FLYINGJESTER'S PROFILE

What? That sounds like an unusual experience with Windows 7. And a lot like Vista. 7 has been very kind to me (Vista wasn't terrible, but it was certainly worse than 7 or XP.

I'm skipping 8. I don't like the start screen. I've used it, and I find it be an annoyance that is probably as usable as the start menu, but I don't think that's a good enough reason to use it. Features should be better than what they replaces, not as good but different.

author=LockeZ

author=kentona
get an SSD for installing the OS on and a larger regular HD (1TB+) for your files/movies/porn. it doesn't even have to be a large SSD - go for a reasonable size and price (128GB?)

There's no meaningful advantage to solid state drives for a home computer. They go bad less often (anywhere from 1/4 to 1/10 as often depending on who you believe), and are slightly faster, that much is true. But when they go bad they immediately become totally nonfunctional, and retrieving the data that was on them is impossible unless you had a set of redundant SSDs set up in a RAID to duplicate all your data. Whereas when a normal hard drive goes bad, it's almost always gradual so you have a lot of warning and can back up your files, and it's often repairable just by running scandisk. In my opinion, that makes SSDs a worse choice than hard drives - I wouldn't get one even if it were the cheaper option.

I for one noticed a whole lot of improvement from running an SSD for my OS. And after going through 3 HDDs in as many years, I've been running the same SSD for 4 years (and a second SSD in the risky RAID 0 for 3 of those years). Besides, an HDD needs a lot of itself to work in order to work as a boot disk, and only a relatively small amount to be a data disk. SSDs might fail more catastrophically, but the HDD would almost surely have given up the ghost (for booting, anyway) long before.
And if you only use the SSD for the OS and a few programs, you won't lose your files if it does fail.

Awesome! Only 24 more and you'll have hit a nice round milestone.

author=Corfaisus
If only RPG Maker was more well known, then we'd no longer have VX RTP games getting thrown up on Kickstarter asking for anything more than the cost of the license (assuming they didn't just PIRATE the program).

It looks like almost all of the money being asked for is to make the media, though. So it's not so different than using the money for the cost of a license.

Of course, I do believe a lot people looking at it think that a lot more of it was hand made by him than actually was. Which does bother me.

author=slashphoenix
Damn, that kid knows C++ and C# at 16?

In a way, I knew C#, Basic, JavaScript and ARexx at 16. But for most languages, there's no way to 'know' them. Being able to write code that compiles or interprets and runs without an error is a lot different than understanding how to fluently write in a programming language. And really 'knowing' a language is a life long pursuit.

Minecraft's Creepers are a really great enemy concept. Partly because of how unexpected they are when you first encounter them. You just look and say 'What an odd thing, I wonder if it's an enemy. I'll go punch it...' and then it explodes and kills you. They strike fear in the hearts of players more than most enemies ever do.