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Are you calling on the Northern Hemisphere seasonal exception? That hasn't been invoked since the Seven Years' War!

On the positive side, teams with excellent morale often can look upon outsiders in a hostile way; if you prove yourself worthy of inclusion then they initial hostility may well be metamorphosed into a protective loyalty.

Technically, the Sun does orbit around the Earth: just not to the exclusion of the Earth orbiting around the Sun, which can be clearly demonstrated via extra-terrestrial observations as well as being the simplest explanation for terrestrially-observable phenomena. Also, who would like to see Jupiter's magnetosphere? For context, here are Jupiter's rings and innermost satellites, inside Io:

That depends on the books; I have seen a lot of writing that doesn't deserve to be printed ...

Some of those scenes aren't in the original. (I didn't think this was due out yet.) What's it play like, Bok? Is it the same engine as Legend, or a newer, updated, more demanding one?

* waves magic wand * That's a big pig.

The date is because I can nail down the coordinates in space and time to a new arcade and before I went around the world ... I know I played a game like it, but if it wasn't around perhaps I am confusing it with another.

You'll miss them someday, I know that I have been glad I've kept my hands on things, especially when i need to referance something... The thing with games is, once they've hit budget for a few years you ain't gunna be able to get your hands on it again, unless you're lucky. Unless you plan to keep them for posterity, perhaps to hand onto your descendants or similar, I can't really see the point in keeping games past the point where you are unlikely to play them. I suppose eventually, if kept in good condition, they might fetch a higher price, but then you are still selling them. I'm not really playing a lot of games at the moment, and there aren't any released this time of year, so I have a bunch to play that I am either half-way through or haven't started. I might go up to my box and type them out, but that seems like a lot of effort.

What hellish fansite did you copy that pretentios wank from? I am offended by your suggestion that I would copy my writing from any source. X-com is garbage, so nyah.

Yeah, as Diamond is saying, SSDs have no delay caused by the physical movement of the mechanical head, reaching the desired sector to read/write, as they access all the sectors with the same headroom. It's also worth noting that SSDs don't write data as fast as a harddrive, so you wouldn't typically use them for a swap file. Although most of the SSDs on the market are quite high-end (NASA uses solid state drives) and use a hybrid mix of technologies, for example the HyperDrive4 mentioned above, which uses volatile DRAM with battery back-up to SSD to eliminate this bottleneck.

I'm surprised it's not a Steinlager, considering your geography and the parochial insistence on the quality of local produce, combined with the outright theft of the Heineken brewing process by them ... Just about to go to the gym, so I'm drinking my constitutional mango and passionfruit smoothie doped with a couple of table spoons of crushed hemp seed (50% protein and added Omega 3, 6, 9).

Also, Northern Island (and Ireland in general) has been in "at war", with the British-patronised Protestants and Catholic Separatists at each other's throats, for over 500 years. Once each side has inflicted some sort of "ultimate solution" atrocity on the other, it provides a demonstrable reason to not give up until victory. If not for a sustained effort over many decades, the current (final?) peace settlement there would never have happened, as the Orange and Green divide would never have "healed".

Chicken or the egg? And it's still only the 8th best Bond film. I don't understand your comment. I don't understand how your grading of Casino Royal has anything to do with the observation that the Bond franchise has been influenced by competing, successful films. (I certainly don't understand why it's in eighth place; are you just citing irrelevant gross box-office receipts, or some sort of quality scale?) However much importance you give the Bond franchise for the "espionage action" sub-genre, the fact is that it is no longer the only or the best example in that sub-genre. Even if other influences are not entire films, like Bourne Supremacy, and just moments or scenes from the same genre, like a gritty Jack Ryan from a Tom Clancy novel-to-film conversion or Schwarzenegger's better rendition of Bond than Bond in True Lies, or even from a completely different genre altogether, such as historical fiction, the fact remains that the Bond franchise is continually being influenced by the society and culture around it. And I disagree with your chicken-and-egg analogy, too. The last Bond film before Bourne Identity was utter formulaic drivel (even Robbie Coltrane couldn't rescue The World Is Not Enough). The Bond franchise stood on the precipice there; and (to mix metaphors), was on the verge of disapearing up its own arse. Talk about a two-hour multiple-product-placed advertisement! I can't even call it an infomercial, as some of the placements were completely beyond the realms of normal warranty-voidance.) The Bourne franchise was the best thing that ever happened to the Bond franchise; without it I doubt the Bond franchise would have survived as anything but a kitch specialist market, like a fetishistic rubber-wearing niche in the sex industry, but with less credibility.

Cheating swine! I can see you've a congruent slang hidden up your right sleeve! Sir, I am offended at your insinuation! Boom Vangs are perfectly legal in all forms of competitive yachting.

Indeed, this belongs in Computer & Console, so let's let the housekeeping fairy clean up.

The Bourne franchise certainly had a huge impact on the Bond franchise, as evidenced by the latest Casino Royal.

Wouldn't their websites tell you that?

I just read a review of the new Solid State HD (the other definition using the SSD acronym ); and, while they are still far too expensive for mainstream, they are approaching mass-market appeal. The best value is the 32GB Samsung MCAQE32G5APP-0XA NAND Flash, which costs

Traffic flow varies according to people's weekly timetables, too; people who have a day or more telecommuting from home tend to take their work-from-home day on the days adjacent to the weekend. Hence Friday traffic is typically a lot less than other days.

... Unless you have Asperger's Syndrome, of course. HA!! PROOF THAT THE WORLD IS FLAT!!!11! Perhaps the view from orbit might help you: My day was pretty good; I have finished all the course material for one of my subjects: How the Universe Works (and completed the first draft of the assessment, too: i can't submit it until July, though ... )

^^ That sounds v. familiar.

I think it is analogous to the Christian Catholic-Protestant divide: only as divisive as those with a vested interest make it ...

Ah, well, I must thank you for leaving that opening: Mornington Crescent!

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