Father Xmas

I think my very first was named Jolly Rodger, a pirate character. A scrapper I think but I don't remember the sets. Played him very little. Not sure if I got him out of Atlas to King's Row.

The next one was a female MA/SR scrapper. I also quickly rolled a D3, my namesake an Ice/Ice Tanker, an Eng/Eng blaster, a FF/Grav controller and an Kin/Ill controller.

This was during the week or two before Issue 2.

This movie looks to be visually the Brazil of the anime fanboi generation. It's live action anime trope porn. There may be an interesting plot there, but can't really tell by all the over the top visuals.

It's Bayformers with all the knobs turned to 11. Multiple very hot actresses instead of just one with the chaos of action and explosions so off the charts that even people with severe ADD won't be bored.

My biggest fear is that it will end just like Brazil.

Read Hyperstrike's guide on how to make it less annoying.

Tom's did an article earlier in the week on sub $200 CPUs and gaming. AM3, Socket 1156 and 1155 (Sandy Bridge) CPUs. Link to the conclusions page.

Go into the launcher.

File -> Settings, Advance Tab

Check "Allow multiple instances of a game to be launched"

Click OK.

I assume everyone simply installed the launcher into it's own folder?

All you need to do is create a shortcut on your desktop to old.cohupdater in you City of Heroes folder. That'll get you back into the game while you and support fix the NCSoft Launcher install.

Generally speaking a stock clock GTX 460 768MB (running at 675MHz) is roughly 80% faster in general. Yours is running at 750MHz so it'll be a bit faster still.

You should also be aware it does draw about 50% more power than the 9800GT (160 Vs 105 watts).

Because it has three times the Streaming Processors of the 9800GT, running 20% faster, you should be able to significantly nudge up the UM settings.

And FYI, a review of a slower MSI GTX 460 768MB card running at 728MHz that does include the 9800GT on their chart.

Look in your Cty of Heroes folder, wherever you installed the game. There should be a file called old.cohupdater.exe (you may not see the .exe part if you didn't uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types").

Now drag it to the desktop while holding down the RIGHT mouse button, NOT the left. When you release you should see a list of options, choose "Create Shortcuts Here". Now you should have a short cut to the old updater.

Actually now after installing the NCLauncher, the CoHUpdater now only has one.

And honestly I hadn't looked since I got GR so it makes sense for the extra ones in CityofHeroes.exe.

No, they turned him, Venom, into a super suit.

It's not that the new one is especially bad, it's just a very different style of comedy.

The original was very subtle dry British style, like some Monty Python skits of the same period. Also Cook and Moore were probably the best comedy duo at the time. I also really enjoyed Cook's portrayal of the Devil.

The icon to the updater is stored in the updater. The same way most Windows programs do it. There are three in there, you can chose the one you want displayed by right clicking on the shortcut and chose change icon.

The Manliest Men in the World

No the front camera is VGA quality which normally means 640x480. The rear camera can do 720P HD so 1280x720 minimum, but that's only 1MPixel. Probably higher for electronic image stabilization. But it's probably not the iPhone 4's 5MPixel.

iPad 2 Specs

My SciFi lit prof in college loved Dick. We read I think three novels and a half a dozen short stories by him but only one novel each of Asimov, Clarke and Heinlein.

DADoES was one and then we were required to watch Blade Runner when it was shown on campus a few weeks later (this was 1982-83, so the original) and write a paper comparing the two.

God I hated Dick. Even though a lot of his work "inspired" a lot of okay to great SciFi movies, his stuff was just too damn depressing for an entire semester of it.

Bah!

The only Bedazzled worth watching is the original with Dudley Moore and Peter Cook (and Raquel Welch).

And now the magic words, Julie Andrews! (snap)

Still no user memory card slot.

No idea what the rear camera resolution is but I wouldn't be surprised if it's not very high. However they've taken the "No Flash" policy a bit far when it includes the camera.

Yesterday's presentation was awesome as Steve's RDF was in full effect.

Motorola and most tablet manufacturers still don't get the idea of a wifi only device with no phone service tie-in/down. I'm not going to lug a tablet about and use it in places without free wifi, that's what a smart phone is for. In my mind tablets are perfect lounging/coffee table PCs.

The new cover is cool. Behold the power of MAGNETS!

They really need to ditch the dock for USB. The one end of the cable is USB, why not the other?

It's a post PC device, that still needs to physically sync with a PC. No syncing over wireless, still.

But I can already see the lines forming for next Friday.

It's common for us old timers.

My first PC was a 12MHz 286 with a megabyte of zero wait state memory, a 20 megabyte hard drive and Hercules monochrome graphics (720x348). It cost $3K in 1988 with an 12" amber monitor (amber was the new green). After re-interleaving the hard drive with SpinRite I was able to get a transfer rate of an astonishing 150KB/s.

I still have the motherboard and it's HUGE compared to today's ATX format. The memory was 32, 32KB chips socketed onto the motherboard itself.

Well she looked the part on BSG.

Saw it yesterday, it was cute.

Yes but dumb names are trademarkable.

In order of performance

GTX 460 - 675 MHz / 336 SPs - 160 watts worse case
GTX 470 - 607 MHz / 448 SPs - 215 watts
GTX 560Ti - 822 MHz / 384 SPs - 170 watts

At their default clocks the GTX 470 is about 20-25% faster than the GTX 460, the GTX 560Ti is 30%.

However when ATI came out with the HD 68xx series, nVidia basically encouraged manufacturers to really OC the GTX 460. Over 800 MHz is not uncommon. At around 850MHz the GTX 460 nearly catches up with the GTX 470 in performance. However overclocking increases power usage and in the case of a 850 MHz overclock, can be to the point that it exceeds the power use of a default clock GTX 470.

As for brands, eVGA, MSI and Asus are generally considered the best with eVGA being the premium.

This review from Tom's Hardware gives you an idea how clock speed affects performance and power requirements on the GTX 460.

As for the OC speed of that GTX 560Ti you linked to, that's a rather modest factory overclock. Gigabyte actually has one clocked to 1000MHz aka 1GHz. And remember these are manufacturers default overclock values. As long as you don't try for the record yourself, failure should be covered by the warranty.

If you can afford the GTX 560Ti, that's the way I would go. If not a relatively modest OC GTX 460 1GB. The GTX 470 is currently priced about the same as the GTX 560Ti but is slower and draws more power.

Yes but probably not on the higher UM settings. The laptop HD 5870 is only as powerful as the desktop HD 5770.

There are just to many HP/Compaq laptop models to narrow down with only "2007 Presario". I would go to a memory site like Crucial or Kingston and use their "find memory" tool since it does mention, at least with Crucial's, if memory needs to be in pairs or not for optimal performance.

Of course to use said tool you will need a bit more info than "2007 Presario" to use them.