LauryThorn

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Oligo @ Aug. 20 2002,13:11)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">You can be damn sure that the plastics used for the manufacture of the "real dolls" have been tested for safety on (or maybe even in) animals. <span id='postcolor'> Nice to hear that! I was so concerned about my safety.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ Aug. 20 2002,12:38)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Everything that is in interaction with humans has to be tested on animals by law.<span id='postcolor'> Even "Real Dolls"?

Animal testing is not a "nice" thing. However, having your family member slowly die to, say, polio because there are no medicines or vaccine in this case, is even less "nice". But what about cosmetics being tested on animals?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Linux really is a no-show if you want a gaming platform. It's why I still have windows on my machine. But everything else can be done quite well in Linux.<span id='postcolor'> Good thing about Linux is that you can have a dual-boot system. Linux for work, Windows for OFP.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Normal people don't type in binary code - most even dread bringing up a DOS console. <span id='postcolor'> Well, there are very sophisticated graphical interfaces available for linux - like KDE and Gnome. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"> Windows is the only option on a PC, unless you're a geek who communicate with the machine through a SCSI jack in the forehead.<span id='postcolor'> I know even some cute girls that use Linux! I have to admit that installing linux may be a little tough, but once you get it running, it doesn't anyhow differ from using Windows. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Damn hell, at least we got a system here that everyone uses and knows how to use it. I hate it when I get an e-mail telling me: sorry sir we couldnt open your *.ppt file, we use linux.<span id='postcolor'> That's M$'s fault with their stupid non-standard non-documented file formats. But you can get at least viewers for all Office file formats for linux. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Windows ME is the worst incarnation of Windows by a mile...<span id='postcolor'> I've used NT, and it sucks even more. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">And for all you people who enjoy MS bashing, what other choice do serious gamers have?<span id='postcolor'> Somebody wants to answer that? </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">If I'm not mistaken, OS2 was the first commercial OS on a PC to support true multi-tasking. It was highly stable and up-time was quite impressive.<span id='postcolor'> You're right, as far as I'm concerned. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Linux is a for a small community of rebellious geeks! (<span id='postcolor'> Linux is superior in the server-side, and I think that it has all the potential to be used as a desktop computer as well, at least for work. Many poor countries use linux because it's free. Here in Finland some cities have made research about how much money would be saved, if those towns' offices would start using linux. I think that even if no money would be saved, it would still be good to start using linux, because then the money would go to the finnish administrators instead of money-greed Microsoft leaders. (What's the term for the people who install machines and help the workers in their computer using, I mean those people with "administrator")

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Major Fubar @ Aug. 19 2002,12:38)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">You could always give it to one of those poor, deserving souls who have "lost" theirs ("my dog ate it","my little brother lost it","a freind borrowed it and moved overseas") and post a new topic here for someone to give them one. [/sarcasm] <span id='postcolor'> .. then count to three, and see how that topic is locked and your posting rights have been permanently removed...

Did you BTW hear about the man who was fishing from Thames, and he got a piranha? So, just throw the man to Thames.

I've always liked realism in comp games.. Close Combat 2 was really addictive, and I like the other CC's too. I've played all the stuff of Rainbow Six series that I've gotten my hands on. And I enjoyed SWAT3, too. And, two funny games that I've really enjoyed: TuxRacer and Pingus. TuxRacer is a game where you are a penguin, and you have to slide hills down and eat all the fish you can. Pingus is a Lemmings clone, where the little dudes are replaced with penguins. Penguins are nice!

Whether the license agreement is legal in your country or not, I think that you should however respect the license.

I think that life in prison will do just fine. Maybe the other inmates will sentence the guy to death. Let's just hope that he doesn't get isolated in his own cell..

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Espectro @ Aug. 19 2002,10:30)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">But would Wine be able to run OFP with Fade? I mean that crappy CD-protection..... Isnt that allmost impossible to bypass without a no CD-crack to linux?<span id='postcolor'> I have never used Wine myself, but I don't think that it would activate Fade. Why should it? It would run the Program pretty much the same as the Windoze would do. And I don't know if Wine supports DirectX.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">What operating systems other than windows would OFP and other games run smoother on?<span id='postcolor'> Windows applications run on Windows only.. Although there is an "Windows adapter" (called Wine)for running Win applications on Linux, but I don't think that it is smooth enough.

I have a dual-booting machine, I can choose between Windows ME and Red Hat Linux. If OFP would run on Linux, then I would probably dump ME.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ Aug. 16 2002,16:03)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (LauryThorn @ Aug. 16 2002,14:54)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I give up! You Swedes created a robot that learned to fly in less than three hours! Reuters article<span id='postcolor'> Heh. I know those guys who constructed that robot I will be involved in a similar project now this fall, but it won't be a flying robot, but a biped walking one.<span id='postcolor'> Your response to the Mumins?

I give up! You Swedes created a robot that learned to fly in less than three hours! Reuters article

We have this brother-like competition, in almost everything. At least in sports. Sweden may be better in making pop music, but we are better in drinking beer! And the finnish movie, "The Return Of The Mumin", is much better than any Swedish movie!

@denoir: This just popped in my mind.. Did you happen to hear this kind of yelling: links! links! links, zwo, drei, vier links, zwo, links, zwo, links, zwo, drei, vier links! (And guess where it's from..)

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (bn880 @ Aug. 16 2002,14:31)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Well I mean... they were just yelling Faster Faster, Caution. It's what you expect to hear in the German army.<span id='postcolor'> but maybe our "smooth moderator" was just referring to the idea that people may think of them as nazis just because they speak german and use soldier uniforms. When I was around 7, and we were in East Germany, and we saw soldiers, I kept asking "are they nazis?". And my parents had a tough time explaining to me that german soldiers are not nazis. (At least officially )

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ Aug. 16 2002,14:18)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">They were yelling things like "Schneller! Schneller!" and "Achtung!"<span id='postcolor'> The germans were yelling that or they were yelled at? Who they were yelling at, or who was yelling?

I consider a soldier who kills or rapes civilians, a bad guy, no matter what nationality he is.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (R71 @ Aug. 16 2002,11:29)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">over oil can cause a jam along with other problems<span id='postcolor'> Not if you remove the oil before shooting.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (R. Gerschwarzenge @ Aug. 16 2002,11:21)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">[bad joke] 2: "1, Go to work, 7 o'clock" 1 (Aculaud): "Can't get there" [/bad joke] <span id='postcolor'> 3: "1, get a Job from Building, 7 o'clock" 1: (Aculaud) "2,3 concentrate on your own work and stop whining!"

7--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (R71 @ Aug. 16 2002,117)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Also you CAN reload on the run. I have done it a few times. "From my training experience, squad level firefights are often extremely clumsy, and people that get shot almost never see the person that shoots them. People trip over stuff, fall down, drop magazines, bla, bla." What the heck is up with that? Are you in some third world country's military. If you have that much problems with your gun you should clean the damn thing, and dont over oil it.<span id='postcolor'> Well perhaps that tripping thing was about this: If you run and reload at the same time, it is likely that you can't observe so well, and that may cause you getting tripped and dropping your mag. And you have realize that some panic and tunnel view will reduce your performance. And what that over-oiling has to do with anything? And, what I don't understand, is that what's the big deal about the reload on the run. I think it's much better to hit the dirt, reload, seek target, fire and then move on.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (RalphWiggum @ Aug. 16 2002,10:11)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">PMC Fury has good reputation. also check out AvonLady's mission packs www.theavonlady.org/theofpfaq then search for "mission packs."<span id='postcolor'> I'll double both of those. PMC fury is 99% infantry combat. OFPEC should come back to life soon, they have plenty of good missions in their mission section.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (RalphWiggum @ Aug. 16 2002,10:11)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">PMC Fury has good reputation. also check out AvonLady's mission packs www.theavonlady.org/theofpfaq then search for "mission packs."<span id='postcolor'> I'll double both of those. PMC fury is 99% infantry combat. OFPEC should come back to life soon, they have plenty of good missions in their mission section.