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The only reason I clicked on the story was to see her picture again.
Yet, the littlest moron, Mike Lupica, offends on a weekly basis, almost as if he has tenure at ESPN, or maybe, based on his size, he is a protected species.
Probably a few feminists and/or unattractive women called to complain about favorable things being said about a pretty girl. Female jealously is fairly widespread.
The game was a dud, so the camera went looking for something interesting. The guy on mic has to say something or else there is dead air, there was absolutely nothing wrong with what he came up with on the spot.Sane people need to start telling the whiners to shut up.
Me too #1. I just made her picture my desktop background.
What if she´d been butt ugly and Brent called her a broad with a face that would make a train take a dirt road?
Camera close ups of girlfriends will go the way of cheerleaders, to be seen only in background as networks focus on horribly tattooed, Rastafarian coiffed psychotics dancing about after hitting a QB.NFL and college football is increasingly similar to watching the Bloods Vs Crips in a prison pick-up game. Perhaps the NCAA´s ironically named Diversity Office should be more concerned with gang attire than banning Indian mascots.
Thank you #1. My vote for the best and funniest post of the day.
Obviously, Brent prefers girls. Not sure about the rest of ESPN.
Brent is old enough to be her granpdpa! I thought it was creepy. . .
Stating the obvious fact that a woman is "gorgeous" is not creepy no matter what a mans age is.
#1, I am still laughing. This lady IS outstandingly gorgeous. A red-blooded American man merely said what everyone else watching was thinking - especially the fellows! The lady, BTW, was gracious and appreciated the compliment. So, what is the problem.
Musburger ´s comments were offensive,(?) but Kathy Griffen simulating oral sex on Anderson Cooper is cool. And don´t forget our dear leader referred to tea partiers as teabaggers. Yes he did. The left is incredibly low class and vulgar. My question to the people who found it "creepy " please give me cutoff age when men should stop admiring pretty women. 50, 60, 70? Just wondering.
Brent Musburger is a pig. I sat next to him on a flight to White Plains, NY and was appalled at what an arrogant, pompous jerk he is. I "accidentally" spilled beer all over him. It was a tremendous feeling to know I was able to douse the swine with swill!
Katherine Webb has already issued a statement saying that she was flattered. She also asked, "What woman wouldn´t want to be told that she´s beautiful?" Only ugly women would be offended by that.
These politically correct pukes in the front office at ESPN will never be heard complaining about the language and sexual innuendo of the average broadcast tv sitcom. I´m no prude but I can´t believe how raunchy shows such as " Modern Family" get away with it. We´re probably only a couple of years away from prime-time frontal nudity but Brent needs to do time somewhere getting his mind right?
Old Brent is a hyper opinionated over the top kind of personality who nobody we know can stand while trying to watch a sports presentation.The lady here is Miss Alabama, has anyone ever seen a Miss Alabama who was not right up there around #10?
The feminist leader from the 1970s, Karen DeCrow, used to complain bitterly that employers were hiring women as receptionists who were pretty.Imagine that!Miss Alabama is a beautiful young woman, who might want to cut back a bit on the makeup.
The woman is beautiful; I love the picture with the teen age boy eyeing her. How many of the men on this site were jealous of the young man? All of them!!!The LGBT will be boycotting ESPN because they didn´t receive equal time during the game.
It was funny and he seemed dsperate, not offensive. She was a beauty queen, that is what she wants. Plus, ND decided not to tackle, so we had to watch something.
Just how many times was the beautiful lady shown? I can understand a couple but the multiple shots were overdone--not Musbergers fault but somebody in the directors seat.
I think Brent upset one of the thillies incontrol room of E.S.P.N. and so the little thilly got his panties all in a bunch and made Brent apologize for being a man and complimenting a woman on her beauty!!What a bunch of GUTLESS COWARDS E.S.P.N. hasrunning the show, maybe if Brent commented on how cute the quarterback was the thilly inthe control room may have been happy becauseBrent was sooooo politically correct!!
Brent Musburger is the worst announcer at the network that´s corner the market on awful announcers. But this is real no big deal.
It was creepy. Yes, she is beautiful, but he seemed to need a cold shower. He singled out a woman among all the others there and let drool hang out his mouth. euuwwwwww


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Tonight is the encore presentation of episode 9, season 4 of True Blood, entitled 'Let's Get Out of Here'. The episode was written by Brian Buckner & directed by Romeo Tirone.
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Herb Bubble Bread Recipe
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 3/4 teaspoon dried parsley flakes
- 1/4 teaspoon dill weed
- 1/8 teaspoon each dried thyme, basil and rosemary, crushed
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- 1 loaf (1 pound) frozen bread dough, thawed
- In a small bowl, combine cheese and seasonings. In another bowl, combine butter and garlic; set aside.
- Divide dough into 16 pieces. Roll into balls. Coat balls in butter mixture, then dip in cheese mixture. Place in a greased 9-in. x 5-in. loaf pan.
- Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour. Bake at 350° for 22-26 minutes or until golden brown. (Cover loosely with foil if top browns too quickly.) Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack. Serve warm. Yield: 16 servings.
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Very good. Even my finicky nephews kept sneaking back to get more. I would rate 5 stars but my stars are missing.....
VERY flavourful, we loved it!! It calls for more of the cheese/herb mix then actually required, too much can be over powering so I cut it down a bit.
This is really good bread. I have never used frozen bread dough before, and since I don't bake, I was a little nervous about it. But it was really easy and turned out great. You can easily change the herbs to suit your tastes. This made a wonderful bread dish for my Easter dinner. I'll definitely be making it again.
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As the rest of the world looks over our lovely Middle Eastern region and wonders whether we are fighting or not the rest, the likes of Rolls Royce and their Abu Dhabi based importer seem to be tickling along happy as larry. In fact the largest Rolls-Royce showroom in the world has opened in the Umm Al Nar area of Abu Dhabi. The new state-of-the-art facility was unveiled by Torsten Müller-Ötvös, CEO, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. It stands at a rather monumental 900 square metres and will provide space for displaying five Rolls-Royces, a coffee bar to make your Million Euro decision at and a customer configuration lounge including colour and trim samples.
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One of my core responsibilities during the development of Office Web Apps has been to ensure that the apps are accessible to people with disabilities. Given that the Office Web Apps are web versions of productivity tools our primary focus is on supporting people who are blind, people with reduced vision, and people with limited mobility.
There are a lot of regulations (such as Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act) and guidelines that pertain to making both software and web sites accessible. These standards and regulations are in place to ensure that software developers take the needs of all users into account. However, compliance with these standards is a means to an end; it is not our goal. Our goal is to make our products accessible to as many people as possible. I personally find it hard to get passionate about regulations. I am, however, a passionate advocate for the people who will be using Office Web Apps.
When we approached the task of making Office Web Apps accessible we identified several core user goals. These are the three where we invested most heavily:
A screen reader is software that interprets the visual output of a computer and presents that output in a non-visual way such as speech or Braille. This task can be very complex because the screen reader has to present interactive controls in a way that allows people to use those controls even though they can't see them. There are several technologies that software developers can employ to make their software easier for a screen reader to interpret. However, when creating software using HTML and JavaScript the support for screen readers is less developed.
As such, we focus on two key strategies for providing support for screen readers. The first is careful use of HTML. The Word Web App editor, OneNote Web App and Excel Web App are XHTML Strict compliant and use CSS for layout (the PowerPoint Web App and Word Web App viewer use images – our accessibility solution for these is described below). We pay close attention to our use of HTML elements such that elements are primarily used based on their semantic value as opposed to how they function or appear. For example, tables are used to organize tabular data as opposed to layout.
Another important new technology we used to provide screen reader support is ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications). ARIA is an initiative of the W3C aimed at providing more robust mechanisms for exposing web application functionality to screen readers and other assistive technologies. The goal is to provide an experience that is comparable to a fully accessible desktop application. We have included ARIA markup in Office Web Apps so that browsers and screen readers that support the ARIA standard can provide a much clearer interpretation of our interface.
The PowerPoint Web App and Word Web App viewers render documents using images (or Silverlight if it is installed). Content that is presented as an image presents a challenge when making software accessible because screen readers can't "see" the image. To get around this it is important to provide a text-based version of the file that has both the text and the structure of the content represented in the image.
For PowerPoint presentations we provide a structured outline view of the presentation. This outline contains the text content of the presentation organized by slide. It includes list hierarchy and tabular data in simple HTML that a screen reader can interpret.
For Word documents we provide the ability to open the document as a tagged PDF. This allows people to use a PDF viewer that is compatible with their screen reader to read the Word document. We considered several options here before choosing PDF. These included an HTML view of the document and XPS. Ultimately we chose PDF because we wanted to use a standard format that would retain the richness of the document without requiring that the user has Office installed. Of course, if users have the Office desktop applications installed, these provide the most accessible experience. We have made it very easy to transition from the Office Web Apps to the Office desktop clients when they are available.
Efficiency is key for someone who doesn't use a mouse. With this in mind we worked hard to enable the right set of keyboard shortcuts. Familiar shortcuts from the Office desktop applications such as CTRL+B, CTRL+S, and CTRL+C all work as expected. Also, we implemented the CTRL+F6 shortcut to make it easier to navigate between different areas in the Office Web Apps. For example, in OneNote Web App there is a ribbon, a nav pane on the left and an editing surface for content. CTRL+F6 moves between these areas.
High contrast mode changes the colors of the UI to a color palette that is easier for some people with reduced vision to see. High DPI (Dots per Inch) mode makes the UI larger. In most browsers this is now called "zoom". The Office Web Apps work well in both high contrast and high DPI modes.
When supporting high contrast and high DPI modes success hinges on what you don't do more than what you do. We are extremely careful not to hardcode colors, pixel values and font sizes such that changes scale or to high contrast will be appropriately respected by our HTML. We did have to make some adjustment to some of the icons we use because they were not visible enough in high contrast mode.
One interesting challenge web developers face is taking high contrast mode into account. There is no consistent way of detecting when a system is in high contrast mode from a browser. This means that we can't change the way we render our interface in high contrast mode, which meant we had to tread carefully since some HTML is not rendered at all in high contrast mode (for example, background images).
For a broader look at Office accessibility check out Office 2010: Accessibility Investments & Document Accessibility.
Nick SimonsProgram Manager, Office Web Apps
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Could you add a web app for outllok so that i do not have to deal with having it stored on my hard drive so i can reduce the amount of hard drive space that is used on mu computer.
Actually it's a great idea.. I can't wait that we can try office webs apps soon!
I hope too that outlook comes in a web apps. And publisher! :)
The only problem is you PDF engine isn't perfect.
At least when it deals with RTL languages.
It gets worse when the user combined RTL with LTR and some Math Equations.
Actually, Outlook has a Web App (it has had one since 1997). It was (until recently) called "Outlook Web Access", and it is technically a feature of Exchange.
If your company is using Exchange, you can ask your adminstrator about deploying the Outlook Web App.
One issue that I've not seen discussed is how Office Web apps will interact with other hosted applications. The scenario in question is where a user has multiple hosted applications from different vendors. For example, Hosted Exchange via OWA, Hosted QuickBooks, and Office Web. If the user opens a Word attachment in OWA, OWA will download the file to Windows. When Windows recognizes a Word file, will HOSTED Word automatically launch and open the file? Similarly, if I open an Excel file from QuickBooks, will Hosted Excel launch and display the file automatically? This is the experience end users expect with Office installed locally. Google does not support seamless integration of hosted apps. One must do the upload/download hokey pokey to get the files from OWA to Google Docs. Will Microsoft get Hosted Application file interaction correct?
@watsonrodriguez - Currently the Office Web Apps require that a file be hosted on Windows Live or SharePoint. This makes some of the scenarios you describe challenging. However, we are looking at ways to make the Office Web Apps available in more places and some of these are similar to what you are asking about. Sorry I can't be more specific but we are still in early planning stages.
Love the new graphic look- clean and crisp!!
Problem with Outlook 2010: When I create a calendar entry for an all day event and invite someone for that event, the e-mail gets stuck in the outbox, never goes. However, if the calendar entry has a start and stop time anytime during the day, the e-mail goes as expected.
However, I can receive and ACCEPT an e-mail for an all day event and the response goes to the sender.
@Drazick: We definitely know that our PDF engine isn't perfect; however, we've continued to work hard in 2010 to ensure that it provides proper accessibility data regardless of content (there will always be bugs, but we've worked to address many of them) – we appreciate the feedback, though, and will continue to improve this going forward.
As I said but my comments never appeared Office is extremely inaccessible to visually impaired persons.
Even this blog is inaccessible because of the captcha and so I cannot enter even a comment without assistance.
1. Does not allow you to select text using the cursors consistently. Try pressing shift+down in Word and in Notepad and observe the difference. Word might also select partly the next line and so blind people have to press shift+end to make sure.
2. Formatting text is inconsistent and very hard. Especially creating or editing booleeted and numbered lists. Compare this with HTML easy formatting in Google Documents.
3. Using styles is hard. The combo for choosing a style is too much down the ribbon. The shortcut ctrl+shift+s does not activate it but it take you into a horrible task pain. If the task pain is already active but not in focus, the shortcut does not do anything, which I think is a bug.
4. Many times when you open a dialog box in Office the wrong button is hielighted. Like cancel or Ok is hielighted. The first control should always have the focus, not OK. It shows very bad design.
... and many other things which I cannot type again.
In Excel when you short something using the right-click menu, which is very handy to blind people because you can get to it using the applications key, you can never remove the shorting from that same right-click menu.
Styles and headings are very very useful because all screen readers have special shortcut keys for jumping from heading to heading. Many MS Word documents have no headings in them. Why? Because Word discourages the use of styles. Very very bad design.
I have too many other comments but I spent a day typing them and now they are all deleted and so I cannot type them again.
Equations also do not speak. Why can I enter equations on the web using LaTX but not in Word. and many other things.
So what's the deal? When will we be able to use OneNote via Skydrive? Is there a beta / ctp / MS Connect I can sign up for? I'm going positively bonkers waiting for OneNote via Skydrive.
Seems like development/testing of Office Web Apps has stalled. Been waiting for edit-enabled Word and OneNote Web Apps for many months. Can someone from MSFT shed some light on this? Thanks.
@Jonathan and @Jack, the development of the Office Web Apps is not stalled and is in full swing. OneNote Web App and Word Web App editing will start rolling out in the first half of 2010. Right now I can't provide a more precise date as the details surrounding full availability are still being worked out.
I have a blind colleague who refuses to covert to Office 2007 because it utterly broke the familiarity of Office 2003, especially with respect to keystroke compatibility. Office still provides WordPerfect keystroke capability, so why not Office 2003? Could there not be a way to "layer" compatibility so that someone with disabilities could get used to layers of the new interface one or two aspects at a time? My busy colleague simply does not have the weeks to spend doing nothing but learning the new Office UI just to be productive once again. Time is money and, in his case, that is an awful lot of money that would be wasted.
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One such person is Dino "Dinos22" Strkljevic. Dino lives in Australia and is employed there by Gigabyte. I've gotten to know Dino pretty well over the last few years. So, I've decided that he will be the first OCer in our Meet the Overclocks series.
You'll notice a lot of use of a gas torch, like the one Dino is holding here. No, he's not a pyromaniac. At least not that I am aware of. Torches like these are a common tool in this type of OCing.


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Brian Kirk's gothic thriller Middletown excoriates the actions and attitudes of the Irish Catholic clergy by honing in on one psychotically deranged fire-and-brimstone preacher. Matthew MacFadyen is Gabriel Hunter, a priest fresh from missions work in Africa. After 15 years of service in the field, Gabriel returns to his hometown in Ireland to occupy the now-vacant pulpit. Once there, he re-encounters three members of his working-class brood: his father, Bill Hunter (Gerard McSorley); his younger brother, the service station attendant Jim (Daniel Mays); and Jim's expectant wife Caroline (Eva Birthistle), who runs the local speakeasy. The family welcomes Gabriel home, but from the first moments of his arrival, he projects a violent, hair-trigger temper; relentless, psychopathic bursts of unchecked anger; and a sadistic obsession with inflicting pain and cruelty on everything and everyone around him -- from squelching live mice beneath his heels to strangling the neck of a chicken that he seizes during a cockfight. From the pulpit, Gabriel uses sermons to relentlessly damn the members of his congregation for their sins, including all activity at the local pub, which he perceives as a den of iniquity. When Gabriel hears Caroline's refusal to have her child baptized, the statement pushes him completely over the edge and triggers a string of increasingly violent acts that will bring the entire community to its knees -- and threaten the lives and safety of Bill, Jim, Caroline, and the newborn baby. Daragh Carville authored the script. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
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Charles McDougall's Sunday is one of two films (the other being Paul Greengrass' Bloody Sunday) that were made in 2002 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of January 30, 1972, a date commonly known as Bloody Sunday. Originally aired on BBC television network, the film attempts to give a fact-based portrayal of the events, which began as a civil rights protest in response to some Catholic leaders being jailed without due process and ended in a gruesome massacre, with 14 Catholics shot dead and 14 others injured at the hands of the British military. After its television debut, Sunday went on to win the top prize at the 2002 Method Fest Independent Film Festival. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
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Trendy young playwright and screenwriter Conor McPherson (I Went Down, 1997) makes his directing debut with this understated comedy. Widowed fish-and-chips shop owner George Beneventi (Brian Cox) lives in a sleepy coastal town along with his three children. Eldest son Frank (Peter McDonald) helps with the shop, college student Carmel (Valerie Spelman) is involved with a lecherous philosophy professor, and younger brother Joe (Laurence Kinlan) causes trouble at school. Being the off-season, George is having a hard time gathering the funds to pay his smooth but deadly bookie, "Simple" Simon McCurdie (Brendan Gleeson). Frank, who seethes with the knowledge that his dad is indebted to the thug, stages an inept though miraculously successful robbery of the criminal's lair. Meanwhile, Joe befriends Damien, the new kid in town, only to discover that his pal is a psychopath. This film was screened at the 2000 Berlin Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
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Borstal Boy
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Brendan Behan's famous memoir about his troubled youth formed the basis of this drama. Brendan (Shawn Hatosy) is a 16-year-old boy from Ireland who loathes the British and is eager to do something about it. Brendan sails into Liverpool, but is discovered to be carrying the makings of a bomb; he's soon placed under arrest and thrown into a borstal (British reform school), where he finds himself surrounded by a collection of tough-as-nails English delinquents. While his political beliefs don't change, Brendan learns to become more tolerant of others as he makes friends with a few of his fellow inmates, including Charlie (Danny Dyer), who dreams of sailing away some day, and Scottish Jock (Robin Laing). Brendan also has to deal with the pains of first love when he becomes infatuated with Liz (Eva Birthistle), the daughter of the school's master (Michael York). Borstal Boy marked the film debut of stage director Peter Sheridan, the brother of noted Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Drinking Crude
Owen McPolin made his directorial debut with this Irish drama set in the refinery business. Boarding a bus, impoverished Paul Kelliher (Andrew Scott) leaves rural Ireland with dreams of better luck in London. Scotsman Al Russell (James Quarton) offers Paul work, but it requires a return to Ireland. Al's bosses want a giant oil-storage tank cleaned, and the pressure increases as the deadline approaches. Meanwhile, Paul attempts to enroll in college as an alternative to toil with crude oil. Shown at the 1997 Montreal World Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi
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The Children
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As directed by Brit Tom Shankland, this outing constitutes a chilling installment in the subgenre of horror films about evil children running amok. The tale unfolds in contemporary England during a snowy, late December, with a young married couple, Jonah (Stephen Campbell Moore) and Elaine (Eva Birthistle), journeying into the country to spend New Year's with immediate family -- Elaine's sister Chloe (Rachel Shelley) and brother-in-law Robbie (Jeremy Sheffield). Accompanying the adults are three children: Casey (Hannah Tointon), Elaine's adolescent daughter from a first marriage (who resents being dragged along), and youngsters Paulie (William Howes) and Miranda (Eva Sayer), her children with Jonah (who can't wait to see their cousins Nicky and Leah). Upon arrival at Robbie and Chloe's home, ominous and increasingly bizarre events begin to transpire: Paulie grows visibly ill, Leah and Nicky begin slipping into menacing and threatening behavior toward everyone, capped off by an ugly accident that they engineer involving Robbie -- an incident that pushes him to the brink of death and ends with a gruesome act of carnage committed by the children. Soon, Elaine realizes that Paulie is infected with a bizarre, zombie-like virus that he is systematically spreading to the other children, and promptly decides to ameliorate the situation by taking violence into her own hands and ending the boy's young life. Little does she realize, however, just how pervasive the virus has grown. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
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Director Peter Greenaway explores the life of Dutch Golden Age artist Rembrandt in a biographical feature that uses the 1642 painting "Night Watch" as a launching point to explore the 17th Century artist's life from an entirely new perspective. British film and television star Martin Henderson assumes the role of the prolific painter, with Eva Birthistle, Jodhi May, and Emily Holmes assuming the roles of his wife and mistresses respectively. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Imagine Me & You
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A new bride finds she's tempted to leave her husband under circumstances she never anticipated in this romantic comedy-drama. Rachel (Piper Perabo) and Heck (Matthew Goode) are longtime sweethearts who have decided to take the plunge and get married, but on the day of their wedding, while Rachel is walking down the aisle, she finds herself struck by the beauty of Luce (Lena Headey), who has been hired to do the floral arrangements for the ceremony. While Rachel thinks little of this at first, she finds she can't get Luce out of her mind, and when Rachel invites Luce over to dinner in hopes of fixing her up with Coop (Darren Boyd), Heck's best friend and best man, she learns the lovely florist is a lesbian. When Rachel and Luce meet again while shopping, they strike up a friendship that deepens into something more, until Rachel declares her attraction to Luce -- and Luce reveals she feels the same way. Rachel has never had a relationship with a woman before, and while she's fallen deeply in love with Luce, she isn't at all sure of what to do next, and Heck soon realizes something has gone wrong in their marriage. Produced under the title Click, Imagine Me & You was the first directorial credit for screenwriter Ol Parker. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Breakfast on Pluto
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An Irish boy becomes an emotional and sexual outcast as the 1960s fade into the 1970s in this period drama from director Neil Jordan. When he was just a baby in the early '60s, Patrick Braden (Conor McEvoy) was abandoned by his mother and left on the doorstep of a church overseen by Father Bernard (Liam Neeson). Placed in a foster home, sensitive Patrick doesn't much care for the emotionally chilly attitude of his new "family," and psychologically buffers himself against the world by writing stories that make fun of Father Bernard and the other authority figures in his life. As he grows into adulthood, Patrick (played as an adult by Cillian Murphy) also discovers that he enjoys dressing in women's clothes and prefers the company of men, and as a teenager he falls into an affair with Billy Hatchet (Gavin Friday), a nightclub performer who also runs guns for the Irish Republican Army. In the early '70s, Patrick -- who has since taken on the drag name "Kitten" -- makes his way to London, where he becomes involved with Bertie (Stephen Rea), a small-time nightclub magician who gives the young man a place to say, a sense of security, and a job as his on-stage assistant. However, Patrick's idyllic life with Bertie proves short-lived when his old friends come to town on IRA "business." Breakfast on Pluto also features a supporting performance from former Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Director Ken Loach and writer Paul Laverty team up again for the romantic drama Ae Fond Kiss. The filmmaking team's third film set in Glasgow, this story involves a mixed-race relationship that causes problems for all involved. Casim Khan (Atta Yaqub) lives with his Punjabi-born Muslim family in Scotland. He wants to open a nightclub with pal Hammid (Shy Ramsan), but his parents have arranged for him to marry his cousin Jasmine (Sunna Mirza). Then he meets Irish schoolteacher Roisin Hanlon (Eva Birthistle), whom he quickly falls for. After calling off his family-approved engagement, Casim is ostracized by his father, Tariq (Ahmad Riaz). Meanwhile, Roisin runs into a concerned priest (Gerard Kelly) when she tries to get a job at a Catholic school. Ae Fond Kiss won several prizes at the Berlin Film Festival in 2004. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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$200 for a used q9550 if I'm lucky, not really worth it IMO. 12 FPS is actually pretty playable, and that's only with like 100+ people nearby, and on medium settings. I could squeeze more performance out of this e8400 if I really want to.
Doesnt exactly have to be a Q9550 - I was using that as an example to prove the P5Q Pro is a good overclocker. even most Q8300's manage to make at least 3.3Ghz which is still an improvement in your case given that it has 2 more cores over your current CPU. It makes all the difference to games.
ahh no problems... I havent installed that for a long time as it interferes with the OC on my graphic cards. I will keep trying to look for W1zzards program.
I just turned off shadows in game and with my build game flyies on max settings(shadows off)And looks still beautiful lvl50 atm
Karma gear suck when your level 80 anyways. Lots of better and cheaper items (in terms of finished product / crafting materials) from Trade Post. In fact its faster to acquire gold in game than to acquire a substantial amount of karma for those 40k karma gears. Just spend your karmas early on wherever you want. I think they were designed to be like that.. then once you hit 80, you start to grind for the real gears. lol, I get like 20fps on jormag zerg time on my current spec -_-
Anyone at Whiteside Ridge free to lend a hand with 'A Light in the darkness' story mission? Been stuck on it for a while now and since no one else is online, I cant get past it...
Anyone still playing this game? my main is now almost lvl 50 and this is my new champ. On server darkhaven.
Any post i make on the gw2 forums gets deleated no matter what the topic. So i think i'm done with this game.
Welcome to the club - I dont play GW2 anymore and i know of a few more old skool GW1 veterans that have already un-installed the game, Just wait until they release a new expansion for the game, hopefully by then Anet/NCSoft might of gotten their shit together. Otherwise its still a bot infested, buggy game with terrible NPC Ai that literally makes them mindless lemmings that either take on a mob of fire spiders/crabs solo handed or stand there looking pretty while youre getting your ass handed to you by a mob of undead/risen ALSO NOT TO FORGET TRAHEARNE. That guys voice acting was reason enough for me to quit the game.
I'm spending a few hours daily, but that's all I can stand. Instead of balancing things out, they favor the grind. You can literally reach level 50 within 6 hours of playing, at least with subsequent characters on the same account. They set out to make a good game, but failed in three critical areas. 1)You've got to grind like crazy, but despite this there are three good missions for each broken one. It's expected that you will run into a broken mission every once in a while. It seems like the dynamic event more complex than "kill that thing" are broken . Heck, their special event leading up to the karka had a broken part in the chain. That kind of sloppy coding and design, followed by slow or non-existant patches, is inexcusable. 2) No controls. Bot farmers suck. GW2 manages to make them suck less by having resource nodes specific to you, but that doesn't mean that they don't need to be controlled. It should be NCsoft's goal to remove bots, but they seem to have fallen asleep at the wheel. 3) Massive price fluctuation. Dyes cost less than 3 silver at one point. They now cost more than 10 on a good day. Gems were about 50 silver for 100 gems a month ago. They are currently north of 110 silver for 100 gems. 100% inflation in one month indicates either poor design or massively unstable economics. Either way, NCsoft cannot set up their economy (partially due to points 1 and 2) and this is a substantial failure. I really like GW2. I think Devona's rest is a decent server. Those compliments aside, NCsoft would be better served in fixing their problems than having monthly events. A three day extravaganza is nice, but it doesn't fix the underlying problems of the game. I really hope that January leads to a massive patching.
Gw2 was a bigger let down then tera online. They only serm to care about spvp 5 man teams as that is the only thing they balance And its borring as fuck. I can make my guy do so much more dps in wvw then in spvp its not even funny anymore
I was wondering whether or not to pick this up, and it looks like maybe I shouldn't, seems to be a bit of a disappointment.
You don't have to grind. Just explore the areas and be sure to do each dungeon. Also crafting is absurd exp. I could get 3-4 levels in about 30-45 minutes crafting. Less if you know what you are doing. I never found a single broken mission. Then again I only made it to level 60 with 5 or 6 fully discovered maps. GW2 is probably the least grindy game i've ever played. It is a great game, but it doesnt have the PVE end game of WoW and endless carrot-on-a-stick prestige awards. That doesn't make it a bad game. But if you're looking for 12hour raids I suggest look elsewhere.
The dungeon in this game are a joke if you have 1 bad player you wipe non stop and you lose more then you gain. Fractals of the Mists is a joke we got to the end of lvl 1 and the quest was bugged out so we wasted our time. I cant think of another game that has made me hate pve more then this one.
I believe the crafting is a point we can agree on. Two skills, raised from level 0 to level 400, can get you almost 40 levels. My point about the grind still stands. Have you seen what it takes to get one legendary weapon? 200 skill points don't come fast or easy. Even with all of the Sylvari, Asuran, Norn, and Human areas fully explored (missing Mt. Maelstrom, Sparkfly Fen, two Charr areas, and haven't touched Orr) I've only got 220 skill points. I will back down on two points. NCsoft has done a decent job culling the bot farmers. Rarely, in the last three weeks, have I met a bot. Finally, quests seem to be broken less often. I have no numbers to support my claim, but I'd guess 1 in 10 is broken, and this is largely due to the AI getting stuck somewhere. It's bad, but a tolerable level of bad. Unfortunately, there's some new grief to offer. NCsoft is screwing around with the drop rates almost every single update. It isn't substantial enough to raise concerns, but it is annoying when you're trying to craft and drop rates vary substantially day to day. All told, I'm getting back into the game. The Wintersday event is interesting, if a bit less varied than I'd like. The drop rates are being fixed, and bot farming has become a substantially smaller problem. If NCsoft can add something to the PvE experience, beyond party only Fractals, they've got something. I can recommend it for sociable players, or at least people who want to have a good few hours a week. Long term, meh. They're trying to roll out a new set of armor, and they introduced the Fractals. The monthly events are nice, but have added little to the higher levels. If you're looking for a good few months of play, buy the game without regrets. If you're looking to get a fix of WoW style gaming crack, GW2 isn't likely to scratch that particular niche.
Back in Everquest I think the longest raid that went on was 31 hours. Yes that's right. Lots of death and corpse runs. When a single boss takes 4 hours it's easy to do! Interesting read:
Wow, I never played everquest or GW2 but that right there is a pretty epic read! About as epic as FreedomEclipse's avatar...