The_Spad_EU

In which case, next time you get the problem, try:
It'll sit there for about 5 minutes not appearing to do anything, but it's just outputting to a text file (C:\pathping.txt) rather than the console so that it doesn't bugger up the formatting

Once it's complete, paste the contents of said text file back here and we can take a look at where along the line you're getting the problem.

Define "find" and "alien life forms"

Discover micro-cellular life somewhere in the universe? Sure. We've already found evidence of such on a number of occasions, though we're still a little lacking on the proof side.

Have lunch with intelligent alien beings? Marginally less likely.

You want to stick with a single class of mez; either Hold, Hold or Sleep, Sleep - mixing them up won't give you any benefit and anything that hits after a Sleep takes effect and does damage (or heals) will wake them from the sleep.

Correct. Since i20, if you have unlocked the incarnate content, then any mob that is Even Level or above your current Combat Level can potentially drop a shard.

What do you mean "until"? "Cloud" providers are being compromised left, right & centre and they're only the ones that actually get a) Discovered and b) Reported. Note that I'm not just talking about hacking here, I'm also talking about unscrupulous companies and/or their employees selling customer data, governments being granted access to data for what usually amounts to a legal fishing expedition and so forth. Only reason that it's all still going is that people are, by and large, morons (or at least lazy and ignorant) when it comes to securing their personal information (see: Every Facebook profile).

If you're storing *anything* in the cloud that contains personal, confidential, sensitive, private or important information then you damn well better be a) Encrypting it and b) Backing it up locally (And no, the cloud is not a backup solution unless you have contractually enforced SLAs - and even then I'd hesitate to rely on it - the cloud is more akin to RAID) or you're just asking for trouble.

It's not the same. It's better, sure, but until you can design a touchscreen interface that allows you to touch-type, it's not replacing the keyboard. Also, how do you position these monitors? As they are now: Gorilla arms, flat on the desk: Neck cramps, somewhere in between: A combination of the two

MMOs *are* "in the cloud" as much as is reasonably possibly, not sure what more you can do unless you want to go all OnLive-y. Anyway, this "cloud" stuff is largely nonsense; you email isn't being stored "in the cloud", it's on a server, just like it was when you had webmail 10 years ago. Your apps are the same, they're either web-based and running off a server or running via a Citrix analog, just like they did 10 years ago.

Sure, tech has advanced in terms of HTML5/JS/Flash (ugh) and connection speeds making richer apps practical, but this idea that the cloud is going to replace everything is as stupid as touchscreens replacing keyboards and mice. Remember when mainframes with dumb terminals meant that desktop PCs as we know them never existed because having everything stored centrally and accessible remotely was so superior? No, neither do I.

One of the best things about CoX is that when it comes to teams, on the whole, your AT simply doesn't matter. That's not to say that ATs are pointless, just that the game allows you to find success with a team of all Tanks, or all Controllers, or a Defender and 7 Blasters etc. as well as more "balanced" teams.

Sure, sometimes you "need" debuffs or buffs or dps or aggro control to make things more manageable, but if you've got good players with half-decent builds you rarely have to worry about things like not having a "healer".

On the Hero side, Origin also affects the first arc of missions that you get when you start a new character.

Rory became human again when they rebooted the universe; they remembered it all because they still existed at the "end" of the old universe, everyone else had ceased to exist at the point.

The Amy bit was a little wishy washy but was related to the cracks in time in her bedroom and the ability to influence things specifically within the context of the reboot of the universe, rather than in general.

The scientists involved in the Manhattan project *were* concerned about the potential of igniting the atmosphere (fusion, not combustion, the outcome is pretty similar in either case here), the scientists involved with the LHC were not concerned about creating a black hole that would swallow the earth because, to paraphrase Morbo, black holes do not work that way.

None of the LHC scientists really thought that - I mean, the strangelet thing was plausible but so improbable as to be almost irrelevant, but the black hole claims made by various doom-sayers were always complete nonsense (not that the LHC couldn't theoretically create a black hole, but that it would pose the slightest risk to anyone on Earth if it did).