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Quote:Puget Systems sell a mineral oil based kit.Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Well, if you want a REALLY expensive hobby. You could go for liquid fluorinert full-immersion cooling.
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There have been a few times where they have reset your chance. Once due to a database problem, once again when they merged the EU servers and I think once more when Freedom went live.
Any particular reason you need to rename your global? You can report stalkers/harassers to the GMs. -
Internet connection/forum burped around then for me. Didn't notice it double posted.
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Quote:By Stephen Baldwin.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Protector is protected.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Display List Interrupt graphics!
<---- ANTIC baby
I probably still have my Atari programming manuals around somewhere. -
Quote:Agreed, I think he was facing more toward the parent's gravestones when he said that.Originally Posted by Chyll
That is probably a worthy discussion point.
I took it that he was speaking to the parents - apologizing for failing to take care of/keep safe Bruce. -
I too recently seen the 2nd movie. It makes the first movie seem like Hamlet.
When did Hollywood start to select production teams based on low bidder? -
If you're Comcast and she's streaming the Olympics or Comcast specific content then they might be prioritizing it.
Just tossing it out there. -
It's also easier to do now than try to get the gang back together. How long did it take to get the reoccurring cast members from the LotR movies together to do the Hobbit?
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All we had before Christopher Reeve's Superman was the old B+W (later color) TV Superman. That Clark Kent wasn't all that much different than Superman as a hard hitting reporter covering crime, friends with the police and thorn in the side of gangsters.
Compared to him, the movie Kent did seem like a buffoonish, pushing the country bumpkin first time in a big city, but was able to make this Kent someone other than Superman in glasses, trenchcoat and a hat. The scene in the 2nd movie where he was about to tell Lois, when he took off the glasses and simply with a few changes in expression and posture became Superman was memorable. -
I started college in 1980. Our first CS project required us to do it on punch cards so we would appreciate that we could us terminals and DECwritters for the rest of our projects. At the end of the semester the overachievers would pay to get a dump of all of their class projects on punch cards for archive purposes, I guess in case they need to demonstrate that they could write a text processor in FORTRAN (yes, that was the last project for our 2nd semester CS class).
After that year the only thing punch cards were used for was for structural engineering contests during our school election week "party" just before finals (build a tower using only punch cards and white glue that's at least two feet tall, no more than 1 sq ft at the base and see which could hold the most weight). What can I say, it was an Engineering/Science college. -
Well to me they look like giant bat people once you get a good look at them. It is an interesting series that has a surprisingly interesting back story once it's revealed.
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I knew some of the people who made it. The daisy wheel printer was interesting from a engineering standpoint, also nice since you got typewriter quality while at the time the best you could do was 9-pin dot matrix.
The most interesting "feature" was the EMP it created when you turned the unit on, damaging any tapes you had nearby. Didn't help that the tape drive was also poor. But it was a case of lemons to more lemons as the videogame market just colaspsed and the Adam was basically designed from the Colecovision parts inventory. -
Since it's a sequel to X-men: First Class I wouldn't assume they are still going with the leather look of the first 3 movies.
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"Who killed all the Daleks?"
"Who do you think."
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Quote:Same here. Actually my college had a special deal going for a fully equiped Atari 800 with two hard drives, the peripheral interface, acoustic modem an Epson 9 pin dot matrix printer with graphics chip (to do dot matrix graphics) besides the extra memory. Only problem was my parents wouldn't let me keep it at college in fear of theft so I still had to trudge to one of the campus computer labs to do my projects rather than telenet in at 300 baud from my nice warm dorm room.Originally Posted by Local_Man
My first computer was the Atari 800 (the original one with a sturdy body and keyboard). Two cartridge slots, and my word processor was on a cartridge. It cost $899 (in 1981) for the base computer, plus $79 for the Cassette drive. It came with 16K of RAM, and I later got an additional board with 32K ($89) to get it up to the maximum of 48K RAM. I had to wait a while until I could afford the single-sided, single density floppy drive ($399 with about 90K of storage per disk).
Yet that computer served as my word processor through graduate school and for several years after that. I had a spreadsheet (Visicalc). I had on-line access to local bulletin boards and Compuserve -- my first modem was a 300 baud acoustic modem. Have you ever seen the Wargames movie where the phone headset was placed into two rubber cups? That was my first modem. I later replaced it with a 1200 baud modem with a direct connection.
When the old Atari was replaced by an IBM-XT, we loaned it to my in-laws, who eventually threw it out. I really wish I still had it. -
Gear is different here than in other MMOs. First of all what you wear makes no difference to you abilities. A bikini wearing cowgirl has the same defenses as a fully armored knight as long as they both are the same class (AT) with the same skill sets (power sets). If a power set uses a weapon, there may be multiple weapon models for it but again it's only for looks. This allows you to have several different looks for your character and no impact to your actual abilities.
The improvements in your skills come from enhancements and the mix you use in each power. The basic enhancements are fairly straight forward but the crafted ones can make it a very complex and expensive choice of what to use. -
Delete the file listed and run repair. You may want to reboot the system first.
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Better to go for three now than having two extra long movies or G forbid some Hollywood exec insisting on a third after the 1st gets released.
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Yep.
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Still the resolution of the panel may impact performance. A 1920x1080 display will likely keep performance below 60FPS, assuming you play the game at the panel's native resolution, depending on the rest of your graphic settings.