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Oh, so this is still an open beta to pre-order customers? I haven't pre-ordered yet.

[quote]The advantage the Sovas have are their missile batteries. These allow them to deploy free units that can help kill disciples.[/quote] I was thinking along the lines of Sova with Embargo. But you certainly have Missile Batteries in your pocket, in case your recon finds out he's spamming Disciples. Just leave the ability point unallocated until it's time to use it. Sucks for him, not knowing what you're going to do. If he chooses to go head-to-head w

It's true that there's no way they bin 860's vs. 920's based on how they clock at testing. The manufacturing process they use is different, as is some of the peripheral design. However, the process they both use is very similar: they're both manufactured on Intel's in-house 45nm process. The cores themselves are virtually indifferentiable: same process, same architecture. It's how you fuse the quad cores together that they differentiate. Now, whe

Can't dual Sova do the same thing, only better?

Why wouldn't 2 Eggs beat it?

It's interesting that they chose a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, but they didn't choose Qualcomm's Brew OS even though that's what it is optimized for. Plus, Qualcomm taped out Snapdragon to fab clear back in 2006, but they didn't even make this year's Christmas rush. This thing's late to the show.

[quote]This is why you don't play hardcore. One network hiccup and weeks of work get flushed.[/quote] Oh, but you have to so you can say that you did!

I forget how I did Duriel as a necro. Necros need dead bodies. Duriel's chamber doesn't have dead bodies. If you're only level 19, though, you're on regular setting, so it's not too bad yet. You may prefer to have help if you go back on Nightmare, though.

Yeah, Duriel is what I was thinking of. On beginner level it wasn't so bad. As a pally or shield barb, it wasn't so bad. But on Hell, as a sorceress or amazon, hardcore setting, it was almost just not fair. You'd be dead before the network even told you that you were in the same room with him, I don't care how much vitality you put in. You needed barb & pally friends to go in with you, and even then you had to time it just right so you weren't first in,

When I read the subject line I thought it meant "Hardest fighting" "game bosses", not "Hardest" "fighting game" "bosses". That guy at the end of Unreal Tournament on hardest setting was pretty tough, too.

[quote]It's not about needing a world-class heatsink/cooler... more about preserving the life expectancy of your CPU. The cooler you keep it the longer it is likely to last... and most stock coolers are largely inadequate, partiularly for overclockers.[/quote] Not exactly. It's also about reliability in the now as well. As it runs hotter, the atoms are randomly bouncing around faster and faster. And when you're at 45nm technology and running at 1.2V (which i

[quote]After the first raid, pirates simply aren't dangerous anymore and bounties are a waste of your money.[/quote] What about using it to take advantage of the Advent bonus? I mean really abuse it: use it to feed your teammates some extra cash. If you know you're about to attack Yellow, stick a 3000 bounty on Yellow. Your teammates attack Yellow and kill stuff, they collect your cash + 25% interest.

[quote] DOMINO'S SUED OVER POORLY SLICED PIZZA July 12 2009 Ann Arbor, MI[/quote] That (and the pizza image) is what I get when I click on it. Evidently some lawyers in Michigan are really hard up for work.

Did you click on the image after you posted it?

The Galciv2 beta had a sucky AI, too. Any schmoe could take on Suicidal AI and win with little more than being spooked at how far ahead in tech the AI got. Don't worry, it got better with the release. And better still with the patches. It never did end up quite up to snuff, but hey--AI is hard to code. People write their PhD dissertations on this stuff.

[quote]Doesn't the needed tech on the planets and upgrades absolutely hammer your income so early in-game if you are building a fleet at the same time? I is a noob myself.[/quote] IMHO, it dings your short-term money, but not absolutely hammers. I found that if you totally out-colonize your opponent(s), short-term you will be at a disadvantage, but who cares--he just spotted you a couple planets. Now he has to go even it up. You just have to make sure you don't blow

Looks like now in Michigan even some lawyers are unemployed and looking for work.

Sins:Diplomacy. Not pinning high hopes on Elemental, but if it turns out it does deliver, that's a bonus. Same with C&C4--RA3 didn't work out, so not relying on C&C4 to shine, either. If it does, great.

OpenOffice , easily. No more plunking down $200 for Microsoft Office. The Java API hooks into it aren't as good as the Visual Basic macros in Excel, but it's all open source and you can plug in stuff to all of the applications--not just the spreadsheet.

I have to go with that Spider queen at the end of Act 2 in Diablo 2. She would charge you right from the start, sometimes for a one-shot kill. And when you were online she would charge you while the level was still loading. You had no chance. If you were playing on Hell in Hardcore, poof! There just went 2 weeks of your life levelling that character. If you were a Paladin or a Barbarian, you could get through it; but if you were a sorceress there was just n

Sins. And I picked up a couple badges on pogo.com. Battle Phlinx, anyone? :D

Agreed. Banning anybody who tries to ban Morpheus for banning Nvidia.

Sins is #1 and Galciv2 is #3? Gee, how did that happen? :) This poll seems a bit um, unscientific. :)

Halcyons carriers actually counter carrier cruisers.

I like Revelation; I just don't like to forgo a different cap ship in favor of it. Being able to cast all the Clairvoyance you need right out of the gate is pretty good. Being able to recon that way is basically an empire-wide bonus, if not team-wide. If I'm up over 500 fleet supply, that's when I start thinking about getting a Rev.