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Reply to The best of Glenn Beck in Politics GalCiv2 Forums

In any case, it wasn't meant to be a permanent program. and the new cars bought with it will become used soon enough. The used car market should recover.

Reply to The best of Glenn Beck in Politics GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]The clunkers were destroyed, rather than resold, which has driven up the cost of used cars.[/quote] Firgive me if I sound a bit dense - but I thought that this was between consumers and new car sales? Where does used car sales come in?

Reply to The best of Glenn Beck in Politics GalCiv2 Forums

Blogging? Huh [e digicons]o_O[/e] ???? How did get get to talking about that????????? EDIT: Ohhhhh - - - - that's right, Stardock's forum software intergrates with some blog stuff. Sorry - I'm on the forum side of things.

Reply to Winrar 3.9 released in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

Frankly, compression should be free. There's no sense in using the .rar format. I'm not paying just to use it. And just because there are free decompressors does not mean I'm gonna use it. I could care less. [b]If you want me to use your stuff never, ever send it to me as RAR![/b]

Reply to The best of Glenn Beck in Politics GalCiv2 Forums

Glenn Beck acknowledges he's an enterntainer . . . even as somebody who leans right, I'd look to other sources for stuff more researched. . . . and frankly, that video of Hitler is stupid. Guit by association (in this case putting words in Hitler's mouth to make him sound Republican) is a fallacy. . . . and I'm amused that people are just slamming each other by throwing around the words "fear mongering," as if that were some deep truth that really matters. Perhaps some

Reply to Help me pick a game to buy! in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I always manage to get back some empire building game. They seem to have the most replay value. Or you can go outside and play with friends in real life. I hear that's fun too ;).

Reply to Computer specs / Curious how I compare in Technical Stardock Forums

From my xfire profile: Manufacturer: Self built! Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad CPU (Q6600, as if it matters) @ 2.4 GHz <s

Reply to Low Frame Rates with my high specs in Technical Stardock Forums

lloyd: Take a bit of time to format you posts, please? In some games, there may be some features (often shadows) that may be pushed onto the CPU rather than the GPU. It often helps to set the game to the bare minimum settings and slowly turn up the settings until it slows down, so you can figure out what setting(s) is causing the trouble. The best thing to do is to find the bottleneck. Find that one resource that is maxed out. You mentioned that the CPU is at 30%, and you're r

Reply to My new toy... in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote]NEVER EVER install it while you have more than one Harddrive attached to the system.[/quote] Odd. Running three drives, zero issues with both the beta and RC of 7.

Reply to Look out Microsoft, Google is coming for you again in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote]Technically there's nothing really windows can do that a linux distro can't.[/quote] If you make enough source changes or dig through archaic settings, sure. But how many people really want to spend hours setting up an OS before they start using it? I'm still wondering why, by default even on the Ubuntu distro, KDE isn't doing simple things like open the K menu when you hit the Start/Windows key, and why you can't even map it to open the menu in the GUI key mappin

Reply to Real or Ripp-Off in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

I dunno if you've been paying much attention to Stardock - but they're an old company. Very old. It's not like they popped up yesterday. They've been around since 1998. So I dunno why this all of the sudden . . . In any case, they do tend to serve different purposes. WinStep looks more like a total shell replacement, while WindowBlinds focuses more on skinning the existing shell. It's up to you, really. My experience with total shell replacements is that they o

Reply to WindowsBlinds 7 bug in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

. . . and OH GRR. It wasn't the file permissions. It was Comodo's antivirus. Congratualations, Stardock's installer is "Heur.Suspicious@30384401," and was blocked without warning. That's with the heuristics in Comodo at a low setting. Didn't happen on my desktop because I use AVG there. Time to file a false positive report with Comodo . . .

Reply to WindowsBlinds 7 bug in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

You're definitely on the right track. I compared Vista and XP, and yup files were missing. These are the files I saw in XP: Interesting to note was that this folder and files existed even after I had uninstalled WB7 the first time. I'm gonna reboot to safe mode and check permissions. Si

Reply to WindowsBlinds 7 bug in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

Sure, not a problem: [quote]It sounds like the UI folder off shared documents\windowblinds is missing.[/quote] Wouldn't be surprised. I've been having some permissions issues recently. Had to boot into safe mode to remove old files from Adobe Flash recently

WindowsBlinds 7 bug in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

Looked at WindowsBlinds 7 on my desktop, and it looks great :). I noticed that it had a fluid layout, which I thought would be a big plus on my netbook, so I decided to try it. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work so well on my netbook :(. Most of the screen is black. None of the background graphics are showing. The "glow" graphic seems to be replaced by the preview. The preview doesn't always update. The ratings and search box are comple

Reply to Vista x64 Explorer Tab Title in IconPackager Stardock Forums

[quote]repulicans!!!![/quote] I'm glad I'm Republican and not repulican [e digicons]:P[/e] . Hey Stardock - get Brian Harper up here! He seems to be the one listed in the details. Yeah - this has got to be the strangest bug I've ever seen.

Reply to WindowBlinds and Vista Aero Scrollbar in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

To answer your question: There is an Aero-like skin called "Diamond" that you can use. With the exception that the taskbar is altered, it's nearly identical to Aero.

Reply to Random quotes in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be the blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king. "The Fellowship of the Ring" - "The Lord of the Ring" (J. R. R. Tolkien)

Reply to My Current Top 5 RTS's in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

In no particualar order, some of my favorites: The original C&C and Red Alert. Great games :). Red Alert 3 - kinda. It's a bit over the top with the superweapons, though. There are too many things that there is really no defense against. I feel more like it's a rush to nuke everything first than a real strategy game. Sins of a Solar Empire, although it takes too long to play. Age of Empires games in general are of very good quality :).</l

Reply to SSD + 64bit = computing heaven in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

From reply#88: [quote]Next up are the comments that with larger RAM more files will be cached. Yes more will be cached, but let get serious for a minute. Things get cached as data reads progress. The computer does not cache files in advance, it will cache them after a request for them occurs leaving you with not much of a performance gain. This coupled with the potential for a cached file to still be dropped causing another Page/Memory Fault to occur hampering

Reply to Design needed coding in SkinStudio Stardock Forums

That is an interesting layout for an OS. Sorta like a phone OS? I heard some people were trying to bring phone-like OSes to low-end PCS. Very nice design. I wonder about compatibility, though? Will it work with applications from an existing OS?

Reply to What would happen after an EMP attack? in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote]Do the math, a single kiloton bomb generates 4.184 × 10e12 J or 1.162 x 10e6 kw-h of energy.[/quote] Over a continent approximately 2500 miles wide and 1000 miles tall, for a total of 2.5x10 6 square miles - or less than 1 kw/h per square mile.

Reply to What would happen after an EMP attack? in Everything Else Stardock Forums

IMHO the wikipedia's article is very simplified, to the point where it may be very inaccurate. While it is true that a high altitude bomb may be able to hit a larger area due to a larger horizon, it's also true that the inverse square law would apply to anything sending radiation in a roughly spherical shape. This means that while it may hit a larger area, it would do so with exponentially decreased effectiveness. As a former Ham radio operator - I've had to study the

Reply to Design needed coding in SkinStudio Stardock Forums

[quote]I'm making my own operating system, and that's why I designed this.[/quote] I'm not sure designing an OS is a good idea these days - when you count the number of man hours required to create one, you realize it's not possible within a single lifetime unless you're designing something ultra simple. Some of the things you are doing are so different I think you'd need to design your own applications to arrange them the way you want. My advice: Instea

Reply to What would happen after an EMP attack? in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote]Not really. One relatively weak nuke (Hiroshima sized) could theorectially knock out the entire US,[/quote] I question that. I'm gonna have to ask for backup of that claim.