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Hmm, running into some strange issues lately. Not sure which specific update made them prevalent, but my jump pack equipped Bounty Hunter has turned into an oddity when using it. He'll either stop dead in his tracks initiation long distance combat (the animation plays, it plays the metallic 'clank' sound, but he hits and invisible barrier and goes nowhere) or he'll fly over and hit the target alright... twice, two clank noises later dealing double damage. Not that I'm particularly fuzzed about the later, but I'm sure it's unintentional. It didn't always do that double or nothing stuff Having maxed out in cybertech and my commando almost maxed out in armourtech crew skills means my motley crew of characters don't really have much to spend their planetary commendations on. They now indulge in shopping sprees of various purple artifact cases, emailing stuff back and forth. A legacy "repository" like the cargo bay of your ship would be a very welcome addition to the game, would cut down on the emailing back and forth

Nope

No. If the specs in the link are correct, it uses 'Dual Channel Memory Architecture ' Most DDR3 ram sold today seems to be tri- or quad channel. Might be worth double checking. Humanoid already covered the FSB numbers. Latency, often shown as something like 9-9-9-10 is an indicator of the rams "responsiveness" to various operations. The lower, the faster. Most people don't care much about those numbers anyway FSB and number of channels matters.

SWTor still takes up a disproportionate amount of my precious spare time. Ran across a bit of well done humour (imho) in the trooper class story on Alderaan. Yeah, made me smile. Go ahead and ridicule me

Richard Garriott? If nothing else, he was one of the few "space tourists" so far, paying the fare for an extra terrestrial trip.

Thread pruned slightly. Being funny within reason is fine as long as it stays civil. As for NWN2, I think whether Neeshka was a romance option or not would be the least of its problems. A main villain that made you laugh for all the wrong reasons (like a 50's monster movie where the creature is obviously wearing a rubber suit) being one of my personal pet peeves, second only to the peasant girl that was forced on my party. Even the creepy stalker elf paled compared to that.

I see some intelligence and security applications for that as well, if they can indeed turn opaque materials transparent in a nondestructive way. No need to drill holes for spy cams anymore

In which case, he might end up under some car park for future archeologists to find. Despite claims to the opposite, absolutism is rarely absolute.

I'm probably old fashioned. I have no wireless gadgets. I tried a wireless mouse a few years ago and it drove me nuts. I just don't feel properly "attached" to my PC if there are no cables (didn't help that it was a crappy mouse either)

Yeah, happy birthday to young Adam

Turbo Pascal is for whimps. Real men use CC, LN and makefiles Interesting chap. Not sure I would advertise starting programming with LOGO (just kidding) I'll second his advice that great code is not complex, it's elegant and robust. I often spend more time simplifying code after testing initially that it works, then starting to remove code, then remove more code etc. until the very bare bones system that does the job is left. It sometimes drives developers nuts when I keep point out that something they were proud of is not necessary and please remove it, bridge those gaps, take that out, this is redundant etc.

Rendering/Animation is just a hobby on the side. Development and test environment for same is the primary reason for needing some "grunt" (it's also going to get a number of SSD drives, as it's going to be used for testing a lot of data manipulation and multi-tier services interacting with a SQL backend, i.e. creating say 500 instances (completely arbitrary number to illustrate idea) of a test app. doing things through levels of tiers before reaching the backend). Involves quite a bit of virtualisation too. If I could also use it for gaming when not doing that, it would be an added bonus and save some physical room space

Do they actually consider the royal family "English" these days? It used to be the norse Normans, the french Angevins, the scottish Stuarts, the dutch Oranje, the german Hannovers (I seem to remember a funny anecdote about name changes during WWI because it wasn't fashionable to be German in England at the time)... what are they these days?

As a target, you are sort of trapped like a louse between two finger nails. No reacting will re-affirm that you don't care about the subject, re-acting will be seen as confirmation that the abuse is justified. I've found that with a bit of practice, you can "freeze" somebody out by actively ignoring them. I.e. carry on the conversation about everything except explicitly what the abuser is whinging about. Nothing seems to agitate people more than realizing that they specifically are not so important as they give themselves credit for. Edit: That being said, somebody need to and it up their for the server merges and forced name changes in SWTor (still fuming mad, nerd tage over that one)

Has to be very offensive to get deleted. Merge it is, thanks

Not playing it yet, but I pre-ordered (and paid) Europa Universalis IV from Gamersgate. Digital Extreme Edition no less (what a ridiculous name). Very much looking forward to it. I got that itch that has turned into a sore spot, constantly scratching the same place for a few years with EU III now

Post is fine. Just slightly out of place. Moved to the gaming section where is quite on topic Loved the original Syndicate to death. A pox on who or whatever prevents American Revolt from getting released together with the GoG version of the original.

Of course, not many people would get the joke

This thread isn't quite new anymore. Sequel announced here

Start of old thread end of old thread In the latest news: Recursive Design Is the newest fad Also, in previous news:

what's the consequence of answering "yes"? Mind you, I'm expense claiming every trip

Thread pruned a bit. I'm sure it's possible to disagree in a less antagonistic manner

I had planned on playing tonight, but then I remembered the notice somebody pointed me to, servers are going to be down today. *sigh* Aussies (APAC) always gets screwed out of a day of their sub every time they need to update something (starting at 19:00, i.e. after work and ending at 24:00, i.e. bed time) Edit: Somewhat unrelated anecdote. Ran into an amusing "feature" with my Agent. Doing class mission on Nar Shaddaa, disguised as droid, seeking out cell leader. Doing the ID check at forcefield and getting through to boss. Getting diverted to flashpoint before dialogue (heck, can always return to previous location, right?) and true enough, returned to previous location. Except, Boss is now gone, nobody to talk to. No biggie, probably just have to go back to starting point as mission seems to have "backpedalled". Guess what, Agent and door handle are located on opposite sides of force field, so he can't leave the boss room. No problem, log out and log in, should take you out of story/mission area, back to entrance. Nope, Agent and door handle in exact same, mutually inaccessible positions... *Grrr*. Fast travel all the way back to Promenade and start all over again.

I was *so* tempted to post a WWF bearhug image...