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They've been printing Moorcock omnibus volumes of late. SA's recommendations are solid. I also liked "The War Hound and the World's Pain". "A Nomad of the Time Streams" series was interesting. Not kind to a lot of sacred cows though. * The Warlord of the Air * The Land Leviathan *...

Security that annoys you to the point where you simply turn it off does not do any good and that's what UAC did to a lot of people. It asks you if you want to be doing "this" far, far too often. Getting software to be usable/installable as a non-admin does not require that kind of or level of...

Considering that you can get a video card for <$50 that will do the 1080p playback, the processor as I said is not worth worrying about. A 30" monitor at typical prices is around $1,200. That's probably about twice as much as the OP is looking to spend on the computer and monitor. It's more...

The User Account Control. Explain to me how something that nags you to death for absolutely anything you want to do or change on the machine is not pure suck? Our vista machine at work has to be rebooted every couple of days unlike any of our XP/2000 machines. And it's suckyness is pretty much...

For a computer monitor, the resolution is not so important in terms of "picture quality". A "HD" monitor that is small tends to be self defeating because it makes things so small. A smaller screen with more pixels means each pixel is smaller and since objects tend to be a set number of pixels a...

For surfing the net and watching movies, essentially anything will do. CPUs long ago surpassed what you needed for anything like that. Just get at least 2 gb ram (4 gb preferable - should be dirt cheap). Gigabit ethernet is preferable, 100 mb Ethernet will do. You should try to avoid...

Well you can find it in comets. In fact there are theories that this is where we got some portion or even all of the water we have on earth. Plus, if you can manage interstellar travel + anti-grav, then power is not really going to be an issue. The power requirements for moving object that...

As far as the water goes, I think that's simply a hold over from the original series. Don't forget that comets can be mostly water and you don't have to go into a gravity well to get it. So asking for water makes absolutely no sense for someone with their level of technology. I'm waiting to see...

Buzzing sounds are typically some sort of a ground fault. Try disconnecting stuff one at a time until you can get the problem to go away. Also try plugging stuff into a different circuit and wall socket. Let us know if you can track it down to one element.

If you mean manned, we're not. Not any time soon. That and mars have always been pipe dreams that were never funded. Just some political theater to make the prezs that proposed them look like they had a vision. With the baby boomer retirements + all that entails in terms of Social Security and...

Get as many different kinds of anti-virus/anti-malware programs as you can. AVG is good and free AV program. I've used Malwarebytes and Spybot-Search&Destroy anti-malware packages successfully. Spybot has some "immunization" functions. Not really sure how effective that is, but I have managed...

You know for a guy with a 22 int and a 23 wisdom. He wasn't very bright.

I haven't read the books, the OP is referencing, but this would indicate that this is the opposite of what the OP is looking for. I'd pick up some Terry Pratchett (Diskworld) and Robert Lynn Asprin's "Myth-Adventures" series. Both are very funny and have very little in the way of real...

It's probably one of those "Which came first" questions. Does playing a paladin get people to act like that or does getting to act like that attract people to the paladins. Probably something of both. Gareth is the Champion of the Silver Flame after all. Just ask come within earshot of him and...

I think, it was more like Nameless being used as a conduit, but you know just as much as we do about exactly what happened. Actually, if he'd just bothered to ask first, Nameless would have been fine with Gareth checking him out. But Gareth being Gareth, doesn't understand the concept of...

Mandy Patinkin is apparently persona-non-gratia in much of hollywood at the moment. He was being very much the primadonna on Numbers (his last tv show) and pulled a number of really dickish moves with regards to how he left the show. I suspect that had as much as anything to do with his not...

It's been in development hell for decades. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it. Though perhaps the BD release at the end of the month along with Labyrinth will give it a shove.

Not in this campaign. He sent us a short "afterwords" a couple of months later. We did some experimentation with 4e. Shil likes it a lot. Me, not so much.

Looks vaguely Yoshitaka Amano (Vampire Hunter D) -ish, but I'm not positive. I think the artwork is too detailed for a manga, looks more like a book illustration to me. Which is another reason why I think it might be Amano, since they've translated a bunch of the Vampire Hunter D books.

You are basically going to have to talk to dell or someone who sells parts for dells. The notebook graphics cards, even the modular ones aren't something you can buy retail, nor are they something that are necessarily interchangeable. Essentially they are really there to simplify manufacturing...