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False. I have fired several .45 caliber handguns and one 12 gauge shotgun. It is a unique experience.

The poster below me does not know .jpg does not support transparency.

I estimate 7.8 billion copies sold.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2, a popular XBOX360 and PC first person shooter.

Seth, I want you to be naked. :naughty:

No one gives a shit who you are. Act how everyone wants you to be.

Wow. +1

It's just an issue with permissions, then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUPLimoTtiY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFcp2Xpd29I

Uploading computed information to data servers is simply the equivalent of those number of processors in a confined room. Which is what nearly every online company does to crunch numbers.

You are correct that the misfolding of proteins is the cause of many diseases. If you cannot grasp why it is important to discover how exactly these proteins misfold, then perhaps it would be prudent to consider freshmen college biology once more.

In any case, the program is not being forced upon you, and your disregard for the science behind it will not be a cause for concern for anyone.

I'm not sure how much of an effect the elimination of skill trees will actually have. Since skills still have a level requirement, it's essentially forcing you to pick lower tiered skills, lest you suck at lower levels. In which case, some early skills may become useless when later skills are available and learned.

Both the current D2 system and the proposed system are almost exactly alike, with the exception that you don't have to learn prerequisite skills (which saves like, what, a few points total). I wouldn't be too assured that these changes are really all that dramatic.

I just hope there is a greater variety of equally potent builds.

Go Bucs!

sigh

:3

I wonder if those bodies were drowned pre or post carcass status.

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The army?
Seriously?
I'm not going to sound like a fucking hippie now, but being in the army won't do no fucking good to you.

What makes you say the MARINES (not Army) won't do any good for me? How do you know this for a fact?

I fully endorse joining the Marines. I know first hand that, while they are certainly no brighter than army grunts, they are absolutely the most well trained and disciplined of any branch. The physical training, discipline, and experience working as a team will better equip you for basically any field of work (not to mention the bennies).

But be prepared to lay down your life and take life, as well as sign 4 years of your life to the government.

For those concerned about how this works. Research centers need to calculate very complex algorithms at very high speeds in order to understand protein folding. Protein folding is, essentially, trial and error calculations based on theoretical models. When a protein combination has been successfully folded, researchers can use this information to narrow down on possible medications, treatments, and even cures.

Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.

These calculations, as Jetrall has explained, are very difficult and slow. Server farms can't handle the load. So they offer a program that anyone can download, sign up for (just like registering to a forum), and automatically the program will begin folding proteins and sending information to remote databases. Hundreds of thousands of people run Folding@Home, one such distributed calculation program. You gain points by uploading more information. You can join a group of other uploaders (for instance, if a DFans Folding@Home group existed, you would be able to join that group and contribute to the group's total point score [which serves no point other than friendly competition]).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home

On September 16, 2007, the Folding@home project officially attained a sustained performance level higher than one native petaFLOPS, becoming the first computing system of any kind in the world to ever do so, although it had briefly peaked above one native petaFLOPS in March 2007, receiving a large amount of main stream media coverage for doing so.

I run Folding@Home and leave it on 24/7. The Folding@Home team has gotten much more information than they would have if they had used traditional computing data farms.

Unless I'm mistaken, what the XSystems forum is wanting users to do is sign up for an extremely similar task. It is probably a more focused algorithm. The program is not linked to the XSystems forum in anyway. You can download it and run it independently of the forums (registration was only encouraged to join that community's group).

Try not to concern yourself too much with forum respect or reputation. Just concentrate that your posts are on topic and in the good spirit of the forum. Welcome to the forum, by the way.