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The Universe hates vacuums, it wants to fill it up with something. The Universe can be a bit of a pain sometimes.

Got absolutely nothing like the above One of the random quotes was quite funny though: "A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done." Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)

Ah, I thought it was part of your "diagnostics" to try and run it without the CPU Could be a number of things. Never heard about it happening with a net cable before though. Well not since the Coax type cables went out of fashion at least (man, those things were quite literally shockers when touching them).

You did WHAT?!?

Honestly, I don't know. But then, being a pack rat, I've kept an old PC around (good old Pentium P4 running XP), which runs my old/older games >_

Don't know if that last bit helps...?

Yeah right... in a game where 3 out of 4 encounters (possibly exaggerated, didn't count them) are scripted and your party, despite foreshadowing and knowledge of what to come, happily discards any tactical advantage and marches up into the middle of a trap, surrounded be enemies >_

In that case, 'Rome' is one of my favourite tv series of the last 10 years. A shame it only lasted two seasons.

Who's your daddy?...

The most enjoyable series since Lexx and Firefly

Traveling in eastern Europe must have been a life changing experience

I wish you good luck I've already written it off as a parody on Jagged Alliance 2.

Too Late Although in hindsight I should have pointed out that Grunts issues were daddy issues too. Pappa Grunt (The Warlord) didn't teach him how to be a real Krogan.

Exactly

I'm a fanboy, so I can't give you an objective answer. Now go get it!

I bought the X games the other day at the Steam sale, but have to wait til... well, at least midnight pacific time to download as I'm on a monthly bandwidth limit. Steam tries pretty hard to make every game they sell seem like a huge deal, but I have to admit the X games intrigued me enough to give them a try, since I was hooked on Elite back in the day. Looking forward to giving them a try. I would probably try X2 before X3... the latter has an almost vertical learning curve

Not jazz, just old stuff listened to in the last week... (been watching a few Quentin Tarantino movies recently) The Ronettes - Be My baby Nancy Sinatra - These boots are made for walking Juice Newton - Angel of the morning

There is just no accounting for taste I found combat to be one of DA:O's redeeming factors, although the grind towards the end was indeed as boring as the Starforge grind in Kotor1. Who came up with the misconception that endless hordes, respawning or not, equals epic?!?

Give me Samara, Grunt and Mordin and they can keep the rest Playing EU III with the new Divine Wind expansion. Going for quite a challenge playing the Byzantine Empire, surviving the Ottoman hordes after they invaded Asia Minor and the Balkans.

It's a result of pettiness becoming socially acceptable. A lot of people go 'Baah Baah' like the sheep they are and do it because the neighbors do it. Independent thought has become a rare commodity in today's instant gratification society.

Have you tried the X games? X2 and X3 are quite decent 'Elite' derivatives.

Pulp Fiction. Had forgotten how great a movie it is.

Obviously, if it cost less there would be no coal energy plants and windmills would be everywhere. So how is this exactly news? I assumed the theory behind wind energy was that it fed back into the grid, thus lessening the need for coal fired plants to produce the same amount of energy. Not that it would actually cost more than coal produced electricity. You need to adjust your sarcasm detector to the Finnish frequency band

I don't know if they are right or wrong. I know the weather has changed the last 3-4 decades (heck, I've been there and felt it on my own body). I don't even doubt that humans contribute to it. What I do doubt is that it is all man made and question what part of the change is human contribution and what part a result of naturally occurring cycles. When somebody who is on CSIRO's payroll step up and say 'Oh no, the sky falling', I question the objectivity (because her salary depends on research grants that assume the research is necessary). Likewise, I would laugh my butt off if some Haliburton sponsored scientist stands up and claims 'The sky is firmly in place'. The 'mock translation' thing I posted previously was popular already when I went to the university a couple of decades ago, which was about when I decided that I cared more about finding answers than formalizing and documenting the method that lead to the answer. Too much pompousness and pretentiousness in science back then, doubt it has changed much today, where scientists scramble for research grants offered by institutions and corporations with ulterior (and not always obvious) motives and scientists have to market themselves as if they were some kind of sport stars. I miss the days of idealists who wanted to find answers for the answers sake