Mohtalim

It was an interesting change of pace from DotA. I'm not sure its going to hold my interest for more than one or two more sessions, though. I googled the AI difficulty issue. The AI's crappiness is strategic; it's apparently supposed to push new players into competitive games faster. Of course, I thi...

I went ahead and installed it on my laptop. You only get about ten heroes at the beginning and each new one looks to cost ~$7 more. There is an alternate form of credits that you can apparently earn in game, but I assume you'd have to play a LOT to get enough.

That seems to be like you have no redundancy at all, which is not good. When of those drives dies, and one will eventually, we'll be here to tell you "we told you so". Hahahahaha. I thought I posted about my ridiculously paranoid backup scheme before. Each server drive has two complete mirrors. The...

Fah. Real men build their own NAS! I've got 5 drives in my server (1, 1.5, 3x2). I still have one unused SATA connection, which will probably get a 2TB plugged into it in the next couple months. The 3TB drives still command enough of a premium that I'm not willing to move to them. Actually, it might...

Consider the infrastructure required to make a copy of a terabyte of data. With today's technology, you use digital electronics to make trillions of microscopic changes. You need raw materials that I think aren't found on a single continent. You need refining facilities to turn those materials into ...

Absurd. No digital medium we have today would retain information over the length of a dark age. They'll get from us exactly as much as we got from civilizations like Rome. Some legends, some pottery shards, maybe some jewelry and coins, a few ruined buildings that weren't recycled for scrap.

68. No surprise there.

I stumbled across this recipe last week and decided to give it a try. Why? Because I can, what more reason do I need? The first batch did not go well. In the interest of science, I drank most of it anyway. The first lesson is that 1/4 ounce of dry yeast (the amount in one off-the-shelf packet) != 1/...

Conspicuously absent is the number of Asians, but they already had more of those than they knew what to do with.

Following up on a conversation I had with Chuck and Vinny yesterday... Found my "Worthy" list: Brain Lord, Breath of Fire 1&2, Chrono Trigger, E.V.O., Eathbound, Illusion of Gaia, Legend of Zelda, Lufia 1&2, Secrets of Evermore, Secret of Mana, Super Mario RPG, Terranigma, and Uncharted Waters 2. We...

The tax brackets do vary by area, just not the federal ones. Though, I have no idea how closely they correlate with the local average income. The correlation is probably backwards from what you want.

And now it's down to $119.

With FIOS, things actually got a lot closer to synchronous, at least in the low end packages (5/2), compared to the cable service I had before.

I used to work with many of them, but don't any more. I'm used to some level of venting, and some actual annoyance with one another's quirks. For some reason, this struck me as beyond that. There are other factors, some of which may be relevant, but I doubt you'd actually be interested in any of the...

I think this thread was before my time. Reading it now, I summarize as... Someone: I don't enjoy this game/genre/activity. I think it's because of this reason. Vinny: I disagree that that reason is important, correct, or applicable. Therefore, you do enjoy that game, and simply haven't realized it y...

I was out with half of a group of friends last night. Let's call them A. Unexpectedly, one of them starts ranting viciously about the other (absent) half of the group, B. The rant revealed a misunderstanding of B, which I tried to explain. But the rest of A jumped in and all started to complain abou...

I had 5/2 FIOS when I moved here, and a while back, they forced me to move to 10/?. I figured it was a rip off, because I'd never seen any source or combination of sources that could achieve 5. The best I ever did with torrents, even after the upgrade was 500kBps. But a couple weeks ago, I got back ...

I think one of the reasons I like C++ and Python is that I can use whatever paradigm seems natural for the situtation. I've started disliking C, because object methods are just more convenient, readable, etc in some cases. I haven't touched Java in years, but I'd bet I'd be just as annoyed by the la...

So are we now the first result on baidu for "mohtalim" as we are (or at least were) on Google?

Yay, I have a bad stick of memory. Memtest showed an intermittent but repeated one bit failures, so hopefully everything else in the system is working properly. Bonus points if anyone can figure out why a one bit memory error manifested as a one byte error in practice. Maybe some kind of failed erro...