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http://kfor.com/2013/10/03/u-s-capitol-on-lockdown-after-shots-fired-nearby/ NBC News reported the D.C. Capitol shooting started when the woman tried to ram her car, with her baby inside, into a White House gate. Authorities said the Secret Service chased her and she exchanged gunshots with police near the Capitol. She was shot and died less than an hour later. According to NBC News, her child is OK. They said an officer was injured during the chase. Her identity has not yet been released. WASHINGTON (CNN) - Gunfire erupted Thursday near the U.S. Capitol, bringing a swarm of emergency vehicles to the heart of the government in response to an emergency that locked down Congress. Police also closed Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House. CNN’s Athena Jones, who was at a Senate office building near the Capitol, said she heard gunshots that sounded like fireworks. Guards paroling after D.C. Capitol shooting. Courtesy: Joe Shikhman, Legislative intern for NY Congressman Michael Grimm The FBI dispatched units in response to reports of shots near Garfield Circle, which is on the Senate side of the Capitol. CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash learned that one person was injured. No further details were immediately available. House and Senate sessions were immediately suspended. A Capital Police bulletin said reports of gunshots required “all occupants in all House office buildings to shelter in place.” “Close, lock and stay away from external doors and windows,” the bulletin said. Authorities later lifted the lockdown, Bash later reported. UPDATE 2:11 p.m. – The lockdown has been lifted at the Capitol. UPDATE 2:08 p.m. – Shooting and danger is over at this point, according to Washington authorities. Now the investigation will begin. So far, no word on the shooter’s identity or motive. UPDATE 2 p.m. – Many of those responding to the emergency scene are not being paid for it because of the government UPDATE 1:57 p.m. – NBC News reporting shooting started at White House and continued more than 10 blocks to the Capitol. UPDATE 1:50 p.m. – Washington authorities said they have a suspect in custody. A CNN photojournalist said he heard at lease a dozen gunshots at the corner of Constitution and Maryland. Authorities said one officer has been injured. They have not confirmed if he was injured by a gun shot or another way. WASHINGTON – The Capitol is on lockdown after police said shots were fired outside the building Thursday afternoon. The Associated Press reported police said one officer has been injured. ------------------------------------------------------------ TL;DR: Some crazy lady with her baby in the car tried to ram a security gate at the Whitehouse, Secret Service Police chased her, she tried to ram them with her car (there's video footage of this) and they eventually shot her dead somehow.

I had one FPS spike, rest of the time was about 75FPS on Ultra. Game looks kinda bland in some spots, lively and vivid in others. The starter Assault Class gun is great, actually, and if you're good at BF3, you're good at this game.

I've got it. I was attending a citizens police academy class tonight and I got home too late, but I have tomorrow off so I'll play it then. I'm a seasoned BF3 player so I'm expecting some great things. Heard there are terrible frame rate spikes though.

Traffic lights typically have three lights in descending order for a reason. You should be fine with traffic stops if those are the only two colors you have an issue with. That being said though, giving descriptions of clothing might be a bit tough. I'd ask someone who's in law enforcement what they think.

Reminds me when I first started playing Counter Strike Source and someone told me F10 was the button to check my weapon load out. lol I started using that on people all the time after that.

That argument wouldn't hold up any longer for the CVPI because they're no longer produced, and you can still have other subtle differences that would make the car different. Look at the GTA IV version of the BMW M3. It looks extremely similar, even the tail lights. I don't bother to mod other cars in the game because the look pretty damn close to the real deal. And I agree with the Rockstar artistry aspect of things, but all I want is some damned curves in the tail lights on a car that isn't produced any longer. They still had 80's looking CVPI's (if you want to call them that) in GTA III even though it was set in the year 2000. Is an update too much to ask after 13 years?

That looks like a Gamestop, but that cover is either very old, or fake, because Microsoft is doing away with the 'Games For Windows Live' brand altogether, so the packaging wouldn't say that for the official release, also Rockstar hasn't announced it.

From my understanding, he's Serbian, and "the war" he was in was the Kosovo war, fought from February 1998 to June 1999. This article can explain a lot too: http://gta.wikia.com/Niko_Bellic

OpenGL's strong suit is in it's name. It's open, and free for anyone to use. Direct X is not, hence why other devices use OpenGL. They have to. If Direct X was available for everyone to use, nobody would be gaming on a Windows PC. The PS3 uses a proprietary "CELL" CPU that by nature thinks differently than CPU's with standardized drawing and other multimedia technologies that have been used for years like 3DNOW or MMX, to throw a couple of names out there. Because OpenGL is 'open', it's adaptable for situations like these. OpenGL by design is a good API, but all major graphical innovations AMD and nVidia develop are on Direct X first. Direct X is a nightmare because it's proprietary and it's always changing. Something you learn this year won't be relevant next year because there will be different, supposedly more efficient way of doing it. The 'graphical bar' I'm referring to is visual quality, and these again come from technological breakthroughs that Direct X gains first, then Open GL has to catch up to a year or two later, which is not unfounded. Even small version changes in Direct X carry some major improvements, like Direct X 11 to Direct X 11.1, as an example. To steal a line from Wikipedia that sums it up perfectly well (without resorting to nVidia or AMD propaganda): "DirectX 11.1 is included in Windows 8. It supports WDDM 1.2 for increased performance, features improved integration of Direct2D, Direct3D, and DirectCompute, and includes DirectXMath, XAudio2, and XInput libraries from the XNA framework. It also features stereoscopic 3D support for gaming and video." Linux software in general is more efficient, that's a well established fact. There's less overhead, and unlike Windows, quite a few distributions are built from scratch as opposed to being a giant mass of code dumped onto last decades version of the OS. Some of the computers that run the big billboards in Time Square New York run on Windows and others on Linux. Windows ones have to reboot every couple of weeks to avoid crashing, Linux ones can run for months at a time without a reboot or a crash. That being said, if you read a little further in the article you linked, you'll note that with a little sit-down time with AMD & nVidia, the manufacturers got some patches out the door which got their frame rate up to par on the same hardware. That to me sounds like a case of driver developers being lazy, as would fit with urban legend. AMD drivers have always been terrible and nVidia ones aren't always that much better. I don't have a personal beef with OpenGL, but Direct X is the graphical standard right now, and it will continue to be so in the future, as both the XBOX One and even Sony's own PS4 use hardware that has heavy ties to it's PC counterpart, which will encourage continued development for it. As said before, I like Valve, but they're spending too much time experimenting with project that most likely won't go anywhere, or if they do, won't do an average consumer any favors. It will just be another device to buy and have in your house on top of your PC, your XBOX/PS4, your tablet, your phone, etc, etc etc. I'd like to stick to a couple of devices and leave it at that, and let the technology be similar enough to where you don't have to port anything over or if you do, spend a long time doing so.

It's not going to go anywhere any time soon barring the prospect that games Valve develop themselves will be on it alongside Windows. No point to it as I see it, as it's just another OS developers have to program and debug for which lengthens development times and segments the gaming communities even further. Not to mention that they're going to have to either work really hard to modify a version OpenGL that looks comparable to DirectX, or use OpenGL as is and let the graphical quality never be up to par. They will also likely have to sell pre-built computers, or devices or whatever this OS is designed to run on, as people who've never installed an non-Windows OS on a computer (god forbid if it's a self built one) before aren't going to know what to do. This isn't mass marketable, and I think Valve is wasting their time when they should be spending time and financial resources on more important things, like developing games. Sequels to their biggest games are all long overdue with the exception of Counter Strike, and their newest game engine has taken an incredibly long time to develop. Smaller companies are churning out new gamine engines every few years that raise the graphical bar, which yet again, non-Windows OS's won't be able to meet in the foreseeable future. Anyway, yeah. Waste of time.

Some of the pictures here remind me of the shootout from the movie "Heat": Scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbX-brvYppc Phenomenal movie, That's not the whole scene either, but it's good. For those who haven't seen it, check it out. It's unfortunately also a factor that may have played into the famous North Hollywood Shootout in 1997. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout

Let me go ahead and stop you right there. If you wanna play, you've gotta pay. If $300 is all you can afford, buy an XBOX or start saving.

I'm just sick of the square CVPI tail lights in GTA. They've been staring me in the face since the year 2000, and I still can't get them even after another 13 years passes, apparently. Vice City and San Andreas have an excuse based upon what time periods they're based in, the others don't really.

Again, I said a civilized country.

Cool cars, shame they still didn't do the taillights on the CVPI correctly even though Ford no longer produces the car. I'm also sad they didn't change anything about the siren except for the wail tone.

Depends on what the engine allows, I suppose. I haven't written anything in years, and back when I did, I wrote in VB, not anything more advanced like C# or C++.

I doubt it will even get the 100 signatures it needs, as few as that number may be. I signed it as Niko Belic. Someone sign it as Roman next, please.

I said civilized.

In what civilized country does a police officer carry an RPG?

I doubt it. One can probably be made if a PC version gets released by repeatedly countering the 'wanted level up' event with a script that spams 'wanted level down'.

Mind you game play videos are often footage of a pre-RC build of the game. I'm not saying GTA V physics are wonderful, because my XBOX is broken and I'm not blowing $90 to repair a soon to be obsolete console plus a new game so I haven't played it. But what you're seeing may not be the real deal. Battlefield 3's beta was terrible as far as glitches go, and so was the Star Wars MMO beta. They even had missing features. But we received builds as far back as 4 months prior to the open beta release, so there was almost no point. So try to look on the bright side until you actually get your hands on the game.

It's too dark during night time screenshots, brighten it up.