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Using that logic they should prevent evil using the demonstrably overwelmingly predictive trait of all hardenened criminals (i.e. above 98%): masculinity. Just throw every man in jail: no more serious crime. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Within reason, meta. That's not a logical comparison. What you're saying for one thing is discrimination based on sex and one's biological traits, not on someone's choice of lifestyle, and it's something that's on a ridiculously large scale to boot. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Supposition. See my point you quoted above [<{POST_SNAPBACK}>]: homosexuality ≠ pederasty. No matter how many times you try to associate the two. So if a local scout group (i.e. the families of the boys) decided that they were tolerant of homosexuality, then you would have no issue with members of all genders joining? I see, so regardless of the logic and reasoning you are adhering to your fundamental view? And this seems perfectly reasonable to you? (As a Christian?) By the way, the implicit point your points make is that homosexuality is a choice, and it is contagious. That is bigotry.

We could send a ship in a few years and still get there in time, given the five billion year time-limit. "

Going to bed with a streaming nose.

You might like The Witcher (due Q1 2007, co-published by Atari): They can't: DX10 is a complete re-write of the whole graphics API, I don't think it would even be possible to patch XP with DX10. Hellgate London is a DX10 RPG post-apoc Templars versus zombie shooter. :D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> that means vista only right? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It'll be waiting for you when you eventually get Vista.

Hellgate London is a DX10 RPG post-apoc Templars versus zombie shooter. :D

Yep: Publisher and Developer = Telltale. It got a 73% from PCF "Ineviably anticlimactic. But there are a few smiles within".

only 430 lightyears away

That was the ducks' nuts when it came out: required a telephone-box-sized amount of equipment to run. :D

Watching Battlestar Galactica Season Two, disc 2. :D

Why is that a nightmare? Jack Straw's (much misquoted) comments were that, if a Muslim woman felt comfortable, it would be better if she didn't wear her veil in a meeting, as it makes communication easier.

Actually, Magical Volo is correct: just about any other mass-effect spell has a better damage roll (e.g. lightningbolt; okay, it's fourth level, but for a high level mage choosing between the two) ... what the smart mages are using this season (same as last season, too) is the spells that don't have a saving throw for half-damage, like meteor shower or ice storm. But still, fireballs are somehow just more fun to use.

AFAIK (which isn't much), the cahce will just store what it needs as part of the standard hibernate process (for example), so I expect that this process is fairly mature (i.e. they probably store more than absolutely necessary to avoid mis-cacheing). As for normal activity, it will probably work in conjunction with the SATA-2 interface (multiple writes queuing for a batch).

I succeeded in that in high school. I got my computer rights removed and they changed all the computers so you couldn

It's bound for failure, if it has to be an exhaustive list; just think about the albums for the fortieth-plus states ... "

Curse you all, you damn geeks! Now I've gone and bought season 2 and I'm going to watch it all non-stop, I can tell ...

Bellet dancers have very good muscle tone and are strong, too. "

Thanks! <bookmarked< The one at Planet Deus Ex is corrupted and partially over-written with links to the walk-through of the sequel. I actually might read the walk-through soon, too ... :D

Yep, none of that silly running about spell-memorization stuff.

That sounds like a winner.

Just reading the current PC Format (December) and it seems the Windows Vista technologies (Windows ReadyDrive: hard disks boot up faster, resume from hibernate in less time, preserve battery power, and improve hard disk reliability) will be a feature of new motherboards ... so not an external (Universal Serial) Bus device. This, plus the missing supporting features for Core 2 Duo, and the imminent arrival of DX10 make me think that I shall wait for a bit before making my new PC. There is a great article on the new technology in DirectX 10, too: unified shader architecture: vertex (integer) shaders get overworked outside doing trees and distances, pixel (floating point) shaders get overworked inside, doing oily / transparent surfaces, and the other types of shaders are idle; plus SM3 (floating point) fog effects. Added to this is (geometric) SM4 (little triangles, rather than just the intersection of two lines, like vertex shading). DirectX9.L will allow DirectX10 cards to run previous DirectX9 effects (and not vice versa), because DirectX10 is a complete re-write of the specification (not done since the invention of DirectX back in Windows95). Though the next DirectX cards (due out early next year) will be long superceded before DirectX10 games become common, ATi's R600 looks to be a much better interpretation of the standard than nVidia's ... so I might just see what I can build for

Well, then, you should buy a new motherboard.

I got past that fairly quickly, tbh. "

Arrrggghh! Too many spoilers for me to edit!