Father Xmas

Well Beaker does look like he has a stick up his backside already.

Going to take a nap because I'm zick.

What's considered retcon Vs reinterpretation?

For instance their is a movie called Bride and Prejudice which is a Bollywood inspired version of Pride and Prejudice. What about Pride, Prejudice and Zomibies? Ran and King Lear? How about the gender bending in the 2010 movie version of The Tempest?

In the case of the Starship Troopers movie the only points they took out of the original novel are humans and bugs are at war and government service is required to vote. The second point was warped into a pro Nazi metaphor right down to the propaganda.

The main problem here is what do you do with a vast body of "history" written by numerous authors set in a collective universe while keeping it open for new readers. Also you have practical problems of taking such a body of work and translating it to live action on the screen. Face it, spandex only works well on Superman and maybe Wonder Women. It looks kind of dumb, to the general public, on everyone else.

As for the new X-men movie, on one hand they want to show how the split developed between Xavier and Magneto, how their people worked together once. Now I agree, de-aging Mystique and age swap Havoc and Cyclops is odd. In the second case I guess the team still needed a blaster and the studio wants to save the Scott/Jean love story for another movie. What is also strange is the Americanization of Moira and Banshee. I guess that saves us from poorly done Scottish and Irish accents since most Americans can't tell them apart.

I believe it's a way to work in the fact she's preggers in real life.

If they made E-books consistently cheaper than their hardcover or paperback versions then great. However the last time I looked up a new title I was interested in, it was the same price.

Yes, I'm know you configured an SSD for him Hyper, I was just pointing out a different way you can use it because it's a Z68 motherboard. The drawback naturally is it isn't as fast as a pure SSD and I would like to see some long term use studies to show how consistent the improvement is after a week of general use.

And since Hyper speced a 128MB SSD, it should take a while before something is bumped off of it due to lack of space. Tom's Hardware tested with a 20GB, 40GB and 256GB SSD, three pages starting here.

And the cost difference between the K and non-K CPU is relatively trivial ($15 Canadian between the i7-2600 and i7-2600K at NewEgg.ca) so why not if you are building a tiny god of a gaming system?

I'm with Hyper about these self contained liquid cooling CPU heatsinks. This page from FrostyTech lists all the CPU heatsinks they tested, ordered from best to worst. Search for that Corsair (Hydro H50) and you will find 50 or so coolers that are better and a fair number of these are a lot cheaper and without the potential of leaking. Here's one for example.

Something that Hyper didn't point out with the Z68 chipset is Intel's new "use your SSD to automatically cache files from your main drive". Whether this would be a better configuration than having the SSD be your OS and current playing games drive I don't know.

The GTX 570 is roughly 15% slower than the GTX 580 but is over 30% less expensive (around $100 Canadian at NewEgg.ca counting the rebates). Something to think on.

Well the pack is available to try on the Test Server now. Here's a thread showing off what players on Test are doing with the new duds.

And the NPCs constantly ask "Doctor Who?".

While I enjoy Bones (though I hate her hair style this season) I've also been watching Nikita and while I doubted a new Nikita TV series on the baby network, I thought they did an impressive job with the story and characters.

See I watch a lot of anime subtitled so the voice isn't anything to out of the ordinary for the ubiquitous 15 year old female heroine who is highly emotional with a black/white pov of how the world should work. Maybe that's why I don't find her as annoying.

Same here.

Even when the hero wins, he still loses.

This calls for Randy. And more Randy.

Self publishing is blogging with paper. Anyone with money can do it. It doesn't mean it's good, or right, or interesting.

Just like any band can publish their own CD or DVD.

Yea but that's because he's not clued in that she is wearing a vest. Still a rifle round packs a lot more punch than most pistols so there's still a very good likelihood that she's fairly injured.

Unless of course that the shooter was someone "hired" by Beckett. Honestly, I sniper goes for a head shot to be sure, unlikely to be armored (next season Beckett comes back as X-23).

Hello Great White North.

There are a few places up there mail order wise that's has equivalent places down here in the states. Or vice versa depending how you look at it.

There's NewEgg.ca, TigerDirect.ca, NCIX.com. The US ones are NewEgg.com, TigerDirect.com and NCIXUS.com if you were curious. Personally I'm a fan of NewEgg, they've never done me wrong down here.

Comparing the two NewEggs, prices are nearly identical which simplifies the whole currency conversion / budget thingy.

Several good ideas about what to buy.

TechReport's Spring 2011 System Guide
bit-tech.net's PC Hardware Buyer's Guide May 2011
ArsTechnica's System Guide: March 2011

These give several different configurations based on budget. It's as good of a place to start as any. These guides tend not to include the cost of the OS, which at NewEgg.ca is $110 for an OEM copy of Win 7 Home Premium SP1.

As for info on choices for the two major components in your system, I give you Tom's Hardware's Best Graphics Card for the Money: May 2011 and Best Gaming CPUs for the Money: April 2011. There are some useful tables at the end of each article that aligns similarly performing models from Intel/AMD and nVidia/AMD(ATI).

If you want a more specific comparison between to models of video cards I tend to use the Performance Summary from the latest high end videocard review at TechPowerUp.

For comparing CPUs in general I use the CPU Bench database at AnandTech. The GPU and SSD databases are also very useful, just be careful about the scatter plot (price Vs performance) as their automatic scanning of product price occasionally goofs on the very, very low side.

Currently ArsTechnica is running a series of guides about building a system. Part 1: Hardware, Part 2: Software, Part 3: Cases. No idea how many additional guides there will be in the series.

One word of advice, okay, more than one, don't go cheap on your power supply. It's easy to blow all your money on a CPU, memory, video card(s), nifty case, etc and forget about the thing that will power the whole kit and caboodle. Expect to spend $15 to $20 per 100 watts retail. Look for a PSU that is listed as ATX12V V2.2 or V2.3 and is certified as 80Plus or better (80Plus Bronze, 80Plus Silver, etc). The first is an indication of a modern power supply and the second is that the max power rating isn't just wishful thinking. A couple of good sites with PSU reviews are HardwareSecrets and JonnyGuru.

Lastly you can look at my out of date guide to computer components for other resources. My $725 rig is up to date buy my $1350 rig is in need of a serious overall ANY TIME NOW, I PROMISE.

Okay, I lied, this is lastly, when you get an idea of what parts you are thinking of using, post them and the various builders here will give you their two opinion of what you did right, wrong and alternatives you may not have considered.

Hope this helps some.

Now caught up.

Hisako is the character that the audience can relate to. I prefer this to making the entire team angsty teenagers.

As for Beast this form is sort of in between the old ape like form and the new cat like form. His head is sort of lion like.

Actually several of the primary stars for The Playboy Club had to sign nudity clauses in their contract. The theory is to spice up the DVD sales and to sell to overseas less prudish markets.

So Chuck and Sarah are now independently wealthy, owns that BuyMore store, have there own little private spy agency and Morgan is now, well, you know.

I'm willing to watch 13 episodes of that.

Just saw the episode and it was wonderful. Suranne Jones was wonderful as Sexy.

"Biting's excellent. It's like kissing only there's a winner."

And then you use Hyper's guide to make the new Launcher behave.

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