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Reply to New Logitech wireless mouse faster than wired ones. Is that even possible? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

That was explaining how a wireless mouse could be faster than a wired one, the barrier to using particular mice is in how much the actual operation of the devices slow things down. In a wireless mouse, translating the received signal tends to create an impassable speed barrier as it's an added step a wired mouse doesn't have. What mouse you have is actually a very big deal at competitive levels. Typical high end internet can get you pings on local ga

Reply to New Logitech wireless mouse faster than wired ones. Is that even possible? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Wireless vs wired are both light speed transmissions. The only thing that matters is how slow the hardware is sending and receiving signals. Whether wired or not, a mouse is still sending a signal, so as long as the other mice are all slowed down by their hardware, you can beat their latency with a wireless just fine. Edit: Wiring also slows down the transmission rate, so a wireless signal actually moves faster to start with.

Reply to What specs do I need to run the largest maps? in Galactic Civilizations III Sins Forums

I have never actually done it, but I've heard GC3 can actually chew through more ram than that at the highest setting. Since your PC is probably eating 4+ just idling, odds are you're hitting the point where you start paging the drive. You should run the game with some system monitoring tools up though, see what it's doing. It's possible the AI is chewing up your CPU before you start paging and just doubling up your ram wont help, I've ne

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

The expansion gained by the oceans each year may be in the thousandths per degree, but you're looking at sea level changes of a few millimeters. It's sorta easy to get there with hundreds of meters of water to work with. A slight change in the overall temperature can have a pretty big swing on trends that small.

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

Alas, they've debunked their own claims with the falling sea levels. They claimed a while back that the pause was a result of the oceans drawing in more heat, but the surface cooling is accelerating and sea levels are falling, so it can't be true. :) If sea levels weren't falling, it would make more sense. The dynamics of how fast they're turning water under make a big impact on surface temperatures, we've got that going on in the Atlanti

Reply to Drone Launcher in Ashes Bugs and Ideas AshesoftheSingularity Forums

Drone launchers mostly slaughter frigates, they're like low damage cluster bombs, spreading out to kill lots of targets at the same time, but only doing enough damage to actually kill your tier 1 frigates. They have very little impact on dreadnoughts to the point of being completely inconsequential, and individual turrets are hardly sufficient to kill cruisers unless you sit there with no radar or vision getting pounded by one out of view. They're really only horrifyingly destru

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

Sea level is largely a product of water temperature. Surface temperatures are nose diving in the Atlantic as the planet cools, so the level falls off again as it did in the 60's. The Pacific has actually been cooling since the late 90's, and much to the chagrin of the people trying to explain the pause, has continued unperturbed. It's a remarkably similar pattern all around, the 30's to 50's almost exactly mirror the last few decades in many ways across t

Reply to Lost in Space... found a planet... hmmm Feudal Society..... DAMN!!!! How does it affect the planet!!!! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The modifier doesn't affect trade income, and negatively affects tax income, just don't put shipyards in it and you're fine.

Reply to New player needs some Help in Galactic Civilizations III Sins Forums

You don't actually need to do such things to be even with the AI at normal, it doesn't do them itself to any significant degree, so matching their non cheating performance isn't nearly that difficult. It's at higher levels that really taking care to maximize each planet becomes more and more important. Fine tuning the pop/production percentages to maximize your raw to output conversion will be quite a bit of math, but unless you plan on playing against super cheat

Reply to New player needs some Help in Galactic Civilizations III Sins Forums

Escort is not always first, but it is always before capital and support, these are charted out for convenient study in the wiki. http://galciv3.gamepedia.com/Ship_roles#Ship_roles As it shows, escorts also start closer to the enemy than capitals. My post in this thread should be helpful to you, if you're losing on easy, you're probably

Reply to MS retreats regarding W7, W8.1 Support on computers having Skylake processors in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Most companies don't outlive their founders by very long. Looks like Microsoft is determined to go first.

PHC versus Substrate Effective Health in Ashes of the Singularity AshesoftheSingularity Forums

The PHC AI is absolutely crushing the Substrate now. They plow through them on a scale with putting one side on beginner and the other at normal. From what I can tell, it's almost entirely because they can't regenerate hull points effectively. I played some 2v2's last night with normal AI, and my tool Substrate partner rapidly lost every dreadnought it built, utterly failing to maintain any sort of force, rapidly losing ground once they were in play. Before

Reply to Dear Modders, we are about to lose plenty of materials. Should we create a library? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

http://zombiesrus5.com/wiki/doku.php

Reply to Interesting coincidence, or is your smartphone listening to you? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

The primary revenue for a phone company isn't advertising, it's selling bandwidth. For a server to be pulling key words, the server has to be transferring all those key words. If they do it at your cost, you'll soon notice that your monthly data limit gets burned up in a few days without you using it. If they do it at theirs, they'll eat into their profit margin far more than data mining is likely to pay for. There is no scenario they get this done effi

Reply to Planetary invasion and dlc, oh dear Stardock in Galactic Civilizations III Sins Forums

Founder elites didn't get the dlc for free, they payed twice as much up front.

Reply to Interesting coincidence, or is your smartphone listening to you? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

The barrier on listening to everyone 24/7 is that it's a colossal waste of bandwidth and monitoring resources, never mind that it's illegal. The cost probably far outweighs any monetary pick me up they'd get from selling whatever information they managed to glean before someone discovered the invasion and the company went bankrupt from the resulting class action lawsuit while the executives all went to prison. Are they data mining the messaging service

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

It's nothing to worry about because the whole idea is a crock of shit, not because that wouldn't be a big temperature change. The number of prominent scientists going public on this is steadily increasing, the swindle is in meltdown.

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

I don't either, I live in rural Oklahoma at present. :) The street where I grew up had a few drive by's though, and it was a quiet residential area with an apartment building a Samoan gang moved into for a few years, not government housing projects.

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

[quote]A point of fact The late Senator Byrd (D) of West Virginia was the last "known" former member of the KKK to hold Federal office.[/quote] True, I'd forgotten he outlived Thurmond(I botched his name earlier). [quote]Still wanna throw a blanket of blame over everyone who gets a benefit?[/quote] You threw the only blanket. I make no implications as to the merits of everyone receiving aid, those are specific refe

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

Possibly, fascists and commies are like establishment Republicans and Democrats, they hate each others guts and fight tooth and nail over the details, but mostly they just want the same thing. A bigger government with more goodies to buy power for themselves with.. :) Individualists believe that an individual should succeed or fail on his own merits, and that it's not society's fault if someone capable of succeeding doesn't. In my case, I think U

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

That capacity isn't particularly diminished. Trees are sustained capture, but they're not particularly efficient converters and are typically replaced with some sort of rapidly growing crop, which produces far more oxygen for it's mass, and land based flora as a whole isn't carrying the majority of the workload, oceanic algae blooms are the primary force, potentially comprising 85% of the generation. They're a significant cooling factor at the surface however,

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

Actually, both fascists in general and the racist types like the KKK in particular have historically been progressives, not conservatives. The Klan was basically an unofficial arm of the Democratic party at it's inception, overthrowing Republican governors after the Civil War was one of their primary goals. The group was only ostracized by the party when their efforts failed to have any significant impact in bringing Democrats to power in the south. They've been a ma

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

[quote]How silly of me..... simple miss-read of acres vs ha. [though settlement/clearing/fire-fighting technology will have affected potential severity][/quote] Well, after the third time or so being told it was smaller after I gave you the numbers, I assumed you were just ignoring me. Since I'm already an asshole, making assumptions is pretty safe. The actual acreage burned is less important than the conditions. 47 C in the

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

The 1939 fire wasn't five million hectares, it was two... Look it up already.

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

Aussies call them bush fires, the rest of us call them wildfires, or brush fires, in the case of ones like we're discussing where it's less like the Tonges National Park and more like Southern California's eclectic mix of scrub brush and trees. 1939 was most definitely not the largest, I don't know where you got that idea, but the fire in 1851 is recorded as being approximately five million hectares, as opposed to the two million hectare fire you're