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Maybe Fionavar should set up a little e-shop... custom titles for sale... I think I should sell that idea

A question for you GD (and taks too for that matter, you guys being the "arch-capitalists), whats your view on the current goverment takeover of the large financial institutions? Shouldn't they have been left in peace, to crash and burn as would have been naturally, perhaps paving the road for new and upstart banks, insurers what have you? If say some South American government had "nationalised" companies in that way, there would have been no end to the outrage.

Hey, it's hard to forget such a dedicated Bruce Lee fan

The original fallout between HA and Bandidos was about market shares of the drug market. What started with a few killings eventually escalated, using heavy military equipment (hand grenades, car bombs, rocket launchers, assault weapons etc.) and they started dying faster than they could recruit new members. Never had it been that easy to join a "biker gang" The problem was solved then by the police and politicians in cooperation, simply cracking down hard on them, especially where it really hurt, on their wallets. No ridiculous excuse was spared to impound assets, condiscate money, putting them behind bars for having a malfunctioning stop light on a bike etc. Eventually they got tired of the police and took it to Sweden, causing a diplomatic incident between Denmark and Sweden (Sweden accused Denmark of just exporting their problems ) The new conflict is a similar one, except it's between an "ethnic" gang and the old biker gangers fighting over the drug market and organised crime again. I wouldn't be surprised if the same solution would work again, once the politicians finally get their act together.

Hey, Finger of Death is back. Long time no see What a disaster for so many people. Even if many of them survive, they may suffer consequences from it. I hope they catch those who sought to profit from it and gives them the maximum punishment according to the law. I am old enough to remember some slightly related incidents in Europe in the 1980'es when Austrian wine makers added diethylene glycol to wine in order to "sweeten it". 23 people died in Italy because "clever" people added methanol to the wine Edit: I am not sure, but I think there was also something once about Spanish olive oil?

I'm curious. Since disk 3 and 4 are being used as a backup, would it be possible to have the +1 portion covered by a single drive of equivalent capacity to disk 1 + disk 2? Say you have two 320GB drives in RAID 0, could you use a single 640GB drive to bring that to RAID 0+1? Not really In a RAID 1+0, you create the stripes between the mirrors Mirror1 -Stripe- Mirror2 ... etc. In a RAID 0+1, you mirror the stripes Stripe1 | mirror | Stripe2 You end up needing an even number of disks when mirroring. There are some non-standard RAID setups that deviates from that though, like the Linux MD RAID10 which can do what you suggest. It is just not commonly available.

Yes, very selfish of you Just playing through Kotor2 again... daydreaming about a certain mod a bit

Ah, I thought he was talking about "survival" in general, since he referred to the need of having 2 jobs

omg :angry cat: If only I had a table saw. Then my life would be complete. Well of course I'd need a lathe and a router and a miter saw and a band saw and a couple of sanders and a large enough space to put them in as well. Then life would be good. All the giant wooden lawn cats a man could ever dream of. *sigh* Today I started answering phones for work. It was scary and I ignored the first call on purpose so I didn't have to do it but then two calls came soon after and things went alright. Luckily I don't have to call anyone unless I'm transferring someone but it's fast enough to where I don't have the time to have a mini anxiety attack like I normally do when I need to call someone important. So far work is actually going quite well. I mean I would still rather be at home playing video games and watching an assortment of entertainment on my computer but I do get to do monotonous work that lets you turn your brain off, most of the while listening to old Lovelines and for the most part being left alone. Sadly though it's brought up something that I don't want to think about and that is money. Luckily I am able to live at home with 0 expenses so the 9 dollars an hour I make basically goes to the bank but now that I calculate my weekly and monthly earnings I don't quite understand how the hell people can even begin to survive without working at the very least 2 jobs, even if your making $15+. There must be something I'm missing. It should be possible to survive though. Lets say you work 10 hours a day, 25 days a month, thats 3750$ What are living costs and taxes where you live? What is the McDonald index (personally, I prefer the beer index, but nevermind that)?

It depends on what your RAID controller supports. I think for most home desktops, they would need to be all SATA drives (all IDE on older motherboards). Having similar disks also prevents you from wasting the better drive, as you get the "lowest common denominator" regarding size and speed.

I think Tigranes spotted that one before you for once Good finds both of them though. Sometimes I think you must be a web crawler or internet bot

Maybe it is time for me to visit the local game pusher (EB Games) again and see if it is on the shelf. I need my gamma fix

Slight change of plan, as that particular model HDD was/is out of stock. Decided to go for two 640Gb disks instead. Decided to bite the bullet and ordered a Sapphire ATI Radeon 4780X2 with 2Gb Ram. I've seen water cooling blocks that are ready for them, so I'll look around a bit and see if I can find an Australian reseller. Now I just need to find a suitable monitor, then I am more or less done for now.

It is very hard not to have seen James Hong on screen at some point in time... David Lo Pan is one of my favourite movie villains in "Big Trouble in Little China"

Sounds like somebody needs to clear out his browser/java cache... picked up any interesting trojans recently? >_ I just get the forum page too.

Didn't we have a "best ending" thread once upon a time? Because I like the sound of my own voice:

I could have sworn that the intro wasn't that long on the Amiga version. Too long since I played that one Great game though. I would love to see a version that runs on a modern computer (without emulator).

Excellent intro I probably enjoyed it more the second and subsequent playthroughs though, since I sort of had an inkling of what was happening in it.

Hug a developer!

Hoth from the movies. Some of the coolest (pun unintended) SW action too place on and around it. Nar Shaddaa/Dxun if only chosing from the games (I can't make my mind up). No idea about books etc. they never could keep me awake (the few I tried).

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Start of old thread End of old thread Nothing much. A bit of work, a bit of house cleaning, a bit of gaming and then ended the day with making myself comfortable on the couch with a glass of old Cognac and the remote(s) for a couple of hours (watching Silent Hill on DVD)

I don't know about this, man. While action-driven games may not be your cup of tea, there isn't necessarily a stupid design decision behind them. I mean, I love story-driven games as much as anyone else, but sometimes I'm in the mood for just some good ol' hack & slash. Of course, if the game is marketed as something else... I suppose it makes sense in a game like, say Painkiller? Since that is in many way an extension of ye olde arcade machines. Progress through level, shoot anything that moves. Kill Alien Mothership/Other Baddie at end. Level completed. It is however (IMHO) a mechanism that screams "Please Insert Coin and Select Number of players"

A few. Most them have already been mentioned. Level scaling: Way to go in the way of making you feel like you accomplish absolutely nothing in the game. Grind, grind, grind, Boss Fight. Grind, grind, grind, Boss Fight. Grind, grind, grind, Boss Fight...: Yes, that was very funny in Invaders and Galaxians. Not in the 21st century. Mini Games: If developers feel they need to waste resources on these, please at least make them optional and inconsequential. Breaking your own rules: This goes for enemies and the tricks they pull on you. Breaking your own rules II: Constantly respawning enemies (includes enemies that spawns in physically impossible locations, because you already killed them all). It smells of lack of imagination and ruins suspension of disbelief just as much as all of the above. Romances: Arghhh!... I think that belongs under "minigames" One foot tall rocks that are impossible to climb over: See "suspension of disbelief" Just a few of my favourite pet peeves

I am trying very hard to imagine you with an Edwardian Pipe and a Monocle at the same time. Kind of a scary image actually