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Bugs & Feature Requests / Re: Tabs

« on: March 10, 2008, 06:45:13 am »

You should be able to search in a new tab by either clicking the arrow next to search or pressing shift + enter to search.

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Computers - Technology / Re: One for you Quantum et-all

« on: March 09, 2008, 06:43:14 am »

Went through everthing again. It was a faulty processor. Changed over to the spare P4 and have signal to monitor . spend my spare time installing WinXP to SATA hard drive/drivers etc. Will let you know in next few days.
cheers

Ahh, it's a pain, but at least good when you work out what the problem is.

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Gaming / Re: Ban this filth

« on: March 08, 2008, 08:37:14 am »

Basically , these games in the wrong hands are killing innocent people. (on any side )
cheers

They're not directly responsible in anyway at all and their effect is minimal

Minimal is in the the eye of the beholder. Try telling that to an innocent Arab family who has just had 90% of their loved ones blown up by a brainwashed child/woman who was trying to target some one else. The boss wont give his life while he has others to do it for him.
cheers

I'm telling you a game wasn't directly responsible for that, nor probably responsible at all. Plus an arab is probably more likely to get blown up by an American or an Israeli anyway.

The religious texts such as the Bible and the Qu'ran on the other hand are probably more responsible for 100s of millions of deaths at a bare minimum, probably billions! Why don't we ban them?

But the thing is, your not even talking about some specific, so let's talk about the media of the written word, it's absolutely responsible for billions of deaths and in a much more direct way than any video game has ever been, why don't we drastically curtail it?

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Gaming / Re: Ban this filth

« on: March 08, 2008, 07:43:15 am »

Basically , these games in the wrong hands are killing innocent people. (on any side )
cheers

Only in the same way that language, mathematics and books are killing innocent people.

They're not directly responsible in anyway at all and their effect is minimal compared to EVERY other form of media. And neither is it games that are commercially available in this country we're talking about.

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Computers - Technology / Re: One for you Quantum et-all

« on: March 08, 2008, 07:39:24 am »

Many posts on computer/tech forums show that the new GDDR3 in latest cards incorporated into the older AGP boards/slots will not work, and assuming that the Gigabyte mobo has been out for some time,may have a problem.
cheers

I've never heard of this...

You need to post on the manufacturers support forum or something.

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Computers - Technology / Re: One for you Quantum et-all

« on: March 08, 2008, 07:13:42 am »

The only thing that matters between a mobo and graphics card is the specific slot they use / have.

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Gaming / Re: Ban this filth

« on: March 08, 2008, 07:04:59 am »

While I agree in general that violent/gorey/sex video games can be handled by most of right thinking gamers,you have got to remember that not all of us are of sound mind. Rated 18 doesnt mean a thing these days. Videos are available to children either from the parents or friends. As the following link shows, Islamic terrorists are using modified versions of the games to recuit children to be killers. This is only one of many links available,and security forces throught the world are linking terrorist profiles to the games they play.
http://rokdrop.com/2006/05/07/terrorists-use-video-game-mods-to-recruit-youths/

Open for thought?
cheers

Do you think people who are not "right thinking gamers" are specifically affected by gaming? I mean, if someone can't handle sex / violence etc.. you think they are going to be more moved by a game than an emotive piece of literature? Film? Real world event? If I was a child in some country like Iraq, I'd probably be more susceptible to say American bombers blowing up my house and killing my family in front of me than an 8 year old looking computer game that I played for a bit of fun.

What makes games so special?

Yes, terrorist use modified game? They also use book, films, art etc.. should any of these curbed as a whole, the general freedom of speech denied because some fringe groups use the same form of media? What's amusing is that they think this is some new sophisticated method of using computer games, not only does al-Qaeda use 8+ year old game technology to do this it doesn't compare to the level of sophistication that governments use games to spread messages and propaganda, the Chinese and American governments being particularly guilty of this, the most prominent example being America's Army

Profiling has been done on criminals and terrorists for at least a hundred years, just because gaming is a new media which it's been done in doesn't make it special. What is unexpected about this?

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Bugs & Feature Requests / Re: Bit Che - 1.0 build 59

« on: March 08, 2008, 03:48:05 am »

Another thing occurred to me, a language page?

Make a link in the language box which says something like "Other Languages" for those which have been updated or not included since the latest install of Bit Che?

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Bugs & Feature Requests / Re: Bit Che - 1.0 build 59

« on: March 07, 2008, 10:20:21 pm »

There's not a lot I can see, it's quite good, probably going to be a bit before I find any noteworthy bugs.

As another pieces of polish I would like to to say that under:

"Options > Show / Hide Scripts"

Is a toggle tick, literally speaking your ticking the option "Show / Hide", which doesn't make much sense, it should just be:

"Options > Show Scripts"

Ticking that makes logical sense to show and unticking "Show" makes logical sense that it would hide.

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Gaming / Re: Ban this filth

« on: March 07, 2008, 10:11:40 pm »

The young ppl of today have no sense of decency, morality, and respect, like wot I had ...

Other than a loss of deference (which is arguably due to the Thatcher government) there's no massive change in the way society functions post-WWII. They've been talking about the downfall of society because of the decadence of the youth since the 60s (and in America since the 50s). Even pre-20th century there's much evidence to suggest that the older generation were worried the younger generation had lost all decency, morality and respect. Also statistically speaking youth crime is historically low levels, but reporting of it is at historically high levels.

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Gaming / Re: Ban this filth

« on: March 07, 2008, 08:32:54 am »

  So your allowed to have violence, sex, mature content and everything else under the sun in Books, Music, Films and Art, but not Video games?

Every serious study has shown that games almost always provide a positive impact, I get so tired of these campaigns, they clearly have no understanding of how people interact with them. Fortunately it's a generational thing and in 50 years, people talking about banning computer games will look the same as banning that "Rock n' Roll" music.

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Bugs & Feature Requests / Re: Bit Che - 1.0 build 59

« on: March 05, 2008, 12:15:14 pm »

I'm quite liking build 60, one minor quible is that when you go to enter registration, there's no explicit "cancel" box, I realise there's a close box but it's not quite the same.

Anyway, not too fussed, will carry on testing tomorrow morning.

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General Discussion / Re: Can't stayed logged on.

« on: March 04, 2008, 07:36:28 am »

Are you sure you haven't set it so Firefox clears personal data every time you close down?

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Bugs & Feature Requests / Re: stone cold dead!

« on: March 02, 2008, 05:28:58 am »

Nada?

It doesn't load? You don't get an error? Does it show up in process list?

Did it work before? Have you done anything since it working?

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Bugs & Feature Requests / Re: Bit Che - 1.0 build 59

« on: March 02, 2008, 05:27:14 am »

hey chip!
I am not able to search at all in the test build just to let you know

You copied the files in to the normal Bit Che directory?