LadyCrimson

Um...ok...so this card and the upcoming Nvidia one are making the separate-card SLI obsolete, so to speak? I'd certainly prefer to buy one $400 card than 3 $200+ cards...any idea if you go with the 5870, then do you not need a 3-way SLI motherboard? All so confusing... I've always preferred Nvidia cards..never had good luck with ATI (or hubby's ATI's) so I'm fairly dubious. I know rationally they make fine cards, but my luck seems to be terrible w/them. However...having to wait another 4 months or something, yet again, is not what I want, either. My go with that, then.

...trying to decide if single card is enough for me or whether I want to try for "more gaming power" with two or even three. 1 - I haven't kept up with video card stuff in years & all the diff. model letters. What's the current "good" nvidia card model(s) in the $250ish range? I don't care about overclocking, btw...ie, I don't do it. 2 - Will any motherboard that claims 3-Way SLI actually work for the nvidia 3-way SLI, these days? 3 - If you actually are l33t enough to use 3 linked video cards, I assume you'd need a massive power supply to go along with it? Something like 1000+ watts be enough? Or if you went w/just 2 cards, 750w enough? 4 - Cooling - are lots of fans adequate or would you need something fancier so it doesn't all burn up...

One of them said (about Iceland):

how windy did it get near you? In sac we had the interstate literally flood, and power outages all over as trees got knocked down. None of the many trees fell down or dropped any huge branches, so I guess it wasn't too bad. Just lots of leaves. I haven't read up on the storm stuff today, but most of the big problems down here were probably in the Santa Cruz mts/hills, per usual. They always bear the brunt of the storms from the coast, getting multiple inches overnight while it weakens by the time it pushes over the hills to the peninsula. Think there were some minor power outages etc. nearby but nothing affected us this time.

Eh, Stargate SG-1 was about as mainstream as you could get. Oh, no, I wasn't talking about whether a sci-fi show is "mainstream"...I meant where sci-fi in TV becomes mainstream in popularity/ratings enough so that networks (edit: both big and smaller cable networks) actually scramble to produce their own. Instead, networks are, and have been for years, generally obsessed with drama/crime, sitcoms, and now realityTV. Again, price probably has some to do with it, as well. IIRC, SG started out as a Showtime original series...a network would never have touched it, especially back then.

The SG shows seem to have a big fanbase. Some prefer one version over another but still a lot of people. There's not a ton of regular sci-fi TV series - particularly possibly decent ones, let alone actual good ones - so doesn't seem too surprising to me. I keep thinking sci-fi will become more mainstream (in TV) one day, but while it's better than it used to be, it's still not there. I guess they're often expensive to produce, too?

I'm not counting them entirely out...but as single-contained episode writing goes, that was sloppy.

I have 2 long term 'net buddies who live in Iceland. I could ask them whether they think now (or anytime soon) would be a good time to visit or not.

Not to mention the show was just overall weak in everything in it's first season, particularly the first half. "The Last Outpost." *snicker* Last weeks SG:U episode didn't thrill me. It wasn't bad, but all the desert wandering while bickering wasn't exactly interesting. A lot of time-filler, felt like. I also didn't like how The probe or whatever it is could be interesting, hope they expand on that soon.

First major rainstorm = War of the Ants. I hate ants.

Not a new game (at all), but Diablo2 is actually going to gain a new patch...partly to stick it onto the new version of bnet, I assume, but also some gameplay things. I haven't played D2 in ages...if the patch changes seem interesting, I might pull it out again while waiting for D3, so I'm "looking forward" to seeing what they are...

Still playing Hinterlands:Orc Lords, and still loving the ability to play a quick game with no long term campaign commitment required. Now that I'm familiar with it, Medium difficulty becoming too easy, time to crank it up to the next level.

The sun was shining brightly through the shades this morning, when all of a sudden it became dramatically dark for about 1 second and then bright again. It was very bizarre, almost like being in a room at night when the power flicks off for just a second. Looked outside, no plane, no giant blimp in the way of the sunshine that we could see...no loud engine noises either. Maybe it was a giant invisible flying saucer?

Well, I'm sad, but frankly not surprised. BoSox have been hot/cold all season long...especially after July. Even if they'd pulled this one through, as I've said several times before, I didn't see them getting past NY. Not this season. It's a fun season ride while it lasts, tho. Congrats, Angels...you definitely deserved it - and if you could beat NY, I'd be much obliged.

Lackey shined last night while the BoSox choked. Y'know, I'm really not that bothered by it. Or particularly surprised. BoSox have played well this year overall, but they certainly haven't been consistent. I love the BoSox, but I don't live or die if they win/lose. Of course, one of the most entertaining things was Bucknor's bad calls and the irate BoSox fans repeatedly vandalizing his wiki-entry page. That was amusing. Childish, but amusing. :D Bucknor's calls had nothing to do w/losing the game, but man, is he a terrible ump.

I think we just have different notions of what soap opera means. I'm not talking about specific conventions in actual daytime soap operas...rather, a tone and style. The really long dramatic pauses/reaction shots with sweeping or sappy music scores as characters glare at each other for 10 seconds before walking away. Every character being constantly tormented by ultimate-agonizing inner demons that fuels every plot. It becomes tedious and eventually laughable, to me. Like Vader screaming "nooo." Such is fine/entertaining in small doses to emphasis certain scenes, but BSG felt like every scene was like that...to me anyway. Just too much.

This. For decades...nothing new about this. I can personally understand/sympathize with the idea that Obama (in some circles/countries) is seen as a much bigger symbol of hope and potential US rationality than, say, his own country does, but that doesn't mean he should be given a symbolic prize of peace just yet. Especially since he was actually nominated for it, what, 1 month into his holding the office? I don't find it abhorrent or outrageous or an injustice or something extreme like that...but it is...silly.

They'd make great mini-bacon and hams for two, I'm sure.

A certain level of "drama" I like in sci-fi. I don't like soap opera drama either...altho Glee is kind of an exception because it's so satirical (often meanly so) and cracks me up. One of the issues I had with Battlestar Gallactica, before too much time had passed, is that for me, it was way way over-dramatized. It became an almost lyrical space soap opera. Not my thing.

Micro-piglets are kind of cute. But they're not nearly as cute once fully grown. Then they just look like...pigs.

Yes, computer AI loves to calculate odds in such a way as to generate more losses on your side than if you were in control, and probably will until the end of time, hehe. What the math reasons for that are, I don't know, but I'd hazard a guess it's because it doesn't creatively think, anticipate, or re-evaluate every micro-second of movement like a human. :D So if it's a close battle or if the usual AI losses would somehow cripple me, I wouldn't do it...but 7 or 8 times out of 10, it would not cripple me, so I'd shrug and allow it. I don't generally become attached to strategy game units, unless I'm going for a scored game or something.

Lazy day with three playoff games all in a row. Whether on the couch, in a chair, or on the exercycle....I'm still planted firmly in front of TBS w/the TV remote tossed aside. I always wonder how many people call in sick during end-of-season sports days. I almost got caught by one of those fake anti-virus re-direct search link phish sites, where suddenly you're at a webpage that looks like a Windows system virus alert window. People are evil.

Haven't played the game in question, but I know in other strategy games I'd auto-resolve battles a lot, especially once you're familiar w/the way the AI does it (so you know what odds you're likely you'll win). It's just to tedious to do it yourself every single time.

The "pro's" have a hard time predicting, too. http://whereistand.com/mlb-predictions-2009.html

I don't see them on the lucas arts Kotor2 downloads. But if you Google, they're around. Sometimes fans split the download up because it was so huge. And if that fails, I have it somewhere, but no fast server to put it on so it'd be slow.