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[mod]Agreed. Moved to off-topic. If it goes downhill, I'll lock it.[/mod]

I sent up 10 rockets in a 100KM orbit using a mechjeb. half prograde, half retrograde. I let it run for a few hours and the nearest I ever got was about 5KM away. I\'m sure if I spent some time trimming my orbits down I could make them intercept but it\'s highly unlikely to happen unless you\'re dropping huge amounts of debris in a single orbit, or are actively trying to get a collision.

I think they are kidding, but are going to get government money anyways. Man, how awesome would be be to work at Boeing on a project like this. 'Hey socket! How\'s the flying car going' 'Pffthctch... Been working hard!' '...Why do you have a keg of beer' ':-[ Human analog' 'You\'re just getting drunk in that hanger aren\'t you?' 'wanna come?' ' Yes.'

Wooden rocket nozzles... :hailprobe: Truly inspired, and beautifully executed.

Run MSconfig. Go into the startup tab and disable any lame crapware starting at boot time. Protip: If you don\'t know what something does in the startup tab, google it and find out before disabling it. It might be important. ;D

That is an awesome list for balancing performance against price point.

Your sister engaged in a dialog with your parents and told them (right or wrong) that she had been wronged by you. You responded by yelling at your parents, refusing to tell your side of the story calmly, and then were rude to your parents again when they tried to talk to you. It is no wonder your sister got listened to. Never get angry. Anger clouds the mind and makes rational thought impossible. Outsmart your sister. Go to your parents first. Have a list of verifiable offenses. Document your claims. Never get angry. Anger makes you dumb.

Kerbol (star) kerbin (planet) and mun (moon) are the only bodies in the kerbal universe right now

You were happy to linkify them on facepunch when asked by the mods. The fact is I copy and pasted your list of links from there to here. It took me all of 1 minute. text is automatically linkified.

Thank you for proving my point. I\'m not a computer engineer, but I DID sleep at a holiday inn express last night.

My uneducated opinion says yes. 3.4 Ghz is no slouch as far as processors go, and you\'ve got 4 cores, which is enough for any game right now. Paired with 8 to 16gb of fast DDR3, and a decent graphics card and the numbers seem to line up. What you really need though is a flux capacitor. ?_? You need to stop asking people 'What parts do I buy to make a sick rig?' and go do your homework. There are tons of websites that review and benchmark all kinds of hardware. Why aren\'t you pouring over them and making your own judgments? Now I\'m an honest person, and I\'d never knowingly steer you wrong, but I don\'t build computers all day and there are trolls in other places on the internets that are not so kind. What if someone recommended you a bunch of hardware knowing the parts would be incompatible, just to mess with you. Could you tell?

Follow your heart. If you want to go AMD, go for it. Your Nvidia WILL work just fine. You just may lose like %0.09 performance or something.

If there is one that is LGA 1155 instead of 1156, you would have a valid upgrade path to a core i7 when they get cheap enough or you save up money for one. This one is a little over your price range, but I think it might be worth it for the extra speed and the ability to upgrade to an i5 or i7 later. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115092

he has an Nvidia Geforce GTX 550 TI he is going to transplant into his new build.

I don\'t feel well informed enough to give you something you should buy. I\'m not really up to date on the i3 line and I\'d feel terrible if I give you bad advice. I think Ivy bridge is supposed to come out soon, which will drop the prices of sandy bridge architecture processors, and that may push a sandy bridge i5 into your price range. Which would be even better.

the i3\'s fall under that price range. Once you have 2 hyperthreaded cores, processor speed starts becoming more important then number of cores again, Since most programs these days are single threaded, and at most take advantage of only 2-4 cores anyways. a single core at 5Ghz will compute a million digits of pi faster then an 8 core processor running at 2Ghz, when given only a single thread to compute with.

I\'d go for an i5 ($175 to $250), an Asus mobo ($150 or so), and 8gb of DDR3 from mushkin (should go for about $50)

Intel integrated graphics have sucked pretty hardcore. Historically, anything in a laptop with Intel graphics was useless for gaming. The stuff in sandy bridge is pretty cool though.

My last 2 rigs have been Intel. I used AMD Athlons for many years as well. I can\'t tell much difference between the two to be honest. Intel excels at brute force calculations and AMD optimizes the hell out of everything. What i find more important these days, is to match Intel CPU\'s with Nvidia graphics cards and AMD CPU\'s with ATI cards. While an Intel CPU will work with an ATI GPU, and an AMD CPU will work with an Nvidia GPU, Intels are more optimized to work with nvidia and AMD\'s are optimized to work with ATI, because the makers of both chips are the same companies. Intel/ATI or AMD/Nvidia setups just feels to me like buying a Ford and putting Chevy parts on it. One is not designed with the other in mind.

[mod]AAAAND we're done here. This is a forum about rocketry. Lets discuss rocketry, not language. This is too political and too divisive a subject. I've been letting it go on so both sides get their fair say, but I'm worried we're soon going to venture into the realm of petty insults and it will only serve to create bad blood between people. We want everyone to be friends here. [/mod]

It is my understanding that the forum software downloads the full image to your computer in order to re-size it. Now instead of having 52 images at half a meg each loading in the browser from your dropbox account every time a person hits refresh, people can load one image at a time. I apologize for the less then graceful handling of this. We try our best but we are only human.

How many of them do you know? Not seen on TV. Not saw in the parking lot of home depot once. How many of them do you know? Have you ever made an effort to get to know one of them? Truly a sad thing when people will hate another person without ever even getting to know them...

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You caught me! I have no flair for the dramatic! Oh Woe is me who can only roll dice in an RPG. :thumbup: ... Note to self. Be a bard in the next game you play....

I think it\'s going to be a lot of work. Be ready for drama. Good luck! I also think having a game master(s) who runs plots and players who are the heros / villians of the story, would make things run a lot smoother and give the entire game an interesting narrative to follow rather then everyone doing their own thing. I only do roll playing games with dice and stat based systems. Stats prevent people from pulling deus ex machinas when things aren\'t going their way. (I should point out I really don\'t know how the RP is handled here. I\'ve honestly never looked into it.)