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:{{rebut}}The buzzword of now appears to be "realism" which can explain away a lot of these. Many of them wouldn't really be apt in 2008 Liberty City. For example, there's no place you can go rally driving, no racing ring, no fields to harvest. You're not going to see Niko riding a bike either, he's just not that kind of person. The Pizzaboy I'll accept as a legitimate gripe, although really it's naught but a recoloured Faggio. People drive differently on the East Coast, they talk about it a lot early on in SA...
:{{rebut}}The buzzword of now appears to be "realism" which can explain away a lot of these. Many of them wouldn't really be apt in 2008 Liberty City. For example, there's no place you can go rally driving, no racing ring, no fields to harvest. You're not going to see Niko riding a bike either, he's just not that kind of person. The Pizzaboy I'll accept as a legitimate gripe, although really it's naught but a recoloured Faggio. People drive differently on the East Coast, they talk about it a lot early on in SA...
::{{Gripe}}What about the Vortex, the Journey, the Hotdog (and I don't mean a hot dong stand, I mean a Hot dog truck) and even the Hotknife? The Hotknife would be ideal for street races, and I would like to see the new Journey (in its new E-Series form) driven around somewhere.
::{{Gripe}}What about the Vortex, the Journey, the Hotdog (and I don't mean a hot dong stand, I mean a Hot dog truck) and even the Hotknife? The Hotknife would be ideal for street races, and I would like to see the new Journey (in its new E-Series form) driven around somewhere.
:{{Gripe}}No bikes.
:{{Gripe}}No bikes.
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When causing destruction in an invincible securicar, I find it annoying when I am launched out of the window after experiencing a head on crash with another vehicle, especially a SWAT van. Was it too much to ask for seatbelts or airbags?
Crashing on a motorcycle and bailing out of a car aren't fun anymore, and often result in death.
But even though you were wearing a helmet, you'd still die from the crash. The game really lacks realistic attempts.
About 10 sec knocked out player will be better.
Bailing out isn't just "not fun" anymore, it's completely redundant. The main reason I would bail out is generally if the car is on fire, yet you jump out and roll alongside the car at the exact same speed until it explodes right next to you, resulting in death every time. Or if you're heading straight for a wall or something you'll just fly into it anyway and probably take MORE damage that you would have had you not bailed out. Why include such a completely useless feature?
- You try jumping out of a car, and then tell me if you stop the second you touch the ground. It is called "tucking and rolling" for a reason. You roll along side the car because of your momentum from being inside the car moving at X mph. Therefore, when you jump out of the car moving at X mph, you will roll at X mph, slowing down as you hit the ground. However, you will eventually slow down to a stop. The car will take longer to stop, because it is on wheels, and does not have the slowing effects of being smacked against the ground. When you hit the wall because of jumping out of the car, it will hurt, because you jumped out of the car at, say, 100 mph. That would be approx. half of the speed of the (average) terminal velocity of a human, which is around 200mph. The human body hitting something at 100mph (and in many cases in GTA IV, over 150mph), would result in either serious injury, if not death. The human body hitting anything (well, anything big enough) at 200mph would mean instant death. No exceptions. Ah, physics. Aren't they just grand?
Whenever you crash you go flying out of the windshield.
- Well, the game designers are trying to be more close to reality. I always found it to be extremely far-fetched that Claude, Tommy Vercetti, and Carl Johnson could slam into a brick wall at 100+ MPH and emerge without a scratch.
The "flying out of a windshield" thing is seemingly random. I hit a taxicab head-on at a moderate speed, and flew out the windshield. I hit another taxicab head-on at full speed, and didn't fly out.
Cars explode for the stupidest and unrealistic reasons, i.e. shooting the window of a car, shooting the roof.
- Didn't that happen in all other GTA games?
I thought GTA IV was about "realism." I guarantee firing a shotgun shell at the windowsill of a car in real-life will not cause it to catch fire.
The fact that cars still explode unrealistically is proof that GTA IV isn't a realistic game.
Cars exploding realistically should have been part of that "little realism".
No car surfing! In previous GTA games you could stowaway on top of a moving vehicle and ride it to it's destination. Now, if you stand or squat on top of a vehicle and it moves, you tumble off like a quadriplegic. Not very realistic.
- If you're talking about realism, then it is quite impossible for someone to stand on top of a moving car without falling over.
Riding on a flat roof or in the back of a pickup is possible.
Not while standing up, obviously. Niko can crouch. I escaped the cops in previous games by jumping onto the backs of passing trucks.
There is no tank in this game, nor are there airplanes.
- Tanks would be unrealistic, as the armed forces would not send a tank into New York City after a single man. Airplanes would also be unrealistic because air-travel around New York City is extremely restricted, plus there's really not enough area to need air-travel.
Tanks and airplanes are more realistic than being released from custody hours after being arrested for mass murder/terrorism. If omissions are to be made for the sake of realism then there must be a level of consistency.
Airplanes can be used to destroy helicopters. Or Rockstar could place an aircaft carrier, that would make it more realistic.
New York City has an aircraft carrier, the USS Intrepid, that is a floating museum. Such a thing would fit in Liberty City.
Tanks were a fun addition to the gameplay of GTA games. Besides, if you have a six-star wanted level, you'll be like a terrorist, so the army should come and bring tanks with them in case you're in a car.
There are no car mods or even simply choosing your paint color.
- There are special editions of cars. The Pay'n'Spray is suppose to be colour matching, but somehow they just did not do it. lol
Car mods are necessary, because there are races.
It gets annoying when you really want a colour for yourself, and also if you want a spoiler on the back. couldnt it be cool if it helped with aerodynamics?
The game is called Grand Theft Auto and a majority of it is driving so why not have the ability to customize cars?
- Why spend $30k or so on a car that's probably going to blow up after a few minutes anyway? Just use the Sultan RS.
so where else i can spend my money when i have 2 millions and without cheats?? you people doesn't understand that smalls features like this entertain yourself and makes the game more fun after all its all about complex and fun. so imagine a game like gta iv but whit more more more features... It WILL BE AMAZING!
The yellow boxes in front of safehouses are stupid and poorly made. Often AI traffic hits them as they're driving, causing the saved cars to disappear. Garages were much better and safer, and less chance of cars disappearing.
- Parking spaces are more likely of what you will have instead of a garage. Most preferably a whole car park or something, but not a garage of your own in some poor old space. In Algonquin, probably, but it just wastes too much space of the area. It's simply what everyone will think in real life.
In real life you would have a range of parking options. A garage, or parking space in a multi-deck or underground car park is more realistic, even valet parking. The fact that every safe house just happens to have the same yellow area out the front is just another thing that detracts from the realism. Especially given that in a lot of cases there are no other cars parked in the street. Where do the other residents in the building park?
No "R3" Missions for anything other than the police cruiser.
Maybe not an ambulance, but maybe a taxi or an ice cream truck.
Also, Niko hasn't been convicted of anything.
There are not enough special vehicles like golf carts, lawn mowers, and bicycles. Bicycles are common in NYC, why not Liberty City?
- I guess Rockstar just left them out because it'd be too much of a pain getting around on a bicycle: streets rammed with cars and pedestrians, and we all remember how fiddly the bikes were to control in San Andreas, don't we? You'd be on your arse every two minutes. Not to mention how huge the playing area is.
They could correct the bikes, set few people to use them and etc.
There are fewer cars in the game compared to San Andreas, and no fixed-wing aircraft available to the player. Even though the city is smaller than GTA San Andreas, the designers of the game shouldn't have lost more stuff than they put in, that includes Vehicles and Planes. Just a general mistake on behalf of Rockstar
The variety of vehicles is greatly reduced. This limits the players experience and hurts the overall playability of the free roam game.
- Only so many cars can be made to fit in a huge game like GTA IV.
- Frankly, I thought there were too many cars in San Andreas. Especially bland four door sedans and two-door coupes. They added many boring cars that are similar in looks and performance to many others, some of which rare in most places so you usually don't see them anyway. (Not that you'd miss them) For examples: The Intruder, the Willard, the Vincent, the Sunrise, the Previon, the Primo, the Emperor, the Nebula, the Bravura, the Cadrona. There are also too many specialty vehicles. The Mower, for example, could have been fun, but the blades don't appear to have any effect on anything so it's quite pointless. Or the Tug. Then of course there's a crapton of light trucks that you almost never see.
- Only so many cars can be made to fit in a huge game like GTA IV.
In my opinion, Rockstar really blew-it by ruining a perfectly good muscle car with Hydraulics. Now, its just as useless as the perennial.
You can't operate trains like in GTA San Andreas.
- The need for getting somewhere quickly has been taken care of with taxis. Besides, trains are a bit of a pain in the ass: they're rooted to one, erm, route. What is there to do on a train other than hopefully crash it into another one (and die) or go so fast you fly off the tracks (and die)?
Maybe they should make the train more real, I mean you could walk inside the train, use emergency stop, that's just my opinion.
I agree!!! They should have more people too.
The Hunter helicopter isn't here anymore.
- It's now replace with the Annihilator which is faster but lacks rockets.
The Hunter should have been left in anyway. Since GTAIV isn't as realistic as it seems, an iconic helicopter like the Hunter should have stayed in the game as an option, even if it doesn't fit.
The "Hunter" is still in service. The gatling guns are extremely unrealistic. They fire too slow to be useful.
When Niko steers the car in any direction, the steering wheel doesn't move at all, which left Rockstar Games no explanation to this problem.
But not the steering wheel. It's hardly even realistic to see how the car turns into any direction, but not the steering wheel.
And I checked, the steering wheel Niko holds onto does turn.
As far as I know, the steering wheel did not turn in ANY of the gta games. You would think that R* would add something small like that to the game? no. And also, there are many, very small details that are hard to see(people checking the rearview mirror and so on), and the steering doesn't turn, which is more noticeable.
Airbags do not deploy on any vehicles when slammed head-on at high speeds.
- That just brings out the fun of the new physics engine, seeing Niko fly out of the car. Plus I don't really think that it really has to be this realistic. It would just ruin the fact that this is a GAME.
Another area where realism is affected. If realism is to be the justification for limiting the players experience then anything unrealistic becomes a criticism of the game.
- Airbags are turned off or removed, they are just liabilities to some people.
- Realism is all well and good but it can reach a level which removes all fun from the game and renders it almost unplayable. Airbags without seatbelts will kill people in high speed crashes, so would you like it if every driver in Liberty City used their seatbelts and you couldn't jack anything?
I'm with the OP. If the game is set in 2006-2008, then why not at least have the pedestrian vehicles' airbags deploy?
You can't attach trailers in the back of your truck like in GTA San Andreas.
Gas Tank trailers, Containers, Car Transporters, etc.
Limits the scope of possibilities in the free roam game. Shortens the lifespan of the game. The RS Haul Missions in SA could provide hours of game play on their own.
Brucie's helicopter is useless. It would have been better if you could fly his helicopter yourself.
- But how would you acquire it? Stealing? I don't steal from friends.
There are only two unique helicopters in the game, and only 1 of them is armed.
- Although this is a slight retraction of realism, GTA IV is not solely based on helicopters, nor is it centered around aircraft travel / usage. Besides, how common are the helicopters when not spawned, anyways?
Rare vehicles aren't here anymore.
Both cars are extremely rare and are only found online multiplayers. The Comet is nowhere to be seen again, which led me to a huge disappointment, since the Comet is my favorite car.
- It depends on where you are looking for it and what you are driving at that time. You could always spawn your Comet using a cheat code(Which does not affect anything)
You can't go fast when driving boats because even the smallest wave will completely slow you down.
- Use the left analog stick to judge the waves. When a wave is coming towards you, push it down. This will raise the nose of the boat and will increase the speed of the boat.
- New York City isn't the huge place for the ghetto, and most low lives in Liberty City can't afford them.
Some car names have been recycled for new cars and the names don't really make sense with the car they resemble anymore.
- This adds realism by showing the evolution of cars. The modern crown vic's no longer look the way they did in the 80's, do they?
Yeah but it makes no sense how the Stallion doesn't resemble a Mustang or an Esperanto doesn't resemble an Eldorado from any generation anymore.
This is whats basically happening here, they got a 1998 Accord, called it Concord and in the next game there's an older version based on 1979 Buick Riviera. The name just doesn't go with it (and I'm starting to see this argument is getting pointless).
No remote controlled vehicles (rc-car/plane etc).
- This is a good thing. RC Missions were the absolute worst. I don't see how this is a gripe.
No go cart. Not even a go-cart attraction.
Sorry, I must agree with you on them being crap, but it's still only an opinion. You can't rebut a gripe with nothing more than an opinion. -SiNdROME
The Quad is absent.
Actually, NYC beaches are popular places to go quad racing at night.
Most vehicles are very rare like the Infernus which you get only one chance to own, and never see again.
- To see a rare car again, you have to use your own frequently. On my completed game, I have FOUR Infernus-es.
Iconic sports cars like the Stinger and Cheetah are nowhere to be found.
How can you own four Infernus cars if there is only one from the parking space. It only appears in online multiplayer, but not single player. Using more than one Infernus counts as cheating and cheating affects the game, so it's better off not to use cheats at all.
- Cheating may be undesirable to you, but for some people, it just wouldn't be GTA without cheats.
- You can actually get more than one infernus by jacking it during brucie's race missions. Also, if you drive around in an infernus, other infernus's will be seen driving nearby, but it is rare.
- You can find an Infernus on the streets; I found one while driving a Pinnacle. It's just very rare.
- A vehicle's rarity just adds to the pleasure of actually owning one though! It'd be pretty boring to see nothing but Infernus' and Comets on the street, not to mention unrealistic. And they aren't even that rare, you just need to keep your eye out for them.
- Cheating may be undesirable to you, but for some people, it just wouldn't be GTA without cheats.
Actually, not all vehicles are rare (only the Romero and the Sultan RS is). Just keep completing Stevie's mission, and eventually, he'll text you about the Infernus. It's not hard to find. If you happen to spot one, don't get in the car yet and wait for the drivers in the Infernus cars to appear. If you're lucky, you can carjack the Infernus and store it into your safehouse. Problem solved.
A lot of cars that appear in single player, do not appear in multiplayer.
All other vehicles (eg. Hakumai, Hellfury, Pinnacle, modified versions of Rebla, Sentinel, Schafter and Sultan, FlyUS versions of Perrenial and Feroci, Comet and Helitours Maverick) does not appear in multiplayer. i've looked hard, and all other vehicles are nowhere to be found. Just a bland effort from R*.
The Securicar, the Packer, the Benson and the Flatbed are best suited to combat. After all, even if they are trucks, it would be very useful for combat, even if it's not explosion proof.
I'd hardly call the Faggio suited for combat, given you respawn on one of them (usually on desolate streets). It's the weakest vehicle ever.
Only 1 sportbike is in the game, while GTA:SA had about 6 or 7.
There's several variations of the NRG900: NRG900, NRG900F, NRG900RR, but that's it. The PCJ600 is old and not as fast, and doesn't look like a sportbike.
He's talking about sport bikes. The Faggio, Sanchez (counts as the dirt bike), Zombie and PCJ 600 do not count as sport bikes. Too slow and it has very little use to race. The PCJ 600's speed becomes unstable at high speeds. The FCR-900 and the BF-400 are two sports bikes in GTA SA and Rockstar Games removed it without even explaining why.
Wow. The last Rebut sounds like some douche wrote, simply so he could disprove whoever wrote the Gripe. Chill. The point of a Gripe is so someone can bitch. Don't like it? Piss off then!
Roofs from vehicles doesn't get crushed when you roll over. There aren't any roll bars from any cars.
- Theres a roll cage in the Sultan RS. Also, the roof of a car is supposed to be a very protective part of a car.
But all other cars don't even have roll bars and they're not supposed to stay intact even after a hard landing.
The Dozer is gone, regardless on going into any construction sites.
There are only 5 residential vehicle parking spaces, which means you are forced to store few of your favorite cars into the parking space, since Rockstar Games refused to explain why.
- Maybe they weren't asked, or they don't bother with people bitching about the hard work? And how many garages are there in New York City? Its mostly car parks. Garages are for the higher classes in New York City.
- The parking spots are big enough for 2 vehicles, you can reuse the one in Broker even though that safehouse has been burnt. The only differences between the garage and these parking boxes (in terms of gameplay) is your cars being exposed to the elements and damage not repairing itself, and I've not a problem with either of those things.
There aren't enough 'realism' vehicles i.e. cement mixers, street sweepers, 'meter maids' etc - although not exactly amazing to look at or drive, they do add that extra touch of realism which would have fitted in with GTA IV's atmosphere perfectly.
- Maybe because there isn't an cement being poured, or that Liberty City has decided to ruin is streets because of low budgets. And meter maids are those things on the side of the road where you park and put money in.
That's a parking meter a meter maid is this ('meter maid' being a nickname of course) and considering the amount of construction sites, it seems likely that cement trucks may be needed.
You don't even have first person mode (without bug) in trains nor possibility to walk in trains.
- Why would you need first person view in trains when you can't drive them?
Both the Sea Sparrow and the Leviathan helicopters were taken away for no reason whatsoever. Both of them are great which are used to land on water, but why remove them? Both helicopters were awesome.
- GTA IV isn't a sea game.
The Vortex hovercraft was taken away for no reason. It was a great vehicle, so why remove it?
The BF Injection was removed. Just because it's a great vehicle and designed for off-roading, doesn't mean they can remove it for no reason at all.
Not true. The BF Injection is a great vehicle that was designed for going off-road at the coast lines and driving around beaches and performing stunts.
The majority of good cars were removed by Rockstar Games and they refused to explain why.
- Rockstar doesn't answer to people who bitch about their hard work. Cars are removed due to that fact that THEY CAN'T FIT THEM IN THE GAME.
Tow Truck was removed. This was a great vehicle that was used to tow rare vehicles and park into residential parking spaces, but they removed it for no reason at all.
Even still, in a game that strives for realism, you'd think there would be at least a few tow trucks driving around a recreated NYC.
The Packer's ramp doesn't touch the ground, so you can not do stunts (even though a pre-release screenshot shows a Sabre GT jumping off of one).
OK? Why make the game worse for no reason?
- It's just one tiny little error. How can it make the game worse?
- Actually, if you look at the screenshot mentioned, there is no ramp between the Packer and the road, meaning that it was simply either a misleading pre-render, or a screenshot of a scripted scene (not in the final game obviously, like the screenshot of the limo with about 7 police cars along side it)
- It's just one tiny little error. How can it make the game worse?
This doesn't change the fact that this is a legitimate gripe, and you've solved nothing.
So in your opinion, the ramp on a stunt truck shouldn't touch the ground? You'd make a horrible game developer!
I would'nt think so. In real life, you can operate its ramp down. Besides, the Packer truck should elevate its suspension height, making it easy for the ramps to operate. I've seen real trucks with the ramp down and not scrape so low to the ground.
Auxilary lights (roof lights, grille lights) on vehicles do not work.
- Niko doesn't have time to look flashy while in a chase, does he? And what if those lights were off for a reason?
He has time to turn the ice cream truck music on, doesn't he? What about when he's not in a chase? If GTA IV is trying to be 'more realistic', the lights should turn on.
Perhaps for the same reason they are on the vehicle in the first place.
GTA is becoming more realistic right? The fog lights could help see when it gets foggy in Liberty City.
You don't see medics using all the lights on the abmulances, and there's only a few switches or buttons to be pressed in a real ambulance to make them work.
If it was possible to use a seatbelt, we wouldn't fly out of a car during a crash.
- Niko does actually buckle his seatbelt. Get in a car and start the engine and wait. He does an extra motion after turning the key, which may be buckling the seatbelt.
Niko does not buckle a seatbelt (which explains why no seatbelt is seen, there is no buckling motion, and he flies out of the car when slamming into a wall).
Assuming that Niko doesn't take out a knife and cut the seatbelt everytime he gets into a car, than there is no reason the seatbelt should break. "Seatbelts aren't indestructable" is a pointless, irrelevant statement.
It's a synthetic woven fiber, not leather. It's inertia, not gravity. Seat belts are extremely strong, designed to handle much more than a human body can. Take a look at the underworkings in your car. The bolts that hold the seat belt mechanism to the ceiling is bigger than the bolts that hold the engine to the frame. As far as the game, I would've preferred if it were a mix between airbag deployment (on more conventional in-game sedans), seat belts (on sports cars), or windshield (cheaper cars).
If you're implying that gravity can tear leather, than you are an idiot. If you are implying that gravity has anything to do with a car crash, than you are an even bigger idiot. So which is it. And to answer the first rebutter's answer, if Niko had his seatbelt on, how could he jump out and lean to shoot instantly?
Please tell me the last time you heard of a seatbelt tearing. If you had a crash while wearing a seatbelt, you would be launched forward slightly, then be stopped by the seatbelt, the force would split your rib/ribs (depending on the velocity of the crash) and seeing as your internal organs would still be moving, if your rib cracked it would probably puncture a lung or something, and if your ribs were intact you would still damage your organs from the force of being thumped against your ribcage. My point being that he obviously doesn't use a seatbelt. ;)
Why have the Annihilator, in the game, if you can't use it for misson's other that the one chasing after Pegorino or Dimitri.
- The Annihilator was never meant for missions, and was only added for players to enjoy after completing the game.
Maybe, who knows,but at the same time, R* could have made some missions for use with the chopper,San Andreas also has a chopper, but the only time i saw it was in the training, no where else, unless you did a cheat code and spawned it
Forklifts may be drivable, but you can't operate forklifts to carry boxes anymore, which completely strays away realism and fun.
- Now what is the point in using the fork lift for fun? How is it fun? It is useless, and that is why it was removed. Rockstar needed disk space for more import stuff.
The Monster truck was removed.
- How often do you see Monster Trucks driving through Times Square?
Once again, we're robbed of the chance to pretend we're Steve McQueen in Bullitt because there's no car that accurately resembles the '68 Mustang GT 390. We've got a replica of the '68 Charger (the other car from the Bullitt car chase) in the form of the Dukes and a few other badass muscle cars, but where is the coolest muscle car of them all?
They took away the Cheetah, the handling king at high speed, and it looked good too.
Which one, because the Infernus doesn't really handle well, a little bump and it flips over.
Yeah, the Turismo is the new Cheetah, only with its acceleration atrocious, making this a so-called "new Cheetah" a bad choice.
Choppers handled better in GTA: SA
The Blackhawk does not handle like a Blackhawk. It handles like a jetranger. It's too jumpy. S-70s are big, stable helicopters (except when they're swallowing sand). The Raindance handled like a blackhawk should. The Annihilator acts like a Hunter. The Pedals need to be a little less sensitive so the nose could be kept on the target for more than 5 seconds...
- You do not know that, have you ever flown in a helicopter? Rockstar only used the most exclusive and upfront references for the handling of all vehicles. And, go outside and watch someone fly a helicopter. They will barely move the stick-shift-thingy, and the helicopter will react very sensitively. Helicopters aren't as slow as dump trucks. And BlackHawks weren't made for taking down one man, but in fact a large group, and vehicles.
You are wrong on so many accounts. First, the Blackhawk can fly 130-140 mph. tops. An apache can only hit 140. Some sources say both types exceed 180 mph which is true...when they have a skeleton crew, no weapons, no cargo, and very little fuel. And it is a UTILITY HELICOPTER, UH. They are trucks, buddy. "The pilots barely move the controls" is a relative statement. What you see from outside the cockpit and what you feel on the controls are two vastly different things. I'm not a rotary wing pilot, but I've got my multi-engine license and I have flown helicopters before; MD 530s and Bell 204s with supervision.
This is a GRIPE PAGE. I have made a legitimate gripe. Go find me a pic of a blackhawk, let alone a police hawk, with four miniguns. How about YOU look somewhere else to fulfill your inferiority complex, because it won't work on me. If Blackhawks in the game carried a full complement (10 troops + 2 door gunners + 2 pilots), even minus the door gunners, full-blown heliborne assaults could be carried out, which would be sweet in multiplayer.
I'm sorry you're under the impression that it is an Air Force helicopter...it's not. Secondly, it's grand THEFT auto. And officers don't fly...warrant officers do, which are enlisted men. What exactly was the point you were trying to make...because you've lost it.
- About the Blackhawk being a UH-60...well, it um resembles the MH-60 helicopter one of my reletives flys. Which has big minguns. But you could say that the MH-60 doesnt have wing mounted miniguns. Well, take a look at the AH-60.
- Firstly, I don't know about console controls, but with keyboard controls the helicopters in GTA SA were very difficult and twitchy to fly. Flying in GTA IV with a keyboard is much smoother and easier. Secondly, it's not important which variant it most closely resembles, the Annihilator in GTA IV is definitely based on the Sikorsky S-70 'Black Hawk'. The four miniguns configuration may not be common in the real world but it's plausible. The AH-60 gunship variety of the Blackhawk typically has at least one minigun mounted on the wing, as well as rockets, guided missiles and an autocannon. I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to replace all of those other weapons with more miniguns, just not particularly practical. (The other weapons are more useful)
- About the Blackhawk being a UH-60...well, it um resembles the MH-60 helicopter one of my reletives flys. Which has big minguns. But you could say that the MH-60 doesnt have wing mounted miniguns. Well, take a look at the AH-60.
No Romero funeral car for everyone to drive around the LC? How dissapointing. Sure it can be driven by one mission, but regardless of going into any churches you see, the Romero is never to be seen again.
That would be impossible, as Niko dies many time he gets, yet never stays dead. What I'm saying is that I wish there was people driving the Romero for me to steal it.
[sarcasm] Yes, that's right, everyone apologize for disrespecting virtual dead people. Hey, polygons need to rest in peace too! [/sarcasm] P.S At the other point respect for the church, unless you are religious I don't see why you should respect the church any more than you respect any other building.
- The church is considered the "House of God" and if you were Christian, maybe you'd understand. I'm not particularly religious either, but I still respect the Church more than other buildings.
- By church, I think he means regilous people. Learn to mod files. I used to have hearses instead of buses.
- I'm an Epsilonist and I wouldn't rob religious buildings,no matter what the religion.That's disrespectful to their religions.Kifflom brother-brother.
- By church, I think he means regilous people. Learn to mod files. I used to have hearses instead of buses.
- The church is considered the "House of God" and if you were Christian, maybe you'd understand. I'm not particularly religious either, but I still respect the Church more than other buildings.
Why the Buffalo is never seen driving around the streets of Liberty City? It is a good vehicle, yet the only variation they added the FIB version of the Buffalo, and not a civilian model. A dissapointing effort.
How long is this going to take? I mean, the fans here does'nt want any game of patience when R* now focuses on the PC version (which I doubt it will happen, because no computer can handle THAT) and the GTA game for the Wii and DS (which I think it's a GTA 2-esque game, and the top view sucked).
- Remember when GTA IV came out? They said it would come out between February and April if I'm correct. It came out the last week of April. These things take a long time. It will probably come out in late January, December if were lucky. Just wait. It'll come. Once Rockstar is done with GTA IV for PC and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, then they'll focus on the episodic content.
The Sultan RS may be an excellent vehicle, but is rendered unsellable as Stevie won't accept this vehicle, making realism a total let-down.
- Perhaps Stevie will not accept the Sultan RS because it is filled with aftermarket parts, and Stevie has no use for aftermarket products. If Stevie is running a standard chop shop, he would want stock parts, not a bunch of carbon junk.
Wish that R* wouldn't make a dumb decision into not storing vehicles in garage, which is much safer and easy to store. The yellow boxes are too few and is completely stupid that you're forced to store up to 10 vehicles, rather than keep 30 vehicles or more.
- Niko is not meant to have a lot of money in the main storyline.
- Real estate is sparse in Liberty City, and a parking spot is tough to find at rush hour, even for tenants. The dedicated parking spaces work as advertised, and problems do arise when one tries to push the limits of the space.
The Airtug does'nt attach luggages from the back, like you do that in GTA: SA, thus making realism really disappointing.
Let's just take out the television, the radio stations, the badges on the cars, the themes on the phone, the funny websites on the internet, the tourist attractions and landmarks scattered around the city, the easter eggs, the comedy club acts, the cabaret acts, the clothing system and the strip club, and see if you're happier with the game. After all, these are also useless features that do not affect gameplay. :)
I am not retarded but it can be fun. For example, it may be fun to do a stunt jump and the luggage could fly everywhere and can go all over vehicles. It would be quite funny to see a pair of boxers on a smart, sparkling sport car like the Infernus.
The evolution of the cars is getting awkward, designs change significantly what appears in like a couple years (the cars they're based on can even be from around the same year and somehow the design still changes form one to the other) as does the class and type of car they are.
- Unlike games in the GTA III Era, GTA IV is set in 2008. Car designs change over time, and basing the cars ingame off real ones adds to realism, but R* couldn't directly rip off a car because that would result in copyright infringement. (take the Dillettante, it's apparently a cross between a Toyota Prius and a Citroen C4).
I get what your saying but how the actual designs change is strange take the Primo for example, in GTASA it was an affordable family car now in GTA IV you could say it is luxury sport sedan, the cars they are based on are from about the same year... How can it just change significantly over a very short time? with some cars such as the Buffalo, Bobcat, Emperor, Mannana, Primo, etc. I guess the guys at Rockstar based the change on how the name fits with those vehicles rather than what would be a realistic change (the one with the Emperor isn't so bad though). Heres another example the Buffalo was based on a Camaro, all of them ever made had 2 doors but just because the name fits well with a Dodge vehicle (with rams and such :)) it is now a 4 door. And they could've reused names for some vehicles rather than making new ones or having unrealistic evolutions (like reusing Buffalo or Phoenix for the Ruiner; Majestic for the Faction; Yosemite for the Bobcat; etc.). The car brands also make this troubling. Thats just my irrational opinion though.
Despite all that room in the limo, only 4 people can sit in it. Plus, there's a TV inside that's unusable.
- The limo in GTA has always been that way. There are no vehicles (to my knowledge anyway) that hold more than 4 people in the main storyline. And the TV...well, hardly anyone watches TV for one thing. And it'd just be impractical to have it available in a car. How many people would actually be able to use it? You can't even go first-person view in a car without using the phone.
The cars understeer like cows.--Roflnova 08:23, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
- Driving now requires a little more finesse than simply mashing the accelerator and maybe applying the brake every now and again. I can make corners at top speed with a fast, heavy car, and I'm sure you could too, with a bit of practice.
not enough special features for emergency vehicles eg lights can be turned on while in vehicle without sirens,police vehicle spotlight also R* should have added a ladder truck (maybe with a usable ladder) and realistic fire truck sirens and be able to have sirens and a horn at the same time....just thoughts on how to improve variety...and free roam capabilities
- What would be the point of that though? Why would you need to turn the lights on? What use would you have for a spotlight, you're the only one who ever commits major crimes. Where would you go with a ladder truck? There arn't many climbable buildings of any interest. Plus there would probably be scripting issues with a ladder and a vehicle, as ladders require a button to be pressed to climb them, which is Y/Triangle IIRC, the same one used to enter vehicles. Why would you need a horn and sirens? The siren is a continuous horn, it makes people get out of the way. Most people just ignore horns.
It is kind of silly to put things on vehicles that aren't used (the rest of the lights on the Ambulance, the spotlight and TrafficMaster on the Police Patrol And Cruiser, extra lights on vehicles, etc.)
I know this is a little gripe, but i think the cardoors open too stiffly. They opened better in GTA SA.
- In GTA SA you practiclly ripped the doors off cars! I think the car-door opening in GTA IV is more realistic.
In my opinion, more car dealerships should've been put into the game. Some cars on the street are extremely hard to find, like the Infernus for example. The Grotti dealer could've made a good multi-exotic car dealership. So instead of just the Turismo in the car dealership, there would've been an Infernus, a Super GT, a Comet, etc. Also, another good car dealership Rockstar could've put in was the landmark GM Building on 59th St. and 5th Ave (FYI, there WAS a car dealership there but it's now a toystore, but it wouldn't make sense for there to be a toystore since there are no kids in GTA IV). There could've been cars like the Coquette or the Cavalcade there, as both cars are made by GM. But Rockstar only put 2 car dealerships in the game and one bike dealership. It makes no sense to have just 2 car dealerships in one huge city. After all, the game is called Grand Theft AUTO.
I agree, particularly in regards to the rare cars angle. It's not fair that the nicest sportscars in the game spawn once in a blue moon when parking space is so limited. They could at least replace the random crappy cars that spawn at AutoErotiCar with sportscars, as advertised on their deceptive website. Grr.
Why just 1 single big rig in a huge Liberty City? Sure, the Phantom is ok, but what happened to the Linerunner and the Roadtrain? I thought it's supposed to be realistic. The Phantom is nowhere near as fast as the other two and it's impossible to reach up to 100 mph to slam head-on to a car nearby. I've never seen the Phantom such a terrible vehicle to handle or have its acceleration flimsy.
GTA:IV lacks in unmarked "regular" police vehicles (Not FIB). Seems a bit strange.
How do they use the taxi? I've never seen the LCPD use those
- It's a glitch. If a policeman steals a taxi, he will take you places. Watch this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffiLDu3uaYQ&feature=related
The only way the LCPD uses FIB Buffalos is if they steal them if you cheat one, and in ONE mission in TLAD. I'd like to see unmakred Police Cruisers, Police Patrols, and marked/unmarked LCPD Buffalos. Go look up NYPD Charger if you say "NYPD doesn't use Chargers!"
All the vehicles handle terrible, no matter how good they are (because everytime you go over a bump at medium speeds, your car rolls over for no reason). They handled better in San Andreas.
- Having recently loaded up GTA:SA for the purposes of comparison, I find that the vehicles handle in a terribly precise and unrealistic manner. In fact, most of the physics in the game are very unrealistic. I too initially felt that the cars in GTAIV handled poorly, but now that I am used to it, I could never go back.
How come there's no Elegy? I would've loved to have seen it return in GTA IV, maybe looking like the new Nissan GT-R. Maybe give it a Silvia S15's arse. And what about the Euros, that delightful rip-off of the 300ZX? I would have love to see Rockstar bring it back and give it a Skyline GT-R's arse but a 370Z's face.]] DriftKing18594
This is a just a little detail I don't like: Cars don't have combined-function taillights like in real-life, they can't be dim for night and fully light up while braking or while using the turn signals. Instead the lights are divided into sections that only do one thing, this just doesn't look right and because of it some real-lifish cars with simple taillights can't be emulated more accurately.
- Actually, they do. While some cars don't have combined-function taillights, others do. Taillights are only on at night (though they should come on when you turn on the headlights manually), and they will be brighter when you break. But I will say that they could have added a brakelight bar like many cars today have.
It is really dumb that you can't lock the doors in cars that you find or steal. This applies to all GTA games. Especially GTAIV. It makes me angry when people who are trying to be good samaritans come and pull me out of my car and try to beat me up or shoot me, or when cops can just walk up to my car and hold me up. There is no reason such a simple and realistic feature could not be included. Some might say that it could hinder Niko from getting out of his car quickly, but the reality is that most modern cars are set up to that using the door handle automatically unlocks the door from the inside.PiccoloNamek 22:31, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
- Wouldn't that nice car you parked almost certainly be one you stole? I know there are some exceptions, in which you are given a car, but at least 90% of the time, the cars you use are ones that you stole. Since many will be ones that were locked, parked cars, and you hot wired them to get them started, there will be no keys to lock/unlock those cars if you parked them. Therefore, why include an animation for locking a car, even though you may not have the keys for it? And the thing about the door handle unlocking the car, there are several things wrong with that and this game. 1-Somehow, Niko has to reset the previous owner's setting (and I have no clue how to do that, considering I've never seen a car with that ability in real life, other than in commercials), and does he really have the time to fiddle with that? 2-Not all cars have that feature. It is actually pretty new technology, usually only available on luxury cars. 2.5- It isn't even most modern cars. Only some of them.
I meant that using the inside door handle automatically, physically unlocks the door. Also, Niko could lock the door when he gets inside, but leave it unlocked when he gets out. What I am concerned with is having the car locked while I am driving it to prevent thugs and cops from getting into my car. Once I am outside the car, I couldn't care less if it is locked or not.
When you stop at a traffic light (red light) or at any other traffic signals (stop sign, etc.), other traffic cars insist upon trying to pass you, more often then not hitting you in the process. This is just an annoying little detail for those of us that don't feel like driving like a crazy person all the time, and just want to drive normally every once in a while.
Yeah, and when they hit you, they act like it was your fault too. Sometimes they will even get out of their cars!
One time I was driving a car home for Stevie, so I was being careful not to crash, and a police car crashed into me while I was at lights, and then I got a wanted level like you always to for hitting a police car.
- (From OP) Well, the police car thing I understand, considering how if a police car hits you in real life, they will stop, check on you, make sure everyone is ok, and file a report. In GTA IV, they likely will notice that you're a wanted criminal in a stolen car, and arrest you, since they now have grounds to do so. Also, when taxi drivers hit you and pull you out of your car to beat you up, they might just have serious anger problems. I bet they go crazy driving in traffic like that all day, every day. I think that Rockstar also may have set up an aggression rating for each character model, which would explain alot. But that's just a theory of mine.
Rockstar Games took away the majority of strange and unique vehicles for no reason (e.g. Sandking, Hotring Racer, Vortex, Hotdog, Journey, Hotknife, Combine Harvester, Pizzaboy and BMX)
- The buzzword of now appears to be "realism" which can explain away a lot of these. Many of them wouldn't really be apt in 2008 Liberty City. For example, there's no place you can go rally driving, no racing ring, no fields to harvest. You're not going to see Niko riding a bike either, he's just not that kind of person. The Pizzaboy I'll accept as a legitimate gripe, although really it's naught but a recoloured Faggio. People drive differently on the East Coast, they talk about it a lot early on in SA...
What about the Vortex, the Journey, the Hotdog (and I don't mean a hot dong stand, I mean a Hot dog truck) and even the Hotknife? The Hotknife would be ideal for street races, and I would like to see the new Journey (in its new E-Series form) driven around somewhere.


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Submission + - Full disk encryption is too good, says US intellig (extremetech.com) 4
MrSeb writes: "A new research paper, titled "The growing impact of full disk encryption on digital forensics," illustrates the difficulty that CSI teams have in obtaining enough digital data to build a solid case against criminals. According to the researchers, one of which is a member of US-CERT — the US government's primary defense against internet and digital threats — there are three main problems with full disk encryption (FDE): First, evidence-gathering goons can turn off the computer (for transportation) without realizing it's encrypted, and thus can't get back at the data (unless the arrestee gives up his password, which he doesn't have to do); second, if the analysis team doesn't know that the disk is encrypted, it can waste hours trying to read something that's ultimately unreadable; and finally, in the case of hardware-level disk encryption, tampering with the device can trigger self-destruction of the data. The paper does go on to suggest some ways to ameliorate these issues, but ultimately the researchers aren't hopeful: "Research is needed to develop new techniques and technology for breaking or bypassing full disk encryption.""

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Sports camps
The River Hill Boosters are sponsoring Summer Sports Camps at River Hill High School, 12101Clarksville Pike in Clarksville. Camps are designed to help young athletes improve fundamental skills. Weekly camps begin June 24 and will be held from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. More than 20 camps are offered, including football, soccer, baseball, softball, tennis, lacrosse, field hockey, volleyball, basketball, cross country, track and field, cheerleading, weight training, wrestling and dance. Information: 410-313-7120 or riverhill.org.
Flea market
The River Hill Community Association hosts a flea market at 10 a.m. Sunday, May 19, at 6020 Daybreak Circle in Clarksville. Information: 410-531-1749.
Senior center
Glenwood Senior Center, 2400 Route 97, Cooksville, offers the following events. Information: 410-313-5440:
Sittercize The hourlong exercise program includes seated aerobics, stretching and strengthening drills, 1 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The cost is $36 for 18 classes.
Fit for Life exercises Participants do aerobics, strength training and abdominal work, 8:20 a.m. to 9:20 a.m. Fridays. $45 for 12 classes.
Painting and drawing A painting and drawing open studio will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Wednesdays. Bring your own supplies. Free.
Hatha yoga Classes in this Indian system of physical postures and breathing will be held from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. $45 for eight classes.
Silver Sneakers Walking Club The group is led by a staff member on an indoor track at 8:30 a.m. Mondays through Fridays. Everyone is invited.
Shoot pool Everyone is invited to shoot pool from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.
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Yikes... bloggers. They took off their jammies and put on their shorts. They've come out of the house and walk among us. Black socks go with shorts, right, moonbeambushhater?
I'm looking at the paper NYT, and the photo is twice as wide. What are you missing? To the left of the white-legged ones is a slouching young woman with scraggly hair. There's a sign on the wall behind her -- something about "swing states" -- and the photo is framed so that we see the word "swing" is next to her head. To the right, we see a banner -- "Mark Warner/President '08" -- and standing above it is a very tubby man in short sleeves and wrinkled pants. To his right is a guy with a beard and hair growing past his shoulders.
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They may think of themselves as rebels, separate from mainstream politics and media. But by the end of a day on which the convention halls were shoulder to shoulder with bloggers, Democratic operatives, candidates and Washington reporters, it seemed that bloggers were well on the way to becoming — dare we say it? — part of the American political establishment. Indeed, the convention, the first of what organizers said would become an annual event, seems on the way to becoming as much a part of the Democratic political circuit as the Iowa State Fair.The horror! It's bad enough Iowa gets so much power....
"It's 2006, and I think we have arrived," Markos Moulitsas, the founder of the Daily Kos and the man for whom the conference was named, announced after being greeted with the kind of reception Elvis, or at least Wayne Newton to a more traditional Las Vegas audience, might have received had he walked into the dowdy ballroom at the Riviera Hotel and Casino.Is the tone of contempt subtle enough? Wayne Newton... Las Vegas... dowdy ballroom...
The ceremony and self-celebration notwithstanding, the actual extent of the blogging community's power is still unclear. For one thing, it was hard to find a single Republican in the crowd here, though organizers insisted that a few had registered. For another, as the presidential campaign of Howard Dean demonstrated in 2004, the excitement and energy of the Web does not necessarily translate into winning at the polls.Hey, that's a good tag line for a blog: Spreading the truth like no entities I've dealt with in recent years.
"I do believe that each day, they have more impact," said Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the minority leader, who will deliver the keynote speech to the group on Saturday night. "Now how far that will go, I don't think we know that yet."
But, Mr. Reid added: "One of the reasons I so admire them is they have the ability to spread the truth like no entities I've dealt with in recent years. We could never have won the battle to stop privatization of Social Security without them."
Yeah, all you politicians: deal with this entity!
One Democrat who declined to attend: Hillary Clinton. What did Kos say when asked if she was popular with his crowd? "Oh my God, no way!"
Mark Warner was there though. And Howard Dean. Tom Vilsack. Wesley Clark "was spotted on Thursday night looking somewhat out of place as he roamed the halls in a pin-striped suit before heading to the Hard Rock Cafe to hold his own reception for bloggers." The poor man!
Ha, ha... they must all kneel to the lefty bloggers!
Maureen Dowd was there too. If you've got TimesSelect, you can check out her column today. A taste:
I ... wad[ed] through a sea of Kossacks, who were sitting on the floor in the hall with their laptops or at tables where they blogged, BlackBerried, texted and cellphoned — sometimes contacting someone only a few feet away. They were paler and more earnest than your typical Vegas visitors, but the mood was like a masquerade. This was the first time many of the bloggers had met, and they delighted in discovering whether their online companions were, as one woman told me, male, female, black, white, old, young or "in a wheelchair."...How to dress? First, get out of the pajamas. Okay, now, about those socks....
As I wandered around workshops, I began to wonder if the outsiders just wanted to get in. One was devoted to training bloggers, who had heretofore not given much thought to grooming and glossy presentation, on how to be TV pundits and avoid the stereotype of nutty radical kids.
Mr. Moulitsas said he had a media coach who taught him how to stand, dress, speak, breathe and even get up from his chair.


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[...]But part of the dream of Speech Recognition is telling the computer to do this and that -- even just a simplistic version of what is in some Sci-Fi like in Star Trek -- and the computer just knows what it needs to do and does it. I'm not even talking anything as complicated as AI, just something like "look up slashdot" and it fires up the browser and goes to the site. [...]
This isn't something that is Dragon's fault -- I think in many years programs and OSes as well will have a number of keywords that will control them built in (if I'm not mistaken Apple has a primitive version of this but the speech recognition is crap). [...]
I used to do this on a mac running OS8 in the '90s, using the built in commands and a system-wide macro utility called KeyQuencer (hey, that was a really great app). "Computer: check mail" etc. Not due to accessibility problems on my own, just geeking out. Once you extended it with scripting, it was pretty amazing for repetitive tasks, and I never had problems with recognition, once I got the hang of it.
My impression is that Apple hasn't developed it at all, and their SR technology is stuck in the '90s.
I tried Dragon a number of times, but it feels too much like talking to oneself. Training it is a chore too. 99% accuracy after 5 minutes is probably true, but I type much better than that. I suppose it will be great for people who either can't type properly or are lysdexic.
99% accuracy after 5 minutes is probably true, but I type much better than that. I suppose it will be great for people who either can't type properly or are lysdexic.
99% accuracy means that for every 100 words (a paragraph) you will have a wrong word. Now, that accuracy is in the "optimal conditions" and talking at a specific phase. The problem with the other 1% is that the wrong word might not be even related to the text (whereas when you are writting, the error is mostly in spelling).
Personally, last t
I am not a native English speaker, but I am usually able to say just about anything I want. In this comments, I have not altered any of the mistakes (if any) that Dragon NaturallySpeaking made while I was dictating. As you can see, the error rate is probably a bit higher than 99 per cent correctness. Nevertheless, I used this extensively, because it increases the speed at which I can work.I often have to type reports, and it goes a lot faster while using this tool. The only problem is that these reports contain lots of enterprise specific (and IT specific) terms. Naturally, it takes a while before Dragon NaturallySpeaking knows all of these terms.
Other than that, I am very happy with it.
Out of curiosity, how long did it take you to dictate the comment?
I've found the same thing when trying various dictation programs over the years (mostly one version or another of Dragon). After a while, it works, but it just doesn't flow the same and it interrupts my train of thought (such as it is). It feels like what I have to do when talking to our outsourced-to-
This software's history includes jail terms.
1. 99% accuracy rate is actually pretty bad in the real world. In a typical document, you might expect 12-15 words per line - so you have one error every 7 lines or so.
I make more mistakes than that just from typing. Of course, I catch and correct them faster when
The training an accuracy seem like things that can be overcome, but I would really like to see a solution for things like punctuation and function keys, things that don't naturally come with speaking. Instead of having to say "delete that" or " delete" it would be nice to just have a button that I can hold down when saying things I want interpreted as commands.
I'll have to play with Dragon at some point; I just haven't gotten around to it yet. Aside from accuracy errors, the primary issue that bothers me about speech recognition solutions I've tried is the general lack of being able to recognize speech that seems natural to humans but isn't what the system is expecting as input.
This is especially true with over-the-telephone solutions. For example, I am with Rogers Wireless carrier here in Canada, and their automated customer service system prompts you for your phone number. My last 4 digits are 2125, and it is very natural to say "twenty-one, twenty-five" when giving the number to a human being. The speech system, unfortunately, is only sophisticated enough to understand one-digit-at-a-time mode, so you have to suffer through saying "two one two five". Which isn't truly a big deal, but it's frustrating having to learn each system's unique quirks and limits. I suppose the same can be said of any technology.
Oral dictation (as opposed to fixation) is frustrating at best. Punctuation is a critical item that I can't stand dealing with. Trying to get the goddamn software to insert commas and semi-colons can be difficult enough, let alone wanting to actually insert the word "comma" into a paragraph. Then there's trying to spell out acronyms (aka "aka"), or inserting the contents between and including those parentheses. Until dictation of a document can be done with truly minimal correction and post-editing, and can be spoken at a very comfortable pace, I will stick to a keyboard.
Of course, the most entertaining aspect of watching someone else play with speech recognition is the inevitable habit of sounding completely unnatural while speaking. The monotone voice and sounding like a robot are bad enough, let alone those who think that shouting or talking ree... aaa... llll... lllyy... sloowwwww.... llly is going to help. The funniest I've seen was a woman who seemed to think that talking in cutesy baby-talk would win the system over to her side.
I just want a system that responds to commands via a programmable keyword. Only when speech recognition is Star Treky enough to respond to its name will I be happy. My computer will be named Minion.
*Simple* speech recognition. I want it to react to a keyword ("Computer", or "House", or similar sci-fi-ey) and then a few simple commands. Sphinx-2 seems ideal, but I'd need good dictionary files.
Be careful what you use as the trigger, or else you won't be able to use the words "House" or "Computer" in any conversation while at home without the house thinking you are trying to command it, and starting the dishwasher or something. I suppose you could always name your house something sci-fi-ish, or fantasy-
No, I'm not just saying the usual "Does it run on Linux?" bit. Linux is the now (and coming even more) obvious OS for small devices. When you want to talk to ANY device in your home or car, or your cell phone or PDA, you'll be talking to LINUX. THAT'S where we need a great voice-rec system. We need it ported to Linux and opened for an API.
But, really, what is the incentive for a commercial organization to do this? They're not gonna get paid for it. So, other than some altruistic reason so that everyone ca
He did not ask for a free edition for Linux. In fact, the applications he suggested were for various embedded systems which run Linux which most users would not be modifying. I am sure the hardware developers can handle licensing fees for their own devices if they think voice recognition is worth the cost.
In short: "For Linux" does not mean "For free".
... has launched a Mac version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking
... The new product is said to reach 99% accuracy after 5 minutes of training.
About that 99%
But in true Mac fashion the options panels are severely minimalist, so the Boom feature cannot be disabled.
Listening to someone dictating using speech recognition will drive you mad. You would have the same problem with a blind person listening to text-to-speech. But that's not the fault of speech recognition or text-to-speech. That's the fault of management not providing the disabled person with an acoustically isolated environment (i.e. reasonable accommodat.
I've only ever known a single blind programmer.
He had a text-to-speech program running. He had the damned thing set to be so fast (he had astounding hear
A consultant is a person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets the watch, and sends you a bill for it.


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Game, Set, Match
Matching your makeup to your dress sounds old-fashioned, to put it nicely. But a slew of stars have surprised us with colourful pairings that look fresher than expected. Whether you build a smoky eye in the same autumnal shade as your dress, match your bright lipstick to a vintage top, or even choose an outfit to match your hair colour, there's nothing wrong with sticking to a single colour scheme. Read on for our favourite looks and a few tips for trying this out at home.
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Makeup artist Julie Harris used Nars' Velvet Matte Lip Pencil ($24) in Pop Life to set off the coral trim of Allison Williams' Prabal Gurung dress.
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When Beau Nelson used Yves Saint Laurent's Pure Chromatics Eyeshadow ($52) in Palette 10 on Nicole Richie, the designer/style star hadn't yet decided what to wear for the night. That she settled on a matching dress from her QVC collection was a happy coincidence!
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It looks like Harley Viera-Newton's Diane von Furstenberg suit was dipped in the same bright pink as her NYX Lipstick ($8) in Hot Pink.
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To perfectly match her Alexander McQueen dress, Lily Cole's makeup artist, Kouta, used Chanel Rouge Coco Shine ($32) in #70, Sourire.
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If you want to take the idea of head-to-toe matching one step further, you can always match your hair to your dress! Of all her hair colors, Kelly Osbourne's clearly taken with the light lavender shade at left. Hairstylist Judd Minter mixes an intense group of professional dyes from L'Oreal and Redken, but says you can get the look at home with Manic Panic Semi-Permanent Hair Dye ($12). "Combine two jars of Virgin Snow with one tablespoon of Purple Haze," he says. "Mix it very well and apply it on towel-dried hair from roots to ends with a tint brush. Comb it through and wrap the head in plastic." Wash it out in 30 minutes (and add heat if you want a particularly vibrant shade of purple) for the ultimate color statement.


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UNA's Price Sisters Honored as Part of NCAA 40th Anniversary Celebration
Feb. 18, 2013
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.––Former University of North Alabama volleyball All-Americans Rachel Price Bell and Ronda Price Brinley have been selected among 49 student-athletes that the NCAA will honor throughout 2013 as part of the celebration of the 40th Anniversary of NCAA Division II.
Developed through a partnership with the Division II Conference Commissioners Association, the 40th Anniversary Tribute Team highlights one male and one female from each of the division's 23 current conferences, plus two at-large nominees. The Gulf South Conference is the only league with three honorees, with the Price sisters sharing the league's female honoree award. Both earned All-American and Academic All-America honors at UNA and have gone to to successful careers in the medical field.
UNA is one of just three schools in the nation to have two honorees, with St. Edwards of the Haertland Conference at Pittsburgh at Johnstown of the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference receiving both the male and female awards from their leagues.
"This group of former student-athletes is meant to reflect the core values of Division II athletics," said Josh Looney, associate director of Division II. "Commissioners have helped identify a diverse group of championship individuals from Division II's 40-year history. Not only did these former student-athletes act as champions in athletics and in the classroom, they've gone on to live championship lives as well.
"This group is a true representation of Division II's commitment to providing its student-athletes a 'Life in the Balance' that extends beyond athletics."
Division II gained its own unique intercollegiate athletics identity when Divisions I, II and III were formalized during a special NCAA Convention held in 1973. Prior to 1973, the NCAA was organized into two divisions––"University" and "College."
The year-long 40th Anniversary celebration will feature a number of initiatives branded by Division II's tradition, history and community influence. A special 40th Anniversary highlight video was unveiled to Division II membership during the 2013 NCAA Convention, officially kicking off the celebration.
Each member of the Division II 40th Anniversary Tribute Team will receive a commemorative 40th Anniversary gift and is slated to have his/her accomplishments profiled through Division II media channels.
Conferences were asked to submit a list of nominees representative of Division II's ideals. The only requirement was that nominees exhausted their athletics eligibility within the past 40 years and attended a college or university active in Division II.
Rachel Price Bell was a four-year starter on University of North Alabama volleyball teams from 1996-99 that had a combined 156-22 record. The Lions won four straight Gulf South Conference championships, made four straight NCAA Division II Tournament appearances and won two NCAA regional championships. She played in a school record 593 games and 178 matches and had 1,539 kills. She and her sister Ronda are two of only eight UNA student-athletes all-time to have earned both All-American and Academic All-America honors. She was a second-team AVCA All-American pick in 1998 and 1999 and was a CoSIDA Academic All-America selection in 1998 (third-team) and 1999 (first-team). She was also a CoSIDA Academic All-District IV pick in 1997, 1998 and 1999, an Academic All-GSC honoree in 1997, 1998 and 1999 and received the Gulf South Conference Commissioner's Trophy as the premier female student-athlete in the league in 1999 and 2000. She was also named NCAA Division II Conference Commissioner's Association National Female Scholar Athlete of the Year in 2000.
An All-Gulf South Conference and All-Gulf South Conference Tournament pick in 1998 and 1999, she also received two GSC Player of the Week honors. She was an All-South Central Region selection 1997, 1998 and 1999 and also received All-South Central Region Tournament honors in 1998 and 1999. She was named South Central Region MVP in 1999. An AVCA National Player of the Week on Oct. 10, 1999, she was UNA's Female Athlete of the Year in 2000 and was awarded an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship in 2000.
Following her graduation from UNA, Price earned a Phd. in Biomedical Engineering from Purdue University and is currently employed as a clinical project manager in West Lafayette, Ind.
She was inducted into the UNA Athletic Hall of Fame in 2011 in her first year of eligibility.
Ronda Price Brinley was also a four-year starter on University of North Alabama volleyball teams from 1996-99 that had a combined 156-22 record and won four straight Gulf South Conference championships, made four straight NCAA Division II Tournament appearances and won two NCAA regional championships. Her 2,550 career kills ranked second in Division II history when she ended her career and she set 15 individual school records.
She is one of just eight UNA student-athletes all-time to have earned both All-American and Academic All-America honors. An AVCA All-American pick in 1997 (second-team), she earned CoSIDA Academic All-America honors in 1997 (second-team) and 1999 (third-team).
She was the recipient of the Gulf South Conference Commissioner's Trophy as the premier female student-athlete in the league in 1998 and was the Alabama Sports Writers Association State Small College Athlete of the Year in 1997.
Price was an All-Gulf South Conference and All-Gulf South Conference Tournament pick in 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999 and was an Academic All-GSC honoree in 1997, 1998 and 1999. She was selected CoSIDA Academic All-District IV in 1997 and 1999 and received eight GSC Player of the Week honors during her career. The GSC East Division Freshman of the Year in 1996, Price was the GSC Tournament MVP in 1997 and GSC Co-Player of the Year in 1997.
She received first-team All-South Central Region and All-South Central Region Tournament honors in 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999. She was AVCA National Player of the Week on Oct. 5, 1997 and set an NCAA Division II record for career kill attempts (6,091) and attempts in a four-game match (81). She also set six school records and five GSC records. UNA's Female Athlete of the Year in 1998 and 2000, she was awarded an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship in 2000.
She was inducted into the UNA Athletic Hall of Fame in 2011 in her first year of eligibility.
Following her graduation from UNA she graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine and also did her residency at the Indiana University School of Medicine. She is employed as an anesthesiologist in Fort Wayne, Ind.
The NCAA Division II 40th Anniversary Tribute Team:
California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA)
Violet Palmer (Cal Poly Pomona Women's Basketball, 1984-88)
Chris Wondolowski (Chico State Men's Soccer, 2001-04)
Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC)
Michelle DePolo (Georgian Court University Women's Basketball; Soccer; Softball, 1999-03)
Nicholas Harriott (Caldwell College Men's Soccer, 2004-08)
Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA)
Barvenia Wooten-Cherry (Virginia Union University Women's Basketball, 1980-83)
Timmy Newsome (Winston-Salem State University Football, 1976-80)
Conference Carolinas (CC)
Stephanie Ferri-Lewis (Pfeiffer University Women's Cross Country; Soccer; Swimming, 1991-94)
Clint Bryant (Belmont Abbey College Men's Basketball, 1973-77)
East Coast Conference (ECC)
Donna Orender (Queens College Women's Basketball, 1975-78)
Brian Kilmeade (LIU Post Men's Soccer, 1982-86)
Great American Conference (GAC)
Janet Cherobon-Bawcom (Harding University Women's Cross Country; Track and Field, 2000-05)
Drew Beard (Southeastern Oklahoma State University Football, 2001-04)
Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC)
Gail Goestenkors (Saginaw Valley State University Women's Basketball, 1981-85)
Tom Izzo (Northern Michigan University Men's Basketball, 1973-77)
Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC)
Sandra Magnus (Missouri S&T Women's Soccer, 1983-86)
Larry Tucker (Lewis University Men's Basketball, 1979-83)
Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC)
Mallory Holtman-Fletcher (Central Washington University Softball, 2005-08)
Grant Dykstra (Western Washington University Men's Basketball, 2002-06)
Gulf South Conference (GSC)
Rachel Price-Bell and Ronda Price-Brinley (University of North Alabama Volleyball, 1996-00)
Radovan Chrz (University of West Florida Men's Tennis, 2000-04)
Heartland Conference (HC)
Kelsey Baird (St. Edward's University Women's Soccer, 2005-09)
Collin Mayer (St. Edward's University Men's Golf, 2007-10)
Lone Star Conference (LSC)
Dr. Tammi Julch-Williams (Texas Women's University Basketball, 1990-94)
Roberto Garza (Texas A&M University-Kingsville Football; Track & Field, 1997-2000)
Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA)
Teri Clemens (Truman State University Volleyball, 1974-78)
Jim Crane (University of Central Missouri Baseball, 1973-76)
Northeast-10 Conference (NE-10)
Johannah Leedham (Franklin Pierce University Women's Basketball, 2006-10)
J. Terence Carleton (Bentley College Men's Soccer, 1973-76)
Northern Sun Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (NSIC)
Lauren Brown (Winona State University Women's Track and Field; Volleyball, 2007-10)
Bob Bowlsby (Minnesota State University Moorhead Wrestling, 1972-75)
Pacific West Conference (PacWest)
Samantha Murphy (Grand Canyon University Women's Basketball, 2007-11)
Tsung-Hsien "Jet" Chang (BYU-Hawaii Men's Basketball, 2010-12)
Peach Belt Conference (PBC)
Dr. Amy Amundson-Smith (Georgia College and State University Women's Basketball, 1989-92)
Stilian Shishkov (Lander University Men's Soccer, 1993-95)
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC)
Lori Pio-Jacques (East Stroudsburg University Women's Basketball, 1993-96)
David Williams (Bloomsburg University Men's Tennis, 1978-81)
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC)
Elva Martinez-Dryer (Western State Colorado University Women's Cross Country; Track and Field, 1991-95)
Danny Woodhead (Chadron State College Football, 2004-07)
South Atlantic Conference (SAC)
Kate Griewisch (Lenoir-Rhyne University Women's Cross Country; Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field, 2009-12)
Patrick Bartlett (Wingate University Men's Basketball; Soccer; Tennis, 1996-00)
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC)
Selina B. Kohn (Albany State University Women's Basketball, 1990-94)
Edwin Moses (Morehouse College, 1974-78)
Sunshine State Conference
Anna Hallbergson (Barry University Women's Tennis, 1997-2000):
Ken Corigliano (Saint Leo University Men's Cross Country, 2002-06)
West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC)
Mindy Young-Gagliardi (University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown Women's Basketball, 1988-92)
Sean Isgan (University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown Wrestling, 1977-82)
At-Large (NCAA)
Sheila Baxter (Virginia State University Women's Basketball, 1973-77)
Shane Carwin (Western State Colorado University Football and Wrestling, 1995-99)


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The city's Building and Inspections Department is set to move out of its cramped confines in City Hall and into a building on Canal Street.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The city's Building and Inspections Department is set to move out of its cramped confines in City Hall and into a building on Canal Street.
City commissioners on Tuesday night considered a proposal for the department to lease and renovate a building at 323-325 Canal St., but when talks turned to terms of the lease, the dreaded words "fiscal cliff" came into play.
Chief Building Official Mike Knotek said he had put aside $120,000 to renovate the building, which is about 1,500 square feet compared to the 960 square feet space the department has to work with in City Hall. That money would come from the city's building fund, which gets money from permits issued.
The lease would be for $1,250 a month while utilities would cost about $9,000 a year. A five-year lease for the property has been proposed.
Knotek said residential permits issued over the last year have been "quite steady" and permits for commercial projects have increased.
"And for the near future, I see it continuing on increasing," he said of the commercial permits.
However, Commissioner Judy Reiker, who works at a local title company, said she didn't want the city stuck with a five-year lease if the real estate market suddenly hits a slump.
"My suggestion was to negotiate a lesser term lease with options to renew and kick out clauses to get us out of there more quickly in case something did go bump in the night," she said. "That's how my company does it; we do three-year leases with one-year out clauses and options to renew."
Mayor Adam Barringer also mentioned fear of the "fiscal cliff" -- referring to the federal tax increases and spending cuts that would occur if existing laws are not changed by the end of 2012 -- and what that could do to the real estate market.
City Manager Pam Brangaccio said the city will continue to suspend impact fees, which should keep the local commercial building market from slumping.
Brangaccio said Knotek should look at a "mutually agreeable" lease extension for the Canal Street building, so that if the market does fall in a less than five-year period, the city could get out of the lease.
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Gartner is now predicting that Windows Phone will be the second smartphone OS in terms of marketshare behind Android OS as of 2015, but overtaking BlackBerry in 2013, and then iOS in 2015. This report basically mirrors last weeks IDC prediction. Why such a prediction?
This bold claim is essential based on the same assumption that because Nokia is dropping Symbian in favor of Windows Phone 7 (and future versions of Windows Phone) then Microsofts mobile OS will get a gigantic boost in consumer adoption in the coming years.
Once again, all these predictions assume that nothing major will happen between now and then. But what about Gartner/IDC prior predictions? Do they add credibility, or just hot air? In 2007 iPhone released - Gartner/IDC were wrong about it's marketshare in 2011. In 2008 Android released - Gartner/IDC were wrong about it's marketshare in 2011. In 2010 Windows 7 Phone released - Now Gartner/IDC are suddenly geniuses at predicting marketshare in 2013 and 2015? I think not. In fact, all reports show that BlackBerry continues to shine and surpass expectations, including predictions that the PlayBook will the the second best selling tablet this year. See full Press Release below:
Gartner Says Android to Command Nearly Half of Worldwide Smartphone Operating System Market by Year-End 2012
Egham, UK, April 7, 2011Worldwide smartphone sales will reach 468 million units in 2011, a 57.7 percent increase from 2010, according to Gartner Inc. By the end of 2011, Android will move to become the most popular operating system (OS) worldwide and will build on its strength to account for 49 percent of the smartphone market by 2012 (see Table 1). Sales of open OS* devices will account for 26 percent of all mobile handset device sales in 2011, and are expected to surpass the 1 billion mark by 2015, when they will account for 47 percent of the total mobile device market.
By 2015, 67 percent of all open OS devices will have an average selling price of $300 or below, proving that smartphones have been finally truly democratized, said Roberta Cozza, principal analyst at Gartner.
As vendors delivering Android-based devices continue to fight for market share, price will decrease to further benefit consumers, Ms. Cozza said. Android's position at the high end of the market will remain strong, but its greatest volume opportunity in the longer term will be in the mid- to low-cost smartphones, above all in emerging markets.
Source: Gartner (April 2011)
Gartner predicts that Apples iOS will remain the second biggest platform worldwide through 2014 despite its share deceasing slightly after 2011. This reflects Gartners underlying assumption that Apple will be interested in maintaining margins rather than pursuing market share by changing its pricing strategy. This will continue to limit adoption in emerging regions. iOS share will peak in 2011, with volume growth well above the market average. This is driven by increased channel reach in key mature markets like the U.S. and Western Europe.
Research In Motions share over the forecast period will decline, reflecting the stronger competitive environment in the consumer market, as well as increased competition in the business sector. Gartner has factored in RIMs migration from BlackBerry OS to QNX which is expected in 2012. Analysts said this transition makes sense because RIM can create a consistent experience going from smartphones to tablets with a single developer community and given that QNX as a platform brings more advanced features than the classic BlackBerry OS it can enable more competitive smartphone products.Gartner predicts that Nokia will push Windows Phone well into the mid-tier of its portfolio by the end of 2012, driving the platform to be the third largest in the worldwide ranking by 2013. Gartner has revised its forecast of Windows Phones market share upward, solely by virtue of Microsofts alliance with Nokia. Although this is an honorable performance it is considerably less than what Symbian had achieve in the past underlying the upward battle that Nokia has to face.Gartner analysts said new device types will widen ecosystems. The growth in sales of media tablets expected in 2011 and future years will widen the ecosystems that open OS communications devices have created. This will, by and large, function more as a driver than an inhibitor for sales of open OS devices, said Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner.Consumers who already own an open OS communications device will be drawn to media tablets and more often than not, to media tablets that share the same OS as their smartphone, Ms. Milanesi said. This allows consumers to be able to share the same experience across devices as well as apps, settings or game scores. At the same time, tablet users who dont own a smartphone could be prompted to adopt one to be able to share the experience they have on their tablets.Note *: An open OS makes a software developer kit (SDK) available to developers, who can use native application programming interfaces (APIs) to write applications. The OS can be supported by a sole vendor or multiple vendors. It can be, but does not have to be, open source. Examples are BlackBerry OS, iOS, Symbian, Android, Windows Phone, Linux, Limo Foundation, WebOS and bada.


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