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Kind of scary knowing that at any time a Bryant could come crashing down on us........

Name: K.Gardner Rank: SSgt. Type of issue: (Software, Hardware, Steam, Not sure) Software Brief Description of Issue: Windows 7 updates will not update, been about 2 weeks now, I have about 14 updates it is recommending, they download then I do the required restart, it gets to about 99% then says they have failed and restarts the computer automatically, tries again same thing, then it says its reconverting back to the previous settings and restarts again. Does not give me an error code when it does this. But if I go into my update history it gives a ton of them. Tried looking them up on the windows help window and it does not give me any details, and did the windows help website autofix thing they have it says it cannot detect any problems. Everytime I shut down my computer and restart it goes through the attempts again, and it starting to get annoying as my previously 30 second boot up is not taking up to 10 minutes with the update attempts. Running Windows 7 Professional, laptop is an Acer Travelmate 7730g, intel centrino2 core2 duo P8700 @ 2.53ghz, 4gb ram, 32bit operating system, Nvidia 9600m GT cuda video card. I've tried selecting just one update at a time for install, same thing still happens. I run Windows Essentials Anti Virus, and have recently done a CCleaner to see if it would pick up anything nothing found. ***Medical Supply Staff ONLY Below this line*** Current Status: (Researching, Pending Reply, Resolved, Unresolved) Main Technician: Supporting Technician:

When one quotes, or references Brown on grammar. I seem to pop back to this old quote:

diggity diggity dig!

I do but only because the house usually gets swept and mopped once a day due to the dogs being in and out all the time. Then again my floors are all hardwood, only carpets are throw carpets which can be washed or put out on the line to air. So yea I do wear shoes in the house, not all the time, but if I know I'm going out again shorlty I just keep them on.

yup it sure does, I can also see about a million Counter Strike noobs running to the store the day these are released for sale.....

It's taken populatiry in the UK I think as well, remember seeing an article about this a month or two ago.

He was back into the server this morning while I was afk for work, came back when I got a pm mentioning him. I hit him with another 1 week ban as per this thread, not sure how he keeps getting back in. Right as I banned him, I had a few pubbers mention that he was wall hacking as well, did not see this myself, but though it should be mentioned.

Name: Sex Provider Steam: STEAM_0:0:16412057 Reason: Intentional TK's, I warned him not to do it again, he was good for a while then started up again on the same map, went to kick him and he quit before I could. Recommended Duration: 3 days Demo Y/N: No, but Kanon was in the server as well.

CES is about technology of all kinds; while we're busy covering cameras, TVs, and CPUs, there's a huge number of products that fall outside our normal coverage. Austin-based startup TrackingPoint isn't typical Ars fare, but its use of technology to enable getting just the perfect shot was intriguing enough to get me to stop by and take a look at the company's products. TrackingPoint makes "Precision Guided Firearms, or "PGFs," which are a series of three heavily customized hunting rifles, ranging from a .300 Winchester Magnum with a 22-inch barrel up to a .338 Lapua Magnum with 27-inch barrel, all fitted with advanced computerized scopes that look like something directly out of The Terminator. Indeed, the comparison to that movie is somewhat apt, because looking through the scope of a Precision Guided Firearm presents you with a collection of data points and numbers, all designed to get a bullet directly from point A to point B. The PGF isn't just a fancy scope on top of a rifle. All together, the PGF is made up of a firearm, a modified trigger mechanism with variable weighting, the computerized digital tracking scope, and hand-loaded match grade rounds (which you need to purchase from TrackingPoint). This is a little like selling both the razor and the razor blades, but the rounds must be manufactured to tight tolerances since precise guidance of a round to a target by the rifle's computer requires that the round perform within known boundaries. The image displayed on the scope isn't a direct visual, but rather a video image taken through the scope's objective lens. The Linux-powered scope produces a display that looks something like the heads-up display you'd see sitting in the cockpit of a fighter jet, showing the weapon's compass orientation, cant, and incline. To shoot at something, you first "mark" it using a button near the trigger. Marking a target illuminates it with the tracking scope's built-in laser, and the target gains a pip in the scope's display. When a target is marked, the tracking scope takes into account the range of the target, the ambient temperature and humidity, the age of the barrel, and a whole boatload of other parameters. It quickly reorients the display so the crosshairs in the center accurately show where the round will go. Image recognition routines keep the pip stuck to the marked target in the scope's field of view, and at that point, you squeeze the trigger. This doesn't fire the weapon; rather, the reticle goes from blue to red, and while keeping the trigger held down, you position the reticle over the marked target's pip. As soon as they coincide, the rifle fires. TrackingPoint is quick to emphasize the rifle doesn't fire "by itself," but rather the trigger's pull force is dynamically raised to be very high until the reticle and pip coincide, at which point the pull force is reset to its default. In this way, the shooter is still in control of the rifle's firing, and at any point prior to firing you can release the trigger. In the mockups the company had on display for the press to experiment with, the action appeared to be the same—I pulled the trigger and lined up the dots and the blue plastic toy gun went click. Having the round fire when the shot is lined up rather than in immediate response to a trigger pull eliminates a tremendous amount of uncertainty from the shot. Even the most experienced shooters can upset a weapon's aim when pulling the trigger, and overcoming the reflex to twitch or preemptively move against a weapon's recoil is very, very difficult. By allowing the computer to choose the precise moment to take the shot, accuracy is greatly enhanced. Putting lead accurately on targets is only part of what TrackingPoint's PGF system does. The computerized tracking scope contains some amount of nonvolatile storage, and like an airplane's "black box," it's constantly recording the visual feed from the optics. It also contains a small Wi-Fi server, and TrackingPoint offers an iOS app that connects to the scope via an ad-hoc Wi-Fi network and streams the scope's display to the app, allowing someone with an iPad or iPhone to act as a spotter. TrackingPoint notes that for novice hunters, having the ability to duplicate the scope's picture onto an external display makes it a lot easier for an experienced spotter to give advice on how and when to shoot. There's a social media aspect, too—the scope's video recordings can be uploaded to video sharing sites like YouTube. Rather than bragging to buddies about that amazing 1000-yard shot you took at the range or out in the field last week, you can simply show them, complete with all the heads-up display data about conditions and range. TrackingPoint had one actual rifle on display in the press room, along with several mock-ups equipped with iPhones in place of scopes. The iPhones were running a simulated version of the TrackingPoint scope software, letting demo users line up their shots on polygonal deer and hogs in a landscape much like popular hunting video games. It felt a bit like playing with an "easy mode" cheat turned on, though, as it was nearly impossible to miss, even at tremendous distances. TrackingPoint is considering selling the demo software as a standalone hunting app, though from my brief experience with it, there wasn't a whole lot of challenge to felling game once you had the mark-and-fire procedure worked out. This might not make a compelling video game, but it certainly does make for an accurate weapon system. TrackingPoint says the "first shot success probability"—that is, a shooter's ability to successfully land a round on target in a single try—is drastically increased. The TrackingPoint representatives present brought this up when I commented on the necessity of buying (more expensive) ammunition directly from TrackingPoint rather than buying or loading one's own rounds. TrackingPoint contends the ability to be drastically more precise with aiming means fewer rounds have to be fired for the same effect, ultimately saving money. I asked about potential military applications, since they are obvious, but TrackingPoint was quick to downplay involvement with the Department of Defense. The "connected shooter" goal of the PGF system in many ways lines up with the Army's limping, on-again-off-again Land Warrior program. However, the very nature of the government contract and procurement process ensures that any technology developed for military use must go through an incredibly lengthy and convoluted development process, meeting shifting and sometimes outdated design goals along the way. TrackingPoint said that its goal is to produce the technology first, and then find the market and applications once it actually had something ready to go—and this is what it has done. The company is also keenly aware of the potential negative public perception right now around firearms and firearm manufactures, in the wake of recent mass-shooting events like the ones in Sandy Hook and Aurora. The three models of PGF are bolt-action hunting rifles, unwieldy for any kind of close-quarters work; the tracking system itself requires patience and care to line up and fire, and it doesn't appear at all to be the kind of thing a mass-shooter would employ. At this time, TrackingPoint indicated that it has no intention of producing a PGF system for anything other than bolt-action rifles. Hunting is a controversial pastime, but it's an undeniably popular one, and TrackingPoint is dialed in very well at its target market. The price is relatively high—the rifles start at about $17,000 (a price which includes an iPad with the TrackingPoint app pre-configured and ready to go), but that isn't a huge premium over parting together one's own rifle and precision optics. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/170...the-real-world/

Name: Huge McLargeBig Steam I.D: STEAM_0:1:3184748 Duration of Ban: Perm Reasons for the Ban: Intentional TK, even after being warned to not do it again. His reply was he wanted the gun from the person he killed. Was intenionally TKing anyone with an MG to steal their gun. "Jan 10, 2013 6:07:24 am needed your gun" Demo Provided?: Y/N No. Comments: Tried to post this in the achive, but it says I do not have permission to post there.

Asked by Jankovski to try and get a longer demo of this player, was able to today as I was afk for work a couple maps while server was semi empty. <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/ur44ou105lnxv6l/parent.dem" target="_blank"></a>

http://www.ncavf.com/what-we-do/cameras-are-now-everywhere The first major citywide security camera installations were in England, where CCTV security camera evidence helped most notably in the 2005 London Subway bombings to quickly find suspects and prevent future terrorist attacks. That success helped the use of security cameras to become more acceptable, both in England and around the world. Today in England there is estimated to be more than 1.85 million cameras, one for every 32 Britons! The average person in England on a typical day is estimated to be recorded 70 times! http://www.standard.co.uk/news/tens-of-tho...ed-6684359.html London has 10,000 crime-fighting CCTV cameras which cost £200 million, figures show today. There are now 10,524 CCTV cameras in 32 London boroughs funded with Home Office grants totalling about £200million.

Somehow does it feel to walk down the streets in England and have you photo taken an average of 100 times a minute from all the cameras? Found a decent pub yet?

Seems to have fixed itself after a recent update, although I now get the crash if I tab to look at teams before joining one, so just have to restrain myself from doing that.

Bryant, myself and Jablonski use to play quite a bit Theres a few BAR members who have it as well.

Everyone on the server experiences it at the same time, whole game pauses for about 5 to 10 seconds then starts playing again. If you open the find server window while it happens our server is not found, but others are. Has happened twice now in the last 10 mins.

For the past 30yrs or so almost every professionally played sport in the world is about money. People have figured out that the demand and popularity is so high its almost stupid not to get in on it. Yes most sports started out as things to do for fun but in todays day and age I am not surprised at how they are run. They will always be a business and will always be run and looked at as a business. True, but atleast 23 years ago the players although making some decent $$ were still playing and having fun. And donating their time to the public for free more then today, today they wont make a showing unless you pay them enough to do so. I can remember playing on the rink behind my elementary school back in the mid 80's and having Fuhr, Grant, Messier, Anderson and even a couple times Gretzky showing up and passing the puck with us kids for fun. Unannounced, no media around, just us kids and these hockey super stars on the ice having fun till the school yard lights shut off on the timers. Good luck finding that these days.

Zee pub she be empty again this morning! Where's all our regular morning players!!!!!

Meh lockout over what ever. I stopped watching NHL after the last lockout. Personally, the players, owners and the league in general needs a complete rework. It's not about the Game anymore, its all about who can make the most money for the least amount of time/games. Disbanned them all, fire everyone, then start fresh. Bring back what we last saw in the 80's and early 90's. Players who played so hard they almost killed themselves on the ice for the glory of the cup. Players that were down to earth, and on their days off would show up a local ice rinks behind schools and play with the kids unannounced. Not for the fame because the news crews are there and your gonna get your name in the paper or on TV. More great hockey players became legends in the eyes of kids in that day, now its all about the hype and how much they make. Till the NHL returns to those days they lost me and many of my friends as fans. Sure I'd probably watch the playoffs in my team the Oilers make it there, but thats about it, and even then its still a very slight probably. Unfortunately all of our professional sports are going this route, and killing the enjoyment of the game.

What do you do when your wife sugests we watch Dr. Who? I selected the look for the trap. But in the even that there is no trap/inlaws in bound, then you've found a keeper. The next logical step would be that theres an eventual threesome headed your way, as he inner Geek is starting to break through, so its a win win situation.

That series has been on Crackle for a while now, can catch just about every series on there, as I think it was a sony production so it uploads the new episodes pretty quickly.

If should as long as you included the old and new email addy's as well. It usually takes 1 to 3 days for them to straighten it all out then your good to go. If you have not done so already, I'd make your new email a gmail account or similar that you can access anywhere.

Ah k, your going to have to conact the dreaded "steam support" service then. Have a couple items handy with you if you do, as they will require proof of purchase of some form under their new rules. "If you don’t have access to the email address that is currently associated with your Steam Account please reply to this ticket..." (ie contact steam support) "...with your new email address and proof of ownership of your account: Providing Proof of Purchase https://support.steampowered.com/kb_...2268-EAFZ-9762 Please also provide the names of any email addresses you may have previously used on the account in question." fyi. Basically, when you contact support, put in your original email addy you no longer have access to explaining that to them. Include your new email address, and if they respond asking for proof of purchase, you then basically need a CD key(S), one of the receipts if you purchased anything through them, etc. To show you are who you are for that account. They then manually change it for you and resend you a verification code to your new email to click. https://support.steampowered.com/kb_cat.php?id=75

It wont let you log in with your username and passowrd? Or did you forget your password and trying to reset to an old unused email address? I had to reset mine once years ago as I stopped using the yahoo account I orginally signed up under, was a bit of a pain as you need to verify who you are with steam, luckily all of my emails have my name in them so it made it a bit easier. This link might help you: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article...=4988-DHXV-7272 But ultimately if its due to needing info from a long lost email addy account, your going to need to contact them and get them to change your account email, then go through the recovery process to reset passwords.