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I gotta call BS on that dude. It's even easier to access things like control panel or device manager. You don't even have to move your mouse. The start screen is a giant search engine, so I could actually type the word 'control' and smack the enter key and the window will be brought right up. Or you can make a tile for them if you think you're moving too many fingers by typing. lol Advanced functionality isn't limited, but it is a little more well hidden, and it's due to today's user base. It's not 1994 anymore. Everyone has a computer, and most people who own them have absolutely no clue how to properly use it. Devices like the iPhone have gone with a "less is more" approach that has clearly worked for the laymen consumer. Less stuff to fiddle with = less chance of your average person breaking it. As a repair tech myself, I don't like it, but the market of today needs it.

No. The second machine will do it passably.

My opinion is that we already have a couple of threads on this, one of which I made a while ago, so this thread should be closed. I also have no problem with Windows 8/8.1 and most people who hate it with an undying passion are a bunch of crybabies who don't want their precious 19 year old GUI touched.

Garbage CPU, no dedicated graphics card.

Signed. Bunch of morons... the fact that a petition like that needs to exist boggles my mind.

So first you say the companies don't care about making money if their games aren't new, and now you're blaming it on a recession? I'm usually not this forward, but go soak your head, dude. If you want to take 'desperate measures' try getting a job, or get a 2nd one like a lot of the rest of us have to do. I'd hope you pirate something from the wrong source tomorrow and you get taken to court for it. You'll feel the recession hit you pretty hard when you have to make a plea deal for $10,000.

I've used TrafficFlow since LCPDFR version .91. It works fine with ELS too. But you're limited to only twenty cars. I have no idea why it's never been increased.

No Windows 8 support listed.

It's not the Delta. The Delta is what I use in my game, and is what most PD's in Washington use like Seattle, Tacoma and Pierce County Sheriff's Dept. It's a Federal Signal, that's why it sounds close, but it's a different model.

Federal Signal, that's all I can tell you. Shares a lot in common with the Delta model by the sound of it. Some California depts. like Fontana and Rialto use it.

A lot of people live in the past. BF2 isn't the only game with that sort of following. The people who stay behind either can't deal with the game mechanics being different (they have to learn something new) or have trash computers that can't handle higher end games. To each their own. See you in BF4 if you end up playing it.

A mod like this might actually hurt people who want GTA V to come to the PC, as this will give them less of a reason to port it over.

Thanks, I'll have more in the works when I get some more free time. I haven't played a video game in days.

You were that lucky. There are tons of threads on the STEAM forum complaining about that issue.

I changed it for you.

Call me cold if you want, but I hope the old man (ex-officer) fries for it. The man's wife should be punished somehow too since she did nothing to stop it when she had the opportunity to. I also heard that he had pulled out a gun at that same movie theater just two weeks before. Why wasn't he banned from there!? This boggles my mind.

No problem. I watched the first episode as soon as I got up today, and it was great. If the other episodes are anything like the first, it looks as though it's going to be a narrated look back at the past events around the 1995 murder. It constantly switches between events back then, and interview room footage of Woody Harrelson's and Matthew Mcconaughey's characters talking to newer detectives about those events, and the social problems between the two detectives that happened along the same timeline. It was a great way to let you know about who they really are. I also found out that it was filmed entirely on location too. Very authentic.

Type of crime is important too, as discussed earlier. Violent crime is what I'm most concerned with in a city. My town has property crime, usually break-ins to unoccupied houses, very very few confrontational robberies or assaults or murders. But even quiet places can have those problems, just not as 'en masse' as other cities.

I don't buy it. Maybe later.

Mind you, the correct phrasing there is documented gang members. There are tons of new initiates all the time, many whom haven't been arrested for gang related crimes yet, and illegal immigrants who belong to Mexican gangs migrating up here, like MS13. So the real number is far higher.

Posted that up here a year ago or more. Seen it a million times. Good chase, goofy uniforms, annoying sirens.

Why is this news? Honestly. This just in! Man pisses in local urinal but doesn't flush! Police have brought in suspects for questioning!

The movies make it appear a lot worse than it really is. There aren't shootouts every day, but it's easy to become a victim if you present yourself as one, and let yourself be one. I'll give you an example. I live near Boston, not nearly as big or as crime ridden as New York, but there is a good amount of crime there in certain areas as it's one of the major U.S. cities with access to the Atlantic Ocean, and a major air port. We've also had a major change in racial makeup over the last 40 years which has turned turned the tables on what gangs control what towns and who commits what types of crimes. Let me show you this mini map: The metro Boston area, with all of the restaurants and shopping centers, and Fenway Park, those are all fine. I'd feel comfortable enough walking around there without any weapons or any martial arts or general fighting experience. But if you look at that map, I would not feel safe in any of the towns listed without a gun except for Alston, Brighton, Fenway, the North End and East Boston. Every other section on that mini map has a high crime rate. It's expected, it's a big city, but it's gotten worse over the last 40 years. Mattapan, Roxbury, Hyde Park and Jamaica Plain are predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods now. They are run down and are where the majority of the violent crimes in the city happen. I'm White, I drive a relatively nice vehicle, and I'm not from there, so I would be a good target for a robbery if I were walking down the sidewalk not knowing exactly where I was, or pulled over on the side of the road trying to see where I am on my GPS. Robbery's can quickly turn into something else at the drop of a hat. Needless to say, you probably wouldn't find me in any of those towns for any reason. And again, that's Boston. New York and Los Angeles would worry me even more. I'd try not to place myself in a situation where I could be a victim of a crime in the first place, but if it's not avoidable, you should have the tools you need to protect yourself and your valuables. Criminals don't usually get their weapons through legal means, so it's easy for them to carry. If someone is attempting to commit a crime that could involve violence, assume they have a weapon. So being a registered gun owner and knowing even the basics of how to use it goes a long way. If someone came up to you with a knife, and you simply pointed a pistol in their direction, chances are they'd run. If you don't have a weapon but you know how to fight or are trained in martial arts, that goes a long way too if you're on foot. When you get robbed or jumped, it's usually by several people. Most guys won't square off with you one on one like in the movies. So fighting skills help. But to re-iterate, the best thing is to just simply not go to those neighborhoods. Let those people assault and rob each other.

It may change depending on the year and all that. I don't like the idea of going into certain parts of Boston due to their reputation. 2009 had a bunch of murders across three townships all bordering on each other, and although there have been less in the last few years, that doesn't mean I'll be visiting any time soon.

I don't really like to participate in governmental debates, but I need to point out how absolutely ridiculous that website looks, and mention that the advertisements it's using to help pay for the site itself don't exactly go a long way to promote its legitimacy, nor do its sensationalized "headlines". Believe what you want, but don't talk down to people who don't agree with those sort of political theories.