ohio_wookie

I was under the impression that you have to tell the police that you have a permit even if you dont have your firearm. otherwise i think you can get into trouble if the run you and it comes up that you have a permit. I was also under the impression that if you break any of the rules like the open carry rule, its an automatic felony. I could be wrong, but i still wouldnt want to give them the chance to take my permit away.

I think so, but i dont think he ran my plates. also they're leasing plates so i dont know how that works because the plates arent registered to me they are registered to my dads business.

its nice though, i think having my concealed carry got me out of a ticket in cleveland last friday. officer came up and was real mad that i was driving 45 in a 25 (i didnt know the speed limit) and as soon as i told him i was packing with a ccw he became really cool and just told me to slow down, didnt even ask to see my insurance or anything. but im sure there are the cops out there that would use it against you.

http://www2.wcoil.com/~lpd/Concealed%20Carry%20Sign%20thumb.jpg What I was told by the guy who was teaching my class was these signs technically don't apply to people with a ccw. because if you notice the part where it says "Unless otherwise authorized by law" so if you have your permit you are authorized by law. But I still pass out those no gun no money cards and just avoid those places. but really is a pain in the but trying to figure out whether or not your aloud to carry in certain places. Hell i went to West virginia today and was walking around the mall when i realized i wasnt aloud to have it in WV (or at least i dont think i am. <-- point proven http://www.cremationofcare.com/images/humour_no_weapons.JPG

Well watching the news, it looks as though we have been in WWIII for some time.

I think the big point of that software is that its intended for classroom use, and situations where you are in a company where you have to describe the effects of stuff to say the president of your company that doesnt know shit. and it would definatly help some people pay attention in a physics class. the other thing their trying to get at is the idea that the program knows what to do based on very simple instruction. all though you might not think this program is useful, its implementation might be a hell of a lot more useful to you in say a program that you could design an engine part, put it on a fully functional simulated engine and have the computer know exactly what everything should do, and how that new part you just added should affect it.

there something we can agree on. it is a shame that it will end like this. ive been a playstation fan scince the first one came out over 10 years ago. but i guess that its ok seeing that at least when next 'next gen' systems come out there will be one less console to chose from. what could end up sucking is if nintendo and microsoft got into bed together, they have both been telling everyone to avoid the ps3 and spend the same amount of money on a 360 and a wii. if that happens microsoft will have a monopoly on video games.

The Cells power core is the same power core as the 360s ibm ppc, so they share the same exact instruction set. what your thinking of is the amount of instruction it takes to send the floating point information to the spes. which the spes floating point performance (which doubles that of the 360s) completely out weighs the few more instructions. and even though this all becomes complicated the compiler takes care of everything. theres only a few things that the coders have to deal with. and as far as every one still getting used to the multithread programming, the 360 and ps3 programmers are going to face the same challenges. i understand where your coming from with the blu ray stuff, but like i said before im just going off possiblities.

that is awsome! i would use it.

one more thing, i just read that the hd-drive for the xbox isnt going to be used for games anyway.

Thorne, as far as the cell processor goes, theres no problem with multithreading. the whole basis of the processor is multithreading, thats how its 7 spes are used. and the instruction set is actually more flexible than most because it uses the existing power based risc instruction set that the xboxs processor uses, plus the spes have their own specific instruction set. the 'slow' part of the cell processor is its actual power core but this is used more for general control of the processor which doesnt need to run fast. but the part that makes it faster than most is its spes where all the intensive processing takes place. which is where most games spend most of their time calculating speed, direction, size, ai and most of the other little things that go on under the hood of the game. the problem with though is the skill of the programmer. although the processor is fast, its complicated and can easily be made slow depending on the algorithims used. all of my opinions are based on the possiblities and not what is actually going to happen. just like the bluray discs, its all about possibilities, which usually dont get explored because people like ea run the business and they are more interested in their profits than the quality of their games. and as far as what fits on discs I understand that a good amount of space is taken up by audio, and the 'world' dosent take up much, its what goes into the world that makes it large. where a high poly golden gate style bridge could take anywhere from 8 - 20 megs (including textures) depending on the over all quality. then include cars, horses, characters, high poly trees, and any other objects you could think of that would be lying around. the size of the over all objects and textures start to get really big. then you have the actual game programs which are getting incredibly big now with games like quake 4 getting into the realm 900,000 pages of code. theres a couple of reasons why you dont see multi dvd games. one is space management, even though you and i may have near a terabyte of hard drive space the average game player has around 100 - 200 gigabytes of space, so if companies were to start selling 10,20,30,40,50 gig games that take up a good percentage of you hard drive, and the average gamer has more than 4 games installed and upwards to 10 on their computer at once theres no way that people are going to want to go threw the trouble of installing these huge games everytime they want to play them. then you have the most likely reason for this, money. companies dont want to put anymore money into games than they have to, so if they can get away with putting fewer programmers and artists on a game, they are going to do it. and if they need to make a multi dvd game opposed to a single dvd game, they couldnt sell it for more the consumer wouldnt stand for it. than thats $.75 per dvd times the hopeful couple of millions of copys sold, and all that extra time put into making the models and crazy ai that they have to pay those programmers and artists for, having anywhere from 50 programmers to 150 programmers all making $55,000-$100,000 a year and the artists doing about the same. thats is just not going to be financially beneficial for the company. and if microsoft is releasing a hd-dvd drive for the 360 Great! another thing i have to buy for my 360 thats going to cost of $100-$200 unless microsoft isnt willing to take a blow,if thats the case than its going to be even more expensive, then its starts getting into the ps3 price range and possibly higher. and personally i dont know how great that would be anyway, because unless they want everyone to buy a new 360 they are going to have to have it connect via usb, unless they modify the HD connector, or actually make it an upgrade, which i definiatly dont see. and as for the market place, im talking about the actual software that runs it and its servers and all that good stuff. i heard that it was all 3rd party software. and if im wrong i apologize thats just what i heard. again my conclusion that i come to so often, its just my opinion. and when i see those think of those technologies, being a junior in game simulation engineering, i think more of the possibilities in forming my opinion, and less of what the most likely outcome is going to be.

well, personally i dont like my 360. the only game worth playing on it so far (imo) is saints row. and one game on a $400 dollar system isnt worth it to me. and i dont like the xboxs technology. i love the ps3 specs, but its going to be more expensive than the other two (though worth it), you can also look at it as a cheap blu ray player seeing as the ps3 is going to cost half the average blue ray player. and there is only a hand full of games coming out for it in the next couple years that even look worth trying. not a huge fan of the wii technology, but the games coming out for it look amazing, like zelda: twilight princess, xcite truck just to name the two that i will be getting at first. plus another thing is the fact that microsoft doesnt own the rights to the marketplace software that allows you to download updates demos and special game stuff. so you will definatly see something extremely similar (if not the same) on the ps3. and in argument for the ps3 yes its extremely hard to code for, but so is all new technologies. and i applaud sony for being the only company to actually go with making a 'next gen' system. and also, every body makes a fuss about $80 blue ray games, you have to realize that the ps3 dosent do just blue ray disks, it does still read dvds. so most of the games released on the ps3 are going to be on dvds and sell in the same price range as the xbox360 games. plus the ps3 will actually be backwards compatable with all playstation and ps2 games. unlike the xbox360 which is only backwards compatible with the most popular xbox games, and thats even iffy. and in argument for the blu ray, just think about the amount of information that can fit on that disk. up 50GB i believe. the kinds of things that they will be able to put on those disks will be amazing. i can see worlds MUCH larger than san andreas for games of the like, and the oblivion world will look tiny in comparison. and with the new found processing power that dwarfs the 360, and all this extra storage space you will also see some phenomenal ai an physics seen in new games. now this is all up to the developers. but the potential is there. but as far as racing games, test drive unlimated is my favorite. but a SE version is coming out for the pc so i have stoped playing it and am waiting for that. and PGR3 sucks, no ai and alot of the car models are really off and look really low quality. save the few high poly models. its like they were trying to make everything really detailed, finished 4 cars and then realized "we dont have enough time lets just copy the original crapy pgr models". after all that my vote is for the wii just because of the game selection.

It was probably perceived as ricey, but I put Kanji decals on my car. but I did that when I was taking Japanese. and they only lasted a few days because I started thinking they were ricey. and I had a bumper sticker that said "street racing is not a crime".

I was listening to some White Zombie the other day and noticed that in a quite creepy voice there are Walk the Line lyrics in Real Solution #9.

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Haven't had the chance to play it online yet. but so far its is extremely good. The handling is amazing and the car selection might be sparce they are really cool cars, and there arent really any 'crappy' cars like civics and such. and you can go to the dealerships and test drive the cars. and the map is huge! i have yet to be further than the one part of the island just because it would take nearly an hour to drive to the other side. and there are these car delivery missions that require you to safely drive a car from point a to point b for people, it pays alot and you get to drive really cool cars at the begining of the game and they are a one shot deal if you quit it, or dont complete it theres no coming back to it later. the bad parts of the game are, so far all i have found you can do to modify your car is to have packages installed so theres no adding turbos or superchargers or anything like that. and its only our for the xbox360 which i dont know if its the actual game or the controller but at times at really high speeds (170ish) the left thumb stick becomes slow to respond. i say its a must have game for the driving game fans.

hence it being a WAR!!!! sorry about the loss

i played zelda wind waker for about 5 hours, then i switched to guitar hero for 5 hours, which on my first day of playing it i got a 104434 points on thunder kiss '65 on hard. then there was some time spent on my computer. and all this time was spent alone in my house but on a plus note, this was a great driving labor day for me back and forth from portsmouth to columbus and i drove around columbus, and no tickets. my first ticket ever was on labor day weekend.

os x is a good gateway drug to unix/linux how well does it run?

thats really cool, but i dont see any practicality to it.

What has always worked for me is to tell them "look my insurance sucks and i cannot take any points or they will jack up my premium. I understand i was in the wrong and i have no problem paying the fine, its just the points im worried about." they will usually reduce the charge, and the fine. i had a charge of 46 in a 35, 0 visibility and snowing (i was passing) it was a $100+ fine 2 points i think, the judge knocked it down to 55 in a 50, $5 fine 0 points. its not "winning" but you have a better chance then just getting out of it.

This time it was just a bigger box, it was invisible and it had a conveyor belt.

its all about your video card, xgl runs on your gpu opposed to your cpu. it runs great on my x1900xt

you have to use the key fob to lock and unlock the doors. that was the only way i could find on my cherokee

this one shows some more of the really cool features http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDArLR6FIzA&mode=related&search=