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I wonder how many employees are on a regular annual salary and how many are hired (re-hired) on a contract basis from game to game?

I use Visual Studio 2010 regularly at work Just looking for the lazy way out of something I normally don't do. Dreamweaver does indeed look interesting but I gave up trying to figure out Adobes website. They either want to sell me big bundles of CS stuff I don't need or student only versions which I don't qualify for. Doesn't look like you can buy just the software you need. VS it is then at the moment.

So? Racing games loose automatically because they all suck. Sorry, try again. Carmageddon. I win

My logins are not "related". For all intent and purposes, they look like three different users with three different emails. One for each game. Curses, I thought it was four, but my DA and ME2 accounts are related. I forgot I got that silly DA Blood Dragon armour for whathisname commander of the Normandy. Grave oversight on my part, as I try to keep them separate. More a cause of concern is that I use this login name for a few other forums, which resulted me in changing passwords when NMA got hacked Edit: Those EA accounts are then again different from any other login I've got on the net, which was the original point. A "pattern" I've started practicing ever since facebook felt free to distribute my "not shared with anyone" email addresses to scammers a few years ago.

Just means you'll have four passwords to change instead of one if (when) EA's system gets penetrated. Will now start teasing you. They would sort of have to guess four user names too and make the connection first, wouldn't they? I.e. I couldn't care less if I lost my EA logins, as I don't really use them anymore, but it would be a hassle if they could cross reference the info with other logins with other companies.

I have his little pet project of mine that I hope to get off the ground some day. It is basically just intended to be a small fansite/memorial site. No news updates, no user accounts, no forums, no sign up for mailing lists or similar. Just a simple tribute site with a few simple pages showing something. If possible a small "gallery" type thing, but not required. Last website I created was handwritten asp code (about a decade ago) that produced the content. Not an experience I care to repeat. Anybody out there familiar with simple site building software for generating basically dumb html code of the kind Frontpage would once have done? Hacker unfriendly would be considered an extra bonus If not, ah well, then I still got notepad and my html tag reference list.

Thread getting a bit long bearded... More Skyrim this way

Start of old thread End of old thread I might get this game some day, but I've still got a humongous backlog that needs catching up. Maybe a patch and a few DLC's from now

I suppose there is a certain irony in me having a liquid cooled system, when I was never really into the OC thing. It all came about back in time when I got tired of listening to the "vaccuum cleaner" standing next to my monitor. While there now are two low noise fans cooling the external radiator, noise levels are at least still "tolerable" compared to having case, cpu and gfx card fans running full speed all the time. Maybe some day if I feel adventurous and my hardware is a bit past its best by date, I might start tweaking voltages. For now, system stability is more of a priority (which is why I got the new card in the first place)

...and people tease me because I created separate logins/passwords for each of DA, ME2, Dead Space and Warhammer Online way back (ok, it was actually for different reasons, but I'll not turn down the fringe benefit of added security)

Have you tried the homepage of the integrated audio manufacturer? Realtek seems widely used for integrated Audio, but there might of course be others out there.

Thread pruned a bit. I would suggest a more civil tone...

"Different" would be an understatement. Nice find

I should have done this a year ago. Of course, it was pretty much what I did a year ago Not having much (i.e. pretty much none) spare time outside work, I did put it through its paces with some of the games that just a month ago would "hang" my system after 10 minutes of play. Only one game bsod'ed my PC, but that was an improvement I suppose over just hanging the system I expect that I now have to work my way through that laundry list of games I've purchased over the last 12 months (like 40 titles or so), that I haven't been able to play due to stability issues. Even better, I now have a warranty that lasts past the first 14 days The performace isn't noticeably faster than my 5970 card, but the silence of not having the squeeling capacitor/coil and the constant "The display driver has stopped responding" errors is worth every cent

There you go, you've got your work cut out for you. Ass down and heads up in the tub Seriously though, good to see you around again, kicking life in the face and all

The things people say when the microphones are still on... Ten revealing open mic admissions Sarkozy and Obama about Netanyahu: S: "I can't stand him any more. He's a liar," O: "You may be sick of him, but me, I have to deal with him every day." Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy Reagan about Russians: R: "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." Really creates an atmosphere of trust and cooperation Prince Charles about a BBC correspondent: "These bloody people, I can't bear that man. I mean, he's so awful, he really is." Great working relationship George W. Bush about a New York Times correspondent: "major league ****" At a time when you are a presidential candidate Jacques Chirac about British food: "In 2005, the French president was caught complaining to German and Russian officials that he found British food unpalatable - second only, he said, to the dreaded cuisine served by the Finns." Jesse Jackson about Barack Obama: Jesse Jackson was caught on microphone saying he was frustrated what he perceived to be Barack Obama's patronising attitude towards African Americans. He was so frustrated, in fact, that he wanted to "cut his nuts off". Ouch Maybe microphones accidentally left on is the greatest contribution to "a free press" these days?!?

You have gotten a rather green complexion lately... Doing a bit of reading.

That sounds like the entertainment industry of today... As a teenager I once came up with the brilliant idea of writing a program that could write programs. The idea was that in one kilobyte on an eight bit system, there was a finite amount of programs possible. Of course it fell flat on its belly when it came to figure out a way of evaluate the result for beneficial effects and identify the new patentable algorithms from the random system disk formatting algorithm and the 99.99999% unusable white noise Yes, the folly of youth

I thought the point was to come up with new widgets

I remember this old Chaplin quote which works to similar effect: "One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero. Numbers sanctify." - Monsieur Verdoux (1947) In any case an interesting movie

This thread sounds awfully familiar

I know the mathematical definition of it, but I doubt that is what people mean when using it on a gaming forum So which would it be a proper term to describe people who play games at the lowest difficulty and still find it challenging, Casuals? I suspect (going by context) people use it as a derogatory term to mean something along the lines of mono-cell organisms.

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I know the mathematical definition of it, but I doubt that is what people mean when using it on a gaming forum