Arkan
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Yeah, this is probably a long shot, but what the heck.
I'm replaying MUA on hard this time, and I simply hate the way the skill points are defaultly distributed. Is there any way to cheat a character to level 30 (hard starting difficulty) to distribute them the way I want to? I'm runnin the PC version.
Thanks.
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I see two problems
1. 80gb hardrive is too small. Even if you have an external USB drive, you will still need enough room for programs and games. Not to mention that you wont always be able to bring your USB hd. I have two 160gb disks in my laptop and thats pretty sweet
2. A 15" monitor with a resolution of 1680x1050 is very bad for your eyesight. I would choose a 17" screen. I switched from a 15" laptop to a 17" a few months ago and it was a huge relief.
1. 80GB is plenty for me. My old 40 gig is enough to store any games I'm currently playing, plus any music, video, and pictures I may need.
2. My current laptop is the same resolution with a 15.4'' widescreen, just like the new one. It's never hurt my eyese before.
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So, as I mentioned, my lapton is no longer function...sort of.
A while ago, my monitor started becoming distorted, almost pixelated. It resembled the effect that a computer virus would have on a computer in a Hollywood movie...just looked really bizarre, then it stopped responding. I could still to a hard power off, but when I tried to turn it back on, the screen slowly turned a light gray-ish color and didn't do anything else.
After a while (a week or so). I turned it back on again, to see what would happen. To my surprise, it booted up perfectly. I took this opportunity to transfer important files to a flash drive. But after about 5 minutes, it had the same problem. I've done this several times, slowly getting all my data. Then I noticed something. The fan does not come on at all. Could this be the problem? The machine is overheating, maybe? Does this sound like the symptoms of such? What else could it be? I could easily replace the fan for about $20, so, that would be a good alternative.
Thanks in advance.
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What model do you have?
I bought a Dell Latitude D610
Pentium M 1.7Ghz
1Gig Ram
ATI X300 GPU
80Gig HD 5400rpm
The only thing i regret is getting a smaller screen a 14.5 i think it is. Its kinda old i bought it used online, but it runs great. I can even run Unreal Tournament 2004 without a hiccup. Although i am too lazy to bring out a mouse, and i have a desktop for that anyway. I generally use this for school, internet, and point and click adventure games. I bought this on impulse for $375.
Me?
My current lappy (non operable) specs:
Dell Inspiron 8600 (what's the deal with the lower numbers for newer version? It's MADNESS!)
PentiumM 1.3 Ghz
768M Ram
64M Geforce4 Go
40G hard drive
It also ran UT2k4 flawlessly.
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I would add 4 gigs if you plan on serious gaming on Vista. Then again how good is the 8600GT compared to the new 8800m?
Memory is always easy to add later, like whenever I do actually upgrade to Vista. As for the vid card, that's the highest Dell offers, but it will be good for the casual gaming that I do. I'm not as hardcore as I used to be.
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My current laptop is over 4 years old, and is no longer working (I think it's a fan issue). So I'm thinking it's about time for a new one. I built one on Dell's website, as my last one was a Dell, got beat all to hell, and still lasted 4+ Years. Here's what the specs were and the price:
Intel
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I gues it's changed from the Big Mac Index to the Video Game Index.
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Torment really is a game that changes your view of how and what a D&D game is.
Or at least can be.
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Have you connected to the router via an ethernet cable? (You have to configure the router first, after all.)
Please, you think I'd be asking for help over something so simple?
But really, the transmitter went out on the router. None of the wireless devices would connect to it. So I bought another one. Now I'm up and running.
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What are the card's and router's models and security settings?
Adapter: Linksys WUSB54G
Router: Netgear Wireless G Router
Security settings: Tried WEP, WPA, and none, but neither worked.
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So here's the deal:
I bought a Linksys Wireless USB adapter recently and have a Netgear wireless router. The adapter software keeps giving me the error "Cannot associate with the access point." I've tried WZC but it didn't help. I have two laptops and a PDA that were able to connect to the router. What could be the problem? Please help...
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Cool.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070928/ap_on_...wZB_s4e53YE1vAI
PHOENIX - It sounds like science fiction but it's true: A killer amoeba living in lakes enters the body through the nose and attacks the brain where it feeds until you die.Even though encounters with the microscopic bug are extraordinarily rare, it's killed six boys and young men this year. The spike in cases has health officials concerned, and they are predicting more cases in the future.
"This is definitely something we need to track," said Michael Beach, a specialist in recreational waterborne illnesses for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"This is a heat-loving amoeba. As water temperatures go up, it does better," Beach said. "In future decades, as temperatures rise, we'd expect to see more cases."
According to the CDC, the amoeba called Naegleria fowleri (nuh-GLEER-ee-uh FOWL'-erh-eye) killed 23 people in the United States, from 1995 to 2004. This year health officials noticed a spike with six cases
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So, I'm 24 today. Let's see if this b-day can be a bit better than the last 3 or 4, shall we?
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For Halo 3
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/gaming/2007-0...lo_N.htm?csp=34
Millions of fans are eagerly awaiting next Tuesday's release of Halo 3, the final installment in Microsoft's hugely successful video game trilogy."Everybody is really excited," says Anne Wolanski, 37, an executive assistant at a major Hollywood studio. "People just know it's going to be fantastic."
Miguel Chavez, 39, of Whitestone, N.Y., an administrator for fan site halo .bungie.org, wants to know "how this whole darn thing ends."
Another fan, Roger Travis, 38, of Stoors, Conn., admits that he, too, "can't wait to see the ending of the story." But Travis, an associate professor of classics at the University of Connecticut, also wants to see how Halo stacks up against the great mythologies of our time. Already, he says, "I certainly don't have any problem putting (Halo) on the shelf next to" classics such as Beowulf.
For those who scoff at the notion that a video game could rival modern-day epics such as The Lord of the Rings and Star Wars
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in this day in age, this would be considered old.
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People outside of AI and Robotics really can't grasp just how far away science actually is from achieving their (rather unreasonable, once you think about it) expectations. That said, it's common sense that "presentation is everything." If you can get people to think that they're interacting with an intelligent being (ie like with those early chatbots), it really doesn't matter whether the being is actually intelligent or not. There's where I expect a great deal of progress in the coming years.
Nobody knows for sure what will be possible in the future. Some "breakthrough" could take place that could "revolutionize" AI and all that rot.
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To the robot take over.
RICHARDSON, Texas - David Hanson has two little Zenos to care for these days. There's his 18-month-old son Zeno, who prattles and smiles as he bounds through his father's cramped office. Then there's the robotic Zeno. It can't speak or walk yet, but has blinking eyes that can track people and a face that captivates with a range of expressions.At 17 inches tall and 6 pounds, the artificial Zeno is the culmination of five years of work by Hanson and a small group of engineers, designers and programmers at his company, Hanson Robotics. They believe there's an emerging business in the design and sale of lifelike robotic companions, or social robots. And they'll be showing off the robot boy to students in grades 3-12 at the Wired NextFest technology conference Thursday in Los Angeles.
Unlike clearly artificial robotic toys, Hanson says he envisions Zeno as an interactive learning companion, a synthetic pal who can engage in conversation and convey human emotion through a face made of a skin-like, patented material Hanson calls frubber.
"It's a representation of robotics as a character animation medium, one that is intelligent," Hanson beams. "It sees you and recognizes your face. It learns your name and can build a relationship with you."
It's no coincidence if the whole concept sounds like a science-fiction movie.
Hanson said he was inspired by, and is aiming for, the same sort of realism found in the book "Supertoys Last All Summer Long," by Brian Aldiss. Aldiss' story of troubled robot boy David and his quest for the love of his flesh-and-blood parents was the source material for Steven Spielberg's film "Artificial Intelligence: AI."
He plans to make little Zenos available to consumers within the next three years for $200 to $300.
Until then, Hanson, 37, makes a living selling and renting pricey, lifelike robotic heads. His company offers models that look like Albert Einstein, a pirate and a rocker, complete with spiky hair and sunglasses. They cost tens of thousands of dollars and can be customized to look like anyone, Hanson said.
The company, which has yet to break even, was also buoyed by a $1.5 million grant from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund last October. The fund was created by Gov. Rick Perry in 2005 to improve research at Texas universities and help startup technology companies get off the ground.
Hanson concedes it's going to be at least 15 years before robot builders can approach anything like what seems to be possible in movies. Zeno the robot remains a prototype.
During a recent demonstration, Zeno could barely stand and had to be tethered to a bank of PCs that told it how to smile, frown, act surprised or wrinkle its nose in anger.
Robotics, Hanson believes, should be about artistic expression, a creative medium akin to sculpting or painting. But convincing people that robots should look like people instead of, well, robots, remains a challenge that robot experts call the "uncanny valley" theory.
The theory posits that humans have a positive psychological reaction to robots that look somewhat like humans, but that robots made to look very realistic end up seeming grotesque instead of comforting.
"Nobody complains that Bernini's sculptures are too darn real, right? Or that Norman Rockwell's paintings are too creepy," Hanson said. "Well, robots can seem real and be loved too. We're trying to make a new art medium out of robotics."
So just how did Hanson end up with two Zenos, anyway?
It all goes back to when his wife, Amanda, gave birth to their first child and Zeno the robot was already in the works.
They rattled off several names to their baby boy, but it wasn't until they whispered "Zeno" that "this look of peace fell over his face; it was like soothing to his ears," Hanson recalled.
"There was no way we could give him any other name. He chose Zeno as his name," he said.
That was just fine with Amanda.
"I thought that it was very endearing, very sweet," she said.
The similarities go beyond the name. Though Zeno the robot was built to resemble the animated Japanese TV show character Astro Boy, his plastic hair and saucer-shaped eyes bear a striking resemblance to the curly locks and wide-eyed smile of the real Zeno.
"So by coincidence they're both Zeno, and in other ways this robot has become more of a portrait sculpturally of the son, although it's almost coincidence," said Hanson, whose previous jobs include working as a character sculptor for The Walt Disney Co. "We didn't consciously sculpt this robot to look like him. It's the way things filter through the hands of the artist."
Hanson says one of the robot Zeno's biggest advancements is that its brains aren't inside the robot. Instead Zeno synchs wirelessly to a PC running a variant of Massive Software
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It's obvious that the government has put something in the water and everyone is having problems with encoding information into their brain mainframes. I for one am like this. Someone can tell me there name and 10 seconds later I have already blissfully forgotten about it. Pretty horrible. Not to mention I'm forgetting things I should know constantly. For example I'll try to think of something that I used to know quite well or a synonym for a word and just come up short. Also I can't concentrate like I used to. I think I have a brain tumor.
You have ADD
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Where do I sign up?
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What about her younger sister, eh? She looks just like young Britney...it's like we're getting her all over again...WOOHOO!
And that's a good thing?
It's a good thing for men's eyes.
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What about her younger sister, eh? She looks just like young Britney...it's like we're getting her all over again...WOOHOO!
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I'd attempt to find anything that could kill me, then destroy it.
Marvel Ultimate Alliance
in Computer and Console
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donkeyshins