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MajorMajorMajor said:
hey adam… anyway we can pin a thread with the new server info/ips
http://www.wcugaming.org/forums/index.php?/topic/13102-gameserver-move/
MajorMajorMajor said:
What the hell is slipstreamed install. Just the essentials? or what?
It means the install DVD has all the updates through whenever integrated directly into the installer. When you’re done installing there are almost no updates needed.
Not really an issue with Windows7 but with Vista it can save an hour or two of updating.
Animal planet tried to get camera crews onboard the whaling ships to film from their prospective. A middle finger was given as response lol
NuRayZ said:
wtf are you talking about. people are upset at elephants getting killed lol. If you didn’t know, the African elephant is on the endangered species list. So yeah people are *edited*ed about it. I don’t see the Japanese repopulating the whales they slaughter. But *edited* it, those whales are stupid so if we kill em all it’s their fault right?
While i don’t mind people killing animals for food, i do mind when it drives a species closer to extinction. We have driven whale populations in the past to near that.
You missed my point, people are *edited*ed but apparently not enough because there are no TV shows about it. Just like whales, being on the endangered species list also doesn’t stop them from being used as food. In the vast majority of cases, pure use as food does not drive a species to extinction. There’s always another contributing factor, such as high-value byproducts, poor reproduction rates, natural predators, limited adaptation to environmental changes, or a mass-population event like a flood.
The Japanese alone have been whaling since the 1100s, if their intention was to drive whales to extinction they’re sure taking their sweet time doing it. The fact of the matter is that over a dozen countries have a long history of sustainable whaling, including the US (Alaska), it’s the oil byproduct that caused the overhunting. Placing severe restrictions on whaling forced an alternative to be developed and now everything’s peachy. Japan now catches 400-500 per year which is more than fair and much less than you probably thought they did.
NuRayZ said:
I just wish we could have saved certain species like the DoDo bird.
*edited* they would have been awesome to see be all goofy.
They weren’t really goofy, they were just dumb. And if you think humans were the sole cause of their extinction… lol
Let’s just say the meat was so bad even predators (dogs/cats) we introduced to the island didn’t consider them worth the effort.
menace said:
I would just go ahead and use the new hd just to be safe. You called tech support and all they said was that you killed it? Wow thanks HP, what would I have done without you?
He had a clicking HDD and windows stopped booting. 1+1=2. Without diagnostic software, which Major doesn’t have and didn’t ask for us to give him, there was really not much else they could do.
Back everything up and do a reformat. Pull the spare HDD out when you install Windows, that way you know your install of Windows is clean and you know for a fact which drive it’s installed on.
If you’ll PM which version of Windows you have I’ll send you link to a slipstreamed install DVD I built last month that will decrease the time it takes you to get back up to speed.
Raven said:
Also Mitch, enough with the Canadian jokes before I enhance your male pattern baldness with content aware.
Adobe CS5 works both ways my friend.
They came up like Wednesay or Thursday. Idr when it was but Liam made the post saying they were back up.
Betting was brought back up earlier today.
If there’s anymore plugins we’re missing please let me know.
adam37 said:
adam37 vs admins
MasterP connects
MasterP joins team “Admins”
RCON pass accepted for user “MasterP”
Adam37 disconnected from server, reason: Banned!
MajorMajorMajor said:
Call them tree-*edited*ing hippies… that is appropriate.
I didn’t want to insult
Henceforth I will label tree hugging hippies as such in this thread
Either google or submit a ticket for it, either way you’re probably going to end up reinstalling Steam and your gamefiles for it.
There are no simple fixes for problems like that on the older games. Call me a troll all you want but the newer games don’t have problems like that and when they do it’s usually on Valve’s servers and fixed pretty quickly.
If Africans kill elephants for food, do liberals get upset? No.
If they’re doing it for food, same concept should apply to whales.
Because we don’t turn in cow carcases for “research” does that make the western world butchers? No. There is no medicinal or scientific value in the carcase of an animal.
Bitey said:
You missed the part about everything else being troll and me being fat now huh?
Maybe I like arguing with trolls…
Bitey said:
Do you take everything I say negatively?
If you would take your head out of your *edited* for two seconds you would see that I personally am agreeing with you that Wiki is a great source for most information finding, especially in quick reference.
My head’s up my *edited* because I took this statement to be negative?
Bitey said:
and never in a research paper. Which ever professor told you that is super fail. You can use it to find something and then check real legitimate non-profit or scholarly sources
lol?
MajorMajorMajor said:
MasterP said:
Real Communist said:
i took this rotation from Adam, because hes not around, just copy and paste. I did not make it
If adam thought it critical he would have sent a txt message to me or Liam about it…
WHATS ADAMS NUMBER
IMMA SPAM HIS INBOX
828-goo-dsir
MajorMajorMajor said:
I will laugh, then realize I have no idea what was said in your paper, then I will look to wiki for the basics.
Nickname should get the gist of what’s going on in it. Everyone else, though, is *edited*ed lol
Our only criticism during the mid-project presentation was that we needed to dumb things down for the audience… and they were all engineers
NuRayZ said:
MasterP said:
That was a rhetorical question because the information I was asking for, IE his figures were in the legislation, wasn’t possible to locate because they weren’t actually in the bill. It’s not really fair to penalize Wiki for not publishing false information lol
i thought we eventually found the figures? or am i just retarded?
Nickname was gracious/bored enough to go find it. The meaning behind that post was they weren’t the figures you said they were and thus would be impossible to locate. There was no question that figures were there
Bitey said:
You’re not bursting my bubble, I know wiki has been around for a while, 9 years is not that long though… Anyways as I have said like a million times over in this thread, wiki is fine for a checking source, I just don’t think it should be the end all be all when you are researching…. Basically this : “I understand what their concerns are. There’s no question that [on Wikipedia and similar sites] some things are great and some things are questionable. Some of the pages could be by eighth graders,” he said. “But to simply say ‘don’t use that one’ might take students in the wrong direction from the perspective of information literacy.”
Students face “an ocean of information” today, much of it of poor quality, so a better approach would be to teach students how to “triangulate” a source like Wikipedia, so they could use other sources to tell whether a given entry could be trusted. “I think our goal should be to equip students with the critical thinking skills to judge.”
Since you clearly missed it. Everything else was just trolling you and now I am fat thanks to all the food, thanks…
I missed nothing, what you’re quoting is someone trying to explain why it’s good to teach students to question sources of information that contain accurate information just because it’s on the internet and instead of taking that accurate information and acting on it, to intentionally search for information that contradicts it.
And what does he mean by “Wikipedia and similar sites”? Similar “untrustworthy” sites such as the IEEE journal archive? Britanica Online? Dictionary.com? Conference proceedings? There are VERY few thorough online reference sources and fewer still that are actually free. It’s that free and open part that’s the real deal killer for librarians like the one you keep quoting. School librarians, since day one, have been against FREE reference material of any kind. To them, anything that didn’t cost money isn’t a credible source, regardless of how accurate the information is. Don’t take my word for it though, go look at any accuracy or comparative study done on Wikipedia and what you’ll find is that librarians, in every study they’re involved in, have given Wikipedia a bad review. You’ll also find that science-related reviewers generally find Wiki to be as accurate, if not moreso, than Britanica and w/e the big German one is and give it praise despite the noted layout issues some articles have.
So like I said earlier, the science-related majors generally love it and liberal arts hate it. It’s curious that you’d choose to quote from an article titled “A Stand Against Wikipedia” when there are more than enough neutral articles you could have quoted from. Are those the kind of articles you read when you were forming your opinion of Wikipedia or did you pick articles that weren’t completely negative?
Real Communist said:
i took this rotation from Adam, because hes not around, just copy and paste. I did not make it
If adam thought it critical he would have sent a txt message to me or Liam about it…
MajorMajorMajor said:
[That doesn’t matter. It’s still an Encyclopedia. You can have the most exhaustively researched, unbiased, perfect wiki page that no one in the world disputes, but the fact that it has been summarized from primary and secondary sources mean that the information itself loses value. The more steps from a primary document to the final product, the less the value of the information. Wiki is really only bad because of this.
Then it suffers no more from this flaw than any other encyclopedia. When you think about it, the people writing the Britanica or Encarta articles didn’t put EVERY fact in there, they couldn’t without making the encyclopedia twice the volumes that it already is. They summarized while maintaining a certain degree of thoroughness, which is exactly what Wikipedia does, only Wikipedia artcles aren’t limited in length based on arbitrary publishing limits and the more thorough topics usually have dozens of cited sources.
MajorMajorMajor said:
Citing information of wiki is all and fine for forum debates because posting huge documents is retarded and a good summary is fine. When you start asking for specific entries and page numbers like you did with NuRayz, then wiki becomes an improper source and you should not use it as such.
That was a rhetorical question because the information I was asking for, IE his figures were in the legislation, wasn’t possible to locate because they weren’t actually in the bill. It’s not really fair to penalize Wiki for not publishing false information lol
MajorMajorMajor said:
MasterP is right though, Wiki used to be *edited* with terrible information but in the past 3 years it has become respected for this thoroughness in fact checking. Yes there are better sources out there, but for quick reliable information, there isn’t anything better.
Wiki is routinely used in journal articles as a primary source, especially in theoretical and cutting-edge research topics. By the time a “scholarly” book on the subjects is written, reviewed, published, and bought, at least 1/3 of the material in it has been proven wrong. Not pulling that number out of my *edited* either, I’ve experienced it first hand in physics of all things.
If my senior research findings get published, which could happen in the next couple months btw
Wiki will be one of the primary sources. We won’t be laughed at for doing it either.Nickname said:
MasterP said:
MasterP said:
either prove I’m lying or shut the *edited* up
there is no statement in this thread for us TO disprove, so im not sure why you keep stressing this point…
Their bashing is a continuation from the other thread where Bitey accused me of making most of what I posted up. I asked for proof that I made it up and got “you can’t use Wiki as a source you noob” as a reply. It doesn’t really prove what I posted to be wrong but ok…
Which is more likely to contain accurate information: a wiki page written by 8 people or a journal article written by 2?
Bitey I really hate to burst your bubble on this but Wiki is alot older than you think. Try 2001. It has also been proven by at least a dozen studies to be just as accurate, if not moreso, than traditional encyclopedias. There have been numerous studies done to test how long it takes for errors to be corrected with some errors corrected within 1 minute of being posted. Do a search for Wiki reliability studies, you’ll be surprised.
Bitey said:
Which ever professor told you that is super fail.
So the dean of the EE department and associate dean of the kimmel school are super fail? I guess the head of optical physics research at UNCC is super fail too then.
Because my sourse *COULD* be wrong doesn’t mean it is. Every “scholarly” source is fallible but unlike traditional “scholary” sources, Wiki articles aren’t written by just one or two people. I can’t tell you how many times in high school Encarta, Britanica, and World Book gave completely conflicting information, to the point where I typically had to stab wildly between what the three said and hope the teacher didn’t know any better. To that end, Wiki is the only encyclopedia that actually lists the information sources for their articles.
Guess that’s the difference between a liberal arts major and a major based in science, we don’t *edited* with our peers.
Answer me this though, because now I’m really curious, when the whiteboard in front of me has 12 hours worth of math on it that proves a solution in a “scholarly” textbook on theoretical physics to be completely wrong, like not even using the right equations kind of wrong, am I allowed to actually use my brain and determine that MAYBE the textbook is wrong or do I have to stick with your idealism and just erase everything out of the assumption that the printed medium is an infallible truth that cannot be wrong? Btw, lab experiments backed up our equations and proved the book and about a dozen journal articles to be wrong. We used equations on Wiki as a foundation. I’m just saying…
In the read world, “scholarly” encyclopedias, journal articles, and textbooks aren’t nearly as accurate as you give them credit. The average Wiki article is less than 20 pages and has twice as many authors and sources as the average textbook, from the sheer number of eyes alone it’s far more likely that mistakes are going to be caught and fixed on Wiki than on any printed source.
Btw, you really think a non-profit won’t lie in their publications to get more funding, sponsorships, or attention? lol?
I do like though how instead of actually doing what I asked, IE prove me wrong, you mindlessly drone on about how where I get some of my information *might* be wrong. You don’t actually attempt to prove me wrong, probably because you can’t, but that’s getting off topic. So we’re back to the original statement:
MasterP said:
either prove I’m lying or shut the *edited* up
Freezer said:
*edited* i sound like an *edited* on the forums today sorry about that lol
Being an *edited* to someone who posts a new mapcycle and virtually demands that it be put up isn’t really something to be ashamed of.
Then again I tried to ignore people who did that for source and that didn’t really work either. They think they know what’s best despite the fact they’ve never run a server.
NuRayZ said:
and masterP’s lies
Grow a pair and either prove I’m lying or shut the *edited* up. Getting real tired of your constant and unfounded jabs at every post I make.
Posting something OTHER than liberal one-liners works as well.
And yes, Major’s fatness is a global constant. If it’s not in Wiki by now it will be by tomorrow afternoon
Of course the math explaining it may take a good deal longer to crunch. Nickname I’ll need you and Shawn Rigdon to meet me in Anne Vail’s old office at 8am to solve these equations that explain how a fat person in their late teens or early 20s could literally weight that much without breaking the space-time continuum and creating light-emitting black holes. I can get you started, and by started I mean I’ve got you a whiteboard and markers.
