Oh yeah because admins have a choice in what they are administrating...I'm not sure what world all you guys work in but the one I'm in some fat cat desk jocky that doesn't work or possibly never worked an admin position makes the decisions on what software we use and doesn't care what you want to run. You admin what your told not what you want to.

If I had mod points I'd mod you out of flamebait status...I've tried to say something similar to this on slashdot before and got railed for it. However dirty and underhanded the tactics of the lawyers may be..pirating is theft slashdotters just have a hard time accepting that.

My job provides me with a Samsung Omnia II since I'm on call 24/7...and I have been very happy with this phone and impressed with the WinMo experience. I haven't had any problems with it. It rarely locks up, runs fast, web sites load fast...I often receive my email on my phone before I get it in my Outlook box on my desktop. I don't see why everyone hates WinMo. With the Omnia II's custom interface I NEVER use my stylus...the only thing I could wish for is a physical keyboard because I hate texting on touch screen keyboards. I would recommend the Omnia II to anyone especially someone new to WinMo. I mean really, if you have used Windows the learning curve with WinMo isn't that great.

I hate it for you if you don't want your kids hearing things you find offensive while you walk around in public. I can see where you are coming from but I guarantee you he hears the same things or much worse when he is at recess with his little friends in school. Trying to protect children from this kind of thing is futile. The language kids used when I was coming up through school in the 90s - early 00s was MUCH worse than anything I heard or saw on TV. The playground was like Robocop 2 on steroids (* if you haven't seen Robocop 2 or haven't seen it in a while I think whoever wrote the script through each sentence had to have at least a minimum of 2 curse words ). The best you can do is just try to teach your kids what you think is decent/indecent and hope for the best. Unless you lock them up in your home and home school them they will always be exposed to far worse things from their classmates than they will from the media.

From everything I'm reading from you guys that have played the game.....it doesn't sound like an Amazing game. It sounds like an incredibly easy game with a joke of a combat system that just has pretty graphics/art. Haven't played it but just from reading several of the comments it sounds like the Fallout 3 combat system was much more superior. ( I really enjoyed combat in Fallout 3 ). One of the things in Fallout 3 that made the game challenging was finding ammunition....being one of the main reasons I believe most players leaned heavily on VATS. It does help the immersion factor though, I mean, ammunition would probably be hard to come by in such a situation. I really enjoyed Fallout 3 and how easy it was to sink into your characters role. I remember I started one character and was going to be a good guy....then I saw the Sheriffs weapon in the first town you come to....started another character the first thing I did when I rolled into town was offed the Sheriff and took his gun then continued to slay a lot of the towns folk. It was fun playing an evil character in Fallout 3. Hehehe, I can't remember the title I ended up with but my karma was WAY low. I was like Dreadlord of the Waste or something. I'm still waiting for Fallout 3 to drop below $40 on the PC so I can buy it. Me thinks combat would be alot more fun with a mouse to aim instead of a stupid PS3 joystick ( which made me lean heavily on VAX ). It was fun playing a melee/small guns stealther. Get the flame sword thing sneak up behind a Brute and one shit him with VATS.

If it were only that simple.......some people I swear. So when all corporations have crazy external personal conduct rules that no one in there right mind would agree to do you just starve? I'm wondering how this works in the current economic situation is it really that easy to find another job that pays enough to maintain your current financial obligations? Last time I checked a lot of people were happy just having a job. Most Americans currently do not have the luxury of being so sought after they can just up and quit there job and have another one the next day. That comment reeks of 'still living in mom's basement'.

I feel your pain. We are trying to kill the Fox in my shop to. We still have some stuff on Fox 2.5 OUCH!

50% Homework / 50% Tests?!?!? In my college math courses you were often lucky to have 10 problems on the test. Most of the time you would have something like 8. If you missed one questions, there goes your A grade. Completing a CS degree at the University I went to left you 2 or 3 courses short of a BS in mathematics and the math department was not easy at all......so if you sucked at math, well, there went your GPA. Some classes you'd have 6 questions on the test. I WISH they counted our homework towards our grades. Then again, we had quite the evil math department for a small university. The students who made good grades were excellent mathematicians.

When I was an undergrad we had a Spanish presentation we had to present infront of our classes...in Spanish. So this one group of students wrote there power point up in english, went to a translator site and translated it...problem was, they went to the French translation instead of the Spanish. So these 3 idiots stood up in front of the class reading these French words the way Spanish should be read and pronounced. No one said anything, when they were done the professor commented, "That would have been really nice, if it was in Spanish.". Everyone died laughing. What a bunch of tools.

In the past few months I've had some checks stolen. All the checks were used at the same grocery store and they used the electronic scan thing where they pretty much run the check kind of like they do a debit card. I went to the grocery store ( Harvey's Supermarket....I'm outing them because of how shady this is.) the same day I noticed the check was ran and asked the manager if they still had the check because I wanted to see how it was signed. He told me they do not keep copies of the checks and explained the electronic system they use. I asked him 'So you guys don't ask to see identification when someone is writing a check?' ( I personally believe anytime a check or debit/credit transaction is made presenting an ID should be required. ) his reply was.....'Well, we use to, but then I ended up spending so much time in court because of all the people we were catching writing fraudulent checks that we quit checking IDs'. So I'm like 'So, you quit checking IDs because you were catching so many people?'....his reply...'Well, I know it sounds bad but yeah.'. So I'm like, 'Well that is just great.'. It's pretty obvious if you check someones ID and the name on the ID is not the same as the name on the check that something is up. I mean, come on....your catching people and have to go to court over it so you just stop checking? What kind of shit is that? It really sucked, they don't have a copy of the check, do not keep the original check and since they do the electronic scan I can't see a copy of the check with my online banking ( like every other check I write ) so there was no way to do anything about it. I was pretty much assed out of quite a bit of money and ended up with a couple of bounced checks which ended up costing me more money because of the fees that bounced checks incur. I ended up having to cancel quite a few of my checks just to make sure I wouldn't have more of them written fraudulently which cost me more money. It was a total let down because my bank would not reimburse me and Harvey's Supermarket were surely not going to reimburse me. I was just shocked at the logic. I'm sure there is a good car analogy for this situation but I'm not to good with car analogies....maybe something like the police saying.....'Well, we kept catching people with stolen cars when we set up a roadblock in this neighborhood, it was causing us so much paperwork and court time so we decided to just stop setting up roadblocks in that area.' What a bunch of hosers!

I'm suppose to have VA Healthcare I was discharged out of the Army being 40% disabled. Yeah....I'm still on a waiting list to get it started more than 5 years later. I haven't heard anything from the VA about it either, they send me my monthly check and that is it. Your suppose to have to go back every year to get re-evaluated, even that isn't happening. From what I've seen so far from my experience the VA is utter fail at the moment.

FoxPro? Yeah scary stuff.

When I was like 2 years old the eye doctor told my mom to buy me an NES to help exercise my eye ( I had a lazy eye ). Well, the NES fixed my lazy eye and I believe helped me build problem solving skills and helped my education. I spent ALOT of time playing NES as a child and believe it contributed to my reading, writing and mathematic skills. I had a few educational games ( The sesame street one ) but mostly played other games like Mario and stuff like that. I could see where blowing your entire afternoon playing playstation could have an adverse effect on learning....I guess it really depends on what kind of games you are playing. It seems to me though that heavy text based games or strategy games that make you think would be beneficial.

I actually read an article once about some cannibals who said that the Japanese taste the best, especially Japanese Women. Pretty crazy!

This is what I wish people understood. It wasn't EASY being a PK, there were consequences that deterred people from doing it. Alot of people on here either never played or have forgotten about stat loss that PK's incurred upon death. If you went red dying was one of the worst things that could happen to you. The grind from 90-100 of any real skill in UO took alot of time, it wasn't something to be taken lightly. I remember there was this PK that lived a little north of the mining shack we had, he would try and grief us from time to time. One day we got the drop on him and killed him like 2 times. Screwed him all up. Needless to say, he wasn't much of a threat anymore after stat loss got through with him.