Father Xmas

You didn't transfer, you made a copy. You can transfer him again from live and have two copies.

Well nobody really expected the Virginia earthquake this week, it's a pretty low risk area for earthquakes.

While you may hunker down during a tornado warning in your area, you don't know if it'll hit you or not. Their destruction area can be rather narrow.

And while a knowledgeable person may check ahead of time to find if their home is within a 50 or 100 year flood plane most people don't under stand don't understand that it's not 50 or 100 years between floods but a 2% or 1% in any given year. And we all know people suck at probability and statistics.

With modern hurricane forecasting, you can have nearly a week to prepare for the possibility but it's only when you realize that you are going to be affected by the storm that it sinks in. In the case of Irene, the forecast path hasn't shifted a whole lot over the last few days, New England landfall somewhere between NYC and Paragon, I mean Providence, which sucks for anyone living in Connecticut and central Mass.

Well if your friends are coming in on the $2 sale then start in prime and not Praetoria, they can't get to Praetoria without owning a copy of Going Rogue.

Except in this case it's probably not a code problem per se but a server/raid/network configuration and integration problem that cropped up during the server hardware upgrade.

While they could pre-install the server side software on the new equipment, mirror a copy of the user accounts onto the new storage arrays, it isn't until you start final assembly of the whole system, shard servers, instance servers, e-mail server, global chat server, market server and get them to properly sync with each other that configuration problems crop up.

Once you think you've worked all of that out you open up the cluster to all us clients, you then can find other problems syncing between the servers as well as network traffic bottlenecks.

But once it appeared that player data was getting corrupted you have to hit the big red button and take the whole thing down, hoping you have captured enough data the track down the cause.

So which is more terrifying for you, experiencing a sudden short duration natural disaster like an earthquake or tornado;

or watching the approach of a inevitable natural disaster like a rising river that will flood your home or the approach of a tropical storm/hurricane that will hit you?

It sort of like what style of horror film scares you more, the sudden "BOO" kind or the suspenseful, full of impending doom kind.

Tactics and situational awareness are a lost art. The average gamer nowadays have been conditioned to either a) shoot/hack everything that moves and b) only use the accelerator in driving games.

The first trick with exemplaring is if you ever respec, don't forget to take your travel power as early as possible and any anti-mez power your power set may have as early as possible. It's no fun if you find out you have to run everywhere at Lvl 30 or are stunned every other encounter because you chose your powers during a respec poorly.

So I assume you read this over at ParagonWiki. Yes it gets to be rather confusing when you are dealing with IO set bonuses. The key thing to understand here is if you are now more than 3 Lvls below the level of an IO enhancement, that enhancement no longer counts toward the "with X of this set you get bonus Y". Very rare and PVP IO sets "purples" are immune to this effect.

Well every .pigg file was modified back in January. 2GB of them have been modified over the last three weeks.

I know this sounds weird but I still try to keep up with the patches even when I'm not subscribed. A check once a week done in the background can save hours of tedious downloads when you come back.

Try this on for size.

i5-2500K
Z68 motherboard
GTX 560 (think major overclocked GTX 460)
8GB DDR3-1333 memory
1TB Hard Drive

$990.49 at NewEgg.ca

Okay, hold the phone, I've just decided to rip out the guts of the low end rig and convert it to a Intel Sandy Core setup.

First my low end build is suppose to be a setup that you can buy and assemble and play reasonably nicely at 1600x900/1680x1050 resolution. It is also suppose to be able to allow the owner to upgrade to a faster CPU and video card without needing to replace anything else.

Now the primary reason I went with AMD on the low end build was for a while now, Intel didn't really have a reasonable CPU in the sub $100 price range. Long ago I was using the Core 2 based Pentium Dual Core E6300 in a Socket 775 build but the upgrade path for that socket got ugly when cheaper quad core CPUs for Socket 1156 came out. The i5-750 was $90 cheaper but as fast or faster than the Q9550. But Socket 1156 didn't really have an inexpensive CPU for that Socket as the Pentium G6950 was too crippled when it came to games unless you overclocked it, which was why it was crippled. It also started over $100 and drifted down to under $100 today.

However with Socket 1155, Intel just released the Pentium branded CPUs that are under $90 but pretty much trashes the entire AMD dual and triple core CPUs in gaming. Recent reviews in AnandTech and Xbit Labs show that the Pentium G8xx series are pretty damn good when it comes to gaming.

So I've swapped out the AM3+ motherboard for a basic Z68 one, because I still want to give whoever builds this the ability to upgrade to a i5 or i7 with an unlocked clock as well as give them the Intel SSD caching of conventional hard drives that the Z68 can provide. So once again I go to ASRock and this time select the Z68 PRO3. It comes with a lot fewer goodies than it's big brother in my high end rig and it's a single video card motherboard.

For the CPU I'm going with the new 2.8GHz Pentium G840. It's a dual core, no turbo boost, no hyper threading, no video transcoding, no AVX or AESNI instructions and is limited to DDR3-1333 memory. But besides all that it's still a 2nd Gen Core i3 at it's heart and one thing about Sandy Bridge CPUs, they like to play games.

Lastly I simply swapped one 4GB DDR-1333 Cas 8 for one with fancier heat spreaders. Same price and probably the same identical stick of RAM under both heat spreaders.

All of this added a whopping $7 to my build, which was just over my target price of $693.75. Current unit price as of this posting, $701.91.

Well my choice of cities has more to do with what people are exposed to on TV programming. Probably 95% of the shows set on the East Coast, meaning you aren't far from the ocean (sorry Georgia) are set in those four cities. Same with the West Coast.

The Midwest is Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit. The South is Georgia, Dallas, Houston.

While I like AMD's LLano line of CPUs since their integrated video core is so much better than previous ones from anybody, it's still an integrated video core. However this in this setup it's combined ala crossfire with a mobile HD 6750M with dedicated memory.

Still I'll say that while you may be able to turn on some of the UM features on minimum, and still get a reasonable 30fps framerate.

The CPU is a quad core that runs at 1.9GHz but can turbo boost to 2.6GHz depending on temp, power use and number of active cores (more cores, lower speed). Good thing the game only stresses two cores.

Only for $1.75 million dollars (it's a loft in Manhattan with it's own private terrace).

Sorry, most are confused by the order and direction.

Remember the custom card creator for that game? There was a thread once upon a time where people posted their cards. This was one of the funniest, from Miss Kitty.

Hot & Steamy: Tales of Steampunk Romance

And if you are still interested about the /loc coordinates, ParagonWiki: Coordinates.

It wasn't a snark, it's important to know so I can look at the Canadian NewEgg, TigerDirect, NCIX and not the US ones.

Could you tell us the current resolution of the monitor (if it's an LCD) or your desktop resolution. I'm not guessing very high due to the physical size.

Since when I modify one rig I usually modify the other but this time it's only a tweak for the high end rig. This system is designed to handle a 2nd video card as well as overclocking the CPU.

The first change is the motherboard. I've moved from a P67 based to a Z68 based motherboard. The ability to use a small SSD to automatically cache the slower, vastly larger and cheaper conventional hard drive is an upgrade I don't want to deny to anybody. So I stuck with ASRock and simply went from a P67 Extreme 4 to the Z68 Extreme 4. An alternative is the slightly more expensive Asus P8Z68-V Pro.

The other change is moving from AMD to nVidia. I don't know about you but I tired playing musical driver roulette. It's not that nVidia doesn't mess up either but the shear number of drivers and hot fixes from AMD can make hunting for a good one for this game an all day affair. So I swapped out the AMD 1GB HD 6950 for an nVidia GTX 560Ti that is slightly overclocked.

All together, the unit price of this is as of this post, $1283.88 which is under my target price, with 5% hardware buffer, of $1287.50.

My first thought was "well somebody got an earthquake machine working".

Did you enable triple buffering for OpenGL on the Cad control panel?

Also you could post a CoHHelper file so we can take a look at your settings.