I haven't, yet. I take some precautions, however. I'm still on my first serious overclock: an Athlon 1700+ XP at 1.98 ghz/186 fsb. It will run stable at 188fsb, and starts acting up at 190fsb, even with more voltage (i dont recall how much extra is on it now), so I decided that to try and reduce the risk by reducing slightly the maximum stable voltage, and running it at its maximum stable speed after that. Im just a hair under 2ghz, and its been like that for about 2 years.
If it dies, i cant complain, but i can probably get another one cheap and easy anyway:)
he was about 20 and looking to rent an apartment. he went to look at one with the landlord, and in their chit chatting the guy mentioned he had spent years as a navy seal. so theyre walking around, my dad looking at the place, and he accidentally backs into the guy, and before he can say hes sorry has his arm behind his back with his face towards a wall.
the guy let go, apologized, and said after training for so long its just relfexive.
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when you need a half-page to explain the name, the name needs work. i look forward to the system, and referring to it as nintendo, as opposed to wii.
the contradiction is that he believes there are aliens, not because god put them there, but because space is so vast. he has some weird infatuation with alien sightings and such, as well, and never brings up god when he talks about any of it.
dinosaur fossils are there because of the devil, aliens are there because we dont know what the shiny lights were.
I love how my dad, a fundy christian, looks at the deep field, and says to me "and people think there isnt life elsewhere out there, in all of that, there *has* to be", and then sees me reading "the origin of species" and tells me "you know, thats just called the theory of evolution."
somehow he manages to believe in aliens halfway across the known universe, and that god created the earth and everything on it in 7 days./rant over
for my rant about my sister and her new Pacifica. she also bought it because she felt safe....i guess knowing that you cant control your own vehicle for shit makes you want something larger than a neon to cruise around in. i still think shes an idiot.
her husband is 6'1" and would probably feel cramped in a civic. a Fit, or a compact would be great for her, but she sucks at life and wanted the pcifica because she thought it looked nice, again, despite being unable to properly handle the vehicle. of course, i dont thin *anyone* can properly handle that thing, from the inside, the windows are tiny and its a serious pain in the ass to people who like to actually *see* whats around them.
im married with 2 kids, and weve got an aveo and a sable. the aveo was a mistake, that i had nothing to do with, and why we have it is unimportant, but it sucks because its cramped. the sable is comfy enough, with plenty of space, and though the mileage isnt as good as the aveo, its not awful; could probably use a tune-up though.
personally, i often wish i still had the station wagon we used to own. im ok with a van, but i dont really like the way vans and suvs handle, and hate driving them. id much prefer to own a station wagon for the times i need to move things about along with the kids. shame people dont drive them as much anymore, so many people jump straight into an suv because its trendy, when they could get what they needed from something they could actually use properly (see my post elsewhere in here about my sister and her suv!)
two months ago my sister bought a pacifica. she has 1 kid and no need to haul much more than some groceries most of the time. i have 2 kids and am comfy in my sable, though id kinda like a wagon again, but only sometimes.
anyway, we were helping her move last month and i got very upset with her. were at a mini storage place, and have things strewn about dciding where to put what in a u-haul, and she says shes gonna get the guys some sodas. groovy.
then she asks us to move everything out of her way, because she *Cant* back the pacifica up. you get inside, and windows are tiny, in addition to her being short. she literally couldnt fucking see to drive in reverse. she admitted it, she even knew it when she bought it, that she could barely see out of it to drive well.
i tore into her, moved her stupid fucking car, and told her to go buy a civic that she could actually take somewhere. she doesnt have a good reason for an SUV, or whatever you call that pathetic atrocity, she bought it because she thought it looked nice; despite that she was moving from north carolina to alabama, and intended to make the drive at least once every 6 weeks or so (even with gas on the rise) back home to visit, and had nothing she *has* to haul besides a baby, a diaper bag, and what not, all of which could easily fit into a mid-size sedan that she could actually *drive properly*.
some people are just selfishly fucking stupid. i know some guys like to tout the freedom of choice, and yes, its great. we all fuck up with that freedom from time to time, but to make a practically permanent stupid fucking decision just because you could? nice, sis. you cant drive it, dont need it, intend to put thousands of miles on it and the mileage is shitty.
Its brainwashing, pure and simple. Either they get you when youre young, or when youre under some emotional stress and dont know what to do to get things in your life on track. Either you dont know how to question it, or you dont want to, and its taken advantage of.
I was raised as a fundamentalist christian since birth, but started to question it about the time i was, say, 4. I can distinctly remember my mother asking me if i loved jesus, and me telling her no. "but, david, of course you do"...'but, mom, where is he? i cant see him, and i dont know who you keep talking about'. I tried to get in to it, but i just couldnt, and about the age of 20 or 21 i stopped going to church and believing the crap.
What really got me was actually reading the bible. Its fucking nuts. I didnt even know, at the time, that it was compiled by a committee, i just say "fuck that, gods crazy, im done" and put the book away. My youngest brother, 16 years of age, has recently begun to open his eyes and see how absolutely senseless most of it is. Hes not against it all yet, but hes starting to see the bible, the religion, and the people, are just silly. Im a little proud of him for having an open mind about it all, but my mothers going to kill me when she finds out its my fault;)
I loved morrowind, and got many many hours of gameplay out of it, but it *is* too easy, the combat *is* too bland and it needed *alot* of re-working. Still, its a great game for anyone who wants to have it for a first time and has 5 or 10 bucks to spend on it.
Ive also played oblivion, maybve for 5 or 6 hours at most right now, and it has given ALOT of the improvements morrowind needed. The combat is much more interesting and intense, and nowhere near as simple and easy and boring as it was in morrowind.
You can now filter, in alchemy, ingredients by their effects, the lack of which made alchemy a pure pain in the ass in morrowind.
You can fast travel now, which is nice at times when youre in a hurry and dont wish to explore (sans magic or magic items in morrowind, there were many places you HAD to go to, for side and main quests that were mind-numbingly boring to get to, AND BACK)
The magic system doesnt suck. In morrowind, being a pure-mage was difficult because decent spells took too much mana to cast, which then had to be replenished with potions or LOTS of rest, which means killing more than one or two strong enemies at once HAD to be done with a weapon. It works now, and damn well.
Its harder to get great equipment and money too quickly, its harder to steal things and sell them, its not too hard to level up, but its very expensive to TRAIN a level up (in morrowind, training was cheap, and if you knew your way around the game, you could be level 15 or 20 with just a few hours work, and no combat)
Oblivion fixed alot of what was wrong with morrowind, i havent played it enough to see what flaws it has, and what will bother me about it, i expect something, as nothing is ever perfect
I never was big on RPGs, i loved FF7 and FF9, 8 i skipped, and when i played FFX i was severely disappointed. I can recall going into an interactive cutscene, saving just prior to it, then saving almost AN HOUR LATER when it was done, having done nothing but push buttons to make people talk. It was insane, and i never played it again.
i wotn be 23 until april and hes right, you senile fuckers!
as for me, i just bought a gamecube for christmas, because i wanted a console (where i usually dont like them) and it was cheap. ill probably upgrade my pc at the end of the summer, get oblivion and a few other titles and be happy with it for a couple of years, and *hopefully* dpending on the price of the revolution when it comes out, pick one up when its released.
Yeah, For now. Havent we seena number of articles here from computing industry executives or some such that had them talking about subscription-based software that would wish to change that?
except theres one more thing to consider: would troops of the US army *join* in any major US insurrection and take some of their equipment with them? the palestinians never had palestinians in tanks to hope for, it has been them vs israel, which isnt the case here.
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what. the. fuck?
but if were not....who is? what country is run decently enough that you dont turn around daily and say to yourself "what the fuck" ?
If it dies, i cant complain, but i can probably get another one cheap and easy anyway :)
he was about 20 and looking to rent an apartment. he went to look at one with the landlord, and in their chit chatting the guy mentioned he had spent years as a navy seal. so theyre walking around, my dad looking at the place, and he accidentally backs into the guy, and before he can say hes sorry has his arm behind his back with his face towards a wall.
the guy let go, apologized, and said after training for so long its just relfexive.
when you need a half-page to explain the name, the name needs work. i look forward to the system, and referring to it as nintendo, as opposed to wii.
dinosaur fossils are there because of the devil, aliens are there because we dont know what the shiny lights were.
somehow he manages to believe in aliens halfway across the known universe, and that god created the earth and everything on it in 7 days.
for my rant about my sister and her new Pacifica. she also bought it because she felt safe....i guess knowing that you cant control your own vehicle for shit makes you want something larger than a neon to cruise around in. i still think shes an idiot.
nothing, because most of us dont actually watch what laws are passed to start with?
Fuck you! TAFT started all of this!
just out of curiosity, anyone know the last time the givernment actually completely cut any federal department or organization?
her husband is 6'1" and would probably feel cramped in a civic. a Fit, or a compact would be great for her, but she sucks at life and wanted the pcifica because she thought it looked nice, again, despite being unable to properly handle the vehicle. of course, i dont thin *anyone* can properly handle that thing, from the inside, the windows are tiny and its a serious pain in the ass to people who like to actually *see* whats around them.
personally, i often wish i still had the station wagon we used to own. im ok with a van, but i dont really like the way vans and suvs handle, and hate driving them. id much prefer to own a station wagon for the times i need to move things about along with the kids. shame people dont drive them as much anymore, so many people jump straight into an suv because its trendy, when they could get what they needed from something they could actually use properly (see my post elsewhere in here about my sister and her suv!)
two months ago my sister bought a pacifica. she has 1 kid and no need to haul much more than some groceries most of the time. i have 2 kids and am comfy in my sable, though id kinda like a wagon again, but only sometimes.
anyway, we were helping her move last month and i got very upset with her. were at a mini storage place, and have things strewn about dciding where to put what in a u-haul, and she says shes gonna get the guys some sodas. groovy.
then she asks us to move everything out of her way, because she *Cant* back the pacifica up. you get inside, and windows are tiny, in addition to her being short. she literally couldnt fucking see to drive in reverse. she admitted it, she even knew it when she bought it, that she could barely see out of it to drive well.
i tore into her, moved her stupid fucking car, and told her to go buy a civic that she could actually take somewhere. she doesnt have a good reason for an SUV, or whatever you call that pathetic atrocity, she bought it because she thought it looked nice; despite that she was moving from north carolina to alabama, and intended to make the drive at least once every 6 weeks or so (even with gas on the rise) back home to visit, and had nothing she *has* to haul besides a baby, a diaper bag, and what not, all of which could easily fit into a mid-size sedan that she could actually *drive properly*.
some people are just selfishly fucking stupid. i know some guys like to tout the freedom of choice, and yes, its great. we all fuck up with that freedom from time to time, but to make a practically permanent stupid fucking decision just because you could? nice, sis. you cant drive it, dont need it, intend to put thousands of miles on it and the mileage is shitty.
im seeing a very boring remake of the "argument sketch" here. knock it the fuck off!
the cigars, that is, not the adolescents
I was raised as a fundamentalist christian since birth, but started to question it about the time i was, say, 4. I can distinctly remember my mother asking me if i loved jesus, and me telling her no. "but, david, of course you do"...'but, mom, where is he? i cant see him, and i dont know who you keep talking about'. I tried to get in to it, but i just couldnt, and about the age of 20 or 21 i stopped going to church and believing the crap.
What really got me was actually reading the bible. Its fucking nuts. I didnt even know, at the time, that it was compiled by a committee, i just say "fuck that, gods crazy, im done" and put the book away. My youngest brother, 16 years of age, has recently begun to open his eyes and see how absolutely senseless most of it is. Hes not against it all yet, but hes starting to see the bible, the religion, and the people, are just silly. Im a little proud of him for having an open mind about it all, but my mothers going to kill me when she finds out its my fault ;)
found this from anandtech forums, it didnt require me to register, has a pic and a model, interesting.
thats unbelievable to me, they released a number of minor mods for morrowind for *free*.
bastards.
Ive also played oblivion, maybve for 5 or 6 hours at most right now, and it has given ALOT of the improvements morrowind needed. The combat is much more interesting and intense, and nowhere near as simple and easy and boring as it was in morrowind.
You can now filter, in alchemy, ingredients by their effects, the lack of which made alchemy a pure pain in the ass in morrowind.
You can fast travel now, which is nice at times when youre in a hurry and dont wish to explore (sans magic or magic items in morrowind, there were many places you HAD to go to, for side and main quests that were mind-numbingly boring to get to, AND BACK)
The magic system doesnt suck. In morrowind, being a pure-mage was difficult because decent spells took too much mana to cast, which then had to be replenished with potions or LOTS of rest, which means killing more than one or two strong enemies at once HAD to be done with a weapon. It works now, and damn well.
Its harder to get great equipment and money too quickly, its harder to steal things and sell them, its not too hard to level up, but its very expensive to TRAIN a level up (in morrowind, training was cheap, and if you knew your way around the game, you could be level 15 or 20 with just a few hours work, and no combat)
Oblivion fixed alot of what was wrong with morrowind, i havent played it enough to see what flaws it has, and what will bother me about it, i expect something, as nothing is ever perfect
I never was big on RPGs, i loved FF7 and FF9, 8 i skipped, and when i played FFX i was severely disappointed. I can recall going into an interactive cutscene, saving just prior to it, then saving almost AN HOUR LATER when it was done, having done nothing but push buttons to make people talk. It was insane, and i never played it again.
as for me, i just bought a gamecube for christmas, because i wanted a console (where i usually dont like them) and it was cheap. ill probably upgrade my pc at the end of the summer, get oblivion and a few other titles and be happy with it for a couple of years, and *hopefully* dpending on the price of the revolution when it comes out, pick one up when its released.
it should, i think, be called "anti-blogite"
Yeah, For now. Havent we seena number of articles here from computing industry executives or some such that had them talking about subscription-based software that would wish to change that?
except theres one more thing to consider: would troops of the US army *join* in any major US insurrection and take some of their equipment with them? the palestinians never had palestinians in tanks to hope for, it has been them vs israel, which isnt the case here.