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Finally the release of Starcraft is just around the corner.
July 27th 2010.
Looks like I will have to dig up some old accounts of mine and put this on.
I will make the challenge a month after I get the game. until then, I will be re-learning
gonna be funny seeing a vet of the game 12 years later battling newbs.
do you have an edge because you already have some cool tricks? or do you risk excessive loss because you think slower and more methodical?
7/27/2010 We will see
If you are an ex Starcraft gamer from the oldschool, post your gamer tag. Maybe we can meet online and battle a few.
Sorry all, no LAN play this time. This means no local competitions. Korea is going to be upset, especially if everyone has to creat an account to be in the competitions. They played SCI like it was baseball in New York.
The tech podcast world is down to just Leo Laporte and TWIT.TV. 100s of tech podcasts done in audio only, have fallen to the side and called it quits. When we were all hoping for a new change in media, a tech Media news outlet like no other media outlet. We have a cry of failure.
it seems we are losing out on Audio podcasts. No more days dredging at work with your headphones on drowning out the world, unless you have to try and re-hip yourself on today’s music.
I’m ready to pay a monthly fee for good quality podcasts.
New media is dead.
if you know of any I mean any podcast that still exists and is worth listening to, please send the link here.
I was having a discussion of what pirating was in a forum that I typically converse in. I was having an issue with games for windows live not accepting my install cd key, the thread was created to inform the other users of said site of what betrayal i was facing from something i trusted to invest $60 into. Here is more on games for windows live having a limited install.
I said “no one pirates itunes garbage”. This person from the site gave a response that stunned me. I didn’t expect it , I didn’t believe it till the second time he stated it more clearly. He actually said “iTunes itself is free, some Apps are free, but with a jailbroken device you can find most any app you…..” it goes on a bit after that, but really. I can handle only so much. So I realized I was actually holding a conversation with someone who is brand new to the topic. This person did not see the heyday, this person got interested in computers and the internet, within the last three years. This person was born after 1994.
So I decided to make it clear for others who did not get to be a part of the boom. I give you internet history on it’s dirty side. The side that will not be in future history books.
I give you the response I gave him
You just now told me what age group you are in.
Sorry didn’t know how new you are.
Itunes the name means “music” (tunes is clue #1)
I tunes has been selling music for +5 years now.
The apps thing is quite new
Roughly 3 yearsBack in the day, music was the number one controversial pirated item on the internet.
There used to be some major hitters in the pirating world.
Napster
Limewire
winmx
Kazzaa
Almost all are gone now.
Some have resurfaced as something else.
Truly if it was not for them, the public never would have demanded greater speeds for their internet connections and we would not have the internet the way it is now. 2.0 would not have been an option. php would not have been an option, flash well it would have demised…. well in a flash.
1994-1998 Music pirating was so common that radio station djs would make their playlist at home and bring to the station these crappy assed 32-64bit overly compressed 200k songs and play them on the radio. some of us would bitch how it sounded like the music was being played in a sewer drain.
Around 2000- 2002 Itunes was announced. No one moved for the first year. because it was free. but apple played a bunch of clever commercials. by 2004 all pirating had come to a skid. there was a huge standstill, because Kazaa was seized and millions of i.p. addresses were placed public as targets of interest by the riaa..You know what… I have gone to far with this. i think I have a cool post for the tech blog… later dude.
Some of the time-line might be a tiny bit tilted, but it’s can’t be by much.
That was a very busy month for tech news. Lots of great things came, some not so great but that is almost unnoticeable. Looks like good news for the gaming world all the way around. Bad news for the business phones. Then again, no one really used palm anymore anyway.
Steve Jobs Says ” No Adobe”
Smart-phone maker Palm For Sale Would have done Motorola some good to buy out.
Free Android Phones for Adobe Employees
Nvidia, Intel vie for lead role at Apple
Nvidia Launches 400 Series cards
Rockstar Games releases patch 6 for Grand Theft Auto gtaiv
Droid Incredible Released.
In short, it’s someone who contacts you pretending to be someone else, disguised as well as possible into fooling you into believing this. They will use mail,email phone call, or direct face to face contact. in an email they will make a fake website that looks just like your bank’s website. They will send you an email to their website and the email will look like it came from your bank, they will say “hurry we need you to sign in and change your personal information because we think you have been compromised” or they will tell you to just send them your information. next thing you know, you are out of money and in debt.
This video belongs to another person I liked it so I embedded it. It gets to the point
After tweaking my computer, formatting my computer, upgrading my computer, reinstalling windows, and then reinstalling Grand Theft Auto IV at least 20 times or more this year, I got an error while installing GTAIV. The error said that I have used my cd key to many times. So I posted a message in the GTAFORUMS.com pc help message boards.
I seem to have formatted without revoking to many times.
Is there a phone number I can call to get this straightened out?
I have full disk and booklets and all that.
but can not find where it offers that help.I just don’t get it, same i.p. same email, same cd key and live does that ???? WTF is with M$ ?
neat spalsh screen
GTAIV Pc
After about an hour of searching I called Rockstar/Take Two interactive. Some guy with like an English accent answered. The tone in his voice sounded pretty sucky. He told me to go to games for windows live website and find their contact information. So I called it thinking ‘ Heck I’m an Adult I can handle this’
Nope.
I had to run back to GTAFORUMS and post another message.
Ok, well I called games for windows live.
The chump laughed at me because I said I didn’t have a 1 year old Receipt.
I asked “why can’t you just revoke all the ones assigned to my email account?”
“I’m sorry it don’t work like that”
Really? You mean to tell me that this cd key is registered repeatedly from the exact same address, exact same email account
every time I upgraded my Dang pc and this clown treats me like a teen age pirate?He is just to big of an idiot and lazy PR*ck to try anything.
Clown.
Well as it seems they will not be clearing out all of my registrations prior to today. On the phone he told me it would be 24 hours. How in the blue hell does he expect to get my receipt within 24 hours, unless I faxed it to him or emailed it to him. In that case I could create a fake one. I won’t do that, but I could. I will never buy another game that has a microsoft logo on it, ever again.
After a year I have not had a chance to finish the dang game yet. I have been dealing with a crappy operating system with a pisspoor driver process this whole time. Why do you think I keep having to format my pc?
I have had enough, I will be using Xliveless from here on out. I will do my next install on my Linux drive and run Wine. I hate to do this to Rockstar Games but I have to downloaded a cracked executable for GTAIV to make this happen. I have done it with previous GTA games I have purchased, I have to do it to GTAIV. And to send a big fat SCREW YOU to m$, I will place a how to online. I will of course not link to the crack. I may just crack it myself. For myself.
Or , I can just go back to Walmart and buy it again. Who knows. oh and fyi, the GTAIV on linux, kinda just happened right now before your eyes in this rant. i just will never call them and sit and get ridiculed by an angry little boy again.
Dang straight I will not capitalize their name, they do that enough.
Total protection from unusable computer because you can not be using your computer if its locked up or shutdown……BRILLIANT! Thank you McAfee!
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/21/mcafee-update–shutting-down-xp-machines/
Look they finally caught a virus.
Update worked !
On my original install I had the game running using live to download and install the game.
During the install I got an error
but after I closed the error window, I saw that the install was still going on.
Well later I uninstalled the game and then just installed patch 1.0.4.0. (alternatively you can do this Roll back patch without uninstall )
Played for a while.
found a link in GTAForums.COM linking to the XBOX website that allows you direct download of the 1.0.6.0 patch.
download.xbox.com/content/5454083b/tu10000083_10000b83.cab?n=F1F2863FCD63C802
Use winrar.
and I tried it wondering if there would be any issues that it would resolve by getting it this way… I have no idea what I was thinking.
but.
In actuality something good did happen. I got the full install without an error. why? because the game was not running (I guess). No errors in the install.
so now I try the game and see a marginal increase in frame rates. but now I want to see more. Call me greedy.
I go to video settings for video card (nvidia control panel,ati has it under 3d setting [sorry work pc but sure they are similar throughout])
Nvidia Control Panel
anistrop ati settings
and I go to the 3d settings and manually select GTAIV and turn off Anisotropic filtering.
LaunchGTAIV.exe
| CODE |
| “C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto IV\LaunchGTAIV.exe” -availablevidmem=.8 |
run the game from the Launch
Go to the Video settings and select “automatic”
Then go to aspect ratio and pick the size that fits.
turn texture filter to tri-linear
Setting for gtaiv defaultish
Now don’t change anything. Just save at this point and give it a try.
I would assume it will not work as well for others but it should for some
and should show a nice change for many.
The shadows look wonderful.
It will not stop the ped cars from dropping, but who cares. right? Just get the game flowing better.
It looks better than it did before the patch and plays about as good as patch 1.0.4.0 maybe a lil shakier.
I have no desire to crank the settings hire, heck it looks better already.
New York City July 16-18, 2010.
Creativity and freedom, the ability to learn what you want to learn and use what you want to use to get what you want to get as you need what you need, Keep h.o.p.e. alive. Be there.
If it was not for someone saying ” hey this needs a a button to make this better” we would have never technically evolved so much.
So it’s groups like this that keep creativity alive. Hope you go.
