I'm really glad it happened, because last week i was sick and so I appreciated that I can do something at home (not that shooting Stroggs is bad thing, but shooting Bane is much better in long term). So far I finished only 1st two locations (Wilderness and Divide) and now am going through Palisades.
I'll try to post some sceenies later, for sure i have to post screenies from Eloh Vale, because that location is one of WOW places you can visit :) (WOW, like WOW, not World of Warcraft ;))
Well check that out for yourself ... ASF High command
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According to this article, some young guy was trying to commit suicide (because of broken heart). Ok, that happens. But there are some things which i don't understand.
I don't understand why news papers / sites always make such big thing from these messages. Article says, that he called police and said: "I'm on balcony, at this address and i'm going to jump." Also it states, that police, fire brigade and psychologist came to the place and after 3minutes of speaking they were able to change mind of wanna-be-jumper guy. For me it's completly stupid message, without any real informational value, or at least article write should use other tone of writing. because it's abvious, that this guy actually wasn't going to jump. I think he wanted only some attention or publicity. I think person who want to jump will jump without any unecessary cals etc.
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Oh my god! The-one-whose-name-shall-not-be-spoken (Suchac knows and for others, it's out "dearest & beloved" french COO) is a masterpiece of french laziness!
He has to sign an invoice, the invoice has expirataion date (am not sure if it's correct term for this, but seems most accurate :)) on, for example, 1st Feb 2008. Now, guess when he's going to sign it and give it back to accountant to pay it out? Well, there's no constant delay, but let's say it won't be earlier then on 4th Feb 2008! Damn bastard!
I also have another example of his undying commitment and bright intellect. We have application Z for monitoring server and network load. We have it in free version which is limited by number of devices it can monitor (still quite enough for company of our size). In tze 'ead office they had corporate licence of this very same product. We know that. We also know, that if they ever findout that we're using free version they will push us to use thier licence (and pay shitloads of money for the licence, per year of course).
Guess what he did? Yes, exactly, he sent an email to tze 'ead office with question what they say about our solution (i.e. if it's ok and standard). Now we have problem, they were given all necessary info about our situation so they have proof that we need to pay those shitloads of money to be able to use their licence (and on top of it we won't be able to manage it, because otherwise french people won't have easy way how to pretend that they're working).
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What the phunk is this? Am just deinstalling MS Office 2007 from colleagues laptop and as always I have taks manager running and am checking load of system. Guess what task manager says? It's simple, the process of deinstalation is so complex task that system load is jumping from 70% to 99% of CPU time used... muhahahahaha!
You can have a bonus there, just move mouse cursor over screen and load will jump to interval of 85% to 99% :) Ah sorry, if you continously move mouse cursor over screen you will have 100% load of CPU, no jumping, just 100% all the time. I think this is a wonderfull show of programming skillz of guys at MS.
Which brings question about laptops battery life ... my guess is that battery life of common laptop running on Win XP is like 2 hours 30 mins, same notebook running on Vista will have like 1:20 mins, perhaps lower.
P.S. Best of the best is checking system load while system is idle (aka your not doing anything) ... interval of 10% to 30% of CPU load.
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I did some quick reading through Wizards presents: Races & Classes and i have to say: It's really cool stuff to read.
I have to say I like changes to core races. In 4th ed we won't have gnomes and half-orc (i won't miss either of these), but we'll have Dragonborn (humans with dragon ancestors), Eladrins (humans with fey ancestors) and Thieflings (humans with demonic ancestors). Cool. I like those new races (especially when I imagined what will be my 1st character to try out, tho at the end there every class in game has something i want to try, I guess I will improvise or try class with best art in rule book ;)
Tho I have to say that most important part of book is chapter about classes. Yay, this sounds really incredible. All characters will have some sort of special powers, in rules we have now, there are only few classes with special powers (unlike fighter, who has to do simple hack'n'slash all the way from level 1 to level 20 and nothing else to do in combat).
For example, now the Fighter will have some sort of special combat moves as his special abilities. There will be 3 types of these powers, instant (take one standard action), once-per encouter (f.e. some sort of blade dance, which is effective only once, but is really powerfull) and once per day (no example there). Finally, no more boring hackin'n'slashin through hoards of monsters, we'll have opportunity to use some tactic (and monsters will do the same of course).
Also I like idea of new Druid, she'll be some sort of shapeshifting master, they say she'll have much more shapeshifts per day and much much more shapes to take (it will be something like spells for wizards in case of druid). It should work like this: Druid is traveling from his grove to city. There's a river on the way to city, but unfortunately the bridge is broken and she can't use it. So here it goes, she'll take form of deer and run fast to river, where she shifts to raven (or fish) and fly / swim across the river and afterwards she'll changes back to deer and run toward city. COOOL!
Anyway, all classes looks like there are major changes (my favorite is that rogues will be able to land sneak attack even on constructs or undeads :)).
Also, I watched presentation I posted yesterday and there's one super cool feature revealed! Watch the 3rd part of presentation and check that visualisation utility for playing DnD over internet! Amazing, finally I won't need to ask my friends to come to one place sit around table and play... everyone will have opportunity to play from his home.
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I've just read something about daytime naps. I love them. My employer not. Sad.
But now I know that guys working in Hong Kong, (or was it Vietnam?) who had their very own after lunch naps, are really happy. Also study i've read states that this datime-napping can help your memory. Yes yes! I want it! It's healthy!
:)
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Yay, according to this article, Wizards of the Coast are going to release 2 "preview" books for 4th ed of DnD ruleset.
Ok, i'm really interested, because it seems that they fixed all the problems of 3.0 and 3.5 editions, which was total unbalanced of classes (fighter was powerfull at the beggining, not much on higher levels and wizard was weak on few 1st levels and after that it was brute walking arcane doomsday device, paladin was, hmmm how to say it politely, a gimp, etc).
Also it seems that some races were changed so actually now they should really matter (and my belved halfling are now race with some background, becuase i never liked that vague explanation in PHB 3.5 which said something like: "Halflings, well, halfings are halflings and on top of that they are nomads.").
Am really eager to check new rules as soon as possible (especially my 2 favorite classes ... rogue and wizard).
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Ok, the dead terrorist vid is making me laugh every time am watching it. So i tried to search youtube for some more Jeff Dunhams shows (perhaps with some more Ahmed action) and guess what? :)
Yes yes! I found another cool Ahmed performance ... this time it's Ahmed X-mas special. Now I know what i will sing next year during X-mas ... it won't be Jingle Bells, but Jingle Bombs (or perhaps SILENCE Night):)
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SILENCE! I KILL YOU!
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