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That is why you fail.

++ is an operator in C/C++, and it means to increment the variable. The caret ^ means "referring to the above", so I was indicating my agreement with what you said.

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I think we have exhausted all useful discussion here: baiting, trolling and spam are approaching toxic levels ...

Project New Jersey is not in jeopardy, the forum was removed until there is a more formal announcement. PNJ is for the latest generation consoles. No mystery.

Rombraider: Legend and Fahrenheit just arrived, but I'll probably not install them for a while, until I play a good game of HoI2:DD and finish the Fallouts ... though I am getting the urge to re-install Space Rangers 2 ... :D

I think you're all dancing around the definition of FUN. If there were a way to define it in a couple of sentences, then the publishers would have bottled it and sold it en masse by now.

Nope, no Shock2 or DeusEx stat sheet anymore... It's all about altering your DNA via Adam now, baby! While that can improve both your attributes and your weapons as well, it now has the drawback that you could turn out as a monster yourself if you're not careful enough. Clearly an improvement. Character improvement now has consequences. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That's what the small-minded ones called it: monstrous ... but I'll show them!

My experience with Dell laptops (and this seems to chime with many other people's) is that their battery technology is very poor. My battery lasted twelve months and one day, then I couldn't get more than five minutes out of it. (That's why I bought an IBM Thinkpad, ext: they have the best laptop batteries: still going after three years, and I haven't even used the "deep discharge" function on it once, yet.) The Dell XPS is their premium brand, however, and may be put together with more care. But Dells are very plasticky, I find. The Shuttle PC you quote has good recent reviews: Having said that, I'd recommend the Core 2 Duo, too. It is streets ahead of the AMD (unfortunately), though you will pick up an AMD bargain if you look hard enough. Also, there is a quad-core Core 2 Duo out in 15 weeks (November), which will blow away the current tech, too: not really something you would necessarily wan to buy, but it should bring the price down of the X6700 and X6800. CPUs need good mobos, too. There are a couple of mobos out at the moment that suit the new Core 2 Duo ... e.g. the P965-based Asus P5B Deluxe (nb not the latest release P975X-based Asus P5W DH Deluxe, which sadly uses the obsolete ICH7R Southbridge, as well as adding CrossFire support). It's faster than its younger stablemate, because it uses the new ICH8R Southbridge chip, but, it has no crossfire support. (The new Abit Fatal1ty AN932X mobo has the new nForce 590 SLI chipset: worth considering if you want to team an AMD Athlon 64, -FX, or AM2 socket with an SLi GPU setting, say two EVGA GeForce 7900GTs, which will take advantage of the extra bandwidth acceleration implemented by the nForce590.) The Seagate harddisk looks pretty good; check out Custom PC's recommendation, too. The ATi X1900XTX is the fastest GPU on the market, currently. (There will be another DX9 GPU release before Vista and DX10, though, and that is imminent.)

... ditto for IBM Thinkpads (might be a defacto standard ... though those pesky Apples are probably on their own standard ...)

What's funny is the citizens of the USA are defending an aberration: US English is already different enough from UK English to create not-inconsiderable consternation and confusion amongst speakers trying to communicate. )

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Give it up. You are just digging a deeper hole ...

AWSOMENESS++

I like the idea of NOT having "tech" in the title. Also computers are junk.

I agree. I think I'll change my religion to Spartacan. :D

Wasn't the war more between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, with allies chiming into the mix? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell, it depends on whether you are considering immediate causes (like Archduke assassinations) or medium-to-longer term causes, like the empire-building of Brtain, France and the late-comers Germany, who just used the contemporary political situation as a convenient launchpad for their own colonial desires. So you could conceivably blame the British for their Empire-building, or even the French for their (not-so-successful) Empire-building and all of them for their constant one-up-manship warring, or even the Romans for not colonizing the Teutons when they had the chance ...

Spartacus: the Remastered original with Kirk and entr'acte!

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

I've done it. (Extended the range of the remote using my head, that is.) Also, my friend used to use nearby (all metal) street lights to give his remote electronic car lock super-range.

Aye, there's the rub.

Ok, but my friend bought the book specifically to push that political barrow ... I guess Sphere and Congo would be good novels, they were certainly terrible films ... :D

And with that I think we should draw a curtain over this revealing exchange.

Um, that is six attributes: Strength, Dexterity, Wisdom, Intelligence, Constitution and Charisma (my German isn't robust enough for me to determine those translations unequivocally, though, so they may be slightly different); plus Hitpoints, Endurance and Mana.

I see you like blue characters.