Posted 11/21/2009 at 10:45:00pm

 I personally wouldn't mind seeing STO be kinda like EVE Online in the way losses are done. I played Eve for four years and enjoyed the hell out of it, but it got to the point where large Corporations and Alliances were holding so much space, it was rather boring after a while. You could either be near the n00b's or be in 0.0 space where your ahip could be lost due to the way Corps and Alliances were manning gates or, you could be caught up in 0.0 for weeks just trying to get out without losing shit. Like I said, it got boring.

The only MMO I've played is Eve. The Wizards and Warlocks shit simply do not appeal to me in the slightest. So I really hope STO builds on the fun factor of Eve and learns to stay away from some of the fubar factor of Eve.  

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Posted 11/20/2009 at 11:26:21am

 You choose to wear a shoe that wasn't your size.

In other words, my comments weren't posted towards you in the least. They were directed towards someone else entirely. 

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Posted 11/20/2009 at 11:18:00am

 You can talk about the ability to hack the Xbox. You can talk about the reasons why others hack the Xbox. But straying into talking about how you've hacked your XBox and now you're downloading pirated software is a no-no. It's a fine line and I should have explained it better. 

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Posted 11/20/2009 at 09:05:00am

I just don't see that thing taking off for now. It still needs a power plugin and if you have to plug in a dongle, why not just plug in a USB cord instead and vastly improve your transfer rates?Not only that, but since it's only accessible by one person, the one with the dongle, what's the point?

This is something that will appeal to a select few. It will actually be useful to even fewer IMO.

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Posted 11/18/2009 at 07:32:51pm

This whole thing really pisses me off. It hasn't happened to me personally, but if it did, I would sue the living SHIT out of the company that sold my credit card info without my consent! If there's something buried in the deep recesses of their fine print, I'd sue their ass for making it too complicated for everyday customers and sue for the selling of my information. That is nothing but pure thievery. 

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Posted 11/18/2009 at 02:28:10pm

 Any more talk of hacking to allow you to play pirated software and I'll start swinging the banhammer folks. Just stop it right now. The rules we have in our forums apply to this area too. 

-QD

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Posted 11/18/2009 at 10:28:00am

Some of you are making inappropriate comments. Some of you in particular have a history of making inappropriate comments and using language that isn't acceptable. Mature, use better judgment and if the shoe fits, wear it.I'm a Moderator in the forums and now, at the request of Will Smith, moderate here as well.

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Posted 11/18/2009 at 08:40:46am

ATI has NOT always had the best drivers. For MANY years, ATI drivers really sucked when you were trying to upgrade from one set to another. And then many sets of ATI drivers just plain sucked. This hasn't been true for the last three or so years though.

Posted 01/25/2009 at 01:35:44pm

I like WindowsXP as much as the next geek. But the reality is drivers, or the lack of capable ones, has the large majority of the blame on Vista's horrid launch. If it weren't for such bad driver support, in large part due to Microsoft taking so long to provide Dev's with the needed tools to write them, Vista would have launched just like XP did. Thousands of people whining about how they are going to keep using Win2KPro for life.

Ever since the drivers started being properly written, and a couple of Pre-SP1 updates, Vista has been smooth as silk. After SP1 came out, everyone in the business has to shut the hell up about Vista. To keep going on about it now is pointless. It has been proven all over the major review sites that Vista is currently performing at about the same level as XP. Now if people want to keep on complaining about not being able to run Vista on five year old hardware, we will never get to the next level of OS evolution because MS and others will be too afraid to push the envelope of OS development. If you can't afford the newer hardware, then don't buy the damned OS. 

Posted 01/22/2009 at 07:18:39am

Some very good info here in this article! Sure to bring in some traffic for the site. The only thing I would add to this is an additional 1GB USB key. They are cheap enough to use instead of CD's now a days and I have one key dedicated as an Ultimate Boot CD, http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

Put the .iso on the USB key and roll without a scratcheable CD to worry over. You can also use this on site to make a CD in case you have a puter that won't boot from USB.