Just check the whole bunch of available software at kvr-vst.com, the holy grail of everything related to vst technology and similar stuff. Use the search facility to fish for what you need. The search can be trimmed down to a minimum. Worth having a look, at least to know what's around at the moment.
A useless slap in the face, I might add. For instance, for different reasons, the British and Latvian "songs" are an insult to intelligence and good taste. They shouldn't have been allowed.
Mouse can be much smoother, imho.
I'd buy the wheel and remember that the demo has a lot of limits and a lot of stupid drivers compared to S2. Yet, there are some very fair racers and good admins too there. I have some good memories of Dark Side Racing from the past, for instance. These memories are old, but they could still apply.
Short history of mine:
Bought need for speed underground. Played a bit with keyboard, then joypad. Something wasn't right.
Bought a Momo black. Played nfs underground again. Something wasn't right.
Fished for a sim. The one suiting me better was LFS. Played the demo. The wheel felt MUCH better than with anything else I tried. Bought S2.
Bought a G25. I wouldn't have bought it if it wasn't for S2's force feedback responsiveness.
Now I occasionally play S2, because I have little time/other interests. But it's the only "game" I play, right now.
So, all things considered, for me the wheel and S2 are a couple that cannot be separated. I couldn't say the same for other games/sims.
I'd buy the wheel and remember that the demo has a lot of limits and a lot of stupid drivers compared to S2. Yet, there are some very fair racers and good admins too there. I have some good memories of Dark Side Racing from the past, for instance. These memories are old, but they could still apply.
Short history of mine:
Bought need for speed underground. Played a bit with keyboard, then joypad. Something wasn't right.
Bought a Momo black. Played nfs underground again. Something wasn't right.
Fished for a sim. The one suiting me better was LFS. Played the demo. The wheel felt MUCH better than with anything else I tried. Bought S2.
Bought a G25. I wouldn't have bought it if it wasn't for S2's force feedback responsiveness.
Now I occasionally play S2, because I have little time/other interests. But it's the only "game" I play, right now.
So, all things considered, for me the wheel and S2 are a couple that cannot be separated. I couldn't say the same for other games/sims.
I can tell you for sure that the New Testament doesn't apply to me as a layman, and I can tell you for sure there's no way, in Italy, to make me forcibly swallow the Old or the New Testament. Despite living in a Catholic country with a strong religious interference we're still free to choose to follow religious laws or not, and if Man wants we will always be.
As far as I can understand wheel4hummer is Jewish, so he's correct as long as he applies to himself that interpretation of the 10 commandments. I agree that the New Testament gives, as you say, a different interpretation of the word of God, and in this context the same words have a different meaning that applies to Christians. Something not so subtle may be added in translation too: In Italian, for instance, it's "non uccidere", "don't kill".
Phew! Having a lousy car saved me.
(And remember what that wonderful t-shirt said: Jesus saves, and only takes half damage)
Scott Taylor, in a terrific interview, offered his insight about the way Islamic fundamentalists fight. Take this very small excerpt:
You know why? It's because they want to die. They are not interested in saving lives. And they have a constantly replenished supply of willing martyrs to tap into.
Of course the motivation of American soldiers isn't the same. They're interested in preserving their lives for whatever reason. So, if this is a war where motivations win (and for me it is) America is bound to lose from the start.
It's then no wonder there will be morons who are speaking in the name of God in America too, with the same hellish objectives and the same mentality, and with similar heavenly
rewards.
Edit: Scott Taylor is a journalist who has been a professional soldier. He was kidnapped by Ansar Al-Islam and survived. He was able to witness combat tactics, so his point of view is supported by evidence. The section denominated The Mujahedin's Unbeatable Tactic: Death is awesome.
You know why? It's because they want to die. They are not interested in saving lives. And they have a constantly replenished supply of willing martyrs to tap into.
Of course the motivation of American soldiers isn't the same. They're interested in preserving their lives for whatever reason. So, if this is a war where motivations win (and for me it is) America is bound to lose from the start.
It's then no wonder there will be morons who are speaking in the name of God in America too, with the same hellish objectives and the same mentality, and with similar heavenly
rewards.Edit: Scott Taylor is a journalist who has been a professional soldier. He was kidnapped by Ansar Al-Islam and survived. He was able to witness combat tactics, so his point of view is supported by evidence. The section denominated The Mujahedin's Unbeatable Tactic: Death is awesome.
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Although far from spectacular, the Czech entry is infinitely better than the lame English eurodance song.
I may have a somewhat higher standard for music preferring far less popular genres, but what I listened to seems quite poor to me, even in pop music. I listened to three songs, and all of them would be dubbed as trash.
Probably the Eurovision contest works in the same way as Sanremo: the notable names don't join the contests because their popularity is more than enough to guarantee sales, while those who need a push have a tendency to show a cheesy pop attitude to gain immediate recognition.
But all in all contests in all forms of art are utterly meaningless. I can't imagine Beethoven battling with Bach, Verdi and Edgard Varese to see who's best. This is market, not art. And entertainment, of course, provided you consider trash entertaining, just like I do sometimes
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OT: Coulter is magic. She's completely delusional. No wonder her quotes open this commentary: Pat Tillman, our hero. An interesting but painful reading for those who are curious about political media manipulation.
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"I'm an old-fashioned woman. Men should take care of women, and if men were taking care of women today, we wouldn't have to vote."
Now not only she did have to vote, she had to become a senator too... It must have been really painful for her, considering she's an old-fashioned woman
A true masterpiece. No, I couldn't make that up.
Additional note: I'm a bit worried too by another thing, the huge number of people everywhere who only seem to understand authority, and nothing more than that. It's a worldwide phenomenon, I suppose. If it worsens dark days loom ahead.
Now not only she did have to vote, she had to become a senator too... It must have been really painful for her, considering she's an old-fashioned woman
A true masterpiece. No, I couldn't make that up.
Additional note: I'm a bit worried too by another thing, the huge number of people everywhere who only seem to understand authority, and nothing more than that. It's a worldwide phenomenon, I suppose. If it worsens dark days loom ahead.
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I guess that previous arguments with political or religious implications (think about Galileo Galilei) would have never advanced civilisation if politics or religion wouldn't have been discussed... The Roman Church tried to shut Galilei's mouth, and succeeded. But luckily we now know who was right and wrong then.
Parsing the whole sentence would help.
It's not a question of agreement, SamH. I don't care about agreement. You can disagree on anything with me.
I stand by what I said, Sam, but you can always prove me wrong, if you can
I stand by what I said, Sam, but you can always prove me wrong, if you can
I remember perfectly a lot of threads in which you participated, and I'll remember SamH immortal words when you talked about self-hating jews. If you want I can make a short recollection of your deeds. My glasses are extremely fine, and the search function too.
Edit: I think no one should argue about your disruptive nature when talking about politics. It's self evident, as your accusation of being an anti-semite to the author of the video is. Stop spreading political FUD.
Evolutionist ideas aren't changing, they are evolving. Science has always worked that way.
From Wikipedia:
Scientific method is a body of techniques for investigating phenomena and acquiring new knowledge, as well as for correcting and integrating previous knowledge. It is based on gathering observable, empirical, measurable evidence, subject to specific principles of reasoning.
And this means science doesn't acknowledge its perfection. Still, it's the best method that suits our nature of observing, reasoning, measuring beings. I'll stick to Dante's words, which came from a darker age:
Consider the seed from which you sprang;
You were not made to live like unto brutes,
But for pursuit of virtue and knowledge.
You come here spitting hatred (as usual) and you talk about disagreement? Get real! Or better, start reading and thinking.
No, you usually get flamed for saying silly (and sometimes hideous) things and lowering the level of a debate.
No problem at all.
I say this as an agnostic, and being raised as a catholic.
I have been baptised and confirmed, and for the Italian state I'm still a catholic. I must add that however I never felt coherced by my family into catholicism, it was more a tradition.
We (three brothers) didn't have a single problem expressing doubts or beliefs (even atheist ones) in the family, and we've never been adversed by our parents.
So, all in all, we were free, although, as Catholics, theroretically stricter than Christians. But I recognise we experienced levels of freedom that other people may not have experienced.
Fabri91, I'm sure we have lots of bigots here in Italy. The situation is far worse than in other so called civilised countries because there are institutional ties between secular powers and the catholic church.
The last episode was when Rivera's satire about the Vatican has been dubbed as terrorism: Rivera (a humorist) was only saying obvious things with which you could strongly disagree, but they were intended only as a humorous critic. But instead of meeting a simple disagreement his words have been dubbed as an act of terrorism by L'Osservatore Romano (which is the Roman Church's newspaper). Such labels should ALWAYS be strongly resisted because they are false, misleading and completely taken out of context. Rivera has a guitar in his hands, not a handgun, and his words were nowhere inciting to violence.
There should have been a strong global political answer condemning the Vatican for such hideous labelling, but the answers were at best weak. Too many politicians applauded the Vatican for such a loathsome use of words.
I'm for a strong, individual intellectual reaction in these cases.
The last episode was when Rivera's satire about the Vatican has been dubbed as terrorism: Rivera (a humorist) was only saying obvious things with which you could strongly disagree, but they were intended only as a humorous critic. But instead of meeting a simple disagreement his words have been dubbed as an act of terrorism by L'Osservatore Romano (which is the Roman Church's newspaper). Such labels should ALWAYS be strongly resisted because they are false, misleading and completely taken out of context. Rivera has a guitar in his hands, not a handgun, and his words were nowhere inciting to violence.
There should have been a strong global political answer condemning the Vatican for such hideous labelling, but the answers were at best weak. Too many politicians applauded the Vatican for such a loathsome use of words.
I'm for a strong, individual intellectual reaction in these cases.
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Mmmm... probably you're right.
The country as a whole, just like here. Watch the video, feel the presence of the angels and the sense of unity. Ahhh, the peace. What would Jesus say?
Edit: I suddenly realise that despite the date on the site this video is very, very old. My apologies go to those who know it already.
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When I read the title of the thread I thought "Oh, not another uninspired thread with a ridiculous title"...
I'm glad my expectations were wrong, General Lee. And congrats to hectic too for the short answer
I'm glad my expectations were wrong, General Lee. And congrats to hectic too for the short answer
At this time it doesn't look like a sound card problem. First ensure you installed the latest stable drivers for your ATI. Second, if that doesn't help, try lowering down to 4X the AGP acceleration in the BIOS, and disable Fast Write. You may disable VPU recover too. There are plenty of discussions about these issues on the 'net.
Disable the soundcard if you can. Anyway, first try the following:
Start, Run
type dxdiag, then enter
go to the audio section
drag the acceleration slider completely to the left. This sorts out problems with some chipsets, as I said in my previous post.
To disable the soundcard: either you do it from the control panel (hardware management or whatever it's called in English) disabling it in the OS (but I would recommend a more radical hardware disabling approach in this case, or the above method to see if Directx sound hardware acceleration is the cause), or you do it in the BIOS configuration if you have onboard sound, as previously mentioned by IHateBureacracy. On some mobos you have to disable it phisically moving a jumper. Refer to the manual of your motherboard.
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