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I must say, dragon, that was an impressive level of editing you did. fizzy, the correct use of grammar, punctuation, and capitalization in your posts will usually get people to stop treating you like an idiot.

Steam allows most (nearly all) of our electricity generation! You can't hate steam!

Proof or exit. Would not this entire thread have gone better on a different forum, then?

Steam has the entire series (5 games) for $4.99 (don't know how much in £), and that will probably take...we'll just say quite a few hours to play through.

Indeed, Rule #1 on the determination of the Whale Boxability of a thread: never mention the Whale Box in the thread.

I think he edited it so fast that there is no edit history. Next time wait longer, Ragnar. :)

I'm an engineer specializing in nothing, and I can tell you that Dell is overpriced with inferior parts. You can get the same or better warranty ordering the parts and building a PC yourself. Now, if you can't/won't provide your own support (which I can do, so I'd think you'd want to do, being in IT), maybe they'd be a good option, but there you have it. I'd never go with HP, and Dell is a marginally acceptable third choice, depending on your needs.

If the queens stayed working and the swarms of angry bees were added, I would actually try to install it in Technic.

Not necessarily. He could just not post at all.

It really didn't. Also,

I like posting in closed threads. And closing threads. :cop:

Perhaps this is true, and it's a complaint we've heard before, but every section has a description. It's not really a good excuse for posting in the wrong place to say you couldn't take the extra 3 minutes to read the descriptions.

Server is reported to have been sold and owner is reported to be inactive. Locked thread. Owner may report the thread to have it re-opened.

Yes. And he's a stupid newbie for not reading the rules. We have many many examples of people on this board that were stupid newbies and aren't any more. Get over it.

The first thing I do when going to an unfamiliar place, internet or otherwise, is read the rules, figure out a little bit about how the place works, and watch and listen. That's what everyone should do. If we need to remind some "poor git" that's how the world works, so be it.

Yoink. Now, the mods you're missing mean you have the 3.1.3 server but not the client. You'll need to do Manual Build Selection to get that client, as it hasn't changed to Recommended yet. Go to it! :)

In the launcher window: click Options, Manual Build Selection. Find 3.1.3, update, and try logging in. If it lets you, you downloaded the 3.1.3 server instead of 3.1.2, which is available on the Tekkit page of www.technicpack.net under the Tekkit tab at the bottom (Previous Server Versions). Based on the IC2 version it says you're missing, I'm guessing that's what happened.

At the risk of repeating a previously made post, what is actually wrong with 8?

I would say 1-2 years before you can't max settings on all but the newest stuff, and a well-built PC can usually last 4-5 or so before it can't play the newest stuff at all. Much depends on particular advances in technology, like Pixel Shader versions that render your GPU useless, and of course how much "the newest stuff" actually uses the newest hardware/software. Obviously, if you don't buy/play the newest stuff, you don't have problems, but OS versions eventually stop being supported, and things like that. You can also extend life by replacement with newer components, but you will often run into hardware incompatibilities, and the fact that older parts will often go up in price because not as many are being produced/shipped, so it's sometimes cheaper or at least comparable to replace the PC than do an upgrade.

Given that, 18 months ago, I built a decent gaming computer, which is just starting to show its age, for a tenth of that, yes, I would call it expensive. This is for graphics rendering, no doubt. It's not called "bleeding edge" for nothing, though.

Advance notice. I removed a link from another of his posts and banned him.

Putting it mildly, that's overkill, yes. I wouldn't say no if someone gave me those components to build one. Rough tally of price Processor: Minimum $1000, probably closer to $1,300-1,500 SSDs: Around $500 apiece. HDDs: $330 or $500 apiece, depending on size (there is a 3TB version) Mobo: $240-380, depending on exact model & features RAM: $900 PSU: $300 GPUs: $1000 apiece Cooling: $80-150, depending on make/model, with extra cost for additional hardware Case: $660 All in: Just breaks $8000, buying parts off Newegg. :suspense:

He's a spambot.

OFF TOPIC: Since I don't know how old you are now, it's hard to say - is that in 2 years, or 8? Anyway, all you have to do to be encouraged or amazed at what's in store for those of us under 40 right now is look around at the research. In 10, 15, or 20 years, you won't even recognize a computing platform. It will be that much different. References for giggles: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/108573-worlds-first-programmable-quantum-photonic-chip http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2006/07/7333/ <- older but still somewhat valid. http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/researchers_get_integrated_gpucpu_working_together_boost_processor_performance_20_percent <- same, but quite a bit newer

It is, yes, but there are some very good deals out there right now on 16GB, either 2 8GB sticks or 4x4.