I'd say anything above a 22 long should be enough to put a hole in a hard dive, and will probably be more fun than sanding or something. Smashing is fun too though, its up to you. A 20# sledge and a concrete surface would do the trick too.
Most games are around 8-10GB, because they have to fit on a DVD. WoW is my biggest at about 30GB, that and starcraft II (about 12gb) and are on my main drive (74gb raptor). I have another 74gb drive for my steam folder and i have, as far as large modernish games...
Borderlands CS:S DoD:S L4D2 ME2 Portal 2 TF2
and about 20 other smaller games installed. Unless you cheaped out and have like an 80GB SSD or something, space isnt really an issue for your average gamer for games at least.
Yeah, im also considering buying a PS3 just as a media center. Not many console games that interest me, but blu ray and netflix sure do. Not a big fan of sony, but its the best device for what i want. Have a Wii and no blu-ray now, waiting for them to definitively say the WiiU will not have blu-ray before i buy a PS3
Dude, poes law. My friend sent me a rather tongue in cheek paper he wrote for a class, something to do with logging, he was saying that the forests were part of America and should be pulling their own weight and making a profit. I told him it was a little over the top, but then the next day i read this...
Hasbro is a toy company. They own the "My Little Pony" IP, but the show, no matter how well done, it little more than a 22 minute toy commercial for them. They want to make money off the dolls. I'm sure if someone were selling "Your Little Pony" knockoff dolls Hasbro would be all over them like stink on rice.
Although thats just my assumption, and Hasbro does seem to be pretty cool with people selling modified ponies, although thats a completely separate legal issue, so who knows.
I was just going through all my friends on facebook about an hour ago, generating a list of email addresses of people i actually talk to to invite to G+, by hand, just copy and paste. Then when i was adding those people to my circles, there were one or two addresses i couldnt remember who they belonged to (i had a list of maybe 40). I went to my recently closed tabs and tried to find who they belonged to, but found that profiles i'd viewed just a few minutes earlier no longer had their email addresses under their contact info.
And as numerous people have already stated, valve is awesome at balance, hats have 0 function in the game, and any weapons that have a bonus also have some subtractive stat.
Sure wearing the whole sniper set for example, which can be purchased OR ground out with a time investment, you can no longer be headshot.. but it also means you cant headshot other players.
I really dont care for this business model, i dont like someone having an advantage over me in a game because they spent more money than me. Its one of the things i like about WoW, that everyone on pretty equal footing, they do have some microtransaction items, but theyre strictly vanity items and have no impact on game play. I also really like what valve has done with TF2, i think it strikes a good balance. Every item is balanced, so one is not necessarily advantageous over another in every situation, so if someone chooses to spend money on those items they dont have an unfair advantage, BUT, every item is also available for free via random drops or a crafting system if you invest enough time. Unfortunately most companies arent rich enough to not be greedy when it comes to this sort of thing...
Development for TF2 hats probably comes from the marketing budget, seems like half the games released on steam (even non-valve ones) include TF2 promo items, and i'm sure theres a lot of people who preorder and even buy stuff just for TF2 items.
I would start with the revival, that would be the 9th doctor, Christopher Eccleston. If you want to include torchwood and/or the sarah jane adventures (although a kids show is better than most stuff on tv), heres the viewing order i kinda pieced together along with all the specials.
Doctor Who S1 Doctor Who - Children In Need Short (2006) Doctor Who - Christmas Invasion Doctor Who - Attack of the Graske Doctor Who S2 Doctor Who - The Runaway Bride Torchwood S1 Sarah Jane Adventures - Invasion of the Bane Doctor Who S3 Doctor Who - The Infinite Quest (actually takes place between 3x09 and 3x10) Doctor Who - Time Crash (2007 Children In Need) Doctor Who - Voyage of the Damned Sarah Jane Adventures S1 Torchwood S2 Doctor Who S4 Sarah Jane Adventures S2 Doctor Who at the Proms Doctor Who - The Next Doctor Doctor Who - Dreamland Doctor Who - Planet of the Dead Torchwood S3 - Children of Earth (some of the best television ever) Sarah Jane Adventures S3 Doctor Who - The Waters of Mars Doctor Who - The End of Time Doctor Who S5 Sarah Jane Adventures S4 Doctor Who - A Christmas Carol Doctor Who - Space & Time (comic relief 2011)
Doesnt always work, IIRC modern cheetahs are runts compared to hundreds of years ago due to a lack of genetic diversity from when they were nearly hunted to extinction.
Of course something like this would happen with a free program, you get what you pay for. Nothing like this would ever happen with one of the quality anti virus programs, like McAfee...
This has been true since the early days of DVDs, i remember a friend had some cheap no-name player from wal-mart that was region free, would output PAL dvds to NTSC, would play MP3s and JPEG slideshows off burned CDs... While my parents $250 RCA dvd player wouldnt do any of that.
Still pissed about the bad chinese capacitors from a few years ago though...
Hell, i had to use a floppy to install RAID drivers for Win7! The motherboard manufacturers page didnt have just the drivers available for the RAID controller for me to put on a flash drive, and the chip manufacturers site didnt have the correct driver either. BUT the mobo manufacturer did have a driver floppy creator exe. It was a weird situation. AND, of course as soon as i got everything installed and ran windows update it updated the RAID driver...
Those arent achievements, theyre feats of strength and dont count for any achievement points. Theyre typically for things that can only be completed by one person (such as the realm firsts), or things that are only available for a limited time, acquiring toys from past holiday events, defeating bosses that are no longer available, that sort of thing. That said, it looks like he has 40 of those also.
I remember reading some study that basically said the power savings from shutting down computers was insignifigant compared to the power required to make all the replacement parts needed by a computer that was started up/shut down every day.
A cold start is rough on moving parts, fans and hard drives. Hard drives fail, fans fail and CPUs melt, etc etc.
Theres no COST savings in lowered electricity use compared to having to replace hardware AND (IIRC according to the study i cant find that i wish i could cite...) theres no actual energy savings either when factoring in the manufacturing of replacement parts either.
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They want iPads.
I'd say anything above a 22 long should be enough to put a hole in a hard dive, and will probably be more fun than sanding or something. Smashing is fun too though, its up to you. A 20# sledge and a concrete surface would do the trick too.
Word of Warcraft Patch 4.3, "The Dragon Soul" release date to be announced.
Most games are around 8-10GB, because they have to fit on a DVD. WoW is my biggest at about 30GB, that and starcraft II (about 12gb) and are on my main drive (74gb raptor). I have another 74gb drive for my steam folder and i have, as far as large modernish games...
Borderlands
CS:S
DoD:S
L4D2
ME2
Portal 2
TF2
and about 20 other smaller games installed. Unless you cheaped out and have like an 80GB SSD or something, space isnt really an issue for your average gamer for games at least.
Yeah, im also considering buying a PS3 just as a media center. Not many console games that interest me, but blu ray and netflix sure do. Not a big fan of sony, but its the best device for what i want. Have a Wii and no blu-ray now, waiting for them to definitively say the WiiU will not have blu-ray before i buy a PS3
Remember that show Surface?
Lets say anonymous creates a google+ account for everyone who has a facebook page, imports all their pictures, friends, etc and PMs them the password.
Or heck, if they just sent every facebook user a google+ invite...
Dude, poes law. My friend sent me a rather tongue in cheek paper he wrote for a class, something to do with logging, he was saying that the forests were part of America and should be pulling their own weight and making a profit. I told him it was a little over the top, but then the next day i read this...
“We cannot elevate nature above people,” said Edna Mattos, 63, leader of the Citrus County Tea Party Patriots, in an interview. “That’s against the Bible and the Bill of Rights.”>
Hasbro is a toy company. They own the "My Little Pony" IP, but the show, no matter how well done, it little more than a 22 minute toy commercial for them. They want to make money off the dolls. I'm sure if someone were selling "Your Little Pony" knockoff dolls Hasbro would be all over them like stink on rice.
Although thats just my assumption, and Hasbro does seem to be pretty cool with people selling modified ponies, although thats a completely separate legal issue, so who knows.
I was just going through all my friends on facebook about an hour ago, generating a list of email addresses of people i actually talk to to invite to G+, by hand, just copy and paste. Then when i was adding those people to my circles, there were one or two addresses i couldnt remember who they belonged to (i had a list of maybe 40). I went to my recently closed tabs and tried to find who they belonged to, but found that profiles i'd viewed just a few minutes earlier no longer had their email addresses under their contact info.
Except you dont have to play on those servers.
And as numerous people have already stated, valve is awesome at balance, hats have 0 function in the game, and any weapons that have a bonus also have some subtractive stat.
Sure wearing the whole sniper set for example, which can be purchased OR ground out with a time investment, you can no longer be headshot.. but it also means you cant headshot other players.
I really dont care for this business model, i dont like someone having an advantage over me in a game because they spent more money than me. Its one of the things i like about WoW, that everyone on pretty equal footing, they do have some microtransaction items, but theyre strictly vanity items and have no impact on game play. I also really like what valve has done with TF2, i think it strikes a good balance. Every item is balanced, so one is not necessarily advantageous over another in every situation, so if someone chooses to spend money on those items they dont have an unfair advantage, BUT, every item is also available for free via random drops or a crafting system if you invest enough time. Unfortunately most companies arent rich enough to not be greedy when it comes to this sort of thing...
Actually it still does, as you need a separate device thats not connected to the computer in any way.
Whats the deal with that, the matte finish used to be a selling point of LCD over CRT, but now theyre making LCDs glossy...
Extra cut-scene, Chell gets dragged back into the building. The comic they just released the other day gives it from another perspective.
Development for TF2 hats probably comes from the marketing budget, seems like half the games released on steam (even non-valve ones) include TF2 promo items, and i'm sure theres a lot of people who preorder and even buy stuff just for TF2 items.
I would start with the revival, that would be the 9th doctor, Christopher Eccleston. If you want to include torchwood and/or the sarah jane adventures (although a kids show is better than most stuff on tv), heres the viewing order i kinda pieced together along with all the specials.
Doctor Who S1
Doctor Who - Children In Need Short (2006)
Doctor Who - Christmas Invasion
Doctor Who - Attack of the Graske
Doctor Who S2
Doctor Who - The Runaway Bride
Torchwood S1
Sarah Jane Adventures - Invasion of the Bane
Doctor Who S3
Doctor Who - The Infinite Quest (actually takes place between 3x09 and 3x10)
Doctor Who - Time Crash (2007 Children In Need)
Doctor Who - Voyage of the Damned
Sarah Jane Adventures S1
Torchwood S2
Doctor Who S4
Sarah Jane Adventures S2
Doctor Who at the Proms
Doctor Who - The Next Doctor
Doctor Who - Dreamland
Doctor Who - Planet of the Dead
Torchwood S3 - Children of Earth (some of the best television ever)
Sarah Jane Adventures S3
Doctor Who - The Waters of Mars
Doctor Who - The End of Time
Doctor Who S5
Sarah Jane Adventures S4
Doctor Who - A Christmas Carol
Doctor Who - Space & Time (comic relief 2011)
Doesnt always work, IIRC modern cheetahs are runts compared to hundreds of years ago due to a lack of genetic diversity from when they were nearly hunted to extinction.
Of course something like this would happen with a free program, you get what you pay for. Nothing like this would ever happen with one of the quality anti virus programs, like McAfee...
This has been true since the early days of DVDs, i remember a friend had some cheap no-name player from wal-mart that was region free, would output PAL dvds to NTSC, would play MP3s and JPEG slideshows off burned CDs... While my parents $250 RCA dvd player wouldnt do any of that.
Still pissed about the bad chinese capacitors from a few years ago though...
'Bout time they nefed Rooks, they were friggin OP.
Hell, i had to use a floppy to install RAID drivers for Win7! The motherboard manufacturers page didnt have just the drivers available for the RAID controller for me to put on a flash drive, and the chip manufacturers site didnt have the correct driver either. BUT the mobo manufacturer did have a driver floppy creator exe. It was a weird situation. AND, of course as soon as i got everything installed and ran windows update it updated the RAID driver...
Wasnt THAT old of a motherboard either, 2004...
Those arent achievements, theyre feats of strength and dont count for any achievement points. Theyre typically for things that can only be completed by one person (such as the realm firsts), or things that are only available for a limited time, acquiring toys from past holiday events, defeating bosses that are no longer available, that sort of thing. That said, it looks like he has 40 of those also.
Cyno, Realm First Grand Master Engineer, Madoran.
Actually...
Brick and mortars sell knockoffs.
http://www.officemax.com/catalog/search.jsp?freeText=professor&search.x=0&search.y=0
I remember reading some study that basically said the power savings from shutting down computers was insignifigant compared to the power required to make all the replacement parts needed by a computer that was started up/shut down every day.
A cold start is rough on moving parts, fans and hard drives. Hard drives fail, fans fail and CPUs melt, etc etc.
Theres no COST savings in lowered electricity use compared to having to replace hardware AND (IIRC according to the study i cant find that i wish i could cite...) theres no actual energy savings either when factoring in the manufacturing of replacement parts either.