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General Discussion / Re: Wanted: Good ("realistic") SciFi novel
« on: May 01, 2011, 09:30:43 am »
Gosh, all these suggestions and none for Footfall?

Maybe not realistic, but the Bolo series has some of the best AI I've seen ever in any medium. It also hits pretty high on the "awesome scale" when you get to the later marks of Bolo, which are quite capable of engaging orbital targets from the ground. Related, Hammers Slammers is also fantastic, just on a smaller scale.

Infinity Beach is a good first contact book, as well as the only one that's actually gotten a physical response out of me (namely fear). Has some neat concepts, like using an FTL ship fitted with massively powerful observation equipment to observe an event from the past.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: April 19, 2011, 09:15:05 am »
Sorry to be offtopic, but I think it needs clarifying on the point that "we" did not dogpile. "We" were at the point of asking in IRC to make sure no one else posted in the thread and/or sent in a report before anyone did anything.

Unless this counts as on-topic for being a sad thing.

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Other Games / Re: Ace of Spades: Like Minecraft, with CTF, physics and set in WW1.
« on: April 17, 2011, 03:18:40 pm »
While back, someone on green was going "IM A DORF DIGGY DIGGY HOLE HOLE" or something. I was on blue. I found where he was digging out our mountain.

The first time, I kamikaze'd him with a grenade. The second time I pulled out my pick and helped :D We had most of a large mountain dug out when the server crashed.

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Life Advice / Re: Need advice on computer parts
« on: April 06, 2011, 04:06:38 pm »
For 1500, there's zero reason to get anything less than a Core i7 for the processor, and 6 gigs of RAM. As for specifics, I dunno, you can probably get the entry level i7, a good aftermarket cooler, good case, good PSU, top end graphics card, etc. Don't get anything past the entry level i7 - paying for a higher clock is pointless when they're so easy to OC. Try looking at prebuilt computers from botiques like ibuypower and cyberpowerpc, and see how well they match up with the actual price of the parts used. They can put everything together for you, including installing water cooling and other such things.

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Life Advice / Re: Pre-built computers - Installing a graphics card.
« on: March 28, 2011, 06:15:31 pm »
No clue why the red area is hot. Could be a dead zone of some kind- heat from the hard-drive, no airflow. Really though, with a 460, you need airflow. A couple of fans would probably help a lot.

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Life Advice / Re: Pre-built computers - Installing a graphics card.
« on: March 28, 2011, 05:17:28 pm »
Technically, an overly open case is not very well cooled. You need airflow, not dissipation. Depending on how many fans you have, and their position, it might be a good idea to block off useless vent holes. Nevermind, saw the picture. You don't have a lot of airflow on that at all, from what I can see. AFAIK, a card will generally run as fast as it can if you don't have something limiting it. There's software out there to stresstest a card, and look at temperatures. IIRC, rivatuner does it for Nvidia. It may have a temp monitor built into the nvidia software: ATI's CCC has overclocking, temperature, fan control.

If you add any fans, make sure they point the right way. try and keep them relatively balanced between intake and exhaust. In the worst case, if you're willing to put up with cleaning more, a tablefan can keep it cool if you open the side, until you get a new case or different fans.

fakedit: He has a top mounted PSU, which won't interfere with card. Having one with a moderate headroom over intended output will make it cooler as it doesn't have to run close to its peak. You might want to list off where the fans are on it, as there's only one picture there.

realedit: oooh nice, you got one with an i3 instead of the Athlon II.

As an example of airflow, I'm using a Coolermaster Centurion 590, which has a 120mm fan on the front, two on the side over the card and processor, 1 on the top back, and 2 on the top, with the PSU on the bottom and isolated. The air is drawn in from the side and front, passed over the hot crap, and ejected out the top and rear. Hot air rises, so generally top-mounted fans are damn nice for exhaust.

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Life Advice / Re: Pre-built computers - Installing a graphics card.
« on: March 27, 2011, 08:45:56 pm »
Have to get the good compressed air, or at least one with a nice narrow straw-thing. It takes a LOT of pressure to get dust off sometimes. They also make little mini-vacuums for this that I've had suggested to me. Careful with any sort of filter- CPU fans have low pressure in general, so a filter can heavily impact their airflow (same as dust!). A soft brush does wonders for cleaning things. In the case of my computer, it has many large, slow fans, so cleaning is more of just cleaning, than of airflow/temperature or lifespan.

Also, have you felt the fan in operation? I would have thought that a design like that would push rather than draw.

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Life Advice / Re: Pre-built computers - Installing a graphics card.
« on: March 27, 2011, 05:17:25 pm »
See the part where I said, "Someone has checked your parts" :P If you know everything is compatible, actually putting it together is child's play. The hardest part is either physically getting everything into place (can be a pain to get heatsinks to clip in, sometimes tight spaces, sometimes heatsinks have sharp edges, etc), or hooking up the front headers for the first time.

As for the PSU, looks okay. Three rails on 600w is a bit of an alarm, but otherwise looks okay. Seems to be handling similar systems just fine, though if you have a bottom mounted PSU, apparently the main is a bit short. As for the card, if you meant Palit, it looks okay. I'm not a fan of exhausting waste heat into the case though.

That reminds me, how's the airflow in your case? Important, given that you'll have hot air being manufactured in there :)

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Life Advice / Re: Pre-built computers - Installing a graphics card.
« on: March 27, 2011, 12:13:16 pm »
Be careful on the PSU. Link it in here so we can look at it, and see if it's good or needs to be returned.
 There's shit standardization in PSU's, so it may or may not have enough oomph on the 12v rails. As for the computer you picked, it's good that it has 6GB of RAM, because I've run out with 4 before while playing X3:TC.
fakeedit: Oh piss, just realized you already got it. Welp, the following is still useful, I guess.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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General Discussion / Re: Holy shit Japan....
« on: March 12, 2011, 11:04:10 pm »
Because the model is bullshit. It was stated earlier that these things can't blow up in any meaningfully dangerous way. I'm not sure on the mechanics of fallout, but nuclear blasts of much, much more powerful proportions aren't going to kill half the world.

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General Discussion / Re: Holy shit Japan....
« on: March 12, 2011, 10:27:25 pm »
Ahem, Pushover. Also, IIRC, one of those demon lords bleeds demons with Wish as an at-will ability, or something equally god-like.

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General Discussion / Re: Holy shit Japan....
« on: March 12, 2011, 10:23:26 pm »
Still a pushover compared to an epic level wizard.

Go browse wizards CO boards o.o

As for what someone was taught, you're misremembering. You were taught that energy cannot be created or destroyed, which is technically true, as long as you consider matter and antimatter to be energy.

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General Discussion / Re: Holy shit Japan....
« on: March 12, 2011, 08:50:25 pm »
You have to create equal amounts of matter and antimatter, though. Law of Baryon Conservation.

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General Discussion / Re: Holy shit Japan....
« on: March 12, 2011, 08:39:56 pm »
Quote from: Armok on March 12, 2011, 07:32:10 pm
The worst case is exactly half the proton in all of earth decaying simultaneously converting the entire thing into pure energy and roasting half the galaxy.
First of all, what? No, seriously, What? Jeeze...

Second, converting 100% of the earth's mass to energy will 'only' kill everything from here to Alpha Centauri. (We got bored in IRC once) That is, the blast wave has an energy of about 6kg of tnt per square meter of surface area by the time it reaches AC.

The More You Know -----------★

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General Discussion / Re: Holy shit Japan....
« on: March 11, 2011, 06:16:04 pm »
Quote from: alway on March 11, 2011, 05:19:01 pm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42025882/ns/world_news-asiapacific/
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Radiation reached around 1,000 times the normal level Saturday in the control room of the No. 1 reactor of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said.
The discovery suggests radioactive steam could spread around the facility operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co., Kyodo news agency reported.
Hrm... Well that isn't good.
1,000 times normal operational level is still probably within safe exposure limit with no side effects. The legal limits are way, way below what a person can absorb safely, actually.

Atomic Rockets on radiation.

edit: I meant also that they'll operate under the limit, which is fairly well below the actual safe limit.

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