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I've been debating with myself at large whether I would purchase and play Diablo III for all these months since the Always Online feature was announced. I've eventually argued with myself and at some points I think I got angry and told myself I wouldn't speak with me ever again. Recently I...

EDIT: Nevermind. Just noticed you already did what was suggesting. Just for fun disable windows firewall if you have it enabled. Or any other firewall for that matter.

Hmm, I've seen mechanical keyboards with N key rollover available during POST. The only difference is that they were PS/2 keyboards. In fact the n key rollover is said to require PS/2 and USB is not advised. It's the first time I hear that an USB NKRO keyboard doesn't respond during post...

I suppose you are using the MoveFile() function in WinAPI? If that's the case, security descriptors aren't moved with the file when moving across different volumes. This is also by design. Something that Brian Lich apparently forgot to mention, or just didn't think about it because it wasn't in...

I've posted anonymously on one of TH articles. Got the email asking me to register within the next 48 hours. Tried to register but it says my email address is already in use. "Probably. Maybe I registered before and I can't remember", I thought. So tried to recover password, but it says the...

I love those guys at GOG. It's impressive the lengths they go to strike deals with these old publishers or those who eventually took over them. I think GOG only has one Maxis game in their catalog. SimCity 2000. So, let's hope they eventually extend that to those Sim titles. SimAnt was also...

The revered Theme Hospital was today released on GOG. I can't tell how many hours I spent playing this sim. One of my all-time favorites. Possibly only second to SimEarth.

This is too good to pass. Get 70% off on all 1C games today if you buy from GamersGate. This means that the 1C Complete Pack that usually sells close to 100 USD is now selling for a little less than 20 USD. But at least get King's Bounty Platinum for 8.99. It includes all 3 games in the King's...

Use std::vector. God gave us the Standard Library, you know. ;)

There was a time that C++ Builder was indeed a great product and a sound alternative. But that time is long gone :D Used it myself and will always carry with me sweet memories of my Borland days. C++ Builder, CodeWright for a little while. But also and mostly, and prior to that, DBase, Paradox...

Business tend to stick to old formulas. They represent a very large chunk of the world's computer usage.

Fake/False promotion or advertisement of a product in the gaming industry? Tell me it ain't so! Anyways, from day 1 the whole smear campaign against EA seemed staged by EA itself. These so-called groups are always backwater entities no one knows about that miraculously pull up resources that...

Yup. Couldn't take long before some news about Borderlands 2 would disappoint me. To hell with them! Borderlands just got my "I'll buy when the price lowers" badge. No pre-order anymore. I won't be motivating this behavior. There's plenty of games there to be played. My life won't be affected.

I admit looks cool. Couldn't possibly stand the social web thing and would turn that stuff off. But the rest would be neat. Reminds me also of Project Detroit; a salvaged 1967 Ford Mustang Fastback that displays telemetry and map data on the windshield...

Ground Control to Major UPS Take your protein pills and put your helmet on This is Ground Control to Major UPS You've really made the grade And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear

Hmm... no 60 GB

CPUs sitting on a PCIe card allowing for HPC scaling. Essentially (x86 or not) CPUs that behave as accelerators of the x86 processor on the system (assuming the system as a central unit. Not all HPC have and are instead entirely decentralized and distributed). Indeed! But here I think Intel...

Steve Scott is obviously correct. However he comes from the programmer side, while Intel easy talk is that of the seller whose eager to demonstrate the benefits of this new technology they are wanting to sell like water in the desert. Of course the notion such a specialized parallel...

This is a problem. One of the reasons I still don't have a mechanical keyboard is exactly because I couldn't yet get a real feel for the different Cherry keys. Stores that allow someone to test-drive a keyboard are extremely rare and none ever fell into my radar. And yet, for a typist it's...

By the looks of the website the ad points at, it seems all versions will be MLC. It would be nice if the smaller versions weren't. A single cell SSD would be nice. Both for performance and life. Is there an impediment for a 60GB single cell SSD? Would it be way more expensive than an MLC?