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Halflife2.net Forums http://www.halflife2.net/forums/ The worlds largest Half-Life 2 community. en-US Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:01:32 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.halflife2.net/forums/images/cobalt/misc/rss.jpg Halflife2.net Forums http://www.halflife2.net/forums/ Minorities at the waterpark http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163408&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:28:30 GMT Oh god i love Cartman. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpsqPdZAJfk Oh god i love Cartman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpsqPdZAJfk ]]> Videos, Images, Flash Dump Ravioli http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163408 UK using video games as recruitment tool for the GCHQ http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163407&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:47:28 GMT http://www.recruiter.co.uk/news/computer-games-used-as-gchq-recruitment-agents/335449.article ---Quote--- Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the UK intelligence and security organisation, is reporting significantly increased traffic to its careers website following placement of... http://www.recruiter.co.uk/news/comp...335449.article

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Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the UK intelligence and security organisation, is reporting significantly increased traffic to its careers website following placement of virtual billboard ads in a number of computer games in a bid to attract top IT talent.

Kate Clemens, head of GCHQ's digital strategy at recruitment and communications agency TMP Worldwide, which came up with the idea, told Recruiter: "The campaign is running for a month, but the response so far to the landing page has been good."

Working with TMP and Massive, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsoft which has created the network for dynamic in-game advertising, GCHQ feeds ads into the games via the internet. Players click on the www.gchq-careers.co.uk weblink on the billboard, which takes them to the GCHQ careers site at www.careersinbritishintelligence.co.uk. Games being used for the trial exercise include those featuring intelligence and counter- terrorism plots such as Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent and Rainbow Six Vegas, as well as the big-selling street racing title, Need for Speed: Carbon.

A GCHQ spokesperson told Recruiter that while it only represents a small part of its recruitment marketing at the moment, it is keen to explore other non-traditional ideas for attracting people. "A case could be made for it appealing more to males, so we want to look at other ideas to broaden the appeal to the market."

Because of the content of some of the games, GCHQ is aware that the campaign could promote a James Bond-style image of working at the organisation and so it needs to manage potential candidates' expectations carefully. "Our business is signals intelligence and information assurance, not human intelligence," said the spokesperson. "These are deskbound jobs and work which is vital to the UK's national security."

]]> The Sockmonkey Lounge TollBooth Willie http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163407 Steven Seagal: Lawman http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163400&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:03:12 GMT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99E16w0PxCA This series looks kinda neat and I totally respect what hes doing. Does anyone watch this series?? Because even though Seagal is like a B movie actor I think he gets some redemption here with what hes doing in New Orleans. also Chuck Norris needs to... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99E16w0PxCA

This series looks kinda neat and I totally respect what hes doing. Does anyone watch this series?? Because even though Seagal is like a B movie actor I think he gets some redemption here with what hes doing in New Orleans.

also Chuck Norris needs to make a reality show like this too ]]> Films, TV and DVD Warped http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163400 Valve Update Midnight Riders Site http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163397&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:26:22 GMT mysterious website owned by Valve based around the fictitious band the Midnight Riders has been updated with a great deal of new content. We mentioned a few days back this site had players intrigued and the belief is that the Midnight Riders are...]]> The mysterious website owned by Valve based around the fictitious band the Midnight Riders has been updated with a great deal of new content. We mentioned a few days back this site had players intrigued and the belief is that the Midnight Riders are likely candidates for Left 4 Dead 2 DLC. References to the band are seen and heard throughout the Dark Carnival chapter.

The site now includes an extensive blog of the band's activities, album art and 2 youtube videos of songs by the band. Valve seem to be adding some depth around the story of the Midnight Riders making it likely we will see them in L4D2 as future downloadable content. ]]> Hectic Glenn http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163397 Intergalactic! http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163394&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:40:16 GMT http://rappmusic.ytmnd.com/ Thought this was kinda cool :D http://rappmusic.ytmnd.com/

Thought this was kinda cool :D ]]> Videos, Images, Flash Dump Dog-- http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163394 Bayonetta review. Oh my .. http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163392&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:22:27 GMT Edge say 10/10

'Bayonetta is nearly flawless. We're not talking about the witch herself, though that's also true. Bayonetta is the kind of game you dream of playing, the kind of game every platform needs, and the kind of game any developer with ambition would fantasise about having on their CV. From start to finish its intricate and intuitive fighting system is a masterclass, and it even finds time to reclaim vehicle levels. This is about as good as it gets.'

Stand aside Devil May Cry and grovel on your knees God of War, it looks like there's a new daddy in town, and he's a she :eek:

]]> Games and Gaming Warbie http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163392 Road Deaths Costing World 500bn http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163391&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:44:40 GMT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RBF_BL_pwI&feature=sub

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Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's president, says improving road safety should be treated with the same urgency as fighting the global recession.

Moscow is hosting the first global ministerial conference on road safety in an attempt to help tackle a problem that Medvedev says is costing the global economy around $500bn a year.

Neave Barker reports from the Russian capital.

Finally a conference that makes sense! Hopefully they'll come up with something better than letting all these damn text messagers and drunk drivers ruin it for the rest of us. Also they should do another conference on Cancer and Heart Disease because these problems at least in the states affect wayyy to many people. ]]> The Sockmonkey Lounge Warped http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163391 Col. Lewis Millett, Who Led ‘Bayonet Hill’ Charge, Dies at 88 http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163382&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:40:39 GMT By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN Published: November 18, 2009 Col. Lewis L. Millett, an Army veteran of three wars who received the Medal of Honor for leading a rare bayonet charge up a hill in Korea, died Saturday in Loma Linda, Calif. He was 88. His death was announced by his sister Ellen Larrabee. ... By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN
Published: November 18, 2009

Col. Lewis L. Millett, an Army veteran of three wars who received the Medal of Honor for leading a rare bayonet charge up a hill in Korea, died Saturday in Loma Linda, Calif. He was 88.

His death was announced by his sister Ellen Larrabee.

Colonel Millett’s forebears fought in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War and World War I. He was so eager to follow in their footsteps that he deserted the American armed forces in the months before the Pearl Harbor attack and joined the Canadian military in the hope of seeing combat quickly. He was eventually court-martialed for desertion, but not before he had returned to the American Army and fought with distinction.

When he became a company commander in the Korean War, serving as a captain in the 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, he seemed a visage from battlefields past with his red handlebar mustache. On Feb. 7, 1951, he employed a tactic of bygone wars with a fury that overwhelmed the enemy.

During the fighting near Osan, South Korea, Captain Millett’s unit encountered Communist troops atop a spot called Hill 180.

It would be remembered as Bayonet Hill for what the military historian Brig. Gen. S. L. A. Marshall would call “the most complete bayonet charge by American troops since Cold Harbor,” a reference to the carnage at an 1864 Civil War battle in Virginia.

After ordering his men to fix bayonets, Captain Millett charged up the hill in front of them in the face of heavy fire, blasting away with his carbine, throwing grenades and, most spectacularly, wielding his bayonet when he encountered three enemy soldiers in a V-shaped gun position.

“I assaulted an antitank rifle crew,” he told Military History magazine in 2002. “The man at the point was the gunner. I bayoneted him. The next man reached for something, I think it was a machine pistol, but I bayoneted him — got him in the throat.”

The third soldier had a submachine gun.

“I guess the sight of me, red-faced and screaming, made him freeze,” he recalled. “Otherwise he would have killed me. I lunged forward and the bayonet went into his forehead. With the adrenaline flowing you’re strong as a bull. It was like going into a watermelon.”

Captain Millett was wounded by grenade fragments, but his men took the hill. President Harry S. Truman presented him with the Medal of Honor in July 1951. As the citation put it, “His dauntless leadership and personal courage so inspired his men that they stormed into the hostile position and used their bayonets with such lethal effect that the enemy fled in wild disorder.”

Lewis Lee Millett was born in Mechanic Falls, Me., but grew up in Massachusetts. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1940, then went AWOL to fight for Canada on the side of Britain against Nazi Germany.

After serving in England with Canadian troops, he transferred back to the American Army in 1942. A year later, the Army court-martialed him for having deserted. By then he was a sergeant, fighting in Italy, and had already taken part in the invasion of North Africa, winning a Silver Star in the Tunisian campaign. The Army fined him $52 and later gave him a commission as a lieutenant.

He left military service after World War II, but rejoined the Army in 1949 after attending Bates College in Maine. Remaining in the armed forces after the Korean War, he set up a reconnaissance and commando school for the Army and during the Vietnam War served as an adviser to the II Corps Phoenix program, directed against the Vietcong and what was called their infrastructure.

“The Phoenix program got a lot of bad publicity about being murderers and so forth,” Colonel Millett told Military History, evidently referring to charges that civilians had been singled out by the program as Vietcong sympathizers. “I never saw any of that. We were trying to capture Vietcong leaders to find out more about them. But we did kill a lot of them when they wouldn’t surrender.”

Colonel Millett, who lived in Idyllwild, Calif., retired from military service in 1973.

In addition to his sister Ellen, he is survived by his sons Lewis Jr., known as Lee, and Tim; a daughter, Elizabeth Millett; his brother, Albert; his sisters Alice Pepin and Marion Finnerty; and several grandchildren. His wife, Winona, died in 1993, and another son, John, a sergeant in the 101st Airborne Division, died in December 1985 when a chartered airliner carrying troops home from peacekeeping duty in the Sinai Peninsula crashed in Newfoundland.

In an interview with The Press-Enterprise of Riverside, Calif., in 2002, Colonel Millett reflected on his long military career.

“I went from Army deserter to colonel,” he said. “I served in two armies, in three wars — in Africa, Europe and Asia.” He said he had met presidents, “had my picture taken with some of them. But I was honored to fight for freedom, and I’d do it again.”

badass,rest in peace.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/us/19millett.html?hpw ]]> The Sockmonkey Lounge unozero http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163382 Good rig to buy??? http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163381&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:30:01 GMT Erm guys this is my first time building a computer so im not reali experienced so im looking for a rig which can actually play team fortress 2 or possibly far cry 2 (prefably med/high settings) ive already decided on some stuff such as: Cd-rom... Erm guys this is my first time building a computer
so im not reali experienced
so im looking for a rig which can actually play team fortress 2 or possibly far cry 2 (prefably med/high settings)
ive already decided on some stuff such as:
Cd-rom drive:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827118031
Hard drive(if u find cheaper tell me):http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136195
Mouse(hehe no extra):http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16826193005
Keyboard(same):http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16823109019
casing:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811164135
Ram(If cheaper tell me):http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820141300
Psu:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817170016
now the onli things i nid are
1.Motheboard
2.Cpu
3.Graphic card
and if im missing anything tell me
i have a budget of 450dollars ]]> aqil02 http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163381 Intel/AMD x2 x3 x4 http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163380&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:16:31 GMT I'm going to upgrade my computer for Windows 7 64 Bit, and I'd like some advice.

The parts I need to order are:

1) Motherboard
2) CPU
3) RAM

Do I go with AMD or Intel? Which is faster, cooler, more efficient, best deal, best for games, best for non-games, etc.

DDR3?

a particular socket?

I want at least 6 GB of RAM. I want to keep a budget of $250-$500. Should I spend $500 for quad or spend $250 for a dual system?

My computer now is a CeleronD 3.33 Ghz, like from before they invented dual core, with 2x 512MB of RAM. It's really pathetic.

I mean is this a good starting point for a fast system? AMD Phenom II X4 965 - $195

Or should I pay half that for a dual core Intel or something? I'm very impatient. I don't want to wait on the computer after clicking things.

EDIT: or this one is a lot cheaper - AMD Phenom II 720 2.8GHz X3 Honestly, the most intensive game I'll play would be like DiRT or Oblivion, so maybe I should get something like that.

Shit, I was just thinking, with Windows 7 pushing the market, maybe prices will be coming way down on Quads soon, maybe I should wait. ]]> VirusType2 http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163380 No rain in Hard Rain? http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163379&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:57:28 GMT I played through the entire Hard Rain campaign earlier with my fiance, and we both noticed that there was no rain throughout the entire game. There was the sound of rain, and it got darker and foggier, but no rain, which kind of pissed us off because it's so instrumental in setting the mood in that campaign.

Has anyone else experienced this problem? ]]> Left 4 Dead 2 Captain M4d http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163379 <![CDATA[So I'm learning C++ and Java.....]]> http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163377&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:01:05 GMT Having taught myself Basic and Visual Basic, I thought it was time to move on to greater things. I'm currently done with the basics of C and starting Java, (now currently more oriented toward Java) and finding Java to be a more hard than C.

Anyway, is there anyone else who pursues knowledge in these things?

Also, what compilers do you use? I'm stuck with Microsoft Visual Studio + MSDN Library (c) circa 1990s. It's the only compiler for C/C++ I know of anyway. Eclipse for Java.

Oh yeah, are there any books that teach you the advanced aspects of C++/Java so that I can get them when I'm done with the basics?

I don't really know why I'm doing this though, it's almost next to useless for me in getting a job.... I guess it's a hobby of sorts. I love the knowledge that I can create programs. :D

I guess my goal is to making a little enjoyable, free game that will make 20 minutes of people's lives a little bit more happier. :p

Oh, on a side note, is this the right forum? ]]> 15357 http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163377 coven for hl2 (like vampire slayer!) http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163376&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:49:43 GMT anyone tried this relatively new mod for hl2? it looks like its based off of vampire slayer http://www.moddb.com/mods/coven anyone tried this relatively new mod for hl2? it looks like its based off of vampire slayer

http://www.moddb.com/mods/coven ]]> Third Party Mods Jerry_111 http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163376 <![CDATA[The fastest you've beat hl2?]]> http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163375&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:47:38 GMT Yesterday I finished hl2 in just 6.1 hrs without abusing a single exploit, and was honestly quite proud of myself. So I wanted to know what everybody else's fastest is. ]]> Half-Life Series Ervin http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163375 Winners Announced for Halflife2.net Poem Competition http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163373&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:47:13 GMT Many thanks to everyone who entered our competition to write a love poem to the Spitter. We had a massive response and I needed the help of our 3 poetic overlords to judge this contest. I passed on all entries (without names) to Sulkdodds, Ennui & KineticAesthetic and this is what they had to say:

You ?orrible lot. There?s not a poet among you. We have judged you, and we have judged you harshly. Perhaps it would be going too far to say that these stupendously fortunate winners are merely the best of a bad bunch. But we cannot lie: there wasn?t a single entry that didn?t at some point make the judges groan in genuine abdominal pain. Still, we suffered through it, as you did for your art ? or perhaps more accurately for a copy of Left 4 Dead 2.

Therefore, without further ado: WE, the sublime triumvirate, all-seeing, all-sensing guardians of the literary canon, harbingers of the critical eschaton, eaters of the sacred flesh of the English corpus, judges of all space and all time, and according to the powers invested in us by a non-absolutist metaphysics, HEREBY ORDAIN that the winners of the halflife2.net poetry competition, to be feted throughout the halls of eternity for...um...eternity, and to dwell forever in Elysium atop of Mount Parnassus, SHALL BE:
Kilobyte

The-One-Free-Man

themoo

Matthew Dryden

Toaster leigh

Big props to all the winners and thanks to everyone who entered! You can read the 5 winning poems right here - Winning Poem Entries.

PS: To the guy whose poem came with definitions: many thanks, but actually we know what words mean. We have heads the size of Volkswagens. ]]> Hectic Glenn http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=163373