Gorth

I found that my ideal party would have at least: 1 bard (bard songs rocks) 1 druid (packs more of an offensive punch than clerics) 1 paladin (for the paladin specific equipment, a bit of a spoiler, I know) 1 rogue (for the traps and *scouting*, plenty of sneaking can help with crowd management and selective combat) 1 Sorcerer (mobile artillery platform) 1 Cleric (never leave home without turn undead in this game) 1 Figher and or Barbarian (because you need sheer physical force when the robe wearing brigade just doesn't cut it). Actually, party selection is a bit of a (nice) headache in this game I tend to sacrifice the fighter/barbarian for the Paladin (usually named Gorth, being the true hero that he is). Since I rarely play non-humans (racist!), I'm not familiar with the strengths and weaknesses of the races.

Which is not a bad thing (first hand experience with that). I'm located a few metres from one of the company directors. It gets a bit loud and no language filter applies, but it gives some insight into what the current hot topics are

Isn't Skynet already trademarked?

What a great picture. Might have to visit his site when at home

In French Orlesian accent: "Go away or I shall taunt you a second time..."

I never understood the fuss over Gibraltar (besides some silly nationalistic sentiment). It was paid fair and square (together with one of the Balearic isles) to England for the services as a mercenary, by the winning side in the succession wars (neither side having a lot of money after the Habsburgs demise). The island was later traded back, but nobody really cared much about the rock at the time other than the English who saw a strategic benefit in a naval base there (Spain already had harbours on both sides of the straits).

Guys, let's focus more on the game(s) and less on other companies communities. I know threads drift off course when no tangible information is available to disagree about, but disagreeing about other communities is heading down the track to nowhere (i.e. lets give it a break while still relatively civil)

Got to play several of my SWTor characters over the weekend. My Commando is now level 41 and is visiting Balmorra, while my Bounty Hunter has reached level 47 and is exploring Hoth. The latter is a rather cool place (the pun!). Ran into a Jawa named Blizz. Very hard not to like Jawas. I've never seen these guys ever write anything, so maybe Jawascript isn't invented (yet)? Anyway, knew from spoilers (&^%$# general chat) that he is a future companion. Sort of looking forward to it, as the few verbal exchanges so far were hilarious (in a good way).

Wasn't there something about people not finding their names on lists and an unseemly number of dead people who had risen from their graves to vote one last time for Mugabe? Never underestimate the power of election voodoo.

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