After being pinned up in the office for 4 hours, and of course after a big fat lunch. I was in a mood to poot around the area that I work. Almost got nailed by a cop. all is good. The trip turned out fun-ish. Didn’t do a bunch.

The whole goal was to hit 100 as fast as I could.

When I pulled out of the driveway of where I had my lunch, a constable (local cop) drove past. Funny thing, I didnt see him till he turned back around, after I had punched it for a few seconds. When I looked in rear view I saw his suburban (gas guzzling pig!) spin a u-turn. So I laid off the pedal.  by the time he got his radar up and going, I was at a nice 45 mph cruise. You will hear the radar detector really loud. It was right next to the camera. I stopped at light to turn, he stopped behind me, then turned back the way he was headed in the first place. I punched it again .  

Just burning off bad gas.  There, I’m echo friendly

I love my radar detector.

I was watching a YouTube video about how some guy stumbled upon a GTA IV offer on
Take Two Interactive’s Web site here. It’s fake and I could explain how simple and the 500 ways you can fake it, but hey if you are dumb enough to believe it (after what I have to show you), then hey, you will not understand me.

OK. While watching the address to the links he was clicking, and since it was blurry and all I had to go through and click all of the same links to bring me to page that did not exist. it led me to the lawsuit it received for the last game it put out for PC.
It seems Rockstar and Take Two will not be participating in the whole (edit my stuff) game anymore.

the page is addressed in his bar.

That will take you to a page that has one link in it and it mentions GTA.

You might want to read what it says.

Class action suit
There have been two games that have not made pc. it has been four years since we got to w.a.s.d. up down left right space bar shift ctrl 0  e-q and of course “R” to change to the closest lazlow show.
left click right click and  spin the scroll wheel to find our favorite gun, or just hit the hot key we assigned.
The only way I could any hope or faith, is if there was an announcement of the cities being released for pc while we wait for a better graphix and bugs fixed version of IV to be ported   but that won’t happen.

I am sorry but the loud mouths that scream about what they think would be a better future have finally upset me.

It always seems it’s the people who have so much money they have time to open their mouth in the public and not worry about losing time off at work, who scream the loudest. This bothers me. These are the people who can afford a guided trail through the wilderness past tamed trained animals and feel some sort of lesson is learned about life . These people live in a rose colored bubble and live rental experiences. They should not be considered the sane voice of the public. Bio-pod filtered existence with an occasional chaperoned life should not be the voice of the sane public. There are people who are down here in life’s trenches feeling and seeing and living what they called “an experience.” These should be the voice of the majority.

OK. With the rant out of the way…

I was watching the news and I see these people. These baby skinned big head short armed (naturally born into many years of money lack of labor = shorter arms “V” shaped shoulders) people crying about some sort of gun control for their state.

I myself do not have gun. I buy my food, no need to hunt. As an American we have a right to bear arms . If you want to change that right, then you are not willing to fit in as an American. To me it is lazy and half heartedly thinking, to tell people they should not be able to have their own gun.

See this is where a less than middle class person shows he has more common sense. Sense enough to think of a solution as apposed to cry about “IT’S BROKE I DON’T LIKE IT FIX” Mentality of the bubble life lipo colony that calls itself “upper class.” I will give you a simple solution as a simple spark to start a real fire. Instead of deleting a major line of foundation writing into the right of our country and what people have been fighting and dying to protect, how about you clowns figure a way to control the people who walk around with guns? I don’t have all the answers but mine trumps being so lazy as to deleting a piece of our history to satisfy your temporary desire. You delete one line, we lose them all, eventually.

Simple enough, how about LoJack embedded in the metal of all guns sold from here on out?

See I am not into the idea of tracking people. It’s that dang gun I worry about. Heck yeah, that stupid GPS you can’t live without gives you a signal of a bad neighborhood simply by a huge cluster of red blinking lights. HA!

The right to bear arms = hide the gun. Who cares, we see it on Google maps. So does the officer and he knows ahead of time and is prepared before he shows up.

Go ahead, toss it in the lake. My Garmin GPS will find it within seconds.

and the sales man of the whole deal

Did a search and found one for free.

Not that bad. I mean the videos only come out as good as they go in. Meaning if the flash video is junky, the video will be junky.

here is the disclaimer and links located in the read me within the zip file that the converter is in

Name: Pazera Free FLV to AVI Converter
Version: 1.1
License: Freeware (for commercial and non-commercial use)
Date: January 5, 2008
Author: Jacek Pazera
E-mail: jacekpazera@wp.pl
Web page PL: http://www.flvtoavi.glt.pl
Web page EN: http://www.flvtoavien.glt.pl

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

There is another File within the zip , turns out to be a codec pack.

Zip is

“Pazera Free FLV to AVI Converter 1.1″. Took all of about 10 minutes to confert a 45 minute flash video.

Taking a break from designs and such. Taking a time out to play some multi-player grand theft auto.

For ever the guys at MTAVC.com have been my hook up. But now I see that the guys at Sa-mp are ahead in their game.

So now I am sitting around playing Grand Theft Auto San Andreas with my son. It seems nice to go back to ol` san andreas and sanfiero and play some , well I have no idea what to call this. First person shooter action racing?

Anarchy?

200 people and it’s every man for himself?

As far as we know right now, GTA 4 will be released for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 at the same time on April 29th. The hold up that prevented the game from being released on the 16th of October 2007 was that Sony wanted the same content at the same time as Xbox, as opposed to being released in patches. There was talk from The Rockstar camp that there would be special Internet related content for each console. The content was supposed to be console specific. It turns out that is not the case now. Neither console camp could agree with what they had been assigned as “special content.” Now it looks like the only online content we will see is media and special in game ringtones, for the phone you use in the game, and or notifications of when content is ready. Really it is unclear what they are saying so please do not hold this to heart.

Read more on iworkwithtech.com.

What was leaked… became. But no one got excited.

I assume the excitement was killed from overanticipation.

Well they are creating a music service from 4 record labels and maybe more.

[CNET: As expected, MySpace unveils new music service]

Executives from MySpace officially announced the creation of MySpace Music, a service that will be jointly operated by News Corp.’s MySpace and, at least initially, three out of the four top record labels.

[Podcast: Buzz Out Loud 696: So Say We All]

From Here

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Gas Protest Meetup

Speak Out!!!

Boycott fuel prices

New Jersey had balls,

We have oil companies Soaking us up.

We pay out every hole in our body to pay $3.5 a gallon because what ever excuse the oil companies can come up with. Meanwhile the oil executives claim major profits. They tell us they are hurting and that any changes in the human favor would cause them a loss.. yeah a loss of what ever they where greedily gaining. Ask the cashiers in the gas stations when the last time was they received a raise. This will make you cry, especially if he tells you how very little he really makes. Even better, go apply for a job in a gas station and see how much they offer you
Why are we accepting these excuses? why is this something we are just shrugging our shoulders about and saying”what can I do?”

The only choice is to buy out shares and make a profit also. but with the gas prices as they are we could only break closely to even. Anything over $1.85 a gallon is stupid .

Sad thing is, the same people who are selling you gasoline at 3.5 a gallon are the same people who sell you tiny bottles of water at $2 a little bottle. It’s your stupid health trends that are killing you. Don’t believe me? next time you buy a bottle of water in a gas station. Your stupid ass will remember this. THEY KNOW HOW MUCH YOU ARE WILLING TO SPEND ON JUST WATER!

30 dollars gets you 8 gallons of gas… enjoy.!

This is as bad as doctors running their buttPirate activities on you ….. BECAUSE, you have to have them.

We can all go to gas stations and apply for the job in a gas station, and then all go on two hour breaks every three hours and disable the gas pumps . For one we will go on strike for the prices of the fuel, and we will fight for the littler people who work for them companies and make almost 6 dollars an hour to sell gas at 3.5 a gallon.. and when we get fired, walk to the next gas station and do it again, just don’t use the last one as a reference.! Bring cell phones and record the whole thing. Just remember you are not there to hold a job, you are there to make a point. would be nice if retirees would do this for everyone and make a huge mark! But i wouldn’t mind being a part of this also.

If the cops show up say it was a computer error. To make the matter worse, hit the emergency stop button and cause the fuel to drop into the emergency hatch in the lower tank. This takes a little while longer to recover and causes the fuel industry to pay another person to come out and fix the matter.

added 4/3/8

Gas Protest Meetup

Speak Out!!!

Boycott fuel prices

New Jersey had balls, to bad the idiots did it on April 1st… Not very effective..

I heard On Zrock that a gas truck flipped in the same spot as a milk truck last week, bad intersection?… Or beginning of a movement?

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If you have any suggestions, send em to me. or just say what you feel about this subject.

Off the bat, I have to tell you, I do not have the fastest or the best machine in the world.
I have a machine that is at the max processor and ram for the motherboard’s capability.
Here are the specs for the machine I am using.
Sis 755 A-2 Motherboard
Sempron 3400+ 64 bit Processor
Nvidia 7600GS 512 mb
2 Gigs kingston 3200 ddr Memory
Sony cd/dvd burner
500 watt power supply

Ok for the past 7 or 8 years, The way I have benchmarked computers and operating systems Would be by playing Grand Theft auto III.
Of course I have since then added vice city and San Andreas to the mix. But GTAIII Is the benchmark for me. If you do not like the game sorry
But please hang with me on this.
For a long time I fought trying to make my computers strong and sturdy enough to handle the demands this game calls out. Computers these days are actually strong enough to handle these demands.
After the install of just straight vista drivers I went to pcpitsop and did my first benchmark of my machine. The score was pathetic. I kind of knew what would happen after I installed gtaIII, But I go ahead and start the game. Before the load screen I get a notice saying that there is some sort of dll missing (sorry all, I did not write it down) . I then hear the game start up but minimized in the task bar. I click the notification and the game takes over the screen. I see this look that took me back to the days of 256 megs ram and nvidia 440 on a 800 meg processor. This game looked wretched. But what do you expect with o/s drivers and not vendor drivers? Well since it’s a newer o/s than XP, I would expect better results than xp, not similar to win 98 on a crap machine. Very pixilated simi laggy but not as laggy as you would think with the way it looked.
After the drivers had been installed I start GTAIII again. Again it gave me the notice of missing dll. When the unnamed player in gtaIII walked out of his hide out I noticed artifacts. The garage was covered with imaging from the walls adjacent to the Entry to the garage. The player had openings so you could see through him in many places. I moved on and walked into the garage and drove the banshee down the ocean blvd to check how the game (typically) lags (with bad bad drivers or bad hardware) as you drive under objects, like the over head train, and trees and bridge. The game was very jaggedly laggy and objects where not being displayed properly.
After the gtaIII test I tried the other two Grand Theft Auto games and got the same mess. I swear the game looks better and plays better on linux with just the linux basic drivers, but the lag is way worse on Linux.
So I did searches for help forums and the like. I found that allot of people with the 7000 series nvidia video cards had similar issues. I never found a solution that worked. No, using older drivers did not help. Until sis/ecs releases more than one gart driver I am pretty much stuck in the same spot.

I did notice that the fonts on websites looked a bit bigger than when on xp.
As much as I enjoyed the looks of Aero (makes me think of Ubuntu) I decided to try turning it off. I used Black Viper’s tips from his tweak site .
The game did not change. and my bench score on pcpitstop only went up 10 points from the first test with base drivers.

Vista test was done 3/29/08. So please wait a few months before you tell me they fixed the operating system. I did try all online update and nothing got better that I could witness myself.
I am now back on xp and my machine runs three times a fast. using the same direct version as I used on vista.. 9.0c

“Amazon is lending its digital music service as a special feature for the much-anticipated upcoming videogame “Grand Theft Auto IV,” allowing gamers to download music discovered via the game’s soundtrack.”

From here

In sum it says that you can get cell phone (in game) notifications and emails about your favorite songs in game.

That is the online content it boasted?