Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

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ORIGINAL: Mynok


My dad is a math professor. I understand the concept of logarithmic. 10 times is exactly right. Sheeeeeeesh!!!

Those poor people. That is devastating. That's twice as powerful as the Indonesian quakes from a few years ago.

If you're talking about the one that erupted in the Indian Ocean and killed 200,000 people a few years back, that was a 9.1.

Either way, bedtime... Laundry day tomorrow. Woo. Hoo.

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ORIGINAL: Grollub

I'm sorry, but my wakizashi is in the dishwasher.

Edited. Language center malfunction.

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ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

Started Dragon Age II. It's early days yet, but the story seems very complicated.

Bought it yesterday, started it up... BUT, I need a new system. Without a dual core CPU whenever you reach an autosave point the game goes into a continuous loop trying to save. I guess sometimes in the next few weeks I'll have to put together a new machine...

Well, that's why I have an i7.

Does DA2 really need that much more processing power than the original? The original DA ran fine on my ****e machine.

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ORIGINAL: Grollub

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

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ORIGINAL: Grollub

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ORIGINAL: Mynok


Man, prayers for the pacific.....that's a MASSIVE quake. Doesn't Richter only go to 9?

Agreed. And no, the Richter scale is a normal logaritmic scale so could (theoretically) go even higher. Highest magnitude earthquake that they've measured was a 9.5 in Chile 1960.

Translated into non-geek: it's an open-ended scale.

Right. And for every 1.0 the magnitude goes up, the shaking amplitude doubles.

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

" Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. " President Muffley

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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

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ORIGINAL: Grollub
Sorry if I hurt you Nik. It might have been a little insensitive of me to start talking about that given that I know of your current situation. My bad.

Your old rig sounds like mine. It's a Intel Quad 6850 Extreme running at 3.66 GHz. GTS 8800 Gfx card. Only went for 4GB RAM as I run 32 bits XP.

Hope that things will work out for you so you can build that new rig. In the meantime, however, a 17" MacBook is not a too shabby substitute in by books at least

Not at all. I've accepted the situation and am trying to look forward to better things at this point, as well as keeping busy......for example, i've completed a Grand campaign scenario for may 1942 AE and i may even have a couple interviews lining up if things go well. (still waiting to see)

Yes....my system is almost exactly that only i went with a mid-line Core2 Quad (IIRC....a 3860 or something similar) vs. the extreme. Intel almost snared me into paying $700 more for it but after looking at the benchmarks at Tom's Hardware i figured i'd never notice the slight performance increase....certainly not enough to justify 1100$ vs. 400$ for the CPU!!!! (Intel is doing the same with the i7....their 'extreme' version is 1100.00 while a good midline i7 is only 300-400$) Originally it was 4GB running 32bit Vista but after upgrading to Win7 64 i added 4 more Gigs. She was a sweet rig......till the ASUS "CPU INIT" bug hit, leaving me with nothing but spare parts.

I'll never buy ASUS again. MSI from here on out.

Prior Preparation & Planning Prevents Pathetically Poor Performance!

A & B: WitW, WitE, WbtS, GGWaW, GGWaW2-AWD, HttR, CotA, BftB, CF
P: UV, WitP, WitP-AE

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

Speaking of toys, I got a PS3 today. I think I'm getting a little overexcited with the money...

If I were you, I'd be more worried about getting overly excited about scantily clad video game witches.

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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

Well... I learned what the problem with DA2 is. The game was designed to run on one of your CPU cores while any save was handled by the other core (if I am using the terminology correctly). Now the specs listed for the game on the retail box clearly stated that the minimum required system is a dual core 1.8 Ghz. Since my system is an older Athlon single core 3.8 Ghz system I thought that I would attempt it. However, it was unable to save.

Fortunately for me, many systems that use multicore CPUs are apparently setup in BIOS to run as a single core (I'm not positive about this, but I heard somewhere that XP cannot take advantage of dual core systems so it works this way), so a lot of people were experiencing the same problem that I am. So Bioware just released a patch to allow single core users (and those whose multicore systems work in single core mode) to save the game. I just finished patching the game but haven't started it up to see if it works. Crossing my fingers...

Prior Preparation & Planning Prevents Pathetically Poor Performance!

A & B: WitW, WitE, WbtS, GGWaW, GGWaW2-AWD, HttR, CotA, BftB, CF
P: UV, WitP, WitP-AE

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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

Well... I learned what the problem with DA2 is. The game was designed to run on one of your CPU cores while any save was handled by the other core (if I am using the terminology correctly). Now the specs listed for the game on the retail box clearly stated that the minimum required system is a dual core 1.8 Ghz. Since my system is an older Athlon single core 3.8 Ghz system I thought that I would attempt it. However, it was unable to save.

Fortunately for me, many systems that use multicore CPUs are apparently setup in BIOS to run as a single core (I'm not positive about this, but I heard somewhere that XP cannot take advantage of dual core systems so it works this way), so a lot of people were experiencing the same problem that I am. So Bioware just released a patch to allow single core users (and those whose multicore systems work in single core mode) to save the game. I just finished patching the game but haven't started it up to see if it works. Crossing my fingers...