Tyranicus
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What? How?Originally Posted By: Earth Empiresif you use lcd-monitor thwn that could be 1 reason.
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In Christian scripture, it is a person or entity. In Hebrew scripture, it is a place.Originally Posted By: Skwish-EAbbadon isn't a place, it's a person (or entity).98 had considerably more support for networking than 95. It also used a different filesystem, much better USB support, and was the first version of Windows to support DVD drives. The UI was very similar to 95, but the differences under the hood were greater than the differences between Vista, which really wasn't that bad, and 7.Originally Posted By: Skwish-ESince Win 98 (OK, but not different enough from 95 to be considered a real version in my opinion)
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I'm surprised the Mac versions aren't on Steam now.Originally Posted By: ActaeonIf the series was up for Mac, too, I'd buy them all again just to save the trouble of getting new keys.
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For what it's worth, that will only happen if the Apple firewall is turned on, and it is turned off by default. As to how this affects game modding, I don't see how it does. Modding a game involves editing the game's files themselves, which means the sandboxing wouldn't matter in the slightest.Originally Posted By: NiemandIn fact, the security systems present in Snow Leopard (which I'm still using) are already enough to cause annoyance in some cases. For instance, Apple made iTunes really ugly (uglier, anyway). I can fix it by replacing the icon and various graphics resources, but if I do, its checksum no longer matches, and every time I run it I get pestered about whether I really want to trust it with access to the network.
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If you are a PC user, why in God's name are you buying a $2000 computer? If you are a Mac user, you might consider a hackintosh to bring down costs. You can build a very good PC for less than $1000.
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Yeah, they certainly didn't get that from Tolkien's books.Originally Posted By: Ishad NhaCertainly in the Middle Earth campaign system by Iron Crown Enterprises, the only serious spellcasters are Animists (Priests) and Mages. Though this may just be a lame rip-off of Dungeons and Dragons.
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Woah, it does! That's rather amusing. Also, if you Google askew, it will show the page skewed.
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Yeah, that was my point.Originally Posted By: HOUSE of STolkien is probably less to blame for Mage v Priest than ANY other fantasy author. That is not an exaggeration: priests do not exist literally anywhere in his works, and characters who are able to do anything remotely resembling spellcasting are very rare, and never mortal.
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How is Mage v Priest a Tolkien thing?
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I was enjoying the first book of that series up until it turned into a BDSM fantasy.Originally Posted By: DintiradanThe Sword of Truth
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Strictly speaking, you can't do anything for that until Halloween is over.Originally Posted By: In Half NowI'm not Halloweening. I will be busy instead.
*goes away, leaving a trail of excited nano nano nano nano nano nano*
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You might have problems reaching the 1Gbps speed, but all of the others should be attainable.Originally Posted By: KelandonOriginally Posted By: TyranicusEven the original Mac Mini supports 54Mbps wireless and 100Mbps wired. Current models support 150Mbps wireless and 1Gbps wired, so that is not it.Originally Posted By: Kelandon
I assume that's the fastest my Mac Mini can process data, not the fastest that my network can send/receive it.
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Even the original Mac Mini supports 54Mbps wireless and 100Mbps wired. Current models support 150Mbps wireless and 1Gbps wired, so that is not it.Originally Posted By: Kelandon
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I finally remembered to run a test when I wasn't using bandwidth-hungry work apps. It's interesting that it still detects my ISP as Embarq. It's been over two years since CenturyTel and Embarq merged to become CenturyLink.
Aran is absolutely right about ADSL. If downstream and upstream were equal, the best you could get out of a single phone line is about 6-7Mbps, and that is in perfect conditions. Most consumers do not need high upstream bandwidth, so it makes more since to provision customers at something like 10Mbps down and 1Mbps up. They're doing fancy things with DSL these days though. Bonded ADSL (like my connection) uses two phone lines for twice the bandwidth. VDSL (also known as fiber to the node) is the future though. Data is sent via fiber to the terminal in the neighborhood and then sent via copper wire to the unit. Using this, you can theoretically get 100Mbps up and down. No ISP that I know of actually offers those kinds of speeds though.
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Speaking as someone who works in consumer technical support for a major ISP, I can definitely say that these speeds are not really varying all that much. You can see variances like this even with the same server.Originally Posted By: The MysticYeah, I'm getting somewhat different results, too. I did some playing around, and here's what I got on some of the tests:Click to reveal..
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You learn about the colony fairly early on too. I think there is a Vahnatai in the Castle, or possibly somewhere else in the Great Cave, who mentions it.
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When I'm not working, and therefore not using bandwidth-hungry Citrix applications, I'll run a test if I can remember. I usually get about 23-24Mbps down and 1.7-1.8Mbps up.
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25mbps bonded DSL ftw. It takes quite a lot to fill my tubes.
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Rentar-Ihrno : Vahnatai :: Osama bin Laden : Muslims.Originally Posted By: Trenton the dragon lordThe avernites let them build a colony in their land after what happened in the third and fourth game? What is wrong with them? If I was in control, I would start a war with them, and somehow pull the empire in it >.> Im sure they would love to get back at them for destroying their land.
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My bank's website actually lets me change my username.
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Here in the US, where we still don't use the metric system, that's known as the "gallon challenge." When I was in high school, a kid tried to do it in the cafeteria one day. It did not end well.Originally Posted By: VCHSo has anyone here attempted to drink 4 litres of milk in one sitting?
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Animals do so drop food in the Avernum games.
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You say they both have integrated graphics chips, but are they the same integrated graphics chips?Originally Posted By: Mod.Not sure about ATI and Nvidia, but I for some reason favor ATI.
As for AMD and Intel, I like AMD much better. I have two PCs with the same specs specs, besides the processors, and both have integrated graphics chips. The Intel one is supposed to be better and is brand new, while the AMD has been sitting around for a while getting cluttered. The AMD gets a steady FPS of at least 125 (where I cap it) on my favorite FPS on almost every map. The Intel often drops to around 40 FPS, despite having the graphics settings on the PC to max performance.
Avernum: Escape from the Pit - Mac version beta testers
in Avernum Trilogy (2011-2018 Remastered Versions)
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I'm going to be a rebel and disagree!