Recent content by Nicholas Chandler-Yates

Warcraft 2, then later, Half life 2, and Planescape Torment

Funnily enough, the science of the two fields (astronomy and geology), as you might guess, are completely different. Astronomy has many lightyears of completely or nearly completely empty space between earth and the observable phenomenon, and deals with large scale averages structures (stelar...

I am wondering if anyone has ever seen a log scale diagram of the solar system. By this I mean the orbits of the planets at distances in a log base 10 scale from the sun in a top down view. I suspect it has not been done or at least it hasn't been uploaded to the internet at any time as i have...

it should be as late as it should still definitely be "as late as". As early as doesn't make sense, thats saying that water exists now and didn't exist before 200,000 years ago. Exactly the opposite of what they actually mean... the escapist needs a good proofreader.

Who says science isn't fun? BOO YEAH!

I think the argument here about whether a Steam machine is a PC or isn't a PC stems from the differing definitions of PC. Some people consider a PC to be Windows ONLY: therefore a mac, or an ubuntu linux computer or a steam box wouldn't be a PC. Others seem to think only computers that...

looks like we have 14 partners now: iBuyPower, Digital Storm, Alienware, Falcon Northwest, iBuyPower, CyberPowerPC, Origin PC, Gigabyte, Materiel.net, Webhallen, Alternate, Next, Zotac and Scan Computers. No news about games yet, although Gabe says that there are more announcements coming...

Both. My current idea is to build the case myself entirely out of bent and soldered copper tubing, with parts of the sides of the case made directly out of flat copper radiators (vintage or otherwise). Also I have a pretty unique idea using a water/water heat exchanger. Essentially part of the...

Well i thought bout adding an Other/None-of-the-above option, but the point is who is the best/worst of the *Major* companies, I think I would be more inclined to add a "none of them, they all suck" option though. Let me know if you think that this is what you think slot 8 should be. I voted...

Who is your favorite game company of the options listed here? Polls only give 8 options so I chose the 7 largest that I could think of and left the last one blank because god forbid I forgot somebody major. Vote based on: Quality of games released, Company policies, Innovation, Style...

Because thats all that sparates the Xbone and PS4 from a PC. and whether you agree or not, a PC is not considered a 'console'. So what then is a console? well i just counted the differences between PC's and the Xbone/PS4 and this is what I came up with. I *suppose* you could say that the...

Yep theres a few problems with steam, refusing to sign a new TOS and banning your account seems ruthless. I would actually love for EA to pull their heads out of their asses and turn Origin into what steam is now, It would result in more competition, which would be better for the consumer in the...

Well I *Like* the features that have been listed about the Steam Machines more than I *Like* what I have heard and read about each of the other platforms. I don't have ANY of them, and haven't tried any of them, so i only have what I like and don't like about what features they have. You asked...

Alternatively... just throwing an idea out there, I could make a water cooled system with NO radiator, and rather just a large acrylic reservoir, then take a couple of aquarium air pumps and pump massive amounts of cool air through the reservoir to exchange heat. (after all millions of tiny air...

Looks like I am going to have to look into water cooling methods, although these can't result in a cryogenic system :(... it seems that to make a cryogenically cooled PC you would need to have a very high powered fridge/freezer, or else use an AC unit. This would not be quiet, nor space...