Father Xmas

Well next week's episode is the last episode of the season and maybe the series.

So now that the last few episodes wasn't focused on teen romance, does it deserve another season?

The launcher uses BITS to do the actual download. It's what Windows uses to download patches as well. This allows patches to download in the background even if you close the launcher after starting an update.

Superhero costume party?

Well he has sketched some of the critters he's seen.

I think the other power the Grimms have, beside the reputation and the ability to see is their methodical documentation of each species strengths and weaknesses as seen in Friday's episode. The books, supplies and weapons in his aunt's trailer may be a Grimm's true advantage.

It's also possible that he does have speed and strength, as seen in his dying aunt fighting the much larger reaper in the Pilot, it's just either it hasn't manifested or he just doesn't realize it yet.

Our look he'll show up after a big patch screwup/server failure or uses an AMD video card with one of the drivers that always cause this game to crash and that'll be his impression of the current state of affairs for this game.

It's like having your in-laws drop in for the first time the day after you started major renovations to your living and dining room (floors, drywall, etc.).

I don't mind costume sets as long as the individual pieces can be mixed and matched seamlessly. The two sets that first came out with the Good Vs Evil edition, Justice and Sinister are good examples.

Look at the Gunslinger costume set for an example of a set where several pieces only work within the set and are problematic if you pick and choose.

The costume department at Paragon should always land on the side of intermixing costume pieces over only looking good within it's set. The biggest problem is (all together now) pre-tinting. I can understand assigning attributes to a piece that affects light reflection and scattering to represent the material the piece is made out of (leather looks different from cloth looks different from metal) but assigning a "color" to it is a problem when it comes to mixing pieces from different sets.

I concur with all of newchemical's choices. Two thumbs up.

They are the same GPU but run at different clocks, the 540M being the one run at a higher clock speed.

Another thing about the current launcher is it only rewrites the files that actually have changes. The old updater would rewrite every file in the game including the ones that didn't change, a method that can fragment more of the game files than just the ones being patched.

Another good thing is it actually launches your preferred browser if you click on one of the links being displayed. Internally it still uses Microsoft's IE's renderer for the pages it displays (easiest way to include a Windows compatible browser into a 3rd party application) but launching Firefox, Chrome or whatever's your poison is a step up from the old updater.

I'm not someone who leaves apps running in the background waiting for some event to be pushed onto them. I see no reason to leave the launcher running continuously or have it started at boot/login time.

Well the next question is the size of your power supply. Specifically the maximum amount of watts available at +12 volts. Make and model of the power supply if you can't find that information will due. At the very least what video card you are using currently since that's currently working with your power supply.

Question after that is your budget limit.

Once more from the top.

As long as you go into this knowing that the Sony has a netbook class CPU/GPU combo in a laptop case, then you are fine. It's like buying a car that looks normal but only has a 1 litter 3-cylinder engine under the hood.

I would imagine that you will need to run the game at lower than default display resolution, full screen or in a window to get 20-30FPS performance outside in zones.

IIRC Sony doesn't use AMD's generic drivers and their drivers tend not to be updated frequently. However the Google Machine lists some YouTube vids about working around that.

But I like very silly, it was a compliment. The quick switch to Charlie Brown style, to Simpsons/Futurama style, to South Park style, to Scooby-Doo style had me on the floor.

The anime-ish style at the end was only redeemable due to Fargo being turned into a kick-pancake.

So the rumor that Will Smith was playing Curly was false.

They'll get right on it just as soon as they get around to do forum maintenance.

/e watching paint dry

Real Genius - Everybody wants to rule the world
Lifeforce - Best British naked female space vampire movie of all time

Priest (2011) is based on a Korean comic. Sort of.

Horse hockey!

I also remember him from his Dragnet days as well as his various western/comedy movie rolls.

IIRC the history was as follows.

Tony V started ParagonWiki at the ParagonWiki address.

Later on it became a bit of a bother to maintain all by his lonesome so he got Wikia to host it and transferred the URL to Wikia.

Wikia, needs to make money somehow so their wikis have ads. Ads started poping up about RMT so Tony V grabbed a copy of the current ParagonWiki at Wikia at the time and got it hosted at CoHTitan but Wikia kept the ParagonWiki URL. It was during this time that people got into the habit of using the CoHTitan URL to get to ParagonWiki since the ParagonWiki URL got you Wikia's version.

Tony V later recovered the ParagonWiki URL from Wikia and now it simply points to the same spot as the CoHTitan URL does.

I think that's right.

This decision was made over a year ago, before even the Fusion Socket FM1 APUs came to market. It was one of the reasons my low end build switched to Intel.

AMD does sort of but not really have a "new" Athlon II quad core for Socket FM1 which is an A8 APU with the graphics disabled. Got to sell all these "broken" APUs somehow.

So going forward right now AMD has two CPU lines. The Fusion combo CPU/GPU line (the desktop chip fits in a FM1 socket) which isn't bad from the point of view of store bought PCs and laptops that don't have a discrete video card. The desktop A8-3800/3850 is essentially a tweaked Athlon II quad core coupled with an underclocked HD 5570. It's a damn sight better than the IGPs they had in chipsets that supported socket AM3/AM3+ and for a really cheap gaming PC that you could sneak by Mom and Dad when you go off to college.

The second line is the Bulldozer based CPUs. While they may have similar price/performance as Intel's Sandy Bridge in a few heavily multithreaded tasks, it sucks power more than that invisible energy monster from the original Jonny Quest. Now AMD doesn't have the fabrication R+D that Intel has when it comes to finding clever ways to keep power consumption down and then patent the heck out of it. AMD's CPUs and support chipsets were always a bit more power hungry, which wasn't a problem back in the Intel P4 days but AMD haven't really made any improvements since then.

Sometime in the near future AMD will swap out the Athlon II based CPU design from their high end Fusion APU line for one based on the Bulldozer. Hopefully this would be an improved version of the Bulldozer but I'm not all that excited by it. In the near future Intel will release their Ivy Bridge CPUs which will be faster than their Sandy Bridge line and will have significantly improved integrated graphics, possibly enough to displace AMD's Fusion desktop solution.

We'll see.

nearly takes out neighborhood with cannonball.

I think it'll be a while before they do anything ballistic for a while.

Because I can feel heroic.

Because I can fight a half a dozen critters at a time and come out on the winning side more times that not. In other MMOs fighting that many (or even two) is a formula for suicide.

Because while characters with the same power sets will have a lot of the same powers, the costume designer will grant your character a unique look (unless you were intentionally designing the character to look like someone in particular, ho ho ho).

Because team size, teammate's level and team's AT mix doesn't really matter.

Because of it's unique IP. You aren't trying to fit into 10, 20, 50+ years of cannon or fanfics of some well known series.

That covers the basics for me.

They've just came up with a way to separate VIP players from their accrued Paragon Points.

First it was costume sets that were available for a limited time. Now it's Power Sets with the additional weapon skins available for a limited time for free.

So now that I have over 800 PP accrued do I finally buy Street Justice or do I buy Titan Weapon with the "free" weapon pack and wait another couple of months?