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Handy. Does Ninite install itself as well or is it just an executable that installs the other binaries for you?

Cool, let us know how you like it (I might pick up a Pro 2). You really should have waited, the next one could be out as soon as October and you just have a family member ship it to you open as a "used" item or a "gift". I've had that done several times. But yea, you can always sell it there...

I don't have one but my co-worker does and it is pretty awesome. I don't mind the touch-cover (the smaller/cheaper one), but if you don't like it you can always get the more traditional feeling type-cover instead (with actual key travel). And windows 8 is a good OS in general, but on a touch...

3rded, getting any kind of Ultrabook without Haswell is just plain silly. The Surface Pro was released on October 26, 2012... which means the second version will likely be out some time in the next 4 months (hopefully). I am sorely tempted to get one myself, and if I wasn't already building a...

I would think this is very out of scope for something like X, at least right now with the team size they have. Luckily their new engine scales incredibly into the future by requiring a 64-Bit OS and a multi-core CPU. Most games are very limited by being capped at a single core and running a...

Cost, basically. The player ships are more than just NPC ships you can manually control, upping the cost of them quite dramatically.

There is nothing wrong with middleware, at all. In fact, it is generally a VERY good idea to use middleware. I applaud SOE pushing forward with better and emergent AI with EQ Next, I strongly feel AI is actually holding not just MMORPGs but all sorts of genres back (looking at you First...

That depends on the type of database they use. Traditionally games used relational databases which aren't all that great for games, modern engines use NoSQL which are blindingly fast for games by comparison. Manipulating a quest log in a relational database could involve lots of operations...

I actually like what they did with the "1 ship" approach, it is honestly what I would have done if I were in their position. If I might indulge a bit I will explain what I think their reasoning was. Roughly speaking, in X3 (Reunion, TC, and AP), there were 3 general classes of ships...

I have been following this game for a couple years, they finally put out a release date, Nov. 15th! The new videos they released look downright amazing. X is a empire building space sim, I've poured hundreds of hours into the X3 games and Rebirth looks massively superior in every way. Really...

Its tough when you are about as knowledgeable as someone but fundamentally disagree about somethingFortunately for me that describes about half my job so I am used to it.

I have no idea what he was eating and neither do you. He could have been seriously fat and packed on a sizable amount of lean mass while overall losing weight. Frankly I don't quite believe him either, his weight was probably higher and his max lower. If he said he was about 100kg that would...

I've never competed in striking, only grappling. In that sport competing is like rolling only worse, I defer to you when you say that an actual fight is not nearly as intense as training is. Ok, maybe we are speaking past each other a bit here, I consider 12-16 weeks a short time-frame, with...

Khane benching 345 after 18 months isn't completely impossible. I mean, it is terribly unlikely, he would have had to have been ridiculously dedicated and have really good genes for packing on weight and strength... but I ran the numbers and it is possible. For the sake of argument (I have...

Muay Thai and MMA aren't my sport, so I am certainly no expert, but I do drop in for classes once in a while at my academy. My experience is that pad work and sparring are just as intense as rolling, and while I wouldn't dispute that an aerobic base is extremely important, I wouldn't...

Well sort of... I would never denigrate the people that worked very hard on that game, but most of those 100 dungeons were slapped together in a couple of days tops. That was done to save time to to make the ones you do remember, well, memorable.

Well, boxing and crossfitting are absolutely not low-intensity activities, so that wouldn't even apply. And cutting weight for athletes/bodybuilders often involves ketosis (usually along with severe Calorie restriction), so it seems to me they are on board at least partially. And yea, I am...

Was it actually less xp, as in a lower value to hit the next level, or did it just take less time. Venturing a guess, the spikes in difficulty were probably a result of a few different formulas interacting to create them. Levels control all sorts of things including difficulty on NPCs as well...

Formulas are always hard coded (or now-a-days they can be in scripts). What may or may not be in code are the constants. If it were properly done (using N^3 * 1000 * fudge factor) the 3 constants; 3, 1000, and "fudge factor" would be in the database instead of on the code, that way the...

Those links are for other people that might be reading. I don't know, his research looks interesting but once againI haven't done the experiments. Other people should do similar experiments and attempt to replicate his results, that is how you figure out what works and what doesn't work.

To further that train of thought a bit, maybe no one ever tried it. Entire sports of world class athletes can miss something blindingly obvious for decades. Take for example ski jumping: For like a decades, ski jumpers jumped with theDaescher technique, or skis parallel. Sometime in the...

Specifically for endurance athletes you mean? No idea, I've never been one. He probably knows more about it than I do. And world class athletes often do a lot of things wrong in their training regimen, but they are world class athletes.

You are mischaracterizing what he is saying. Your body is capable of glucose throughGluconeogenesis. For activities where therateof glucose use does not exceed the ability of the liver, kidney, and intestine to produce it then your performance won't suffer. However, in high intensity...

That was more awful than I expected. Why on earth would you buy a rated account? I assume he doesn't understand how rating systems work.

What does this mean exactly?

It isn't so much that developers are recycled as the leaders of the projects are recycled. Working on MMOs provides valuable experience, but if you never get to exercise what you've learned in a meaningful way it doesn't do much good.

The problem with splitting is that it is extremely powerful and very binary.

On Developers Posting: The basic reason developers don't post here openly is that, other than the few people in charge, most of us don't make many important or large scale decisions. I wouldn't, and I assume most of my colleagues wouldn't, want to have to defend bad decisions or game-play...

Just caught this post on my news feed by an EQ2 dev, "Just saw the EQ Next presentation for SOE Live. Mind. Blown. EverQuest" Skeptically hopeful.

There are different ways to do intermittent fasting. Off the top of my head there is the one day a week fast, 2 days a week fast, the Warrior Diet which is 24 hours fasting and 24 hours re-feeding, the leangains protocol which is I believe 16 hours fasting and then an 8 hour re-feed period, and...

There is some preliminary research on IF that looks promising, at the very least research has shown that the old advice of "evenly spacing your meals" is irrelevant to weight loss/gain. Dr. John Berardi over at precisenutrition.com did some unscientificExperiments with Intermittent Fastingand...

There is more to it than that, including cycling on and off the fast and different recommendations/techniques for larger people. The basic idea is if you are going to do a Keto diet (which I also don't think is necessary), then there are right and wrong ways to do it. Both books cover it but...

Bah, my bad, I meant his other bookThe Rapid Fat Loss Handbookwhich covers where you are now.

In what is probably seems like a massive about face, I second this recommendation. I have Lyle's book and it is sets out a very good sustainable plan along with other excellent tips. Worth dropping the coin on if you are inclined to do so. I actually recommend buying the ebook along with the...

Fair enough, no need to ignore you, we can agree to disagree. I do happen to agree strongly with you when you say "if you are happy with your body and goals and whatever you do, have at it." I also think, like you, 90% of what is out there is nonsense. To be fair I did react to your goading...

There is nothing to rant about. Food is ingrained within all human cultures and societies. It is, and has been for as long as we have records, social. If anything eating has becomeanti-socialin the last 30 years or so, and that is contributing to the problem.

Not just low-carb, but any strict diet of any sort including low-fat or low-Calorie. This ties into part of the reason I am not a huge fan of counting Calories being the default. It treats food as just energy units consumed by a machine. But food is more than that as it has great societal...

Not necessarily. What I mean is that the mental space and discipline you occupy being so strict is (generally speaking) not sustainable over the long-term and is poor at absorbing shocks to your routine. This is inevitable as our lives change, perhaps we get married or have kids or whatever...