Astronomer

Hi all, Last time I played the BF3 servers, they were fairly full. I was hoping to get back into the game over the upcoming holiday. I was shocked to see that they are no more. Why? We still have COD2, COD4, and COD5 servers all running, despite the ages of the games. By many accounts BF3 has better maps than BF4. Can someone please shed some light on this?

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Not sure what you mean, but Earth's core is believed, and is very likely, to be a large core of molten iron. Because it is liquid metal, it rotates at a different speed than the rest of the planet, essentially creating a dynamo which creates the planet's magnetic field. There's no mystery or adverse effects possible there. The Large Hadron Collider will have absolutely no effect on it whatsoever. That's not a guess. That's science.

WTF indeed...! The Hadron collider will not create new universes nor will it destroy the earth. It just smashes subatomic particles together at very high energies in order to let us understand the nature of physics and conditions present at the time of the "Big Bang" 13.7 billion years ago . It's 27km (17 miles) in diameter and is a marvel of engineering. It's recently proved that the "Higgs Boson" and therefore the Higgs field exists, which confirms that the standard model of physics is accurate. This is pure and fundamental science: Exploring the nature of reality. How will it impact our lives? Who knows? I do know that one discovery of a subatomic particle has changed all of our lives: The electron, well over a century ago. To point to anything (particularly fundamental scientific research) and say "Why spend money on this and not <insert cause here>" is specious. Point to war and the military industrial complex if you want to point to an area of massive spending, waste, and fraud. If anything, science needs more funding not less. The discoveries made by pure research has and will enrich our lives in so many ways. Think of X-rays to let doctors and surgeons see where and how a bone is broken. Penicillin. vaccinations. electricity to the home. The number of inventions that came out NASA that we use every day is amazing: Invisible braces, scratch resistant eye lenses, memory foam, ear thermometer, shoe insoles, long-distance telecommunications, adjustable smoke detector, safety grooves on runways and roads, LED's, thermal blankets, improved radial tires, chemical detectors, fire resistant materials, freeze drying, water purification systems, solar cells, pollution control devices, powdered lubricants, MRI for medical use, quartz clocks, teflon, velcro...

To the guy who produced that there video: This.

...and I'll add that evolution is not something that you can either believe or disbelieve. It's fact, proven, rock-solid, observed, unassailable, etc. It simply is.

Awwwww...! Congratulations to you both!

Great news LOC! I'm looking forward to seeing you in the servers soon!

Pings were running high for everyone.

"Looking a lot like the venerable Wolfenstein 3D or similar Id action games of the DOS days, the new online game Waiting in Line 3D was released Monday by developer Rajeev Basu, and was played 50,000 times in its first 24 hours of activity... er... inactivity. Is the complete lack of any action a brilliant satire of computer gaming? Is it software-based performance art? Is it silly? Judge for yourself, if you can meet the challenge!" Now's a good time to confess if you spent a major portion of your post-Thanksgiving dinner recovery time camped out in line for some of tthose Black Friday come-ons.

"OCZ, a manufacturer of solid-state drives, says it will file for bankruptcy. This move is being forced by Hercules Technology Growth Capital, which had lent $30 million to OCZ under terms that were later breached. The most likely outcome of this bankruptcy is that OCZ's assets (including the Indilinx controller IP) will be purchased by Toshiba. If this deal falls through, the company will be liquidated. No word yet on what a Toshiba purchase would mean in terms of warranty support for OCZ's notoriously unreliable drives." So much for the warranty on my 2 OCZ SSD's, which have worked quite well over the past year. Time to make another disk image...

Nice to hear some good news. Congratulations!

Hey! I posted this last night! Great minds think alike!

Dang! I just noticed that the shadow doesn't quite match where her hand actually is. Or am I mistaken?

C'mon people! Get a grip!

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I just saw that it looks like his show on the Sun network has been cancelled after one episode.

From one to another...congrats!

You can't make up stuff like that...!

Do you use Google Chrome? If so, I found this: "Figured it out people. If you're using chrome, click on the little menu button in the upper-right hand corner, right next to your url bar. Go down to settings, then extensions, and you'll find that that bettersurf thing got installed by a third party somehow... Delete it, and anything else downloaded by a third party because I had a couple things"

30 shades of AWESOME!!!!

He's got $$'s, so he can afford to eat. He doesn't have to spend all his time scrounging for cash to feed his habit at the expense of nutrition.