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Also, since we're already in a tech-geek thread... Anyone want to take a stab at why I can't reply to the forums here in Firefox, but can in IE? In Firefox I can type in the forms and stuff, but I can't move the cursor anywhere. It doesn't show up. I only have this problem on SoxTalk, as well.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 7, 2010 -> 05:32 PM) steve, you commute with public transportation right? Do you really not see yourself within the next ten years (in ANY fashion) picking up a slate-type computing device while you are on the train or bus? I mean, i think right now it's hard to see that market. But electronics in the US are very cheap, and in ten years, this will be very cheap, or in the same price range with WAY more power and memory. But for my hour spent on the express bus each day, hell yeah i'd love to bust out a small slate and read my blogs instead of just listening to music. edit: said laptop...no way i'm takin out a laptop's bulky/openy s*** on public transport. I dunno. The iPad isn't exactly small (and the HP slate is f***in HUGE). I'd rather these things were about the size of a Kindle. And I'd rather the screens worked with e-ink instead of that glossy glass crap they're all going to have - of course, they need to figure out how to make e-ink 1080p so I can watch HD porn on the train - so I can take it to the park and read a book or surf the web or just flat out DO ANYTHING with it on a nice, sunny day.

In case the chat isn't up by gametime tomorrow, here is a temp link: http://www.anoanonymous.info/soxtalk/chatroom.html

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Apr 4, 2010 -> 06:21 PM) I hear that. I was going to get the chat software that connects with invision, but my understanding was even though it's a pain in the ass, IRC was still preferred. Again, I defer to you all - I'll help however I can (even though I've been horrifically short on time the last couple of weeks and I know I'm swamped for the next couple, but I will make this a priority... at least for now you all have something...) The flash-based chatroom I was looking at is garbage. I've PMed you a link with the java app files that we had last year for the IRC room. They're pre-configured, so just dump them somewhere on the server and show us the link.

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Apr 4, 2010 -> 07:21 PM) Well, for one, you have to download the program. That's one more step than just having a link. Next, it doesn't look pretty. Most importantly, there are no awesome sound clips to help express my emotions. Last year, it was an IRC room that worked with a Java app for anyone that didn't know IRC.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Apr 4, 2010 -> 06:00 PM) Do you all really want to do that? It's up to you guys. I love IRC, but it's a pain, and it isn't user friendly. I'll toss a link up when I have it all ready and you all can decide from there.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Apr 4, 2010 -> 05:54 PM) Thank you, sir. I just edited my post above this one. You can use mIRC to access any server and just go into that channel. BD, if you want me to host it here, let me know what you're downloading (I think when I was downloading a client I kept getting f'ed up ones because every one I downloaded kept hanging up when I went to install). If you want to keep it on your end, that's cool too. Doesn't make a damn bit of difference to me. I appreciate your help... but ya'll just remember you can access this through any server that's connected on the mIRC menu that allows access. I'll get back to you. The one I'm looking at has a lot more admin features and it looks like it'll link to the SoxTalk mysql database - which means the login here will coincide with the login there. If it does that, I'm 99% sure that the files will need to be hosted on your server. I'm installing it now on my end and looking at exactly how much it does.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Apr 4, 2010 -> 05:45 PM) Snap. You f***ing rock. That will work - but I'll still work on a soxtalk gateway to IRC... but at least there's no urgency now. Oh, and I am going to go ahead and put this link in the first post of the thread so people can reference. I'm on it. I'm checking out something a little more functional right now to see if it's worth it.

I've used it for years and I say it is 100% worth it. The picture quality is great, but it is a notch below Direct TV or Comcast HD. You also need a high speed internet connection that can handle it. If you're thinking about streaming from your computer to the TV, forget about it. You'll need to connect a computer directly to the TV. What makes it worth it for me is the extra features the software offers. You can watch multiple games at a time. You can follow your fantasy team, and, for instance, while you're watching the Sox, little notifications will pop up in the corner of the screen. (I.E. "Pujols is at bat next. Pujols homered." etc) You also have the choice to choose the home broadcast or away broadcast. Dislike the announcers? Switch the broadcast. My experience, though, they've switched their software every single year I've used it and they ALWAYS have problems with it the first few weeks of the season. You'll be able to watch the games, but don't count on the software right out of the gate.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Mar 30, 2010 -> 10:15 PM) Minimum Level: Rookie (Meant to put veteran...code of honor?) Pitching Interface: Classic (Does this just apply to me or the entire league?) If the minimum level were veteran, that would mean that everyone would have to hop online and have at least 300 points. That means their record would have to be 30 games over .500, and they'd have to be ranked in the top 200 of all online players. The pitching interface is for the entire league.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Mar 29, 2010 -> 03:54 PM) Pitching comes too easy to me, even on the hardest difficulty levels. That's why I'm doing batting. I started all over again as I didn't know, simming a season is career suicide since you won't meet any of your goals and you'll end up a utility player or cut. Since the Sox don't need a 3B, I ended up signing with the Reds as a 3B/2B-SS. Very fun and lots of putouts, but challenging defensively. I started out hitting .119, but have upped my average in three games to .174. For hitting, anyone know the tips and what to increase first that will allow me to improve fast? It's funny because they also had me play some catcher too. I think it's BS that they don't give you points for calling the pitches and getting strikeouts. First two hitters ended up with backward K's, the last one ended up K'ing on a ball in the dirt. When I have extra training points, I always dump them in vision. Vision > contact. Vision allows your hitter to pick up the movement of pitches, where as when you have a player with a low vision attribute, he'll, for instance, recognize a slider sweeping across the middle to the outside of the plate as a fastball and catch it off the end of the bat - this is completely regardless of what you actually see and know is coming. With high vision, he'll recognize that it's moving out, and he'll put the barrell on it. High vision also means you're going to foul off a lot more of those tough, borderline strikes instead of completely whiffing or hitting a weak out. Get the vision high enough, and you'll end up with base hits on pitchers pitches instead of foul balls. High vision also means you can make more mistakes with where you put your hitting zone. If you have it inside, you can still hit an outside pitch, etc. I have no solutions for those bulls*** 75 MPH changeups though. I just try to foul them off. If anyone wants to play some games online, a little friendly compettition, add me: Marv_the_Butcher. Be warned though, I play to climb the ladders, so I pitch like an asshole.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 26, 2010 -> 06:50 PM) You didn't get *too* personal for me, but I guess we both kinda went too far for what they like around here. I'm already on their watch list, so I didn't need to keep this going in a personal direction...and when the shots are going back and fourth, I can't help myself...I kinda have to respond. Years of s*** talking on Xboxlive and WoW will do that to ya. There is no stopping once it starts. But since I realized what you were talking about via me saying the steam catalog (when I didn't quite mean that), it was time to stop returning personal fire. And I'm not a fatass. Ur a fatass. Unless you play WoW, I can't challenge you at least not yet -- I haven't played an xbox game since fable 2 last year...things been collecting dust since. Edit, and I'm not THAT old. I was in the single digits in the 80's...at least for part of it. Anyone who has ever played a video game online knows trash talk. Play Modern Warfare 2 for five minutes and you have 10 year old kids calling you named you've never heard of. I'll tell you a story. I played Killzone 2 for awhile. It has proximity chat. (For anyone that doesn't know, that means the enemy team can hear you talking if you are close enough to them.) Me and a guy I used to play with used to yell a word that rhymes with mock and starts with a c every time we got a kill. I was living in an apartment complex and did this for about two weeks. I stopped after two weeks because one of my neighbors knocked on my door in the middle of the game and said, "Can you please stop yelling cock?" You're not terribly far ahead of me in gaming years. I started on Nintendo. I didn't start PC gaming until a few years ago because I'm a poor ass mo'fo and stayed on the console for years and years. My recent PC is my baby because I built it myself, and it was goddamn cheap to do, and it plays everything and does everything everyone here is complaining PC's struggle with like a champ - like video streaming. Also, I tried to play WoW twice. I got around level 50 twice, but was just painfully bored with grinding. I hate grinding and I don't play MMO's because it's all about the grind. When I play an RPG, I prefer to explore. But not explore western RPG style because they hardly reward you for it. Japanese RPGs are my favorite, and f*** Square Enix for making Final Fantasy 13 so linear. I don't own an xbox, but I'm trying to save a bit of cash to get one. I do 90% of my gaming on the PS3. But in a few months, I might not be a gamer anymore. I'm enlisted in the Air-Force and was supposed to go months ago, but they allowed me to push the date back so I could get my #1 job choice.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 26, 2010 -> 06:36 PM) No no no no no... You've misunderstood me. I don't mean the entire steam catalog of games -- I mean the entire catalog of games that the makers of steam itself owns. Ok, I get this now -- I can admit when I'm wrong, and I led you to believe I was saying something I wasn't. I shouldn't have been saying the steam catalog -- I meant Valves games. Sorry about that. I f***ed that up and I admit I f***ed that up. And I sure as hell do game still...I'm just taking time off playing many different games because I'm playing WoW still. And hey, I'm all about personal, but you're taking it a little far even for me. As much as I'd like to respond and keep it personal, I won't, this over the boundary of unnecessary now. I'm only doing this because I'm having fun doing it. I didn't think I went too far, or, at least, I didn't list my home address and challenge you to a fight and call you a fatass. But I'll take the gloves off with ya, and if you ever want to get 'pwnd' by a young'n online, let me know when and where.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 26, 2010 -> 06:13 PM) Ahh, the young, inconsiderate useless generation that think they're all that. What I said about Steam IS correct...the entire Steam catalog is coming to the Mac. That doesn't mean every company that sells games on Steam is coming to the Mac, but it does in fact mean that every game Steam owns WILL be...to say that's false information means you are once again, misinformed, or assuming I meant something I never meant. The Windows games library *is* bigger than the Mac's, I never disputed that...EVER. Hell, it's not what we were arguing about. I was arguing about the viability of the OSX platform for gaming, and today, it's just as viable as that of the Windows PC...that's not a point of contention, it's a fact based purely on hardware (both the same). That "house" you live in is tiny...maybe you need to get out more. The entire Steam catalogue is not coming to the Mac. Are you thick? Do you know how many copyright infringements that is? If they tried that, it might be the biggest copyright infringment in history - there would be thousands upon thousands of them. Steam is a distrubutor, they don't make games and they never will. Steam is owned by Valve, a developer that does make games. Therefore, the amount of games that are listed to be ported, as of now, is incredibly small because the only listed games are made by Valve. About the only up to date title Mac gamers will get is Left 4 Dead 2, and that's by Valve. But games like Modern Warfare 2? Mass Effect 2 and 3? Ghost Recon: Future Soldiers? Crysis 2? Fallout 3? Fat f***ing chance those will ever play on OSX. You're right that Mac hardware can play Windows games (for anyone who doesn't know, the Mac software cannot). I'm not disputing that and I never was. I'm picking at you because you made a claim that the Mac catalogue is, or is going to be on par with the Windows catalogue soon. It's not going to be. That's bad information and if anyone believed it, you owe them an apology, especially so since you prefaced it with your IT background. Go plug in your Amiga 500 and leave the rest of us alone. You don't game anymore, therefore you aren't a gamer just the same way as if you quit IT in 1999 and were trying to tell another IT guy that started working 5 years ago 'how it is.' Just shut the f*** up.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Mar 26, 2010 -> 05:57 PM) Enough. You both took shots at each other after Balta warned you. Ban me. I don't care. I'm going to keep taking shots at him as long as he keeps coming back. He's an arse that's just trying to defer the topic and hide behind random and pointless computer facts. The funny thing is, I don't care what he says. His argument is wrong, but even that's beside what I'm saying here. I just feel like being an asshole to him because, frankly, he deserves it. So, ban me. I could not care less.

QUOTE (name='Y2HH' date='Mar 26 @ 2010 -> 05:21 PM' post='2106440') And I'm not on a high horse -- you tried to compare your "gaming prowess" to mine, not knowing how long I've gamed, or anything about how much I game. That was you, and you got owned in the process. I believe it was you that said stick to IT, because when it comes to gaming, to stay outta your house? Of course, you then got mad when you found out I already live in that kinda house, only it's quite a bit bigger, at which point you told me I was the one riding a high horse. Ironic. No, no. I pulled you off your high horse when you pulled the IT card to gain credibility when you said that Mac's are right in line with PC's in gaming (you claimed that Mac's are getting all the new releases). I told you that just isn't true, and then you came back with false information about Steam. I again told you that you were incorrect and then where you should have said, "Oh, I guess I was wrong," you went back on your high horse and listed your gaming resume, as if anyone here cared. I'll write it as simply as I can. I'm not comparing Mac hardware to PC hardware. I'm not comparing Windows software to Mac software. I'm comparing the Windows gaming library to the Mac gaming library, and that's what I've been doing from the start. If you want to call me an idiot because I assumed you were talking about boot camp, but weren't, fine, I don't care. That doesn't hide the fact that you're a pathetic fanboy giving people false information about Mac gaming and hiding behind your resume because you were flat out WRONG when I called you out on this here topic. I'll say it again. Get the f*** outta my house, your too old for next generation gaming, grandpa.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 26, 2010 -> 01:57 PM) hey I told you i liked bouncy boobs a long time ago! where is my beer? You and I will have a bottle of scotch together. I'm back in Chicago by the way, PM me.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 26, 2010 -> 02:10 PM) I don't think so. I've been gaming since the 80's, I still game now. The only console I don't own is a PS3, but I keep thinking of getting one, just don't cuz I dislike sony. Hell, I have a mass collection of Mame roms. You are no more of a gamer than I am. Consider my hiatus temporary due to playing WoW. I have 3 PC's, a Commodore Amiga 500, an Amiga 1200, a Commodore 64 and 2 Macs, plus my consoles. I've been on Xbox live since Beta. Been to Quakecon. Been to Blizzcon. Competed at cons, even. Still have my Quake 3 jersey. Trust me, I'm a gamer. Who cares? Get of your high horse and quit throwing around your IT cards and such and lets get back to the point. Mac gaming isn't half as good as it is on the PC. It won't be for years, if ever. Just admit it and stop spewing garbage about how Mac gets all the big releases when the fact is that it doesn't. Enjoy your Mac, I don't give a rats ass. But put your fanboy cap aside for a second and quit telling people to buy Boot Camp for gaming because, frankly, it's a ridiculously expensive option to buy a Mac and the software. If it truly were the sliced bread you're making it out to be, you'd see more PC gamers do it. But 99% of them don't, and it goes beyond the operating system why they don't. Oh, and Quake 3 is from 1999. Give me a f***ing break.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 26, 2010 -> 01:25 PM) as far as i'm concerned bobd can post anything with that sig and i won't say he's wrong. Cause it's sooooo right. If we ever cross paths, I'm buying you a beer.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 26, 2010 -> 01:18 PM) First and foremost, PC gaming is slowing -- more and more game makers are going straight to console and skipping PC's altogether. So while the number of games coming out for the PC is diminishing, it's still far greater than the Mac. I never said everything that comes out of the PC comes out for the Mac in an OSX native client. But as of late, it's becoming more common for the Mac to have a native client available. Diablo 3 is coming out for the Mac at the same time as the PC. World of Warcraft did also. My point is and was, more games are coming out for the Mac now than ever before...and in the case you really insist on playing a game that is Windows only, you can boot Windows and play it. Gaming on a Mac is possible one way or another. And people who play a lot of games probably don't care about the cost of a computer...since gaming is pretty damn expensive considering the cost of most new games is 50+$. You said the Mac isnt a viable platform, you are wrong. Because it can run OSX and Windows. A Mac can be either kind of computer, a PC...or a Mac. Therefore, there are NO games your PC can play that my Mac cannot. 2 games? I'm impressed. People who do play games care about cost, by the way. Most of the gamers I know and play with are poor as s***. The PC I game on, it's custom built by myself and cost $400 with a gaming keyboard and mouse. The monitor was an extra $250. And yes, I'm fully aware that console gaming is taking turf away from PC gaming. I game on both. But PC gaming is far from dead, nor is it dying. People have been saying that for years and years now. MMO's and RTS games just don't work on the console as of now. Go with your IT talk all you want, you'll run circles around me. But when it comes to video games, stay outta my house!

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 26, 2010 -> 12:36 PM) Um, yes it is true. Steam for the MAC is coming in May, it's almost out of beta now, and the entire Steam catalog is being ported. Link me, because everything I've read says that Valve games will be ported, not the entire catalog. QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 26, 2010 -> 12:36 PM) More and more games are coming out all the time, since porting games is easy now, since it uses the same hardware. How many ports have you played? Especially recently, as in the past 5 years. They're generally a lesser product than the original. QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 26, 2010 -> 12:36 PM) And dual booting for windows only games is a completely viable option. A more viable option than buying a cheaper PC, not having to put down a few extra bucks for an "on-top" OS, and an already robust gaming catalogue? What I said still stands. Gaming on the Mac isn't on the same planet as on Windows. Whatever major releases Mac gets, they're two-three years after release, if even ever, and the number of those releases are so few to begin with. To top it off, you can forget about any 360/Windows developed games ever coming to the Mac. Steam support for Mac is a huge step forward as far as gaming goes on that platform, but this isn't some 'overnight challenge' that puts them right in the game. Valve only makes so many games. The question is whether or not they'll get the other games made by other developers. But hell, at least they're starting somewhere.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 17, 2010 -> 10:10 AM) most of the more popular games these days are coming out for the MAC anyway. Or, you can dual boot if you really care that much. The first part isn't true. The second part... just not worth it.

So, I'm gonna be flying Reaper Drones in the Air-Force.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Nov 25, 2009 -> 09:19 AM) I've just about beaten it. The only thing is that I only have about 20 of the 100 feathers for that collection. I'm sort of curious as to what happens when I collect them all, so I may have to use an internet print-out to find them all. Most likely, you'll get a trophy.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Nov 20, 2009 -> 12:05 PM) Yikes. Halo 2 online multiplayer was better. Halo single handedly made multiplayer worse across all platforms. f*** Halo.