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Post by Boston Celtics on Jun 8, 2008 16:22:48 GMT
Fear set in this morning when I discovered my CD drive had died and I couldn't open NBA Live 06 or any other game, movie or music CD etc.etc.
After an hour of hasty googling I discovered the NBA Live 06 'No CD' crack and thankfully we now have our conference finals set up and ready to go!
Incidentally, if anyone can find me a good 'No CD' crack for Civilization 3: Play the World, I will be most thankful ;D
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Post by bringit - CHA on Jun 8, 2008 16:51:51 GMT
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Post by Boston Celtics on Jun 8, 2008 18:01:19 GMT
Yes! I knew a handful of faithful minions would payoff one day ;D Thanks dude. Although if you can find one specifically for the 'Play the World' expansion pack I'd *give* you Deron Williams+ + maybe not
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Post by bringit - CHA on Jun 8, 2008 18:13:05 GMT
lol kk ill look around
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Post by Boston Celtics on Jun 9, 2008 9:54:33 GMT
Captain's Log. Star-date 093583248032. As an admin who painstakingly scours the internet for codes and graphics to enhance these-here forums, it's always a source of distress when a different league rips off something I've done. You get blatant things like Dynasty Four I think that league lasted for less than a week before the guys who ran it realized just how much work has to go into fantasy leagues and quit. But it doesn't seem to matter when it's a no-hoper league like D4. It's when a decent league such as Rim Rockers, who also use the logo I photoshopped for them, go out and search for exactly the same codes I use and customize the code in the exact same way I did for their site. And then have the audacity to tell me that what they did was in no-way influenced by what I'd done at Dynasty Five and "sorry if you feel that way". It's been a bit of a kick in the balls to be honest, I don't know what I was expecting though really, and they have every right to use the codes that way, it's just a bit depressing when you've put in the hard work! The Conference Finals begin today. Utah, Golden State, New Jersey and Detroit. Four big teams and roughly two weeks until we have a winner!
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Post by nosh2 - LAL on Jun 10, 2008 18:51:09 GMT
All I can say is I had nothing to do with the current changes at Rim Rockers although I did try and figure out how to put more links up top under the logo b/c it would have made my life easier. But I utterly failed in my 10 minute search (yeah I can be lazy) in trying to find the code. I'll put in the good word that is was your idea and have a trademark for D5 or maybe your own trademark by that part of the header. Would that make it all good?
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Post by New Jersey Nets on Jun 10, 2008 18:54:37 GMT
WHAT!?
NO MORE DYNASTY 4!?!?!?!
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Post by Boston Celtics on Jun 11, 2008 16:49:49 GMT
All I can say is I had nothing to do with the current changes at Rim Rockers although I did try and figure out how to put more links up top under the logo b/c it would have made my life easier. But I utterly failed in my 10 minute search (yeah I can be lazy) in trying to find the code. I'll put in the good word that is was your idea and have a trademark for D5 or maybe your own trademark by that part of the header. Would that make it all good? Taking credit isn't the problem I have with Rim Rockers, I didn't create those codes anyway. It's that they wouldn't have had the idea of making the changes if I hadn't done it in the first place. The only ingenious slice of engineering pie they seem to be able to serve up themselves is a miniscule game of Mario and a widget that tells you the time.
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Post by nosh2 - LAL on Jun 25, 2008 20:39:46 GMT
All I can say is I had nothing to do with the current changes at Rim Rockers although I did try and figure out how to put more links up top under the logo b/c it would have made my life easier. But I utterly failed in my 10 minute search (yeah I can be lazy) in trying to find the code. I'll put in the good word that is was your idea and have a trademark for D5 or maybe your own trademark by that part of the header. Would that make it all good? Taking credit isn't the problem I have with Rim Rockers, I didn't create those codes anyway. It's that they wouldn't have had the idea of making the changes if I hadn't done it in the first place. The only ingenious slice of engineering pie they seem to be able to serve up themselves is a miniscule game of Mario and a widget that tells you the time. Ok, that was a little too far. I tried to figure out how to put a PM bar at Rim Rockers before you had one here and am currently trying to "serve up an ingenious slice of engineering pie". Don't go bashing other leagues b/c you figured out how to modify a POSTED code to work on your site. The person that made the PM bar at Rim Rockers went out and found the code themselves and modified it for Rim Rockers. You don't get to claim anything since it was someone else's code. To my knowledge, this site had absolutely nothing to do with that GM deciding to look for the PM bar code. I tried to make it good but you had to go out and mock that league. That is low. Also, you didn't just happen to come up with the idea out of the blue. Go to ESPN. What do you see? A PM bar.
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Post by Boston Celtics on Jun 26, 2008 11:34:39 GMT
I'm mindful of the fact that a bashing war may henceforth ensue so I should say that RimRockers is a very good league before I say anything else. It's a great league. The GMs are just as much, if not more, active and involved as Dynasty Five's and the staff share the burden of everything, meaning stuff generally gets done quicker - whereas I prefer to be a bit of a dictator, having disgarded my faith in fellow human beings a long time ago ;D
The *only* thing that jumped on my balls was the Phoenix GM over at RimRockers (who is that over here?) telling me "I'm sorry you feel that way", coming hot on the heels of several D5 members (not neccessarily GMs) messaging me to hand out the codes I use for their own (either 'competitor' or 'nohoper') leagues after I'd spent hours and hours searching for and modifying them to make D5 distinctive. It was rubbing salt in an irritable wound, not that Phoenix knew it, I suppose.
The D5 Spurs GM is a RimRockers member and PMd me asking for the 'PM Title-Bar' codes and the coding for moving ads to the top of the page. I told him where I'd found them and a little while later they appeared over at RR. I don't remember who Spurs is over at RR, but I'm guessing he's staff, and I'm guessing that's how the codes were found and implemented and then edited to look almost identical to D5. Even if that's not the case you guys originally had the PM Title-Bar codes set up like normal with "Hello, <insert team name>! Welcome to <insert forum name>! The time, which for some reason you might not know, is <insert time>! You have <#> new messages" etc. But then it changed, even the wording of 'Inbox' and 'New Messages' is the same and that took a little bit of forethought on my part too. And you've even got the results, statistics, standings left-aligned and made up to be identical.
I don't want friction. You (and the Spurs, especially) are two of the best GMs here and I'm glad I've got you on board. You're far more important to this league than whatever I may feel about Rim Rockers. I'm sorry for accusing you guys of anything.
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Post by nosh2 - LAL on Jun 26, 2008 19:39:43 GMT
having disgarded my faith in fellow human beings a long time ago ;D I think I'm seeing the light. I understand and fully acknowledge D5 as the standard for sim leagues imo. Legends has made strides and aren't far behind and I'm hoping RimRockers isn't far behind. Everything I posted is what was told to me by RimRockers GMs who supposedly know what happened. I don't want any friction either that was why I tried to offer an acknowledgment of you using the PM bar first. After reading the last post I am more than ok with putting this behind me. The only thing is how should this type of thing be handled in the future? Should we just post something along the lines of "credit D5 with this" to let the respective league know it was borrowed from here? I'd be fine with that, I just don't want any future issues.
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Post by Boston Celtics on Jun 28, 2008 12:49:03 GMT
The only thing is how should this type of thing be handled in the future? Should we just post something along the lines of "credit D5 with this" to let the respective league know it was borrowed from here? I'd be fine with that, I just don't want any future issues. I don't know exactly. But if I implement any of RimRocker's, or any other sim league's, ideas I'll give them credit somewhere like here in my Admin Blog or something. I don't think anything more than that is needed.
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