psychoak

psychoak

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Reply to Modder's "Get-an-Answer" Thread in Sins Modding Sins Forums

If it had no abilities, you could use an ability to do a unique upgrade that locked out another option by disabling abilities. Aside from using the upgrade limit, that's the only thing you can do without limiting it research side. You can do more than just one upgrade though, you can add them behind multiple levels of another upgrade, like weapons, with their own string/icon entry tacked onto the end of the file. One could conceivably have multiple mutua

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Reply to Stardock's CEO Brad Wardell talks to TIME about why gamers will love Windows 10. in PC Gaming Sins Forums

10 is supposed to negligibly faster, but it's primary aim is towards mobile devices, so yes, if you're using a desktop, all you'd be getting is a percent or two of extra oomph. At least you would be, if application tests weren't showing 10 markedly slower than 7 for some reason... It benchmarks great in the synthetics, but it's a dog for stuff like opening Excel?

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Reply to Ashes of the Singularity Founders Benchmark Now Available in Press Releases (Ashes of the Singularity) AshesoftheSingularity Forums

[quote]Looks like AMD CPUs are really bad in this benchmarks. i3 4330 beating FX 8370. Is this just a bug or true performance of FX CPUs?[/quote] It's hyper-threading versus piledriver most likely. A Haswell i3 clocked at 3.5Ghz is massively more powerful, core to core, than anything AMD can put out. They'd need to break 6Ghz stock to compete with Intel right now, and then HT can give boosts in the range of 30% with high thread counts and wel

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Reply to Inside Amazon in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

[quote]Putting in place a system to rat out fellow workers. That sounds like something Hitler would approve of or Ayn Rand for that matter. Tell me how that is right or a good practice?[/quote] You're calling them Nazi's for having a feedback system where employees can decry or applaud the behavior of their peers and superiors? God forbid we actually want to know if our employees are doing a good job or not... I guess the USPS must be the perfect com

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Reply to Inside Amazon in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

Utopian dreamland that lacks perspective on people. :) Not all of us want to be creative, intelligent, flexible, and understanding. The day we get rid of grunt work is the day the hobo population explodes. Hobos already exist for the same reason, they're not self motivated enough to even do grunt work, typically because they prefer being drunk to being sober. Most grunt workers are capable of far more than they're utilizing, but some aren't

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Reply to Balance of Smarty, and perhaps other defensive structures in Ashes of the Singularity Founders AshesoftheSingularity Forums

Smarty's are rather long range, the problem with them is more the usage than their balance. I place them on cliffs and well back behind the front line, they can't really accomplish anything on their own. Vision ranges are non-existent compared to firing ranges, they AI needs to either support them, or build up in advance of them, instead of clustering them around a solitary point. Before they'll end up at all useful to the AI, you'll make them insanely broken

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Reply to Inside Amazon in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

No, the article is bullshit, obvious bullshit. Warehouse employees are one thing, they really don't need to work that hard to find replacements, but the absurdity of the rest of the article shows it to be written by manipulative pieces of shit that are just working an agenda. If I'm some genius software designer working for Amazon, I'm having to fight employers off with a stick if I mention that I'm looking for a job. Amazon

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Reply to Jafo's OK PC Build of 2015 in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Unless you're getting two of them to mirror, I would avoid that 8TB HD like the plague if you're going for reliability. The cutting edge of capacity is often flaky and prone to having issues, and 8TB of stuff is a whole hell of a lot of lost data when it flakes out six months in.

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Reply to Ms's strategy for Windows flawed? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

I don't think tablets are dying out any time soon, they're a futuristic gadget just coming into usefulness if anything. It's immensely useful to have a tablet in a great many industries today. If you're running around doing a check list or something, even a small laptop is probably just a pain in the ass, a small tablet with a stylus is perfect. It's the replacement for the steno pad, the pocket calculator, etc. Millions of irritatingly cumbersome n

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

[quote]And that, of course, is a lie - and a stupid lie, because it can be refuted after a few minutes of Googling. A word of advice - if you want to lie, try to stick to clever lies rather than the stupid ones, it will make your lying career slightly more successful. [/quote] When you call out a statement so boldly, you really should do that few minutes of Googling first. Billions change hands every year in the environmentalist version of war profiteering.

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

That's just old age setting in, you sweat less as you advance in years. :) I have no doubt that 2015 will be the "hottest year on record" by the end of the year. It's hard not to have the hottest year when you continually reduce past temperature readings.

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Reply to Five Privacy Issues With W10 in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Apple does tons of data mining, not sure what getting a Mac is going to accomplish. The Mactards were whining about this sort of stuff with Yosemite just last year, they hid lots of phone home crap that tracked what you were doing with it, and were even sending it to third parties.

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

Well, complaining about a fire when you live in a forest is indeed idiotic, but you can live in a forest and still do intelligent things. I myself live in a heavily forested cattle area. There are hundreds of acres of trees on the property, and fires are frequent in the area, but the tree line stops hundreds of feet from the structures, and the scrub is kept maintained. Our fire risk is exactly zero, one guy with a hose can guarantee the safety of the home even in the worst

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

Well, the forum ate my post, but here goes... The average monthly rainfall in the area varies between 27mm and 18mm, it's a desert. An intentionally set bush fire, in a desert, is rarely anything but uncontrolled, winter or not. This would easily happen during the wettest and coldest years the area has seen, all it would take is a decent length of time after a rain, (the mean days of rainfall per month sit around two, a couple weeks is more than enough)

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Reply to MS: “All your base is belong to us”. Using your bandwidth to update other PCs. in Personal Computing Sins Forums

You're not forced to agree to the EULA before you buy it, thus it's a violation of the sale contract. It's not on the purchaser to spend their time and money to return a deceptive product. Microsoft is stealing from people, plain and simple. Anyone on a bandwidth cap is financially harmed by those assholes hiding this crap in their OS.

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