JediMaster

Exactly. A lot of what came before didn't do so because of some "higher plan", it was just convenient, or limited by budget or technology, or because some actor didn't want to come back, etc.

So as long as the core of who the characters are, what the Federation is, what the Enterprise is and represents, and who their adversaries are remains intact (no one will go for Klingons in the Federation versus evil Vulcans for example), I think everything else is fair game.

Except I like the Enterprise from the first 6 films better.

Well, we're in the home stretch now. The BSG webisodes that were promised will start coming out in 2 weeks or so, with the show returning a month or so later. Then comes our final half-season of eps where we'll find out what the deal is with Earth and who the final Cylon is and hopefully some other things will be answered as well!

I'm eagerly awaiting its return, and season 4.0 comes out on DVD 1/9/09.

It depends on how much you want to "future proof" your system. A 512MB 4850 is plenty sufficient for today, although a 4870 is of course faster. The full 1GB of RAM has been shown to improve the 4870's performance in several games, however, I don't know what you will use it for other than flight sims where I'm certain it will have little bearing (at least the ones out today, SoW:BoB is an unknown). I believe in Far Cry 2 it was shown to be noticeably faster (ie not just in a benchmark).

Yes, F4:AF has graphics little altered from the original 1998 F4 release. OF/RV/FF have had their graphics updated quite a bit more.

"The Thai gov't said, 'We don't care, we want our money!!!' while holding a Glock sideways at India."

It's always good to buy low.

I was at a talk given by ancient astronomer Bart Bok,

So, just how old is he?

Others include Ventrilo and Xfire, plus many games have such ability built into them. I think Il-2 is the only flight sim to have it.

Yes, thank you TK for allowing me to blow up things the way that I've always wanted to... with a fighter jet.

 

TK for prez 2012

Are you insane? If that happens, no more sims from him!!!!!! NOOOO!!!!!!!

Space doesn't really cost that much if you have the will to spend it there.

For all the bellyaching about how much the US space program costs, we spend more on "continuing operations" in Iraq in one year than a decade of NASA budgets.

Investing in space makes a lot more sense than investing in a political process that's always one coup away from total reversal.

I think the Babylon 5 finale was the best ever.

SP1? XP SP1 is almost a totally different OS under the hood than XP SP2. The SP3 differences by comparison are minor.

With modern games it's sometimes hard to tell if the problem with "black" polygons is textures, shaders, or both.

There were some ATI AGP 3xxx series cards made, but nvidia stopped at the 7xxx series AFAIK.

When you go to nvidia's site, it will ask you what card, OS, etc you have. It will give you the latest WHQL driver for that card.

I'm surprised, though. I thought Rosie O'Donnell was alive and well and getting ready for her variety show tonight??

nvidia hasn't updated drivers for the 7x00 cards in awhile now. Make sure you're not using any designed for the 8xxx or later.

A rotten tangerine is soft on the outside, but hard on the inside.

It also smells a lot like an armadillo.

"Hi, I'm a Mac."

"And I'm a personal supercomputer. I've already done more work since this commercial started than you can do in a year, so shut up and go away."

We need someone to make a Stephen Colbert pilot to help shoot down these godless terrors.

So you go out and you slaughter innocent creatures for fun? What kind of a sick, twisted kid are you??

It's a desert planet and there are no women, what are we SUPPOSED to do?!?!?

Are there Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr pilots included?

There's always a fine line between not being heavy-handed and allowing chaos, one spills over to the other so easily...

But hey, you can't please all of the people all of the time anyway, so you do what you can.

Yes, the new Intel CPUs are DDR3-only and a new socket at a minimum, so that means new mobo and RAM when you upgrade it again.

I've also heard that flat is the best way as far as cooling. You have some limited space there, unfortunately. I have mine flat next to the 5.1 system and the wife's Wii on top of my old-style 65" CRT projector set, that has plenty of real estate up there.

Never had Pandora, but I had the other 3 (original, CT, DA). CT always worked great, although it had several patches which added things like shader 2 support.

Double Agent was a rush job, very buggy, patches barely helped. It's also not as good a game. Make sure you have any and all available patches for them installed.

True, any dual-slot video card will run cooler and keep your PC cooler as they exhaust their heat outside the case instead of inside.