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Plus you could get Office or any other non-Dev/Dev software (depending on the package) software for essentially free. Then they took the Technet Sub price and ramped it up from 400> $750!! You used to be able to get it on special for $258. My brother and I split the cost@129 a piece and got 4 unlimited Ultimate licenses +office and whatever else. It was nice for a while.

Just like with mobile, they want a single license tied to a device. The motherboard changes and its no longer valid.

Regarding tieing a licence to a single motherboard, fortunately for the end user that isn't legally binding despite what MS or any other idiot says.

Software companies have been under this illusion for years.

"Those things are timed"

"metal screw".

Some time ago I got 6mm screws, they just snap when I tighten them. 30 year old screws are worn and bended, but still work.

maybe you should get your screws from MSC.

I have very low blood pressure, drink like a fish and smoke like a chimney. Yay for me When I've been in the hospital for surgery the doctors always see my blood pressure and say, "ohh! we have an athlete here!" LOL

HBP is generally hereditary.

@Lux: +1

IMO Smoking would be like getting hit in the groin by a baseball. I do not need to go through it to say that it would be unpleasant.

Candles are essential when playing TDM in winter.

Yes - they warm my cold fingers on the mouse and even add much atmosphere

I like using dining candles but instead of putting them in candle holders I put them in empty wine bottles so they can drip all over the bottle. They look bloody awesome!

Well, I don't seem to have access to the beta-forum currently. I can send it in a PM if you like. I also noticed some other oddities while playing.

Stuff was just recently changed regarding AI seeing bodies, so if this is using updated 2.0 it needs to be posted in a thread so it can be addressed.

done

I'm usually the guy with -2. Damn you, wall bouncing my grenades

I had 137 kills and 11 death in a round of Battlefield 3 a couple of days ago.

BF 3 sounds great, but I dislike Origin. Did someone try out the Razor-Patch? (I mean original BF3 but without Origin thanks to the patch)

I haven't seen it anywhere. I got a copy for my original Xbox and it sucks, naturally, but I never got a chance to play it on PC.

The reason a lot of people were unhappy with UT2003 was because they took out Assault Mode.

They could have just patched it in instead of releasing another version right after it, and taking a huge crap on people who bought 2003... hell it could have been an expansion. That's why I didn't buy 2004, because of what they did to 2003.

it re-compiles the whole thing specific to your system, all the .net files you have, and its relationship to the specific hardware in your computer.

Yeah, but if I wanted to wait for stuff to compile, I would use Gentoo. I wonder if the .net stuff compiles using multiple threads? Just imagine how slow it would be on the Celerons a lot of average Joes use.

only time I've had issues with .Net installing is when the patch trying to install, is older than the newest version.

Have to uninstall the later version, let the patch install, then update to latest version. Pretty rare, but it happens.

There is actually a decline in creepy crawlies worldwide, such as spiders etc. Wehich means there is inevitably going to be a rise in insect pests.

We went moutainbiking last weekend in Kentucky and these trails were NOT well traveled. We were riding through spider web after spider web through the eerie wood. There was one about every 3-6 meters average. I almost got one in my mouth and another in my eye! When we'd stop riding there were webs hanging off the bikes and our arms and spiders on our handlebars and clothes! It was... wow. Not well traveled trails indeed.

A heaping spoon of sugar cures the hiccups right quick...never tried it on spiders though.

In three weeks the Beginner's Map Pack will come out. We'll see what is in there. Hopefully some good noobie missions!

I spent three full days working on mine, but not even close to finished.

And Ive been helping a few of the contestants with their maps. As well as some of my own.

Sotha, In this case, I'd rather say that one man's junk is another man's server.

Heh... The another man could buy rasperry pi and save a lot of money.

Except a RaPi doesn't cost 2 bucks.

You could do a defragmentation and your neighbours gonna think you party hard!

Everyday I'm defraggin'

And someone can probably see what is read from the HD: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ieee02-optical.pdf

Where are you?? ^^

Northern California. We tend to have some hot summers here, but it isn't constant. We'll get a few hot days and things calm down.

nice =)

Its like after doing laundry and you're one sock short. The Machine Gods require sacrifice!

My wife's uncle once put together a ridable tractor for my toddler son, using the mantra, "We don't need no effin instructions." The bag of unused parts when it was all over foreshadowed the difficulty my son had riding the thing around the property.

I suggest RTFM. Ofc that is if you feel odd about having a few extra screws ^^

I've been looking for a program just like Windows Firewall Notifier, thanks Biker!

You'll need to install a browser before you install Privacy Badger.

@GW, it was android firewall that prompted me to look for the equivalent on windows.

There are some maps for Duke3d that surpass the original. Its editor is the easiest developer-level editor of any game I've seen. Even clever elementary schoolchildren were making models of their schools.

There were a lot of those "my house"/"my school" maps. With lots of pigcops and explosions. It also helped that D3D was one of the best games of its kind.

So, Glyph Seeker, I say give it a try! It's just a few bucks, and there are some very impressive graphical enhancements out there for it.

I came to think of the Build engine to be quite risky. Lots of times the maps got corrupted, usually by something bad I did. I remember that one should NOT remove sectors by collecting all the vertexes on one spot Don't know if it was because of that but my schoolmap got corrupted

Download download download....

Can't play until Friday. But I can probably help crash the servers.

Haha, reminds me of the old Ubuntu days, where everyone tried to get the iso right when a new version came out. So, we would try to snag a copy and slip away before the masses realized it even came out and the servers slowed down.

blender lets you save the models mesh as a picture, then you use a paint program to create the texture then add that texture as the uv texture for the model.

Do you mean rigged to a skeleton? That's a lot more involved than uv maps.

Yep, I used a model from another game, made a skeleton, and rigged it so that all of the respective pieces can move. It was a learning experience. However, properly texturing a complex object evades me... (for now)

I use notepad++ it's freakin' awesome and can handle large documents well

It was a couple of programs... Quickoffice, Textedit, and Ted. (all android apps). I ended up using FBReader and that handles it fine.

Don't use notepad, it has lots of trouble with any files over 1MB or so. User notepad++

I've also seen it where an NPC steps on A-2 (the spider bot). A-2 does not appreciate this, so it attacks the NPC. Then near-by security forces attack A-2... and all hell breaks loose... lol

I remember one time I was going through the "mole people" tunnels in vanilla Deus Ex, and somehow one of the passive NSF must have gotten hurt by the cat that wanders the area. Suddenly all the NSF in the tunnel were running around chasing and firing at the one cat, and having a lot of trouble killing it because their "marksmanship" was never intended to hit cat-sized targets!

There was this funny Deus Ex website, where a fan told you how to cause crazy things to happen. He had UNATCO troopers attacking the vacuum cleaners and stuff. hahaha http://www.it-he.org/deus.htm

Looks like the L2 cache of your Core 2 is disabled. It's almost impossible though, unless you made it in BIOS by yourself or your PC's CMOS battery is dying and, because of this, corrupted the CMOS BIOS values. But, like I said, it's almost impossible. So, what about some virus?

Oh yeah, this thing was loaded with malware (its not mine). I got rid of (most) of it. You never know if it is all gone unless you reload the OS though. Stuff like admin tools and all files were hidden. I cleaned that up as well.

Those damn viruses and trojans! I suppose right now you're thinking about to change your antivirus .

It is fascinating how many developers are releasing gameas as free today.

cryengine is now on steam even.

I'd summarize it as the hobbiest culture and professionalization of gaming have polarized, with each pulling in different directions at the same time.

Oi nutter, replace the drive. If its under warranty get it swapped, if not they are so cheap just buy another one.

How old is this drive? Modern drives should remap bad sectors automatically so the OS doesn't even see them.

That could be a harbinger of bricked drive to come.

Also, running a full format on the drive should mark and bad sectors and never write to them so you can use the remainder of the drive but as mentioned above, if its an older drive, it may be going to the grave.

got some screenshots?

I actually learned something new: You can use a PCX file to create terrain. Do you guys do that in TDM? I can't imagine building each bit of elevation by hand... What you do is have a file where pixels are interprited as height levels by the game engine.

I suppose it is similar amount of work, dragging vertices by hand or drawing a heightmap. I would prefer the what-you-see-is-what-you-get type 3d viewport vertice dragging.

Oh god no. The Wilhelm scream is like torture to my ears. Every time I hear that sound in a movie I immediately hate it a little more.

But yeah. This happens to me all the time, I recognize sound effects very often. It kinda ruined the experience for me when playing the Black Mesa mod.

The Wilhelm scream comes in every good movie - like in Lord Of The Rings

Aaaand now you know why I'm not a huge fan of movies in general.