Dan Greene

Dan Greene

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Reply to Is gaming really evolving? in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

They are evolving, but the pace has slowed when you consider the volume of money in the marketplace. No longer are major new genres or concepts introduced at a steady pace. Also most of the new stuff is just rehashes of older games, albeit with better graphics and improved interface as you suggest. They sometimes don't include enough flavor of their own to really be remarkable. I'm speaking largely of PC gaming. What is evolving rapidly is the way in which we move the data, originally

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Reply to Man enough in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

"(Apparently shoving isn't violence.)" I was in highschool when Columbine happened. It was as surreal as aliens making themselves known to us Earthlings. Teachers were freaked, not freaked but the rules and new procedures the drills that administrators were forced to come up with, the realization that the negatives of the "gun culture" were indeed possible and in fact, very probable to continue became a reality. The real vulnerability of a school became a reality in the eyes o

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Reply to Do You Have Guns In Your House? in Politics JoeUser Forums

"70 miles down the road with 2 adults and six kids crammed in a Buick LeSabre isn't practical, Dan." So one adult stays home with 5 of the children, the other drives the one needing a checkup to your medical professional of choice. It's a trade-off between whats important to you. There are always excuses but you made the case that there were no options. I'm not splitting hairs with you here Gid, but there are always options, whether or not they appear practical, what's more im

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Reply to Supreme Commander in Real-Time GalCiv2 Forums

By the way, the main problem for video issues both for Galciv2 and of course Supreme Commander is people not updating their video card drivers. Not updating video card drivers = less then stellar video performance. If you get an oil change for your car every 3-5k miles you should be updating your video card drivers as often.

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Reply to Supreme Commander in Real-Time GalCiv2 Forums

"Thanks for cussing me out... I really needed that since I haven't had a good cussing out in ages...damn that felt good ..no really man thanks! YOU ROCK! It's amazing that you can get it to run with anything above 12fps on that ancient rig of yours. I'm impressed. Feel free to post on Gas Powered Games forums and explain to everyone how it is that you can run the game just fine since people with far more powerful systems seem to be having trouble.I'm sure the developers would like to kn

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Reply to [email protected] What a Joke... in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

I would suspect the reason your human response time has been lacking is a combination of factors. I.e. re-submitting tickets for service, in conjunction with the release of DA, they are of course trying to service a large group of customers with a limited staff. However a customer service experience with issues lasting 2 weeks rather then 2 days or 2 hours is certainly neither ideal for the company or for the customer. Persistence pays off, and as time goes on the quantity of service t

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Reply to The Good, the Ugly, the Bad of DA in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

"But to be honest, I don't really care about ground combat in this game. For me the interest lies in other parts. Ground combat is just a by-product." More honest then the devs for it is clear this is what they had in mind too.

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Reply to The Good, the Ugly, the Bad of DA in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

"You may think that your 250-pound hairy hermaphrodite half cousin is the prettiest girl at the prom, but that doesn't make it so." Seriously is speech like this ever necessary on any topic?

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Reply to Supreme Commander in Real-Time GalCiv2 Forums

"Warning though: This game NEEDS a VERY POWERFUL system to run it. You should run it on nothing less than: Duo 2 core (or quad core) the game is VERY processor intensive. nvidia 7900 or better (512 or more video ram recommended)(game currently doesn't support sli) 2-3 gigs of ram on xp or 4 gigs on vista (large maps with 7 ai requires 3 gigs of ram)" Bah Thats BullShit. I'm playing on a bargain machine built in 2003. Observe, P4 2.4 ghz, non-HT certainly not a Dual core

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Reply to Man enough in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

It's too bad the principal couldn't see better to dispense justice equally between the students. The "J" kid will have to pick up on the action and consequences thing sooner rather then later in life. Unfortunately opportunities for kids, even for fifth graders, to get into serious trouble, are only a few more years away. Don't discount your ability to be an excellent parent to a boy, simply because you are his mom and a woman. There are lots

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Reply to What happens if the Earth starts cooling? in Politics JoeUser Forums

"Lets not find out 20-30 years from now that its true and irreversable and we should have done something about it 20-30 years ago." Well, I can't see how you expect to find out any sooner, with the level of technology of simulation we have currently, and our ability to measure conditions universally on the planet, as well as the sun, along with our lack of knowing what is beyond the next hill sort of knowledge about how the solar systems natural self-regulation works. But sure

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Reply to Do You Have Guns In Your House? in Politics JoeUser Forums

"And while I'm thinking about it, just "how" is this question germaine to the discussion at hand?" I thought that if you were a medical professional you might have a unique insight that the rest of us do not. I.e. working in a workplace where you can be sued for your actions more then once a day, having to constantly adjust your practice to the wishes rather then the needs of your patients, that sort of thing. So how about you just answer yes or no to the question? Are

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Reply to Do You Have Guns In Your House? in Politics JoeUser Forums

"You're correct. That was "not" the question asked. However the one that WAS asked isn't a medical question either. Or can you explain to me how having guns in the house relates to a "medical" exam?" I cannot. I just thought that if it saves one life because it is asked, and nobody else is irreparably harmed by it, then so be it. Lets see if we can't split a few more hairs here on this topic. You guys think it's unconstitutional to ask about guns in the dr. office? I agree, bu

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Reply to Do You Have Guns In Your House? in Politics JoeUser Forums

"consistent "liberal" position as of late." I'm not a liberal, I'm a person. "we MUST protect ALL of the Bill of Rights" Agree. "CPS will not turn the names of false reporters over to law enforcement." Well there ought to be a law and there is a system in place to get a law passed in regards to this situation. "I've looked at the research, and I firmly believe the risks to be highly overstated." Which risks? The potential risks of vaccinatin

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Reply to The Socialist and the Capitalist in Politics JoeUser Forums

"Dan Greene: That first chart is tracking the percent of GDP the federal government took in in taxes. If you just plotted taxes versus GDP growth it would be harder to read because both numbers are moving up all the time. Even though total federal revenues stay the same, you can see they're getting it from different sources than they used to on this chart. More social security, less corporate income tax. (just ignore the top shaded region, that's state and local taxes. Those have grown

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