 processor with 4GB of ram if you have the proper connection. Go start -> Run -> write dxdiag, post system specs if possible. -- Even for home users, it's recommended least every 24-48 hours, it flushes RAM and improves system stability.. In corporate settings a big cause of problems is lack of scheduled, automatic server reboots in regular intervals. It will cause the hosted applications to often crash or freeze, drivers get caught in infinite loops, slow processing capacity

It should be included in Vista by default, if it isn't, unzip this & place it in the System & System32 folder http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-f ... ml?wsock32 You shouldn't need to reboot, just launch the game afterwards.

I like the unique ranking system in CA, admittedly I'll never get even near the top 50 as probably wont anybody else on tip.it (unless you happen to play for over 12 hours every day), but it's awesome that they have 'rank quotas' for the higher ranks like brigadier general. And only 1 person across all servers can hold the rank "general of the army", 5 stars. I'm not sure if that guy gets special benefits or anything, but it will definitely feel like an achievement. I don't think anyone has it yet, it requires 8 million XP points, and whoever has the highest total at any given time gets to have it.

Well, actually, this time the Swedes saved the day. I'm not buying this. Reminds me of in the scientific revolution where scientists used science to "prove" that men had larger brains than women. Edit: I can't type to save my life today. Maybe you didn't finish elementary biology, males of the human species do have larger brains than females: http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/heshe.html As the article continues, brain mass itself may not be the best measure of intelligence, I personally agree 100% it's not the only measure. It's a physiological fact. You might just as well try vainly denying men have larger livers, lungs, etc... Because they do. Also I don't see what's there 'not to buy' about that test Lenticular linked to, seeing as it was a scientifically accurate test done by one of the most respected universities MRI brain imaging and x-rays don't lie, there are physical differences in gay and straight men/women's brains, if you don't believe it, I'm sure they will provide you the images used in the study to prove it.

Usually I can pick up even the subtlest trolls fast.. But I never figured out if YA really has such a big portion of the world's idiots posting there, or if it's just a bunch of pranksters pulling it off succesfully. Some people probably already read a selection of the dumb posts there, like this one just shortly after Russia invaded Georgia: [hide=][/hide] After browsing through dozens of like-minded authors you just have to conclude they can't be all joking. There really are people this dumb :lol:

About 100 prior 'presidents' as they like to call themselves (or more accurately despotic military dictators) already pulled off your plan in various African nations over the last few decades -.- Sad but true..

Think it happened around the time when the internet and more realistic and deeper 3-d console games became available, maybe between 1996-2001. Since such high quality entertainment now is available at home even during horrible winter storms, a lot of kids lost incentive to spend time together in reality, throw snowballs, run around prank-ringing house door bells... It's pretty sad. Go to a country where those electronic advances aren't available for the wider population; It's like comparing day and night. I got family in poorer areas of Europe, and all the younger kids have is an old TV and a 8-bit Nintendo. Needless to say they spend about all of their spare time with friends outdoors, playing football and doing 'normal' stuff instead of staring at screen for 10 hours daily.

It's even become a satirical 'joke' that internet is "serious business" - that doesn't mean you have to go with the troll flow at every given chance. If you venture outside of anime forums and video games, you'll find there is an astonishing number of intelligent and genuinely funny people online. You can also learn things you'd never pick up in a library or the classroom. It's just sad the flaming nerds are creating a reputation for the internet as an unreliable pit of trash. You can get so much valuable information, professional opinions, etc.. If you just look in the right places. Sites like 4chan random boards are the mud of the web and should be treated as such; They don't represent anything except immature teen kids with inflated egos.

Absolutely. Talking about it on an Internet forum even gets you laid these days. I'm not the snitchy type, I'd still report if my friend as a fellow soldier was doing something illegal or morally questionable like torturing civilians or looting. Just because you are a cop or soldier does not mean you instantly have to defend every other cop/soldier, even if they are pedophiles or sadist freaks. Absolutely dumb to hate cops for the sake of hating them... But if they commit offences (even presidents do, why on Earth is a police officer any different?), they have to be brought to justice.

I agree with Nadril it's pretty pathetic to be laughing at other users... I rarely do so, if ever (unless somebody presents a *really* stupid argument). Most of the time I just don't even bother replying, when a person is continuously using personal blogs as sources, cites wrong info, states horribly inaccurate figures as fact (like thinking america has billions of people or the "NWO" is a real jew conspiracy)... If you see the things a person continuously posts are almost always grossly inaccurate, it's usually not worth it to debate anything with such a person. More often than not they will persist in delusions and refuse to acknowledge reality. Another, fortunately somewhat rare group on tip.it, is obnoxious kids who want to argue semantics "just because". Ignoring the broader argument, they will cling onto every word and proposition and claiming 'subjective intepretation' and tire other debaters until they just stop posting back. Jesus christ, become lawyers or something. No, not everyone has to agree in an argument. That's not the point of a discussion. But what ruins good debates is when fools can't acknowledge they were wrong and continue making totally irrelevant arguments & divert the thread to another issue. http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/ :lol:

Again I couldn't agree more with Ginger_Warrior, how is it a surprise a lot of college kids eventually end up in massive debts, don't even know how to file the simplest bureucratic forms, etc.. When they went through their entire lives with somebody else telling them what to do? For heavens sake, maybe I'm biased because I loathed homework and barely ever finished up on any of it, but let kids have some creative time too. They're not robots. A kid is built to do different activities, move around & use his/her brains. 6-8 hours of school every day does that just fine. Any homework that takes more than about 15 minutes to finish can be mental torture for active children. It has nothing to do with work ethics. The workload can be gradually increased once the kids grow older. It's absolutely insane to keep a kid confined to a desk after a long day of school to do more tedious, repetitive excercises for multiple hours. The small minority who are silent & obedient may go along with it for a while. You can destroy kid's minds from the inside who are active by nature & are forced to do even more schoolwork after they get home. Not even some adults have the kind of workload a lot of kids these days have. Nobody I know of personally except a teacher, even bring any sort of work home or are obliged to be reachable after business hours. Why is a child forced to do so every day for over 10 years of his/her life?