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Be sure to grab the STOP code. Will be something like 0x000000AB or something

Depends if you've got a p/s that's gone flakey. It doesn't sound like a power supply issue to me, but it's probably an inexpensive fix if you're in doubt.

You can also pick up a cheapie graphics card for under $50 and slap it in the PC to see if that one flakes on you too. If it does, then it's not a GFX card. If it doesn't, it probably is.

The whole BSOD thing doesn't scream power supply at me. If it was P/S, I'd expect the system to just hang or ASR rather than BSOD.

It could be MoBo, maybe. I'd be willing to bet it's probably GFX card though.

It'd help if I knew the EXACT error message rather than a vague half-remembered approximation.

That question was answered here: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...38&postcount=1

It depends. How do those subscription numbers effect the share price? Are they offset by other financial factors? What's the financial health of NCSoft as a whole? How much of the balance sheet does this game account for? And what are the impacts to the share price if those subscriptions numbers change?

You know, people on these boards will do all kinds of mental gymnastics to extrapolate the subscription estimates by looking at the revenues. Do you really believe forum goers here are SMARTER than serious investors, or is it that you think NCSoft believes the serious investors are stupid?

Because unless you do, hiding subscription numbers does nothing to impact shareholders' decisions.

NCSoft Exec 1: Boy these subscription numbers are so low! I'm worried this will drive away investors!
NCSoft Exec 2: Hey... I have an idea... let's just NOT TELL THEM! If we don't say anything about the numbers... they'll just invest and be fooled!
NCSoft Exec 1: That's brilliant! We'll make millions!

That's not a realistic situation. That's a bad comedy sketch.

I'm an investor (not in NCSoft, but in the stock market) and I do enough research that a lack of subscription numbers wouldn't impact my decisions either way, because my decisions would be based on actual dollar figures on the balance sheet, not a number of subscriptions. A million subscriptions with a high overhead may be less desirable than a fraction of that which is more profitable. I've not done the research on NC Soft itself, but the actual subscription numbers are less important than EBIT and expenses of the company as a whole.

I also know, as an investor, that any information relevant to the performance of the company (in terms of return on investment and price per share) CANNOT be obfuscated from me, in accordance with SEC rules and regulations. If subscription numbers, by themselves, were vital to deciding if NCSoft was a good investment or not, they'd be in the annual report.

You could have a million subscriptions and lose money. You could have a mere 100,000 subscriptions and be profitable. Subscription numbers are, by themselves, entirely arbitrary. There may be a relationship between EBIT and subscription numbers, but that relationship isn't terribly important on the bottom line. Financial performance over time is all that matters.

Because that trend will tell me, as an investor, that should the subscription model not work for NCSoft on one of it's titles, if the company's management could figure out a way to maintain profitability, either by changing models or altering it's investment and development strategies. I don't need, as an investor, to know exactly how many subscribers there are. I just need to know that NCSoft knows it's business and is doing a good job of making money at said business, and it's financial balance sheets over time are showing a trend towards profitability. Subscriptions of one game that represents a small percentage of it's revenues aren't even on my investment radar.

There are many very good reasons why you don't publish subscription numbers and all of them have to do with marketing, not with attracting shareholders. Hiding subscription numbers won't "fool" shareholders. Investors aren't stupid and I doubt that NCSoft believes they are stupid.

PLAYERS, on the other hand...

Ah more blind men groping the elephant I see!

I doubt that's the reason, the shareholders are either happy with their earnings per share or they're not. If they are, then they won't worry about subscription numbers. If they're not, then no amount of bragging about subscription numbers will change that.

Ba-dum-bish!
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Why? Do you know the reasons why they set that trend? Was it for lower expectations for CoX specifically or was it because in a time where a record number of people are losing their homes, that maybe they also might cancel their MMO subscriptions as well, and NCSoft is waiting for the trailing indicator that entertainment expenditure is to turn around? Or was it because of some other factor we don't know about?

Have you heard this story?

Three blind men are touching an elephant, and each tries to describe it.

The first blind man touches the elephant's trunk and says "An elephant is long like a snake!"
The second blind man touches the elephant's leg and say "No, an elephant is thick and round like a tree!"
The third blind man touches the elephant's tail and says "You're both wrong! An elephant is thin like a rope!"

Like the blind men, when we look at a small snapshot of a company's overall financials and aren't privy to all the information they possess, our attempts to describe the elephant are doomed to failure as we make conclusions that simply aren't supportable if we had the whole picture.

Because the financials for a single fiscal quarter deep into the worst economic downturn in the past 70 years are obviously the whole picture.

While I agree that makes logical sense, most Christians, however, do not accept that interpretation.

I still say it's possible to be both Evil AND Pathetic.

That's not biblically accurate. Adam and Eve had sons and daughters (Genesis 3:4). The sons would have married their sisters and nieces. Cain is mentioned specifically as having a wife, the others are assumed since there was male and female offspring and the daughters are kinda glossed over.

Still incest, but not parent/child.

Depends on the Christian sect in question. Some sects do, in fact, have unforgivable sins.

I think some argument could be made for a personification of Envy being Evil. "Evil" also doesn't immediately imply "effectual". Would you feel the same about Recluse if he WAS able to overcome Cole? Would he be Evil if he WON and conquered Paragon City? Because if his "not evil" is simply because he's a failure, then that's not really a fair judgement. You shouldn't need to be successful to qualify as being Evil. There are plenty of Evil failures.

Because heroic sacrifices are soooo unheroic.

We know enough that ATs can indeed switch sides.

I suspect the cable or the monitor itself.

If it was a graphics card issue, I'd expect a system halt.

I'd try swapping out the cable first since it's the cheapest fix.

Local toughs taking their neighborhood back from the REAL Badguys? Good guy gangs that are taking back the streets and helping their 'hood.

Obviously, to a point. But none of that has anything to do with the post you're replying to, given the post that it, itself, was replying to. Because we don't have to weigh the morality or ethics of the situation. The devs did that for us. Which was the entire point. Any possible moral dilemma has been negated by the simple irrefutable statement of fact that a particular fictional character is, by the declaration of his creators, absolutely in the wrong. There is no ethical debate here: the situation has been decided for us.

No, I am saying that presenting a choice of "institute a police state or everyone, everywhere dies" is not a moral dilemma (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethical_dilemma) just by definition. It's not really a choice at all, much less a dilemma. It's a "live in tyranny or don't live at all" choice, which is a "take it or leave it" Hobson's Choice.

It would be like arguing that the solution to poverty is to kill the impovershed. That's not an ethical dilemma. It's an unethical solution to a moral problem. It presents no dilemma.

There COULD be a moral dilemma where allowing the human race to die out is a possible ethical option, or perhaps the only ethical option, but this isn't that dilemma.

That'd be cool. With some clever base editing, you might be able to hide a pillar of I&F in a flyer and still have it be clickable...

*sigh*

Well thanks. Now I know that there is, in fact, absolutely no depth to you whatsoever. I tried to scratch the surface, but found there's nothing there.

I'll stop wasting my time on you

It's actually a text-book one. It's meant to make you actually think. I know, that may be alien to you, but try it. You might like it.
There's no absolute right or wrong answer here. It's about what you find morally and ethically correct or incorrect.

Here, tell you what, I'll go first. Fair?

I personally would take no action and would not change the train to the other track. Yes, that means 10 will die instead of 1, but if I hadn't been there, that was going to happen anyways. My intervention means I would have to decide that it's better to sacrifice that one particular child, that it's life is worth less than those other 10, and I do not feel I have the right to make that decision. I think it'd be better if I allowed things to play out as they were going to rather than be responsible for condemning another person to death by my hand.

There. Now your turn.

Come on, show us there's something to you beyond platitudes and smiley faces.