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Quote:There's insufficient fuel available for combustion and insufficient pressure to sustain a fusion chain reaction beyond the immediate blast area.Originally Posted by Schismatrix
Um, no. If we haven't ignited the atmosphere with the fusion bomb tests then we won't be able to do it with an antimatter bomb. What, exactly, do you think is different about an antimatter explosion that it could ignite the atmosphere when various thermonuclear and fusion devices couldn't?
In essence, if you were somehow able to release enough energy through your explosion to start and maintain a fusion chain reaction in the atmosphere, everything would already have been killed by the heat of the blast anyway and you'd probably have liquefied the Earth's surface.
What's much more interesting is whether or not we can get any closer to figuring out why our universe is pretty much entirely matter, rather than anti-matter. -
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Quote:Not really, that'd be an Update Rollup, Service Packs *do* include additional features or functionality, although in the case of Windows 7/Server 2008 R2, those are mostly on the server side (Such as RemoteFX).Originally Posted by TargetOne
Yes, it does. It works just fine.
Windows' Service Packs just roll together all of the bug-fixes that were pushed out since the initial OS release. These updates are critical for security and stability reasons. While it may be true that certain updates (mostly in the days of Windows XP) have, in the past, caused certain third-party programs to break, by and large most people never notice any real change in the way their systems run.
Skipping a Service Pack in this day and age is not a good thing.
That said, the sentiment holds true and you should, as a rule, install service packs promptly following their release onto Microsoft Update, though if you're the conservative type then give it a couple of weeks longer just to make sure there aren't any major cockups in play (though to be fair, the last time Microsoft had to re-issue a service pack was NT4 SP6/6a, so it's been a while - and no, XP SP1a doesn't count). -
Quote:The others were all wearing masks.Originally Posted by Rodoan
The lethal lizard lady was cool too, though I don't get why her appearance is so radically different than the others of her kind.
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Kind of limiting, don't you think, given the number of missions in which enemies are anywhere other than standing on the ground during the day?
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Need to know a little more information here; what OS are you running? 32 or 64-bit? If it's 7 or Vista do you have UAC enabled? Did you use the most recent version of the Launcher installer from ftp://ftp.ncsoft.com/Launcher/NCsoftLauncherSetup.exe ?
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Quote:You see, that T-Shirt has always really annoyed me, because to any true Geek that's 15 degrees Kelvin...but I guess that's the problem with SI units that use the same letters for different thingsOriginally Posted by Ironik
Things that are funny & geeky. Maybe even nerdy.
Recently we've had the VW commercial with Marvel's Thor spoof on it.
Here's a t-shirt I found somewhere that I found L-out-L hilarious:
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Quote:Yes, that makes perfect sense and explains why he was so excited about the prospect of further romance *with his own mother*...Originally Posted by XelosTi
My guess is, that River ends up being the Doctors mother, since doctor figured out who she is after she pointed him to the the galifrean writing on his own crib...
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Quote:Really? Because it was out by 20:00 BST (though re-released around midnight due to audio sync issues) and that's assuming you couldn't get it via iPlayer...Originally Posted by Tenzhi
Internet release is mysteriously late. I blame ewe.
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I always took that to mean that when the Doctor meets River for the first time, it will be the last time that River sees the Doctor, not because she's going to die but simply because that's how her timeline works out.
That said, her claim that she's always traveling backwards relative to the Doctor doesn't ring true because if it were correct then she would never had seen what is clearly a future Doctor just before she went off to the library. -
Well we've got, what 7 or 8 years between "now" and the time that baby River ends up in the 60s (or at least, meets up with the Doctor), so plenty can happen in the meantime.
One would assume that the Doctor rescues her after the events in the 60s, but that means that she's gone an awfully long time before he manages to find her (from Amy's perspective anyway).
On the subject of the Silence; the Doctor said that Amy had been taken *before* America, so why would the Silence kidnap Flesh-Amy and "do stuff to her" if they knew that she wasn't the real Amy? It suggests that maybe they weren't in on it. -
Quote:No. The doctor who gave her his sonic screwdriver before she went to the library obviously knew she was actually going to die and not regenerate, otherwise why provide the means to keep her "alive" after she died?Originally Posted by Tired Angel
And does it mean that River may have regenerated after the Library episode way back when??
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Quote:2011-07-08Originally Posted by cactusbrawler
torch wood season four soon isn't it?
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Quote:And the next Doctor Who spin-off is...Originally Posted by Zortel
I know I certainly do!
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Spoilers about "A Good Man Goes to War", obviously...
The what now? I'll admit it, I'm lost; I'll probably be OK once I've rewatched all the episodes in this series so far but right now?
So River is Amy's daughter (duh) and so was the girl in the spacesuit (apparently) who regenerated in a back alley at some point in the 60s and, presumably, is the one who killed the doctor? I would be in line with River's previous claim to have killed "The greatest man I ever knew", but then why had the clerics locked her up for it if they were the ones who wanted him dead and it's all so very confusing...
And what's up with the monks, what did the doctor do to piss them off so much? It also seems rather poor logic to "grow" a timelord to kill a timelord; I mean, there must have been really crappy timelords as well as the good ones, there's nothing particularly special about them that makes them so "dangerous".
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It's pretty much the nature of the beast; so much of the WS awesomeness requires you to be right in the middle of all the mobs, that really your only two choices are "kick ***" or "die".
To be fair, there is a 3rd option of "kick ***, die, stygian return, kick *** again", but not everyone goes for it. -
But no, you can't break down crafted incarnate abilities during a respec.
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I'd always take the reference drivers from ATI or nVidia over the ones supplied laptop manufacturers, not least because after ~6 months of the laptop being out (If you're really lucky) they'll never update the drivers ever again.
I'm assuming the reference drivers you downloaded were these: http://www2.ati.com/drivers/mobile/1..._32-64_ccc.exe ? (Or a slightly older version).
What issues were you getting the with reference drivers that made you go back to the ASUS ones? As you may note, the ASUS drivers are circa 2009 and the error you're getting implies an issue with the OpenGL component of said drivers. -
The only good thing about Mole Machines is positioning yourself so that when they're destroyed the resulting explosion sends your whole team clear across the map in various directions.
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You need 10 alignment missions plus 1 morality mission to change alignment.
Red to Blue all the way needs 2 alignment changes.
You can do 5 alignment missions per 24 hours (Might be 20 hours, actually).
So, assuming you max it out, 4 days from Red to Blue, 2 if you just want to go Rogue. -
Quote:The Desk of Doom was an (arguably bugged) destructible mission objective with huge resistances, massive hitpoints and a team-wiping explosion when it was destroyed, which appeared (IIRC) in one of the early Villain arcs. It was like the demonic spawn of a Mole Machine and a Shadow Cyst Crystal, produced by Ikea.Originally Posted by Rowdy
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You should just be glad they nerfed the Desk of Doom.
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On a scrapper, not really, but then it's not a damage power and you shouldn't be slotting it as such, it's an End Recovery power that happens to do damage in the same way that Soul Drain is a Dmg/ToHit buff power that happens to do damage.
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In fact, with Lv50 IOs you start getting to the point where even the 3rd enhancement is of debatable value.
In the case of a power slotted with Lv50 damage SOs, 2 enhancements give a 66% bonus, whilst 3 give you a 94.93%. i.e That 3rd SO is giving you a 28.93% bonus instead of 33% (88% effective).
With Lv50 IOs, 2 enhancements give a 83.32% bonus, whilst 3 give 99.08%. i.e That 3rd IO is only giving you a 15.76% bonus instead of 42.4% (Only 37% effective).
