Recent content by Avoidist

Valvetime.net: Where the future is a thing of the past.

Ditto. Still, there was the novelty of running the phone cable half way through the house.

It gets better, but in the meantime you are using AIPS, which runs on magic. Good luck! Actually it is a well established program that I found not to be glitchy so much as plain old fashioned. I can assure you though that your outputs are certainly accurate so long as you are giving it the...

It's essentially a very long term pre-order at the lowest rank, which is great. I wonder what they will be doing with all this extra money they have accrued.

I recommend C++ and Python. At higher levels, you will find most physicists writing their simulations in C++ for its efficiencies, and using python as a handle for these simulations. Python is also great for plotting through matplotlib. You will probably also want to learn LaTeX if you are...

How do you find out if you are picked? Is it through the same email?

Just confirmed this, the keys can be remapped in general (for instance to the up-down-left-right keys) but the numpad keys are 'reserved' apparently, no idea why since I certainly haven't used them. I'm sure there should be some sort of workaround or patch for this though.

Beautiful.

7 children per woman as an extreme in society is irresponsible enough. 7 as an average? That's downright nuts.

Just beware of those LS11's. The sound quality of mine took a massive dive a month or so in, but they should be fine for low-volume situations. Still looking for good inexpensive 2.0 speakers to replace them.

Usually quite late in development since the script (and hence vast majority of the game) has to be locked in beforehand. Until the script is finalized they usually have people from the office filling in (see Richard Lord as Wheatley, the Meet the Medic outtakes etc). This is so they don't have...

Glad to finally see an explanation for this, always frustrated me a bit.

Just noticed that Benedict Cumberbatch was cast as the voice and performance (via motion capture) for Smaug. Part of me thinks this is awesome, the rest is thinking that perhaps Peter Jackson watched a bit too much of the recent Sherlock TV series.

I read that as Swearing in Public Places = No Problem (In Australia). Which I think is what will be the result of this. It's giving the police a valid excuse to apprehend anyone verbally abusing the hell out of them that they may not have another direct justification to apprehend. That being...

That... was a great article. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.