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There is a professional LoL tournament at South by Southwest tomorrow. Interesting.... I haven't played LoL but I'll go watch.

I refuse to download anything except through Steam. Just kidding.

You want to know a cool job...I interviewed with Lockheed back when the F-22 was still under design. They had models of the F-22 before it was a real thing and models of lots of planes you've probably never heard of because they never made it to "mass" production. Besides that, I would have been designing the real thing. In the end, though, I took another job for the better pay. But there was no question this was cool work. All the defense jobs wer

[quote]Too much. No sensitivity?[/quote] If I offended, I apologize. I lump it in the same category as playing WW2 computer games as the Nazis and machinegunning down the hapless Yanks. It's all in good fun.

This is a fun hobby, but hardly unique. I went to a reenactment of an Okinawa assault on a Japanese pillbox, and they had an operational Stuart tank, halftrack, and 60mm mortar. But none of that held a candle to the flamethrower--quite literally. Nothing was nearly as impressive as the guy spraying a can of whoop-a** on the pillbox. Only thing missing were the screaming Japs running out of the pillbox alight--who incidentally the Japs looked strangely an awful lot

Yep, flying is the same right, and always has been. Being able to drive and fly is what liberty is all about. Having to get the government's permission to travel wherever you want, whenver you want is precisely what we have always hated about the Soviets.

I reject this whole "driving is not a right it's a privilege" baloney. Yes, it's a right. The Declaration of Independence America was founded on says that humans are endowed certain inalienable rights by their Creator: Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The right to drive is liberty. Making it a privilege the government gives us permission to do goes against the precepts America was founded on.

[quote]We're in the same category of people who worry about the iBooks license agreement or the whether a browser truly supports HTML 5. It's a sliver of a sliver of a sliver of the population.[/quote] HTML 5 matters. This is a case of most of the world not caring because it's not layman's stuff--not because it doesn't affect them. It does. It's kind of the like how most people don't care about Washington shutting down over all their

Not to tout the infinite superiority of a certain Operating System over another, but when I update my drivers, I just do a yum update. *cough* *cough*

[quote]Can it generate positive numbers on green paper and be used to buy stuff. That would be cool.[/quote] Probably but not a lot of merchants accept 7.51 dollar bills.

I picked up Civ IV late and got it for like $3.50 for the 4-pack: vanilla, Warlords, BTS, and Colonization. Colonization is probably good, but really hard to get into because it only makes you want to play BTS or FFH. Very fun. Here's my list of minor issues with Civ V so far: - Bonus resources are underpowered. They each need their own unique little bonus besides just +1 food/production. Bananas you should be able t

MHO, but putting electrolytes in an energy drink is a BAD idea. Excess electrolytes is an excellent way to raise your blood pressure, but without raising your energy level. The point is to give yourself an adrenaline rush, and that raises your blood pressure enough as it is. You want to give your brain a jump start--not a stroke.

It would still be interesting to know the root cause of why the optimized code was so many orders of magnitude faster than debug. Especially if it has to do with DirectX, since I plan on diving into CUDA before too long. Knowing that bottleneck might give clues to other performance problems, particularly if it involves some sort of unnecessary and complex handshake between the CPU and GPU.

Oooh I have the ultimate random positive thing: srand!!! Its C++ function prototype is: void srand ( unsigned int seed ); Thus it's a random number generator that generates only positive numbers. I win I win!

If Brad is quiet on this thread, I think it's because this thread appears like one of those where someone's trying to make a name for themselves by tangling with the CEO. It's not unusual, actually--college football players get this problem all the time when they go bar-hopping. Macho guys everywhere trying to pick fights with them. If a football player gets in a bar brawl, sure, he'll win handily--but he's off the team. His hands are tied.</p

I just don't appreciate being tracked every time I boot up a game. It's my game, my business when I play it. But also the online thing, too--I like to be offline altogether unless there's a good reason to be online.

This will probably downgrade me from buying Rebellion when it comes out to buying it when it's on sale for $9.99. I expect I'll be waiting another year and a half.

Yeah in Civ IV I normally wouldn't even go on an offensive war until Industrial because of the movement. And then when I did...railroads, airports, paratroopers, transports, blimps, lots of workers to throw up last-minute railroads..... No obsoleting problem there. I haven't done Civ V much yet but so far it seems even slower, because every city takes a freaking siege of Leningrad before you can take it.

That's true. I'm still a noob, but I'm growing my empire in peace. Built the Great Wall (that Wonder is actually useful now! Yay!), and simply growing my population does plenty in the way of buffing my city's bombard attack. I'm garrisoning one unit per city anyway simply for the happiness (I filled out all the Honor policy tree). Possible invasions are of no concern to me. And the second half of the game, I get all the

Rather than hunting zombies, I think we should put them to good use. Get them involved in politics! The Million Zombie March on the National Mall would be good. Only question would be how to feed them all. They want to eat your brain, but there are none in Washington.

Before investing my time in a game, first I always check the pulse of the gaming community to see if they like it. But there are times, though, when I think the community is dead wrong (Heroes V, for example: the community gave it mediocre ratings. I thought it was ridiculously addictive). Now is one of those times. People have been slamming Civ V and going back to IV, if not walking away altogether. Meanwhile the critics are giving it a 9.0 on

[quote]Because Israel has no intention of eradicationg and exterminating another people.[/quote] An amazingly ironic statement, considering Israel was first established by none other than eradicating and exterminating another people.

I'm going to have to go with World of Warcraft.

[quote]Is Microsoft trying to force me to develop for iOS? It sure seems that way. They’re taking a shrinking market and splintering it three ways (4 if you count WinRT on the PC).[/quote] As my pastor says: This is a "get to", not a "got to". Looking at Stardock's non-games portfolio, i.e. the non-games half, this screams of opportunity. If you get in on MSDN sooner than later (Stardock has to be in it already...), be among the first to

Brilliant move on Microsoft's part. BRILLIANT move on Microsoft's part. The best microprocessors out now are the ARM's, hands-down. They just don't have the market positioning. Microsoft and Intel have always had a love-hate relationship, and Microsoft, in coddling a relationship with ARM, they are obtaining leverage from Intel, big-time. There has been talk of ARM entering the PC space, and it's further along than